In Monochrome

Massachusetts by way of New York City. editor, writer, communicator.
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theatlantic:

In the January/February issue of The Atlantic: Adam Davidson on creating (and keeping) a job in the new American economy, Cullen Murphy on the history fo torture from the Inquisition to Abu Ghraib, Robert D Kaplan on the “offensive realism” of John J. Mearshiemer, and more.

Check out the Table of Contents at The Atlantic and let us know what you think in a Letter. We’ll post your responses as we receive them!

csmonitor:

2010 organized crime killings by Mexican state  (Graphic: Rich Clabaugh/Staff)

Part of this week’s cover story: “Mexico drug war casualty: Citizenry suffers post-traumatic stress

(via dendroica)

csmonitor:

2010 organized crime killings by Mexican state  (Graphic: Rich Clabaugh/Staff)

Part of this week’s cover story: “Mexico drug war casualty: Citizenry suffers post-traumatic stress

(via dendroica)

soupsoup:

Mark Cuban on the stock market: ”buy and hold is a crock of $%#!” and diversification is for idiots. 

thingsiamobsessedwithtoday:

And you thought the Google graphic was nerdy? Feast your eyes on this bad boy (also, so interesting!) And no, I am not becoming a boy and/or starting to play video games, but I do love a good graphic. Moral of the story? Everyone is an entrepreneur. (Click to link below for enlarged version.)

[Mashable]

(via sunfoundation)

In the land of business start-ups, a common success story looks like this:  entrepreneur comes up with amazing new idea.  Entrepreneur cobbles a start-up business around said idea.  Idea spreads like wildfire.  Entrepreneur sells business to huge, well-established company.

What might this model look like from the non-profit perspective?

A small non-profit organization called The Breast Form Fund may be able to give us some insight.

The Situation 
When you own a lingerie store, you see all types of women, including women living with breast cancer and trying to maintain their sense of beauty and self-assurance after surgery.  In Judith Fine’s experience, prostheses and post-mastectomy bras do wonders for these women.

For many years, Judith and her store, Gazebo, relied on a fund from the American Cancer Society to help un- and under-insured women obtain these products.  When the fund went away, Judith made a decision to replace as much of the funding as she could.  A percentage of Gazebo’s sales went into a new fund that spun off into a separate non-profit organization, The Breast Form Fund. Judith stepped in as the Executive Director.

read more at: http://3bl.me/n6gqpz 

Choosing a Facebook profile photo is very serious business. It’s the visual that will greet high school acquaintances, jealous exes, and your parents’ friends when they search you out. The image you project is entirely determined by your photo choice.

While people think that the photo they choose is some sort of individual statement, they’re usually wrong. Here are the 10 most misguided approaches that people take when picking out a profile photo. Each sends out all sorts of information that the person may not have intended. And while there are some sub-genres and lesser known variations, most of the pictures on the social networking behemoth fall into one of these categories.

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Listening to WNYC yesterday morning, Brian Lehrer was on discussing the prospect of Walmart selling organic produce acquired from small and medium sized local farms who practice sustainable farming.

I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this. Walmart is definitely on the top of my least favorite big box stores list. For a variety of reasons. Over the years we’ve all heard about their not so fabulous business practices from treatment of employees, to outsourcing to China to keep prices down. Lets face it Walmart put small businesses out of business. So hearing the Walmart and support small business in the same sentence is shocking, and quite frankly immediately sets off a few red flashing lights in my mind.  The good news here, in my opinion, is that the whole concept off supporting small local farms has gotten mainstream enough that Walmart wants a piece of the sustainability pie! Great news right!?!

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