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Most of the world’s poverty is not self-inflicted, yet apparently many seem to think it is.
My experience, living in Africa, tells me otherwise. Much of global poverty is imposed and I don’t mean by evil “multi-national corporations” or “globalization.” Those myths are easily debunked. The real causes of poverty in these nations are not hard to find.
First, however, I’d like to start with what is not the cause of

Writing in USA Today earlier this month, Mitt Romney opens boastfully: “I spent much of my 25 year career in the private sector turning around failing enterprises.”
Really!? Just this past week the New York Times set forth exactly how Romney achieved much of his fortune “turning around companies”. Explaining the process and citing as an example the medical company, Dade International, Romney’s company Bain Capital Partners would in effect take over companies — selling off their assets, forcing them into grandiose debt, firing thousands of worker, in effect destroying traditions and business goodwill built up over years of hard work and commitment of the company’s work-force — for his and his partners’ personal gain and fortune; $242 million in this case, while Goldman Sachs pocketed $121 million before the company was forced into bankruptcy.
Yes, investments are meant to bring about profits, but the entire system comes into question when power and profit rests exclusively with the high rolling investors while the day-to-day builders of the businesses are left with little to show for their years of labor, if jobs at all. The Times, quotes two workers who lost their jobs, Brian and Christine Shoemaker: “How can the bean counters just come in here and say, Hey, its over?”
Romney, continued in his USA Today policy outline that he would: “Enact deep reductions in the subsidies for the National Endowments for the Arts…”
Well, that would help a great deal. The annual budget for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for 2012 is expected to be $146 million, significantly less than Romney and Company made on the Dade International deal

Fordham released two important papers today as part of the Creating Sound Policy for Digital Learning series. The first, Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction, is by the co-directors of Public Impact. Bryan and Emily Hassel are the Gladwells of education — they point to profound truths hiding in plan sight. In short, this is the best current description of the implications of digital learning on learning

It all started with the printing press.
The printing press was the first piece of technology that enabled information to pass rapidly to the world’s people. Because of it, books and newspapers were created that inspired uprisings and cultural transformations in religion, government and society. It was at this time that the first “editors” were established to help create and and deliver information to people in their communities. Further down the line, information was distributed via media like radio, television and magazines, each meticulously curated by trusted editors in a field or

My youngest brother recently announced his engagement, and asked if I had any advice for him, since my husband and I recently celebrated our double-digits anniversary.
I thought for a moment and said, “Yes. Keep dating.”
There was a pause over the phone, and then he said, “Really? Are you sure? I thought that was one of those things, you know, that you give up when you get married . . . ?”
I hung my head and sighed. Patience, I thought. He’s a newbie.
“Not other people, you idiot,” I said gently. “Keep dating each other. Have a date night, like every Friday, and go out together.”
“Date my wife, huh?,” he said. “Okay. Right. Uh-huh. Do I have to, like, have her home by ten? Hahaha . . . date my wife . . . good one!” He hung up chuckling.
I knew he didn’t understand, and I knew that he wouldn’t, truly, until he’d been married for awhile and maybe had a child or two. He simply wasn’t at that point where romance and passion maybe don’t come as easily as they once did. And I also know that even when we’re at that point, understanding the concept isn’t necessarily enough, either.
For example, I crawled into bed the other night at ten o’clock. The kids were asleep, finally, after the requisite stories and arguments over teeth-brushing.
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The holidays are a difficult time for those of us who both enjoy eating and worry about our waistlines. Every year we overindulge a bit at Thanksgiving, and then look ahead to the month of December with a wary eye — only too aware of the minefield of cookie platters, holiday parties, family dinners and gift baskets that we will have to somehow navigate.
Chances are, you know from experience that you cannot get through these trying times on willpower alone. So here are three very simple and proven-effective motivational strategies for ending up in your current pant size on

I never was a romantic. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t sentimental; I cried at the expected moments during chick flicks and even the occasional TV commercial. I enjoyed celebrating anniversaries of first dates and bringing unexpected gifts home to my partner for no reason. But I didn’t believe in such fantasies as “true love” and “love at first sight.”
Until I met the Love of My Life, Kiran, I was hopelessly

Every week I have busy, active clients asking me to help them transition into a more plant-based eating style. Below are the four secrets I share with my clients who want to eat more veggie-friendly fare to fuel their fast-paced, fitness-focused lifestyle.
Secret #1. There are three steps to eating more plant-based, energizing meals
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TMZ recently surfaced a few photos of Anthony Bourdain tanning in the buff, and though we can’t say we’re surprised — after all, the guy did pose wearing nothing but an (actual) bone for My Last Supper in 2007 — it got us thinking about where to go for birthday suit romps of our own.
Herewith, six beaches where ditching the Speedo is de rigueur.
Related: The Best Spas in The World
Gunnison Beach, New Jersey
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Tony could have spared himself this whole debacle if he had gone to New Jersey’s Gunnison Beach. The Atlantic Coast’s largest clothing-optional strip of sand forbids unsolicited photography but permits bare bods and booze.
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Tony could have spared himself this whole debacle if he had gone to New Jersey’s Gunnison Beach.
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Have you seen Hard Times: Lost on Long Island? The film won the Audience Award/Best Documentary at the Hamptons International Film Festival in October. The documentary follows a group of unemployed men and women, ranging in age from their late thirties into their sixties, who are looking for work while living in certain middle class suburbs on Long Island. I had not seen the film during the festival itself, but when I screened it the other day, I realized the true meaning, for me, of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Hard Times is a disturbing film that puts a face to the unemployment crisis in America in a rather effective way. At times, talk radio broadcasts play over footage of the principals as they trundle off to another day of staring down their own

Before the New York City riots at Stonewall Inn launched the gay civil rights movement, there was Dr. Frank Kameny. On Nov. 3, the civil rights leader,who died on National Coming Out Day,was honored by the LGBT community in Washington,

America’s ever-growing Latino-Muslim population has yet to be estimated statistically. However, it is indisputable that with exponential growth Latino-Muslims find increasing presence and voice in the American Muslim public square.
Latino paths to Islam are as diverse as Hispanic countries of origin and roots: from the Caribbean, Central and South America or even Spain. The conduits to their new spiritual journeys derive from a variety of life experiences that range from the sublime appeal of accidentally listening to Quranic recitation or from a close encounter with a Muslim performing one of his five daily

Social change does not occur in a courtroom. Rights are never vindicated by a legal decree alone. And activists rarely find the law on their side when fueling progressive movements. At few times in recent history is this notion clearer than

I’m in Costa Rica, one of the few places in the world that doesn’t have an army — a place where the credo is “Pura Vida,” meaning “real living.”
During my last four days in San Jos it was constantly raining, but today suddenly there was a little sun out so I took my camera and ran out to see what was happening. I didn’t really like the place that I had selected for photography before so I started to look around again, hoping to find something better before the rain would return.
This afternoon the soccer match between Costa Rica and World Champion Spain took place.
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Everyone wants the fairytale: to fall in love, get married and live a happy long life together. Sometimes, in fact, it is that hope, that true wish, that drives people down the aisle even if there are questions. And believe me, everyone headed that way often has doubts in one form or another. Is that what happened with Kim Kardashian who recently filed for divorce after being married for just 72 days to NBA player Kris Humphries?
In some ways it is easy to see how she got swept away — so many people

One of the nicest things my parents did after their divorce was to spend Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner together as a family, not just one year but several. At the time, I didn’t realize how unusual this was, nor did I have any understanding of how difficult this must have been for each of my parents. In retrospect, we were a strange group after a few years: my dad with his serious girlfriend in tow; my mom with her new husband; my sisters with their boyfriends (who eventually became their husbands); my brother and I usually stag, although some years we had a serious mate at our side. My new step-brother and step-sister came

I’ve been blessed with a very fortunate life. But like everyone else out there, I’ve had my share of hardships and demons to battle with. I’ve been through the death of close friends, been bullied to the point of misery, hurt my self-esteem repeatedly, and endured other painful life events growing up. But all those things were easy to handle when compared to the pain of

A Conversation with Matt McGinley from The Gym Class Heroes
Mike Ragogna: Hey Matt, how are you doing?
Matt McGinley: Hey Mike.
MR: Thanks for sharing some time with us while you’re on tour.
MM: Actually, I’m at home, which is slightly more comfortable than a tour, but unfortunately, with less music being played. We were on tour and our singer Travis got pretty ill, so we’re kind of just taking it day by day and unfortunately canceling shows as he was in the

Sasha Dichter is the Director of Business Development at Acumen Fund and is a noted speaker and blogger on generosity, philanthropy and social change. His Generosity Experiment talk was recently featured on TED’s Best of the Web. Follow him at http://sashadichter.wordpress.com or @sashadichter on Twitter.

Like many expats — even journalists like myself — there are certain scandals that erupt in American politics which you choose to ignore, hoping they will go away. After all, there’s only so much room in your brain to process political developments on two continents (plus the rest of the world) at once.
And so you kind of quietly take note of them in the back of your head — thinking “hmmm… I really should find out what all the fuss is about” — until one day, the news just explodes into your RSS feed and you realize that you can remain ignorant no longer.
So it was for me with the recent Penn State scandal — which, for non-American readers — concerns one Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant football coach who has been charged with 40 criminal accounts of sexual abuse of minors, which involved eight boys over a period of 15 years. Sandusky has plead not guilty to the charges.
Sandusky’s alleged crimes have become non-stop headlines for the past week or so in the

Thursday is a big — and long overdue — day. And American moms, like me, will be tuned in and watching.
Usually, hearings in Congress get little attention from the general public, let alone busy moms. But this Thursday is a big day for those of us who care about protecting American families from toxic

If freedom of expression, privacy and innovation online matter to you, it’s time to pay attention to what’s happening in Congress right now. There’s a gathering storm over bills proposed in the United States House of Representatives and Senate that have the potential to significantly hinder innovation, free speech and cybersecurity on the Internet in the name of fighting online piracy.
As the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) highlights in its new summary of the problems and implications H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act, “SOPA sweeps much more broadly and would chill online innovation and expression by creating major new litigation risks for service providers currently protected by the DMCA safe harbor.”
SOPA is “really a Trojan horse that might be better named the Social Media Surveillance Act,” said Leslie Harris, CEO of CDT, in a press conference today. “Expect it to have a devastating effect on social media content and expression.”
That the proposed bill has advanced with significant bipartisan support, along with PROTECT IP Act in the Senate, shows that online innovation and freedom of expression still need strong defenders against 20th century institutions whose quest for copyright protection would leave collateral damage in the form of human right defenders and

Consumers around the world have embraced online commerce, spending hundreds of billions of dollars in just the last year. At the same time, surveys also show that shoppers have serious reservations about the safety of the online world, including concerns over identity theft, data breaches and other fraud.
These security concerns threaten to erode public confidence in online commerce, so it’s imperative that we develop a strong understanding of consumer online safety behavior to provide effective educational programs and also to develop safer, more secure technologies.
Data from the latest Microsoft Computing Safety Index (MCSI) is encouraging as it shows that 60 percent of self-reported respondents to a five-nation study have gotten better at protecting themselves. And when researchers factored respondents’ computer settings into the results, they identified an additional 30 percent of participants, for an impressive total of 90 percent actually using anti-virus software.
The research — conducted in Brazil, France, Germany, the

October was the 8th warmest since 1880, according a NOAA press release; however, Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) satellite-estimated data for the lower levels of the atmosphere (as talked about in a recent AccuWeather climate blog) indicates that October temperatures were the 15th coolest since 1979.
I’m a meteorologist, not a climatologist (not one in the same), so analyzing climate data is not my field of expertise, but this data is not necessarily contradictory.
NOAA’s data is land and sea data, measured at the surface where we happen to live. The satellite data is an estimate of temperatures of the lower troposphere (the part of the atmosphere closest to the ground) — it’s not a specific measure of temperatures at the surface. Remote Sensing Systems is associated with NASA.
These are two different types of data with two different sets of “averages,” not necessarily better or worse.
The NOAA data indicates that global temperatures (combined land and sea) in October were 1.04 degrees Fahrenheit (.58 degrees Celsius) above the 20th century average, and the RSS data indicates that temperatures through the lower troposphere were just 0.16 degrees Fahrenheit (0.089 Celsius) above average.
Temperatures were slightly cooler across the United States than globally, with the temperatures averaging 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average, with cooler-than-normal temperatures in the Southeast and parts of the mid-Atlantic region, as well as western Washington.
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