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Shaun Musgrave, LG's UK Product Manager, confirmed that the company has an on-going negotiation with Google to have a partnership in manufacturing the Nexus 5 hardware. Though Google acquired Motorola, the Search Engine giant maintains that all of its partners like HTC and Samsung will still receive fair treatment as a budding manufacturer of the Nexus 5.
Google's statement definitely assured the other smart phone manufacturers that chances are still open for them before the final decision is made. Other companies included in the Nexus 5 partnership negotiation include Sony, Asus, Samsung and HTC.
Company executives confessed both Google and LG were surprised with the unexpected success of their collaborative work on the Nexus 4 smart phone. Incorporation of high-quality features and specifications on the Google Nexus 4 offered at an affordable price attracted the consumers.
The Nexus 4 was rapidly sold out worldwide to the point that Google and LG suffered supply issues. However, Product Manager Shaun Musgrave assured the consumers that the supply problems on the Nexus smart phones have already been resolved.
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Ask Jack Tatum what 'Wild Nothing' means and he'll answer: 'a contradiction'. In 2010, 21 year old Tatum released one of the finest cult pop records of the summer whilst ensconced in his senior year of college in Blacksburg, VA, a small mid-atlantic town better known for producing football fans and engineers than musicians. Tatum lives in contradictions. You'll often hear Wild Nothing referred to as a 'one man pop band'. Jack creates in the studio, alone. On the road, he's with a band. There are two Wild Nothings.
The critically acclaimed debut 'Gemini' was underpinned with summery childhood longings, and shot through with the instant dichotomy of anxiety and almost whimsical paranoia. The album, which was home recorded by Tatum and rooted heavily in 80's indie-pop, quickly gained popularity throughout the internet. Tatum assembled a band of Virginia friends and hit the road for the first time. 'Gemini' showed a promising future for a songwriter who wore his influences on his sleeve while still approaching pop craftsmanship in his own way. When asked about it in regards to 'Nocturne', Jack states:
I don't think it's going to be a secret to anyone that I care about pop music, but it's definitely more my sense of what pop music used to be or even what pop music would be in my ideal world.
The new album 'Nocturne', is a window into Tatum's "ideal world" of pop music. Written largely while living in Savannah, GA during 2011, the songs that became 'Nocturne' speak to a new Wild Nothing where the lines between Jack's influences and personality have been further blurred. The album features some open references to past music just as 'Gemini' did, but it's also an album that feels much less rooted in anything in particular and, well, more adult.
'Gemini' was written before there were Wild Nothing fans or even a live band; 'Nocturne' is different. With an unexpected fan base to turn to, Jack spent more time perfecting his craft. The obsessiveness of 'Nocturne' is inherent in it's gentle harmonies, orchestrated synths, wandering voice, and songs that speak of his post-Gemini experiences as he explores new paradoxes of pop.
And yet Nocturne' isn't obvious, it is a strange and distinctive musical beast, the product of an obsessive pop vision that creates its own reality.
Twin Tigers formed in fall 2007. Following the buzz of their first release Curious Faces/Violet Future EP, the band signed with Brooklyn-based Old Flame Records. Since releasing their debut LP Gray Waves in 2010, Twin Tigers have done full US tours with Interpol and Minus the Bear; as well as runs with The Hold Steady, Deerhunter, Les Savy Fav, We Are Scientists, and the Antlers. Recently, Twin Tigers finished working on their second LP, writing and recording Death Wish at a studio on loan from Interpol.
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Am hoping someone can provide some insights/recommendations as to what to do with my chainsaw problem.
I bought a slightly used Echo Chainsaw CS370 in early 2009. It started just fine when I got it. I used it to cut up some small branches/trees in May of 2009. About 3 months later, it would not start. So I took it to my local Echo dealer and he said I needed a new air filter so I had them replace the filter. It started just fine then in November. I drained the fuel as I only cut a bit of wood once or twice a year. I went out this past weekend, cut for about 30 minutes (it ran really well, no issues at all). I loaded up the wood and drove for about an hour. I had to do a bit more cutting and now it will not start at all.
A friend and I have looked it over and nothing "looks" wrong (took it a part a bit), changed the spark plug, bypassed the "On" switch with a piece of wire as we thought it could have been a faulty on/off switch, but still no luck. Check the air filter and the mesh screen on the intake and it all looks really clean.
The gas I used when it started was the same gas I used an hour later when I refilled it. I even mixed up some new gas but it's just not giving any indication like it's wanting to fire up.
I will try with some new/fresh 92 octane gas (ethanol free.. per other suggestions on this site). I've not messed with the lean mixture yet, but if you think that could help, would be glad to give it a shot.
Thanks for any help on this!
Check the spark arrestor screen in the muffler. If it is plugged up the engine can't breathe and won't start. I've had this happen in several of my 2-strokes. I also have one of those spark testers, a short piece of spark wire that goes between the spark plug and the spark wire with a glass window that glows when there's current to the spark plug.
You might have gotten it flooded, try taking the air cleaner off and holding the throttle wide open while cranking. I had one that was laying upside down out in the woods that wouldn't start, took the air cleaner off and it started right up. Some gas had run out of the carb and soaked into the air cleaner causing it to flood. Steve
Check 1st for spark . If you have good (Blue) Spark then spray a little carb cleaner within the plug hole and attempt a restart . If that should fail try ether based starting fluid . It should at least attempt to start . If so , carb cleaning may be required . Normally pulling the plug over night will cure the slightly flooded issues , Steve may well be correct within the filter being soaked also check that also prior to the carb cleaning as a KISS preventative measure . Let us know what you find Bro !


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A tale of two SEC cases
Juries are sometimes told that in the eyes of the law, all Americans are created equal. But if that's the case, then why does the Securities and Exchange Commission's treatment of former top Fannie and Freddie executives seem to be so much harsher than its treatment of Citigroup and its senior people for what appear to be similar infractions?
Recall that on Dec. 16, the SEC charged six former executives at mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with fraud for not properly disclosing the companies' exposure to risky mortgages. In Fannie's case, the SEC alleges that former CEO Dan Mudd and two other executives made a series of "materially false and misleading public disclosures." The SEC says, for instance, that at the end of 2006, Fannie didn't include $43.3 billion of so-called expanded approval mortgages in its subprime exposure and $201 billion of mortgages with reduced documentation in its Alt-A exposure. In Freddie's case, the SEC alleges that while former CEO Dick Syron and two other executives told investors it had "basically no" subprime exposure, they weren't including $141 billion in loans (as of the end of 2006) that they internally described as "subprime" or "subprime like."
There are some gray areas in the SEC's case. Start with the fact that there is no single definition of what constitutes a subprime or Alt-A loan, or as Mudd said in a speech in the fall of 2007, "the vague, prosaic titles that pass for market data — 'subprime,' 'Alt A,' 'A minus' — mean different things to the beholders." In Fannie's 2006 10(k), Mudd noted that apart from what Fannie was defining as subprime or Alt-A, the company also had "certain products and loan attributes [that] are often associated with a greater degree of credit risk," like loans with low FICO scores or high loan-to-value ratios. And in a letter to shareholders in 2006, Mudd noted that "to provide an alternative to risky subprime products, we have purchased or guaranteed more than $53 billion in Fannie Mae loan products with low down payments, flexible amortization schedules, and other features." These are the very holdings that the SEC says should have been disclosed as subprime exposure.
The SEC'Äôs case on the Alt-A mortgages is equally tricky. As blogger David Fiderer points out, 'Äúreduced documentation" can refer to a loan for which the borrower proves his income with a W-2 for last year in addition to a 1040 for the previous year. Or "reduced documentation" can refer to a "stated income/stated asset" loan, otherwise known as a liar loan.'Äù As of September 2008, the default rate on the loans that the SEC says Fannie should have labeled Alt-A was less than a third of the default rate on those Fannie did call Alt-A. In other words, you could argue that if Fannie had mixed those two groups of loans together, thereby lowering the reported default rate, the company could have been criticized 'Äî or possibly even sued 'Äî for making the default rate on its Alt-A loans look artificially low.
Be that as it may, the SEC, which has been under fire for not being aggressive enough, brought its charges. "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives told the world that their subprime exposure was substantially smaller than it really was," said Robert Khuzami, director of the SEC's Enforcement Division, in the press release. "These material misstatements occurred during a time of acute investor interest in financial institutions' exposure to subprime loans … all individuals, regardless of their rank or position, will be held accountable for perpetuating half-truths or misrepresentations about matters materially important to the interest of our country's investors."
The companies themselves entered into non-prosecution agreements and agreed to cooperate with the SEC's litigation against the former executives. (The SEC said it "considered the unique circumstances presented by the companies' current status," meaning that because the companies were wards of the state following the government takeover in the fall of 2008, it wasn't in taxpayers' best interests to go after them.) The SEC didn't charge any of the more junior employees who were presumably involved in the actual drafting of the disclosures. But the SEC is throwing the book at the former executives, charging them with securities fraud — its most serious charge — and seeking financial penalties plus a bar on any of the six serving as an officer or director of a publicly traded company. It's one of the harshest treatments of big corporate executives in the aftermath of the financial crisis.
Just weeks earlier, a judge in New York had thrown a wrench in another SEC proceeding. Judge Jed Rakoff refused to approve a settlement in which Citigroup (or rather, its shareholders) would have paid $285 million to settle SEC charges that the bank misled investors when it sold a $1 billion subprime CDO, made itself a profit of about $160 million and cost investors about $700 million. The charge involved only negligence, not fraud. In his rejection of the settlement, Rakoff wrote: "If the allegations of the Complaint are true, then Citigroup is getting a very good deal; even if they are untrue, it is a mild and modest cost of doing business." Separately, the SEC filed a complaint against a former Citigroup employee named Brian Stoker, who the SEC describes as "primarily responsible" for the deal's marketing documents. Stoker was charged with fraud — but Stoker was a relatively junior guy.
That attempted settlement, though, isn't the only deal the SEC has cut with Citigroup. In 2010, Citigroup's shareholders paid $75 million to settle charges that Citigroup — get this — misled investors over its exposure to risky mortgages. According to the SEC, Citi repeatedly told investors that its exposure was only $13 billion and declining, when in reality it was more than $50 billion and not declining. Citi neither admitted nor denied the charges, as was the standard convenience afforded to companies until Judge Rakoff began to derail the settlement machine.
There is probably gray in the Citi complaint as well, but at least on the surface, it's harder to find. The allegedly undisclosed exposure consisted of "super senior" tranches of subprime mortgage-backed securities (the stuff that was supposed to be really safe, but wasn't) and "liquidity puts" (which required Citi itself to buy outstanding commercial paper that was backed by subprime mortgage-backed securities if the paper couldn't be sold to investors). According to the SEC's complaints, Citi executives didn't feel they had to disclose these exposures because they felt the risk of default was low. Yet by the fall of 2007, Citi had had to buy "substantially all" of the $25 billion in commercial paper and had started taking losses on the super-seniors. Even then, Citi still didn't disclose its exposure, but rather bundled these losses in with others. According to the SEC, "senior management was aware" that the super-senior tranches were a source of the losses, but the company "nevertheless continued to exclude" the additional exposure. Only on Nov. 4, 2007, did Citi issue a press release in which it acknowledged the existence of this junk — and the after-tax losses of $5 billion to $7 billion it would have to take as a result of all of its subprime exposure.
In its own press release announcing the settlement, the SEC summed it up this way: "Even as late as fall 2007, as the mortgage market was rapidly deteriorating, Citigroup boasted of superior risk management skills in reducing its subprime exposure to approximately $13 billion. In fact, billions more in CDO and other subprime exposure sat on its books undisclosed to investors," said Khuzami. "The rules of financial disclosure are simple — if you choose to speak, speak in full and not in half-truths." Added Scott Friestad, the associate director of the SEC's Enforcement Division: "Citigroup's improper disclosures came at a critical time when investors were clamoring for details about Wall Street firms' exposure to subprime securities."
In addition to the fine paid by Citi's shareholders, the SEC gave two executives, Citi's former CFO, Gary Crittenden, and its former head of investor relations, Arthur Tildesley, light slaps on the wrist for their roles in causing Citigroup to make the misleading statements. Crittenden and Tildesley agreed to "cease and desist" from anymore violations of the securities laws, and they paid $100,000 and $80,000, respectively. That's a far cry from being charged with fraud and being barred from serving as an officer or director of a publicly traded company. Neither man admitted or denied the charges. Tildesley continued to work at Citi.
The SEC doesn't comment on enforcement cases. But it might be worth noting that the Citi charges came at the end of a settlement process, whereas the charges against the Fannie and Freddie executives might be just the beginning of a process that could end in something far less extreme than fraud charges. Nor is the SEC a monolithic agency, meaning that there may not be any coordination between the teams in charge of each case. And there could, of course, be differences between the cases that can't be gleaned from the surface of the complaints.
Still, given the leniency seemingly accorded Citigroup's people, it's hardly surprising that some would charge that Citi received special treatment. In fact, the SEC's Office of the Inspector General investigated an anonymous complaint that there were "serious problems with special access and preferential treatment" in the Citi affair. While the OIG did not find that that was the case, its redacted report still offers insight into the vagaries of the SEC's process.
Most notably, Tildesley had agreed to settle to a lesser charge of fraud than that faced by the former Fannie and Freddie executives 'Äî but it was still fraud. Crittenden, however, wouldn'Äôt settle. After SEC officials had meetings not just with Crittenden and Citi'Äôs lawyers but even one in which Dick Parsons, Citigroup'Äôs then-chairman, 'Äúmade a personal pitch,'Äù the SEC agreed to the slap on the wrist for Crittenden. So Tildesley'Äôs settlement was changed to match Crittenden'Äôs. The SEC enforcement staff had notified other individuals that it planned to recommend charges against them, the report said, but their identities are blacked out, and the non-redacted text doesn'Äôt explain why those individuals weren'Äôt charged. But an unidentified SEC official testified that Citigroup was 'Äútrying to use whatever leverage they had … to get us to … lay off the individuals.'Äù
These days, Fannie and Freddie, far from having any "leverage," are political punching bags. And they deserve to be punched: The companies were disasters. In the wake of a crisis the magnitude of the one we experienced, it's also probably better that the SEC is too aggressive, rather than not aggressive enough. But above all, the SEC has a duty to be fair. Which means making sure that there can't even be the perception that a company's "leverage" influences the treatment accorded its employees.
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Great article as usual. Why indeed are Fannie and Freddie taking a beating, except that it's fuel for the Republican agenda to dismantle government. As though they were the only ones out there raping the economy. If Wall Street had not been so eager to buy up the securities Fannie and Freddie were producing they would not have marketed them. Another good reason for the disparity in sentencing is that politicians don't have the guts to go after the big money. As you say, no one is going to stand up for Fannie and Freddie right now, not even Newt. But who among our Congressional leaders will take a stand against the big money on Wall Street? That is biting the hand that is feeding them and they know it will cost them their job come the next election.
It seems like the only executive the SEC sent to prison was Martha Stewart. Really? All she had to do is send a muffin basket to the SEC officials and she would have gotten off?
The box on the Reuters front page asks: "Why is the SEC throwing the book at former Fannie and Freddie executives for misstating their companies' subprime exposure, but letting Citigroup officials off with only a slap on the wrist for doing the same thing?"
Answer: In government enforcement decisions involving economic regulation, it's just about always the small fish that get fried.


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Dismissing reports of a rift between the Pakistani government and the military, President Asif Ali Zardari, today said his administration has the support of the defence forces in the ongoing war against terrorism.
"...some Western reports suggest the Pakistani military does not support the policies of our democratic government. This is not true.
"Not only is our military courageously battling extremists in Swat and Waziristan, and succeeding, but our troops also are supporting the country's democratic transition and adherence to our Constitution," Mr. Zardari wrote in an opinion piece in The Washington Post.
"Terrorists do not want Pakistan to succeed," he said and added that militants want to distract the country from preparing for a stable and prosperous future.
"Some in Pakistan question our international alliances because they disapprove of our allies' actions, such as Thursday's unilateral US drone attack against militants in Waziristan. We should all understand that concern.
But we are fighting for our lives, and Pakistan's policies cannot be based solely on what is popular," he wrote.
When Franklin Roosevelt threw a lifeline to Britain with the Lend—Lease programme, few Americans supported challenging the Nazis. Harry Truman had less than 15 per cent support among Americans to rebuild Europe. They did what was right, not what was popular, and so will we, Mr. Zardari said.
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Quarters, dimes and nickels are on the way out of students' pockets when it comes to campus parking, said Parking Division Manager Mark Miller.
ISU Parking Division has started putting new modules in existing parking meters around campus that accept a pre-paid smart card.
An initial order of 85 modules were installed in meters out of 245 meters on campus. Parking division plans to have all 245 meters smart card friendly within six months.
Smart cards were previously only accepted in pre-paid lots 21 and 100 and the East Campus parking deck.
Miller said the upgrade is all about "convenience."
"Smart cards have a consumer-friendly convenience factor," Miller said. "Not only will students no longer have to carry around quarters if they choose to get a smart card, [but] our staff will not have to pick up and transport so many heavy bags of coin."
Spencer Williams, freshman in agronomy, was unaware of the existence of smart cards but agrees that they could be appealing to students.
"I think that students who regularly park in the prepaid lots probably have a collection of coins in their car just because they know they will need them. The smart cards would especially help students who don't necessarily think about it every day," Williams said. "However, the smart cards would be way more convenient than having to carry change all the time, especially since you control how much you have on the card, and you wouldn't have to scrounge for the change."
Students can pick up a smart card at the parking division office located in the Armory. There is an initial charge of $5 for the physical card, but there will be no fee to reload funds on your account.
"Students can reload their card using cash, check, credit card or on their U-bill. The initial $5 charge can be put on the student's U-bill as well," Miller said.
Smart cards that are lost and stolen can be replaced for the same $5 fee.
Time limits still remain and are enforced around campus. They are the same limits whether coin or a smart card is used. Time limits are listed on each meter or on signs located at pre-paid lots.
With the new smart card meters, if a student walks up to pay for a meter that still has 38 minutes on it, they can put their smart card in and it will round up to the next hour, only taking the amount it needs to make the time difference. If a student were using coin, they would have to put a quarter in to get that hour, essentially paying 25 cents for 22 minutes instead of 30.
The new modules only accept smart cards and coin. Students cannot put their student ID or credit card in the slot.
"Currently, the parking meters run on a different operating system than student ID cards, making them incompatible with each other," Miller said.
Miller does not see an upgrade for the additional use of credit cards in the near future.
"[ISU Parking] has no plans to switch over to credit card modules at this time. With the fees associated with that type of service, we would have to raise our parking rates, which we do not plan on doing soon," Miller said.
Williams thinks smart cards will save time for students.
"Personally, I would much rather pay with a smart card than change. I never have change in my car, and if I do, it's always just the pennies I don't want to keep," Williams said. "I feel like most other students would rather pay with the smart cards as well. You wouldn't have to worry if you had it or not."


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After two data breaches involving the records of more than 28,000 students, the University of Cincinnati (UC) is shoring up its electronic defenses. But it also needs to protect data stored in unlocked file cabinets in university offices across campus. To improve security, the UC information technology department said it would purchase 2,000 copies of data encryption software. To get a handle on physical records, university officials are attempting to identify the whereabouts of unsecured information about students stored at various locations and offices across campus.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Buffalo Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick called New England Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes a "punk" after the Patriots' 37-31 win, during which Spikes was called for an unnecessary roughness penalty on a third-quarter shot to Fitzpatrick's head that left him on the ground without a helmet.
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"I think the biggest thing is we're not going to back down from anybody," Fitzpatrick said after Sunday's Bills loss. "I think that Spikes is an emotional player. I think that he's a punk, at times. (He) took a cheap shot at Scott (Chandler) in the first game (the teams played this season). He was doing a lot of jabbering and talking and hitting out there. (He's) not one of my favorite players, not high on my list."
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Quotable: Diddy Tried To Diddle When He Was 7
"I tried to lose my virginity when I was seven years old. I was on top of a girl who was nine or 10, but it didn't happen -- so everybody doesn't have to bug out. My mother and the babysitter whipped my ass, but it didn't knock me off my mission ... When I…
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December 17, 2009
Quotable: Wendy Williams Tells Her Son Her Boobs Aren't Real
"I gagged when my son came and asked me about the implants. It was, 'Where did you hear that?' But it was on my own show. Our son did not know I had breast implants, so I sat down and went through plastic surgery with him. And it was great, because I was able to…
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December 13, 2009
Quotable: Madonna Kids Are Her Biggest Fans
"[David] knows every song, every word, every step, and he wants to wear all the costumes. He likes my dress that I wear in 'La Isla Bonita' ... When [Rocco] jumped on stage to dance in my last show, I was shocked actually. Secretly, unbeknownst to me, [my children are] all studying privately with my…
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December 9, 2009
Quotable: Jen And Ben, The Baby-Making Machines
"We were together for a year, and we just started breeding. We were like, 'Let's have a baby!' And eight days later ..."—Jennifer Garner, on deciding to have kids with Ben Affleck. What's up with celebrities being baby crazy? [NY Post]…
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Quotable: '80s Stud Muffin Directs An Episode Of "Gossip Girl"
"They are much more savvy than we were. We were just a bunch of dumb kids running around. We have a nice episode, all sorts of juicy little things happen—the normal 'Gossip Girl' juicy things. I can't give you much. Except, there is a '9 1/2 Weeks' kind of thing going on in one story…
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December 8, 2009
Quotable: Jesus Wouldn't Want Carrie Prejean At A Club Past Midnight
"We are not completely certain that we want Carrie in a nightclub setting at the hours specified... As you can understand, this is in direct conflict with who she is. Her reputation as a Christian is more important than any public appearance attention or monetary compensation. If ... you have an opportunity for her to…
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December 8, 2009
Quotable: Hillary Clinton On Planning Chelsea's Wedding
"I am officially a MOTB: a mother of the bride. And I am very excited about it ... But it's daunting to try and plan a wedding. Madeleine Albright called me the other night and said, 'Well, when I was Secretary of State and had not a minute to myself, I had to plan a…
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December 7, 2009
Quotable: Rihanna On Sending Nakey Pics
"The photos were for my boyfriend at the time. If you don't send your boyfriend naked pictures, then I feel bad for him. [Them being leaked online right after the incident with Chris Brown] was the worst thing that could possibly ever happen to me. I just felt like my whole privacy was taken before…
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December 2, 2009
Quotable: Lady Gaga Wants A Loving Husband And Little Monsters Of Her Own
"In eight to 10 years, I want to have babies for my Dad to hold, grandkids. And I want to have a husband who loves and supports me, just the way anyone else does. I would never leave my career for a man right now, and I would never follow a man around." --…
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December 2, 2009
Quotable: Sharon Stone Wants Japan To Eat Pancakes
"You people need to go for American breakfast. No wonder everyone's so thin ... They need pancakes."—Sharon Stone, addressing a movie theater full of people in Japan about her new jewelry line. Evidently, she wasn't pleased with the traditional smoked fish breakfast she had that morning. And didn't get the memo that most folk…
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November 29, 2009
Quotable: Melissa Etheridge Says The New Mammogram Guidelines Are Phooey
"We have gotten ourselves into a big, deep hole in the way that we look at health. Women have to take control of our healthcare back. We are in a system where they get money when we're sick. That's never going to work for us. So when someone says, 'You don't need a mammogram until…
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November 24, 2009
Quotable: Leighton Meester Says Down With Love
"I always resist falling in love. My problem is, I lose interest. Every time I've fallen in love, it's just momentary. Honestly, I've hated every boyfriend I've had. I don't want to have a boyfriend unless I want to be with him forever. If I don't see an end, that's nice. Because I always see…
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November 20, 2009
Quotable: Tina Fey Disses NBC, Praises Porn Star
"NBC is sadly the fourth-place network; actually, we're in ninth place if you count the radio stations ahead of us right now. I really believe that if everyone in this room would watch NBC for one night then that would be a 40 percent [ratings] increase ... They made a porn movie about Sarah Pali…
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November 20, 2009
Quotable: Jude Law Is Probably Persona Non Grata In The Miller Household
"I think that would be a completely ridiculous assumption considering the way that man has conducted himself recently. That's all I'm saying."-- Savannah Miller on rumors that her sister Sienna is back together with her ex, Jude Law, who famously cheated on her with his children's nanny. [Telegraph U.K.]…
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November 18, 2009
Quote Of The Day: Mom Asks Taylor Lautner To Sign Team Taylor Underwear
"[This mom said] 'Excuse me Taylor…. I'm wearing the Team Taylor panties right now. Is there any way I can take them off for you and just have you sign 'em quick?'…. And the daughter goes, 'Mom, come on!' The mother told her daughter, 'Honey, don't worry. This is what we do at these things.'…
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(Another) Quote Of The Day: Alanis Morisette Discusses Her Eating Disorder Battle
"As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic. I was a young woman in the public eye, on the receiving end of a lot of attention, and I was trying to protect myself from men who were using their power in ways I was too young to know how to handle ... Disappointment, sadne…
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November 16, 2009
Quote Of The Day: Nicole Kidman Liked Her Post-Baby Boobs
"They're not very big, my boobs, so they just became normal size. I loved it! I felt very Woman. When you've had a slightly androgynous body your whole life, having breasts is a nice feeling."-- Nicole Kidman on how her breasts changed after giving birth to Sunday Rose, in an interview with Ladies Home Journal.
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November 16, 2009
Quote Of The Day: Leona Lewis Talks About Being Attacked
"I'm from Hackney, so I'm hard. I'm not going to let something like that bother me There was always some kind of craziness going on in my neighborhood ... It's horrible, no matter who you are, to be physically attacked by someone, but I'm not letting it worry me. I know it was an isolated…
Annika Harris
November 14, 2009
Quote Of The Day: Cindy Crawford Is Trying To Kill The Magazine Industry
"If you don't like something, don't buy it. Don't buy the magazine if you don't like what it says. If you don't like the image a brand is putting out, don't buy it. What I really don't agree with is people who complain about it but still support it. You're giving your power away. If…
Erin Flaherty
November 13, 2009
(Another) Quote Of The Day: Carrie Prejean Quotes The Good Book
"No, I don't think there's anything wrong with getting breast implants as a Christian. I think it's a personal decision. I don't see anywhere in the Bible where it says you shouldn't get breast implants.—De-throned beauty queen Carrie Prejean may also be surprised that the Bible doesn't say anything about airplanes, the…
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One of my very favorite things about my house is my bathroom. I know that probably sounds a bit odd, but it truly is my own version of paradise thanks to the garden tub I have in there. I designed the bathroom myself, because I knew that I wanted it to be a place where I could just relax after a stressful day. I had talked with a plumber in Morris County NJ even before I decided to remodel the bathroom, because I wanted to make sure that I would be able to have everything I wanted in it.
I knew that I wanted a garden tub that was separate from the shower, and I also wanted a double vanity since my husband and I sometimes have to get ready at the same time for work or a social function. That is one of the reasons why we bought this house, was because of how large the rooms are, including the bathrooms. I showed the plumber a picture from a magazine of what I wanted, and he told me that it would be easy enough for him to do the majority of the plumbing work himself.
He would have to put in new pipes and drains since the garden tub is on the opposite wall of where the old tub was located. Also, the shower was brand new, so it needed everything. I had the carpenter who constructed the bathroom meet up with the plumber, and the two of them coordinated everything they needed for the work to be done. The final result is my favorite room, like I said. I probably spend more time in there than I do my own kitchen because of how nice it is to just soak in the tub! I have even had a few friends contact the same plumber and carpenter to help them recreate their own bathrooms too.


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In a perfect world — and this is more of a side issue — I would like to allow other people to help manage the list of feeds and assign tags to the content from each individual feed so that you can filter the items that are displayed.
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Google Feeds API – I thought this would be the answer, but unless I'm missing something, the
FeedControllerwill only output the collected feed content as separate lists. Is there any way to ask the Google Feeds API to aggregate and sort the content from many RSS feeds before displaying?
Yahoo! Pipes – This also seemed like a good solution at first. I setup a Pipe that accesses a list of RSS feeds stored in a Google Doc spreadsheet and then aggregates the content. However, the output leaves a lot to be desired; Tumblr video posts, for example, only show a title and a permalink to the post, the embedded Youtube video is lost.
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A stunning view over Cebu City and the harbor to Mactan Island & Bohol on horizon.
Wow! This is wonderful!! ♥♥♥ + VOTED ❀. Friendly greetings from Switzerland ~☺ Arno
Thank you. This view is from isolated mountain top in Cradle Mountain-Lake St CLair National Park. You cannot drive to there as its only accessible by hiking trail from Pine Valley Hut about 3 hours walking north from Lake St Clair to Pine Valley area. Here is link to map of the area from Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service website => http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/?base=8106. The Acropolis & Pine Valley are at top left corner of map.
Nice shot in similar location to an old B&W photo I remember from early edition of Tasmanian Tramp magazine. This tarn is about 500 metres north of Lake Macfarlane a small lake below eastern face of Ossa. Always wanted to go to this location.
Interesting view through Big Gun Pass to bluff on southern ridge of Mt Ossa. Have a few shots of this myself. Looks like low cloud had drifted in around the mountain tops ?
Hi Michael - it was the beginning of October with an unseasonally heavy snow storm hitting the region. Bloody cold too!
The steep bluff on right of picture dominating this view is the end of Mt Ossa's southern ridge and reaches a height of about 1,443 metres according to the spot height measurement on the Achilles 1:25,000 topographic map sheet. The mountain in background is 1,480 metres high Mount Hyperion in the Du Cane Range.
I wonder what it would have been like to be sitting here where you took this photo during the recent passing of Typhoon Pablo on 4th December. I was travelling in the area just ten days before (23 November 2012) on bus passing through Monkayo and Compostela Valley from Davao City to Butuan City. Who would imagine those peaceful scenes would be wrecked so soon after. I like your view thorugh to Mt Apo which I saw clearly from Davao most days I was there. I measured it on Google Earth and its straight line distance of about 115 kilometres between Mounts Apo & Tagub.
I think you have your photo MISPLACED on the Panoramio-Google map. You have it located near towns of Tagub and Mawab next to Compostela Valley in Davao Region of Mindanao - the main island of southern Philippines. I noticed this as I was there for 8 weeks just recently a week before the powerful Typhoon Pablo ripped through this locality. I was placing some of my own photos of this area after a trip to Davao City (120kms away SW) and noticed yours saying "HEAD HUNTERS LONG HOUSE, Borneo? Well the location "Borneo" you have chosen is just on 1,000 kilometres away (NE) from the nearest point in BORNEO.


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Gross National Happiness
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The phrase "Gross National Happiness" (GNH); Wylie: gyal-yong ga'a-kyid pal-'dzoms) was coined in 1972 by Bhutan's fourth Dragon King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, who opened Bhutan to the age of modernization soon after the demise of his father, Jigme Dorji Wangchuk. At first the phrase was offered as a casual, offhand remark to signal his commitment to building an economy that would serve Bhutan's unique culture based on Buddhist spiritual values instead of the western material development that was represented by gross national product (GNP).[1]
Origins and Meaning[edit]
Today, GNH has come to mean so many things to so many people but to me it signifies simply - Development with Values. Thus for my nation today GNH is the bridge between the fundamental values of kindness, equality and humanity and the necessary pursuit of economic growth.
The GNH concept has inspired a modern political happiness movement. Through the contribution of several western and eastern scholars, economists and politicians, the concept evolved into a socioeconomic development model. In July 2011, the United Nations passed Resolution 65/309, that was adopted unanimously by the General Assembly in July 2011, placing "happiness" on the global development agenda.[3]
The four pillars of GNH philosophy are the promotion of
- sustainable development
- preservation and promotion of cultural values
- conservation of the natural environment, and
- establishment of good governance.
The ideal of government as a promoter of happiness can be traced back at least to the Spring and Autumn period of the Eastern Zhou dynasty, approximately 771 to 476 BC, where Confucius in the Analects is quoted as saying "Good government obtains, when those who are near are made happy, and those who are far off are attracted.".[4] However, in modern history, the GNH concept evolved through the contribution of international of scholars and researchers to become a socioeconomic development framework. The GNH policy now serves as a unifying vision for Bhutan's five-year planning process and all the derived planning documents that guide the economic and development plans of the country. Proposed policies in Bhutan must pass a GNH review based on a GNH impact statement that is similar in nature to the Environmental Impact Statement required for development in the U.S.
Quantitative and Qualitative Indicators[edit]
While the Gross National Happiness was an inspirational philosophy, the implementation of a GNH policy was challenging in Bhutan due to the political transformation of the country and the overemphasis on the spiritual and cultural aspects of GNH over economic development. Like many psychological and social indicators, GNH is somewhat easier to state than to define with mathematical precision. For more than thirty years, the GNH concept struggled to be accepted by policy makers and economists outside Bhutan due the subjective nature of happiness, the lack of a policy implementation framework and economic measurement system.
Although there were few adhoc and independent surveys that attempted to measure the happiness or life satisfaction as a subjective score, up to 2005 there was no exact quantitative definition of GNH,[5] but only some studies of individual elements that contribute to GNH are subject to quantitative measurement. For instance, low rates of infant mortality, correlate positively with subjective expressions of well-being or happiness within a country. The practice of social science has long been directed toward transforming subjective expression of large numbers of people into meaningful quantitative data; some researchers believe that there is no major difference between asking people "how confident are you in the economy?" and "how satisfied are you with your job?"
In 2005, a second-generation GNH concept (GNH 2.0), also called as Gross National Wellness (GNW), was proposed by Med Jones, the President of International Institute of Management. The new socioeconomic development framework consisted of a multidimensional policy model and utilized the first GNH Index as a measurement tool to track seven development areas including the nation's mental and emotional health among other parameters.[6] A GNH value was proposed to be an index function of the total average per capita of the following measures:
- Economic Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of economic metrics such as consumer debt, average income to consumer price index ratio and income distribution
- Environmental Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of environmental metrics such as pollution, noise and traffic
- Physical Wellness: Indicated via statistical measurement of physical health metrics such as disabilities, obesity, severe and chronic illnesses
- Mental Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of mental health metrics such as usage of antidepressants and rise or decline of the number of psychotherapy patients
- Workplace Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of labor metrics such as jobless claims, job change, workplace complaints and lawsuits
- Social Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of social metrics such as discrimination, safety, divorce rates, complaints of domestic conflicts and family lawsuits, public lawsuits, and crime rates
- Political Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of political metrics such as the quality of local democracy, individual freedom, domestic and foreign conflicts.
The above seven dimensions of well-being and sub-measures were incorporated into the first Global GNH Index Survey.[7]
The GNH Index framework served as the first integrated objective and subjective (happiness) socioeconomic development framework. Prior the GNH Index, there were few development indices that improved upon the gross domestic product (GDP), but did not measure happiness. For example, the Genuine Progress Indicator was focused on the environmental cost of economic development, then later (in 2006) it was updated to include similar measures to the GNH Index. Another development index is the Human Development Index (HDI) that originally focused on literacy and education but also did not measure happiness.[8]
After the introduction of GNH Index initiative in 2005, several initiatives were launched that adapted the gross national happiness index to their communities and the GNH philosophy transformed from local philosophy into an international initiative informing many development policies. The list of noteworthy happiness and well-being index development initiatives that followed the GNH Index are listed below.
GNH and Happiness Movement Timeline[edit]
The following timeline lists the international happiness initiatives and well-being socioeconomic development milestones in a chronological order.
1972 - Bhutan's King introduced the Gross National Happiness (GNH) philosophy and its four development pillars at an international conference.[9]
2005 - International Institute of Management introduced second generation GNH (GNH 2.0), the first GNH Index and the first Global GNH Index Survey [10]
2006 - The Genuine Progress Indicator was updated from a green measurement system to a broader concept that included quantitative measurement of well-being and happiness.[11] The new measure is motivated by the philosophy of the GNH and the same notion of that subjective measures like well-being are more relevant and important than more objective measures like consumption. It is not measured directly, but only the factors which are believed to lead to it.
2006 - The International Institute of Management published a policy white paper calling for the implementation of GNH philosophy in the US and inviting scholars to build upon the GNH Index framework.[12]
2007 - Thailand releases Green and Happiness Index (GHI).[13]
2009 - In the United States, the Gallup poll system launched the happiness survey collecting data on national scale.[14] The Gallup Well-Being Index was modeled after the GNH Index framework of 2005. The Well-Being Index score is an average of six sub-indexes that measures life evaluation, emotional health, work environment, physical health, healthy behaviors, and access to basic necessities. In October 2009, the USA scored 66.1/100.
2010 - The concept was taken seriously, as the Centre for Bhutan Studies, under the leadership of Karma Ura, developed a sophisticated survey instrument to measure the population's general level of well-being.[15] Two Canadians, Michael and Martha Pennock played a major role in developing the Bhutanese survey, which took a six to seven-hour interview to complete. They developed a shorter international version of the survey which has been used in their home region of Victoria BC as well as in Brazil. The Pennocks also collaborated with Ura in the production of a policy lens which is used by the Bhutanese GNH Commission for anticipating the impact of policy initiatives upon the levels of GNH in Bhutan[16]
2010 - The Center for Bhutan Studies further defined the original four pillars with greater specificity into eight general contributors to happiness—physical, mental and spiritual health; time-balance; social and community vitality; cultural vitality; education; living standards; good governance; and ecological vitality. The Bhutan GNH Index.[17]
2010 - The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative OPHI at the University of Oxford in UK, lunched the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for the United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP). Similar to the GNH Index of 2005, OPHI promotes collection and analysis of data on five dimensions including Quality of work, Empowerment, Physical safety, Ability to go about without shame, Psychological wellbeing.[18]
2011 - UN General Assembly Resolution 65/309, titled "Happiness: towards a holistic approach to development" [19]
2011 - The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) launched "Better Life Index" (BLI).[20]
2011 - The United Nations released the World Happiness Report
2011 - Canadian Index of Wellbeing Network (CIW Network) releases The Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) [21]
2011 - A leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz, published an article suggesting that western GDP economics is an incomplete development model and called for the adoption of Bhutan's GNH philosophy and Jones' GNH Index in Israel.[22]
2012 - A report prepared for the US Congressman Hansen Clarke, R, Researchers Ben, Beachy and Juston Zorn, at John F. Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University, recommended that "the Congress should prescribe the broad parameters of new, carefully designed supplemental national indicators; it should launch a bipartisan commission of experts to address unresolved methodological issues, and include alternative indicators." They proposed that the government can use the survey results to see which well-being dimensions are least satisfied and which districts and demographic groups are most deficient, so as to allocate resources accordingly. The report list the Gross National Happiness Index and its seven measurement area as one of the main frameworks to consider.[23]
2012 - Professor Dr Peter T. Coleman, a world-renowned director of the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia University, suggested that Jones' GNH Index initiative could inform the Global Peace Index Initiative GPI.[24]
2012 - South Korea launched Happiness Index citing the GNH Index framework.[25]
2012 - The Government of Goa, India published a strategy for socioeconomic development citing the GNH Index as a model for measuring happiness.[26]
2012 - The city of Seattle in Washington, launched its own happiness index initiative, emphasizing measures similar to the GNH Index.[27]
2013 - The Social Progress Index SPI was launched
2013 - The President of Singapore Dr Tony Tan proposed that in addition to building up substantial financial reserves, Singapore also needed to focus on building up its "social reserves", a concept that appears to have parallels to GNH.[28]
2014 - The government of Dubai launched it's localized Happiness Index to measure the public's contentment and satisfaction with different government services.[29]
2014 - The United Kingdom launched its own well-being and happiness statistics.[30]
Related Studies[edit]
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According to Daniel Kahneman, a Princeton University Economist, happiness can be measured using the day reconstruction method, which consists in recollecting memories of the previous working day by writing a short diary.[32]
Ed Diener, a psychologist from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has developed a scale referred to as subjective well-being, a concept related to happiness and quality of life, which has been used to compare nations to each other on this construct.[33] This study found that "high income, individualism, human rights, and social equality correlated strongly with each other, and with SWB" (p. 851, abstract).
Adam Kramer, a psychologist from the University of Oregon, has developed a behavioral model of "Gross National Happiness" based on the use of positive and negative words in social network status updates, resulting in a quantitative GNH metric.[34]
In a widely cited study, "A Global Projection of Subjective Well-being: A Challenge to Positive Psychology?" by Adrian G. White of the University of Leicester in 2007, Bhutan ranked eighth out of 178 countries in Subjective Well-Being.[35] In fact, it is the only country in the top 20 "happiest" countries that has a very low GDP.
National happiness is also sometimes classified under empirically studied "National Happyism," and psychologists, Drs. Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, have researched and analyzed what could be described as technological elements and characteristics of happiness for both individuals and societies.
"Rethinking Development: Local Pathways to Global Wellbeing," the Second International Conference on Gross National Happiness was held in Antigonish, Nova Scotia 20–24 June 2005, co-hosted by Genuine Progress Index Atlantic (proceedings online); the Coady International Institute; Shambhala; the Centre for Bhutan Studies; the Province of Nova Scotia; the Gorsebrook Research Institute at Saint Mary's University; and the University of New Brunswick. The second regional Conference took place 8–11 November 2006 at Meiji Gakuin University in Yokohama. The conference examined Haida successes to apply non-western economic and social modalities.
The 3rd International Conference on Gross National Happiness Towards Global Transformation: World Views Make a Difference offered an opportunity to articulate Asian world views towards transformation in a "message to the world." It took place in Nong Khai and Bangkok, Thailand between 22 and 28 November 2007. Implying the transition from a natural to modernized state, the 3rd International Conference on Gross National Happiness (GNH 3) took place in two locations: the first three days took place in rural north-eastern province of Nong Khai and the last three days in the urban campus of Chulalongkorn University in central Bangkok, Thailand. The organizers planned all activities so that participants were able to explore a large variety of venues, presentation and discussion formats and draw on the great variety and talents of the entire group of 800 participants who registered. Main co-organizers were the Sathirakoses Nagapradipa Foundation (Thailand), Centre for Bhutan Studies, while local NGOs, progressive business group Social Venture Network and the government of Thailand in particular The Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, Thailand, have formed a support network together with research agencies and other government departments like the Thai Health Promotion Foundation.
The 4th International Conference on Gross National Happiness was held in Bhutan with a focus on Practice and Measurement. Results of the Bhutanese survey were presented and a number of international contributors discussed different approaches and challenges to the measurement and application of the GNH framework.[36]
In 2009, the 5th International Conference was held at Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, with more than 800 participants. The conference was organised by Future Vision Ecological Institute and Itaipu Bi-national Hydroelectric Facility, in collaboration with the Centre for Bhutan Studies. The growing interest in GNH within Brazil has resulted from the work of Dr. Susan Andrews at the Instituto Visão Futuro which sponsored a series of events in São Paulo and Campinas in October 2008. Speakers included Karma Ura from Bhutan and Michael Pennock from Canada.[37]
On 19 July 2011, the United Nations approved a Bhutan-sponsored resolution 65/309, titled "Happiness: Towards a Holistic Approach to Development", which was co-sponsored by 68 countries. It stated that 'happiness is fundamental human goal and universal aspiration; that GDP by its nature does not reflect the goal; that unsustainable patterns of production and consumption impede sustainable development; and that a more inclusive, equitable and balanced approach is needed to promote sustainability, eradicate poverty, and enhance wellbeing and profound happiness." The resolution was followed by a meeting at the UN in April 2012 which was attended by more than 800 participants including the President of Costa Rica, the United Nations general secretary, the president of the UN General Assembly and Economic and Social Council, government ministers and ambassadors, leading economists and scholars and prominent civil society, business and spiritual leaders. As a result of this meeting a Secreatariat was established in Bhutan, supported by an International Expert Working Group led by Drs. Robert Costanza and Jacqueline McGlade, which will draft a new global development paradigm for presentation to the UN in 2013.
Domestic critics argue that emphasis on Bhutan's experiment with GNH has diverted global attention away from government suppression of the nation's largest minority the Hindu Lhotshampa, who formerly comprised approximately one sixth of Bhutan's population.
From an economic perspective, critics state that because GNH depends on a series of subjective judgments about well-being, governments may be able to define GNH in a way that suits their interests. Economics professor Deirdre McCloskey criticizes such measurements as unscientific, saying that "Recording the percentage of people who say they are happy will tell you... [just] how people use words," making the analogy that society could not "base physics on asking people whether today was 'hot, nice, or cold'". McCloskey also criticizes the anti-consumerism of the movement to base government policy on happiness, asserting that "High culture has in fact always flourished in eras of lively commerce, from fifth-century Greece through Song China and Renaissance Italy down to the Dutch Golden Age."[38]
Other critics say that international comparison of well-being will be difficult on this model; proponents maintain that each country can define its own measure of GNH as it chooses, and that comparisons over time between nations will have validity. GDP provides a convenient, international scale. Research demonstrates that markers of social and individual well-being are remarkably transcultural: people generally report greater subjective life satisfaction if they have strong and frequent social ties, live in healthy ecosystems, experience good governance, etc. Nevertheless, it remains true that reliance on national measures of GNH would render international comparisons of relative well-being more problematic, since there is not and is not likely ever to be a common scale as "portable" as GDP has been.[vague][33][35] Nevertheless, Bhutan's stated goal is to maximize whatever they see as GNH, not compare numbers with other countries.
Alternative indicators of emotion as an analog to economic progress have also been supported by a number of NGOs such as the UK's New Economics Foundation, and are employed in some governments notably in Europe and Canada.[citation needed] The Gallup poll system also collects data on wellbeing on a national and international scale.[39]
GNH has only been officially used in Bhutan, where a Gross National Happiness Commission is charged with reviewing policy decisions and allocation of resources.[40] In 2013, with a new administration, the country shifted the focus from spreading GNH globally to the well-being of people within Bhutan.[41] This shift has been interpreted by some as an abandonment of GNH in favor of more standard development initiatives.[42]
See also[edit]
|This section may contain excessive, poor, or irrelevant examples. (January 2013)
- Economic democracy
- Gender Empowerment Measure
- Gender-related Development Index
- Genuine Progress Indicator
- Global Peace Index
- Cool Japan
- Happiness
- Happiness economics
- Happy Planet Index
- Human Development Index
- Human Poverty Index
- Income inequality metrics
- Index of Economic Freedom
- Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare
- Legatum Prosperity Index
- Leisure satisfaction
- List of countries by income equality
- Multidimensional Poverty Index
- Philosophy of happiness
- Post-materialism
- Psychometrics
- Satisfaction with Life Index
- Social reserves
- Socionomics
- Subjective life satisfaction
- Sustainable Human Development Index
- Utilitarianism
- Where-to-be-born Index
- Wikiprogress
- World Happiness Report
- World Values Survey
- ^ "A report from the Gross National Happiness conference in Bhutan"
- ^ "GNH Center"
- ^ The U.N. Happiness Project - New York Times
- ^ "Confucius Analects 13:16". Retrieved 5 December 2014.
- ^ McDonald, Ross (2005). Rethinking Development. Local Pathways to Global Wellbeing. St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. p. 3.
- ^ "Gross National Happiness Index - GNH Index - A New Economic Development Metric - Working Paper - Med Jones, IIM". Iim-edu.org. 10 January 2005. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
- ^ "Gross National Happiness (GNH) Index Survey | Global GNH Index Survey". Iim-edu.org. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
- ^ "Happiness Economics History and Timeline - GNH Institute"
- ^ "Policy Innovations"
- ^ "Pioneers of the Happiness Movement - GNH Institute"
- ^ "Beyond GDP Paper | Page 2 | John Talberth, Center for Sustainable Economy 2012 at The European Commission Website"
- ^ "Gross National Happiness (GNH) - A New Socioeconomic Development Policy Framework - A Policy White Paper - The American Pursuit of Unhappiness - Med Jones, IIM". Iim-edu.org. 10 January 2005. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
- ^ [Green and Happiness Index (GHI"
- ^ "University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Social Impact Wiki Tex Book"
- ^ "Gross National Happiness". The Centre for Bhutan Studies. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
- ^ Pennock M, Ura K. Gross national happiness as a framework for health impact assessment. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2010.04.003
- ^ "Bhutan GNH Index"
- ^ "Economic Focus: A Wealth of Data"
- ^ UN Happiness Resolution"
- ^ "Better Life Index"
- ^ "Canadian Index of Wellbeing"
- ^ "Why Ordinary Economic Indicators Do Not Tell The Whole Truth, Haaretz, Israel"
- ^ "National Indicators for a New Era, Ben, Beachy and Juston Zorn, of the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University"
- ^ "The Missing Piece in- Sustainable Peace, Professor Peter T. Coleman, professor of psychology and education at Columbia University"
- ^ "South Korea Happiness Index"
- ^ "Goa 2035 Vision, page 111"
- ^ "Seattle Happiness Initiative"
- ^ "Leong Wai Kit, "S'pore needs both financial and 'social' reserves to thrive: President Tony Tan", 'Today', 6 November 2013.". TODAYonline. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
- ^ "The National Newspaper"
- ^ "National Well-Being Statistics"
- ^ Commencement speech at the University of Portland
- ^ Templeton, Sarah-Kate (5 December 2004). "Happiness is the new economics". London: Timesonline. Retrieved 8 January 2007.
- ^ a b http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/69/5/851/ Factors Predicting the Subjective Well-Being of Nations
- ^ http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753326.1753369 An Unobtrusive Behavioral Model of "Gross National Happiness"
- ^ a b http://www.le.ac.uk/users/aw57/world/sample.html A Global Projection of Subjective Well-being: A Challenge to Positive Psychology?
- ^ "Gross National Happiness". The Centre for Bhutan Studies. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
- ^ "Gross National Happiness". The Centre for Bhutan Studies. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
- ^ McCloskey, Deirdre N. (28 June 2012). "Happyism: The Creepy New Economics of Pleasure". The New Republic. pp. 16–23.
- ^ "A Wellbeing Report Card for President Sarkozy". Gallup.com. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
- ^ Sonam. "Gross National Happiness Commission - The Planning Commission of Bhutan, Development for Happiness". Retrieved 23 October 2014.
- ^ "Bhutan's New Prime Minister Says Happiness Isn't Everything". NPR.org. 3 August 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/world/asia/index-of-happiness-bhutans-new-leader-prefers-more-concrete-goals.html
- Adler Braun, Alejandro. Gross National Happiness in Bhutan: A Living Example of an Alternative Approach to Progress, 24 September 2009. http://www.grossnationalhappiness.com/OtherArticles/GNHPaperbyAlejandro.pdf
- Confucious. Analects 13:16. http://ctext.org/analects/zi-lu/
- Diener, Ed and Robert-Biswas Diener. Happiness – Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008. 290 pages. ISBN 978-1-4051-4661-6.
- Eric Zencey, "GDP RIP," New York Times, 9 August 2009 [1]
- Eric Ezechieli, "Beyond Sustainable Development: Education for Gross National Happiness in Bhutan" http://suse-ice.stanford.edu/monographs/Ezechieli.pdf, Stanford University, 2003
- Kammann, R. "The Analysis and Measurement of Happiness as a Sense of Well-Being", Social Indicators Research, 15(2) (1984:Aug.) p. 91–115
- Layard, Richard (2005), Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Penguin Press, ISBN 0-14-303701-3
- Niestroy, Ingeborg; García Schmidt, Armando; Esche, Andreas (2013). "Bhutan: Paradigms Matter", in: Bertelsmann Stiftung (ed.): Winning Strategies for a Sustainable Future. Reinhard Mohn Prize 2013'. Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh. pp. 55–80. ISBN 978-3-86793-491-6.
- Powdyel, T.S. "Gross National Happiness, A Tribute," Gross National Happiness, Kinga, Sonam, et al. (eds) (1999), Thimphu: The Center for Bhutan Studies
- Priesner, Stefan (2004), Indigeneity and Unversality in Social Science: A South Asian Response, SAGE Publications, ISBN 0-7619-3215-1
- Thinley, L. (October 1998). Values and Development: "Gross National Happiness." Speech presented at the Millennium Meeting for Asia and the Pacific, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
External links[edit]
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- Gross National Happiness American Project
- Official Bhutanese Gross National Happiness Website, Centre for Bhutan Studies
- Nadia Mustafa, "What About Gross National Happiness?", Time, 10 January 2005
- Rajni Bakshi, "Gross National Happiness", Resurgence, 25 January 2005
- International Institute of Management – US based GHN research, GNH policy white paper
- Bhutan 2008 Paeans to the King
- Gross National Happiness, Chapter 9 Facts about Bhutan by Lily Wangchhuk
- GNH 2 Media Clips tracks the appearance of the notion of "Gross National Happiness" in the media 2000–2005.
- World Happiness Report
- Bhutan, Gross National Happiness and Sustainable Development – YouTube (12:31)
- Gross National Happiness Survey, Global


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