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The economics of happiness or happiness economics is the quantitative and theoretical study of happiness, positive and negative affect, well-being, quality of life, life satisfaction and related concepts, typically combining economics with other fields such as psychology and sociology. It typically treats such happiness-related measures, rather than wealth, income or profit, as something to be maximized. The field has grown substantially since the late 20th century, for example by the development of methods, surveys and indices to measure happiness and related concepts.[1] Its findings have been described as a challenge to the economics profession.[2]
Subject classifications[edit]
The subject may be categorized in various ways, depending on specificity, intersection, and cross-classification. For example, within the Journal of Economic Literature classification codes, it has been categorized under:
- Welfare economics at JEL: D63 – Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement[1]
- Health, education, and welfare at JEL: I31 – General Welfare; Basic needs; Living standards; Quality of life; Happiness[3]
- Demographic economics at JEL:J18 – Public Policy.[4]
Given its very nature, reported happiness is subjective.[5] It is difficult to compare one person's happiness with another's.[1] It can be especially difficult to compare happiness across cultures.[1] However, many happiness economists believe they have solved this comparison problem. Cross-sections of large data samples across nations and time demonstrate consistent patterns in the determinants of happiness.[1]
Happiness is typically measured using subjective measures - e.g. self-reported surveys - and/or objective measures. One concern has always been the accuracy and reliability of people's responses to happiness surveys.[6] Objective measures such as lifespan, income, and education are often used as well as or instead of subjectively reported happiness, though this assumes that they generally produce happiness, which while plausible may not necessarily be the case. The terms quality of life or well-being are often used to encompass these more objective measures.
Some scientists claim that happiness can be measured both subjectively and objectively by observing the joy center of the brain lit up with advanced imaging,[6] although this raises philosophical issues, for example about whether this can be treated as more reliable than reported subjective happiness.
Micro-econometric happiness equations have the standard form: .[1] In this equation is the reported well-being of individual at time , and is a vector of known variables, which include socio-demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.[1]
GDP and GNP[edit]
Typically national financial measures, such as gross domestic product (GDP) and gross national product (GNP), have been used as a measure of successful policy. There is a significant association between GDP and happiness, with citizens in wealthier nations being happier than those in poorer nations .[citation needed] It has been argued that this relationship extends only to an average GDP per capita of about $15,000.[7] Conclusions in this are controversial [8] Other economists have disputed the accuracy of these studies, finding a logarithmic correlation between GDP per capita and self-reported happiness extending without boundary.[9] It has also been noted that since life expectancy has continued to increase in nations wealthier than this, often partly attributed to economic growth, Happy Life Years have continued to increase.[9][10]
Individual income[edit]
Historically, economists have said that well-being is a simple function of income. However, it has been found that once wealth reaches a subsistence level, its effectiveness as a generator of well-being is greatly diminished.[11] This paradox has been referred to as the Easterlin paradox.[1] Happiness economists hope to change the way governments view well-being and how to most effectively govern and allocate resources given this paradox.[12]
In 2010, Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton found that higher earners generally reported better life satisfaction, but people's day-to-day emotional well-being only rose with earnings until a threshold annual income of $75,000.[13]
Gregg Easterbrook claims that even though wealth, or economic surplus, is more common today than in 1950, people are still as happy as they were 60 years ago.[citation needed] In polls taken by the National Opinion Research Center, about 1/3 Americans said they were really happy in 1950, since then the polls have been taken periodically, and the results have stayed about the same since then.
Other factors have been suggested as making people happier than money.[6] A short term course of psychological therapy is 32 times more cost effective at increasing happiness than simply increasing income.[14][15]
Scholars at the University of Virginia, University of British Columbia and Harvard University released a study in 2011 after examining numerous academic paper in response to an apparent contradiction: "When asked to take stock of their lives, people with more money report being a good deal more satisfied. But when asked how happy they are at the moment, people with more money are barely different than those with less." Published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology, the study is entitled "If Money Doesn't Make You Happy, Then You Probably Aren't Spending It Right" and included the following eight general recommendations:
- Spend money on "experiences" rather than goods.
- Donate money to others, including charities, rather than spending it solely on oneself.
- Spend small amounts of money on many small, temporary pleasures rather than less often on larger ones.
- Don't spend money on "extended warranties and other forms of overpriced insurance."
- Adjust one's mindset to "pay now, consume later," instead of "consume now, pay later."
- Exercise circumspection about the day-to-day consequences of a purchase beforehand.
- Rather than buying products that provide the "best deal," make purchases based on what will facilitate well-being.
- Seek out the opinions of other people who have prior experience of a product before purchasing it.[16]
In their "Unhappy Cities" working paper, published in July 2014 by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Edward Glaeser, Joshua Gottlieb and Oren Ziv examined the self-reported subjective well-being of people living in American metropolitan areas, particularly in relation to the notion that "individuals make trade-offs among competing objectives, including but not limited to happiness." The researchers findings revealed that people living in metropolitan areas where lower levels of happiness are reported are receiving higher real wages, and they suggest in their conclusion that "humans are quite understandably willing to sacrifice both happiness and life satisfaction if the price is right."[17]
Social security[edit]
Professor Ruut Veenhoven showed that social security payments do not seem to add to happiness. This may be due to the fact that non-self-earned income (e.g., from a lottery) does not add to happiness in general either. Happiness may be the mind's reward to a useful action. However, Johan Norberg of CIS, a free enterprise economy think tank, presents a hypothesis that as people who think that they themselves control their lives are more happy, paternalist institutions may decrease happiness.[18][19]
An alternative perspective focuses on the role of the welfare state as an institution that improves quality of life not only by increasing the extent to which basic human needs are met, but also by promoting greater control of one's life by limiting the degree to which individuals find themselves at the mercy of impersonal market forces that are indifferent to the fate of individuals. This is the argument suggested by the U.S. political scientist Benjamin Radcliff, who has presented a series of papers in peer reviewed scholarly journals demonstrating that a more generous welfare state contributes to higher levels of life satisfaction, and does so to rich and poor alike.[20][21][22]
Work is important to happiness. It creates a sense of purpose, beneficial relationships with co-workers, and also earns money. Losing one's job can be a great source of unhappiness.[12]
Relationships and children[edit]
Relationships, particularly those with women, are important to the happiness of both sexes. Research has examined the paradox of women's declining relative well-being, which is found across various datasets and measures of subjective well-being, and which is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries.[23] Relative declines in female happiness have eroded a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men.[citation needed]
In rich societies, where a rise in income doesn't equate to an increase in levels of subjective well-being, personal relationships are the determining factors of happiness. [24]
Children tend to decrease parental happiness—at least until they leave home; although, in terms of a broader life narrative the opposite may be true.[6] Research shows that toddlers and teenagers decrease parental happiness, whereas other age periods increase it, averaging out to no overall change. Married people report greater degrees of happiness, but it is unclear if this is due to the marriage or if happy people are more likely to marry.[6]
Gilberts writes that prospective parents know that raising children will be laborious, yet they believe it will make them very happy. In fact, studies show it does just the opposite, and that levels of parental happiness don't rise until kids leave for college ... Still, if happiness is thought of in terms of a broader life narrative, rather than just specific moments of teething, diaper changing and petty-cash culling, it's pretty clear that kids do add value ... married couples test happier, but it's unclear if that's because happy people marry ... "We are the product of our genes and our societies," says Gilbert. Traditions will trump the empirical evidence that money and kids won't make us happy.[6]
Glaeser, Gottlieb and Ziv suggest in their conclusion that the happiness trade-offs that individuals seem willing to make aligns with the tendency of parents to report less happiness, as they sacrifice their personal well-being for the "price" of having children.[17]
Freedom and control[edit]
There is a significant correlation between feeling in control of one's own life and happiness levels.
A study conducted at the University of Zurich suggested that democracy and federalism bring well-being to individuals.[25] It concluded that the more direct political participation possibilities available to citizens raises their subjective well-being.[25] Two reasons were given for this finding. First, a more active role for citizens enables better monitoring of professional politicians by citizens, which leads to greater satisfaction with government output.[25] Second, the ability for citizens to get involved in and have control over the political process, independently increases well-being.[25]
According to a free market think tank Cato Institute, higher economic freedom, as measured by both the Heritage and the Fraser indices, correlates strongly with higher self-reported happiness.[9][10]
Religious diversity[edit]
National cross-sectional data suggest an inverse relation between religious diversity and happiness, possibly by facilitating more bonding (and less bridging) social capital.[26]
The amount of spare time people have, as well as their control over how much spare time they have, correlates with happiness.[27]
Whereas leisure pursuits increase happiness, watching television is an anomaly, as it seems to correlate with lower happiness. This may be because people who watch a lot of television are lacking in better sources of happiness, such as relationships and other leisure pursuits; that is, people watch television if they don't have anything better to do.
Happiness appears to be inversely related to levels of stress, allergy, asthma and other chronic conditions.[citation needed]
The idea that happiness is important to a society is not new. Thomas Jefferson put the "pursuit of happiness" on the same level as life and liberty in the United States[28] Jeremy Bentham believed that public policy should attempt to maximize happiness, and he even attempted to estimate a "hedonic calculus".[6] Many other prominent economists and philosophers throughout history, including Aristotle, incorporated happiness into their work.[1]
The Satisfaction with Life Index is an attempt to show the average self-reported happiness in different nations. This is an example of a recent trend to use direct measures of happiness, such as surveys asking people how happy they are, as an alternative to traditional measures of policy success such as GDP or GNP. Some studies suggest that happiness can be measured effectively.[29][30] The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), published in November 2008 a major study on happiness economics in Latin America and the Caribbean ("Beyond Facts: Measuring Quality of Life", http://www.iadb.org/idbdocs/1776308.pdf).
In 2013, John Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffery Sachs compiled a treatise under the title "World Happiness report 2013" to elaborate on the measurement of popular happiness in different countries thereby adding to the wealth of happiness data available while specifically discussing the issues of measurement, explanation and policy. Global and Regional Happiness Levels are explained in terms of 10 regional groupings of countries based on happiness data available for the year 2010-2012. The happiness level is explained as a function of GDP per capita, social support, and healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity and perceptions of corruption. ("World Happiness Report 2013", http://unsdsn.org/resources/publications/world-happiness-report-2013/)[31]
There are also several examples of measures that includes self-reported happiness as one variable. Happy Life Years, a concept brought by Dutch sociologist Ruut Veenhoven, combines self-reported happiness with life expectancy. The Happy Planet Index combines it with life expectancy and ecological footprint.
Gross national happiness (GNH) is a concept introduced by the King of Bhutan in 1972 as an alternative to GDP. Several countries have already developed or are in the process of developing such an index.[6][32] Bhutan's index has led that country to limit the amount of deforestation it will allow and to require that all tourists to its nation must spend US$200[6] Allegedly, low-budget tourism and deforestation lead to unhappiness.[6]
After the military coup of 2006, Thailand also instituted an index.[6] The stated promise of the new Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont is to make the Thai people not only richer but happier as well.[6] Much like GDP results, Thailand releases monthly GNH data.[33] The Thai GNH index is based on a 1–10 scale with 10 being the most happy.[33] As of May 13, 2007, the Thai GNH measured 5.1 points.[33] The index uses poll data from the population surveying various satisfaction factors such as, security, public utilities, good governance, trade, social justice, allocation of resources, education and community problems.[33]
Australia,[32] China, France[34] and the United Kingdom[35] are also coming up with indexes to measure national happiness.[6] The UK began to measure national wellbeing in 2012.[36] North Korea also announced an international Happiness Index in 2011 through Korean Central Television. North Korea itself came in second, behind #1 China.[37] Canada released the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) in 2011 to track changes in wellbeing. The CIW has adopted the following working definition of wellbeing: The presence of the highest possible quality of life in its full breadth of expression focused on but not necessarily exclusive to: good living standards, robust health, a sustainable environment, vital communities, an educated populace, balanced time use, high levels of democratic participation, and access to and participation in leisure and culture[38]
Ecuador's and Bolivia's new constitutions state the indigenous concept of "good life" ("buen vivir" in Spanish, "sumak kawsay" in Quichua, and "suma qamaña" in Aymara) as the goal of sustainable development.
Neoclassical economics[edit]
Neoclassical, as well as classical economics, are not subsumed under the term happiness economics although the original goal was to increase the happiness of the people. Classical and neoclassical economics are stages in the development of welfare economics and are characterized by mathematical modeling. Happiness economics represents a radical break with this tradition. The measurement of subjective happiness respectively life satisfaction by means of survey research across nations and time (in addition to objective measures like lifespan, wealth, security etc.) marks the beginning of happiness economics.
Some have suggested that establishing happiness as a metric is only meant to serve political goals.[6] Recently there has been concern that happiness research could be used to advance authoritarian aims.[6] As a result, some participants at a happiness conference in Rome have suggested that happiness research should not be used as a matter of public policy but rather used to inform individuals.[6]
In addition, survey findings can lead to subjective interpretations. For example, a happiness study conducted in Russia during the 1990s[1] indicated that as unemployment grew, the well-being of both those employed and unemployed rose. The interpretation of this could be that it resulted from diminished expectations and respondents who were less critical of their own situation when many around them were unemployed,[1] or it could be interpreted as being the result of everyone benefitting from the unpaid work that the unemployed were able to do for their families and communities with their increased time resource.
See also[edit]
- World Happiness Report
- OECD Better Life Index
- Disability-adjusted life year
- Gross National Happiness
- Happiness
- Philosophy of happiness
- Happy Planet Index
- Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare
- Genuine Progress Indicator
- Legatum Prosperity Index
- Where-to-be-born Index
- Green national product
- Human Development Index
- Sustainable Human Development Index
- Gender-related Development Index
- Progress (history)
- Progressive utilization theory
- Law of Social Cycle
- Money-rich, time-poor
- Subjective life satisfaction
- Leisure satisfaction
- World Values Survey
- Psychometrics
- Economics
- Broad measures of economic progress
- Richard Easterlin
- Bruno Frey
- Richard Layard
- Andrew Oswald
- Benjamin Radcliff
- Bernard van Praag
- Ruut Veenhoven
- Med Jones
- Anielski, Mark (2007). The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth. Canada: New Society Publishers. p. 288. ISBN 978-0-86571-596-7.
- Bruni, Luigino; Pier Luigi Porta (2005). Economics and Happiness: Framing the Analysis. Oxford University Press. p. 384. ISBN 0-19-928628-0.
- Bruni, Luigino; Pier Luigi Porta, ed. (2008). Handbook On the Economics Of Happiness. Description and full contents links and preview.: Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 640. ISBN 978-1-84376-826-5.
- Gaucher, Renaud, Bonheur et économie. Le capitalisme est-il soluble dans la recherche du bonheur? L'Harmattan, collection L'esprit économique, 2009. ISBN 9782296069169
- Van Praag, Bernard; Ada. Ferrer-i-Carbonell (2004). Happiness Quantified: A Satisfaction Calculus Approach. Oxford University Press. p. 352. ISBN 0-19-828654-6.
- Kahneman, Daniel; Ed Diener (2003). Well-being: the foundations of hedonic psychology. Russell Sage Foundation.
- Clark, Andrew E., Paul Frijters, and Michael A. Shields (2008). "Relative Income, Happiness, and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles," Journal of Economic Literature, 46(1), pp. 95-144.
- Di Tella, Rafael; Robert J. MacCulloch; Andrew J. Oswald (2003). "The Macroeconomics of Happiness," Review of Economics and Statistics, 85(4), pp. 809–827.
- Easterlin, Richard A. (2004). "The Economics of Happiness," Dædalus, 133(2): 26-33.
- Frey, Bruno S.; Alois Stutzer (2002). "What Can Economists Learn from Happiness Research?" Journal of Economic Literature, 40(2), pp. 402-435.
- MacKerron, George (2012). "Happiness Economics from 35,000 Feet," Journal of Economic Surveys, 26(4), pp. 705–735.
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- ^ "Happiness index to gauge Britain's national mood". The Guardian. 2010-11-15.
- ^ http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/wellbeing/measuring-national-well-being/first-annual-report-on-measuring-national-well-being/art-measuring-national-well-being-annual-report.html
- ^ ""북한의 행복지수는 세계 2위… 남한 행복지수는 152위"라고?", Chosun Ilbo, 2011-05-27, retrieved 2011-05-28
- ^ 2012 CIW composite index reveals Canadian wellbeing is on the decline, 2012-03-16, retrieved 2013-05-31
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- "Genuine Progress Index for Atlantic Canada".
- "Mark Anielski, "The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth"".
- Nattavudh Powdthavee (March 2007). "Economics of Happiness: A Review of Literature and Applications" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-04-16.
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- "Paul Dolan".
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- Michael Hoerger (August 2007). "Paths to Happiness Survey, including Money Management subscale". Retrieved 2007-10-31.


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If your mind can be arrowed constantly, continuously towards That, you have offered yourself. But because mind has a freedom it is very difficult to tether it somewhere. The very nature of it is freedom, so the moment you try to tether it, it rebels, it becomes rebellious.
It may follow you if you are not trying, but if you try, then it is bound to rebel because the very nature of mind is freedom. The moment you try to fix it somewhere, it rebels. This is natural. You can offer the mind, but it is not easy. It is the most difficult thing to offer the mind, and when I say, "Mind means freedom," it becomes more difficult. You are trying to put your mind against its nature.
Concentration is against mind because you are trying to narrow it down somewhere - exclusively somewhere. But the mind is freedom, movement, a constant movement. It lives only when it moves. It is only when it is in movement. It is a dynamic force, so the moment you try to fix it you are trying something impossible. So what to do? The religious man has always tried to fix the mind towards the divine, and the more he tries to fix it, the more the mind goes to the Devil.
Jesus comes to meet the Devil. The Devil is nowhere except in the effort of Jesus to be constantly arrowed towards the divine. The Devil doesn't exist. It is just that when you force your mind to be tethered somewhere, it creates the opposite in order to move. So you must understand the law of reverse effect. With the mind, that law is foundational. Whatsoever you try to do, the reverse will be the result. The reverse, the very reverse, will be the result. So try to arrow your mind towards God and you will come to face the Devil. The effect will be the reverse. Try to steer your mind and your mind will become anarchic, you will be encountering turmoil.
The more stillness is sought, the more unstill the mind becomes. The more you try to make it silent, the more noise it creates. The more you try to make it good, the more sins become tempting. This is the foundational law for the mind. It is as foundational with the mind as Newton's Law is with physics: the law of reverse effect.
So whatsoever you are trying to force you will never achieve. You will achieve the reverse, and then a vicious circle is created. When you achieve the reverse, you begin to think that the reverse is so powerful that "I am to fight more." The more you fight, the more powerful will be the reverse, the opposite. The opposite is not. You create it only because you try to tether your mind. It is a by-product - a by-product which comes only because you do not know the law. So what to do to offer the mind to the divine? If you choose the divine against something, you will never be able to offer.


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Sunderland boss Steve Bruce has paid tribute to his players for coping with everything that has been thrown at them in recent months.
Injuries have severely limited the Black Cats' options, and Darren Bent's departure to Aston Villa last week saw the club lose their top scorer.
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Bruce said: "I have to take my hat off to the squad we have. For the last six, eight weeks now over the winter period, and especially over Christmas, we have been down to the bare bones.
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Developer(s) | The FrostWire Project |
Initial release | September 2004 |
Stable release | 6.0.6 (February 18, 2015[±] | )
Preview release | None [±] |
Written in | Java |
Platform | Cross-platform |
Size | 21 MB |
Available in | Multi-language |
Type | Peer-to-peer file sharing |
License | GNU General Public License |
Website | FrostWire.com |
FrostWire is a free, open source BitTorrent client first released in September 2004, as a fork of LimeWire. It was initially very similar to LimeWire in appearance and functionality, but over time developers added more features, including BitTorrent support. In version 5, Gnutella support was dropped entirely, and FrostWire is only a BitTorrent client.[1] Development of the program has been active since the program was first released in September 2004.
The project was started in September 2004 after LimeWire's distributor considered adding "blocking" code in response to RIAA pressure.[2] The RIAA threatened legal action against several peer-to-peer developers including LimeWire[2] as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd..[3]
The second beta release of FrostWire was available in the last quarter of 2005.[4][5]
Since version 4.20.x, FrostWire can handle torrent files and featured a new junk filter. Also, in version 4.21.x they added support for most Android devices.
Since version 5.0, FrostWire relaunched itself as a BitTorrent application, so those using the Gnutella network either have to use version 4, or switch to another client altogether.[6]
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- ^ "Share Big Files. Official Website 100% Free Download". FrostWire.com. 2011-09-01. Retrieved 2012-10-27.
- ^ a b Thomas Mennecke (September 30, 2005). "FrostWire Prepares for Gnutella's Future". Slyck.com. Retrieved November 24, 2009.
- ^ Mark Hefflinger (September 22, 2005). "File-Sharing Firms May Be Heeding Cease-and-Desist Letters". Digital Media Wire, Inc. Retrieved October 15, 2009.
- ^ Thomas Mennecke (October 12, 2005). "FrostWire Beta Released". Slyck.com. Retrieved October 15, 2009.
- ^ John Newton (October 14, 2005). "FrostWire Beta Online". MP3 Newswire. Retrieved November 24, 2009.
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Woodruff was named co-anchor of World News Tonight shortly after Peter Jenning's death. He was co-anchor for a month until this happened... On January 29, 2006, while on location filming for WNT and IED struck the vehicle he was riding in. A cameraman and an Iraqi soldier was also seriously hurt in the incident. This is what his skull looked like shortly after the attack... This is what he looks like today.... That's war for you.
Muslim Terrorist Savages did it, a few years back they did something else also they killed 3000 human beings in two hours right here in America, have any of you seen what was left of the people that jumped out of the windows of the world trade center and tried to fly by flapping their arms, down on the sidewalks their remains looked the back room of a meat cutting plant, heads, guts, arms and legs were splattered all over the "Sidewalks Of New York". Please none of that "Iraq didn't do it stuff" Muslim Terrorists did it and that is who we are fighting. Many more will die even if we surrender, they will never stop trying to kill you, they HATE you, "DEATH TO AMERICA" remember that. To those of you who believe in God, "God Bless Bob Woodruff" the Muslim Terrorist Pigs did this to him.
You're right that Muslim terrorists did that to him. But, tell me, how do you think the parents of a child killed by American bombs regard us?
War what is it good for??? ... otoh, this conflict has been very unkind to journalists remember reading that this conflict has the highest rate of morbidity for that group of people.
That's cuz it's being faught against savage primitives who target the media. The one constant in, if you will, a "civilized war" (I know how that sounds but bare with me here) is that the media was always a neutral figure. Ever notice how they tend to wear blue with MEDIA written accross them? Most warring factions left them alone. These savage primitives target them. I understand, GW sucks, yada yada yada....but seriously, the media has nothing to do with GW. These savage primitives beheaded that 60 something yar old aide worker too. When I say savage primitives, of course I am speaking of the specific animals, and not the entire lot. I don't think all ME muslims are SP's, far from it. I just think that too many of them are.
i see... so we can strike this comment from you then? clearly you just forgot to put "some of them".... Here you have muslims in the middle of the ME, in a country ravaged by death and destruction, living in peace, and growing prosperity. Why is this not the case in other pats of Iraq or the ME? Why are these people not savage primitives like the rest?
See, I know you have a 5th grade education, so it's impossible for you to understand that blanket statements like that are always spoken in a general sense. Everyone in here knows that I don't think that all muslims are animals or savage primitives. I've said that 1,000 times in here. I've disagreed with BF who feels they all are. The problem with you of course, is that you are Agenda Boy. When I feel something is 100%, or is all of them, I'll say it. I try to preface everything I say with a "generally speaking", but I tend to take things at face value. I know people don't mean "all", unless they specifically say so. If you said, ahem, if a logical person said "Republicans/Democrats think that...." I know they don't mean 100% of the lot. OF course, this would take common sense, or basic logic, which you don't have. BTW, are you enjoying February vacation? No trip to Disney this year?
Absolute bullsh!t and sugarcoating after the fact... Don't use the lame "everybody knows what I meant" crap, man boob.... This is the internet, and no one knows you or "what you meant." ... If that's what you meant, then you should have typed exactly what you meant, not hide behind a new definition later ... You're not catering to just an audience you have past experience with here, you're communicating with a number of new people... You sit here and make an ignorant statement like you did above, and people are going to ask if you're sure that's what you meant... Which, when asked in that very thread, you later confirmed: of course, then you added one of those stupid smileys... which i guess makes it all ok...
Here's the second picture that stopped showing on the original post for some reason... This is the link for the gallery... http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/popup?id=2887730&content=&page=1
It always amazed me how much attention Katie Couric got for being the first woman news anchor of network evening news when fact is Liz Vargas, who was co-anchor with Woodruff before his injury, took over full time for about a year before stepping down.
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hahaha...Real Waste, you think of that one all by yourself, or was someone reminding you of your personal life?
lol... and you suggest i'm in 5th grade? this above was so lame, a response is unecessary... you're officially given up... Gawd, do you ever suck at this...
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A pared down version of London's gay World Pride event takes place due to a funding shortfall.
A pared down version of London's gay World Pride event takes place due to a funding shortfall.
Despite fears that Pride London, which also incorporates World Pride 2012, would be cancelled due to funding problems, it has been a huge success.
Gay human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, who helped organise the first Gay Pride in Britain in 1972, said that despite the problems and setbacks, the numbers at today's events were huge and the atmosphere amazing.
It's much more political than in previous years. The global human rights message is really strong for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender freedom.
Nearly 80 countries still criminalise homosexuality with the penalties ranging from life imprisonment and even execution.
We are also celebrating 40 years of Gay Pride in Britain. In those last four decades we have won the appeal of nearly every anti-gay law. All that remains is to win same sex marriage."
Prime Minister David Cameron has also added his support for the event.
The UK has been judged to be the best country in Europe in which to live if you're gay so it is great that World Pride is being celebrated here in London - especially during this Diamond Jubilee and Olympic year.
I'm very pleased that the Mayor of London has enabled the march and events in Trafalgar Square to go ahead and I want to thank all the volunteers who will be stewarding the event and contributing to it.
It is 40 years since people first marched in London calling for equal rights. Since then we've come a very long way and progress is still being made."
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text: Hi Henrik, Thank you very much. Your explanation is clear. I get a lot of knowledge from you. I've already made a initramfs as following: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/initramfs.html And The computer boot into LFS kernel by UUID. However, when it is booting, it don't know what is UUID or device to boot. And go to sh shell ( busybox ) like you said. I try to cat /etc/partitions but I don't see /dev/sdb1. So I think the VMWARE has problem. How do you think about it? Thanks and Regards, Khoa Nguyen. On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Henrik /KaarPoSoft <henrik at kaarposoft.dk>wrote: > On 09/12/12 05:03, Khoa Nguyen wrote: > >> Can you tell me more about busybox ? >> What do you mean "busybox in an initramfs" ? >> >> I understand that due to failed boot process because the kernel can't >> mount the root file system to read /etc/inittab. >> So we use busybox to mount manually . Right ? >> >> When the kernel boots, it mounts the root file system and executes > /sbin/init from there. > /sbin/init becomes process number one, and is responsible for system > initialization (eg. running rc.d scripts and more). > > But the kernel does not understand boot=<uuid>, only > boot=<path-to-device>, and if for some reason the kernel can not mount the > root file system, you are stuck. > > Initramfs is a compressed archive of files. The initramfs file is read > from disk by grub and passed to the kernel. The kernel is then mounting > this (as a ramfs ) as the root filesystem and executes /sbin/init. > See > http://www.linuxfordevices.**com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-** > Articles/Introducing-**initramfs-a-new-model-for-**initial-RAM-disks/<http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Articles/Introducing-initramfs-a-new-model-for-initial-RAM-disks/> > http://lugatgt.org/content/**booting.inittools/downloads/** > presentation.pdf<http://lugatgt.org/content/booting.inittools/downloads/presentation.pdf> > http://kaarpux.kaarposoft.dk/**packages/l/linux.html<http://kaarpux.kaarposoft.dk/packages/l/linux.html> > > The /sbin/init in the initramfs can then do whatever is necessary to mount > the real root filesystem from disk, and finally run /sbin/init on the real > root file system. Or it can run a whole system directly from the initramfs, > never touching your disk. > > My init file in the initramfs looks like this: > http://sourceforge.net/p/**kaarpux/code/ci/HEAD/tree/** > master/packages/l/linux.files/**init?force=True<http://sourceforge.net/p/kaarpux/code/ci/HEAD/tree/master/packages/l/linux.files/init?force=True> > > It basically mounts the /proc /sys and /dev special directories, finds the > real root file system and mounts it, and finally executes /sbin/init on the > real root file system. > > However, if something goes wrong (or if you specify busybox on the command > line) it will drop into a /bin/sh shell from busybox. > > BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single > small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you > usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. > See > http://busybox.net/ > http://kaarpux.kaarposoft.dk/**packages/b/busybox.html<http://kaarpux.kaarposoft.dk/packages/b/busybox.html> > > My way of building the initramfs: > http://kaarpux.kaarposoft.dk/**packages/l/linux.html<http://kaarpux.kaarposoft.dk/packages/l/linux.html> > http://sourceforge.net/p/**kaarpux/code/ci/HEAD/tree/** > master/packages/l/linux.yaml<http://sourceforge.net/p/kaarpux/code/ci/HEAD/tree/master/packages/l/linux.yaml>(line 128-145) > > Good luck... > > /Henrik > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/attachments/20120912/1d66c3de/attachment.html>


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Virtually all cultures of this world from the beginning of "civilized" man has been subjugated to invasions of others looking to make life better for themselves. The American Indian came from some other place, evidences are out there which support the theory. A short look at England itself shows probably no less than 5 major incursions which make it what it is today, Romans, French, Vikings, etc. and even at this time with the influx of Muslims from the middle east show the possibilities of huge social change there. This thing, immigration, was done by the "Native" Americans all the time in their own ways of living, fighting amongst themselves, killing others, and then taking the vanquished foe's land as their own. A lot of bombast, poppycock and sour grapes over a past long gone of being one with nature and herbs.
Photograph by Roland W. Reed, National Geographic
Published November 20, 2013
Nearly one-third of Native American genes come from west Eurasian people linked to the Middle East and Europe, rather than entirely from East Asians as previously thought, according to a newly sequenced genome.
Based on the arm bone of a 24,000-year-old Siberian youth, the research could uncover new origins for America's indigenous peoples, as well as stir up fresh debate on Native American identities, experts say.
The study authors believe the new study could also help resolve some long-standing puzzles on the peopling of the New World, which include genetic oddities and archaeological inconsistencies. (Explore an atlas of the human journey.)
"These results were a great surprise to us," said study co-author and ancient-DNA specialist Eske Willerslev, of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
"I hadn't expected anything like this. A genome related to present-day western Eurasian populations and modern Native Americans as well was really puzzling in the beginning. How could this happen?"
So what's new?
The arm bone of a three-year-old boy from the Mal'ta site near the shores of Lake Baikal in south-central Siberia (map) yielded what may be the oldest genome of modern humans ever sequenced.
DNA from the remains revealed genes found today in western Eurasians in the Middle East and Europe, as well as other aspects unique to Native Americans, but no evidence of any relation to modern East Asians. (Related: "Is This Russian Landscape the Birthplace of Native Americans?")
A second individual genome sequenced from material found at the site and dated to 17,000 years ago revealed a similar genetic structure.
It also provided evidence that humans occupied this region of Siberia throughout the entire brutally cold period of the Last Glacial Maximum, which ended about 13,000 years ago.
Why is it important?
Prevailing theories suggest that Native Americans are descended from a group of East Asians who crossed the Bering Sea via a land bridge perhaps 16,500 years ago, though some sites may evidence an earlier arrival. (See "Siberian, Native American Languages Linked—A First [2008].")
"This study changes this idea because it shows that a significant minority of Native American ancestry actually derives not from East Asia but from a people related to present-day western Eurasians," Willerslev said.
"It's approximately one-third of the genome, and that is a lot," he added. "So in that regard I think it's changing quite a bit of the history."
While the land bridge still formed the gateway to America, the study now portrays Native Americans as a group derived from the meeting of two different populations, one ancestral to East Asians and the other related to western Eurasians, explained Willerslev, whose research was published in the November 20 edition of the journal Nature.
"The meeting of those two groups is what formed Native Americans as we know them." (Learn more about National Geographic's Genographic Project.)
What does this mean?
Willerslev believes the discovery provides simpler and more likely explanations to long-standing controversies related to the peopling of the Americas.
"Although we know that North Americans are related to East Asians, it's striking that no contemporary East Asian populations really resemble Native Americans," he said.
"It's not like you can say that they are really closely related to Japanese, Chinese, or Koreans, so there seems to be something missing. But this result makes a lot of sense regarding why they don't fit so well genetically with contemporary East Asians—because one-third of their genome is derived from another population."
The findings could also allow reinterpretation of archaeological and anthropological evidence, like the famed Kennewick Man, whose remains don't look much like modern-day Native American or East Asian populations, according to some interpretations.
"Maybe, if he looks like something else, it's because a third of his ancestry isn't coming from East Asia but from something like the western Eurasians." (Read about history's great migration mysteries.)
What's next?
Many questions remain unanswered, including where and when the mixing of west Eurasian and East Asian populations occurred.
"It could have been somewhere in Siberia or potentially in the New World," Willerslev said.
"I think it's much more likely that it occurred in the Old World. But the only way to address that question would be to sequence more ancient skeletons of Native Americans and also Siberians."
Intriguing questions also exist about the nature of the advanced Upper Paleolithic Mal'ta society that now appears to figure in Native American genomes.
The Siberian child "was found buried with all kinds of cultural items, including Venus figurines, which have been found from Lake Baikal west all the way to Europe.
"So now we know that the individual represented with this culture is a western Eurasian, even though he was found very far east. It's an interesting question how closely related this individual might have been to the individuals carving these figurines at the same time in Europe and elsewhere."
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Aberdeen Have Low Expectations
The Dons are expecting big things from youngster Nicky Low, after tying the midfielder down to a new contract.
Low became the latest player to commit himself to Aberdeen by signing a new deal that will see him remain at Pittodrie until 2014.
The 20-year-old is currently on loan at Alloa Athletic, and joins Cammy Smith, Jamie Masson, Jordon Brown, Joe Shaughnessy, and Declan McManus in agreeing new deals.
He told RedWeb: "I'm delighted to be staying and really looking forward to fighting for a place in the squad when my loan ends at the end of this month.
"I was on loan at Forfar last season and now Alloa but the message has always been that there is a place for me at Aberdeen.
"I also feel I've developed considerably as a player during my times at Station Park and Recreation Park and hopefully the Dons will reap the benefit when I return."
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Is Trusting God a Gamble?
THE gambling craze seems to be growing these days like the famous beanstalk in the old fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk. And many folks are getting involved in gambling schemes as fast as they can. Jack encountered an evil giant at the top of his beanstalk. Is the increase in gambling bringing along with it social evils of giant proportions?
Gambling certainly seems to be everywhere. In the United States, thirty-six states now run lotteries. Iowa and Illinois permit gambling on Mississippi riverboats. Several towns in Colorado began operating slot machines in October. And, recently, efforts have been made to allow gambling on ships registered in the United States while they are in international waters.
Those supporting these activities often do so in the hope that gambling will bring them greater income. Individuals want to "win big in order to pay off debts, send their children to college, or live a life of leisure. States want to raise money through lotteries to fund public schools or chip away at budget deficits. Those operating casinos and cruise ships want to earn larger profits. And workers want the jobs they feel the gambling industry creates. But a recent article in this newspaper, reporti ng on the push to legalize gambling on United States-flagged ships, quoted Valerie Lorenz, executive director of the National Center for Pathological Gambling. "The argument is always made that gambling will create jobs, she is reported as saying. "The other side is the increase in crime, addiction, welfare costs, and bankruptcies.
Many would consider gambling a social or moral issue. But we need to take it a step further and say this is fundamentally a spiritual issue. Gambling encourages people to value growth in their bank account and possible instant wealth more than growth in grace or spiritual understanding. But when people look to money and chance rather than to God for happiness, for supply, for peace, they find disappointment.


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After our recent visit to Valleyfair, perhaps we weren't quoting Lana in saying that we have "Summertime Sadness". However, there's a larger matter that we care to acknowledge at this point in the park's history.
We will be writing up a review of Route 76 that does recognize fully our positive (yes, we do have positive remarks about it — we swear!) review of the new area. However, this is our critique of the rest of the park as we saw it last week. We realize that yes, there are empty spots in the park, and yes, they will get filled eventually. In spite of that, we're aiming to address a larger issue that is of concern regarding the history of Valleyfair, and its evolution over the past few years.
From as far back as we can remember, Valleyfair has been a family amusement park that has maintained a certain "charm", found in the nooks and crannies of its sprawling acres of land. From the massive willow trees found in Berenstain Bear Country, to Colonel Oompahpah, to the scenic waterfall found flowing underneath the Flume (Say that 3 times fast). Yes, Valleyfair has had its fair share of character and charm; in this we have found no discrepancy between us. However, after our latest visit to the park, there was a unanimous agreement among the Valleyfairzoners — The charm that Valleyfair once had has diminished drastically over the past few years.
Though festive flags abounded, it wasn't in the cemented-over Midway Stage that took place of the newly relocated Scrambler. In spite of the great new view of the Ferris Wheel, it wasn't due to the removal of the many trees that used to hang over the Corkscrew queue line. It wasn't even due to the new Sand Volleyball Courts that are ostensibly similar in size to a new Whitewater West or Proslide kids play area. Neigh, it was the Hydroblaster hill that left us feeling a bit of sadness at the start of this summertime.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that nature in its grandeur has a great effect on the human being. For the longest that we can remember, we have made a sort of "joke" over trees here at Valleyfairzone. In actuality, however, it isn't a joke. When we see trees, we see hope. We see the opportunity for growth, and we also see shades of that charm we remember from previous years. It was evident that there was careful planning in regard to the natural surroundings in the newly reimagined Antique Autos. However, that seemed to be one of the only "new" areas of the park that featured this natural beauty that we speak of.
Just for reference, let us take you back to 2006, when the Flume dominated the area where Breakers Bay now resides.
It's found in the overgrown grass that nearly hangs into the Flume itself. It's found in the jagged rocks that line the fence where guests could possibly get soaked from passing boats. It's found in the rickety lift hill that could be heard from Excalibur's queue line. It is an unparalleled charm that we hope somebody is finding somewhere in the park in these most recent of years.
Now before we go accusing the park of cementing over our beloved childhood memories, we have to preface this thesis by acknowledging the business aspect of Valleyfair. The demands that the park keep up with current industry standards, with company policies, and with the ever-growing need to cater to the numerous markets, target-audiences, and fans of the park that want that gosh-darn B&M invert that is "so long overdue".
In-fact, we don't take the capital expenditures that Valleyfair has invested in lightly. Planet Snoopy was a much-needed expansion that transformed a mundane kids area into a vibrant, contemporary "planet" where families can enjoy a wide variety of rides, attractions, and entertainment. Breakers Bay brought an incredible potential to Soak City that paved the way (Pun fully intended) for what we're speculating is an expansion that will finally bring the waterpark into the 21st century. Route 76 did a great job of bringing attention to the front of the park for the first time since 2003, and we know that the front of the park will continue to be remodeled and reimagined as years pass.
In essence, despite the incredible work and effort put into reimagining the park from an infrastructural and contemporary standpoint, the charm and natural beauty that Valleyfair once held has been diminished to its current state, which is quite lackadaisical and seemingly apathetic to say the least. Again, we know that the areas that Tilter, Scrambler, and IMAX previously occupied aren't areas which management is saying, "Oh well, good enough — we like our sod." However, we also don't see the immediate efforts being taken to make these gaps, holes, and fields of grass into areas which guests marvel at the beauty of the landscape, instead of noting "Oh yeah, something used to be here."
Parenthetically, while we reflect on the number of vacant spaces within the park, we also recognize our inability to have that much of an influence on whether or not massive forests, grandiose waterfalls, or magnificent rock formations are added to the park. We also recognize that we aren't much help given we haven't listed our suggestions as to what we think should fill the aforementioned areas. With that said, we do in-fact trust in the current management to bring back some of that charm. It's simply a matter of imagination, thought, time, and money. Until those factors come in abundance . . . we rest our case.


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