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Better To Be A Happy Satisficer
Psychology Today and Kirsten Vala deal with whether it is better to be a happy satisficer or a successful maximizer. The point of the article is that students in particular graduate with a multitude of skills and interests, but often are overwhelmed when it comes to choosing the ultimate career goal...

Indian Residential School Settlement Money
On my reserve, the firsts of the Indian Residential School settlement money is starting to come in for many of the survivors. While I think the amount that they are receiving does not make up for a robbed childhood, lost language, and an attack on a people, what I said back in my May 2006 blog still stands true for me...

Keeping the Young People happy
An article about Avner Levin’s new study about young people and technology ran in itWorldCanada yesterday. The article, and presumably Levin’s research, considers ways that today’s employers can keep employees happy by resisting the urge to ban instant messaging within the office...

PUNCHED! FULL RECOVERY!
Did you see that SNL short where Andy Samburg punches people in the face and then celebrates with a happy dance? I believe it was called, appropriately, People Getting Punched Just Before Eating?Well, appropriately or not, that's the dance I did when I got my MPRE results...

The Megan Touma Murder: Look, it ain't the REAL Zodiac
People are free to talk about whatever they want on a message board, but let me make it clear that I reject one idea out-of-hand: the person who killed Spc. Megan Touma sometime around June 17, 2008 in Fayetteville, NC was not the actual Zodiac Killer...

Are you happy
Mashable's Paul Glazowski asks, does social networking make you happy? And, well, the answer I have for you is pretty simple: online social networking upsets people. Funny, eh? Yeah, in some respects, such a conclusion is really very humorous...

Bunn-O-Matic
Recalls Single Cup Tea/Coffeemakers

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...

Albertsons et al.
allegedly injected dye into farm raised salmon to make it appear more palatable.

Holiday Inn Express
Complimentary simplySmartâ„¢ "Remove" Make Up Remover Recalled

Mars Petfood
79 People Sick So Far

Salmonella Outbreak
50 People Sick in Five States