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Money does buy happiness, but happiness also creates wealth.

A recent Gallup poll, quoted in The Atlantic, found that "well-being rises with income at all levels of income, across countries." In other words, as the article's title states, the poll proves that "Yes, Money Does Buy Happiness."
Except that it doesn't prove that at all. What the study actually discovered was a "strong correlation" between each nation's real GDP per capita and the sense of "well-being" among those nation's citizens.
Correlation isn't causation. The data could just as easily be interpreted the other way around: that happiness creates wealth. What's most likely, though, is that happiness and wealth are part of a cycle, each one creating more of the other.
And that's the reason for this post. Assuming you want to create both wealth and happiness for yourself and those around you, you have two approaches: wait until you're wealthy to be happy, or become more happy now and thereby create more wealth.
I maintain that, in today's economy, it's easier to start with the happiness, because unlike wealth (which takes time to accumulate), you can increase the amount of happiness in your life within minutes, simply by taking more notice of things that make you happy.
With that in mind, here are ten things that can make you happy immediately, regardless of where you are in the cycle.

1. Life
It's easy to forget that the mere fact of conscious existence--that you are alive--is itself a miracle. As the old saying goes "every day above ground is a good day."

2. Health
Rather than thinking of illness as something bad that happens to you, start thinking of health as something good that's happening to you.

3. Purpose
There is nothing more conducive to long-term happiness than knowing that your actions are making the world a better place.

4. Friendship
Almost everyone has friends, although it's easy to lose track of them in the rush of events. Take a few minutes--today--to reconnect with some of them.

5. Family
If you've got a good relationship with your family, rejoice! You're experiencing one of the deepest sources of happiness on the planet.

6. Self-reliance
Feeling secure that you can count on yourself to accomplish what you set out to accomplish creates a quiet but potent happiness.

7. Community
Having the support of a wider group makes you more aware that you're part of something greater than yourself.

8. Gratitude
Rather than focusing on what you don't have or what's out of reach, be thankful for the wonderful things already in your life.

9. Laughter
It is impossible to laugh and be miserable at the same time. Regular doses of laughter are more than medicine... it's the flavor of life.

10. Love
'Nuff said.
Create these ten things in your life and I guarantee that you'll either become more wealthy or, if not, you won't really care anyway because you'll already have what's important.

ADD YOURS TO THE LIST!!!

GAME OVER PEOPLE.

GO AND SLEEP!

The winner just arrived!

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What a fantastic buy!

Barca keeps getting beta.

Barcelona have signed Turkey midfielder Arda Turan from Atletico Madrid for an initial fee of £24m.

The Spanish champions said the deal for the 28-year-old could reach £29m with potential add-ons.

Turan will not be able to play for the club until January as Barca are unable to register new players until 2016 under the terms of a Fifa ban.

He scored 22 goals and provided 32 assists in four seasons with Atletico after joining from Galatasaray in 2011.

Barca were banned from signing players in 2015 after being found guilty of breaching Fifa's rules on the transfer of players aged under 18.

The signing of Turan, who has played 81 times for Turkey, is also complicated by their ongoing presidential election campaign.

In the absence of a president, the Catalan club are being administered by a special commission, which had to approve the transfer.

The commission included an unusual clause which means whoever wins the July 18 election has an option to sell Turan back to Atletico within two days for 10% less than the initial £24m outlay.

Luis Enrique's side - who won La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the Champions League last season - have also signed winger Aleix Vidal for £16m from Sevilla this summer.


BBC © 2015

Dozens of people were injured in the Jos bombings
Two bomb attacks on the central Nigerian city of Jos have left at least 44 people dead, the authorities say.

A restaurant and a mosque were targeted on Sunday night.

No group has said it carried out the attack, but militant group Boko Haram has attacked Jos before, even though it is not in north-east Nigeria where the Islamists normally operate.

The blasts are the latest in a series of deadly attacks in recent days which have seen more than 200 people killed.

The attacks came shortly after the Ramadan fast was broken, with both sites full of people.

Of the 44 dead, 23 were killed at the restaurant and 21 at the mosque, Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) says.


The bomb at the Shagalinku restaurant came as people were breaking the Ramadan fast
There are also 47 people being treated for injuries, but emergency officials are still gathering information, so the figures may rise.

• Latest African news updates

The blast at the restaurant was caused by a bomb that had been planted, whereas the mosque was attacked by a suicide bomber and that explosion was preceded by gunfire, the BBC's Ishaq Khalid reports.

Eyewitness Akaria Ahammed said: "When they started shooting people, people started running helter-skelter for their lives.

"Unfortunately those that stood up were shot."


Hospital staff attended to injured people in Jos throughout Monday
Our correspondent says that many believe that the mosque's imam, who was preaching at the time, may have been the target.

Sheikh Muhammad Sani Yahya Jingir, who survived the attack, is known for preaching against Boko Haram and has written a book which criticises the group called Boko Halal (Western education is permitted - Boko Haram means Western education is forbidden).

He has survived a previous assassination attempt at his home and is seen as one of the most influential clerics in Nigeria.

Speaking on Monday, Sheikh Jingir said the bombing was "not an attack on an individual, it is an attack on all of us".

Meanwhile the Nigerian military told the BBC it had freed more than 180 people who had been detained on suspicion of being Boko Haram members.

The former suspects had been freed after being screened by the military to ensure their innocence, officials said.

Correspondents say Nigeria's treatment of Boko Haram suspects has been an extremely contentious issue.

Amnesty International says that thousands have died in detention in the past four years - something the military denies.

However, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to investigate the rights group's claims.


Why the upsurge in attacks? Will Ross, BBC News, Nigeria

It is not unusual for there to be a heightened risk of jihadist attacks during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.

Boko Haram may be trying to deepen its ties with the jihadists fighting in Iraq and Syria who had called for "a month of disasters for the infidels".

Many of the recent attacks have been by suicide bombers - often young women.

Where the bombs are being made and where the bombers are being brainwashed is unclear but the Nigerian intelligence and security services need to do far more to stop the bloodshed.

Once again the range of targets is alarming and on this latest bloody Sunday a church and a mosque were bombed within hours of each other.


Jos has seen several attacks blamed on Boko Haram, including an incident in February when at least 15 died and in December last year when more than 30 people died.

The city has in the past seen clashes between Muslim and Christian communities and some have suggested that Boko Haram is looking to exploit these fault-lines.

In another development on Monday a girl aged about 13 was reported to have been killed when explosives strapped to her body went off near a major mosque in the northern city of Kano.

Police told the AFP news agency that no-one else was killed in the blast apart from the teenager..


A week of attacks in Nigeria:


• Sunday: Church attacked in Potiskum, in Yobe state, killing at least five

• Friday: Several suicide bombers kill scores of people in Zabarmari village, north-east Nigeria

• Thursday: Two female suicide bombers attack another village in Borno state

• Wednesday: More than 50 gunmen kill 97 people in the village of Kukawa, near Lake Chad

• Tuesday: 48 men shot dead after prayers in two villages near the town of Monguno, Borno state


On Friday, Mr Buhari described the recent attacks as "inhuman and barbaric".

In power now for just over a month, the president was elected on the pledge to defeat Boko Haram.


Men held on suspicion of being affiliated to Boko Haram line up to be released by the Nigerian military in Maiduguri
He said they were "the last desperate acts of fleeing agents of terrorism".

Boko Haram took control of a large area of north-eastern Nigeria last year and declared a caliphate - a state governed in accordance with Islamic law.

However, Nigeria's military, backed by troops from neighbouring countries, has recaptured most of the territory.

President Buhari has called for an expanded regional force to be deployed more rapidly.

BBC © 2015

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marciano3d:
Get a second test done. One of the is an error. Ur genotype can never change

It is part of ur body's blue print.

thanks for the info!

dedugbaa:
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Pleeaaasee is it possible for One's genotype to change!
Four years ago, I did a test at Unilag Medical center and I was AA but a few months ago I did another test And the result was AS.
What have I been doing wrong?

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Can someone Kindly list the courses to be registered for IRPM...

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WOW......WHAT A SHOT FROM MIKEL

Any hope to qualify for Again if we lose today?

How about a draw?

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