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Ash_femmefatale : Found at... Be Happy in the Office and at Home by Avoiding These 10 Things. This post is in partnership with Inc., which offers useful advice, resources, and insights to entrepreneurs and business owners. The article below was originally published at Inc.com. Happiness–in your business life and your personal life–is often a matter of subtraction, not addition. Consider, for example, what happens when you stop doing the following 10 things: 1. People make mistakes. So you blame them for your problems. But you’re also to blame. Taking responsibility when things go wrong instead of blaming others isn’t masochistic, it’s empowering–because then you focus on doing things better or smarter next time. And when you get better or smarter, you also get happier. (MORE: More Turbulence for American Airlines) 2. No one likes you for your clothes, your car, your possessions, your title, or your accomplishments. Sure, superficially they might seem to, but superficial is also insubstantial, and a relationship that is not based on substance is not a real relationship. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

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Ash_femmefatale : Big Bird's on the Job Hunt! Ash_femmefatale : Angry Lincoln, Happy Lincoln. Felix Baumgartner: Daredevil Lands on Earth After Record Breaking Supersonic Leap. <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy Daredevil Felix Baumgartner shattered the speed of sound and broke three records today after he took a leap from 24 miles above the Earth on the edge of space. At one point during his freefall, the 43-year-old Austrian was traveling at 833 mph or Mach 1.24, a feat that normally could only be accomplished by a supersonic jet, or perhaps the space shuttle. "It is hard to describe [breaking the speed of sound] because I didn't feel it," Baumgartner said after the jump. "When you're in a dead pressure suit [and without reference points] you don't feel anything. " Aside from being the only man to achieve a supersonic skydive, the extreme athlete also broke two other records, including the highest exit from a platform at 128,000 feet and the highest free-fall without a drogue parachute, which was measured at 119,846 feet.

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“Grandmothering was the initial step toward making us who we are,” says Kristen Hawkes, a distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of Utah and senior author of the new study published Oct. 24 by the British journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The simulations indicate that with only a little bit of grandmothering – and without any assumptions about human brain size – animals with chimpanzee lifespans evolve in less than 60,000 years so they have a human lifespan. Female chimps rarely live past child-bearing years, usually into their 30s and sometimes their 40s.

Human females often live decades past their child-bearing years. How Grandmothering Came to Be “So moms had two choices,” Hawkes says. Simulating the Evolution of Adult Lifespan. Apple stock falls under $600 after holiday warning. NEW YORK (AP) — Apple's stock fell below $600 Friday for the first time in three months, after the consumer electronics behemoth warned that costs of making new products will cut into profits in the holiday quarter. Apple's earnings for the latest quarter also missed expectations. Apple shares fell as low as $591 during the session but recovered some losses to close at $604, down $5.54.

Late Thursday, Apple said profits for the rest of the year would fall from last year because it's launching so many new products. It's expecting mammoth sales, but new products are more expensive to make than older ones. Apple launched the iPhone 5 a month ago and announced two new iPads and three new Macs this week. Wall Street analysts took the adjustment in stride, knowing that Apple nearly always lowballs its estimates, but several cut their earnings estimates for the fiscal year that started this month. Apple's stock last fell below $600 following an earnings report. Facebook. Hurricane Sandy: High Costs, But Minor Long-Term Economic Impact. A casket floated out of the grave in a cemetery in Crisfield, Md. after the effects of superstorm Sandy Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012.

Hundreds of people were displaced by floodwaters in Ocean City and in Crisfield. At the same time, 2 feet of snow fell in westernmost Garrett County, were nearly three-quarters of residents lost power. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)An ambulance is submerged in floodwaters in the wake of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Hoboken, N.J. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)A vehicle drives on a flooded street in the wake of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Hoboken, N.J. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. Snsanalytics. JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — The mother of a slain 9-year-old girl is suing a mental health clinic saying it was in a position to know and prevent the violent tendencies of the teenager who killed her daughter.

Patricia Preiss filed the wrongful death lawsuit against Pathways Behavioral Healthcare, two employees and 18-year-old Alyssa Bustamante, who was convicted in Elizabeth Olten's death. Bustamante was 15 years old at the time of the October 2009 slaying in St. Martins, a small community just west of Jefferson City. She was sentenced in February to life in prison with the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to killing Elizabeth. The lawsuit says Pathways personnel knew of Bustamante's violent tendencies and threats and should have detained the teen, the Jefferson City News-Tribune reported. Bustamante admitted in court that she strangled Elizabeth, stabbed her and slit her throat, then buried the child in a wooded area behind their homes. Hurricane Sandy: Storm & Aftermath. "Thriller" (original upload) Untitled. Untitled.

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