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How to build a network: groups to help you get a foot in the door
Networking in high school, college and university
Six places to look for advice on planning your next step
by Kat Tancock
(Illustration by Leeandra Cianci)
You can't plan for your future without knowing where you're headed. Here's who to ask for information about post-secondary programs and the careers they lead to.
1. Your parents' network
If we're all six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon, surely we're just two degrees from someone who went to school at McGill. Ask your parents or other family members to help you find people to interview about their educational experiences.
MORE: The Maclean's Guide to Getting In to University or College
2. Your guidance counsellor
Most guidance departments have statistics about where earlier students ended up. Ask them to connect you with students attending your top choices.
3. Your community
Even if you don't have a personal connection to the people you'd like to meet, you can approach professionals in your chosen field to ask them for advice.
4. Official websites
Go to the source for detailed information on where programs will take you. Waterloo Engineering, for example, lists specific jobs now held by recent graduates. One former student of mechatronics engineering, for instance, is now a product design engineer at Apple.
5. Current students
Robert Astroff of Astroff Consultants encourages applicants to visit campuses during the school year to explore whether they're a fit—and, if so, to get a head start on planning. "Go to classes and different activities and speak to executives of clubs," he suggests.
6. Internet forums
When researching Dalhousie University's bachelor of commerce, second-year student Max Georgopoulos went deep: he hunted down online forums where students discussed the program, and looked up individual professors' ratings for courses he wanted to take. "I did so much research," he says. "The more I researched [my program], the more I liked it."
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Chisato Mine, Jun Saiki; Feature visibility is necessary in reward-based attentional capture. Journal of Vision 2018;18(10):1247. doi: 10.1167/18.10.1247.
It is well established that reward biases the orienting of visual selective attention. Many studies repeatedly have shown that previously reward-signaling features involuntary capture attention even when feature-reward contingency was removed. However, little is known about the necessary components for the reward-based attentional capture. In the present study, we investigated whether reward-based capture develops even when reward-signaling features are rendered invisible via continuous flash suppression (CFS). To this end, we conducted the letter discrimination task during reward learning where the task-irrelevant colored circle signaled the magnitude of reward (i.e., high- or low-reward). During reward learning in Experiment 1, while rapidly changing Mondrian patterns stimulated the dominant eye, a reward-signaling color was presented to the nondominant eye. Moreover, in Experiment 2, stimuli were identical to Experiment 1, but reward-signaling features were provided without suppression, in which both Mondrian patterns and reward-signaling color were presented to a randomly chosen eye. After reward learning, participants completed an additional singleton task as a test phase, in which previously reward-signaling color was presented as one of the distractors, to evaluate the effect of reward-based capture. Results showed that when features were rendered invisible under CFS (Experiment 1), we could not observe the reaction times (RTs) delay in the high-reward condition, relative to the low-reward condition. However, RTs in the high-reward condition was significantly slower than that of low-reward condition when we presented features without suppression (Experiment 2). Moreover, regardless of the CFS manipulation, participants who could correctly report the reward-signaling color at a high accuracy showed attentional capture by the high-reward distractor. However, we could not obtain this reward-based capture for participants who could not discriminate reward-signaling features well. These findings suggest that visual discriminability of features associated with reward is necessary to develop reward-based attentional capture.


News Flash: Celia Fowler is Liz's winner. Congratulations, Celia! Check your email.
Rumors of a meth operation in rustic Fayette County catch the attention of Pennsylvania State Trooper Jim Duncan. When he learns that Aaron Trafford, a man who recently dodged a drug conviction, has returned to the county, the conclusion seems obvious. Trafford has set up a new operation.
Meanwhile, assistant public defender Sally Castle's colleague, Colin Rafferty, has become uncharacteristically nervous and secretive. Her suspicion that he's hiding something serious is confirmed when she learns of a threatening visitor and discovers a note on his desk stating, "You'd better fix this." Colin's subsequent murder is the first frayed thread in a complex web of deceit. Jim fears Sally's stubborn determination to get justice for her friend will put her in a killer's crosshairs, but Sally won't rest until she finds answers–even if it costs her everything.
Take it away, Liz! Oh, and she's giving away a signed copy of the book to one US commenter here today.
Thanks so much to the Wickeds for having me! Place is incredibly important to a good mystery – to any good book, in my opinion. The best stories transport you to a place. Who wouldn't swear that Three Pines was real, or glory in visiting Paris through Aimee LeDuc or Hugo Marston?
When an author decides to pick a place for her story, she has two options. The first is to make one up, either inspired by a real town or out of whole cloth. Many cozies, including a lot of books from the Wickeds, go this route.
Big advantage: You have total control over your town. Even if it's inspired by one of your favorite small towns in Massachusetts, you can decide where to put roads, buildings, what kind of businesses populate Main Street, the works. Sure, you need to keep track of these things because six books in you need to know where the post office is in relation to the police station. You can't simply change things willy-nilly!
However, if you made Walnut Street one-way in book one, and now in book three you need it to go both ways, it's not impossible to fix. Reference a fictional town meeting that changed the traffic flow on Walnut and your problem is (probably) solved. Bonus points: make it a contentious town meeting that ties into your story.
When I sat down to write The Laurel Highlands Mysteries, I went the opposite route. Fayette County, Confluence, Uniontown, and the Laurel Highlands are all very real. That meant I spent a lot of time with maps: paper, Google Maps/Earth (thank you to whoever invented Google Earth!), and taking trips for research. The Fayette County courthouse is on East Main Street in Uniontown and the street is one way. No matter how much I might want to, I can't change that. I've looked at intersections to get street names correct, and the type of neighborhoods to make sure I don't drop houses in the middle of the business district.
Before you start thinking this is all terribly constricting, it's really not. I've only written one story ("The Far End of Nowhere" in Fish Out of Water) that used a made up town. Sure, you have to be careful not to mess too much with the landmarks and topography, but using a real location means you can take advantage of what the area has to offer. For example, the Laurel Highlands is full of historic landmarks, as well as locations such as resorts or Frank Lloyd Wright houses. Rich fodder for a storyteller.
1 – Crimes, or other nefarious doings, do not happen in real businesses/places. Unless they are public spaces. I don't want to impugn someone's workplace.
3 – Specific house numbers are fictional. It feels like too much of a violation of privacy to use someone's real address (I may have used their house for inspiration).
I hope I've done justice to the wonderful locations in the Laurel Highlands. But one thing's for sure: real or made up, place is of supreme importance for your story!
Readers: Do you prefer real places, made up locations, a mix, or don't you care? One (Us-only) commenter will win a signed copy of Root of All Evil.
I like made up places. If you want to expand on things, such as housing, buildings, roads, you can.
Hope to read your books soon!
That is certainly a benefit, Deb. Need a place, make it up!
Happy book birthday, Liz! I don't really care if a place is real or made up, but I will say there is an extra level of enjoyment when I read books set in real places I'm familiar with. Being able to picture the exact scene in a book because you've actually been there is always fun.
Thank you! Yes, there is something special about a character describing a place and you know exactly how she feels because you've been there.
I'm trying to keep the setting in my current WIP true to the real place… but it's tricky! I like your rules for what to change. Much of the action takes place inside a (probably) haunted house in the oldest section of town. I've located the house on a real street, but with a street number that doesn't exist.
Isn't it fun when you can put whatever you want in your book's setting, as needed? (As long as you can remember what you did, as your series goes on.) I've gone both ways–using a real place, because I know it fairly well (although I did kind of move a highway), and creating one to suit the story (I combined my New Jersey hometown with a small town in Maryland, and I'm still filling in the shops).
It is! I haven't moved any roads – yet – but no promising I won't. I remember in one of Hank Phillippi Ryan's books she apologized for moving around something in Boston to suit the story. But it was so beautifully done I didn't even notice.
And yes, remembering is key. Thank goodness for the series bible!
The danger of using real places is locals will KNOW if you get something wrong (but they'll LOVE you if you get it right).
Oh, yes. I remember once I stopped reading a book because it referenced a local all Catholic all-boys high school as having girls. I take a lot of "research" trips and study a lot of maps to do my best. But when I told some local business owners in Confluence, PA that the protagonist lived there and part of the book was set there, their faces lit up like Christmas trees!
I use the real Salem MA in my Witch City Mysteries, and like Liz, make frequent use of maps and Google Earth. Salem has lots of one-way streets so I'm extra careful about that. I make up some places, like WICH-TV. Not real, but shouldn't it be? I use some real businesses, real hotels, etc. I visit Salem once a year to check things out and take pictures. I like books set in make-believe places too. A good story makes any location real!
I'll also have to check out your Witch City Mysteries.
Thanks Robin. I may take you up on that! Message me your email, snail mail too. Lee and Pete (in the books) sometimes venture to Marblehead. They like walking on Deveraux Beach.
Ha! Yep, Deveraux Beach is a great spot in the summer. I've sent you an email so we can connect!
Carol, WICH-TV should absolutely be a thing!
Your visits sound a lot like mine. I vary the seasons of the visits too so I can see the location in all conditions.
And I agree about a good story – I had to stop reading Annette Dashofy's CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE to check a map and make sure I was right, that Monongahela County didn't exist, because her sense of place was so beautiful.
Yes, within the limits of the story world, a writer definitely has more creative flexibility to make up things when the location is fictional.
It doesn't matter to me, but if it is a real place, make sure you got those cross streets and locations correct, because I'm visualizing it all. I remember one book where the author had the heroine going down fifth Avenue to 49th street and entering Central Park. Not good as you enter Central Park on 59th Street.
Oh my gosh, Dru, yes! I have several pictures of street signs (like the one above) and I spend a ton of time looking at maps to make sure I get intersections correct. It's also why I don't think I'd try to use a city like New York as a setting. I just don't know enough about it! I'd definitely be that author having a character enter Central Park in the wrong place.
Congratulations! and I see you are on Dru's Day in the Life as well today.
Congratulations on the book and I can't wait to read it. As someone who lives south of Pittsburgh I like reading about this area in fiction!
Thanks, Kitty! Where do you live? I'm in one of the eastern suburbs.
Welcome, Liz and congratulations — I'm so happy for you! I don't care if it's real or made up as long as it's a good story!
Thanks, Sherry. I'm with you!
Congratulations, Liz! I look forward to your series, and as a resident of the Laurel Highlands (albeit a different area than in your storyline) it will be fun to read places and names that may be familiar. Best wishes for continued success!
Awesome, Denise! Where do you live (if you don't mind telling me)?
Both types of locations work for me. It's more of how it's written and how believable it is. Both give you a chance to travel and explore locations from the comfort of your armchair when you aren't able to travel to them. Real locations that touch on the historical places give you insight into how the town is laid out and it's like having a mental camera seeing all the sites. It's really fun to read about places you have been where memories are triggered by a location or a business that you once visited. Whereas a made up location gives your imagination free rein to explore places that would be cool to visit if you could just find them. Meanwhile you can flip the pages and find out all the cool places in this made up town.
Congratulation on the release of " Root of All Evil" which sounds absolutely like a book I'd love the opportunity to read. Thank you for the chance to win a copy!
Thanks! I will forever be grateful to books for taking me places I would never be able to visit in my lifetime.
Congratulations, Liz, on the release of ROOT OF ALL EVIL, my copy arrived on my Kindle this morning and I can't wait to begin reading!
Real v. fictional towns. My preference depends on the story. If the story is set in a real place then I expect the writer to be true to the location, with the addition of fictional shops, restaurants, etc. as needed. In a contemporary novel/mystery, to discover the Hudson River flowing through Pittsburgh or a four-lane highway running from Miami to Key West would cause the book to hit the wall. To explore Tasty Joe's Sub Shop and Cheese Emporium in either location, well, I'm more than willing, and if a cold dead hand flops out of the walk-in, so be it. By the same token, if the author creates the town of Hellzapoppin bordering Washington, DC and sets a story there, I'm willing to wander the streets and byways right alongside the residents.
Thanks, Kait – I hope you like it!
Yeah, the Hudson through Pittsburgh would be quite a shock. We have enough of our own rivers!
I'm good with either approach. Congratulations on the new book!
I like fictional towns especially if they are set near real towns or a good mix of real & fictional.
It's always fun to mix the real and the fictional.
I like made up places. I like real places. As long as the author does a good job of bringing the location to life, I don't care.
I'm with you, Mark. I want the author to bring the place (real or fictional) to life, something all the Wickeds are great at.
I don't really care if a place is real or made up in a story I'm reading as long as things stay the same throughout the whole series, or have an explination for changing. Since I am not a well traveled person I most likely wouldn't realize if places, streets, etc used in a book based on a real place were accurate or not, BUT if it were based on a real location that I knew it would bug me if facts weren't correct!
Renee, the details are so key, aren't they?
Congratulations on your release, Liz! I love to read and to write books set in either real or imagined places. It can be freeing to make things up and inspiring to use details from real places. As long as the setting acts as almost a character in the story it works for me!
I agree. If the setting is just a backdrop, it's always a bit disappointing, isn't it?
I always like it to function almost as a character.
Congratulations on the book birthday! This is so exciting.
As a reader the only thing I really care about, location-wise, is that it makes sense to the story. I recognize the need for making stuff up–it's fiction, after all. And I'm willing to suspend disbelief for all of it. I mean, the idea of a cupcake baker stumbling over dead bodies every month is completely ludicrous, anyway, right? Why should every other detail be genuine?
Happy Release Day! I like books with either imagined or real places. You mentioned a place that I have a perfect picture of in my mind — Three Pines (I think they even have a Three Pines tour that visits the real places around it). I also like real locations but understand the necessity of making some changes and additions. My favorite city to read about is London.
Celia, Louise Penney does a wonderful job of creating place in her books. And London is a great location!
Celia, you are Liz's winner! Congratulations and please check your email for a message from her.
I love when an author can create a whole town complete with businesses and landmarks so convincing that I am disappointed when I learn they aren't real when I research them. Real settings can be fun, too, when I'm familiar with them.
I know that "oh, it really isn't a real place?" feeling. Always a bit of a disappointment, but it just means those authors did a great job.
Root of All Evil sounds like a wicked cozy indeed! I am okay either way with making a place up or using one that exists, but you are right that place is very important. I always get a little thrill when I recognize something about a place I am familiar with but I probably don't even recognize the made up places Over the years as I've come to learn just how much research authors do and how careful they are to make things logical and authentic I am impressed with whatever the setting.
Thanks, Sally. Yes, there are a lot of made-up places I'd swear were real.
I love reading about real locations to visit or ones I have seen. My parents both came from Uniontown and had many relatives in the area thus many visits. Hope your use The Summit Hotel as a setting. It was a great rest spot in The 30s and 40s when my parents worked there. Horseback riding and grey dinning were a plus. The Laurel Caverns and Fort Neccesity are also close. Hope I win your book.Would love to to tell you tell from the past in that area.
Candy, that is so cool! I have not used the Summit Inn, but it looks like a great place for a long weekend. My son has done tours of both the Laurel Caverns and Ft. Necessity with Boy Scouts.
I love reading stories with a mix of real and fictional places. It gives the story a strong base with fun quirky additions.
Alice, that's one of my favorite things about using a real place. You can co-opt what's there and add your own flavor.
I enjoy reading stories set in real places, especially if I've been there. I also enjoy reading about fictional towns as long as they have the right atmosphere. I mean a Southern, New England, or Western town shouldn't sound the same.
Sally you are so right. Different geographic regions have different sounds.
Congratulations on your new release! I think I have a slight preference for real places. And I'm setting my WIP in the city I live in–but adding a few extra locations, here and there. I've stuffed in a small museum on an historic street close to downtown, for example. And I reference some real places–but nothing bad would ever happen in one of the real locations. That just wouldn't be fair!
Melanie, that's pretty much my approach. It doesn't seem right to make bad things happen someplace that's real–especially a private business. Public places, however, are a different story.
An actual or made up place doesn't matter to me. It's the writing that makes it real.
Congrats on your new release. I like both real locations and fictional settings. Either way I have a picture in my mind of the setting from the descriptions in the book.
Dianne, yes! I love the pictures some of my favorite authors can paint with their words.
Congratulations on your book release! I enjoy reading both.
Liz's rules seem sensible! I like a mix because I enjoy learning about a place I may not have been to. Congrats on the new release!
Thanks! As I worked my way through writing the book I realized there had to be a line where factual would become fictional. I hope it works.


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walking on campus with boyfriend tom eckman. at first didn't know what was happening. >> you never heard the shot? >> no. i never heard the shot. i just felt a big jolt. then i started falling. >> reporter: as she fell to the pavement, her boyfriend, tom, turned to ask her what was wrong. the next thing she knew, he was lying dead next to her. and she couldn't move. >> you thought you were dead? >> i thought i was going to die. yeah. >> the killer was 25-year-old charles joseph whitman, a former marine sharpshooter. unknown to anyone, he had already killed his wife and mother ir heading to the tower's 2th floor observation deck with multiple guns. it was the first school mass shooting in modern u.s. history. he affected so many lives in that one day. retired texas ranger, martinez was a young officer with the police department at the time. arriving on campus.
saw. >> when i got out of the car, i could hear all of the shooting going on. it was look a war. >> back then, there was no such thing as rapid response teams. it was left to martinez and civilian, followed by a fellow officer, houston mccoy to climb to the top of the tower. to face off against the sniper and his arsenal. as martinez described it at the time. >> he di he was trying to bring it down. and i just kept firing. >> i could tell by impact that i hit him. i kept advancing. shooting. mccoy shot and hit him. and started going down. >> the shooter was dead. he killed 16 people that day. and injured dozens more. the mass shooting brought fundamental changes to police departments. and led to the creation of swat
reminder of the terrible day could be find on this rock. keith maitland who went to school there wondered why he never heard more. >> this is a story i think that anybody who grew up here has heard a little bit about. but if you want to get past just that little bit there isn't realot of fill in the blanks. >> so he made a documentary called "tower." >> we can see the movement south side of the clock. >> it uses animation and archive footage to tell the story of the day. >> the shot hit me. ricochetted off the building. >> then what happened? >> then everybody ran. >> what i want to understand what was it look to live through something like this?
>> the worst days of your lives. >> reporter: in the process he wound up reconnecting people who it turned out had not seen each other since that day, 50 years ago. >> people like claire wilson james. >> hi, claire. >> hello, baby. >> and artly snuff. snuff was just a teenager at the time. that's him on the right in the da s running out in full view of the sniper to pick claire up and carry her some 100 yard down the steps to safety. something he says he simply felt he had to do. >> because she was shot. she was obviously pregnant. it was the most horrific day of my life. >> to this day? >> oh, gosh, yes. i didn't go to war. that was my war. >> because why? >> because the blood.
the loss of innocence. i think what i probably learned the most is that you have to deal with trauma. for people who weren't given an opportunity it really sits with them and kind of eats away at them over the course of the rest of their lives. >> reporter: even people you might not expect. like ray martinez, who before he was a police officer, was a combat medic. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: he told us on the way to the tower to stop the sniper that day he was forced to run past claire as she lay bleeding on the quad without stopping to help her. >> that day -- i was thinking like a medic but also thinking like a policeman. i saw her wounded. and i felt like it was my duty to grab her and take her out of
>> reporter: in the movie version of this, you're the guy that shoots the sniper and saves the day. and you are telling me that even you, are wracked by guilt? >> well, if you are a human being and you got feelings for people, yes. >> reporter: the university is now taking steps to remember those lost. this past week, a new larger memorial was dedicated. listing the names of those killed. including claire wilson james boyfriend and also her unborn baby. and in the shadow of the tower, there is now friendship. and healing for survivors. and from claire, something else. and you forgive him? >> oh, yeah, how could -- god's forgiven me everything i have done. and he has kept me from being
go that way.
a video of a massive alligator roaming a golf course is getting a lot of attention on line. david begnaud has the story behind the sighting. >> reporter: the golfers who took the video were in disbelief. a giant gator standing high on its legs just sauntering across the golf course. it is a sight so unreal, that chubs, as he has become known, is something of an internet phenomenon. the individually that made him famous has been viewed more than 19 million times. but regulars here in palm meadow, florida, are unfazed. >> this is a great course, you see a lot of gators out here. big ones.
it's pretty interesting course. i mean it's fun. >> what most people don't realize, these things go very short distances billion out they tire out quickly. >> they're fast. >> they're fast for a short distance. like us old guys. you know? >> his head was about -- here. >> course manager ken powell says chub has been a fixture on the fairway for years. he believes the least 15 feet long and likely 40 or 50 years old. when chubs comes out, play doesn't stop. if golfers hit a ball close to the reptile they just drop another one. and play right on through. >> he is not a nuisance alligator. we have no plans to have anybody come and take him away. he is not hurting anybody. >> reporter: once considered endangered, alligators are federally protected species. more than 1 million reptiles in habit florida. fatal attacks on humans are rare. only six have been recorded in the state in the last 10 years. and that includes the killing of a 2-year-old boy at disney world back in june.
body of freshwater. tim geist is a trapper and says alligators should always be treated as a potential threat. >> a lot of the public doesn't understand when they feed an alligator they're creating a monster. feed the alligator, he is going to coop coming back for more, gets bigger, bigger, bigger. sees you as potential meal. >> reporter: chubs may look like a monster, but the club believes as long as patrons leave him alone.
? ? delta down. >> so we are just here, twiddling our thumbs having no idea what to do. >> a computer crash ground one of america's largest airlines, leaving thousand stranded. >> also tonight, infection in florida, but this one miles north of miami. a new donald trump brings his policy off a prompter. prompting this. >> there is no other donald trump. >> at the olympics, much adieu about cupping. >> and the special guest who made a brides wedding. >> hi! oh.
this is the "cbs overnight news." it was a monday meltdown for this country's second biggest airline. delta's computer system crashed. and that forced the air lean to cancel 650 flights. many more were delayed leaving thousand of passengers stranded at airports all over the world. here is transportation correspondent kris van cleave. >> reporter: the fbi tells cbs news it does not believe the computer issue that paralyzed delta air lines was due to hacking. instead the airline blames a power outage in atlanta overnight. flier paulette vernon. >> we are just here. having no idea what to do. >> reporter: at one point during the usually busy monday morning. 23 delta planes were in the air as global computer outage grounded flights for hours. passengers couldn't check in. and the airline couldn't dispatch planes creating long lines at airports from los angeles to london. where passengers had to deboard some flights.
worried she wouldn't make it to her cruise ship in time. >> you show suup. think you are getting your boarding pass and getting on the plane. we're grounded. >> reporter: the four biggest carriers have experienced computer outages. a week ago, a glitch crippled southwest for days. ed bastion. >> i apologize for the challenges this create ford you. >> reporter: how does this keep happening? >> people have come to realize this is an problem. >> the airlines are using old systems. >> they have these multidecade old systems for dealing with passengers that are suddenly exect to deal with mobile apps, onlike check ins on the web. a lot more demand for what they're doing and doing it with pretty limited capacity. >> reporter: delta says its systems are operating once again. and is investigating why its backups didn't kick in as they should have.
are still in the three-hour range. so the airline continues to struggle to get back on track. >> thank you, kris. it wasn't the fiery donald trump we are used to today. rather than speak off the cuff, he read off the prompter. as he delivered an economic address in detroit. a new national poll out today shows him trailing hillary clinton by 12 points among registered voters. major garrett on trump's attempt to get his troubled campaign back on track. past. ours is the campaign of the future. >> donald trump's top advisers have been begging him for weeks to get back on message and position himself as agent of change against hillary clinton to. day evidence of a trump conversion. >> when we reform our tax, trade, energy, and regulatory policies, we will open a new chapter in american prosperity.
republican president and nominee since ronald reagan. with across the board tax cuts. hos pill t federal regulations and fossil fuels. >> my plan will reduce the current number of brackets from seven to three and dramatically streamline the process. >> in a significant shift, trump scrapped his original tax plan. and embraced a less expensive one drafted by house republicans. with income tax brackets of trump's first plan had a top rate of 25%. and a more generous standard deduction. the nonpartisan tax policy center estimated trump's original plan would have cost more than $10 trillion in its first ten years. the house gop plan is about a third less costly. >> trump's speech was interrupted more than a dozen times by protesters in what appeared to be a coordinated effort to throw him off course.
>> all very well planned out. >> while trump tried to drive his economic message. 50 high ranking republican national security and diplomatic advisers to presidents from richard nixon to george w. bush signed a letter opposing trump. charlie, they said trump if elect would be the most reckless president in history. trump dismissed the letter saying those to sign it were to blame making the world such a dangerous place. >> thank hillary clinton's reaction to trump came as the it usually does quickly. here is nancy cordes. >> he wants to roll back regulations on wall street. >> reporter: in saint petersberg, florida, clinton said trump would explode the debt cutting taxes for the wealthy and spending more. >> he wants to basically just repackage, trickle down
fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice shame on me. trickle down economics does not help our economy grow, it does not help the vast majority of americans. >> she also mocked his new economic team. made up of 13 white men. >> hedge fund guys, billionaire guys. six guys named steve. apparently. >> clinton's advantage with women is one factor in widening lead. and here is another. according to the cbs news battleground tracker, 57% of virginians think she is prepared to be president. compared to just 36% who say that about trump. after an erratic couple of weeks. >> she is truly unhinged. she is unbalanced. she is a monster. >> there are warning signs for clinton in the new polls as well. just 36% of voters view her favorably. slightly more than trump.
history. >> i want you to tell your friend, don't let a friend vote trump. >> reporter: clinton has consolidated the party around her. more than nine in ten democrats now say they plan to vote for her compared to fewer than eight in ten republicans who say that about trump. may not sound look a big difference, charlie, but it can swing an election in a country as closely divide adds this one. >> thank you, >> the noi"cbs overnight news" l
the number of nontreated zika infections in florida rose to 16. this time the person is in palm beach county. 75 miles north of the miami zika zone but had traveled to miami-dade county. david begnaud has the latest on to birth defect. >> reporter: there has been aerial spraying over the zika zone at least three times now. with 17 locally transmitted zika cases. the one mile area of wynwood was a ghost dotown. she feared sunny had zehe had z. today she received good news. >> we did your test last week. it was negative.
reaction when you got it? >> whew. one last thing to worry about. >> reporter: she says she has been taking precautions including using bug spray any time she is outside. >> reporter: you understand how randomly it could have been you? >> absolutely. and, and in any situation, when you become pregnant, you just accept you are not in control. one thing that you are in control of, with zika is you can prevent. >> reporter: her obstetrician, patients are forgetting abut prevention. >> people want to beep tested. but do you have bug spray in your purse. you are getting tested. do you have bug spray in your purse. you have to focus on. images have to be of the mosquito, bites, that's what you need to avoid. >> reporter: tonight in palm beach county, inspectors are in the area where the new case was detected going dpoor to door asking people for voluntary
may have been infected. charlie the kids are about to go back to school in florida. today the governor asked education leaders to start teaching students about zika protection. >> thank you, david. folks in florida bracing for severe flooding in port richard, roads have been closed because of heavy rains. and forecast is only getting worse. some places could get 9 inches of rain in the next few days. that's because a storm system has stalled over the florida panhandle. the bad weather extends all the way to new orleans. in the pacific, tropical storm javier is bearing down on baja california. heavy air expected to pass by cabo san lucas tonight. half a foot of rain is in the forecast. an earlier storm, erm, dumped a month worth of rain on central mexico in 24 hours. that triggered an avalanche of mud, that killed at least 45 people. today, soldiers and rescue teams
survivors were transported in military vehicles to safety. by contrast the western u.s. is bone dry. tonight, dozens of wildfires are burning out of control. evacuations have been ordered in the san bernardino mountains, east of los angeles. hundreds of firefighters and 16 aircraft are battling the pilot fire. it has burned 4500 acres. smoke has blown all the way to las vegas. in pakistan today, shot and killed a prominent lawyer. then a suicide bomber attacked the hospital where mourners had gathered. at least 70 people were killed. more than 90 were hurt. both the taliban and isis have claimed responsibility. tonight syria's biggest city is in danger of becoming a slaughterhouse. the assad regime's army backed by iran and russia surrounded aleppo, but they have not been able to lock it down. deborah potter reports tonight
the key turning point was reached over the weekend. when a newly formed coalition of opposition fighters including some recently affiliated to al qaeda managed to barack through government lines. they released this drone footage which shows the moment a suicide bomber drove a truck through the city, and blew himself up, allowing rebel groups to advance forward and seize a military complex with ammunition and heavy artillery. it all looked so different just two weeks ago. after years of steal mate in the fight for control of the city, government troops backed by russian air strikes seized the rebels last remaining supply route, cutting off an estimated 250,000 people. in a desperate bid to break the siege, opposition forcings launched a successful counter offensive and surprisingly were also able to take over the main road into the government held part of the city.
people live. the gain was greeted with celebrations in rebel controlled parts of aleppo. they could be short-lived. there are growing fears of food and food shortages. and the allies, say they're amassing thousand more fighters along the front lines. the fight or aleppo is clearly intensifying and could become a pivotal battle in this war. at this stage, charlie it is unclear whether either side can >> thanks, deborah. i talked to michael morell, former director of the c if a until recently a cbs news contributor. he suggests the united states should support more aggressive action by syrian rebels. >> when we were in iraq, the iranians were giving weapons to the shiaa militia willing american soldiers, iranians were making us pay a price. we need to make the, the
make the russians pay a price. here's what i want to do. i want to go after. i want to go after those things that assad sees as his personal power base. right? i want to scare assad. i want him to think about, this is not going to end well for me. >> coming up next, a day of fun at a water park turns tragic. later, a wedding guest brings a bride a priceless gift. ? ? r made a decision. the decision to ride on and save money. he decided to save money by switching his motorcycle insurance to geico. there's no shame in saving money. ride on, ride proud. geico motorcycle,
an investigation is continuing tonight into a freak accident that took the life of a child at a water park in kansas city, kansas. it happened on a water slide whose name is german for insane. omar villafranco is in kansas city. sunday afternoon when 10-year-old caleb swab was killed riding this 17 story water slide on a raft. two other passengers were injured. winter persapio is the water park spokesperson. >> all our rides are inspected every day. actually. our ride are inspected by an outside party. >> caleb the son of kansas state representative scott swab, enjoying the park on a day honoring state lawmakers.
saying caleb brought abundant joy to our family and although he came into contact with. >> taller than niagara falls. >> it is dubbed the tallest water slide in the world. the attraction opened in 2014 after several delays. adjustments had to be made to the second hill when test runs showed the raft launching off the slide. in this promotional video released by the company, three riders strap into a raft and drop down more than 168 feet miles per hour. passengers are thrust up and over another 50 foot drop. to ride, each passenger must be at least 4'6." the combined weight of three riders must be 400 pounds. this girl took the plunge with friend on the watt r slide an hour before the deadly accident. the 18-year-old was concerned
>> i felt i had to hold on to keep my body from going up. i was so scared. >> the autopsy is complete. the results have not been released yet. charlie, the kansas city police department is leading this investigation. >> thank you, omar. still ahead, michael phelps in this is shaving. blades here, blades there. some more over there... whoa! that's not a blade. this is gillette shielding. with lubrication before and after the blades. shields from irritation for a close, comfortable shave. proshield from gillette.
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and phelps with olympic gold medal number 19. michael phelps off to a strong start in his fifth olympics. but there was something else that everyone steamed to be talking about today. ben tracy is in rio with our on the spot coverage. >> out comes team usa. >> when michael phelps made his r if o debut. there were two questions how fast would he swim and what's with the purple mark all over his an ancient chinese pain relief treatment known as cupping. you can see him getting the treatment in his underarmor add. here's how cupping works. specialized suction cups pull the skin up and away from underlying muscles breaking capillaries. that draws blood to the area and speeds recovery. phelps is such a fan. he instagramed the photo of himself mid cup treatment to. day, cody miller said he is also
during training. i'll have her put cups on my back. and she is like. so gross. >> dara torres is medalist in swimming. >> is this a fringe thing in sports or something a lot of athletes do. >> i think a low key trend now. that michael phelps has been seen with cup marks all over his body. more athletes will do it. i was doing it, in 2008 and not just for professional athletes. 2-year-old, gia san angelo uses the technique to relieve the back pain. this doctor treats her at mount sinai hospital in new york. >> cupping actually jump starts the body's natural healing process. you can increase the blood flow and let the body do what it does to help resolve the issue. >> reporter: there isn't a lot of good scientific evidence showing the technique works. many athletes here in rio swear by it.
women's swim team and team usa's men's gymnastics team.
we end tonight with affairs of the heart. a decade ago, her father gave the stranger the gift of life. now the stranger has returned to give jenny the gift of a lifetime. here is jim axelrod. ? ? r man walk her down the aisle she met the first time just the day before. >> hi! >> hi, jenny. >> reporter: but jenny was positive she could trust arthur thomas' heart. >> thank you so much for coming. >> are you kidding. >> after all, it belonged to her father michael.
was killed in a robbery near pittsburgh ten years ago. hundreds of miles away in philadelphia, arthur thomas' failing heart had him on a transplant waiting list. but hope was slipping away. >> i was on death's door. when, when -- when he was murdered. and i needed a heart or i was going to be dying within the next few days. >> fast forward a decade to a letter jenny mailed to arthur thomas. >> and she the daughter of the man whose heart is inside of you. would you walk me down the aisle. >> reporter: which is how jenny stepian got to have her father's beating heart with her for the biggest moment of her life. >> it awe just like having my dad here and better because we get to share the story with other people. and other people see that organ donors do matter. >> and that's how hearts were both breaking at this wedding
jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. that's the overnight news for this tuesday morning. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new
this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the overnight news. republican presidential nominee donald trump has outlined his plans to create jobs and cut taxes in a speech in detroit. long argued that business experience qualifies him to lead the wrldorld's biggest economy. monday he offered details on the changes he would make if he wins the presidency. here is some of what trump had to say. >> i am proposing an across the board income tax reduction for middle-income americans. this will lead to millions of new, really good paying jobs. the rich will pay their fair share.
our ability, as a nation, to compete. tax simplification will be a major feature of the plan. our current tax code is so burdensome, and so complex, that we waste 9 billion hours a year in tax code compliance. my plan will reduce the current number of brackets from 7 to 3. process. we will work with house republicans, on this plan, using the same brackets they have proposed. 12%. 25%. and 33%. for many americans, their rate will be 0. under my plan, no american company will pay more than 15% of their business income in
your taxes from 35% to 15%. small businesses will benefit the most from this plan. hillary clinton's plan will require small business to pay as much as three times more in taxes than what i am proposing. and her owners regulations will put them totally out of business and you went be able to start. you business under the tremendous regulatory burden that you have today in our country. i am going to cut regulations massively. my plan will also help reduce the cost of child care. by allowing parents to fully deduct the average cost of child care spending from their taxes. we are also going to bring back
american businesses that are now parked overseas, they can't bring their money back into our country. our plan will bring that cash home, applying only a 10% tax. >> hillary clinton will define her own economic vision in an address thursday. democratic presidential nominee will lay out her case in detroit. nancy cordes is covering the clinton kachl paicampaign. >> an economy that works for the economy as trump veers offcourse. >> she is a monster. >> may be paying off. 57% of virginians tell cbs news she is prepared to be president compared to 36% who say that about trump. name calling, probably doesn't help. >> she is a totally unhinged person. she's's unbalanced. >> the comparison enabled
she performs poorly in some areas. a third of virginia voters think she can bring change to washington. or that she tells the truth. >> so i may have short circuited it. >> clinton gave a tortured explanation friday for why she mischaracterized the fbi director's comments, claiming incorrectly he said she never publicly lied about her e-mails. >> direct oor comey said my answers were truthful. that's the bottom line. said was truthful is consistent with what i said publicly. >> she is lying about lying. >> republicans argued she was parsing her word. >> she has a fundamental way to say to people. i didn't lie to you. i didn't remember what i was going to say. >> mystery surround the excushion of an iranian scientist accused of being informant for the united states. over the weekend. i ran announced he was hanged as a traltor.
>> this strange series of events includes execution, nuclear secrets and u.s. diplomacy. a scientist with vital information on deadly nuclear weapons defects to the states. seven years later his family says he was hanged. the big question here is, what made dr. amiri return to iran. his love for his son, may have cost dr. amiri his life. he was reunited with his fame having received a he in tehran in 2010. his story at the team that he had been kidnapped by cia agents. he reap cysted spilling the beans on iran's nuclear program. it soon became clear iranian authorities weren't buying his version of events. he disappeared. presumably imprisoned until this weekend's announcement. officials said amiri was executed for giving america what they called the great satan, vital and secret information.
murky tale even by the standard of international espionage. he defected to the u.s. in 2009. secrets about his country's nuclear program. but months later, wanted to go home. >> he seems to have gotten cold feet. >> the senior vice president for the center for strategic and international studies. >> he came up with different stories all of which were about him going back and being with his family in iraq. >> one of the stories claimed he had been kidnapped while on pilgrimage to mecca and tortured in eight months of captivity. then secretary of state, clinton said amir is his own man. >> mr. amiri has been in the united states of his own free will. and he is free to go. >> reporter: being part of iran's nook leer puclear progra dangerous game. amiri would have known the risks. >> from their perspective this
amiri couldn't have anticipated that when heap made the decision to go back to iran. >> now the state department would give no further comment on amiri this morning. in e-mails released from clinton's private servers, conversations refer to him as a friend who pose aid diplomatic, psychological issue in the days before he left the u.s. >> the "cbs overnight news" will
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at the rio summer olympics, michael phelps may be soaking up attention for the swim team. another american swimmer is in the middle of an extraordinary come back. >> his name may not be the most familiar on the u.s. swim team. anthony irvin, his story is certainly the most fascinating. later this 35, he will be the oldest male swimmer to compete in an individual event at the games, since 1904. but this isn't his first olympics. he won gold back in 2000. at the age of 19. and then vanished from the sport entirely. >> 15 meters left. off awe wh when anthony irvan tied for gold as a 19-year-old in the 2000 games in sydney. >> no.
>> going to the olympic games is an honor, enormous privilege. >> gary hall, anthony irvan. share the gold. >> instead, it led to the most tumultuous time of his life. >> part of what led to a lot of the angst initially was doing well and performing well, the social kind of like joy that comes from others and knowing that one has done well, and you kind of get hooked on that. you kind of need that to sus taou sustain yourself. irvan's parents are jewish, native american and african-american. >> the first swimmer of african-american descent to make the u.s. team. >> the only problem he never identified as a black man. >> did it really when people called you the first african-american swimmer? >> it caused confusion. >> at the height of it all, he
2003. >> post olympic champion status was about rediscovering, rebuilding myself, the way i wanted to be not the way others were, at least the way perceived wanted me to be. >> reporter: over the next decade, irvan sold his gold medal, donated money to charity and took off on a spiritual quest. he dabbled in everything from zen buddhism to the hard partying lifestyle of playing in rock band. instead of a pool, he s depression. which add its deepest led to a suicide attempt, and a death defying motorcycle accident. nearing age 30, he desperately need a shot at redemption. >> for me, getting the tattoos was a way of reclaiming my skin and regaining control of myself. >> armed with ink he went back to school and started coaching at a swim camp for kids. the kids helped him remember what he loved about swimming in the first place. >> the water when i was a child,
of expression and play. a place where everything else can kind of fall away and into this meditative state. and -- i got that back. >> he dove back into competition, and a dozen years after his last olympics, qualified for the 2012 games. with a personal best time in the 50 meter freestyle race. but in london, he only placed fifth. >> he is probably the most interesting human being on our team. maybe in the whole olympic >> david marsh one of the u.s. swim team head coaches. he has known irvan since anthony was 17 years old. earlier this year, he started training him for another shot at gold. >> he arrived in my place, eight weeks before the olympic trials. didn't seem as confident as i felt he need to be for the games. then he became anthony again. anthony has the most brilliant sprint freestyle stroke on the planet. the stroke carried him to one of
this summer. and earned him a tick tight rio. >> wasn't like i demanded this of myself. >> reporter: you didn't stay i am getting back in the pool and going to make the next olympics. >> no way. he has no expectations for the future, but more importantly no regrets about the past. >> i really try to aindividual regret. i don't think anybody should be stuck in the past. that's a dead life if you are stuck in the past. life moves forward. >> because irvan helped the u.s. swim team win here, ties for the record for longest gap of a u.s. swimmer between medals. 16 years set way back in 1924. >> the "cbs overnight news" will
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mass shootings have become an all too familiar sight on television. this past week marked 50 yea that kind of horror on tv. anna werner take is a look back in a story for "sunday morning." >> it is a summer day in austin, as students at the university of texas stroll the campus. a day much like the one 50 years ago, long before anyone knew the term mass shooting. >> this is where -- >> yeah. >> it's the day and the spot
>> as you lay here -- you can see the tower. >> oh, yeah. >> right over you. >> that day was august 1, 1966. walter cronkite anchored a special cbs news report. >> a deranged engineering student at university of texas climbed to an austin landmark at noon how to day. >> a man perched atop the university of texas clock tower began firing on the people below. west and south side of the campus as sniper zeroed in on his target with unerring accuracy. >> he shot at random. for more than 90 minutes. >> claire, an 18-year-old student, 8 months pregnant walking on campus with boyfriend tom eckman. at first didn't know what was happening. >> you never heard the shot?
i just felt a big jolt. then i started falling. >> reporter: as she fell to the pavement, her boyfriend, tom, turned to ask her what was wrong. the next thing she knew, he was lying dead next to her. and she couldn't move. >> you thought you were dead? >> i thought i was going to die. yeah. >> the killer was 25-year-old charles joseph whitman, a former marine sharpshooter. unknown to anyone, he mother in their homes, before heading to the tower's 2th floor observation deck with multiple guns. it was the first school mass shooting in modern u.s. history. he affect sewed many lives in that one day. retired texas ranger, martinez was a young officer with the police department at the time. arriving on campus. he couldn't believe what they
could hear all of the shooting going on. it was look a war. >> back then, there was no such thing as rapid response teams. it was left to martinez and civilian, followed by a fellow officer, houston mccoy to climb to the top of the tower. to face off against the sniper and his arsenal. as martinez described it at the time. >> he didn't have it level. as and i just kept firing. >> i could tell by impact that i hit him. i kept advancing. shooting. mccoy shot and hit him. and started going down. >> the shooter was dead. he killed 16 people that day. and injured dozens more. the mass shooting brought fundamental changes to police departments.
for decades at u.t. the only reminder of the terrible day could be find on this rock. keith maitland who went to school there wondered why he never heard more. >> this is a story i think that anybody who grew up here has heard a little bit about. but if you want to get past just that little bit there isn't really a lot out there to kind of fill in the blanks. >> so he made a called "tower." >> we can see the movement south side of the clock. >> it uses animation and archive footage to tell the story of the day. >> the shot hit me. rick shade o ricochetted off the building. >> then what happened? >> then everybody ran. >> what i want to understand what was it look to live through something like this?
>> the worst days of your lives. >> reporter: in the process he wound up reconnecting people who it turned out had not seen each other since that day, 50 years ago. >> people like claire wilson james. >> hi, claire. >> hello, baby. >> and artly snuff. snuff was just a teenager at the time. that's him on the right in the dark shirt. running out in full view of the sniper to pick claire up and carry her some 100 yard down the steps to safety. something he says he simply felt he had to do. >> because she was shot. she was obviously pregnant. it was the most horrific day of my life. >> to this day? >> oh, gosh, yes. i didn't go to war. that was my war. >> because why? >> because the blood.
the loss of innocence. i think what i probably learned the most is that you have to deal withdr trauma. for people who weren't given an opportunity it really sits with them and kind of eats away at them over the course of the rest of their lives. >> reporter: even people you might not expect. like ray martinez, who before he was a police officer, was a [ gunfire ] >> reporter: he told us on the way to the tower to stop the sniper that day he was forced to run past claire as she lay bleeding on the quad without stopping to help her. >> that day -- i was thinking like a medic but also thinking like a policeman. i saw her wounded. and i felt like it was my duty to grab her and take her out of there. >> reporter: in the movie version of this, you're the guy
the day. and you are telling me that even you, are wracked by guilt? >> well, if you are a human being and you got feelings for people, yes. >> reporter: the university is now taking steps to remember those lost. this past week, a new larger memorial was dedicated. listing the names of those killed. including claire wilson james boyfriend and also her baby. and in the shadow of the tower, there is now friendship. and healing for survivors. and from claire, something else. and you forgive him? >> oh, yeah, how could -- god's forgiven me everything i have done. that kind of person.rom being - you know, that, that decide to go that way.
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Index šťastné planety (zkráceně HPI, ) je ukazatel kvality lidského života v porovnání s dopady na životní prostředí. Představila ho Nadace nové ekonomiky (NEF) v červenci roku 2006. Index je vážen tak, aby uděloval vyšší skóre státům s menší ekologickou stopou.

HPI byl navržen, aby poskytoval protiváhu k zavedeným ukazatelům rozvoje států, jako jsou hrubý domácí produkt (HDP) a index lidského rozvoje (HDI), které dostatečně nezohledňují udržitelnost. Konkrétně HDP je vnímán jako nevhodný, jelikož obvyklý cíl většiny lidí není být bohatý, ale šťastný a zdravý. V rámci snahy o udržitelný rozvoj je tedy třeba měřit, jaký má dosahování těchto cílů dopad na životní prostředí.

V roce 2006 se ze 178 pozorovaných států nejlépe umístilo Vanuatu, Kolumbie, Kostarika, Dominika a Panama. V roce 2009 se ze 143 analyzovaných zemí nejlépe umístila Kostarika, následovaná Dominikánskou republikou, Jamajkou, Guatemalou a Vietnamem. Na spodních příčkách se umístily Tanzanie, Botswana a Zimbabwe.

V roce 2012 bylo porovnáváno 151 států. Nejlepší hodnocení získala podruhé v řadě Kostarika, za ní následoval Vietnam, Kolumbie, Belize a Salvador. Nejníže se v roce 2012 umístila Botswana, Čad a Katar. V roce 2016 byla Kostarika potřetí v čele žebříčku. Za ní následovalo Mexiko, Kolumbie, Vanuatu a Vietnam. Na spodních příčkách byly Čad, Lucembursko a Togo.

Metodologie
HPI je založený na pragmatických principech – lidé chtějí žít dlouhé a naplněné životy a země s nejvyšším hodnocením toto svým obyvatelům umožňuje, aniž by bránila budoucím obyvatelům nebo jiným zemím dělat totéž. V důsledku to převádí do praxe volání Mezinárodního svazu ochrany přírody (IUCN) po indikátoru schopném změřit produkci lidského blahobytu (ne nutně materiálního zboží) na jednotku zatížení přírody.

Lidský blahobyt je chápán jako střední délka šťastného života (happy life expectancy). Čerpání přírodních zdrojů a zatěžování přírody je hodnoceno pomocí ekologické stopy na osobu. Cílem je stanovit odhadované množství přírodních zdrojů, které by byly zapotřebí k zachování současného způsobu života dané země. Stát s větší ekologickou stopou na osobu využívá více přírodních zdrojů, než je mu určeno – využívá zdrojů jiné země nebo působí trvalé škody, se kterými se budou muset potýkat příští generace.

HPI není nástrojem ke stanovení nejšťastnějších zemí světa. Země, ve kterých je podle průzkumů poměrně vysoká životní spokojenost, se podle HPI nacházejí jak na vrcholu (Kolumbie na 3. místě), tak na spodních příčkách (Spojené státy na 108. místě). Index šťastné planety se dá nejlépe chápat jako měřítko environmentální efektivity podpory blahobytu v dané zemi. Taková efektivita se může projevit v zemi, která má střední dopad na životní prostředí, ale vysokou míru blahobytu, stejně jako v zemi, kde je míra blahobytu průměrná, ale dopad na životní prostředí nízký.

HPI každé země je podílem jeho průměrné subjektivní životní spokojenosti (life satisfaction), předpokládané délky života a ekologické stopy na obyvatele.

Kritika
Velká část kritiky plyne zejména ze špatného porozuměním principu HPI. Především se mnoho lidí domnívá, že jde o měřítko lidského štěstí, zatímco ve skutečnosti jde spíše o štěstí planety. Jinými slovy, jde o "ekologickou" efektivitu dosahování blahobytu.

Kromě toho se kritika soustředí na následující:
 Výzkum světových hodnot (The World Values Survey) pokrývá pouze menšinu světových národů a provádí se jen jednou za pět let. V důsledku toho musí velké množství dat pro HPI přicházet z jiných zdrojů nebo se odhaduje na základě starších údajů.
 Subjektivní měřítka blahobytu jsou nedůvěryhodná.
 Ekologická stopa je kontroverzní a často kritizovaný koncept.

HPI je kritizován za to, že přisuzuje příliš velkou váhu uhlíkové stopě, takže Spojené státy by musely být zcela šťastné a mít předpokládanou délku života 439 let, aby se vyrovnaly skóre Vanuatu v roce 2006.

I přesto byly Index šťastné planety a jeho složky zohledněny v politických kruzích. Koncept ekologické stopy, propagovaný Světovým fondem na ochranu přírody (WWF), je široce využívaný místní i národní státní správou, stejně jako nadnárodními organizacemi, např. Evropskou komisí. Britská Konzervativní strana v r. 2007 označila HPI za možnou náhradu HDP. Přehled indikátorů pokroku zpracovaný Evropským parlamentem r. 2007 hodnotí HPI takto:

Pozitiva
 zohledňuje skutečné konečné důsledky ekonomické aktivity ve formě lidské spokojenosti a dlouhověkosti
 kombinuje blahobyt a environmentální aspekty
 vzorec pro výpočet indexu je jednoduchý a srozumitelný
 výsledky jsou srovnatelné ("ekologická stopa" a "předpokládaná délka života" mohou být aplikovány v různých zemích)
 data jsou dostupná online, ačkoliv ne kompletně
 zahrnuje směs "měkkých" a "tvrdých" kritérií, zohledňuje lidský blahobyt i využívání přírodních zdrojů v daných zemích

Negativa
 štěstí a životní spokojenost jsou velmi subjektivní a individuální, podléhají vlivu kultury a osobní i společenské politice
 nejednoznačný název: index není ukazatelem štěstí, ale spíše environmentální efektivity podpory blahobytu v dané zemi

Mezinárodní žebříčky
V roce 2016 bylo srovnáváno celkem 140 států, z kterých se v první desítce umístily čtyři státy z Asie a šest států ze Střední a Jižní Ameriky navzdory tomu, že v nich panuje vysoká míra chudoby. Potřetí za sebou zvítězila Kostarika, což je způsobeno hlavně vysokou střední délkou života v tomto státě. Kostarika má také velmi vysokou míru blahobytu, dokonce vyšší než u mnohých bohatších zemí, a zároveň je její ekologická stopa jednou z nejnižších v celém žebříčku. V první desítce nenajdeme stát, jehož HDP na obyvatele by bylo větší než 15 000 dolarů na osobu. Nejvyšší HDP na obyvatele má Panama na šestém místě s přibližně 10 139 dolary na obyvatele (Česká republika má přibližně 20 000 dolarů na obyvatele). Na druhém a třetím místě najdeme další americké státy Mexiko a Kolumbii následované první neamerickým státem Vanuatu. Prvním státem, který je členem OECD (Organizace pro hospodářskou spolupráci a rozvoj) a zároveň zástupcem Evropy, je Norsko na 12. místě. Česká republika se nachází na 64. místě. Z pěti největších světových ekonomik se nejlépe umístila Velká Británie na 34. místě, dále Německo na 49. místě, Japonsko na 58. místě, Čína na 72. místě a Spojené státy na 108. místě, na což má vliv hlavně jejich vysoká ekologická stopa, 4. nejvyšší z celého žebříčku.

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 The Happy Planet Index
 Oficiální stránka Nadace nové ekonomiky

Indexy pro hodnocení zemí

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