Archive du mois : mars 2018

Möge ich frei von Ärger und Krankheiten sein. Möge es mir gutgehen. Möge ich glücklich sein. So fängt man an mit der Metta-Meditation, einer der populärsten und ältesten Formen buddhistischer Meditation: Man übt, sich selbst etwas Gutes zu wünschen und landet dann bald schon bei: Erst denkst du mal an dich und dann an die…

In conversations with CNBC, employees questioned the Connections program’s true anonymity and said they feared potential backlash if they give negative feedback about their jobs and managers. « There’s just no way you’re going to answer it honestly without an absolute guarantee that it’s anonymous, » said one person at the company. Two managers said the feedback…

REUTERS/Adnan Abidi An explosive memo detailing Facebook’s cutthroat growth mentality was leaked to BuzzFeed and published on Thursday night. But some Facebook employees think the real problem is leakers, according to posts leaked to The Verge. Facebook is reeling after BuzzFeed on Thursday published an explosive memo from the senior Facebook leader Andrew Bosworth. Bosworth,…

Many churches across Venezuela will be unable to offer a Eucharist this Easter due to a chronic lack of flour used to produce the communion wafer. The lack of flour is a direct result of the economic crisis currently faced by the failed socialist state, which has triggered skyrocketing rates of hyperinflation and vast shortages…

It was a Davos for digital hucksters. One day last June, scammers from around the world gathered for a conference at a renovated 19th century train station in Berlin. All the most popular hustles were there: miracle diet pills, instant muscle builders, brain boosters, male enhancers. The “You Won an iPhone” companies had display booths,…

The daughter of a celebrity therapist missing in a remote stretch of Brazilian wilderness for five days has been found alive. Locals had feared Katherine Brewster, from Sussex, had been killed but today a search team from a local village close to where she had disappeared found the 27-year-old. She was last seen on Sunday…

– He was ejected right before half time in a loss to the Bucks. Apparently he said multiple no-no words to the refs, and the refs said no-no Kevin. You are out. It was the fifth time he’s been ejected this season. That’s 7 losses in 10 games for the Warriors. Nick, what is your…

American journalist who kept up fellow prisoners’ morale  James Foley, from Illinois, USA, was a journalist who first went missing in November 2012 James Foley, from Illinois, in the US, was a journalist who first went missing in November 2012. On his way to an internet cafe,  while reporting for the GlobalPost, he had been…

Taking a drag from her cigarette, a Mexican immigration agent looked out toward a caravan of migrants that grew larger with each step they took on the two-lane highway. When the agent, who’d covered her uniform with an orange and white shawl, learned that the Central American migrants heading her way numbered more than 1,000,…