AC Tropical Fish & Aquarium Here's What Happens to Google Employees When They Die It’s no surprise that the employee benefits of Google (GOOG) are among the best in the land—free haircuts, gourmet food, on-site doctors and high-tech “cleansing” toilets are among the most talked-about—but in a rare interview with Chief People Officer Laszlo Bock I discovered that the latest perk for Googlers extends into the afterlife. “This might sound ridiculous,” Bock told me recently in a conversation on the ever-evolving benefits at Google, “But we’ve announced death benefits at Google.” We were scheduled for a talk on Google’s widening age-gap (the oldest Googler is currently 83); I wanted to know how child- and healthcare benefits have evolved as the company has scaled. [More from Forbes: How To Handle A Personal Crisis At Work] Instead, Bock, who joined the company in 2006 after a stint with General Electric, blew me away by disclosing a never-before-made-public-perk: Should a U.S. [More from Forbes: 11 Tips For Dealing With A Lazy Co-Worker] FinanceBusinessGoogle
Freakin Fucus What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress? Lindsay Morris Above, a boy prepares for a fashion show at a camp for gender-variant children and their families. More Photos » When Alex was 4, he pronounced himself “a boy and a girl,” but in the two years since, he has been fairly clear that he is simply a boy who sometimes likes to dress and play in conventionally feminine ways. There have always been people who defy gender norms. Many parents and clinicians now reject corrective therapy, making this the first generation to allow boys to openly play and dress (to varying degrees) in ways previously restricted to girls — to exist in what one psychologist called “that middle space” between traditional boyhood and traditional girlhood. “It might make your world more tidy to have two neat and separate gender possibilities,” one North Carolina mother wrote last year on her blog, “but when you squish out the space between, you do not accurately represent lived reality.
FishOnline What My Son's Disabilities Taught Me About 'Having It All' - National Because of her child's problems, the author will never have a tidy, peaceful life. But none of this keeps her from being happy -- as long as she asks herself the right questions. The author on a walk with her son (Photo by Karl H. As someone in her 40s, unequivocally in middle age, I find myself and my friends in that stage of life that seems to auger constant assessment -- am I happy? Evidenced by the number of times Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic piece "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" was posted on Facebook, it served as a cri de coeur of the collective unconscious of those of us swimming in the Gen X/Baby Boomer estuary, last stop before becoming truly elderly. Let me compare and contrast that with a typical incident that happened just last week in my own 40-something working mother life. While our friends worry about middle schools, we bring our son to the ER to get stitches after he puts his head through a window. I nodded. I nodded again. He waited, seemingly perplexed.
MarineBio.org The Egg The Egg By: Andy Weir You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. And that’s when you met me. “What… what happened?” “You died,” I said, matter-of-factly. “There was a… a truck and it was skidding…” “Yup,” I said. “I… I died?” “Yup. You looked around. “More or less,” I said. “Are you god?” “Yup,” I replied. “My kids… my wife,” you said. “What about them?” “Will they be all right?” “That’s what I like to see,” I said. You looked at me with fascination. “Don’t worry,” I said. “Oh,” you said. “Neither,” I said. “Ah,” you said. “All religions are right in their own way,” I said. You followed along as we strode through the void. “Nowhere in particular,” I said. “So what’s the point, then?” “Not so!” I stopped walking and took you by the shoulders. “You’ve been in a human for the last 48 years, so you haven’t stretched out yet and felt the rest of your immense consciousness. “How many times have I been reincarnated, then?” “Oh lots. “Wait, what?” “Well, I guess technically. “Sure.
Wikipedia: rockpool life list The rockpools of the British Isles are a feature of rocky shores and have a particular life of their own. Conditions within them are different from the open sea, as they are exposed to increased sunlight, as well as predation from land-based animals and accidental damage from tourism. Some, such as those in Wembury Marine Centre, are formally protected. Animals[edit] Fish[edit] Molluscs[edit] Cephalopods Common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalisCurled octopus, Eledone cirrhosaCommon octopus, Octopus vulgarisLittle cuttle, Sepiola atlantica Gastropods Bivalves Blue mussel, Mytilus edulis Arthropods[edit] Crustaceans[edit] Sea slater, Ligia oceanica Barnacles Acorn barnacle, Semibalanus balanoides Copepods Tidepool Copepod, Tigriopus brevicornis Crabs Prawns and shrimp Lobsters and squat lobsters Black squat lobster, Galathea squamiferaEuropean lobster, Homarus gammarusScampi, Nephrops norvegicus Insects[edit] Springtail, Anurida maritima Cnidarians[edit] Sea anemones Jellyfish Common jellyfish, Aurelia aurita Obelia
The Debt-Free College Degree When she was six, Elaine Klaiklung emigrated from Thailand to the U.S. with her mother, a single parent who earns $20,000 a year working in a Charlotte grocery store. By graduating in the top 3 percent of her high school class, she met or surpassed the admission requirements for scores of U.S. universities, but she wished to remain in North Carolina. “I wanted to stay close to my mom,” she says. “My whole life, I’ve only had her and she’s only had me.” “When I got my acceptance letter and my tuition bill, it told us that everything was mostly paid for,” she recalls. Klaiklung, now a senior, is a member of what will be the third class at Davidson to graduate debt-free, and part of the school’s ongoing experiment in how to solve the student loan mess by eliminating it. All the same, Davidson stands out as an especially intriguing model. “We take it very seriously,” says Tianna Butler , a senior from Salisbury, Md. Even students are doing their part. And Klaiklung?
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