 her two middle-aged daughters, regroup in a run-down Westport, Connecticut beach cottage.
A compassionate and often comic portrait of wise child Ann August and her mother, Adele, a larger-than-life American dreamer, as they travel through the landscape of their often conflicting ambitions.
A collection of beautifully written and memorable stories that center on transformative moments between mother and son. Tóibín writes of men and women who are bound by convention and by unspoken emotions with an acute understanding of human frailty and longing.
This story collection is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each finely wrought story teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons. Each of the nine stories centers on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of power between mother and son and changes the way each perceives the other.
A year after giving birth, Ari, struggling with post-partum depression, still can’t locate herself in her altered universe. Amid the strange, disjointed days, Ari is desperate to find balance between being a mother and wife and her academic passions.
THE VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT spans more than forty years and two continents, from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the mountains of a remote Chinese village. It follows the intertwined fates of mother and daughter in this exploration of inherited trauma, desire, and deception.
THE LOST DAUGHTER is a compelling and perceptive meditation on womanhood and motherhood. A middle-aged divorcée is alone for the first time in years when her daughters leave home to live with their father and her initial unexpected sense of liberty quickly turns to ferocious introspection.
St. Elizabeth’s is a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, that usually harbors its residents for just a short time. But when beautiful, mysterious Rose Clinton comes to the home pregnant but not unwed, she decides to stay.
Jess’s husband has done a vanishing act, her teenage stepson is being bullied, and her whiz daughter has gotten a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that she cannot afford to pay for. 
Lorca has spent her life trying to earn the love of her distracted mother, a chef who is now packing her off to boarding school. Desperate to prove herself, Lorca resolves to track down the recipe for her mother’s ideal meal and, in the process, she learns how food sustains not just our bodies, but our hopes as well.
When Annie turns twelve, her relationship with her mother changes suddenly from a source of unconditional adoration to one under the unfamiliar guise of adversary. This classic coming-of-age novel focuses on a universal, tragic, and often comic theme: the loss of childhood.
What Happened Before the Fall?
This was just posted to /r/enviroment and as usual, I saw a connection to UBI.  Extrapolate environmental rape to it's logical conclusion, and much of the wealth in offshore accounts originated from using resources that shoudl belong to future generations.  If this type of case is supported and taken to extreme, moch of that wealth would wind up in a fund that needs to be paid to people harmed by enviromental damage and resource extrantion and waste.  The logical way to pay that out would be through a UBI.Made in Abyss is the best of those. A fascinating world, solid characters, gorgeous art, a top tier soundtrack, and an adventurous and gut-wrenching story about the lengths we'll go to discover the unknown. 

While it's very divisive, I quite like Juuni Taisen as well. It's not really a traditional action show; it creates a battle Royale formula only to remove the tension entirely by going out of it's way to show us how it will end, and making the battles anti-climactic. I saw a strong stance about the futility of war and the effects it can have on people, but others found it too unsatisfying to be engaged. It seems to me that those who like it both don't care for the battle Royale formula, and like Nisio Isin's other work (for anime, the Monogatari series and Katanagatari). 

FMP is a 4th season. I haven't seen any of the other three, but their pretty well liked so you can check them out. Haven't seen Clockwork Planet either, but the consensus seems to be that it's not very good, so take that as you will.While the Turkish economy has defied previous dire warnings and shown resilience to external shocks, the coming year could be one of its most difficult yet. Growth will be more difficult to generate than in the past decade, requiring structural reforms and institutional strengthening. These are promised in the new programme from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), but their implementation remains uncertain given the weak record of past AKP governments and the increased domestic and regional political challenges.My TechEd recap about HCP, Cloud Foundry, XS2, UX, Fiori 2.0, Vora, IoT, S/4HANA, Cloud 4 Analytics, and one4
Looking back to TechEd Las Vegas, I am really impressed how much I learned, how many people I met, how full I am with impressions and it was just three days for me, from Monday evening to Thursday evening. It’s true that my agenda was very aggressive, I tried to follow the blogger/influencer sessions, SAP Mentor sessions, HANA Distinguished Engineer meetings, visit the show floor, attend sessions, so a mission completely impossible. The only way I survived this craze was good preparation. I spent quite some time optimizing my agenda, reading session pdf’s upfront to decide which session to attend, when to have lunch, when to meet people, so I went with a schedule worked out to the smallest details. (I just left 2-3 hours open for topics which catch my attention, e.g. based on the keynotes.)
For me TechEd Las Vegas was about HCP, Cloud Foundry, XS2, UX, Fiori 2.0, Vora, IoT, S/4, Cloud 4 Analytics. I can’t say that these were the main news, because so much happens in short time that I must have missed many other important news. I can only say that these were the top topics I came across. Let’s go one by one – without any specific order.
HCP
SAP HANA Cloud Platform was clearly the main focus of this TechEd. Steve Lucas told us that 1800+ customers use HCP for live scenarios. SAP positioned HCP as the platform to make extensions for S/4HANA. Beyond the known platform and application services, SAP announced micros- and mashup services on HCP (together with YaaS – hybris-as-a-service). Bernd Leukert challenged the developer community to transform the growing volume of available digital assets into business value through creating such services. The solutions will be listed in the marketplace available at sapappcenter.com and the ones which reach market traction will be actively promoted by SAP’s sales force. He introduced the tax service, which calculates tax based on country-specific taxation rules and SAP Translation Hub which supports translation for 38 languages. The next type of service SAP is considering to provide is data as a service. Think of examples such as purchasing indexes, industry trends, recruitment data, etc. With all these services coming, the API management space will be interesting to watch.
SAP sees PaaS as an enabler for IT departments to create innovation even on top of older existing system landscape. I understood that SAP is very much aware of the “platform war” going on among the main platform providers (Google, Amazon, etc.) and finds it top priority to focus on the execution of the plans and keep up the fast pace of innovation in this area. Especially because large manufacturers, retailers and automotive companies are approaching the point to make platform choices and such choices may last for 10+ years. SAP thinks they have what it takes: business know-how, global presence, reach, ecosystem. scale in development, broad portfolio in industries and solutions. At the moment most HCP-based extensions are related to SuccessFactors and C4C.
Another very interesting development is a new offering on HCP: a Linux-based VM (Iaas) which will be rolled out in Q1. This opens up a door for creativity for customers, but SAP expects partners to leverage it too, e.g. Capriza or Birst.
Cloud Foundry
Open source was a key term at TechEd. SAP has decided to get involved in more open source projects (at the moment the counter is at approx. 100) and in some of them invest very heavily and improve the enterprise readiness of these solutions. Cloud Foundry belongs to the latter group. SAP joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation as Platinum Member. It is a technology to open up HCP, because Cloud Foundry is becoming the de-facto standard for PaaS as it provides a scalable runtime container with choice of clouds, runtimes and services.
HANA XS2
There are big news regarding HANA, like the hot standby in SAP HANA SP11, coming in Q4, but I will zoom into XS2, because this caught my attention the most.
The current XS engine will remain under the name “classic” and a new, advanced XS will be introduced in SP11, which will run the web application runtimes on top of HANA, and