Your daughter has been sick for more than four years with a severe autoimmune disease that has left her colon raw with bloody ulcers. After multiple doctors and drugs have failed, you are frantic for her to get better. Then you send her disease into remission, virtually overnight, with a single act of love. "Who wouldnt do that for their daughter?" you say. Its like a miracle, you say. "An overnight magic wand."

The result can feel a little odd. Tilt behaves in many ways like any number of premium news and analysis services which distribute their content over terminals-except it’s distributed on a website instead. That makes it much easier to build a community: Tilt is built to allow clients to republish their own work and to talk to each other and comment on stories. But because Tilt isn’t available on Reuters or Bloomberg machines, traders aren’t going to see its stories effortlessly shuffled in to their main feed of news and analysis-they’ll have to make a specific trip to the site to find them. Similarly, all the headlines on Tilt are its own: while it will link to outside stories from within its own posts, it doesn’t aggregate external headlines and drop them into its main headline feed.

Say you arent getting on too well with your crew mates, how about a cyber companion? Science fiction has a long history of robots sharing the emotional burden, from Forbidden Planets Robbie the robot and Huey, Dewey,Michael Kors Outlet, and Louie from Silent Running, to sidekicks such as Doctor Whos K-9 or the effete C3PO. Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are currently sharing their living area with Robonaut 2, a golden-headed humanoid torso mounted on a post. The idea is that Robonauts will be able to perform precise, repetitive tasks without making the sorts of mistakes humans do.

The sport once mocked as "housework on ice" is quickly becoming more a plaything of the social media generation.

Women in Pakistan remain up against a lot. Legislation like the family laws provides some redress and check on those trying to marry off underage girls or married men trying to take another wife without their first wife's permission.