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A young lawyer has been found stabbed to death in a hotel just five blocks from the White House. the crime was discovered at the Donovan Hotel.

Messerschmitt, an associate with a high-powered D.C. firm, was reported missing early that morning when he didn’t return home.

The couple, who married in 2012, lived together in an apartment just three miles from the Donovan, but police have not yet said why the 30-year-old lawyer was at the four-star hotel.

Messerschmitt's wife Kim Vuong said 'everything seemed fine' before he left their home on Sunday, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. The couple texted that night but he failed to return home.

The hunt is on for a hooded lurker in the crime. The mystery figure was recorded in full winter gear inside the swanky Donovan Hotel.

The person, who is not identifiable as a man or woman, hit the elevator button, but then decided to take the stairs, slowly covering up his or her face as time goes on.

Police are looking into the possibility Messerschmitt was set up.  The keys to solve this mystery is the wife and the hotel.

Detectives found a wallet with "various credit cards strewn about" by Messerschmitt's head. More credit cards and documents were found throughout the room.

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According to multiple press reports, Chinese authorities have executed Liu Han, a former mining tycoon once worth more than $6 billion. He was the former chairman of Sichuan Hanlong Group, a mining conglomerate. The government prosecution led to the collapse of his ambitious business empire and brought attention to his links to a top target of China’s broad crackdown on corruption.

A billionaire who lived large, Mr. Liu had built an investment empire around his private Hanlong Group based in Sichuan province that included resources businesses that stretched beyond China to Australia and the U.S.

Authorities found him guilty of running a "mafia-style" gang responsible for multiple murders, assaults, gun-running, theft and embezzlement.

Liu, 49, was a fixture in the Chinese business press, calling attention to his diamond watches and fleet of Bentleys, Ferraris and Rolls-Royces,

Liu had business ties to the son of disgraced national security chief Zhou Yongkang, who was stripped of his Communist Party membership after being accused of bribery and "violating the party's political, organizational and confidentiality discipline." Zhou is the highest-ranking official so far to be targeted by President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign.

The government has arrested dozens of wealthy Chinese businesspeople and officials as part of the campaign, and has started tracking the fortunes of the wealthy overseas. 

   Just a thought.

Fake News..

Finally, someone is being held to account for misleading America about the Iraq war,” Jon Stewart said. “It might not necessarily be the first person you’d want held accountable on that list. But never again will Brian Williams mislead this great nation about being shot at in a war we probably wouldn’t have ended up in if the media had applied this level of scrutiny to the actual f*cking war.” Just a thought

Management Changes...

Fearing they’ll crush employees’ confidence and erode performance, employers are asking managers to ease up on harsh feedback.
If you don’t have anything nice to say, upper management has a tip: Try harder.

“Accentuate the positive” has become a new mantra at workplaces, where bosses now dole out frequent praise, urge employees to celebrate small victories and focus performance reviews around a particular worker’s strengths instead.

The shift may annoy leaders who rose in a tough-love era in business, but executives say hard-edge tactics simply do more harm than good.
When employees’ flaws are laid bare, “there’s that mental ‘ugh’ and shrug of, ‘This is who I am’. Entry level managers will lose the presumed power of fault finding.

For years, those discussions focused largely on employee missteps and where they needed to improve.   Bit by bit, consulting firm are changing the way managers evaluate employee performance.

“We would bring them in and beat them down a bit,”. After the reviews,  some employees left the company as their confidence and performance slipped; others seemed rattled.

Now, managers are expected to extol staffers’ strengths during reviews and check-ins, explaining how the person can use his or her talents to tackle aspects of the job that come less naturally. Bosses[some may be unqualified] are advised to mention no more than one or two areas that require development. Just a though.

He's history-Brian Williams

NBC executives have not publicly defended Williams, fueling media speculation that his job may be in jeopardy. Williams may not wanted such public show of support, fearing it would appear to be the kiss of death.

The new research came as NBC tried to decide whether Mr. Williams can continue as anchor and managing editor of its evening news broadcast. The network’s internal investigation was underway contacting other staff members who have worked with Mr. Williams as well as soldiers involved in the Iraq helicopter incident.

Brian Williams decided on his own to step aside from his NBC newscast for several days and was under no pressure to do so by network executives, a person familiar with the situation says.

By announcing a leave of absence for "several days," Brian Williams started a ticking clock that will end with his return to the "NBC Nightly News" anchor chair.    Unless he doesn't return.

For NBC, the decision is about more than journalistic ethics. It is also about business and trust in the network. For me the Trust in the anchor and the Network is the most crucial. We already got enough fake reporting.

Just a thought.

Sports, is it?

For the second year in a raw I am disappointed at Sports Illustrated choices. It seems that SI is moving into Play Boy territories.

 Just a thought.

New Era?... Naaaa

Sen. Ted Cruz blasted President Obama's economic policy, claiming that the economy has only improved for the rich.

"The top 1 percent under President Obama, the millionaires and billionaires that he constantly demagogued, earned a higher share for our income than any year since 1928," 

Cruz said that the middle class has not seen the same boost as the rich.
"Hardworking men and women across America are hurting. "I'm glad President Obama and Hillary Clinton have discovered income inequality because it’s increased dramatically under their failed policies."

Mitch McConnell said that the economic recovery touted by Obama has only helped the wealthy.

Jeb Bush's speech before the Detroit Economic Club was the highest-profile example to date of a Republican presidential hopeful embracing economic inequality and middle-class stagnation as problems that define America.

In 2009, Bush left the WH while unemployment 10.7%, two Wars, and the collapse of US economy.  Let us see what the New-Old Republicans do to the Middle class. Let us pray.

Just a thought.

Kayla Mueller

In the few years since graduating from university, Kayla Mueller had come a long way from her American home in Arizona. The 26-year-old had moved to a Turkish town on the Syrian border, and was doing everything to help civilians whose lives had been destroyed in the neighbouring country's war.

 

She had a generous and adventurous spirit. Since graduating from Northern Arizona University in 2009 she had backpacked in different parts of the world. She had spent time in Egypt and volunteered in Africa.   

She is a sweet and gentle girl. She laughed easily and was extremely caring for others. The name she chose for her blog, 'imbued with hope' was perfectly fitting to her character.
She began volunteering with every aid agency she could. In the space of a few short months, her enthusiasm and talent had gotten her access to some of the most respected aid agencies, including the Danish Refugee Council.

She was always looking to do more. She was working with a local Turkish NGO to create a community centre in Kilis, a town on the Syrian border home to one of Turkey's biggest refugee camps.

Say a prayer for her. Just a thought. 

BadAss...

Horner [15 years old] is the first person in history to be charged with  ‘swatting‘, a trend in which a person anonymously files a false police report, such as a murder or bomb threat, in hopes of provoking the police to raid an individual’s home or business. Prosecutors in the case proved that Horner called in multiple false threats against rival online gamers, resulting in SWAT team raids of their residence.

Defense lawyers told the courtroom that Horner, who goes by the gamertag BadAssDwg69, was upset after being repeatedly beaten by a fellow gamer at Battlefield 4. After obtaining the rival gamers information, prosecutors say Horner called police and reported a murder/hostage situation at the home. SWAT team then raided the house, shooting and critically injuring the “Livestreamer’s” father in the process.

Horner was charged as an adult. Horner’s guilty charge stems from two counts of domestic terrorism, related to his manipulation of an enforcement response, and injuries to innocents resulting from those actions.  He was sentenced to 25 years to life in federal prison.

Shameless Brian

  

Brian Williams had been telling a story that wasn't true, and the episode evolved over the years, with his personal involvement gradually growing more perilous. In a 2003 was described as "a close call in the skies over Iraq," Mr. Williams said, "the Chinook ahead of us was almost blown out of the sky."

In 2013, He told David Letterman that he had actually been on the helicopter that got shot down, adding that a crew member had been injured and received a medal. "We figured out how to land safely, we landed very quickly and hard. We were stuck, four birds in the desert and we were north out ahead of the other Americans."
On the "Nightly News" recently, he described "a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an R.P.G.,"

The current controversy erupted after he spoke about it on air during a tribute to a retired soldier. Some veterans took to Facebook to complain.
A host of military veterans and pundits came forward on television and social media, challenging Mr. Williams's assertion that he had simply made a mistake when he spoke, on several occasions, about having been in a United States military helicopter forced down by enemy fire in Iraq in 2003. 

In fact, some of the soldiers present in Iraq that day had been quietly fuming about Mr. Williams's reporting for years, and had even tried to alert the news media to it earlier. Joe Summerlin, who was on the helicopter that was forced down, said in an interview that he and some of his fellow crew watched Mr. Williams's initial story and were angered by his characterization of the events.
                
Mr. Williams apologized and said that he had been on a different helicopter, behind the one that had sustained fire, and that he had inadvertently "conflated" the two. 
 On CNN's "New Day," Chris Cuomo said that attributing the lie to "the fog of war" wasn't acceptable and the Internet would "eat him alive." Rem Rieder, a USA Today media columnist, wrote, "It's hard to see how Williams gets past this, and how he survives as the face of NBC News."

Those who faked the story and created the Fiction must be immediately removed.    Just a thought