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1. Is a good coach

Rather than solve every problem as soon as it arises, the best managers use problems as teaching moments.

They guide their teams and share insights when needed. This allows their team to gain valuable experience and grow.

2. Empowers team and does not micromanage

"I love to be micromanaged," said no employee, ever.

In contrast, great managers give their people the freedom they crave: freedom to explore their ideas, to take (smart) risks, and to make mistakes. They also provide the physical tools their people need, and allow for flexible schedules and working environments.

3. Creates an inclusive team environment, showing concern for success and well-being

In another research project, Google discovered that the single greatest key to a team's performance was creating a "psychologically safe" environment.

As Google puts it:

In a team with high psychological safety, teammates feel safe to take risks around their team members. They feel confident that no one on the team will embarrass or punish anyone else for admitting a mistake, asking a question, or offering a new idea.

In other words, great teams thrive on trust — and great managers help build that trust.

4. Is productive and results-oriented

The best managers are more than star players — they make their teammates better, too.

They do so by setting the right example and getting down and dirty whenever necessary. They're not afraid to roll up their sleeves and help out, and that motivates their team.

5. Is a good communicator — listens and shares information

The best managers are great listeners. This helps them to better understand their teams, and show appropriate empathy.

Additionally, good managers realize knowledge is power. That's why they are transparent and willing to share information with their teams, so their people know the "why" behind the "what."

6. Supports career development and discusses performance

Great managers encourage their people by sharing sincere and specific praise. But they aren't afraid to share critical feedback, too — making sure to frame it in a way that is both tactful and constructive.

They also invest in their people by helping them reach their personal career goals. By doing so, they naturally motivate their teams to give back.

7. Has a clear vision/strategy for the team

Great managers know exactly where the team is right now, where they are headed, and what they need to do to get there. Through good communication, they help keep the team on track.

They also make sure each team member understands their individual role in executing that strategy.

8. Has key technical skills to help advise the team

Great managers understand the jobs of their people, including their everyday tasks and challenges.

If the manager is moved into a new department, he or she will take time to get to know how things are done, and work to build trust before making drastic changes or offering advice.

9. Collaborates effectively

Bad managers view their team as a silo, working against or even sabotaging other teams within the same company.

In contrast, great managers see the big picture. They work for the good of the company as a whole, and encourage their teams to do the same.

10. Is a strong decision-maker

Great managers aren't impulsive, but they are decisive. After getting to know the facts and considering the thoughts and perspectives of their teams, they move things forward — even if that requires making a decision not everyone will approve of.

Then, they commit to those decisions.

The Classic 클래식 movie OST (song) korean

 After completing his National Service duration of two and a half years, Takalah proceeded to do Mechanical Engineering Degree at National University of Singapore.

It is indisputable at that time for one to state that pursuit for thrill is a integral part of Takalah’s life. The quest for thrill seems not to evade Takalah till 24th May 1994.

Takalah encountered a calamity and was plunged into the deepest pit of tragedy. Takalah Tan clinched a job in a coveted company; where out of seven thousand applicants, only Takalah and another were chosen.

As part of the employment terms, he was to be issued a car for mobility purposes. Sadly, just a week before Takalah was to start his career in this coveted Multi-National-Company, he met with a tragic motorbike accident.

 He never thought riding motorbike is that dangerous but the uncalled-for happened. Takalah Tan now knows the truth but it is too late. Just sent to hospital by a Civil Defence Ambulance. In fear that neck movements may aggravate possible prevailing spinal injury, Takalah Tan’s neck was fixated by the attachment of an orange circumferential frame on it.

The accident broke his right leg, dislocated his left shoulder, blinded his left eye, tore away his left-nose, broke his skull (liquid around his brain leaked dry) and had blood clots in his brain which resulted in brain injury. His tragedy prompted his dad to postpone his heart-bypass operation.

Just two weeks before Takalah discharged from NUH, his dad was struck by a fatal cardiac seizure. Upon regaining his consciousness, conscience prick the brain injured Takalah to feel accountable for his dad’s death. Having been the primary cause for such a great sense of hopeless despair in his family, Takalah had little to fend himself with when the family members harshly scolded him for not following their instructions prescribed during the process of his recovery.

The strict treatment and negative feedbacks aplenty from loved ones and peers indeed saddened and disturbed Takalah. To make matters worse, Takalah was thrown into solitude. Due to his brain injury, Takalah could not remember his associative relationship with the many who visits him to care for him. The infliction of permanent amnesia on Takalah has greatly widened the rift between Takalah and peers. Takalah Tan’s memory recall and retention handicap has resulted in his loss of close relationships with many friends. His good chemistry with close-ones has been badly corrupted by Post Traumatic Brain Injury handicaps.

假如爱有天意 - 李健

tragedy

A woman, who once expressed unhappiness over her husband’s wish for a divorce, stabbed him to death in their home in front of their teenage daughter before taking her own life.

The woman was armed with knives in both hands as she mounted the deadly attack in the girl’s bedroom, fending off attempts by their distraught daughter to stop her.

The Filipino nationals cannot be named due to a court order to protect the girl’s identity.

When the tragedy unfolded in the wee hours of May 1 last year, the couple had been married for more than 10 years. The 36-year-old man arrived in Singapore to work in 2006, and his wife and daughter followed two years later.

The girl testified during the coroner’s inquiry in the State Courts that because her father often worked late, her mother would get upset over his absence at home.

In April last year, her mother told her that they were having relationship problems, and that he had asked for a separation after an argument. He insisted on a divorce later as he did not want his wife to call him every day, and wished she would be more understanding of his work schedule.

His colleagues confirmed that he wished to have a divorce, and also said that he thought of moving to Canada to meet a friend he had met on an online gaming platform.

A forensic examination of his laptop revealed that he had searched online about visas and temporary residency in Canada.

Two weeks before the incident, the woman had sat on the kitchen floor holding a knife to her wrist. Her husband and daughter managed to persuade her to put the weapon down.

On the fateful day, she sent her sister a text message telling her not to pick up her husband’s calls, adding that she was talking to him and his family about legal matters.

At about 5.30am, the teenager was awoken by her father’s screams. She said that she heard him say: “Why you lie to me?”, before he stumbled into her room with blood on his leg.

Her mother followed him, stabbing him with one knife each in her hands. When the girl tried to stop the attack, her mother shook her off.

The girl shouted that she was calling the police, but the woman replied that she could go ahead.

As the girl was speaking to the police operator, her mother managed to fend off his defences and stab him in the stomach. The woman then sat against the wall and began cutting her wrists.

The man went to sit on the couch in the living room and try to stop the bleeding, and the woman then walked to the balcony and put a leg up on the ledge.

When her daughter tried to pull her away, she repeatedly mumbled: “I love you”, then ran into the master bedroom and locked it.

As the girl went to tend to her father, she heard a thudding sound. Police officers eventually found the woman lying on the balcony of a second-storey unit of the condominium they lived in. She was pronounced dead soon after. The husband was pronounced dead in hospital about eight hours after the incident.

Just before this, she had sent a voice message to her close friend, asking her to take care of her daughter for her.

The girl stated that she did not hear what her parents were quarrelling about that day, and that she believed her mother loved her father.

Horns are growing on young people's skulls, and phone use is to blame, research suggests

 Mobile technology has transformed the way we live - how we read, work, communicate, shop and date. But we already know this.

What we have not yet grasped is the way the tiny machines in front of us are remoulding our skeletons, possibly altering not just the behaviours we exhibit but the bodies we inhabit.

New research in biomechanics suggests that young people are developing hornlike spikes at the back of their skulls - bone spurs caused by the forward tilt of the head, which shifts weight from the spine to the muscles at the back of the head, causing bone growth in the connecting tendons and ligaments.

Dengue Fever - Symptoms

​What Are The Symptoms And Signs of Dengue Fever?

The usual symptoms experienced are:

• Fever
• Headache
• Muscle and joint aches
• Rash - different types of rash, may be itchy and appears a few days after the onset of fever
• Bleeding tendency - from nose, gums, and other parts of the body due to low platelets; platelets are one of the blood components, which help to clot and prevent excessive bleeding. Normal platelets levels are 150,000 - 450,000 per ml.
• Bruises from minor knocks and bumps

Sometimes, dengue infection can present in the more serious form, known as Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) or Dengue Shock Syndrome (DSS), whereby serious complications can occur, resulting in:

• Widespread bleeding
• Low blood pressure / shock due to bleeding or leaking blood vessels
• Organ failure
• The risk of dying from dengue complications is very low; less than 1-5% if supportive treatment is given ea

t all started with a goat. The unfortunate animal was born in the Netherlands in the spring of 1939 – and his prospects did not look good. On the left side of his body, a bare patch of fur marked the spot where his front leg should have been. On the right, his front leg was so deformed, it was more of a stump with a hoof. Walking on all fours was going to be, let’s say, problematic.

But when he was three months old, the little goat was adopted by a veterinary institute and moved to a grassy field. There he quickly improvised his own peculiar style of getting around. Pushing his back feet forwards, he would draw himself up until he was standing half-upright on his hind legs, and jump. The end result was somewhere between the hop of a kangaroo and a hare, though presumably not quite as majestic.

Sadly the plucky goat was involved in an accident soon after his first birthday, and he died. But there was one final surprise lurking in his skeleton.

For centuries, scientists had thought that our bones were fixed – that they grow in a predictable way, according to instructions inherited from our parents. But when a Dutch anatomist investigated the goat’s skeleton, they found that he had begun to adapt. The bones in his hips and legs were thicker than you would expect, while the ones in his ankles had been stretched out. Finally his toes and hips were abnormally angled, to accommodate a more upright posture. The goat’s frame had started to look a lot like those of animals which hop.

Today it’s an established fact that our skeletons are surprisingly malleable. The pure white remains displayed in museums may seem solid and inert, but the bones beneath our flesh are very much alive – they’re actually pink with blood vessels – and they’re constantly being broken down and rebuilt. So although each person’s skeleton develops according to a rough template set out in their DNA, it is then tailored to accommodate the unique stresses of their life.

“I have been a clinician for 20 years, and only in the last decade, increasingly I have been discovering that my patients have this growth on the skull,” says David Shahar, a health scientist at the University of The Sunshine Coast, Australia.

The spike-like feature, also known as the “external occipital protuberance” is found at the lower back of the skull, just above the neck. If you have one, it’s likely that you will be able to feel it with your fingers – or if you’re bald, it may even be visible from behind.

Until recently, this type of growth was thought to be extremely rare. In 1885, when the spike was first investigated, the renowned French scientist Paul Broca complained that it even had a name at all. “He didn’t like it because he had studied so many specimens, and he hadn’t really seen any which had it.”

Feeling that something might be up, Shahar decided to investigate. Together with his colleague, he analysed over a thousand X-rays of skulls from people ranging from 18 to 86 years old. They measured any spikes and noted what each participant’s posture was like.

What the scientists found was striking. The spike was far more prevalent than they had expected, and also a lot more common in the youngest age group: one in four people aged 18-30 had the growth. Why could this be? And should we be concerned?

Shahar thinks the spike explosion is down to modern technology, particularly our recent obsession with smartphones and tablets. As we hunch over them, we crane our necks and hold our heads forward. This is problematic, because the average head weighs around 10 pounds (4.5 kg) – about as much as a large watermelon.

Two fires involving personal mobility devices (PMDs) broke out in residential units on Saturday (June 8).

In a Facebook post on Saturday, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said that they responded to two fires in Ang Mo Kio and Marine Terrace.

One of the fires was reported at around 5.35pm at a 13th-floor flat at Block 52 Marine Terrace. It involved a PMD in the kitchen and was extinguished by the resident with buckets of water.

The resident suffered burns and was taken to Singapore General Hospital.

The SCDF was alerted to the other fire at a flat on the sixth floor of Block 301 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3 at 10.45am.

The fire, which involved a PMD battery, broke out in a bedroom and was extinguished by SCDF officers using two compressed air foam backpacks. There were no reported injuries.

Former City Harvest Church (CHC) leader Tan Ye Peng, who was jailed for his role in the largest case of misuse of charitable funds in Singapore's history, has been released from prison.

The Singapore Prison Service confirmed with The Straits Times on Saturday (June 8) that Mr Tan, 46, was released from custody on June 1 after taking remission into account.

 He started his sentence on April 21, 2017.

Inmates are typically given one-third remission of their jail terms for good behaviour.

He is the fourth of six former CHC leaders to complete his sentence, with church founder Kong Hee and former fund manager Chew Eng Han still in jail

The Cambodian-Vietnamese War took place in the 1970s and was between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and Democratic Kampuchea. However, the events have been forgotten by the rest of the world in comparison with the more widely known Vietnam War. Here are seven facts not known about the Cambodian-Vietnamese War.

However, the events have been forgotten by the rest of the world in comparison with the more widely known Vietnam War. Here are seven less well-known facts about the Cambodian-Vietnamese War.

1.

The War started because Cambodia repeatedly invaded Vietnam, attempting to retake the Mekong River Delta. The country felt the area belonged to them and continuously raided Vietnamese areas on the border. Also, the Cambodian troops exterminated the Vietnamese living within Cambodia.

The defining moment, however, came when the Khmer Rouge raided Ba Chuc and killed more than 3,000 Vietnamese. The massacre is still deeply felt today, and visitors can see memorials to the victims.

2.

The Cambodians leader at the time was a man considered to be one of the world’s cruelest leaders, Pol Pot. He was a dictator who caused the deaths of about 25 percent of the Cambodian population, or as many as three million people over the course of four years. The deaths were caused by a combination of executions, forced labor, and malnutrition.

3.

China supported Pol Pot’s reign and invaded Vietnam in response to the conflict, in 1979. However, the Vietnamese army was able to force them back across their border. The Chinese also were unable to force Vietnam away from Cambodia. During all this, the Vietnamese thought they would be supported by the Soviet Union. However, the Soviet Union did not oblige.

4.

Pol Pot’s troops remained active for 15 years afterward, staying on the border of Thailand and Cambodia. They were able to do so thanks to financial assistance from China and political tolerance from Thailand.

5.

Vietnam received a lot of criticism for its invasion of Cambodia, by not only China but also the United States. They also received criticism for allowing Vietnamese troops to stay within Cambodia for what was thought to be longer than necessary (1989). However, this has been compared to US forces remaining in the Middle East for extended periods of time.

6.

The Vietnamese were not the saviors of the Cambodian people who were suffering under Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge. Helping the citizens of Cambodia was never the primary goal of the Vietnamese. Rather, they were worried that Pol Pot would get too close to China, allowing the Chinese additional access into Vietnam.

7.

The Vietnamese soldiers who fought in the Cambodian-Vietnamese War did not receive much recognition when they returned home from the front. The Vietnamese press and government, however, made an enormous amount out of their involvement in the conflict with the French and the US.

This conflict was different, and many Vietnamese soldiers felt they did not receive their due honor

Over the years, the small Vermilion Heritage Museum in Alberta, Canada, tried everything in its power to unlock an old safe tucked away in its basement.

The museum hired blacksmiths, called the manufacturer, contacted former employees and challenged guests to play around with the safe — but nobody had any success.

Until last month, when a visitor to Vermilion cracked the code on his first try, much to the astonishment of everyone present.

Stephen Mills, from Fort McMurray, Alberta, was on a family camping trip with his wife, his two children and his father-in-law.

"We wanted to check out what the community has to offer," said Mills. "The museum was actually closed on the day we were there, but we managed to track down one of the volunteers, Tom Kibblewhite, who opened it for us and showed us around."

After giving the Mills' family a tour of the whole building, the volunteer proceeded to show them the objects in the basement, including the mysterious safe.

It originally had belonged to the town's Brunswick Hotel which opened in the early 1900s, Kibblewhite said. When the hotel shut down, in the late 1970s, the safe was locked — and so it had remained.

"It was like a time capsule, nobody had any idea of what was in there," Mills said.

Like other visitors, Mills was offered the chance to take a crack at opening it.

So he put his ear up to the safe, "just like you see in the movies," he said, as his two children, aged 4 and 6, stood next to him.

"I looked at the dial and I saw the numbers were running from 0 to 60. So I thought in my head 20-40-60. I did a particular combination which is three on the right, two on the left, and 1 on the right, tried the handle ... and it opened!"

"It was a 100% guess," he said. "I was fully amazed. I stepped back a little bit and thought 'I'm buying a lottery ticket tonight!'"

The contents of the safe proved a little disappointing.

"Unfortunately there wasn't what we thought was there," Mills said. "Some papers, old checks, a waitress' notepad, and a receipt from the hotel, that's it."

All the papers dated back to 1977-8, Mills said.

Nonetheless, Mills said everyone was pretty excited about the lucky guess. "My children kept screaming 'we beat the code! We beat the code!'" he said.

A 6-year-old girl was found dead at the ground floor of an Ang Mo Kio Housing Board flat on Tuesday (June 4).

She is believed to have fallen from height.

The police said that they were alerted to a case of unnatural death at Block 637 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6 at 5.38pm.

A girl was found lying motionless at the foot of the block and was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene.

it is reported that the girl had fallen from the 11th storey.

Police are investigating the incident.

A domestic helper who works at an opposite block, told that at around 3pm, she saw a girl standing at the kitchen window shouting: "Daddy, daddy!"

The 53-year-old said that the girl was crying for about 10 minutes before moving away from the window.

About an hour later, the girl appeared again at the window crying loudly for her father, said the domestic helper.

The cries were heard again after 5pm when she was cooking dinner but this time she also heard a loud sound, and the cries suddenly stopped, added the domestic helper.

When she looked out of the window, the girl was lying motionless on the ground.

She immediately told her employer to call the police.

it is reported that around 6pm, a woman who looked to be in her 50s appeared at the scene and starting crying.

The mother of a six-year-old girl, who was alone at home and died after falling from a kitchen window on the 11th floor, has said she regrets not locking the windows before leaving the house or calling home to check on her daughter.

The mother would usually drop off the girl at a childcare centre but on that day, she did not do so as the centre was open for only half a day

colleague advised her to hand over

A 30-year-old woman went on a 16-day spending spree, racking up S$455.72 in purchases of groceries, clothes and food with a credit card she had found in a female toilet at Jurong East Mall.

But her spree came to a halt on Dec 4 last year when she tried to buy a S$3.20 burger at a 7-Eleven store using the credit card.

The transaction was declined and Loke was subsequently arrested two weeks later.

On Monday (June 3), she pleaded guilty to one charge of dishonest misappropriation and another charge under the Computer Misuse Act. She was also convicted of six charges of cheating.

To test if the credit card was still working, she charged a single cent to it when she returned to her workplace, the restaurant, before voiding the transaction.

A colleague advised her to hand over the credit card to someone from OCBC Bank, which had a branch in the basement, but she had other ideas.

Lawyer  sought a fine of not more than S$1,000.

He said in mitigation that although his client was not facing any financial difficulty, she was not from a rich family either and “barely makes enough”.

the woman, who has a 21-month-old daughter, was her family’s sole breadwinner as her husband was unemployed, he added. Her  mother-in-law also suffers from diabetes and kidney failure.

“She is not saying she should not be punished. But at the same time, she has no (past criminal) record and has been a law abiding citizen till now.”

“She did not steal the card, she picked it up. It’s a lapse of judgement,” said the lawyer, who asked the court to “temper justice with mercy”

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