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LONDON (AP) — “Is there anyone in our audience tonight who owes their life to Nicholas Winton?” asked the presenter of the popular BBC magazine program “That’s Life”. Around the elderly man, sitting with his wife in the front row of the audience, more than 30 people got to their feet. The man stood to acknowledge them, wiping tears from his eyes. It was 1988, some 50 years since young stockbroker Nicholas Winton found himself in Prague as the Nazis marched on Czechoslovakia and all around him Jewish parents

Source: Winton’s rescue of Jewish children revealed after 50 years – Yahoo News Singapore
 
 
 
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Watching the Binay patriarch and Senator Nancy rush to the side of Mayor Junjun, not just to lend moral support but also to assail the legitimacy of an order from an independent office of the judicial branch, gives us a glimpse of what things could be like under a Binay presidency. The law would take a backseat to politics. The political would be reduced to the personal.

Source: Glimpses of a Binay presidency | Inquirer Opinion

The World Health Organisation has confirmed that Cuba has become the first country in the world to effectively eliminate mother-to-baby transmission of HIV and syphilis.”[This is] one of the greatest public health achievements possible,” WHO director general, Margaret Chan, told the press. And the best part is that it was brought about by relatively simple strategies: namely, better testing and treatment of expectant parents, and providing HIV- and syphilis-positive mothers with options to protect their babies, such as bottle-feeding and C-sections.

Source: Cuba has just eliminated HIV transmission between mother and baby – ScienceAlert

Although one of the 5 founding members of ASEAN, the Philippines has never been a leader of the regional grouping. In part it was due to dictatorial reign of Ferdinand Marcos, which transformed a vibrant economy and democracy into a backwater. Its democratic transition in the mid-80s to 1990s did not overcome its reputation as the “sickman” of Asia. Indeed, its democracy was often used by authoritarian governments within ASEAN as justification for their “enlightened authoritarianism.”

Source: The moral compass of ASEAN

But more broadly, the arbitrariness of the workweek—and the American obsession with how many hours it contains—underlines an important truth about the nature of work: Because an individual’s contribution to a company can be hard to measure, everyone seizes upon time spent working (an easily measurable data point) as a proxy for how much work is actually getting done. In other words, workers’ output can require so much effort to assess thoughtfully that companies focus unduly on bulking up the input—whether that makes workers happy or not.

Source: Why Can’t There Be a Four-Day Workweek? – The Atlantic

In April of 2010, five police officers put Michael Kingsley face down on a cement bunk in a holding cell, shocked him with a stun gun for five seconds, then left him alone, writhing in pain with his hands cuffed behind his back, for 15 minutes. Kingsley sued the officers, claiming they violated his constitutional rights by using excessive force. He lost.On Monday, the Supreme Court gave Kingsley a second chance, ruling that the trial court gave the jury bad instructions. In a narrow sense, the decision turns on a technical question of intent. In a broader sense, though, the ruling is a blast of good news for opponents of police brutality—an emphatic declaration that the Constitution bars police from beating and abusing suspects in custody.

Source: Supreme Court Kingsley v. Hendrickson: A new protection against police abuse.
 
Bravo. Whoever argued this in ths US SC slow clap!!!

OverviewFeatures include:connect to a single server, a replica set, or a MongoS instanceDB ops: create, drop, authenticate, command, eval, …Collection ops: create, rename, drop, find, insert, save, …Document ops: update, duplicate, remove, …Index ops: create, drop, …Shard ops: enable sharding, add shard, shard collection, …GUI Document builderImport / Export data from database to local files in JSON, BSON, CSV format.Support for query options and write concerns (getLastError)Display of numerous stats (server status, db stats, replication info, etc)Mongo tree refreshes to have a real time view of cluster (servers up/down, durability, etc)All operations are executed in background to keep UI responsiveBackground threads can repeat commands automaticallyGUI is identical on all OSOnce GUI is up, just click file/connect and point it to MongoDB servers.

Source: AG’s site / EdgyTech » UMongo
I was looking for a GUI mongoDb and found this!

Yes, we are divided. I am dispensing with the feel-good talk. The other side is battling for their team: older, whiter, more affluent, more married, and more rural. I’ll battle just as hard for my team: younger, more diverse, less affluent, unmarried, and more urban. A vote for me isn’t a vote for ‘unity.’ It’s a vote to claim a larger piece of the nation’s dwindling resources from people you don’t like and who don’t like you. They don’t like me either, but following Franklin Delano Roosevelt, rather than my oversensitive former boss, I don’t care.

Source: Hillary Clinton’s Fighting Speech – The Atlantic
 
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Here’s the thing about life: we only have one shot at it. We’ve only got one chance to build a life that’s going to make us happy.We have every right to go for whatever we want: meaningful job, fame, fortune, glory, whatever. But, if we’re not happy in the process, it sounds a lot more like we’re doing it for someone else rather than for ourselves.If success is just a vehicle to happiness, then it seems just a tad bit inefficient to get miserable on your way to success.So let’s flip the equation. Let’s try something radical. Let’s take back control and actually define success for ourselves. Then, at least we know if we’re getting close or totally missing the mark.It’s your life. You get to make the rules. You get to decide what’s going to make you happy.

Source: What It REALLY Means To Be Successful (And How We Got It All Wrong) – mindbodygreen.com
My issue with a lot of self help pips from my country is that they have a habit of thinking they define success. Some people love going to work or at least try to fashion their work to something they love. As if retirement/vacations/fun is all that matters.
I love living in the moment and if I say that being in flow is living in the moment for me then live and let live.

The five-year itch at the workplace—it’s real. Hitting the half-decade mark at the same job seems to be an inflection point, a milestone that causes so many of us to reflect about what we’ve accomplished, whether we’re truly appreciated, how we can get ahead… or if there’s a reason to stay.A report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms these feelings. Taking slices of data over the last 32 years, the BLS has shown the median tenure with a current employer has remained pretty much the same—roughly five years, even during four recessions, when you’d expect the length of tenure to rise. That number has been particularly consistent among people 25 years and older: five years of tenure in 1983, compared with five and a half in 2014.

Source: Know the 5-Year Job Itch? You Can Fight It | SUCCESS