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We rate the drivers for their performance at a scintillating, and controversial, Belgian Grand Prix at Spa Francorchamps
1 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull-Renault | Q: 3rd | R: 5th | 7/10
Vettel's underwhelming title defence took another turn for the worse in practice when a burnt exhaust led to him sitting out the second session as a precaution. Nonetheless, he excelled in wet conditions to line up a fine third on the grid. He challenged Hamilton for the lead of the race at the start but went off and from there he never had the pace of Ricciardo. Fifth was a poor reward for what the weekend promised.
3 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull-Renault | Q: 5th | R: 1st | 10/10
Ricciardo naturally expected Red Bull to struggle and that appeared to be the case throughout practice, with the Australian hampered by a brake issue. Fifth on the grid was a good effort, although he was caught out at Blanchimont. But in the race he drove with gusto and sliced into the lead, which he maintained. Once again Mercedes slipped up and once again he was there to pick up the pieces.
44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | Q: 2nd | R: Ret | 6/10
Hamilton's qualifying travails continued as a glazed brake cost him performance and he had to settle for second, behind Rosberg. He took the lead at the start but Rosberg's misjudgement gave him a puncture and meant he had to go almost a whole lap at a slow pace. He lost '40 to 50' points of downforce, meaning that even if there was a Safety Car, he'd have had no chance of points.
6 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | Q: 1st | R: 2nd | 6/10
Rosberg claimed his fourth successive pole position of the current campaign after edging out Hamilton in qualifying. He made a poor start but profited from Vettel's error and had a go at Hamilton. He messed up, but he got lucky. Debris got caught in his antenna but it had little effect as he drove on to second place. Sometimes champions get lucky…
14 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | Q: 4th | R: 7th | 8/10
Alonso was one of few drivers capable of taking it to the Mercedes drivers across the weekend and fourth place in qualifying merited a fine effort. But his race was compromised by his five second penalty due to his mechanics still tending to the car at the 15 second mark. That dropped him into traffic, while Kevin Magnussen's tactics and hitting Vettel dropped him to eighth.
7 | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | Q: 8th | R: 4th | 9/10
Räikkönen was closer to the front than previously in 2014 although eighth place in qualifying was lower than he might have been. But in the race he gradually claimed positions and an early stop enabled him to emerge as Ricciardo's closest challenger. This slightly offset him and ultimately he was beaten by faster cars; fourth a very good result in a difficult car.
8 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus-Renault | Q: 15th | R: Ret | 5/10
Grosjean was a driver who aimed to profit from wet qualifying conditions but he looked uncomfortable under braking and spun at La Source. At the start he his Bianchi and then collected debris which ruined what little performance the car had in the first place.
13 | Pastor Maldonado | Lotus-Renault | Q: 17th | R: Ret | 3/10
Maldonado was able to save a slide through Eau Rouge yet exiting no-name corner presented itself with a sterner challenge, oddly. Spin at Bus Stop compromised his qualifying effort. His race lasted only a lap due to XXX. A thoroughly miserable weekend.
22 | Jenson Button | McLaren-Mercedes | Q: 10th | R: 6th | 7/10
Button played what he called the 'long game' as he extended the life of his tyres and reaped the rewards towards the end of the race. Unfortunately he was edged out by McLaren team-mate Kevin Magnussen and as a result lost a position to Vettel. Nonetheless, sixth was a fine effort.
20 | Kevin Magnussen | McLaren-Mercedes | Q: 7th | R: 12th | 6/10
Magnussen put on one of his best showings of the season at Spa but his defensive driving against Alonso left a lot to be desired. No-one wants easy passes, but equally Magnussen moved twice (on more than one occasion) and then put the Spaniard onto the grass. He was also given two penalty points for his actions.
27 | Nico Hülkenberg | Force India-Mercedes | Q: 18th | R: 10th | 5/10
Hülkenberg struggled for confidence under braking in wet conditions and as a result condemned himself to one of the worst qualifying results of his career. It pretty much scuppered his weekend as while he had pace, he became stuck in the train of DRS-ed cars and this hurt his tyre wear.
11 | Sergio Pérez | Force India-Mercedes | Q: 13th| R: 8th | 7/10
While chaos reigned around him, Pérez managed to stay out of the scraps and have quite an easy drive to ninth position. It wasn't the most standout performance of his career, but after a couple of below-par races it was a welcome return to form.
99 | Adrian Sutil | Sauber-Ferrari | Q: 14th| R: 14th | 6/10
Sutil was typically feisty as he dragged his Sauber into Q2, although further progression was impossible. He raced in his typical position in the race but ironically it was Massa's Williams which ruined his race; the Williams was slow around the corners but so quick on the straights that Sutil was stuck.
21 | Esteban Gutiérrez | Sauber-Ferrari | Q: 20th | R: 15th | 6/10
Gutiérrez lost a heap of running in practice through dint of having to give up FP1 to Giedo van der Garde and consequently having his car exit stage left at Blanchimont in FP2. The car gave up again in Q1, rendering Gutiérrez to a lowly grid slot. From 20th he ultimately had no chance of points, although pace on Primes really hurt him.
25 | Jean-Éric Vergne | Toro Rosso-Renault | Q: 12th | R: 11th | 5/10
Vergne was rapid in Q1 but he remained in the garage for the first half of Q2 due to an exhaust issue and as a result was unable to finish higher than 12th. He slipped back at the start and from there he was helpless to progress due to straight line speed. Being stuck in traffic exacerbated tyre wear. A frustrating afternoon.
26 | Daniil Kvyat | Toro Rosso-Renault | Q: 11th | R: 9th | 7/10
Kvyat had one of the more peculiar moments of the weekend when he gesticulated furiously after being knocked out in Q2 and spun (both hands on the wheel, Daniil). But in the race he performed well and managed to hold off Hülkenberg during the closing stages, despite the Force India driver being on fresh Options.
19 | Felipe Massa | Williams-Mercedes | Q: 9th | R: 13th | 6/10
Massa expected to be higher up the grid although a combination of wet weather and traffic in Q3 rendered him to the lower reaches of the top 10. Unfortunately for him in the race he ran over debris, thought to come from Hamilton's car, and that ruined his performance. Without that, fourth was possible.
77 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams-Mercedes | Q: 6th| R: 3rd | 9/10
Wet weather in qualifying meant that sixth was the best Bottas could do but from there he was one of the few frontrunners to stay out of trouble and he drove with aplomb, albeit after a poor start. Pass on Vettel around the outside of Les Combes; pass on Räikkönen felt like a changing of the guard.
17 | Jules Bianchi | Marussia-Ferrari | Q: 16th | R: Ret | 7/10
Give a talented driver a sniff of an opportunity and he'll take it, as Bianchi did during wet conditions in Q1. But at the start he was clipped by Grosjean and that scuppered any hopes he had of a good result. From there he drove admirably but the damage was done. Gearbox woes ended his day early.
4 | Max Chilton | Marussia-Ferrari | Q: 19th | R: 16th | 5/10
After a peculiar Thursday in which Chilton 'voluntarily' stepped aside for Alexander Rossi, he voluntarily stepped back into the Marussia after first practice. He tried to get into Q2 but lost out on a final run due to a power problem, while in the race he passed Marcus Ericsson at the end to claim 16th.
45 | Andre Lotterer | Caterham-Renault | Q: 21st| R: Ret | 7/10
One of the most surprising driver moves in recent years, this. He fared well in qualifying, considering that he had little experience of the car in such conditions. Unfortunately his race came to an end after just two laps due to a sudden loss of power. It was nonetheless a fine debut weekend in difficult circumstances.
9 | Marcus Ericsson | Caterham-Renault | Q: 22nd| R: 17th | 5/10
Ericsson has not endured the best of seasons but even by his standards, the deficit to the capable but F1 inexperienced Lotterer was inexplicable. He fought Chilton across the duration of the race and while he passed him early on, he ultimately lost out to him by just over half a second.


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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether aggressive housing-code enforcement in the City of Saint Paul amounts to racial discrimination. The lawsuit flips the usual order of things, with landlords complaining that the city has violated the Fair Housing Act, instead of the other way around.
Magner v. Gallagher could have wider impact, however, because it forces the Court to dive into the tricky area of disparate treatment versus disparate impact in the area of housing. Disparate treatment, in a nutshell, is a policy that discriminates against minorities by design. Disparate impact is a policy that discriminates against minorities but without any evidence that discrimination was the intent of the people who designed it. If the numbers show a disparate impact, it's up to the defendant to prove there was a good reason for the policy and there wasn't another, less discriminatory way to achieve the same ends.
Lawyers around the country are ginning up suits based on the second theory against banks that are trying to foreclose on defaulted borrowers. The theory, as detailed in this post involving Emigrant Savings, is that low-doc/no-doc mortgages with teaser rates were aimed at minorities as a tool to strip them of their houses. (Never mind that banks lose money by foreclosing on houses; in lawyerland it's a viable theory that they actually want to seize the collateral for their loans.)
In the Saint Paul case, landlords argue the city stepped up enforcement of its housing codes, beyond the standards for federally subsidized housing, and that raised costs and lowered the availability of low-income housing. A trial court issued a summary judgment against the plaintiffs, but the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, saying the plaintiffs could proceed with a lawsuit over the alleged disparate impact of the enforcement effort.
It's hard to sympathize with the landlords in this case. Poor people deserve safe housing as much as anybody else, and it takes more than a little chutzpah to sue the city for racial discrimination when it is trying to improve the living conditions of minority residents. But the Eight Circuit bought the plaintiffs' argument that the city might have pushed things too far, citing evidence the head of the housing department "raised inspection
standards by directing ...inspectors to `code to the max,' that is, writing up every violation—not just what was called in—and writing up all the nearby properties—not just the reported properties."
Under the Eighth Circuit's approach, the plaintiffs merely had to show that the city's policy had a disparate impact on minorities, which it obviously did (for some reason the court didn't consider the disparate positive impact code enforcement can have on poor neighborhoods). That forced the city to show it was enforcing the codes for a proper reason. Then the plaintiffs had to show there was another, less costly way to approach the problem. They did that by citing an earlier code-enforcement effort called Problem Properties 2000, in which the city inspectors worked cooperatively with landlords to clean up code violations.
The appeals court rejected the city's argument that proper code enforcement will always increase the cost of being a landlord. Instead, the judges said there was "evidence that PP2000 generated a cooperative relationship with property owners, achieved greater code compliance, and resulted in less financial burdens on rental property owners."
The International Municipal Lawyers Association urged the court to take this case to resolve a split among the various circuits over whether the FHA even allows disparate-impact suits. The variety of approaches to determining whether housing discrimination has occurred has led to an "increasingly incoherent body of case law," the municipal attorneys said.
The Fourth Circuit, for example, rejected a case where plaintiffs claimed that converting a rental buildings to condominiums was racially discriminatory because it raised the price of housing. The court said "crudely stated, the (conversion) placed only one obstacle between a resident and the purchase of his or her unit: money." And the Tenth Circuit rejected a complaint that subdivision rules prevented the development of low-income housing.

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A Protective Diet, like life takes some planning. It is that key element that I am currently failing on. The first week was nothing short of amazing, but I have noticed once I fall behind, I struggle to catch up. While I would like to commit to a SUS, responsibilities around the house usually do not allow me hours upon hours to prep for the upcoming week. In a perfect world, it works, however perfect I am not, but continuing to walk the straight and narrow as I look to reacquire my health.
I started a meal planning Excel spreadsheet, which has assisted in planning out the week and what recipes I will make and what foods I will eat for each meal. Unfortunately, when it goes without an update, it's back to square one to prep and start again. While I had planned week 2, I was unable to follow through with all the recipes, skipping dinner one night and falling back on a meal I made previously.
As I look forward to week 3, I will need to put more effort into the meal planning in order to make this journey successful. As it stands right now, I have one meal I cooked last night, which will last for 2 days, beyond that. Nothing.
It seems to be a constant struggle if nothing is cooked or available, ready to eat. That goes back to SUS and having prepared food for the upcoming week. Consider it a deficiency I need to improve on, if I want to be successful. However, I was successful before this video even came out. Maybe it's just being lazy and not putting in an hour or two to prep some PD foods for the coming week. It was great to do a chipotle lime and pinto beans for my son, which I too, could partake. What made it even better was the fact I already had taco sauce and ultimate cheese sauce done and ready to go!
Just little steps help tremendously when it comes to following a PD lifestyle. That is the point of what Julie preaches. Make it easy and success will come. Right now, I appear to be tussling with success and I am attempting to make things more difficult on myself moving forward into week 3.
With one meal already cooked, I will work on putting together 2 weeks of meals, along with a shopping list in order to prepare for the upcoming meals I would like to prepare. All is not lost, I still feel better than I did last month, weight is slowly dropping. If I had food prepared I do think things would be accelerated. Since they are not, we will have to take things a day at a time and get the meals planned and prepped in order to be successful


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We broke the news of SydBIM's existence back in July and now we have the latest details on when the Sydney-based BIM events brand will host their first conference.
Inspired by popular names in Australia such as BrisBIM and MelBIM, the inaugural SydBIM will commence on Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 at the University of Technology Sydney.
Registration is now open for the event, with inspirational speaker Lee Crockett confirmed to be delivering the keynote. Also set in stone is the start time of 5:30pm, and grand opening sponsorship from A2K Technologies.
Confirming the launch event, the official SydBIM Twitter account tweeted us:
@BIMcrunch @Mel_BIM @sydsal @DJFoley10. We can confirm Sept 29 inaugural event. Inspirational @leecrockett speaking. Registration soon!
— SydBIM (@SydBIM) September 3, 2015
SydBIM's Chairman is Stephan Langella, BIM Manager at Atlas Industries. Helping him on the SydBIM committee include David Foley of Norman Disney & Young and Mitch Medway of BVN. The full committee working tirelessly on the launch can be found here.
On top of announcing their first conference, SydBIM also launched their website. Whilst in its early stages, it can be located at this link.
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The United States delegation to the Watford Group was busy with the preparations for the Brunel Awards in cooperation with C4IDT (Center for Industrial Design in Transportation), American Railroads Association AAR and International Union of Railways UIC.
Impressions from the conference will be published as soon as possible. Please come soon to read more detailed information.


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'Astounding' human chain of women
"They came like streams, joined to form rivers, merged in an ocean of humanity and progressive thinking."
Such was the sentiment from people who witnessed an amazing show of support for gender equality when women formed a human wall in Kerala, India, this week.
Arjun Ramakrishnan, who captured the beautiful display that's captivated the world in a series of tweets, thanked the "brave women" who "reinvigorated the whole state".
Their stand came after two women entered one of India's largest Hindu pilgrimage sites on Wednesday, sparking protests that saw police fire tear gas to disperse stone-throwing demonstrators who want to keep blocking women.
Women of menstruating age, between 10 and 50, had been banned from worshipping at Sabarimala temple informally for many years until it became law in 1972.
#VanithaMathil in the land of revolutions, Alappuzha. #WomensWall #OurRenaissance pic.twitter.com/ExfAECVRMX— Arjun Ramakrishnan (@aju000) January 1, 2019
The Supreme Court lifted the ban in September, but despite the ruling, demonstrators including Hindu priests and conservatives continued to stop women from entering the centuries-old temple.
It was the first time women defied traditionalists and entered one of Hinduism's holiest temples since the landmark court ruling, sparking protests and violence.
But in an amazing show of unity, women have since banded together to form a 620km human chain, organised by the state's left-wing coalition government.
Organisers originally estimated the turnout at about three million but later told BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi that five million women had gathered from the Kasaragod in the north to Thiruvanthapuram in the south.
Earlier videos showed the original protesters, 42-year-old women, Kanaka Durga and Bindu, who has only one name, wearing black tunics with their heads bowed as they rushed in to the temple with police help.
"We did not enter the shrine by climbing the 18 holy steps but went through the staff gate," one of the women later told reporters.
The surprise pre-dawn operation was heralded by activists but enraged conservative devotees, with police helping the women leave undetected.
Hindu traditionalists have been backed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party in preventing attempts by women to access the hilltop site.
As hardliners on the issue turned violent, police fired tear gas, stun grenades and water cannons as protests and clashes between the rival groups erupted across the southern state, with several officers injured.
As soon as news of the breach spread, the temple head priest ordered the shrine closed for a purification ritual. It reopened after about an hour.
Visuals of two women (Bindu and Kanaga Durga) at Sabarimala shrine earlier this morning pic.twitter.com/347z3KWAwU— Arvind Gunasekar (@arvindgunasekar) January 2, 2019
Later clashes were reported between scores of people chanting slogans in front of the state parliament in Kerala's state capital Thiruvananthapuram.
Some reportedly set fire to tyres.
The standoff petered out about five hours later after police intervened.
Five female protesters who tried to barge into the state parliament were arrested.
Journalists were also assaulted in Thiruvananthapuram and in the city of Kollam while clashes were reported elsewhere.
Police with batons charged at demonstrators who were trying to enforce a shutdown of shops and businesses in the area called for by the Sabarimala temple hierarchy.
Public bus services were suspended after protesters blocked their path and pelted vehicles with stones.
Feminist author Meena Kandasamy wrote watching the visuals of women making their way into the shrine made her cry in joy.
"How long it has taken for us to claim space, to write our way into history," she said on Twitter.
What an unforgettable moment for Indian women--the first two young women to enter the Sabarimala Temple.. watching the visuals of them making their way into the shrine makes me cry in joy-- how long it has taken for us to claim space, to write our way into history.— meena kandasamy (@meenakandasamy) January 2, 2019
September's verdict was the latest progressive ruling from the court, with judges also overturning bans on gay sex and adultery last year, challenging Modi's traditionalist BJP.
The restriction on women at Sabarimala reflects a belief, not exclusive to Hinduism, that menstruating women are impure.
Traditionalists argue also that the temple deity, Ayyappa, was celibate.
The Supreme Court is to start hearing a legal challenge to its ruling on January 22.
Women are still barred from a handful of Hindu temples in India.
The rightful keepers of the #Sabarimala temple, Malayarayas, getting ready to travel and join #VanithaMathil. It's from them that the erstwhile royal family and thanthri family snatched the rights for the temple, and they will take it back. #WomensWall #OurRenaissance pic.twitter.com/5mNj5VCh7y— Arjun Ramakrishnan (@aju000) January 1, 2019


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Yuko and Eri are two normal girls who are sucked into the alternate world filled with tiny people. The people of this mysterious world sees them as their 'Great Protectors' who can protect their land in a time of strife. The two girls set out on a mission with a group of warriors from the village to find out how they were brought here and how might they return home. However, there is a war brewing and these two Great Protectors are the political tool that every faction lusts for to rally the people to their side.
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Annabelle: Creation
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Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into ...


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Middle East and Adjoining Countries School on Internet governance (MEAC-SIG) is an annual 5 days event that is being organized through ICANN MEAC-Working Group. The aim of the school is to stimulate the MEAC internet community and motivate individuals to actively participate in the regional and global Internet governance Issues.
Starting from 2014, this was the fourth version of the MEAC-SIG. the school moves around in the region and has a different host in a different country each year. NIC.TR (an organization that manages the ".tr" ccTLD for Turkey) was the host of this year's school at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey.
The event started with an opening ceremony where Fahd Batynah the Stakeholder Engagement Manager of Middle East welcomed everyone. During the opening ceremony Mr.Omer Fatih SAYAN Chair of the Information and Communication Technologies Authority of TURKEY (BTK) welcomed everyone and asked all stakeholders to join their forces together in the shaping of the Internet. He said it is important to have fast Internet but it is also important to have reliable and secure one. Further he reminded that during the July 15 coup attempt the electronic communications sector was among the first targets but they were still able to provide services to communicate the news to overcome the damages.
While sharing some statistics about the Turkey Internet status he said that the number of broadband internet subscribers increased by 24.3 percent compared by the previous year in turkey. He also said that Turkey moved to high-speed internet usage with 4.5 G on April 1, 2016, which lead turkey to be among the first 20 countries in terms of the number of the Internet users in the world by end of March this year.
"Online Access to Wikipedia is blocked in Turkey since 29 April 2017"
Baher Esmat the VP, Stakeholder Engagement of the Middle East and David Olive ICANN representative in Istanbul was also one of the attendees during the opening ceremony and they too welcomed all participants.
This Year School had 33 participants representing 13 different countries. 3 participants from Afghanistan were also selected to participate in the event with 2 being fully funded and one partially. This is the second time that Afghans are able to make their way to MEAC-SIG. last year also two Afghans were selected to participate in the MEAC School on Internet Governance that was organized in Lebanon, but as there is no Lebanese embassy in Afghanistan, one of the selected participants was not able to make it to attend the event.
"IG is a new subject in Afghanistan, but it is becoming a very hot one day by day"
All Afghan participants toke part in the "Participants presentation" sessions and presented on the topics of their interest in the Internet Governance.
The MEAC region covers 22 Arab countries that are members of the League of Arab States: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco,Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, in addition to Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey.
At the end of the event (Day five) certificates of compilation was distributed to the participants.


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Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park preserves the history of the lighthouse located here and documenting its importance to ship-based commerce in the development of the United States. It continues to function as a U.S. Coast Guard Aid Station, but the navigation light that had first been lit in 1872 now lies dormant.
No beautiful spot along the California Pacific coast should be without a trail. Pigeon Point cooperates with a short trail that starts off at the lighthouse and follows the bluff looking over the beaches below. This path along the bluff is labeled "Mel's Lane" on the park brochure. At one point the trail descends a set of stairs into a small semi-private cove with a sandy beach that can be seen from the lighthouse buildings.
The trail along the bluffs provide nice views of the ocean including the towering Prisoner Island, named for the fact that many fishermen had become stranded upon it over the years. At the park property line northeast of the lighthouse, the trail loops around into a small balloon and doubles back.
At the southernmost tip of the park, not far from the lighthouse, there's a viewing platform that sits on a ricky perch overlooking the ocean and few of the small islets that dot the shore. Here one can occasionally spot migrating whales. More common are numerous shore birds that nest or rest on the globs of rock isolated from the mainland and its predators.
The pull here is the lighthouse, which unfortunately is closed for repairs. There's a short trail heading south of the lighthouse that follows along the bluff overlooking the shoreline below. There's even a set of stairs that goes down to a small beach that the lighthouse overlooks.


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The Internet of Things is not only changing the world around us, furthermore is bringing solutions to existing problems ( or worries ) for recent parents . One of the first concerns for parents is knowing if the baby is still breathing or not. Most newborn parents wake up several times at night only to check if all is correct. Owlet is a smart sock that scans the heart rate and monitors the oxygen, using oximetry technology. The information is sent to a base station you can put in your room. In case something goes wrong, alarms with sound red light can wake you.
But hey! That's not all! Are your worried about the temperature of the nursery? OK that might sound like a TV commercial but take a look a this other product combining MImo and Nest. Mimo has developed a Smart onesie (washable) to monitor your baby and tell you information about how your baby is breathing and also other information like the body position or the sleeping temperature. Nest is the well known Smart Thermostat bought by Google. Mimo and Nest work together and this way you can adjust the thermostat of the room with your Nest app if the baby is too warm for example. Also includes a camera to see what is going on. With this you can be a certified Geek dad or mom!
Sometimes, babies are ill and it is mandatory to check the temperature several times a day…but you better be very careful to not disturb the baby if he is asleeped. In this case you might want to try TempTraq, an intelligent patch. This wearable thermometer continuously records baby temperature and sends alerts to your mobile phone. It also records the historical temperature data to see fluctuations.
You have more information in the companies websites:
- Altair IoT Solutions – Racing Toward the Future - October 21, 2019
- Altair SmartWorks™ Tops 2019 IoT User Survey - April 2, 2019
- Are You Ready to Digitalize for IoT? - January 17, 2019


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Under Secretary Kappos
April 20, 2010
National Press Club
529 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC
Good afternoon. I'd like to thank the Bureau for the opportunity to be here today and Josh Lerner and Scott Stern for organizing this great event.
During my time with you today, I'll discuss the USPTO's plan to distribute data to the public and research community, our activities to engage in and guide a research agenda that will fully inform the Agency in our policy-making and operational capacities and help us to develop a greater understanding of the role and function of IP for American business and industry.
I'd like to begin today with a little stage setting regarding the increasing criticality of IP in our global economy.
As we move into the second decade of the 21st Century, it has become increasingly clear that innovation is the only sustainable source of competitive advantage for world economies.
And the distance between innovation and marketplace is shrinking. Said another way, innovation is moving more quickly from creation to distribution.
The result is that IP is a necessary instrument-in some cases, the only available instrument-for innovators and businesses to capture value as ideas move to the marketplace.
IP is essentially becoming the world's currency of innovation.
In this new environment, the global legal, economic, and innovation communities bear the challenge and responsibility of creating a market-based, stable exchange rate for the currency of innovation by fostering greater understanding and respect for IP.
Yet, at the USPTO-the nation's innovation agency-economics has been largely absent from our decision making process relative to the IP system.
That absence does a disservice to the USPTO, and to the U.S. and world economies. We now know, mainly from researchers and scholars like you sitting in this room today, that the IP system has a major impact on economic activity, and on important issues like industrial competition.
At the same time, more research must be done to help us understand the economic impact of IP. The PTO is committed to fostering this economic dialogue.
First, we have hired our first Chief Economist, Dr. Stuart Graham, to lead the effort.
Stuart is busy building internal capabilities to conduct economic research, and we expect that he and his team will be very active, generating research that helps illuminate important gaps in our understanding.
We are in the process of detailing specialists in econometrics and statistics from across government to join the Chief Economist's Office, and looking to hire several more economists over the next year.
Moreover, Dr. Graham is seeking to bring economists from academia into the Patent Office as special advisors to help us investigate issues as far ranging as the economic costs and competitive effects of application backlogs, to the economic consequences of copyright protection in an increasingly digital marketplace.
And as we work to build our internal capacity for research, we understand that the majority of the economic expertise will remain outside government. We are therefore keen to work with all of you-no, we must work with all of you. We want to dialogue with you, to be informed by the important research you are conducting, and we must learn from the knowledge you are producing.
So while we're very excited about having Stu on board, we also realize that the Office of the Chief Economist cannot alone accomplish the task of answering the important questions facing the IP system. We'll need your input, your expertise, and your advice.
In the end, this must be a two-way conversation. We want to learn from the research you are all doing; and we hope to be involved in informing you about the types of research that would be most useful to us as policymakers.
I'd like to highlight an example. The USPTO, in coordination with the Department of Commerce today will be issuing a jointly-authored study entitled "Patent Reform: Unleashing Innovation, Promoting Economic Growth & Producing High-Paying Jobs." This paper sets forth some of the empirical data demonstrating that technological innovation is a key driver of a pro-growth, job-creating agenda and that patent reform will be a powerful, deficit-neutral mechanism for expanding America's ability to innovate.
We stand at the precipice of passing an historic patent reform bill. And as the legislation moves forward, it is imperative that we highlight the bill's impact on jobs and the economy. The paper sets forth some of the key research done in this area, but as you know, that research remains incomplete and we welcome your engagement with us to further that research.
As we work to move the United States into a renewed era of technological development and innovation, through patent reform and through other measures, we're going to rely on people like you, in this room-our economic scholars-to help build the case we must prove, the case I know to be true: IP is fast becoming the world's currency of innovation.
With that as background, let's turn now to what the USPTO can do for the research community. As you know, evidence-based policymaking depends on answers that we can only generate from primary data. Therefore, I'd like to speak today not only about research, but also data.
The USPTO houses a treasure trove of scientific and technological information contained in over 8 million patent documents and their associated files -- knowledge not found anywhere else in the world. Since 1871 the agency has made much of this information available to the public, some free and some at a nominal charge.
Put simply though-the Agency hasn't been doing a good enough job.
As an example, Professor Graham has shared with me an anecdote on how the PTO has, traditionally, stood in the way of research - an anecdote that I suspect mirrors many of your past experiences.
When working on the NSF funded NBER data project with Professors Cockburn and Hall, Stu was organizing XML data for related patent application data, such as continuations and divisionals. These original XML data included codes, but the meaning of the codes themselves was not specified.
Stu placed repeated calls and emails to the PTO trying to determine what these codes represented, but was met with silence, and in one case, outright hostility. He was finally forced to file a Freedom of Information Act request to secure a 1-page document.
I'm committed to ending the firewall, breaking down the barrier, and moving the USPTO into a new era defined by openness and cooperation that will empower all participants in the IP system.
We know what's going to happen here. Some of the things we learn will make for uncomfortable reading-and believe me I know, I'm the guy who's going to be reading it-but it beats shuffling around in the dark. It beats making things up, and making bad decisions.
As an example, the Agency will be putting up a dashboard which will show the numbers we use to track and measure progress including various measures of pendency -- where things like RCE's and other types of delays that contribute to pendency will now be included.
Pendency, when calculated this way, is actually longer than what's been previously reported. But having a complete discussion-informed by all the relevant data-will help us all to understand and deal with agency challenges.
We are moving the USPTO from frustrator to facilitator, and reporting operational measures in a more transparent way is only the beginning.
Our electronic systems were not designed to handle the huge number of public hits, bulk queries and deliveries required to make more USPTO public data available for bulk public access. And with financial resources to address these challenges extremely limited at the present time, we need to find other solutions.
To this end, the USPTO is working with Data.gov, and has already listed some of our datasets in the Data.gov catalog and made them available for direct download over the Internet.
But we must go further: we envision a partnership with industry to deliver USPTO information in a manner that fully meets the public's needs.
The solution we're seeking is a no-cost contract under which one or more vendors will develop a secure mechanism for delivering USPTO data at no cost to the agency or the public. The vendors will in turn be permitted to develop and distribute any enhanced data products and retain any revenue collected from their sale, and of course retain any revenue from advertising on their web sites.
As a first step in this process, the USPTO issued a Request for Information (RFI), and held a public meeting on September 24, 2009 to obtain feedback from interested parties. About 60 people representing more than 35 companies registered for the event. We'll be holding another public meeting for companies on the West Coast.
We're off to a good start at making the USPTO's trove of public data accessible to the public in bulk searchable form, without further adding to the agency's financial or information technology burdens.
We know there are still data inside the Agency that would be useful to researchers, and it is our aim to get these data out and into the hands of researchers who are trying to understand the economic effects of USPTO rules and practices, and, from our perspective equally important, how our rules and practices could be improved to increase efficiency inside and outside the patent office, and positively influence economic growth, technology advancement and dissemination, job creation, and a higher standards of living.
We look forward to your input, feedback, and requests as we move the process forward.
Moving now to research, I am announcing today that, during the Fall of 2010, we will be convening two conferences, one on each coast, to seek input from academics and industry on the ways social science can be useful to the USPTO, and how the USPTO can be useful to social scientists.
As Chief Economist, Dr. Graham will be leading this effort along with Arti Rai, our Administrator for External Affairs. Major agenda items at these dual conferences will be the ongoing development of a research agenda inside the chief economist's office, but also how the PTO can aid you in allowing your research agendas to flourish - including by providing data.
We're engaging on issues of competition as well. To evaluate which issues at the intersection of patent policy and competition most merit attention, the PTO, DOJ and FTC are sponsoring a workshop called: "The Intersection of Patent Policy and Competition Policy" on May 26 at the USPTO. This workshop will shed light on issues that affect the competition strategy of American Innovators.
It is in our interest that more research is done. We are sure that more learning on these topics can only lead to an increased public appreciation of the important role played by IP in the burgeoning knowledge economy, and increased public knowledge can only help the USPTO, and the United States and the world more generally.
Of course, the specific set of research topics in the research agenda of the Chief Economist's Office are still being constructed and reviewed, but I'd like to preview a few of our myriad areas of interest.
Let's start with quality. The term "quality" may mean one thing to individual inventors, another to patent applicants, another to firms, another to patent owners, another to lawyers, another to courts, and still another to PTO employees.
While many of these separate definitions will be related and based on similar criteria, the variation makes the problem of studying patent quality difficult. The challenge will inevitably be about how we reconcile, and arrive at a workable definition that can be used to implement administrative reforms which are both possible, and, from an economic perspective, welfare improving. This is but one critical question deserving further study.
Another area of research interest is the nature of the unitary patent system. To coin a phrase, there are as many patent systems as there are technologies. This vast differentiation suggests that, while there is an economic reason to preserve a unitary system in conception, a unitary system does not exist in practice. The implications for Patent Office policy and behavior deserve further study.
Finally, understanding the nexus between PTO performance and economic performance of innovators is critical to us. The field has too little understanding of how the functioning of the Patent Office may affect the individual performance of companies, or the aggregate performance of the economy. We'll continue to engage with the community to answer this question.
We want to use what we learn from these and other research efforts as inputs into policymaking, both to increase efficiency and quality output from the PTO, but also to ensure that our actions do good-not harm-for the IP system and the economy.
We are calling on the people in this room to join us. This moment is a critical one, on several fronts: the economic crisis, the increasing digitization of and reliance on technology and knowledge in the economy, the increasing use of IP, and globalization.
We at the PTO are taking determined steps to join the conversation, and to begin taking seriously the work that people like you have been doing for years. This opportunity is one that may only come about once in our lifetimes. It is simply urgent that we develop a better understanding of innovation.
I stand here before you today, asking you to join with us; join us, in our determination to create jobs, advance technology, progress, and standards of living for Americans and for all citizens of the world; join us to make our IP system serve the public, as was envisioned by the Founders in the Constitution; join us in the development, definition, and establishment of our great national asset-Intellectual Property-our currency of innovation.
Thank you.


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The engineering company BioSmart s.r.o. together with ABBAS Company, a.s. – the Czech distributor of security systems, will represent their developments in the field of biometrics at the international exhibition of construction industry For Arch 2018. The exhibition will be held in Prague, where in the period from September, 18 to 22 the largest manufacturers of construction tools and equipment, as well as companies providing designing and engineering services will gather together. Within the event, the representatives of BioSmart s.r.o. will tell about establishing of industrial safety systems on the basis of biometric technologies and will demonstrate the innovative equipment of its own production.
The technologies of biometric identification, developped by BioSmart s.r.o. will assist to set business processes for the information protecting, employees time tracking and to put effective permit-control regime within a building. Today the products and solutions under the brand of BioSmart are demanded in Europe: they are being actively implemented on the territory of the Czech Republic – projects are conducted within the factories of ŠKODA, within the airport of Prague, within the largest bank establishment ČSOB BANK, and are also available in Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Italy and other countries.
In the days of the For Arch 2018 at the BioSmart s.r.o. company's stand one can find the following:
- The PV-WTC Terminal. Designed for organization of access mode and generating systems of time tracking due to the unique biometric features of palms vein patterns of and RFID cards.
- BioSmart UniPass Controller. Designed to perform as part of the network control system and BioSmart access control. Allows to organize the access mode via palm vein patterns and RFID cards.
- The PV-WM Reader of Palms Veins. Used to hold procedures of users identification via palms vein patterns and RFID cards. Performs on the basis of technology for one's palm image obtaining within infrared light of a specific wavelength. Connected to the BioSmart UniPass controller via USB interface.
- The BioSmart WTC2 Terminal . Used to establish accounting systems of employees working time via fingerprints identification and RFID cards. In the terminal there is used an optical scanner having its reliable protection from scratches and chips that allows to be installed at sites with a large number of users.
- The BioSmart Prox-E Controller. Working as part of BioSmart Physical Access Control System (PACS) allows to set the access mode via fingerprints and RFID cards with the BioSmart Mini reader.
- The Multi-format RFID Card Reader WR10.
The devices will be represented at the PVA EXPO PRAGUE Exhibition Centre, Hall 4, B 18, the ABBAS Company, a.s. stand
The working hours of For Arch 2018: September, 18-21 from 10:00 to 18:00, September, 22 from 10:00 to 17:00


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Schapiro to Step Down From SEC
Simon Constable and Jean Eaglesham discuss the departure of SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro, and Matt Bradley looks at Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi scaling back some of his newly expanded powers. Photo: AP.
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Mid-Century Wow!
Mid-Century Modern is all the rage, but this space puts an eclectic spin on that motif.
A 1950's Eichler-esque rancher needed new finishes and better flow for the current family of four. Plus, the western wall of windows regularly rendered the interior of the home overheated and unlivable, which was addressed with new, high-performance triple pane windows.
David Stark Wilson added his typical flair to the project, including a glass skywalk above the lower level, and a stainless steel soaking tub in the master bathroom.
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Latest Cyprus Property Sales Data
Latest Cyprus Property Sales Data December and January are traditionally the quietest period for sales and this year was no exception. The news coming out of Cyprus as most of you know has not been positive and the bailout negotiations continue. There are presidential elections on the 17th of February and the whole country of Cyprus is hoping that the new regime will finalise the deal so that we can move forward into the new era. Bailout conditions are harsh but we believe that in the long run they will benefit the country and make it a much better place! The worst thing for a property market is uncertainty – with the message from buying clients that they want to "wait and see what happens".
However now may be the time to buy Cyprus Property as there are many many bargains around, the Chinese are actively buying properties as it afford them residency which could actually drive up the prices in the future.
On the positive side enquiries are increasing significantly with new clients booking trips to Cyprus with a view to buying properties in Cyprus. Local viewing activity in January was actually better than expected.
Overall sales figures are extremely poor in the region with only 22 completions recorded in January in Famagusta and 375 island wide. Sales figures for 2012 were extremely disappointing and the lowest since records began in 2000.
Latest Cyprus Property Sales Data
Cyprus Property grant for acquisition of first residence
PWC CYPRUS has recently published the 2013 edition of its Tax, Facts & Figures guide that provides information about the tax system in Cyprus, based on the current tax legislation and practice as at January 2013.
The PwC guide includes a section concerning the VAT (Value Added Tax) concessions for those buying property on the island as their first and primary residence: Reduced VAT rate of 5 per cent Imposition of the reduced rate of 5 per cent on the acquisition and/or construction of residences for use as the primary and permanent place of residence. Cyprus Property grant for acquisition of first residence.
The reduced rate of 5 per cent applies to contracts that have been concluded from 1 October 2011 onwards provided they relate to the acquisition and/or construction of residences to be used as the primary and permanent place of residence for the next 10 years.
For contracts concluded up to 30 September 2011 for the acquisition and/or construction of residences for use as the primary and permanent place of residence, the eligible person must apply for a grant.
The reduced rate of 5 per cent applies for the first 200 square meters of residences of total covered area of up to 275 square meters. In the case of families with more than 3 children the allowable total covered area increases by 15 square meters per additional child beyond the three children. The reduced rate is imposed only after obtaining a certified confirmation from the VAT Commissioner. The eligible person must submit an application on a special form, issued by the VAT Commissioner, which will state that the house will be used as the primary and permanent place of residence. The applicant must attach a number of documents supporting the ownership rights on the property and evidencing the fact that the property will be used as the primary and permanent place of residence.
As from 8 June 2012 eligible persons include residents of non EU Member States, provided that the residence will be used as their primary and permanent place of residence in the Republic. The documents supporting the ownership of the property must be submitted together with the application. The documents supporting the fact that the residence will be used as the primary and permanent place of residence (copy of telephone, water buyambienmed.com supply or electricity bill or of municipal taxes) must be submitted within six months from the date on which the eligible person acquires possession of the residence.
A person who ceases to use the residence as his primary and permanent place of residence before the lapse of the 10 year period must notify the VAT Commissioner, within thirty days of ceasing to use the residence, and pay the difference resulting from the application of the reduced and the standard rate of VAT attributable to the remaining period of 10 years for which the property will not be used as the main and primary place of residence.
Persons who make a false statement to benefit from the reduced rate are required by law to pay the difference of the additional VAT due. Furthermore, the legislation provides that such persons are guilty of a criminal offence and, upon conviction, are liable to a fine, not exceeding twice the amount of the VAT due, or imprisonment up to 3 years or may be subject to both sentences.
Cyprus Property grant for acquisition of first residence The grant is given to eligible persons for the construction, or purchase or transfer of a new residence which is used as the main and primary place of residence. The grant applies for contracts concluded up to 30 September 2011. The application for the grant is submitted to the Ministry of Finance, in relation to residences for which an application has been submitted for the issue of a planning permission after the 1 May 2004.
Persons entitled to this grant are individuals who are citizens of the Republic of Cyprus or of any other EU Member State, who reside permanently in the Republic of Cyprus and who have reached the age of 18 at the time of application. The grant is given for residences whose total covered area does not exceed 250 m². The level of the grant is limited to 130 m² (extended for families with four and more children) and depends on the type of the property and on whether the house was constructed or purchased. The relevant legislation provides that the level of the grant will be adjusted annually for the increase in the Retail Price Index.
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At Singapore Indesign 2014, visitors will get to enjoy a unique series of collaborative installations between exhibitors and design studios, artists and other creatives under the overarching theme of Future. Here's a sneak peek at all the projects you'll get to see.
September 24th, 2014
Things get playful at APS Lifestyle with cardboard extraordinaire Paper Carpenters. Sheets of cardboard are joined to form larger-than-life three-dimensional structures among the showroom's kitchen set-ups. Be prepared to see the kitchen in a whole new light.
Paper Carpenters
Paper Carpenters is an innovative company that specialises in transforming the humble paper material into beautiful, artistic objects.
BW Furniture with LASALLE College of the Arts
At BW Furniture, the wisdom and craft of the past is crucial to the innovative spirit of the future. For The Project, BW Furniture and LASALLE College of the Arts show how the intricate detailing of traditional craftsmanship can be reinterpreted and represented in contemporary furniture.
LASALLE College of the Arts
LASALLE College of the Arts is an arts educational institution in Singapore offering Diploma, Undergraduate, and Master degree courses in a diverse range of artistic disciplines.
Discover new perspectives at DREAM. Design is all about seeing things in a new light and you're invited to do the same. Step inside a giant prism and see how your perspective of the limited edition Cassina LC4-CP chaise longue changes with every move you make.
Topos Design
Established in 2005, Topos Design is an architectural boutique design firm that aims to redefine spaces, forms and experiences through a philosophy of "Sheer Timeless Elegance". These unique design responses are consistently applied in the area of architecture, consulting and interior design.
Enter the sanctum of "the tree" and experience the magic of dappled light and ever-changing silhouettes on your skin. Known for their masterful ways with texture and materials, Formwerkz will construct an interactive installation with a wide spectrum of EDL's timber laminates.
Founded in 1998, Formwerkz specialises in architecture, urban design, interior design and landscape design. The firm adopts a collaborative structure that encourages diverse and overlapping areas of expertise to achieve more comprehensive design solutions that transform seemingly ordinary narratives and context into objects of meaningful beauty.
A vision of high-tech connectivity anchors The Project by JUNG and GAD. The collaboration between the German switches and systems manufacturer and the Singapore architecture firm expresses the beauty and mystery of wiring and connectivity. The installation showcases JUNG's product advancements in technology and aesthetics, while illustrating the "circuit board" of wires that run behind-the-scenes.
GAD is a young architectural practice whose interest in design transcends scale and program. The firm believes that to find an appropriate design methodology and to master Material and Time is to master design and, more importantly, the living out of a good design.
The future, according to Kohler and Studiogoto, is ultimately unpredictable. This is expressed in a playful installation that invites visitors to engage with an interactive wall. Faucets, towel racks, rob hooks and more from the Kohler range of products create a vertical landscape to be explored, each one revealing a specific thought about the future.
Established in 2008, the architectural studio works on a range of projects, from interior design to master planning and buildings. Some projects of note include Fifteen Robin condominium and the Alila Villas Koh Russey in Phnom Penh (under construction).
Kokuyo with M Moser Associates and Temasek Polytechnic
The future is in global sustainability, according to Kokuyo and M Moser. Expressing this is an interactive landscape of wire sculptures designed to change progressively over the course of the day. Visitors are also encouraged to create and add their own wire mesh sculptures to symbolise the impact that humans have on our immediate environment.
M Moser Associates
M Moser specialises in creating effective workplace environments; designing and delivering office interiors, architecture, corporate campuses, and R&D facilities.
Kokuyo with M Moser Associates and Temasek Polytechnic
Temasek Polytechnic
Temasek Polytechnic is one of Singapore's institutions of higher learning. Its design-related courses include Interior Architecture and Design, Environment Design, and Green Building and Sustainability.
The future is all about the melding of design genres at Romanez. Fashion and jewellery designer Angelynn Tan creates wearable art with Christian Lacroix and Pierre Frey fabrics while fashion designer Zin Cattell creates menswear with Pierre Frey fabrics.
Angelynn Tan
Angelynn Tan began her career creating printed textiles for Robinsons and Song and Kelly at Club 21. She was recipient of the prestigious Singapore Young Designers Award (2002), and held her first solo art exhibition in 2003. She currently teaches textile design in Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, and has pursued an MA in Studio Practice, Textile and Jewelry.
Zin Cattell
Formerly a brand consultant in London, Cattell came to Singapore in 2009 where he worked as Art Director for YKIDD, WYKIDD BESPOKE AND WK DESIGN. In 2011, he left to start MWAHAHA, a creative branding, PR and web agency. He also launched MENSWEAR MENSWEAR, a made-to-order menswear label and also a full bespoke service womenswear label, WOMENSWEAR WOMENSWEAR.
Waldmann Lighting and Wilkhahn team up with Geyer to present a Space Odyssy experience for visitors. Catch a glimpse of what the future looks like through their eyes at the Waldmann Lighting showroom.
Geyer is an independent interior design practice operating from six studios across the Asia Pacific – Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Wellington and Singapore.
Specialising in the development and implementation of workplace, retail, education and hospitality interior environments, the company works with a wide range of clients to help them achieve their goals by developing intelligent strategies and design solutions which support their organisational objectives and future aspirations.
#10 XTRA (MAGIS) WITH ID21, IMAJIN, and CHONG FAH CHEONG
XTRA goes all out and presents a triple feature this year with three Project collaborations. First up, award-winning interior design firm ID21 collaborates with Magis and creates an alternate universe where anything is possible. Find your place in the quirky, abstract animal world of the Magis Puppy, Dodo and Pingy.
Paying tribute to one of the greatest minds in design history, XTRA celebrates the life and work of Pierre Paulin in collaboration with IMAJIN. Known for his designs for the likes of Artifort, Magis and La Cividina, Paulin's work was ahead of its time. In a tribute to his vision, IMAJIN presents an interactive, multi-media installation that captures the iconic quality of his work.
And finally, renowned Singapore sculptor Chong Fah Cheong will create an outdoor sculpture using Herman Miller's Kivo®. Be sure to keep an eye out for this unique installation.
ID21 a design and build firm and the first in its category here to achieve Workplace Safety & Health Council's BizSafe Partner Level certification.
As specialists in workplace design and build, ID21 engages businesses to help them understand the upside of integrating modern interior design strategies – creative and technical – into corporate offices.
Founded by Brendon Lim, IMAJIN focuses mainly on hospitality projects. These include restaurants like Catalunya and hotels like Alila Lishui (under construction).
Chong Fah Cheong
Born in Singapore in 1946, Chong Fah Cheong is considered one of Singapore's pioneer sculptors. He was an art teacher until 1978 when he became a professional artist. In more than 20 years since his career as an artist, he has participated in numerous art exhibitions and held several one-man shows. He began his career carving in wood and soon progressed to carving sculptures in marble, granite and other stone as well as casting in bronze.
Singapore Indesign 2014 will be held on 4 October. For more information and to register, visit singaporeindesign.com.sg
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With Christmas right around the corner, I thought I would write a little story about what the holiday means to me. First and foremost, Christmas is about the birth of our Savior, Jesus. I love to read about the journey of Mary and Joseph, the obstacles they faced, the birth of Jesus, the star that led the Wise men and the Shepard to the barn, and the angel who watched over the newborn King. The story never gets old.
Its meaning is even more important to me now, especially since I am getting older. Although I do not consider myself old, I am realistic enough to know that I have lived more years, than I have yet to live.
It's funny how time changes things, like how we perceive what is essential in our lives. When I was a child, I thought like a child, wanting all those things that every little girl would like to find under the Christmas tree. Although we always had a lovely holiday, It was modest. However, It did not stop me from wanting it.
As I became a teenager and understood that money was sometimes tight, my list became shorter, wanting my younger siblings to get a few more things they asked Santa for. The change in my way of thinking was starting to take root in my heart. It was subtle but it was there.
Before long I was married, with children of my own. I must admit, it was important to me for some reason, a reason, I question now, to give them a perfect Christmas. Seeing their smiling faces, their bodies jumping up and down, and feeling their hugs, warmed my heart. It seemed my way of thinking had taken a step back.
Now, I must admit, that when the Grandchildren came along, the need to make Christmas special continued. Sometimes I think it was because I missed them so much. Everybody was and still is busy beyond words. Christmas was a day when everyone was under one roof. I believe that seeing their excitement and happiness somehow filled my heart with the days, hours and minutes that I craved and still do. My way of thinking was a cover-up for what I truly needed.
Fast forward again to my Great Grandchildren and a subtle change that started where it ended so many years ago.
I finally understood that what I had been missing could not be found in presents, whether giving or getting.
Yes, there will be few presents under the tree. Presents that I am sure will bring a smile to their faces.
However, It is more important that they really see who I am at this time in my life. Time is the gift that I want to give each one of them. And time is what I would like to have with each of them. Time is not just sitting with Mom, Grandma, or Gigi, always talking about the past, but a time to learn and grow. A time to reach out and help others. A time where one heart can learn from the other. A time to laugh to you cry. Time just to be. Wow, I would just love that.
Now, I must admit that I keep myself plenty busy, but there is a reason. It heals my heart. When I remind my children to slow down and enjoy life, they all respond, "We had a good teacher; you." They are right. I was swamped being a Mom and working. However, I want them to know that was then, and this is now. I want them to realize that one day they will be my age and want a gift that cannot be wrapped up.
When I go out to visit seniors, my heart breaks for the loneliness I see. I feel the pleading for what they want and need; time with those they love. Time means different things to different people. Spending an hour a week with these precious men and women who have lived long and learned so many valuable lessons, would bring happiness to each of them. And, I believe, would bring joy to the visitor.
Who can you spend time with this holiday season?
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Government to Mandate 60 MPG
Even today's fuel sippers will seem thirsty when the Obama administration is done with its overhaul of mileage rules.
Within a month, federal regulators will set the wheels in motion to more than double the current standard for mileage per gallon. By 2025, automakers' fleets will have to average 60 miles per gallon, versus 27.5 mpg for passenger cars and 22 mpg for trucks (including big SUVs and pickups) that are made today.
It's part of Obama's push to slow and eventually reverse the growth of U.S. oil imports while also reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Automobiles are a close second to the electric power industry as the largest source of carbon dioxide, a gas the U.S. considers a hazard, asserting that it promotes global warming. By executive fiat, the administration already has required that, starting in the fall of 2015 for 2016 models, automakers' fleets get an average of at least 35.5 mpg, regardless of vehicle sizes and weights. An official proposal of the next boost, to 60 mpg by 2025, will come from the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by October and will be locked into regulations by fall 2011.
To boost vehicles' fuel efficiency beyond 40 mpg, manufacturers will have to tweak gasoline engines by using small turbochargers, advanced fuel injection and ultralight steel, plastics and composite fibers.
They also effectively face a mandate to rev up development of ultra-high-mpg electric plug-in cars and hybrids such as the Chevy Volt, which is set to roll out by December and uses a small gasoline-fueled motor to recharge an onboard battery. Advanced hybrids getting the equivalent of 100 mpg or more will be a must for automakers to reach a minimum fleet average of 60 mpg by 2025. Just to meet the 35.5 mpg standard for 2015, automakers likely will be producing around 1 million gasoline-electric and plug-in cars a year by 2015. It's no coincidence that the DOT and EPA are considering revamped auto sticker labels that highlight plug-in and hybrid vehicles' seemingly astronomical fuel efficiency.
Although a fleet with many Volt-type hybrids might be sufficient to meet the much higher mpg standard that will be required by 2025, it probably wouldn't toe the line on carbon dioxide emissions -- one reason automakers will continue to face pressure to make all-electric-powered plug-in cars.
So they'll step up R&D and lean more heavily on suppliers and contract with others such as A123 and Compact Power to develop batteries that will enable cars to run for several hundred miles between recharges. (The Chevy Volt will be able to travel only 40 miles before the gasoline engine kicks in.)
In addition, expect a push to install tens of thousands of recharging stations in cities, suburbs and along roadside service areas, as well as in car owners' garages. That will increase sales for manufacturers such as AeroVironment and Coulomb Technologies. It should also give a boost to companies such as Better Place, which will embark on a nationwide buildout of mini-stations where motorists can quickly exchange batteries low on juice for fresh ones, as they do now with propane tanks.