SINGAPORE: Singapore will soon get a taste of the culture and spirit of the 2011 Rugby World Cup hosted by New Zealand. The Rugby Village 2011 concept will see ex-Kiwi stars such as Jonah Lomu possibly as part of the attraction. Earlier in June, former England international Gareth Chilcott and Australia's Simon Poidevin, who played for the Wallabies in the 80s, visited Turf City in Singapore to drum up support for the upcoming Rugby World Cup Village 2011. When completed, the village will feature live screenings of matches, where fans can gather to cheer their favourite teams, with food and beverage and entertainment thrown in. Chilcott, who gave the Village concept the thumbs-up, thinks England can repeat their title-winning run of 2003 in Australia despite the event being staged in the Southern Hemisphere. "England is a very good side at the moment. They have got a right mixture of older ones, some youngsters coming through (including) Ben Foden, Chris Ashton, and Ben Youngs. These young players have made Martin Jonhson (the coach) think again," he said. However, Poidevin, said he feels New Zealand -- winners of the first edition in 1987 -- are still favourites to lift the title at home. "New Zealand's got so much to play for, 1987 is a long time ago," Poidevin said. "Historically, they have been the strongest rugby nation in the world, and they are playing in a country which has had a huge (earthquake) in Christchurch, so that's lots of motivation for the players." Like Poidevin and Chilcott, more big name ex-players are being lined up for the Rugby Village. Organisers of the Rugby Village 2011 are currently looking at securing a site for the village, which is likely to be around the Marina Bay area. It will be able to accommodate up to 2,000 people and activities at the village will start even before the World Cup kicks off in September. -CNA/wk |
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Monday, June 27, 2011
S'pore to get Rugby Village
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Friday, June 24, 2011
This Hotel Is Going To Be A New Landmark In Beijing
The creator, Emergent named this “Beijing National Hotel”. It will be the largest, the most abstract looking, and the most eco-friendly hotel in Beijing. Locate near the Beijing International Airport. Well, I never want to live at anywhere near an airport though, the aircraft is very disturbing when landing! Hope the creator had already taken this into consideration. So what else is so special about this hotel?
The building is 2.3 million square foot, composed by three volumetric rings, seems to signify the three different parts of this hotel.
It will include 1,500 rooms (Provides views of the city and the rainforest), international conference halls (Of course you know what is this used for), a 107,000 square foot indoor rainforest and a sky restaurant located at the highest level of the building (all direction of the view of the Beijing city).
The building enclosed by a double skin system where the outer layer is a weather break and the inner layer is the weatherproof enclosure, which creates a thermal buffer zone.
Its outer layer is made from a lightweight cable-net structure with many windows. Therefore, it allows a certain amount of natural light penetrated into the interior of the building and the rainforest. Within this layer, it embedded with system of solar thermal pipes and grey water capture grooves which hybridizes the base diamond pattern with a sporadic weaving pattern.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
‘Free-to-Air’ channels to be available on the Internet
Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Dr Yaacob Ibrahim announced on Monday that MediaCorp's seven 'Free-to-Air' channels will be available on the Internet within the next year.
The initiative, he said, will be a good way forSingaporeans overseas to be updated on events at home through the latest local TV programmes and be entertained by other programmes that MediaCorp has rights to.
Dr Yaacob, who was speaking at the InfocommMedia Business Exchange (IMBX) opening ceremony, added that the media company will be announcing the details of this service nearer to its implementation, reported Channel News Asia.
Touching on the 3DTV trial which he said has been successful since its implementation a year ago, the country's Pay-TV operators — StarHub and SingTel, as well as Free-to-Air operator MediaCorp — are now able to transmit 3D content into homes.
SingTel's mioTV has also recently successfully screened the Barclays Premier League match between Arsenal and Manchester United in 3D-format to all its subscribers.
The Republic is also on track in its plans to go fully digital, in line with ASEAN's committed timeframe to switch off analogue TV transmission between 2015 and 2020.
Dr Yaacob said following ASEAN's adoption of the DVB-T standard for Digital Terrestrial Television,Singapore is looking into the early migration to DVB-T2, the second and latest generation of this standard.
The move will provide consumers with an enhanced viewing experiences and greater choices in TV content and services.
Dr Yaacob said the Media Development Authority (MDA) is now putting in place a nationwide trial network to determine how the new standard can be suitably adopted for Singapore's terrain.
With this network, Singapore will be among the first in the region to establish a wide-scale DVB-T2 trial infrastructure, and MDA is planning for the trial network to be installed by September 2011.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
80+ Time Saving and Free Photoshop Action Sets
Photoshop is a wonderful tool that not only lets you create amazing graphics but alsoautomate your work and improve your workflow. With Photoshop Actions, you can perform your repetitive tasks with a simple click that not only saves you time but helps improving your efficiency.
Photoshop actions allow you to record a sequence of commands and operationsthat you can set aside and can access afterward. They can also perform some extremely complex techniques with just a push of a button.
Here we have compiled a list of 80+ top-quality Photoshop actions to share with you, so you can expedite your design work. Before presenting our hand-picked collection of downloadable Photoshop Actions, however, we would like to offer a short explanation on how to install and create your own Photoshop Actions.
Creating Photoshop Actions
Creating Photoshop actions is very simple. All you need to do is open up the “Actions” palette and click the New Action button as seen in the picture below:
A new window pops up giving you different options for creating actions. Name the action and then place it in a set. For quick access, you can assign a shortcut to your action that will immediately activate it in Photoshop. This is a useful option to be used for those actions that you use with regularity.
Hitting the “Record” button allows you to record your desired actions by carrying out the necessary steps. The only thing that needs to be remembered here is selection sizes, saving and other specific steps will be duplicated precisely as you perform them in the action. So, you need to keep your steps as generic as possible so that they will work on the complete range of the images you want the action to apply to.
Once you’re done, hit the “Stop” button in the action menu. Your action has been recorded. Now you can hit the “Play” button if you want to perform the action on another file.
Installing Photoshop Actions
There are numbers of ways to install Photoshop actions. Dragging the downloaded actions into the ‘Actions” folder enclosed within the “Presets” folder in your Photoshop application folder is the easiest way. Note: you may need to restart Photoshop so that the installed actions can appear in the actions menu.
On the other hand, hit the little arrow on the right of the actions menu and then click the “Load Actions” option to quickly install the downloaded actions into the Photoshop.
Useful Photoshop Action Sets
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