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Highlights for 2020 ...

Whether we benefited from it or hate it, or didn't get much affected by it, it is undeniable that COVID19 is the greatest highlight for most people in 2020, period!

An Executive Guide to AI by McKinsey Analytics ...

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-analytics/our-insights/an-executives-guide-to-ai

"Staying ahead in the accelerating artificial-intelligence race requires executives to make nimble, informed decisions about where and how to employ AI in their business. One way to prepare to act quickly: know the AI essentials presented in this guide."

Artificial Intelligence in Finance (Ngee Ann Poly)

Who should take this course?

This course is for those who want to understand how AI is transforming finance, and be part of this new industry. Finance professionals, but also technologists, entrepreneurs, consultants or academics will benefit from the knowledge imparted by the course. As AI is permeating all sectors of finance, anybody in finance, or interested by the industry, could learn from the course. Click here

Chapter #1 An Industry Overview of AI

• Module 1: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
• Module 2: Use causes of AI outside of Finance
• Module 3: Use cases of AI in Finance
• Module 4: Industry drivers of AI in Finance

Article received from Temasek Poly's Mary Thomas ...

How fast she moves

Good morning.

Time is not a static structure fixed in the minds of men. It is not a static structure fixed in nature. We all know that because we feel the pendulum swings daily. Yet the way time is moving is scary. It has its own agenda and its rules are simple; you either move in time or you move out. But really there is no way we can move out of time yet we measure time differently so sometimes we can gain a day or lose one. Yet it matters not for in times own annals of rules we will be victims of its run and ruin.

We age, our brain cells die, our once robust body begins to fail on us, we find new illnesses ravaging an otherwise whole system, our hair turns pristine white and before we know it the bones become brittle and we can fall never to rise again. So our independence too can be sacrificed on the altar of the cycle of time. But the beauty of ageing is that there is also a time to be youthful and to grow out and blossom.

So I like seeing how a flower first is brought forth as a bud. It then from its inception takes on colour and grows bigger promising to bring a bloom, a thing of beauty. Then one morning we can see it in its glory – all ready to receive the warm rays of the sun on its pate. It receives its first share of visitors – the butterflies, the bees, the birds, the ants and the other nomadic residents of nature who have this urge to send precious time with the flower and its welcoming aura.

Then as the day wanes and the light fades, we see the flower droop to welcome the end of its day activities. It basks in the quietness of the night and takes comfort in resting and recouping from the ravages of the daylight delights. The next morning we can see it again sometimes a little bigger and a lot more certain of its station. It holds itself up with more confidence and is ever conscious of the many eyes that take a fancy to it.

But this state is a passing phase. It will soon end in the flower drooping and dropping. It becomes the fodder for the renewal of Mother Nature. In like manner time is an agent of renewal. It gives each one of us chances to redeem ourselves. It allows us to have another new day for it is in this renewal that we discover ourselves and our potential.

So at whatever speed time is moving let us be joyful that we can keep up and remain who we are amidst the sound and fury of our everyday duties and designs.

Keep well.

 

Article written by Mary Thomas (shared with permissions)

Developmental Plans For Jurong Lake

JURONG LAKE

A Lakeside Destination For Business and Leisure

In 2008, the Urban Redevelopment Authority(URA) revealed plans to further decentralize commercial activities from the Core region as part of the strategy of the Masterplan 2008. This involves the development of more commercial hubs such as Jurong Lake District, Paya Lebar Central and Kallang Riverside. The Jurong Lake District in particular, was envisioned to become the biggest commercial hub outside the Central region, combining both business and leisure elements within its two precincts-Jurong Gateway and Lakeside.

 

Aside from developing the district into an attractive commercial hub, other key strategies are to create leisure attractions within a well integrated scenic environment. These initiatives were planned to be fully developed within 10 to 15 years.

 

Jurong East, together with Jurong Lake, offers an exciting opportunity to be developed into the biggest lakeside destination for business and leisure in the West Region. The two areas will be known as the new Jurong Lake District. Centrally located in the West Region, which houses a quarter of Singapore’s population of 4.2 million, the 360 ha Jurong Lake District is well connected to the CBD (about 20 minutes), Tuas Second Link and rest of the island. It also has ready access to a large talent and labour pool. The nearby Jurong and Tuas Industrial Estates support global businesses ranging from biotechnology to pharmaceutical and chemical industries. There are more than 3,000 MNCs and SMEs operating in these areas.

 

Jurong Lake District Will Be Developed Through

Four Key Strategies

• Develop Jurong East into a major commercial hub
• Lakeside – Create unique new leisure destinations
• Enhance connectivity between Jurong Gateway and Lakeside and bring the lake closer to the centre
• Retain and introduce more greenery to enhance green experience

A Caring MP for The Residents - Chen Show Mao

A Caring MP for The Residents - Chen Show Mao delivers mobility aids to Paya Lebar residents

On 6 October 2012, in a joint effort between the Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) and volunteers from Paya Lebar Division in Aljunied GRC, various forms of mobility aids were distributed to elderly residents living along Hougang Avenue 3.
Member of Parliament (MP) for Aljunied GRC, Mr Chen Show Mao, together with Aljunied GRC volunteers and staff from the AIC, went door-to-door to present mobility aids such as walking sticks and wheelchairs to qualified residents. Earlier in August, AIC staff and Aljunied GRC volunteers had visited these HDB blocks to explain AIC programs to residents.

This is an initiative under the AIC’s $10 million Senior’s Mobility Fund (SMF), which was established in 2011 with the objective of assisting the elderly in procuring mobility devices at subsidised rates, so as to help them move around their home and in the community.

The residents were all smiles as they received the aids from Mr Chen and were taught by the helpful AIC staff how to use them. Mdm Magomy*, the daughter of two elderly residents who each received a wheelchair said: “Having stayed here for over 40 years, this is the first time I have received such forms of assistance. It really means a lot to me and my elderly parents, who would otherwise be immobile without such walking aids. We are really touched by the help that we are getting.”

Other recipients echoed her sentiments, saying that they had been “hesitant about making trips downstairs for their daily chores or social activities, choosing to stay at home most of the time”. With the mobility aids, they said they now feel “more confident and secure about joining their friends for some social and recreational activities in the neighbourhood”.

Their MP, Mr Chen, commented: “We are very glad to have played our part in this outreach to our needy residents and help them learn about and apply for assistance under the SMF and other AIC programmes. We are heartened by the improvements these have made to their lives. We look forward to continuing our work with the AIC and other agencies so that more residents can benefit from the SMF and other programmes.”

*Name changed for privacy reasons.****

This is called money well spent. No need fanciful garden by the bay or expensive useless structure in our town and then have the fee hike to tax the residents.

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