Ms Jacqueline Ho Polytechnic lecturer dies after collapsing on campus singapore

Ms Jacqueline Ho Polytechnic lecturer dies after collapsing on campus singapore
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SINGAPORE - A Singapore Polytechnic lecturer died on Monday, after suffering a heart attack and collapsing on campus, reported the New Paper and citizen journalism site, Stomp.

Ms Jacqueline Ho - reported to be in her 40s, was found unconscious outside her office at around 11am.

Ms Ho was the teacher of students who were involved in the Night Safari "Halloween Horrors" project that was abruptly cancelled.

Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) officers received a call at about 11.06am, and an ambulance arrived within nine minutes.

An automated external defibrillator was used on her and she was given cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the way to the National University Hospital (NUH).

But she died at the hospital soon after.

Ms Ho was teaching at the polytechnic for over a year, at the School of Architecture & the Built Environment, and was described by her students as "approachable", "inspiring", "bubbly" and "optimistic".

She was in charge of the students who had spent months on their "Halloween Horrors" final year project for their diploma in Integrated Events and Project Management, before it was cancelled.

Ms Ho leaves behind a husband, a son, 16, and a daughter, 14.

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school closings New Jersey delayed school closings

school closings New Jersey delayed school closings
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Following Saturday's October snowstorm, which dumped over a foot of snow onto parts of New Jersey and left more than half a million residents without power and the streets littered with trees and debris, many schools have decided to close or delay opening on Monday.

Here is the list of schools, by county, that are currently reporting closings or delayed openings on Halloween:

Essex County:

Belleville — Closed

Bloomfield — Closed

Caldwell-West Caldwell — Closed

Caldwell College — Closed

Essex Fells — Closed

Livingston — Closed

Millburn — Closed

North Caldwell — Closed

Nutley — Closed

Seton Hall Prep — closed

Verona — Closed

West Orange — Closed

Somerset

Branchburg — Closed

Union

Berkley Heights — Closed

Cranford — Closed

Mount St. Mary &mdash Watchung — Closed

New Providence — Closed

Summit — Closed

Morris

Morris School District — Closed

Chester School District — Closed

Denville Township Schools District — Closed

Harding Township School District — Closed

Mendham Borough Schools District — Closed

Canfield Avenue School District — Closed

Morris Hills Regional District — Closed

Morris Plains District -— 90 minute delay

Mountain Lakes School District — Closed

Parsippany — Troy Hills Township School District — Closed

Pequannock Township School District — Closed

Randolph Township School District — Closed

Roxbury School District — Closed

School District of the Chathams — Closed

Washington Township Schools District — Closed

West Morris Regional High Schools District — Closed

County College of Morris — Closed

Drew University — Closed

Hunterdon

Bethlehem Township School District — Closed

Clinton Township School District — Closed

Delaware Valley Regional High School District — Closed

Flemington-Raritan School District — Closed

High Bridge School District — Closed

Holland Township School District — Closed

Kingwood Township School District — Closed

North Hunterdon — Voorhees Regional High School District — Closed

Union Township School District — Closed

Passaic

Clifton — Closed

Lakeland Regional High School — Closed

Passaic Valley High School — Delayed opening

Wayne — Closed

West Milford — Closed

Sussex

Byram — Closed

Warren

elvidere — Closed

Hope — Closed

North Warren Regional &mdash Open, but if buses can’t access certain roads, students won’t be marked absent

Bergen

Allendale — Closed

Bergenfield — Closed

Dumont — Closed

Fair Lawn — Edison and Radburn schools closed, all others delayed opening

Glen Rock — Closed

Harrington Park — Closed

Hillsdale — Closed

Leonia — Closed

Montvale — Closed

Northern Highlands — Closed

Northvale — Closed

Paramus — Closed

Pascack Regional — Closed

Ramapo Indian Hills High School — Closed

Ridgefield — Closed

Ridgewood — Closed

Teaneck — Closed

Teaneck Community Charter School — Closed

Westwood Regional — Closed

Wyckoff — Closed

More Problems for Materialistic Couples More love of money

More Problems for Materialistic Couples More love of money
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Couples who rank money and things as important might be worse off in their relationships than those who aren't as materialistic, a study finds.

Researchers discovered that it may be true what they say: Money can't buy happiness. They surveyed 1,734 married couples across the U.S. about their attitudes toward relationship values and issues such as materialism, compassion, communication and the importance of marriage. Among the participants, 58.7% had either high or low levels of materialism. In that group, 24.1% were both nonmaterialistic, 34.1% were both materialistic, and the rest had dissimilar materialism levels, with one spouse ranking high and the other low.

Couples who didn't place high value on money and things scored moderately higher--about 10% to 15%--on almost every marriage feature on the questionnaire compared with couples who valued materialism. The scores of mismatched couples fell between those who were matched.

"Couples where both spouses are materialistic were worse off on nearly every measure we looked at," said lead author Jason Carroll in a news release. Carroll, a professor of family life at Brigham Young University, added, "There is a pervasive pattern in the data of eroding communication, poor conflict resolution and low responsiveness to each other."

Having more money didn't necessarily make things better. Couples in which both spouses were materialistic tended to be wealthier than couples who didn't place such importance on money.

This may have implications for couples' counseling, the authors noted. "Efforts to develop new interventions aimed directly at addressing the problems associated with materialism in marriage," they wrote, "may be particularly relevant in the current economic context where financial resources may be lower than many couples' expectations."... READ MORE

The Campus as Runway actions

The Campus as Runway actions
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JULIA FLYNN was darting to her classes at Columbia University last week in a Marc by Marc Jacobs daisy-patterned dress and high-heeled Chloé boots, her polished turnout accessorized with a Starbucks venti latte. “I’m really loving the whole Chanel, Valentino and McQueen shows,” she said. “They completely inspired me.” She had gleaned her information that very morning from Style.com.

Ms. Flynn, 24 and a sophomore, is one in a small but self-aware and increasingly vocal contingent of college women who dress to impress. The campus is their runway, a place to show off a style sense that is derived in part from their friends but more often attained through a click of a mouse, a gesture that affords them instant access to the once arcane universe of fashion shows and to the style blogs and shopping sites so many imbibe with their morning brew.

If at one time college women subscribed to a regionally prescribed uniform — twin sets and loafers in the East, frayed jeans and ponchos farther west — now, thanks to the democratizing influence of the Web, trends are disseminated at warp speed, traversing regional borders

and, paradoxically, encouraging a more individualized approach to dress.

Whether students’ tastes run to an urbanely preppie composite of mannish shirts, slim skirts and blazers, flowered dresses and Ferragamo flats, or to a cutting-edge pastiche of long loose-fitting sweaters, calf-length skirts and platform booties, their absorption with fashion points to a sea change, suggesting that the style bar has been raised, reaching a level of sophistication all but unknown a mere decade ago.

“The stereotype used to be that college students live in sweat pants and don’t care about fashion,” said Zephyr Basine, the editor of Collegefashion.net, a blog written by college women. “But today that isn’t so.” If at one time coeds signaled their cool by a kind of willful dishevelment, arriving for 8 a.m. classes in trench coats tossed over pajamas, today that sort of carelessness marks them as out of touch. ...READ MORE

Mio Lin wins 2011 SingTel Grid Girls competition

Mio Lin wins 2011 SingTel Grid Girls competition

SingTel announced student Mio Lin, 18, the winner of the 2011 SingTel Grid Girls competition on Saturday.

Ms Lin beat over 500 hopefuls to walk away with $10,000 in cash and the opportunity to represent Singapore at the front of the starting grid on race day (Sept 25) of the 2011 Formula One SingTel Singapore Grand Prix. She will have the honour of holding the national flag at the this year's race, which will be broadcast 'live' to over 600 million viewers worldwide.

Coming in second and third were Nadiah Mohamed Halim, 20 and Khoo Shu Yun, 25, who won cash prizes of $5,000 and $3,000 respectively.

The judges also decided to award Tabitha Loke, 19, and Deborah Heng, 20 with special prizes and each received a 32-inch LG TV.

Top 20, NUS and NTU, Quacquarelli Symonds survey the ranks in latest

Top 20, NUS and NTU, Quacquarelli Symonds survey the ranks in latest 

NUS climbs three places, NTU jumps 16 on latest QS list 

Top 20, NUS and NTU 1. University of Cambridge (Britain) 2. Harvard University (United States) 3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US) 4. Yale University (US) 5. University of Oxford (Britain) 6. Imperial College London (Britain) 7. University College London (Britain) 8. University of Chicago (US) 9. University of Pennsylvania (US) 10. Columbia University (US) 11. Stanford University (US) 12. California Institute of Technology (US) 13. Princeton University (US) 14. University of Michigan (US) 15. Cornell University (US) 16. Johns Hopkins University (US) 17. McGill University (Canada) 18. ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) (Switzerland) 19. Duke University (US) 20. University of Edinburgh (Britain) 28. National University of Singapore 58. Nanyang Technological University 

It is double honours for the country - the National University of Singapore (NUS) is ranked among the top 30 universities in the world, while Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has jumped 16 places to No. 58. This is according to the latest World University Rankings released this morning by London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). NUS moved up three spots to 28, while NTU jumped from 74 to 58. Singapore Management University, a specialised university, was not included in the annual survey, which was started in 2004 by QS, a London-based consultancy that provides information on higher education and career choices.