Together with Commonwealth and Clementi stations, this station will see the construction of an additional pedestrian link bridge linking the station to two new exits, one on each side of the road. The exits will be equipped with fare gates and ticketing machines. Construction started in mid-2012 and opened on August 23, 2015, together with Commonwealth.
Commonwealth MRT station
Commonwealth MRT Station (EW20) is an MRT station in Singapore. It is part of the East West MRT Line. It was opened on 12 March 1988.
Together with Queenstown and Clementi stations, an additional pedestrian link bridge linking the station to two new exits were built, one on each side of the road. The exits are equipped with fare gates and ticketing machines, whereas the exit numbers are divided into 1 and 2 respectively. These new exits were opened on 23 August 2015, alongside Queenstown.
Chañaral
Chañaral is a small coastal city and commune in the Atacama region in the north of Chile. It is the capital of the province of Chañaral.
Its name, "Chañaral" means a "place where there are many trees of chaña" (the Chilean name for "Geoffroea decorticans").
In 1824, Diego de Almeyda found a large area with copper ore in the region; later, he looked for a place from where to export the mineral and began to form a small village in the place where is the present town of Chanaral. In 26 October 1833, José Joaquín Prieto founded the Distrito de Chañaral ("Chañaral District").
The commune of Chañaral has an area of . The city of Chañaral is to the north of Santiago at and to the north of the city of Copiapó at .
The commune is bordered on the north by the Antofagasta region, on the east by the Diego de Almagro commune, on the south by the Copiapó province and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
Near the town of Chañaral, to the north, is the "Pan de Azúcar National Park".
The "Salado" river flows into the Pacific Ocean in the commune of "Chañaral"; it is about long.
Chañaral has a very dry climate, a desert climate. The average amount of precipitation for the year, during 47 years, is only .
(last national census), there were 13,143 people living in the commune, giving it a population density of inhabitants/km².
Chañaral is the largest city of the province with a population, in 2002, of 12,123 inhabitants. The small town of "Salado" has 1,149 inhabitants.
Linda Partridge
Dame Linda Partridge DBE FRS (born 18 March 1950) is a British geneticist. She studies the biology and genetics of ageing (biogerontology) and age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
Partridge is the Weldon Professor of Biometry at University College London, and director of UCL's Institute of Healthy Ageing.
She is also founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing.
Partridge was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996 and appointed CBE in 2003. She was awarded the Linnean Society of London's prestigious Darwin–Wallace Medal in 2008.
In 2009, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), and received the Croonian lectureship from the Royal Society.
In March 2009, the UKRC announced Dame Linda was one of six Women of Outstanding Achievement in Science, Engineering and Technology.
She is a member of the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering.
She was awarded Foreign Honorary Membership from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.
She has been awarded Honorary Degrees (DSc) from the University of Bath in 2011, the University of Oxford and the University of Brighton.
In a recent BBC radio interview Partridge talked about her life and work.
Now That You Got It
"Now That You Got It" is a song by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani from her second solo studio album, "The Sweet Escape" (2006). Stefani co-wrote the song with its producers Sean Garrett and Swizz Beatz. The album version of the song is a hip hop and R&B song and the remix is a reggae song.
The song's music video was directed by The Saline Project and was shot in Puerto Rico and Jamaica. The Puerto Rico scenes were filmed after Stefani's concert there on July 19, 2007. Most of the video were shot in a studio, including scenes of Stefani riding a motorbike in front of a green screen.
Credits adapted from the liner notes of "The Sweet Escape".
Diego de Almagro, Chile
Diego de Almagro is a small Chilean city and commune in the Chañaral Province, Atacama Region. The commune is named after Diego de Almagro, a Spanish conquistador.
Its inhabitants are called "dieguinos" (women: "dieguinas").
The commune was created on 19 August 1972 with the name of "Pueblo Hundido" but its name was changed on 13 April 1977 to the present name of "Diego de Almagro".
The commune of Diego de Almagro has an area of . The city of Diego de Almagro is at from Chañaral (capital of the province and at from the city of Copiapó (capital of the Atacama region).
The commune is bordered on the north by the Antofagasta region, on the east by Argentina, on the south by the Copiapó province and on the west by the Chañaral commune.
Diego de Almagro has a very dry climate, a desert climate. The average amount of precipitation for the year, during 10 years, is only .
(last national census), there were 18,589 people living in the commune, giving it a population density of inhabitants/km².
The largest town of the commune is "Salvador", a mining town, with a population, in 2002, of 9,745 inhabitants. The town of Diego de Almagro has 8,192 inhabitants.
Copiapó Province
Copiapó Province () is one of three provinces of the northern Chilean region of Atacama (III). Its capital is the city of Copiapó.
The Copiapó province has an area of , the largest province in the Atacama region.
Copiapó is bordered on the north by the Chañaral province, on the northeast by Argentina, on the east by the Tierra Amarilla commune, on the south by the Huasco province and on the west by the Pacific Ocean and the Caldera commune.
The main river of the province is the Copiapó river that is long. In the valley of the Copiapó river, fruits, including grapes, are grown.
(last national census), there were 155,713 people living in the province, giving it a population density of inhabitants/km².
The largest city of the province is Copiapó, its capital, with a population, in 2002, of 129,091 inhabitants.
As a province, Copiapó is a second-level administrative division, consisting of three communes ("comunas"). The city of Copiapó serves as the provincial capital. The province is administered by a governor.
Huasco Province
Huasco Province ) is one of three provinces of the northern Chilean region of Atacama (III). Its capital is the city of Vallenar.
The Huasco province has an area of , the smallest province in the Atacama region.
Huasco is bordered on the north by the Copiapó province, on the east by Argentina, on the south by the Coquimbo region and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
The main river of the province is the Huasco river that is long. In the valley of the river, fruits, including grapes, are grown.
(last national census), there were 6,649 people living in the province, giving it a population density of inhabitants/km².
The largest city of the province is Vallenar, its capital, with a population, in 2002, of 48,040 inhabitants in the commune.
As a province, Huasco is a second-level administrative division, consisting of four communes ("comunas"). The city of Vallenar serves as the provincial capital. The province is administered by a governor.
Cimo, Ticino
Cimo is a village and former municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
On 4 April 2004 the former municipalities of Bosco Luganese and Cimo merged to form the municipality of Bioggio.
Breno, Ticino
Breno is a village and former municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.