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Marina Bay Sand Hotel Singapore

Marina Bay Sands Hotel is an integrated resort fronting Marina Bay in Singapore. Developed by Las Vegas Sands, it is billed as the world's most expensive standalone casino property at S$8 billion, including cost of the prime land.
Located along the Marina Bay waterfront, Marina Bay Sands features three cascading hotel towers topped by an extraordinary sky park, ‘floating’ crystal pavilions, a lotus-inspired Museum, retail stores featuring cutting-edge labels and international luxury brands, trendy Celebrity Chef restaurants, endless entertainment at the theaters, the hottest night clubs and a Las Vegas-style casino. Business visitors will also enjoy the extensive Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions (MICE) facilities featuring state-of-the-art technology, highly flexible exhibition halls, and a convention centre that can host over 45,000 delegates. Marina Bay Sands seamlessly combines business and leisure into a singular destination unlike any other.

source:wikipedia and marinabaysands.com

Sand Glass Traffic Lights

Sand Glass LED Traffic Light Concept !

Over at YankoDesign, designer Thanva Tivawong has created a cool traffic light system based on LED and hourglass design. This traffic light concept is called Sand Glass, where you can see a dropping sands to count down the time and show drivers the sensible interactive animation of traffic light that switch from Red-Yellow-Green and vise versa. “Sand Glass” the LED traffic lights which inspired from the hour glass, one of the original timer that we’ve uses for over century. Easy to see the light’s color and estimate how long to wait or hurry to go obviously from the dropping pixels interface like a real sand glass. The countdown number, 3-2-1, appears only while the yellow light’s turn on the warn that the light’s color will change in a few seconds. That’s all make Sand Glass is a sensible communication design for everyone.
image source:picztasy.com

Ayers Rock Wikipedia

Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory, central Australia. It lies 335 km (208 mi) south west of the nearest large town, Alice Springs; 450 km (280 mi) by road. Kata Tjuta and Uluru are the two major features of the Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park. Uluru is sacred to the Aṉangu, the Aboriginal people of the area. It has many springs, waterholes, rock caves and ancient paintings. Uluru is listed as a World Heritage Site. (Wikipedia)

Facebook offices Located around the World

Facebook, Inc. is a company that operates and has private social networking site, Facebook. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. In addition users can join organized by city, networks in the workplace, school, and region. The website name is derived from the colloquial name given to books at the beginning of the academic year university administrations with the intention of students help to get to know. Read on......

Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, Facebook offices Located around the World operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of January 2011, Facebook has more than 600 million active users. Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University. The website’s membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over.

The information you already know, because many are registered in facebook. Let’s visit the company's offices.

Offices in Silicon Valley