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W Hotels Designers of the Future Award 2010 Winners Reveal Their Innovative Designs at Design Miami/Basel

June 18, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

LONDON–(Business Wire)–
As a reflection of its dedication and passion for innovation, W Hotels
Worldwide, the hotel category buster, has partnered with Design Miami/ to
present the works of the 2010 W Hotels Designers of the Future Award. This
alliance will allow Design Miami/Basel to expand the benefits that the award
brings to the winners, including the chance for the commissioned projects to
have a life after the fair through practical applications within W`s hotels
around the world.

The 2010 W Hotels Designers of the Future Award recognizes designers working in
innovative ways – whether with new materials, new processes, or new approaches
and gives the next generation of design creatives the opportunity to present
newly commissioned work to a large and powerful audience.

The 2010 W Hotels Designers of the Future Awards winners were announced during
Salone del mobile in Milan:

Beta Tank
Graham Hudson
rAndom International
Zigelbaum + Coelho

These four winners were chosen by a selection committee comprising Ambra Medda,
Director, and Wava Carpenter, Associate Director, Design Miami/; Mike Tiedy,
SVP, Global Brand Design and Innovation, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide,
Inc; and Marcus Fairs, Editor-in-Chief, Dezeen.com.

“Innovation is at the core of W`s design philosophy,” says Mike Tiedy. “The work
of these four winners represents exactly the type of forward-thinking design
that W Hotels seeks to bring to its new and existing hotels around the globe.”

“W Hotels has been a design-led lifestyle brand and an innovator in its category
from its inception in 1998,” says Eva Ziegler, Global Brand Leader, W Hotels
Worldwide. “We are thrilled to partner with Design Miami/Basel and to be
involved in identifying the cutting-edge works of these upcoming and emerging
young talents and look forward to showcasing their work to a global audience at
W Hotels.”

While the prize has always featured unique and groundbreaking design work
embodying the most progressive attitudes of each year, this year`s award pushes
the drive towards experimentation further than ever. Exploring design work
created at the very edges of the discipline, the 2010 W Hotels Designers of the
Future Award will look beyond pure product and furniture design to embrace
conceptually and technologically vanguard work that bridges multiple areas of
practice including art, sociology, and science.

When W opened its first hotel in New York in 1998, it created a new era of hotel
design and established itself as the clear leader in the contemporary lifestyle
hotel space. Every W Hotel demonstrates a passion for cutting-edge design,
rooted in its location and interpreted in a contemporary cool way that is
brought to life through unique collaborations with upcoming as well as renowned
third party and in-house designers. From the Ottoman-referenced glam of W
Istanbul to the design inspired by the dual personality of the British man at
the upcoming W London – Leicester Square (Fall 2010), each new W Hotel begins
with a design philosophy formed by Starwood`s in-house design team and is then
fueled and delivered by a unique collaboration between the designers,
architects, graphic designers, and W`s Global Fashion and Music Directors.

ABOUT W HOTELS WORLDWIDE

W Hotels is an innovative, contemporary, design-led lifestyle brand and the
hotel category buster with 35 hotels and retreats in the most vibrant cities and
exotic destinations around the world. Inspiring, iconic, innovative and
influential, W Hotels provides the ultimate in insider access to a world of
“Wow.” Each hotel offers a unique mix of innovative design and passions around
fashion, music and entertainment. W Hotels offers a holistic lifestyle
experience that is integrated into the brand’s sensibility through contemporary
restaurant concepts, glamorous nightlife experiences, stylish retail concepts
and signature spas. With more than 10 years of proven success, W Hotels is on
track to more than double its footprint by 2011. W Hotels and W Retreats have
been announced for Downtown New York, London, Paris, St. Petersburg, Guangzhou,
Shanghai, Taipai, Bali, Koh Samui, and Verbier, among other international
destinations. For more information, visit www.whotels.com.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts, EAME Division
Jenni Benzaquen, +32 (0) 2204 5494
Director of External Communications
Mob: +32 (0) 496 199 194
jenni.benzaquen@starwoodhotels.com
or
For W Hotels Worldwide
Elaine Drebot/THINK PR, +1 212-343-3920
edrebot@thinkpublicrelations.com

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‘Child sex offenders missing, others committed more crimes’

April 1, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

The Queensland Government says two of the state’s 3,400 registered child sex offenders cannot be found.

Police Minister Neil Roberts says 70 offenders were unaccounted for in 2007 and eight could not be found as of July last year.

Mr Roberts says the figure will fluctuate, but police have introduced new processes to keep tabs on offenders.

“Obviously with experience of monitoring, and the systems that are required to ensure that people do register and we know where they are, they’ve reduced the number down to a very small number,” he said.

However, Opposition police spokesman Vaughan Johnson wants a tougher approach.

“The police would be doing everything in their power to track these two people down,” he said.

“But in the first place why should the police be subjected to the worry and concern of knowing where they are when they should have been kept in prison anyway.”

Reoffending

Mr Roberts also reports 99 child sex offenders were convicted of more crimes in the last 15 months.

The figures were released in response to an Opposition Question on notice.

“Obviously any level of recidivism is something which is unacceptable to the community,” he said.

“But the register certainly provides police with a very valuable tool in tracking down people because they’ve got all the information that they need in order to do that.”

Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek says offenders should not be released from jail unless they have been rehabilitated.

“Almost once every two weeks over the last two years, sex offenders are back in the community in our streets, in our neighbourhoods,” he said.

“Under this Government 99 sex offenders who have reoffended.

“This is a very clear difference between the LNP and the Government.”

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Australia announces new measures to safeguard education for overseas students

August 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Canberra (Australia), Aug.19 (ANI): The Australian Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, today warned education providers that they risk being shut down if they don’t comply with rules relating to international students.

Gillard was speaking in the Australian Parliament at the introduction of an Amendment Bill to the Education Services for Overseas Students (ESOS) Act 2000.

Under the new rules being considered by the Australian Parliament, all education institutions currently registered on the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS) will be required to re-register under new, tighter criteria by December 31, 2010.

The Bill adds two new criteria for registration: the provider must have the principal purpose of providing education; and the provider must have demonstrated a capacity to provide education of a satisfactory standard.

The process will allow the Australian Government to review the registration of education providers to ensure they are providing quality education services to international students visiting Australia. Most providers are doing the right thing, but this change will help weed out the shonky operators.

The state governments of Australia have already started rapid audits of providers, and these will be extended so that all providers working with international students will need to show they have the best interests of the students at heart and not simply a profit motive.

The Bill will also introduce new processes to ensure greater transparency and accountability of international education providers, including their use of education agents.

The amendments are the first in a series of measures the Australian Government is taking to ensure Australia continues to offer quality international education.

The Australian Government has also announced a full review of the ESOS Act to be headed by Bruce Baird with an interim report due in November 2009. International students will be able to have their say at the upcoming International Student Roundtable in September 2009.

Gillard will visit India from August 29 to September 4. (ANI)

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