Nus Er Failed' title='Nus Er Failed' />He borrowed 4. Singapore News Top Stories. For the eight years that he courted Ms Lim Seou Lan until he married her in 1. Jason Yeo was neither a doting nor indulgent boyfriend. He was working 2. Nous British n a s US n u s, sometimes equated to intellect or intelligence, is a philosophical term for the faculty of the human mind which is. The Spratly Islands dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute between the Peoples Republic of China, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, concerning ownership. Latest breaking news, including politics, crime and celebrity. Find stories, updates and expert opinion. The AlumNUS clinched the Grand Award in the OneofaKind Publications category for APEX 2016. ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE J U L S. PHYS. ORG A team from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine NUS Medicine has invented a fundamentally new way of folding and protecting recombinant proteins. Giro 2018 Route Rumours Cyclingnews Forum. Polish media are still informing that Poland has not definitely lost its chances yet. In fact, he often had to borrow money from the brokerage executive. By the time they tied the knot, he owed her a whopping 4. I asked her why she had no qualms lending me so much money, says Mr Yeo, 5. She said she was investing in me. Her investment has proved to be a shrewd one. Her husband is now founder and chief executive of JCS Group, which has six divisions specialising in fields from machinery and equipment manufacturing to renewable energy. With subsidiaries in several countries including the United States, China and Sri Lanka, the group employs more than 4. Sturdily built with a quiet dignity, Mr Yeo is sitting in the boardroom of his JCS factory in Woodlands. Despite his valiant attempts to stem them, tears well from the corner of his eyes as he recalls the trials and tribulations he went through before finding success. The eighth of 1. 0 children of vegetable and poultry farmers, he grew up in a village in Sembawang. Life was not easy, and Mr Yeo and all his siblings had to help out on the farm. I saved the five cents I was given for school every day and when Saturday came along, I would be very happy. I would spend 1. 5 cents on a bottle of Coke, and the other 1. His interest in things mechanical surfaced at a very young age he was always tinkering with machines and coming up with contraptions to shoot birds. When he was 1. 4, the former pupil of Nan Chiau Primary and later, Hwa Chong Secondary, designed a machine for one of his elder brothers who ran a small business making birdcages. The birdcage making machine became the talk of his village in Sembawang. I just relied on my instincts. I visualised the machine, sketched it out and then built it by using parts bought here and from Japan, he says. Except for an A in Mathematics, his O level results were mediocre. He applied to study mechanical engineering in Singapore Polytechnic, but was booted out after a few months when he failed one of his subjects. DUKENUS CLASS OF 2014. YEARBOOK. Dear Class of 2014, Message from Senior Associate Dean of Education. With your class, I was frequently told that everything should. Fiore Furlano dei Liberi de Cividale dAustria Fiore delli Liberi, Fiore Furlano, Fiore de Cividale dAustria ca. Nus Er Failed' title='Nus Er Failed' />He signed up with the Republic of Singapore Air Force, where he spent seven years as an aircraft mechanic. I remember my first pay cheque. It was 2. 38, says Mr Yeo, who was at the Air Engineering Training Institute for a two year course in aircraft maintenance. The air force also supported his decision to go back to school and sponsored his part time studies for a diploma in factory automation from Singapore Polytechnic. After seven years, he decided to strike out on his own in 1. Hoping to start an automation business, he borrowed 5. His plans, however, went awry when a close friend asked to borrow 3. He said he needed it urgently and would return it to me one or two weeks later. Ive not seen this friend since, he says, shaking his head. Although he could no longer afford the machines he had hoped to invest in, Mr Yeo went ahead with his dream and set up JCS in a makeshift workshop in a parking space outside his family home in Sembawang. Business was hard to come by as he had no track record. To support himself, he started repairing and sprucing up old cars before reselling them. It was not a bad living. Sometimes I could sell five cars in a day and earn a couple of thousand dollars, he says. About a year later, however, he stopped the business. Speaking slowly, he says There was an incident. I cheated a guy. Instead of doing a proper welding job, he had fixed a hole in a Mazda with tin plate and touched it up. The vehicle was sold to a handicapped buyer. He had only one arm. That night, I was overcome by a very strong feeling I felt very bad, says Mr Yeo, brushing away a tear. We didnt do it properly and it was wrong. The next day, I just stopped the business. He poured his heart and soul into his automation business next and the next decade was bruising and punishing. Three other partners who joined him in the beginning pulled out after a few months. The tough times were probably retribution for what I did, he says with a wry grimace. He accepted all sorts of commissions, from moulds to automated pancake machines. The business grew. Although he had to move to new premises in Marsiling and hire more people, he was not making money. STARTING AGAINWhen my first child was born, I was overseas. I was working so hard and travelling so much, I was not around much when they were growing up. I decided I had to start building a relationship with them as a friend, not as a dad as that wont work. MR JASON YEO, who says Buddhism studies and his EMBA have helped him to re evaluate his life and his relationshipsI was building machines for people, but I was losing money for every project I took on. Because I was so focused on building machines, I didnt think about how to build the business, recalls Mr Yeo who built more than 8. High production costs and tardy payments by customers drove him into debt. For nearly a year, he borrowed 5. I got only 4. 5,0. I had to pay the moneylender back on the 2. I would borrow again, he says. One of my sisters worked for me I owed her her monthly 8. Every month, I would roll over my finances to keep the business going. Working 2. Fortunately, he could count on the support of Ms Lim, who was drawing a handsome salary working in a brokerage. They met at a gathering organised by a friend and realised that they lived in the same neighbourhood. On more than one occasion, he thought of throwing in the towel. He remembers being stuck, literally, by a machine he was building at 3am. I was clamped in by two air jacks and I was in the workshop alone. I struggled and had to cut wires for nearly two hours before I could free myself. I told myself perhaps I should just give up. I gave myself one year to fix my problems, but one year came and went and I hadnt fixed them, so I carried on. After seven years, he decided to switch tack by focusing on designing and building his own equipment. This decision changed not only his business, but also the course of his life. He invented a machine capable of doing precision cleaning and washing for components in high tech industries. JCS started making decent revenue, but a big boost came when Mr Yeo sold a machine to a Japanese multi national company in 2. Not long after, the Japanese boss came to visit JCS at their premises in Marsiling. He said that if he had known my factory was like a backyard, he would not have ordered his first machine, Mr Yeo recalls with a laugh. Installation Order Sims 2. But theyre still ordering from us. We have sold more than 3. The Japanese deal opened a lot of other doors for JCS. In 2. 00. 1, Mr Yeo moved out of his 3,0. Marsiling to a 2. Woodlands. He soon set up operations in other countries including China, the United States and Thailand. From Day One, I had wanted this company to go international, he says. Diversification was next on the cards. From cleaning equipment, he went on to start companies offering a multitude of other services including packing and assembly, tool and die design and manufacturing for the aviation industry and producing organic fertiliser. Today he has six divisions, one of which is Biocair, which has come up with an alcohol free anti bacterial disinfectant. Tested to kill 9. US Pharmacopoeia Standard, the spray which is child friendly is now sold in about 3. Mr Yeo has visions of JCS being a master incubator, spurring innovation and nurturing new businesses from his existing ones. Nous Wikipedia. Nous British 1 US, sometimes equated to intellect or intelligence, is a philosophical term for the faculty of the human mind which is described in classical philosophy as necessary for understanding what is true or real. The three commonly used philosophical terms are from Greek, or, and Latinintellctus and intelligentia respectively. To describe the activity of this faculty, apart from verbs based on the word understanding, the word intellection is sometimes used in philosophical contexts, and the Greek words nosis and noein are sometimes also used. This activity is understood in a similar way, at least in some contexts, to the modern concept of intuition. In philosophy, common English translations include understanding and mind or sometimes thought or reason in the sense of that which reasons, not the activity of reasoning. It is also often described as something equivalent to perception except that it works within the mind the minds eye. It has been suggested that the basic meaning is something like awareness. In colloquial British English, nous also denotes good sense, which is close to one everyday meaning it had in Ancient Greece. This diagram shows the medieval understanding of spheres of the cosmos, derived from Aristotle, and as per the standard explanation by Ptolemy. It came to be understood that at least the outermost sphere marked Prim Mobile has its own intellect, intelligence or nous a cosmic equivalent to the human mind. In Aristotles influential works, the term was carefully distinguished from sense perception, imagination, and reason, although these terms are closely inter related. The term was apparently already singled out by earlier philosophers such as Parmenides, whose works are largely lost. In post Aristotelian discussions, the exact boundaries between perception, understanding of perception, and reasoning have not always agreed with the definitions of Aristotle, even though his terminology remains influential. In the Aristotelian scheme, nous is the basic understanding or awareness which allows human beings to think rationally. For Aristotle, this was distinct from the processing of sensory perception, including the use of imagination and memory, which other animals can do. This therefore connects discussion of nous, to discussion of how the human mind sets definitions in a consistent and communicable way, and whether people must be born with some innate potential to understand the same universalcategories the same logical ways. Deriving from this it was also sometimes argued, especially in classical and medieval philosophy, that the individual nous must require help of a spiritual and divine type. By this type of account, it came to be argued that the human understanding nous somehow stems from this cosmic nous, which is however not just a recipient of order, but a creator of it. Such explanations were influential in the development of medieval accounts of God, the immortality of the soul, and even the motions of the stars, in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, amongst both eclectic philosophers and authors representing all the major faiths of their times. Pre Socratic usageedit. The earliest surviving text that uses the word nous is the Iliad. Agamemnon says to Achilles Do not thus, mighty though you are, godlike Achilles, seek to deceive me with your wit nous for you will not get by me nor persuade me. In early Greek uses, Homer used nous to signify mental activities of both mortals and immortals, for example what they really have on their mind as opposed to what they say aloud. It was one of several words related to thought, thinking, and perceiving with the mind. In pre Socratic philosophy, it became increasingly distinguished as a source of knowledge and reasoning and opposed to mere sense perception, or thinking influenced by the body such as emotion. For example, Heraclitus complained that much learning does not teach nous. Among some Greek authors, a faculty of intelligence known as a higher mind came to be considered as a property of the cosmos as a whole. The work of Parmenides set the scene for Greek philosophy to come and the concept of nous was central to his radical proposals. He claimed that reality as the senses perceive it is not a world of truth at all, because sense perception is so unreliable, and what is perceived is so uncertain and changeable. Instead he argued for a dualism wherein nous and related words the verb for thinking which describes its mental perceiving activity, noein, and the unchanging and eternal objects of this perception nota describe a form of perception which is not physical, but intellectual only, distinct from sense perception and the objects of sense perception. Anaxagoras, born about 5. BC, is the first person who is definitely known to have explained the concept of a nous mind, which arranged all other things in the cosmos in their proper order, started them in a rotating motion, and continuing to control them to some extent, having an especially strong connection with living things. However Aristotle reports an earlier philosopher, Hermotimus of Clazomenae, who had taken a similar position. Amongst the pre Socratic philosophers before Anaxagoras, other philosophers had proposed a similar ordering human like principle causing life and the rotation of the heavens. For example, Empedocles, like Hesiod much earlier, described cosmic order and living things as caused by a cosmic version of love,9 and Pythagoras and Heraclitus, attributed the cosmos with reason logos. According to Anaxagoras the cosmos is made of infinitely divisible matter, every bit of which can inherently become anything, except Mind nous, which is also matter, but which can only be found separated from this general mixture, or else mixed into living things, or in other words in the Greek terminology of the time, things with a soul psuch. Anaxagoras wrote All other things partake in a portion of everything, while nous is infinite and self ruled, and is mixed with nothing, but is alone, itself by itself. For if it were not by itself, but were mixed with anything else, it would partake in all things if it were mixed with any for in everything there is a portion of everything, as has been said by me in what goes before, and the things mixed with it would hinder it, so that it would have power over nothing in the same way that it has now being alone by itself. For it is the thinnest of all things and the purest, and it has all knowledge about everything and the greatest strength and nous has power over all things, both greater and smaller, that have soul psuch. Concerning cosmology, Anaxagoras, like some Greek philosophers already before him, believed the cosmos was revolving, and had formed into its visible order as a result of such revolving causing a separating and mixing of different types of chemical elements. Nous, in his system, originally caused this revolving motion to start, but it does not necessarily continue to play a role once the mechanical motion has started.