Things Jane Has Done While Wearing a Cast

 

1.  Jumped ON a diving board, but not OFF the diving board (phew!)

2.  Jumped on the trampoline.

3.  Played in her piano recital (both hands!)

4.  Had the “best birthday of her whole life!”

5.  Ridden a scooter, one-handed, while a tow rope was attached to it.  What?

6.  Seen the play “Wicked” and only felt scared right before Fiyero turned into a scarecrow.

7.  Done the neighborhood slip-n-slide (Wet PLUS running PLUS falling?  You see a problem with that?)

(We’re so relieved it comes off on Thursday, because she’s obviously been REALLY hampered by it for the last couple of weeks.)

Ultra Compact Pan Tilt Design

Service On Demand (SOD) system

SOD - ZM5

(Zone Marking 5m radius)

1. Object detection with Automatics zone status hardware planting
2. H/w is a ad-hoc mesh network
3. H/w create a zone detect status (clear or danger) (GPS)
4. H/w is capable of tampering awareness. No additional object near cleared zone. No removal/shifting.
5. Tampered h/w emit signal (can recall Object detect platform, create Area check interest, or remove tamperer)
6. Upon h/w deploy, Info relay to remote Monitoring module
7. Info used for subsequent resource planning
8. Subsequent resource arrive at cleared H/w zone
9. Have means to locate the h/w (pencil beam for h/w locating, invisible (IR) means to view the h/w location)
10. Only own resources knows the status of the H/w. Need special means to understand/read the H/w
11. H/w have means to turn off after self awareness of preset condition (by time, by situation)
12. H/w have means to be remotely turn off by Monitoring module

Remembrance and honor

Fairview Tennessee, Hudgins Cemetery

Samsung Galaxy S II coming to Maxis soon

Just saw this on Maxis website. It indicates that Maxis will be bringing in the Samsung Galaxy S II soon. *** UPDATE: It’s official. Check this site.

Pan Tilt (possibility)

Yesterday is history, 

Tomorrow is mystery.

Today is a gift, that's why it is called Present.


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The Best Presentation of the Year

[extracted from a email by Carmine Gallo - communications coach to the world’s most admired brands as well as a best-selling author of books on communication and innovation]

I recently had the honor of judging the World’s Best Presentation Contest for a very popular site called Slideshare.  Judges included entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki, digital marketing expert David Armano, along with social media experts Beth Kanter and Jane Hart. Together we reviewed dozens of impressive presentations. I can assure you that one look at the winners and you won’t view your own presentations the same way again.

Presentation design firm,  Empowered Presentations, created the first place winner: Smoke, a Convenient Truth.  The presentation itself is a call for more action to support global anti-smoking campaigns.  I spoke to the designers after the contest had ended to gain more insight into how they approached the topic.

Put your audience first. Designer and Empowered Presentations CEO, Corey Jim, said he is passionate about the topic because his father had passed away from lung cancer.  He wanted to create a story using presentation slides that would change people’s lives.  The best presentations put the audience first.  The fastest way to put your audience to sleep is to begin with an “About Us” slide and to spend the first five minutes talking about yourself, your company or your product.  Your audience members don’t care about you—they care about themselves.

Sketch the story. The most engaging presentations have a strong visual appeal and you can’t create visual PowerPoint slides by opening the software. You create visually interesting images by doing what a movie director would do—storyboarding, sketching, drawing.  Many experts use white boards or old fashioned pen and paper.  Jim uses Post-It notes he sticks to a wall.  One useful technique that Jim taught me—stick to one idea per note.  Next convert that point to a visual representation of that idea.  Finally, create one slide from that idea.

One idea per slide.  Many poorly designed presentations cram too much information on one slide, leaving the audience confused, frustrated and bored.  For example, in one sequence of slides, Jim delivers the statistic that 1.7 trillion cigarettes are consumed every year in China alone.  On one slide we learn that it is the equivalent of 3 million cigarettes a minute.  Instead of simply showing the data, Jim combined it with an image of a watch.  But the minute and second hands were made of cigarettes.  Arresting visuals take thought, and storyboarding.

Take your time. Jim’s colleague, Yancey Unequivocally, says it takes 60 to 90 hours to create a truly impactful presentation.  That means you should set aside about ten hours a week a full six weeks before your presentation.  This isn’t as overwhelming as it sounds.  In most cases, you can create a master presentation or template and re-use the slides with slight modifications for other audiences.

Your PowerPoint presentation is often the one chance you have to influence your audience to action. PowerPoint does not have to dull.

Great presentations can move people and truly inspire.

http://www.slideshare.net/mrcoryjim/smoke-the-convenient-truth-5602255

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Compact Gimbal Mirror Mounts

STOCK# CCGM-1 CCGM-2
Optics Diameter: Ø mm( Inch ) 25.0(1”) 50.0(2”)
Optics Thickness: Min mm( Inch ) 3.0(0.12) 3.0(0.12)
Adjustable Axis θx , θy
Travel Range ( θx , θy) ± 4゜
Dive type 100 Pitch screw
Weight (kg) 0.16 0.25
Material (Treatment) Aluminum ( Black anodized )

Motor Control - What is Four Quadrant Control?

What is Four Quadrant Control?

Hardware: Motion Control

 
Problem: What are the four quadrants of operation of a motor drive? How does this apply to my motion control system?


Solution: To answer this question, we must understand a little about the purpose of servo motors and their function as an electromechanical conversion device. Servo motors are differentiated from other types of electric motors by the fact that they are typically designed with an emphasis on smooth, accurate position and/or velocity control, rather than ultimate power output. Servo systems are often bi-directional (CW or CCW), whereas many common industrial motor drives for pumps and fans and similar equipment only operate in one direction. Accurate control of acceleration and deceleration of a motor is another characteristic of servo systems, which is not always found in simple motor control systems. Many motors rely on the friction alone to decelerate the load when power is removed.

If we consider both directions of operation (CW and CCW) and both modes (acceleration and deceleration), we arrive at four distinct areas, or quadrants, of operation. This can be visualized by plotting the velocity of the motor on the X axis of a graph and the direction of applied torque on the Y axis as shown below. Quadrants 1 and 3 represent the motor applying torque in the direction of motion, while quadrants 2 and 4 represent applying torque opposite the direction of the motion. In quadrants 1 and 3 the flow of energy is from electrical to mechanical. The servo motor is converting electrical power from the drive into motion in the system. In quadrants 2 and 4, the motor is actually acting as a generator. The motion of the system is being converted into electrical power, which is then absorbed by the drive.

Some motor drives are capable of operating in only quadrant 1, while others will work in quadrants 1 and 3, quadrants 1 and 4, etc. Since most servo drives are designed for accurate control in both directions, many will operate, at least transiently, in all for quadrants. To do this the drive must be able to both source and sink electrical power from the motor.





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Cooling down?

More HDB flats at a Faster rate (What took you so long to realize this)

GDP - NOT the sole measure of Happiness

Planning and Getting Ready for Re-Employment

Jurong "White site" - CapitaLand is the highest bidder

Aljunied GRC - Mr Low's first MPS

"Just around the corner"

Michael Barone on how the media keep reporting that lousy economic news is always "unexpected:"

It's obviously going to be hard to achieve the unacknowledged goal of many mainstream journalists -- the president's re-election -- if the economic slump continues. So they characterize economic setbacks as unexpected, with the implication that there's still every reason to believe that, in Herbert Hoover's phrase, prosperity is just around the corner.

And here is a cartoon that appeared in The New Yorker in 1935. Amazing how up to date it is:

Pale Blue Dot

What's the most epic photo ever taken? - Quora

The answer is a photo of Earth taken from the edge of the solar system.

Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken from a record distance of 3.7 billion miles, at the edge of our solar system. It was shot and transmitted by the Voyager 1 spacecraft almost 13 years after its launch.

See also my Google Docs presentation on Genesis and the Origin of Life.

My Birthday @ CEO Fahrenheit88

Young and Henry my best buddy in Sandakan, called me up on my birthday, and said to have a second celebration after Tak Fuk with Sampative, and it's already midnight, we went to CEO Fahrenheit88, always wanted to be here. and here i am. 


I noticed that i can sing for free today, due to my birthday. so? why not? i register myself as a member and get a room. and the room number was 27, which is the day i born. how coincident is that? or the receptionist purposely do so?


there is 2 free drinks in the midnight session. the session is from midnight 12 am to 5am. and i saw a "Lamborghini" drinks on the menu. and i personally didn't think is this cocktail serve in a Karaoke ... and if you want.. u can have both 2 this flaming Lamborghini cocktails. well, guess that my birthday drinks.

Birthday with sampative @Tak Fok HK Seafood Restaurant

i got a white box on table once we reach..


they ask me to open it.. and i trying .. trying.. wondering what's inside?


it's a cake.! why with that weird white box? it's a ICE CREAM CAKE!! hahah, my first ice cream cake!! yummy!!!


cut cut cut!!! wah lau.. frozen cake ar! the knife won't go through..


my cut of cake, 吃得是福. sound familiar. i say it a lot i guess .:P


me and my cake. before it go into my stomach.


and here all Sampative member that celebrate with me that night.

Four Ways to Make Your iPhone Battery Last Longer

A good friend of mine had been complaining that her iPhone 3GS battery was holding less and less of a charge. When we got together at 5 p.m. one recent day, it was at 5 percent full - and it had been fully charged that morning. She had barely used it all day. The phone was apparently running itself dry simply by being turned on.

The single biggest battery consumer is the screen brightness. But it wasn't especially bright on this phone.

So I suggested that she take the phone to an Apple store to get the $60 battery replacement service. In fact, there was an Apple store only two blocks away, so I accompanied her - and found out, upon arrival, that there is no $60 battery replacement service! There's one for iPods, but apparently not for the iPhone.

There are plenty of do-it-yourself and third-party battery-replacement services that advertise online, but the Apple store Genius, named Nicole, said none of that would be necessary. She tested the battery and found that it was perfectly fine!

Instead, Nicole pointed out a few things that were contributing to my friend's rapid battery depletion. I took notes and thought I'd pass them along.

* Push e-mail. This, I believe, was the big one. My friend has seven e-mail accounts, and her phone was checking each of them every 15 minutes. If you turn off the "Push" feature, and set it to Manually instead (in Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendars->Fetch New Data), then your iPhone checks for e-mail only when you actually open the e-mail app. Your battery goes a lot farther.

(If you have a corporate Exchange account, your calendar and address-book data will similarly be updated only when you open those apps.)

* GPS checks. In Settings ->General->Location Services, you'll see a list of all the apps on your phone that are using your phone's location feature to know where you are. (It's a combination of GPS, cell-tower triangulation and, on some phones, Wi-Fi hotspot triangulation.) All of that checking uses battery power, too. My friend had dozens of apps with Location Services turned on, many of which didn't really need to be on. She turned most of them off.

* Notifications. Similarly, in Settings -> Notifications, you see a list of apps that are allowed to display pop-up notifications (those blue text bubbles that look like text messages). To do that, they have to monitor what's going on with your phone - and that takes juice. Turn off the ones you don't really need.

* Background apps. Nicole the Genius discovered that my friend had a huge number of apps open - maybe 40 of them. She maintained that they were using battery power, too, in the background.

Now, I kept my mouth shut. But I'd been led to believe that background apps are generally frozen into suspended animation precisely so that they don't use battery power. In fact, Apple was criticized when it introduced "multitasking" in the latest iPhone software, precisely because apps don't actually keep operating in the background. Only a few sanctioned features keep running in the background (Internet radio playback and GPS tracking, for example).

Even so, Nicole quit all 40 of the apps that were still open. (To do that, double-press the Home button to open the multitasking app switcher. Hold your finger down on any icon until they all start wiggling. Tap the little X close boxes to manually quit open apps.)

Did the Nicole treatment work? Very well indeed. The next day, my friend's battery, by the same time of day (5 p.m.), was still at 80 percent!

So there you go: How to make your iPhone battery last a lot longer. For free. You're welcome.





[extracted from Yahoo -DAVID POGUE, On Tuesday 24 May 2011, 1:48 SGT ]

Apple finally launches iPhone 4 in India after a year

 

Call it sheer competition from rivals or to the growing demand for the smartphones, Apple’s iPhone, the pioneer in touch screen smartphone has finally launched its much awaited predecessor iPhone 4 in India, after its initial launch in US a year ago.

With Indian mobile market already flooded with smartphone makers from Samsung, LG, HTC, Blackberry and Nokia, the entry of iPhone will surely intensify the already crowded market.

Telecom Analysts believe that India is touted as the second largest market for smartphones and with the implementation of new technologies like 3G, will further boost the sales of iPhone in India — the darling of millions worldwide.

As of now, Google’s Android seems to be the market leader with already 6 out of 10 smartphones being powered by Android Operating System, one has to wait and watch how Microsoft—Nokia combine, who promise to bring the best of hardware capabilities, courtesy Nokia, and Microsoft which is already making waves for its Windows 7 Mobile OS compete against giants like Apple and Google. However, the only way Microsoft can compete against Apple is to churn out millions of Addons, probably for free and mimic the Apple iStore concept to stay in the race.

Operator in India

Apple has tied up with India’s most trusted air carrier — Airtel to launch its iPhone 4 in India and is priced between Rs. 34,500 with a memory capacity of 16 GB and Rs. 40,990 with 32 GB capacity and boasts of new exciting features like Facetime for VideoChat, Retina Display and five mega pixel rear camera with LED flash capable of HD recording.

“The iPhone 4 boasts a higher-quality screen and longer battery life than the previous model” said Airtel CEO, PD Sharma who heads the West Bengal and Orissa Operations in India and added, “With the high number of mobile users, smartphone market will grow in the country.”

To check out the latest features, log on to: http://www.apple.com/in/iphone/

Keep watching this space as we bring more from the tech world.

Venky, Signing Off!

You can reach the author at: businessbanter@gmail.com

New Fluidic Verna: The hot 'chic' in India

As the new fluidic Verna mesmerizes the views with its teaser ad during the ongoing DLF IPL 4 this season, the company stated that the bookings for this new beauty has already clocked 5,000 Pan India. The company is working round the clock to meet the whopping demand  of the customers in India.

Check out the various features of the car, the first in its segment, is sure to turn on the heat on its competitors like Ford Motors, Maruti Suzuki and Tata Motors.

Photos:

Features:

    * Front map lamps with Sun glass holder

    * 4 Speakers

    * Illuminated P/Window switches with Drv side Auto Down

    * Electrically adjustable outside rear view mirrors

    * Keyless entry - integrated on folding key

    * Air conditioner

    * Driver information display

    * Electric power steering with tilt function

    * Front seats back pockets

    * Driver & Passenger vanity mirror

    * MT shift indicator

    * Alternator management system

Exteriors:

    * Full Wheel Cover

    * Body colored outside mirrors with LED turn lndicators

    * Chrome front grille

    * Door black out tapes

    * Chrome tipped dual mutfler

Luxury Interiors:

    * Rear Center Armrest w/ Cup Holder

    * Full Cloth Upholstery

    * Blue interior illumination

    * 2 DIN MP3 player with AUX-in & USB

    * Audio hand remote

Safety Features:

    * Central locking system

    * Front Fog Lamps

    * Clutch lock system

    * Immobiliser

Check out the various variants available in India

Hyundai Verna Fluidic 1.4 VTVT

CC: 1396cc Petrol

Transmission: Manual            

Ex-Showroom Price: Rs. 7,04,943

Hyundai Verna Fluidic 1.6 VTVT

CC: 1591cc Petrol

Transmission: Manual

Ex-Showroom Price: Rs. 7,70,992

Hyundai Verna Fluidic 1.4 CRDI

CC: 1396cc Diesel

Transmission: Manual

Ex-Showroom Price: Rs. 8,15,891

Hyundai Verna Fluidic 1.6 VTVT SX

CC: 1591cc Petrol

Transmission: Manual

Ex-Showroom Price: Rs. 8,31,502

Hyundai Verna Fluidic 1.6 CRDI

CC: 1582cc Diesel

Transmission: Manual

Ex-Showroom Price: Rs. 8,81,942

Hyundai Verna Fluidic 1.6 VTVT SX Opt

CC: 1591cc Petrol

Transmission: Manual

Ex-Showroom Price: Rs. 9,02,096

Hyundai Verna Fluidic 1.6 CRDI SX

CC: 1582cc Diesel

Transmission: Manual

Ex-Showroom Price: Rs. 9,42,451

Hyundai Verna Fluidic 1.6 VTVT SX Opt AT

CC: 1591cc Petrol

Transmission: Automatic

Ex-Showroom Price: Rs. 9,72,691

Hyundai Verna Fluidic 1.6 CRDI SX Opt

CC: 1582cc Diesel

Transmission: Manual

Ex-Showroom Price: Rs. 10,13,411

Hyundai Verna Fluidic 1.6 CRDI SX Opt AT

CC: 1582cc Diesel

Transmission: Automatic

Ex-Showroom Price: Rs. 10,84,025

Watch out this space as we bring you the latest from the auto world.

Venky, Signing Off!