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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Epson Showcases Robots For Next-Gen Factories

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Epson provided a big-picture view of the future at the last International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo by demonstrating how robots will automate the manufacturing floor over the next three to five years. Among the most attention-grabbing demonstrations was that featuring autonomous dual-arm robots that Epson aims to have in commercial production by the end of March 2016.

What makes Epson's autonomous dual-arm robots stand out is their human-like ability to see, sense, think, and react. They are able to recognize objects, modulate the amount of force applied to objects to avoid harming them, and make decisions in the course of executing their assigned tasks. These robots are expected to be able to automate manufacturing tasks that until now have had to rely on manual labor due to task difficulty or cost constraints.

As seen below, a pair of cameras mounted in the "head" of the robot function as eyes that enable the robot to "see" and recognize object of various shapes and orientations. Both arms are also equipped with cameras. These cameras allow the robot to see the shape of objects in even greater detail and to pinpoint their exact location.

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Need a job? Who doesn't?

A job is a rare thing especially when you are competing with several hundreds of applicants all vying for only a few vacant positions. You may even find yourself applying for a job that is not a perfect fit for your course, or otherwise land a job in a BPO or most widely known as a "call center".

Join the Magnus Eventus Inc. January 28 & 29 Trinoma Job Fair to be held at the Activity Center,Triangle North Mall, North Ave. cor EDSA, Quezon City.
The Job Fair is entitled "Magnus Eventus Inc. Trinoma Mall Job Fair"! Various companies from different industries will be there!

See you soon January 28 & 29 at the Activity Center of Trinoma Mall from 10am until 5pm. We are expecting more than 3,000 jobseekers to show up at the event. There will also be some free resume printing for jobseekers!

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Drum roll please!

The Philippine Junior Marketing Association (PJMA)'s biggest event is here!

In partnership with one of the leading integrated communications agencies in the Philippines, Havas Media Ortega, we are bringing you Mad World 2014!

"Selfie: How to Create Meaningful Personal Brands" is coming our way this Feb. 02 at the SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia Complex!

Mark your calendars marketers, you are in for a tide of pure marketing madness like never before!

For only P350, we have invited only the best in the fields of Marketing and Advertising, you'll be surprised as we unfold them soon!

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Are you a high school or college student who’s part of your school’s Ultimate Frisbee team? Do you want the thrill of Ultimate without the sun and scorching heat? Then we have great news for you!

At the end of January, the first ever Indoor Ultimate Developmental League will be held in the UP Diliman College of Human Kinetics Gym from January 31 to February 1, 2014.

What is Indoor Ultimate?

Well, it’s basically Ultimate played on a basketball court. It has basically the same rules and regulations but with alterations in terms of the playing area dimensions and the number of players on the playing area at a time.

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"Revilla's speech is more drama and an attempt to pull on the heartstrings of the masses to side with him, than firm evidence to confirm his claim of innocence. I want to see more facts from him. And less emotional manipulation. That is not what I saw while watching him. Disapointng." - Tinni Espiritu

It seems Kap's Amazing Stories has still to share the most amazing story there is. Too bad Senator Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr. shared it via privilege speech at the Senate and thus confirmed only one thing:. He couldn't really defend that he is not a "Mandarambong" and so he did the only thing possible to try to save his neck - put the blame to the Malacanang Administration and try to convince everyone that the President and his men are doing something equally evil.

So that is why Malacanang declared January 20 as National Prayer Day. They probably knew what Bong was going to do. Too bad the prayers didn't worked on the thick-skinned "MadramaBong". It got rolled over by Bong's Tonka truck that he brought with him to the Senate as one of his dramatic props, along with his father, former actor and Senator Ramon Bong Revilla Sr., in a "wheelchair".

Dabarkads Pauleen Luna with LJ Reyes and Ryza Cenon of Eat Bulaga Disrespecting Nurses?

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Still haven’t finished written that novel, short story, or movie? Learn a concrete method for writing stories from five-time Palanca Award-winning writer, Dr. Joem Antonio, in Storywriting 101: Stories by Design. This 12-hour workshop will be held on three Saturdays (February 8, 15 and 22, 2014) from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM at U-View in Fully Booked, Bonifacio High Street.

Storywriting 101 is not your typical writing workshop where participants read out their work to be critiqued. This course will give you a clear method on how to bring a story concept to life; you’ll learn how to create characters, set up a plot, make events vivid in the minds of your readers, and rewrite for polish.

Here’s what past students had to say:

"I like how the planning stage in writing was discussed. Most aspiring writers (like me) always have a problem with organizing ideas, which should be the foundation of every story." - Mel

"It was very refreshing and enlightening because it addressed the common faults of writers by giving tips and lessons in a fun way. All in all it was like work and fun at the same time." - Pat

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ASUS today announced the availability of two new devices, thehigh-performance ASUS Transformer Pad and the unique Ultraportable Transformer Book Trio with a keyboard dock that can also be used as a self-contained Windows 8 desktop PC.

ASUS Transformer Pad TF701T

The new ASUS Transformer Pad is perfect for on-the-go entertainment, thanks to a durable metallic design that’s just 8.9mm thick and weighs 585g. A high-quality speaker with ASUS SonicMaster audio technology gives loud, clear sound for music, movies and games, while the 17-hour battery life when docked means the new ASUS Transformer Pad lasts for two full working days between charges.

The tablet for vivid 2560 x 1600 entertainment

The new ASUS Transformer Pad features a 10.1-inch high-performance IGZO-TFT display with reduced energy consumption and a very wide color gamut. The 2560 x 1600 WQXGA resolution gives an extraordinarily sharp image, while IPS (In-Plane Switching) technology ensures accurate color reproduction, wide 178-degree viewing angles and excellent daylight visibility.

Floy Quintos’ Ang Nawalang Kapatid Closes DUP’s 38th Season

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A musical adaptation of India’s greatest epic closes Dulaang UP’s 38th season. Ang Nawalang Kapatid, adapted from The Mahabharata by acclaimed playwright Floy Quintos, with original score by Ceejay Javier, directed and choreographed by Dexter M. Santos, is a re-telling of the epic battle between the Kaurava and Pandava families. The story focuses on the anti-hero Karna, a brave young man who must choose between loyalty to his family or to the state which made him a prince.

ANG NAWALANG KAPATID was originally written as a children’s play for the Ateneo Children’s Theater and was first produced for their 2011 season. This new version allows for many more of the complexities of the original material to be dramatized. New arrangements of the original songs were created by Ceejay Javier, whose original works include “Isang Panaginip na Fili”, “Astig”, “Alex in Wonderland”,“Break Away Antigone”. He is best known as Musical Director for Atlantis Productions’ “Next ToNormal”, Disney's “The Little Mermaid”, “Carrie”, “Addams Family”. As expected, the new staging will showcase Dexter Santos’ flair for images and movement as seen in his previous works “Maxie the Musical”, “Collection”, “Orosman at Zafira”.

In adapting the Indian epic, Floy Quintos has chosen to highlight the story of family and blood ties, and the conflicts that these bring about. Karna, who in Indian literature is traditionally the anti-hero, is now a young man searching for his dharma, his truth and destiny, while unaware of his true blood ties. The young and energetic cast is made up of the Dulaang UP Ensemble, with a live band. Krina Cayabyab is vocal director.

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LINE, the world’s leading mobile platform with 330-million users, has donated funds raised by its “Pray for the Philippines” special-edition sticker set to victims of Super Typhoon Yolanda.

The stickers, which were sold worldwide through the LINE Sticker Shop from November 15 to December 31, 2013, generated over Php25-million (58,773,190 Yen). The proceeds have been forwarded to relief and rebuilding efforts in storm-battered communities in Visayas and Mindanao.

To express LINE’s support for the cause, Akira Morikawa, the company’s CEO, paid a courtesy call to the Philippine embassy in Tokyo, Japan this past week. Morikawa sat down with Ambassador Manuel Lopez to present the proceeds from LINE’s “Pray for the Philippines” campaign. He was likewise given updates about ongoing relief operations in the country.

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Tourism establishments and travel companies have signified their support for Bangon Tours by signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Tourism Promotions Board (TPB), the marketing arm of the Department of Tourism.

Cebu Pacific Air (CEB) is the latest to sign up by implementing the Bangon Tour Seat Sale with travel period until April 2014. CEB also promotes these tours through communication materials provided by TPB in all its organic ticket offices and partner GSAs and WH in the Philippines. CEB has likewise extended humanitarian flights for stranded passengers in Tacloban and undertaken rehabilitation efforts to aid victims of Typhoon Yolanda.

According to Domingo Ramon Enerio III, TPB’s Chief Operating Officer, The Manila Hotel, Diamond Hotel Philippines and EDSA Shangri-La Hotel lead the industry’s hospitality sector supporters nationwide. Members of the Philippine Travel Agencies Association (PTAA) are also participating in Bangon Tours. These establishments prominently display the Bangon Tours poster with logo in their business premises and submit to the TPB updates related to the total amount donated to NGOs and foundations concerned.

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The Jr. NBA program was first conducted in the Philippines in 2007 and has more than doubled in participation in the past six years. Each year a new city benefits from the grassroots basketball program that involves not just young players but also their parents and coaches.

Alaska brings back the Jr. NBA for the seventh consecutive year, and expanded to include a new program for the girls with Jr. WNBA. The tip off in Manila last Saturday, January 18, will move to Cebu, Puerto Princesa, Dagupan City, including first-time stops in Surigao and Iloilo - reaching over 500 schools and communities nationwide.

The Jr. NBA / Jr. WNBA is the league's international youth development program open to all youth aged between 10 to 14. It admiringly promotes basketball participation, sportsmanship and teamwork, and an active lifestyle among children.

Wait Until Dark: An Impressive Thriller That Truly Shines Out Amidst a Dark Theater Setting

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To start off its 2014 season, Repertory Philippines proudly brings us a Frederick Knott suspense thriller entitled "Wait Until Dark".

Liesl Batucan, from the recent Alice in Wonderland, was truly impressive as a blind housewife named Suzy that was being terrorized by shady individuals that were in search of a musical doll that was apparently filled with the dangerous and prohibited substance known as heroin.. Her husband Sam, played by Lorenz Martinez, also fresh from the Lorenzo the Musical play, mistakenly transported the doll from Amsterdam into their home in London.Suzy, with a little help from the neighbor kid Gloria played by Daniella Gana, must now rely on her cunning instincts, making use of her other vital senses and her strength within the darkness, to outwit the strangers.

The con men played by Arnel Carrion as Harry Roat Jr., Joel Trinidad as Mike Trenton, and Robbie Guevarra as Crocker had distinctively unique personalities that effectively shined out making them really distinguishable among each other.

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Adidas, the official on-court apparel provider for the National Basketball Association (NBA), recently unveiled the uniforms and apparel for the 63^rd NBA All-Star Game on February 16 in New Orleans, Los Angeles.

The uniforms were designed by Adidas and were inspired by New Orleans’ rich and unique culture, featuring vibrant Mardi Gras colors and shiny brass and silver accents on a short-sleeved silhouette. The NBA All-Star logo appears on the chest of the blue “East” and red “West” jerseys in the shape of the fleur-de-lis, the official symbol of Louisiana, with a purple “W” or green “E” cut out to identify the conference of each player.

“Each year, we look forward to developing a unique on-court look for the players that pays homage to the host city and adds to the excitement of this highly anticipated game,” said Chris Grancio, adidas head of global basketball sports marketing. “This year’s All-Star collection reflects New Orleans’ festive musical history while also providing the premium performance elements that NBA athletes have grown accustomed to.”

Starting Over Again Top Bills Piolo Pascual and Toni Gonzaga

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Thinking of watching a movie with your special someone sometime during the love month of February?

Well, I recommend a very "kilig" overload movie from Star Cinema just in time for Valentines Day. Grabe ang hugot ng movie na ito! Here's to no closures between lovers who had to separate ways wondering what went wrong.

On its 20th year, Star Cinema proudly brings you an Olivia M. Lamasan film starring piolo Pascual and Toni Gonzaga in a story about endings and new beginnings, what might have been and what should be.

"Sabihin mo nga saa akin, ano. I deserve and explanation!"

"Anong karapatan mong hingin ang isang bagay na ipinagdamot mong ibigay? I deserved an explanation. I deserved an acceptable reason!"