History of Internet: Intergalactic Network

 Have you ever wonder where Internet originates? This now the right time to know Internet's history. Just scan over this long picture and you'll know more about Internet. Enjoy.

Economics - Cost Concepts [Lesson 6]

A new chapter to read. We are now halfway to the end of first semester in majoring years. So don't lose your determination, start reading lessons now! This is just the beginning.


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Will Hong Kong Ban Philippines?

 This is probably what's running on your mind now. Will Hong Kong ban Philippines after the bus hostage taking of a dismissed police captain, Senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza? There were a total of 15 hostages, 14 Hong Kong tourists, and 1 Filipino as the driver of the bus. It is not yet confirmed how many died in the said tragic event but what is sure for now that there were survivors.

No one can answer the question yet except for Hong Kong's government. But one thing is that we can all kiss Philippine's tourism goodbye because of the hostage drama happened at Quirino Grandstand this day. Let's all hope that it would not a big burden on Philippines attempt in changing its course in becoming a better country.

What do you think will happen in our country?

Update from GMANews.tv,

The Security Bureau of Hong Kong advised its citizens to avoid all travel to the Philippines an hour after the hostage crisis ended Monday.

In an outbound travel alert, the Security Bureau, changed its “amber alert warning" - meaning there were signs of threat - for the Philippines to a “black alert warning" indicating severe threats on the country’s security.

The Hong Kong warning stated that a “serious kidnap incident happened in the Philippines. [R]esidents should avoid all travel to the country; those who are already there should attend to their personal safety and exercise caution."

The travel warning came after the 10-hour hostage crisis ended with at least 4 Chinese nationals killed. Hostage-taker Rolando Mendoza, a former police office, was shot in the head by a SWAT sniper. 

Six of the hostages were confirmed alive, and the fate of the rest of the hostages were unknown. —Jerrie Abella/VS, GMANews.TV

President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III Website

 Our own President Noynoy Aquino launched his very own website last August 16, 2010. The main mission of PNOY Website is to create communication between President Aquino and the people, us. Another purpose is to get feedbacks from the society, telling the president their woes and grievances. It is to make a way for the Filipino citizens to interact with him in order to know the people's thoughts and problems to make the administration much more trustworthy. 

PNOY's Website is very reach with the latest news about what's going on inside the government such as his policy statements, list of his cabinet members with their respective link to their own departments, the contact information, links to official social networking pages.

It achieved 16,000 views within the first three hours of PNOY's Website from 94 different countries. This suggests that President Aquino's move is not wasted. In the near future almost all Filipinos would be visiting his site just to get informations about his plans and endeavors.

Click HERE to visit the president's website.

Economics - Lesson 5

 Preliminary examinations are now over and we are back on track. We can't stop studying lessons. So now, here is the copy of the presentation of lesson 5 in economics. Good luck on the second half of the sem.


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First Major Exams are Now Over

 My first preliminary examinations as a mechanical engineering student is now over. And I only have one thing to say, it is completely different compared to the major exams during my first and second year in engineering.

The exams for this sem has eaten 5 days while the whole 1st two years consistently used 4 days. The thing is that everyday it felt like I'm going to have an exam on a major subject so basically I can't afford to waste time. The subjects are more technical now compared to last year's subjects. This coming week there is still a preliminary exam for Kinematics where we will draw within 3 hours. Good luck for me.


This is only the beginning.

The Winners of Sony VAIO M Series

Here are the three winners of Sony VAIO M Series. Congratulations to the winners!

Thank you for participating the contest from our site. Hope to see you here again for the next contests. Cheers!

If you are still not contented, feel free to check out Sony Philippines site.

Machine Shop - Machining Hand-out

 The compilation of the hand-out from Ariel's profile is now accessible and ready to be downloaded. I compiled 63 pages in all. I know this would be tough for us but don't lose the determination to finish all of it. I know we can do it. Good luck!

Tomorrow will be the last day of our preliminary examination and I hope that all of us will be happy with the result of the exams. Feel free to click our ads seen on the right sidebar, top header, and bottom part of the site.

Click HERE to access the hand-out.

Kinematics - Instantaneous Axis (Plate #3)

 Here's my third plate. Like my second plate, it's about Velocity Analysis. I made this plate right after drawing the second one. It took me 2.5 hours to completely finish the plate. I had a hard time drawing it because the instantaneous axis of the links are too far, so I have to use a big compass. Here's the compass used by my classmate while making this plate.

Drawing after the cut.



Here's my third plate.

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Kinematics - Resolution and Composition (Plate #2)

 My second plate is about Velocity Analysis using the resolution and composition method. Velocity analysis is a graphical technique used for the determination of the velocities of the parts of a mechanical device, specially those of a plane mechanism with rigid component links. It was the first lesson on my Kinematics class and my third plate is also about velocity analysis using the instantaneous axis method.

The drawing itself is not that hard but you need to be very careful in executing the steps. Analyzing the problem is much more difficult. The more complex the linkage are the harder it will be. My second plate isn't that complicated but it took me about 3 hours just to finish this plate and I hope I will get a high grade on it. 

Drawing after the cut.

Here's my second plate.

Q2BBCQ4EFPS is a compound linkage. Q2 and Q4 are fixed centers on a horizontal line with Q4 7.5 inches to the right of Q2. Q2B, 3.5 inches long, oscillates above Q2. CQ4 is a crank 2 inches long that rotates about Q4. BC is a connecting rod 7 inches long. P is an oscillating bearing block that is pivoted at a fixed point 4.5 inches above Q4. EF, 8.5 inches long, which is pinned to the mid point of the connecting rod BC at E, extends through the oscillating block at P. F is connected to a slide 7 by a link FS, 6.5 inches long. The slide 8 moves in a vertical guide whose center line is 1.5 inches to the right of Q4. Q4C rotates uniformly counterclockwise at 30 rpm and has turned through an angle of 150 degrees from right horizontal position, causing S to be below Q2Q4. 

The problem was retrieved from Elements of Mechanism by Doughtie and James, p.471 - L-8.

Machine Shop Shirt is Here!

UST Mechanical Engineering - Machine Shop

 The long-awaited Machine Shop shirt has finally arrived! Cheers, 3MEA. After waiting for almost half of a semester, we won't be entering the building wearing black shirts with random prints. We are now united as one. I feel like we are just about to start our Machine Shop class when we already finished a project. 


Photos of the shirt after the cut.

Front View

Back View

Click HERE to see more of what we do on Machine Shop class.

Management - Chapter 7 & 8

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

 Here are the last two chapters included in the preliminary examination on Management. The scope is from chapter 4 to 8. You can access chapters 4 to 6 HERE.

Good luck on the exam. Study well.

NOTE:

Access the schedule of our preliminary examinations in the Calendar of Events of 3MEA, scroll down until you reach the bottom of this page.

Meebo Widget: Communicate to Your Visitors

 Time to communicate to your readers with the aid of Meebo Me. Meebo Me is designed for anyone with a home on the web. If you've got a web page where you'd like to communicate with your visitors, meebo me allows you to see the people who are visiting your web page and chat with them!


If you wanted to see a sample, look at the right side of the site and you'll see a chat box that let's you send a message. So, how does it works? The Meebo Me widget allows your visitors to send you a message and able you to read it at the same time. Moreover, it lets you send a message back thus, private live chatting occurs between you and your visitor. 


Steps after the cut.




Follow these simple steps in order to communicate to your visitors.

1. Create and customize your Meebo Me widget HERE. You can adjust the width and length of your widget depending where you will embed it. You can also customize its colors in order to blend on the theme of your site. Get the code and embed it on your site.

2. After embedding and been satisfied with it, your next move is to visit Meebo.com and log in with your username and password. If you does not have a account yet then it's time to make one!

3. When someone visits your webpage, they will show up on your Meebo buddylist as a new visitor.

4. Lastly, you will now be able to IM your visitors in your buddylist or the other way around.


Now you're done! If this post helped you in any way, kindly click the 'Like' button for Facebook.

May Pasok Ba?

"*Sigh* Is there a class today?"

 Was there an instance happened that you do not know if you should go to school due to inconsistency of hearsays because there is a typhoon? 

"I should have not went to school. There's no class. *:c*."

Did it happen that you went to school knowing that your school announced a late suspension of classes that you didn't have a chance to know?

No need to be panic-struck because MayPasokBa is now helping us all to know the answer on one question that befuddles all of us, "Is there a class today?". Yes! MayPasokBa will relief our anxieties and will either say a 'Yes' or a 'No'. They will be a great help for us specially this season.

Check them out HERE.

At Last, a JanSport Bag!

 At last, I got a JanSport bag. I got it last Saturday when we attended the celebration of my grandmother's birthday and my uncle's 3rd business anniversary. He is selling supplements for those who workout on gyms through online marketing. By the way, if you are interested or taking in muscle juice, whey protein, for example, feel free to visit his site, Body Blast. Before we, with my mom and sister, went to Gerry's Grill, we entered Bratpack and in no time I'm already decided to buy a bag. 

Photos after the cut.

Front View

Oblique View

And here it is, my new JanSport bag. I have a big backpack bag now. Congratulate me. Haha.


If you want to see more of their designs and styles, follow this link to their main site, JanSport.

Kinematics - Instantaneous Axis CAD (Plate #3)

 Given the linkage Q2BCQ4EFH. Q2 and Q4 are fixed centers lying horizontally 6 in. apart with Q2 to left of Q4. Q2B is a crank 3 in. long and CQ4E is a lever 8 in. long pivoted at its mid point Q4, with C oscillating above the center line Q2Q4. BC is a connecting rod 7 in. long. EF is a link 8.5 in long driving a sliding block 8 and pinned to 8 at F, which moves along a horizontal line through Q2Q4 and to the right of Q4. MH and NH are links 2 in. long pinned to links EQ4 and EF, respectively, 2 in. from E. These link are pinned at H within the acute angle Q4EF. Q2B rotates counterclockwise at 30 rpm.

Figure after the cut.

The problem was retrieved from Elements of Mechanism by Doughtie and James, p.470 - L-6.

Click to enlarge

I have drawn the figure using AutoCAD 2010. The main figure is colored black and the red one shows its extremity. The phantom line, colored as magenta, represents the extreme ends of the lever CQ4E as it oscillates.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to finish the solution yet. I'm going to update this post whenever I confirmed my solution. If you see corrections on the figure, kindly throw a comment below. I hope this helps.