...One bitter night, in the rough end of New Haven, the heartful dodger by any standards, but it hit Ferraro like an uppercut. He was unable to continue the beating. That exchange on a wintry night in 1982 is one that Ferraro continues to relive. But these days, as the Teacher Training Director of the Mind Body Awareness Project, it’s Ferraro who is looking into angry young eyes until he finds a glimpse of compassion. Based in Oakland, California, the MBA Project is a nonprofit organization that uses mindfulness and emotionalintelligence exercises to equip disadvantaged and underserved youth with the tools to make better decisions and to consider more skillful options than violence, self-harm, drugs, and crime. “All my work revolves around the same conversation,” says Ferraro. “What is freedom beyond conditions? Beyond this school, this prison, this hood, whatever your conditions are. Do your conditions lead inevitably to suffering? No, they don’t. Only a being’s perspective leads to suffering. Two people in the exact same situation, according to their outlook and expectations, can have completely different experiences. Turn that around, and any conditions can be a vehicle for bondage—or freedom and awakening. And that’s fucking deep, man.” Going back to his story about the homeless man, Ferraro says, “I didn’t know what compassion meant when I was fifteen. But I knew that that homeless guy had seen my heart. And that was scary. I’d learned early on that this heart of mine was...
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...Recumbent Bikes Problem Statement Modern bicycles require a forward posture and a lot of strain on the neck and back. Recumbent bikes, however, relieve this strain by putting the rider in an upwards position. The main issue with recumbent bike designs is that they lack comfortable in the seat position and the need for a adjustable seat padding for all heights. Also, additional frame and/or an overly long chain that reaches to the back wheel. Our team intends on fixing this concern by incorporating the drive shaft within the front wheel in a comfortable and elegant location. This problem was addressed by our client John Trotter. John is interested in using a recumbent bike to travel between home and work, but is not fond of current models. Current models require ones feet to be significantly elevated compared to the body and come with a high price due to their size and amount of material needed. John proposed that a front wheel drive be incorporated into a recumbent bike. Moving the transmission to the front wheel will result in fewer materials, lower the cost needed to produce, and allow for more comfortable designs to be created. Our end-product will be a front wheel transmission prototype created using a 3-D printer. This prototype can then be presented to various bike manufacturing companies to be received as a potential model for a full recumbent bike design. Customers for this product include anyone who enjoys riding a bike and is looking for something new on the market...
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...Philippine Tricycle DIVINA, Joseph H. 21 Nov 2014, Sikatuna Village Need a ride that could get you to an exact address? Is a taxi cab too expensive for a place too near? Buses and jeepneys can only go so fat? What other options do you have? You guessed right – a tricycle ride! The tricycle is a public utility vehicle that reigns over the Philippines’s inner roads and alleyways. This vehicle is surprisingly versatile, despite its size. It can travel from a street corner to the next or form a province to another (provided the province can be travelled by land). It journeys through narrow bumpy eskinitas, but also does so in wide, flat highways. It can safely accommodate four passengers (including the driver), but often times, it can be seen carrying at least six people, with three on the motorcycle and the other three in the sidecar. While Philippine tricycles are mostly used as a means to commute, some are also used to transport market goods, furniture, appliances and all other merchandise that can fit into the tiny little vehicle. Yes, the tricycle has played a significant part in Philippine transportations. All throughout the country, tricycles are being utilized mainly because of their ability to get to places where other forms of public transportation do not usually go. Here in Sikatuna Village, tricycles are important modes of transportation. They serve as the links of the village’s inner roads to the city’s main roads. In my case, I use (meaning to say ride) tricycles to...
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...(NOT FOR ATTRIBUTION; FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY) Preserving Cultural Heritage through Good Environmental Management in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur: A Contribution to the Philippines Country Environmental Analysis Draft for discussion Do not quote September 2008 1 Elmer S. Mercado, EnP World Bank Consultant. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed herein are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent. This paper represents work in progress and comments to the author are invited (elmer_sm@yahoo.com). 1 (NOT FOR ATTRIBUTION; FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY) Summary One of the critical challenges of urbanisation in developing countries is how to rein in the environmental impacts of progress with the need to maintain one’s sense of social history, culture and heritage. Like the cities of Seville in Spain, Kyoto in Japan, Rome in Italy or even Manila in the Philippines, Vigan City wanted to remove the ravages of political warlordism that plagued its recent past and reclaim its once rich Spanish colonial cultural heritage and prestige it held in the 19th century. When the city of Vigan decided to transform itself as a cultural heritage city, one of the core platforms of the city’s cultural and heritage conservation programme and master plan was the environmental conservation and management of its...
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...and a dark complexion. She is in her back yard with her 6-year-old sister. Today is a warm day with lots of sunshine. The children are dressed in shorts and tank tops. Tyler walked out of the family’s back door first and went straight to her tricycle. Her oldest sister, Dyari immediately followed her and began to help her onto the tricycle, as directed by Tyler, non verbally. Her sister, Mya, 4, went straight to the flower bed to dig with the shovel and buckets that were sitting there. Tyler has just finished a snack eaten at her kitchen table. She seems in a happy mood and ready to play. When Tyler goes into her back yard she immediately goes towards her tricycle followed by her sister. There are several toys in the back yard. There is a child size pool, two push toys, a large ball a few buckets with shovels sitting next to the flower bed and various other cars and a doll. Tyler chose the tricycle first, possibly because it was the toy nearest to the back door. Tyler and her two sisters ages 4 and 7 are present. yler at first seems to be the one controlling the play. She approaches the tricycle and is followed by her oldest sister, Dyari. Tyler directs her sister, nonverbally to help her get on the tricycle. Tyler is on the tricycle and Dyari is standing close as if she is ready to protect her is Tyler falls off. Tyler is wiggling the handle bars back and forth making car sounds and pushing air through her teeth. Tyler starts to get off the bike and Dyari assists her. Then...
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...Displaying MRP Data The objective of MRP is to ensure that the correct quantities of component parts are available at the proper time to produce finished products according to the master production schedule. This section describes how that is done for items that appear immediately below the finished product in the product structure tree diagram. The information obtained from bills of materials, inventory records, and the master schedule can be shown together in the diagram of Figure 9.15, which is the table commonly used to calculate and display MRP information. Figure 9.15: Table for MRP The table in Figure 9.15 illustrates time periods across the top. These represent time periods for planning purposes, or time buckets. The time buckets correspond to the master product schedule, which is usually set in weeks. The purpose of using these time periods is to state the total quantity requirements for component parts and materials needed during each time bucket. This process of stating requirements by time bucket is often called time phasing. The first row in Figure 9.15 is labeled gross requirements. Gross requirements represent the total quantity needed of a particular item in each time bucket, based on the master production schedule and the bill of materials, regardless of current inventory of that item. The second row, scheduled receipts, shows whether any orders for that item have been placed previously, but not yet received. Entries in this row indicate when the order...
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...Name: Nana Ama Siriboe Student Number: 33292 | Date of Observation: 28th November, 2014 Observation No. 2 | Observation Technique: Narrative | Starting Time: 12:00 pm Finishing Time:12:30pm | No. of Children: 10 in the nursery No. And Role of Adults: 3 ( 2 teachers and myself) | Letter of permission to observe enclosed: ( Letter of Permission scanned and attached with submitted observation) | Description of Setting: A Montessori nursery in a residential area in Ridge. | Immediate Context (Playground, Art Corner etc.): At the School playground equipped with tricycles, swings, slides, climbing frames and other outdoor equipment. | First Names of Child(ren) observed: Rafferty | Brief Description of Child (ren) – i.e. gender/age/position in family/first language (if relevant): Boy aged 3years, 8 months (3:8). He is the last of two children. He has an older sister who is seven years old and is in another school nearby. | Rationale for Observation (if appropriate): | Aim of Observation: To observe Rafferty’s (3:8) social and emotional development during outdoor play time at the nursery and how relevant play is to his social and emotional development. | Montessori Centre International ______Ethical Statement To accompany every piece of course work carried out...
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...TITLE: PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED AMONG TRICYCLE DRIVERS AS PERCEIVED BY FRESHMEN COLLEGE OF EDUCATION STUDENTS INTODUCTION: The tricycles are the form of transportation of the local population. It is the most affordable means of transportation in the Philippines. Automobiles enable individual to transport and move goods from place to place. It brings about proximity to places where education, recreation and employment are available. It is the vital ingredient in the overall system of economic development. Without automobile transport and other activities would be paralyzed, thus progress would be difficult to achieve. Here in our school, NEUST Sumacab Main Campus, tricycle is one of the common means of transportation in order us to go in our respective department. That is we have an organization called “ NEUST- toda”. According to some students, they had experience problems such as misbehavior of the drivers, improper hygiene and poor quality of service. However there is no sufficient evidence or details regarding this claim. Researcher believed that this study is deemed necessary as supporting evidences and details in making appropriate action for the problems encountered by college students among tricycle drivers. RATIONALE: This researched hoped that the result of this study would help in the improvement of the behavior; personal hygiene and quality of the service rendered of the tricycle drivers especially the tricycle drivers of NEUST Sumacab Campus. This researched...
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...There are four basic types of landing gear wheels, skids, skis, and floats. These types of landing gear are designed for a specific type of operation. Wheels are designed for payment and off airport operations. Skids are designed for helicopters, but some helicopters also use wheels. Skis are designed for off airport operations in the snow. Floats are designed for water operations and sometimes incorporate wheels into them for airport landings. There are three different types of landing gear arrangements they include tail draggers, tandem gear, and tricycle gear. Tail dragger gear are found on most early type of aircraft for an example the DC-3, and other small general aviation aircraft like the piper cub and similar type of aircraft. Tandem gear is rare on large aircraft other the military B-52, Harrier jet, and small general aviation glider type aircraft. Tricycle type gear is the most common landing gear used today. Tricycle gear is used on all aircraft from a small Cessna 172, to a large airbus A380. This gear can incorporate more than one wheel on the main struts to spread out the weight evenly. This system also has more safety, when using more wheels on the main strut if one tire blows the plane can still continue. There are fixed and retractable types of landing gear that incorporate the above designs. Fixed gear is found on smaller aircraft due to the lost cost of operation and maintenance. The down side to having fixed is the increased parasite drag at higher airspeeds...
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...is a shortcut route that will take you inside Subic Base Metropolitan Authority or SBMA which you may want to take to bypass the traffic and a few winding roads pass Olongapo’s busy street. As soon as you exit SBMA, head northwest and you will pass by the towns of Castillejos, San Marcelino and then the Town of San Antonio. Once you are in San Antonio, it’s advised to ask the locals for the way to Pundaquit as it’s a bit complicated having no street signs in the area. Locals will be glad to answer you for directions. A fool proof way to ensure you won’t get lost, hire one of the many tricycle drivers to take you there on a convoy. If you made your reservations, mention the name of the resort beforehand so they know exactly where you are going. TRAVELING VIA PUBLIC TRANSPORT: The best and most advisable public transport at the moment is taking a bus to San Antonio Zambales and riding a tricycle to the town of Pundaquit. Victory Liner has their schedules posted on their website and there are currently 5 bus stations in Manila with everyday trip schedules towards Sta Cruz and Iba Zambales. Go to one of the Victory Liner bus stations and get yourself a ticket to either a bus going...
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...each ordered pair comes from set B. If we want to describe a relationship between elements of two sets A and B, we can use ordered pairs with their first element taken from A and their second taken from B. Since this is relation between two sets. A binary relation from A to B is a subset of A B. In other words, binary relation R we have RT A B. We use the notation aRb to denote that (a,b) TR and aRb to denote that (a,b)TR. When (a,b) belongs to R, a is said to be related to b by R. Example: Let P be set of people, C be a set of cars, and D be the relation describing which person drives which car(s). P = {Carl,Suzanne,Peter,Carla}, C = {Mercedes,BMW,tricycle} D = {(Carl,Mercedes),(Suzanne,Mercedes),(Suzanne,BMW),(Peter,tricycle)}, This means that Carl drives a Mercedes,Suzanne drives a Mercedes and BMW, Peter drives a tricycle, and Carla does not drive any of these vehicles. Let A and B be sets. A binary relation R is a subset of A X B. Example: Let A be the students in the CS major A={stud1,stud2,stud3} Let B be the courses the department offers B={CS101,CS201,CS202} We specify...
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...Question 1: Forecasting (9 marks) Each Friday, Smith Machine Parts (SMP) LTD has to forecast the next week’s demand for brackets #357, #358 and #359. For many years, this has been done reasonably well by Joe Smith, who recently retired. When asked how he made his forecasts, Joe said (between puffs on his corn cob pipe), “Well, I looks at the bubbles on me beer, and I rubs me lucky rabbit foot, and the forecast comes to me maid.” SMP has asked three of its analysts to propose scientific forecasting systems to replace old Joe. The forecasters and the proposed methods are as follows: A. Allen: three-week moving average B. Black: exponential smoothing with ( = 0.2 C. Clark: simple linear regression using the previous 6 weeks of data Each of the three forecasters has been assigned one bracket. The demand for the past six weeks (in thousands of brackets) is given below, as well as the forecasts obtained with the three suggested methods: |Bracket #357 (three-week moving average): | |Bracket #358 (exp. smoothing with ( = 0.2): | |Week # |Demand |Forecast | |Week # |Demand |Forecast | | | | | | | | | |1 | |- | |1 ...
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...The child observed played with the a tricycle, a wooden log, and swung from the monkey bars as well as the other jungle gym equipment. These tasks, with the exception of the wooden log, require an array of controlled movements. In order to use the tricycle he had to have asymmetrical coordination between both of his lower extremity muscles and upper extremity muscles for purposes of pedaling and steering. This asymmetrical coordination is also evident in his altering shoulder movements as he had to switch from side to side, in regards to both weight shifts and shoulder activity, in order to traverse across the monkey bars. These skills also require feedforward processing in order to maintain postural stability and, in the case of the tricycle,...
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...General description: beechcraft-model c50 twin bonanza is a six-place, low-wing, all-metal monoplane with tricycle landing gear. It is powered by two Lycoming go 480-f6 engines, each rated at 275 horsepower for take-off. The engines have reduction gearing to the propeller shafts and drive beach craft model 279 full-feathering, constant-speed propellers with aluminum blades. This is intended to be a guide for some of the procedures for this specific aircraft. Servicing fuel tanks- the airplane fuel system should be serviced with 30/87 octane fuel. The fuel system is suitable for aromatic fuels. Fuel system access doors are of the flush type and are located on the upper surface of each outboard wing panel and each side of the wing center section. Expanding-type filler caps with neoprene seals are used on each filler opening. The fuel tanks are not interconnected and each tank must be serviced separately. Hoisting airplane the aircraft may be hoisted for mantenance or parts replacement through the use of a three-cable sling attached to the hoisting lugs and eyebolt. A minimum overhead clearance of 12 feet 6 inches and a hoist of at least 3 tons capacity is required .To hoist engine remove the propeller and cowling and attaching a hoist to the engine lifting eyes provided on top of engine. Jacking provision is made for a three-point jack-pad system the two aft pads are located on the center section rear spar in board of each nacelle(a streamlined housing or tank on the outside of...
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... Section 1: Observations I observed a child from Early Morning Learning Center at Gateway Community College. There, I observed my student Jerome for a total of five hours in 3 days. The Early Morning Learning Center at Gateway consisted of nineteen children ranging from ages 3 to 5 years old. The center had five adult workers whose job it was to watch and help the children. The days I observed the children were either in the classroom or on the playground. The student I chose to observe was an Africana American by the name of Jerome. As I arrived to the Early Morning Learning center the kids were out playing on around the playground. Jerome was riding one of the tricycles along with a couple other classmates. While riding away from other class mates Jerome yells “you can’t get me”. After Jerome places the tricycle down, a kid playing basketball asked Jerome to play saying “do you want to play”? Jerome begins playing with the other children. The children begin taking turns putting the ball in the basket. Before, placing the ball in the basket Jerome would jump. After a few times, Jerome took the ball to the wall and started getting a running start to put the ball in the basket. Then he began counting to three before taking his running start to put the ball in the basket. Jerome did this another four times. While playing basketball, the children were lining up back to back to see who’s the taller or tallest. When it came down to Jerome and another classmate at the end, Jerome...
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