...Attending a writer’s retreat in Colorado this year, Cyndi Silvas began and finished her first book, “Shaking Prison Doors.” Taking only two days to come up with the 21 day devotional, Silvas questioned if 21 days was enough to help her audience make it through the awaiting, challenging days ahead. Writing for many years, Silvas felt compelled to reach the men and women who suffers as they endured life in prison and those who anticipate their return home. As a minister, Silvas said the Lord instructed her to just do 21 days. “You know, it takes 21 days to change a habit,” Silvas asked. “I asked him, shouldn’t I do 30 days or a year, but he said no.” Known as the founder of Joel 2:25 Ministries, an outreach ministry of God’s restorative power to hurting women and children, as well as the Editor of “The Diamond,” a newsletter she designed as an outreach to the masses of incarcerated women, Silvas’ reassuring words has healed so many wounds of those who were once loss and broken....
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...Introduction All system which possessing mass and elasticity are capable of undergoing free vibration. The main interest of such system is the natural frequency of the vibration. Natural frequencies are a function of system stiffness and mass. Generally, all real systems have infinite number of natural frequencies. Resonance, large vibration, will occur in a system when the forcing frequency of the system is equal to one of the natural frequencies. Generally, vibration is a form of wasted energy and normally is undesirable is most cases. It generates noise, instability and will consequently lead to system break down which is a disastrous effect. This project studies a model vibration of a four-cylinder engine which is mounted on a cantilever. This system can be modeled as a mass spring system so that the vibration of the system can be studied. These vibrations are mainly due to the unbalance of primary or secondary forces and couples. 1. Background The model engine consists of four cylinders mounted of a crank shaft with different crank phase angles. A DC motor with a variable speed control drives the shaft and makes the four-cylinder to rotate. The shaft is rotating at a constant angular speed, however, producing an acceleration on the pistons. Hence there are some inertia forces acting on the crank shaft due to these accelerations. The relative crank phase angles of the four cylinders can be adjusted by loosen three Allan screws...
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...Not long after, the California emergency response team called him, asking what he could say about the earthquake, because the seismometers had been 152 knocked out by its severity. He told them the direction from which it came, along with its approximate distance (based on the time between different waves, but not the P and S that are normally used, as described earlier). From these he guessed that the earthquake was near Santa Cruz, and he was also able to roughly guess its strength. He boasted to me that for several hours his information was the best available. I must mention, however, that this “expert” is the same friend who bought a house on dredged coastal fill, the worst possible place to be in an earthquake; that is why he was able to view this earthquake so well. Scope of the problem To begin to see the scope of the problem of earthquakes and people, let’s consider a few statistics: • ~150 earthquakes each year are potentially damaging (Mw 6); • ~20 earthquakes each year cause severe damage (Mw 7); • in the 1990’s, more than 100,000 people were killed in earthquakes, especially those in Iran, India, Russia, and Japan. This was a worse death toll than usual, not because of more earthquakes but because they happened to affect highly populated areas. By comparison, storm surges killed 300,000 people in 1992 alone, mostly in Bangladesh. • the largest earthquake of the last 40 years, the Mw 9.2 Sumatra earthquake, created a tsunami that killed 228...
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...I did it by simply walking up to my friends, shaking their hand and saying, “Hey, How’s it going?” This took place on future freshmen day, which was on September 29, 2017. This took place at Saxony Lutheran High School in the science and math hallway. Most people who was around was my friends and other students at my school that I didn’t know. People were reacting by looking at their friends and laughing. They would ask me why I was doing this. They would give their friends a weird look. They would respond to my question, but hesitate before answering. Despite the weird looks, everybody still shook my hand and responded by telling me that they were doing well. One person frowned at me while I was shaking their hand is an example of an informal, negative sanction because they judged me in a negative way. You usually hear high school students saying “Hey” or “What’s up?” You don’t usually see somebody shaking somebody’s hand unless they are meeting somebody for the first time or adults are meeting somebody. You do not usually see kids shaking hands. I think they shook my hand because they knew me and were my friends. In addition, they shook my hand because they were used to shaking hands in a greeting, just not somebody that they already knew. I felt that their reaction was funny but I couldn’t react. At first, I was embarrassed and it made me feel...
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...Academy of Saint John La Salle Green Hills Supervised Sta. Clara, Gen. Trias, Cavite Academy of Saint John La Salle Green Hills Supervised Sta. Clara, Gen. Trias, Cavite Plan For Your Safety! Submitted by: Godwyn D.Latag Submitted to: Ms.Eva Blancaflor Introduction What is an earthquake? An earthquake is what happens when two blocks of the earth suddenly slip past one another. The surface where they slip is called the fault or fault plane. The location below the earth’s surface where the earthquake starts is called the hypocenter, and the location directly above it on the surface of the earth is called the epicenter. Sometimes an earthquake has foreshocks. These are smaller earthquakes that happen in the same place as the larger earthquake that follows. Scientists can’t tell that an earthquake is a foreshock until the larger earthquake happens. The largest, main earthquake is called the mainshock. Mainshocks always have aftershocks that follow. These are smaller earthquakes that occur afterwards in the same place as the mainshock. Depending on the size of the mainshock, aftershocks can continue for weeks, months, and even years after the mainshock! What causes earthquakes and where do they happen? The earth has four major layers: the inner core, outer core, mantle and crust. The crust and the top of the mantle make up a thin skin on the surface of our planet. But this skin is not all in one piece – it is made up of many pieces like a...
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...and to be proactive to their hazards. Los Angeles is located approximately 60 miles from the largest and most active fault line in the United States. The San Andreas Fault line is the boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. These tectonic plates slide past each other breaking rock, creating shaking and seismic waves in every direction. This shaking is what we know as earthquakes and the seismic waves are how they are rated based on severity. The L.A. area is located where slip rate of the plates is well known. The slip rates of the San Andreas Fault is calculated by its size and the rate that one plate moves compared to the other. The soft soil and near surface materials have low wave velocity which create more shaking as compared to hard rock. Observing the shear wave velocity can assist in estimating potential seismic activity. Energy released from slipping rocks on the fault line can travel many miles. The location at which this slip occurs is known as the focus and epicenter is directly above the focus on the earth’s surface. Earthquakes can create aftershocks that can produce more earthquakes for several months. Earthquake shaking hazards can be calculated based on earthquake history, fault slip rates, and can be used to predict earthquake probabilities and hazard zones. L.A.’s urban environment creates higher hazard zones and can cause more damage per capita. There are three main hazards zones that have been created for...
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...magnitude scale, also referred to as the Richter scale. These two scales are numerically similar over their range of validity. Magnitude 3 or lower earthquakes are mostly almost imperceptible or weak and magnitude 7 and over potentially cause serious damage over larger areas, depending on their depth. The largest earthquakes in historic times have been of magnitude slightly over 9, although there is no limit to the possible magnitude. The most recent large earthquake of magnitude 9.0 or larger was a 9.0 magnitude earthquake in Japan in 2011 (as of March 2014), and it was the largest Japanese earthquake since records began. Intensity of shaking is measured on the modified Mercalli scale. The shallower an earthquake, the more damage to structures it causes, all else being equal.[1] At the Earth's surface, earthquakes manifest themselves by shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground. When the epicenter of a large earthquake is located offshore, the seabed may be displaced sufficiently to cause a tsunami. Earthquakes can also trigger landslides, and occasionally volcanic activity. In its most general sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event — whether natural or caused by humans — that generates seismic...
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...ENGL130 Professor Rhodes 25 March 2010 “For the Union Dead”: A Social Criticism “For the Union Dead” is a socially critical poem that fills the page with destructive and stark imagery throughout. Such imagery is central to the poem and is also central to interpreting the poem in the manner in which Robert Lowell intended. Lowell was an American poet who expressed his concern for the direction of American society though his poetry: “For the Union Dead” is a prime example of that concern. In “For the Union Dead”, Robert Lowell condemns American society for the direction in which it is heading, away from the “old South Boston Aquarium” (Line 2) of old and towards a society predicated on glamorizing “commercial photograph[s] / [showing] Hiroshima boiling / over a Molser Safe” (55-57): commercial gain at the cost of morality. Lowell opens the poem with a description of a childhood pastime of his, “the old South Boston Aquarium”, as it stands today, followed by a description of the way things used to be when he was growing up. Lowell writes, “Once my nose crawled like a snail on the glass; / my hands tingled / to burst the bubbles / drifting from the noses of the cowed, compliant fish” (5-8). The imagery here suggests Lowell’s anxiousness to be as close as physically possible to the fish as he pretends to pop the bubbles emitted from each of them. In other words, by describing the fish as “cowed, compliant”, Lowell is setting up imagery of a power relationship from very early...
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...A seismic tremor (otherwise called a shudder, tremor or quake) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, coming about because of the sudden arrival of vitality in the Earth's lithosphere that makes seismic waves. Quakes can extend in size from those that are weak to the point that they can't be felt to those sufficiently vicious to hurl individuals around and decimate entire urban areas. The seismicity or seismic action of a territory alludes to the recurrence, sort and size of quakes experienced over a time frame, Quakes are measured utilizing estimations from seismometers. The minute size is the most well-known scale on which tremors bigger than roughly 5 are accounted for the whole globe. The more various quakes littler than greatness 5...
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...Munchausen by proxy syndrome (MBPS) is a relatively rare form of child abuse that involves the exaggeration or fabrication of illnesses or symptoms by a primary caretaker. Also known as "medical child abuse," MBPS was named after Baron von Munchausen, an 18th-century German dignitary known for making up stories about his travels and experiences in order to get attention. "By proxy" indicates that a parent or other adult is fabricating or exaggerating symptoms in a child, not in himself or herself. Munchausen by proxy syndrome is a mental illness and requires treatment. About MBPS In MBPS, an individual — usually a parent or caregiver— causes or fabricates symptoms in a child. The adult deliberately misleads others (particularly medical professionals), and may go as far as to actually cause symptoms in the child through poisoning, medication, or even suffocation. In most cases (85%), the mother is responsible for causing the illness or symptoms. Typically, the cause is a need for attention and sympathy from doctors, nurses, and other professionals. Some experts believe that it isn't just the attention that's gained from the "illness" of the child that drives this behavior, but also the satisfaction in deceiving individuals who they consider to be more important and powerful than themselves. Because the parent or caregiver appears to be so caring and attentive, often no one suspects any wrongdoing. Diagnosis is made extremely difficult due to the the ability of the parent...
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...5/16/2015 Nepal Earthquake: Afterthoughts | The Daily Star Home Shout 12:00 AM, May 07, 2015 / LAST MODIFIED: 04:59 PM, May 13, 2015 Nepal Earthquake: Afterthoughts Ishtiaq Ahmed NEPAL, AS OF NOW Sitting at the base of Mount Langtang, a 7000m high mountain in the Nepalese Himalayas, there's a small village of the same name. On April 25, 2015 right when the sun was high up in the Langtang valley, the little village of 200 people was destroyed completely. The avalanche that followed the notorious Nepal earthquake had completely wiped the little village off the face of the earth. Now, almost two weeks after the incident, the death toll in Nepal has risen to over 7000, and the number of injured are twice that many. The pungent greywhite smoke above the crematory pyres of the Pashupatinath Temple is getting thicker and thicker each day. UNDERSTANDING EARTHQUAKES As we all know, the outer crust of the earth is very thin compared to its core. This outer crust is basically composed of several continental plates. So what happens is this: these plates try to move relative to each other over longer periods of time. The adjoining line of two consecutive plates is called a "fault line". When the plates try to move, there are slips along the fault lines which disturb the surrounding surface areas. Lands may go up, valleys may be formed or rivers may change courses. Most of the Himalayas were puffed up high in the skies from underneath the ocean in a series of earthquakes ages ago...
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...see if this world-shaking, game-changing innovation really makes any sense. Musk said Tesla’s 7 kwh capacity battery would cost $3,000, while the 10 kwh capacity one would be $3,500. (That doesn’t include the cost of a DC-AC inverter – about $2,000– plus professional installation.) The implication is that a 10 kwh system could supply 1,000 watts of current to your home for 10 hours. That’s a good amount of energy. The average American home draws an average of 1,200 watts of power around-the-clock, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. For a sense of scale, a desktop computer draws about 100 watts, a big TV 200 watts. Refrigerators cycle on and off, but average about 100 watts. So how much is that battery power going to cost? Setting aside for a moment the cost of making that electricity in the first place, let’s look at just the cost of using the battery to store it and get it out again. Researcher Winfried Hoffman, the former CTO of Applied Materials , has done some interesting work on the falling costs of battery power. He figures that for a lithium-ion system with an initial installation cost of $400 per kwh capacity, 80% efficiency and ability to run 5,000 cycles, the average cost of stored electricity will be 15 cents per kwh All the breathless coverage of Elon Musk’s Powerwall battery brouhaha last night is missing the most important thing: a sober discussion of real-world costs. So let’s take a look at the costs and see if this world-shaking, game-changing innovation...
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...These large earthquakes mostly focus on the meeting points of two plates but can also be focused on the faults that develop in the earth’s crust when the plates move. These faults can be normal meaning there is a hanging and a low bell fault, a reverse fault which is nearly horizontal or the strike slip fault which is a horizontal fault. All these can cause an earthquake but the most intense earthquake happens when blocks of the rock get locked together due to intense friction that results during movement. This builds up pressure with the continued attempt of the rocks to move thus causing an earthquake in the long run. Once the energy gets to the epicenter, the released energy spreads across the surface as rings (Richter 1958). The main shaking created by the released energy is accompanied by foreshocks which increase the earthquake magnitude leading to the earthquake and aftershocks which decrease the earthquake strength and comes after the event. The effects of the earthquake are determined by both the energy and the state of the earth on which they occur. Strong earthquakes cause great damages. On the other hand, grounds that have previously been prone to earthquakes tend to be affected more on reoccurrence. Measurement of earthquake magnitude is done after the occurrence by use of a Richter which measures the...
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...Different Genders with Different Roles: Representation of a Rae Sremmurd Music Video Have you ever seen a hip hop music video? If you have, you have probably seen people waving around money, women shaking their ass, or lyrics that degrade women. According to Judith Lorber, gender is a social construction: “it is a role created by society, and it is a role that is not necessarily biological”. Usually in a music video different genders play different roles. Men are shown holding money, because it is a sign of having power, while women are objectified by being portrayed half naked. The American hip hop duo Rae Sremmurd showcases these roles in their music video “Shake It Fast” featuring Juicy J. Just like hip hop artists in the past Rae Sremmurd is trying to show their hypermasculinity because it has always been a part of hip hop, and sex sells in hip hop. Hip hop artists have always been excessively conceited, or self-centered, which is why they always feel the need to surround themselves with money, and half naked...
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...D1: Analyse cultural variations can influence communication The world culture is a word for people's 'way of life', meaning the way groups do things like for example when you are Muslim you choice to where a burkas in public and if you are a Hindu you choice where about they put their bindi if it is high on their head to represent if there rich or poor. In families the culture of the family will be passed down for example if you are born into a family that believe in wearing a burka so the young children will be brought up to wear it and it will be passed down through the family. Different groups of people may have different cultures. A culture is passed on to the next generation by learning, whereas genetics are passed on by heredity. Culture is seen in people's writing, religion, music, clothes, cooking, and in what they do. Culture refers to the ethos of a group of people that believe in the same things and they believe it to be a culture. A culture of participation should demonstrate a commitment to the involvement of children and young people that might be shared by managers, practitioners, children and young people. Culture has frequently been identified as a barrier to communication. As Davies and Marken (1998) suggest 'our popular and official culture in deeply embedded ways defines young people as too uninformed, unreliable and untrustworthy to carry responsibility.' There is a fear that somehow children are going to ask for the wrong things or say the wrong thing to...
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