...The Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun represents raw power. Power, both in the sense of the energy it emits when it is fired, and in the feeling it gives you when it is being wielded. It is a resource for entertainment, gathering sustenance, or governing nations if used correctly. On the other hand, it can be used as a form of control over objects and environments around you. With those who may not be able to contain the darker sides of their inherent human natures—the urge for power or dominance, the sense that having more is better, succumbing to the ideality that wealth and material things brings power and respect, and giving in to the temptation to simply take it now, rather than work for the possibly unattainable, wanting to know what it feels like to take a life—it can be an item of darkness, tempting the weak-minded to give in to their savage nature. The firearm was first designed to kill. To win wars. It can both taketh and giveth. It is a mechanical device, smooth, sleek, and to some, sexy. The feel of it in your grip, the weight of it, the smell of gunpowder when it is fired, all inflame the senses. It is a weapon of destruction that demands to be revered. It’s not so much that this item, in and of its self, is important to me. It is what the item sybolizes to me. It represents my past and the poor choices I made long ago. It stands for the consequential loss of my freedom, my Constitutional right. Something that can never be found, nor recovered again. I am a felon, you...
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...Row 1 (Right Side): Sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each ch across, changing to B in last sc; turn. Row 2: With B, ch 3, skip first sc, * (dc, ch 1, dc) all in next sc, skip next 2 sc; repeat from * to last 2 sts; (dc, ch 1, dc) all in next sc, dc in last sc changing to C; turn. Row 3: With C, ch 3, skip first dc, * Cl in next ch-1 space, ch 2; repeat from * to last ch-1 space; Cl in last ch-1 space, dc in top of ch-3 changing to A; turn. Designed by Melissa Leapman. Throw measures 51” x 65”. RED HEART® Super Saver®: 4 skeins 313 Aran A, 2 skeins 633 Dark Sage B, 1 skein each 256 Carrot C and 320 Cornmeal D. Crochet Hooks: 6mm [US J-10] and 5.5mm [US I-9]. Yarn needle. GAUGE: 14 sts = 4”; 12 rows = 4¾” in pattern with larger hook. CHECK YOUR GAUGE. Use any size hook to obtain gauge. Row 4: With A, ch 1, sc in first dc, * sc in Cl, 2 sc in next ch-2 space; repeat from * to last 2 sts; sc in last Cl, sc in top of ch-3; turn. Rows 5 and 6: Ch 1, sc in each sc across; turn. Row 7: Repeat Row 5 changing to B in last sc; turn. Row 8: With B, repeat Row 2 changing to D in last dc. Row 9: With D, repeat Row 3. Rows 10-13: Repeat Rows 4-7. For Susan Bates® knitting needles & crochet hooks -...
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...are very popular in our area for the purpose I want to use it for. I was given basic general information about the product which is the dimensions of the carport which are 18 x21x 6 including overhung boxed eaves. Additionally, there are also thirteen different colors to choose from. The salesman also gave me an initial cost for the size structure I wanted. Customer Pain/Needs and Quantitative Questions: I wanted to know the price of the carport because I have a limited budget. I also wanted upgrades or options to increase the sturdiness of the structure. I also needed to have the structure seven foot tall. I was also informed about pricing options. There is the availability of upgrading the steel posts from the standard 14 gauge steel to a 12 gauge steel to increase sturdiness which is an extra $100.00. Likewise, additional anchors are available to secure the structure to the ground. To increase the height of the structure it is an additional $50.00 per foot....
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...TRUE LIGHT MISSIONARY HIGH SCHOOL AWOYAYA-LEKKI, LAGOS TOPIC: A REPORT ON AN EXCURSION TO THE NIGERIA RAILWAY COOPORATION {NRC} {a trip from IDDO to IJOKO} COMPILED & PRESENTED BY: AJIBORISHA WAHAB OMOTOYOSI CLASS: SSS1 TO BE SUBMITTED TO TRUE LIGHT MISSIONARY SCHOOL Started on 2nd November 2012 Completed on 5th November 2012. CERTIFICATION I certify that this study was carried out by Ajiborisha Wahab Toyosi of SSS1 class of True Light Missionary School, Awoyaya-Lekki, Lagos under the supervision of Mr. Obinna for the 2012/2013 academic session. ______________ _____________ Mr. Obinna Date [II] DEDICATION This project is dedicated to my parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ajiborisha. May the Almighty God be with them and guide them through his power and guidance. Amen! [III] ACKNOWLEDGEMENT In the name of GOD, the Merciful, the Compassionate. I give praise to God the Lord of all Being, the Master of the Day of Doom for giving me the opportunity, wisdom, knowledge, strength and commitment to write this report and also for taken me up to this stage in my academic pursuits. In the process of completing this report I owe a debt of gratitude to many people, too numerous to mention. My immense gratitude goes to the proprietress of my school Dr. (Mrs.) Ladele for her spiritual and educational support and I’m proud to be counted among those that...
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...Inertia Bending of a Connecting Rod Experiment 15th November 2015 Contents Abstract----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 * 1. Introduction-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 1.1 Objective----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 1.2 Background------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 1.3 Theory-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 1.3.1 Bending moment-----------------------------------------------------------------------------2 1.3.2 The Right Angle Assumption--------------------------------------------------------------------------5 2. Apparatus----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6 * 3. Data-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 * 4. Procedur-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 * 4.1 Recording-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 * 4.2 Calibration------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 5. Results--------------------------------------------------...
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...Summary/ Abstract Thin-walled pressure vessel provides an important application of the analysis of plane stress. Since their walls offer litter resistance to bending, it may be assumed that the internal forces exerted on a given portion of wall are tangent to the surface of the vessel. The resulting stresses on an element of the wall will thus be contained in a plane tangent to the surface of the vessel. In this experiment, we are going to determine the circumferential stress under open condition, and analysis of combined axial and circumferential stress. We propose to determine the stresses exerted on a small element of wall with sides respectively parallel and perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder. Because of axis symmetry of the vessel and its contents, it is clear that no shearing stress is exerted on the element. It can be seen that all strains are used to calculate stress. As it is not possible to measure all strains, these have to be computed on the basis of marginal conditions. With this experiment it is not possible to measure in particular longitudinal strain in the body and radian strain perpendicular to the surface. Initial stress at the surface must be zero, longitudinal stress is constant over the radius are the marginal conditions to obtain the solution. The average E value we obtain from graph was 64 GN/m2. with the help of the computer, the Poisson’s ratio, v =0.35 and the principal strains for the thin cylinder were also calculated using formulas and the...
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...In computing, mmap is a POSIX-compliant Unix system call that maps files or devices into memory. It is a method of memory-mapped file I/O. It naturally implements demand paging, because initially file contents are not entirely read from disk and do not use physical RAM at all. The actual reads from disk are performed in "lazy" manner, after a specific location is accessed. In Linux, Mac OS X and the BSDs, mmap can create several types of mappings. Anonymous mappings are mappings of that area of the process's virtual memory backed by the swap space instead of by a file in the file system name space. In this respect an anonymous mapping is similar to malloc, and is used in some malloc implementations for certain allocations. However, anonymous mappings are not part of the POSIX standard, though implemented by almost all systems. File-backed mappings are mappings of virtual memory to files. Access to those areas of memory causes the file to be read. If the mapping is shared, writes to that area in one process will affect other processes with that area mapped and the underlying file; otherwise, if the mapping is private, the changes will not be seen by other processes nor written to the file. A process reading from or writing to the underlying file will not always see the same data as a process that has mapped the file, since the segment of the file is copied into RAM and periodically flushed to disk. Synchronization can be forced with the msync system call. mmaping...
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...ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 6 Design Plate number 3 “ PHILIPPINE/NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM” THE PROBLEM: THE Philippine Government thru the Ministry of transportation in cooperation with several civic organizations has proposed to construct Land Transportation Museum (Phase-1) to preserve and save all different types of land transportation in existence and value to show and document our heritage thru the evolution of land transportation in the Philippines. THE PURPOSE: There are a lot of cars and other vehicles of value and a few have already been restored by some club members of the Vintage Car Club of the Philippines Such as the V-16 Cadillac Limousine of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the Packard Limousine of president Jose P. Laurel Sr. and lately the Chrysler Zypher, bullet proof car of president Manuel L. Quezon. These cars, all part of our transportation history, are kept in different place in our country. These priceless cars need a permanent home, where it can be shown to public at the same time, be a tourist attraction which would contribute immensely to the Tourist industry. THE SITE: The site shown in the last two pages is located at the Manila-Cavite coastal road, very close to the site of the sport complex and almost in front of the Asian Development Bank Building. The lot has an area of approximately 30,000 SM. The proposed area has a relatively flat terrain which slopes towards the 30,00 M. wide Estero which is adjacent to the Manila Bay. THE REQUIRED DRAWINGS: ...
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...centralized database pertaining only to the city and county of San Diego. What this does, is contractors, landscapers, and essentially anyone else who is inquiring about data regarding environmental or geographic information, can pay to access the system. For instance, by cooperating with other local agencies, SanGIS can uphold the integrity of geographic information with accuracy and precision for any party that is interested in statistical information, data extractions, data sharing, etc. For an example query of the application, someone could inquire on where the closest fire stations, schools, public libraries, police stations, etc. are, using an interactive map. There are multiple filters to the interactive map; a base map that shows roads, county lines, parcels, and city lines. A second filter to the interactive map is called a dynamic filter. The dynamic filter can be turned on and off by the user and has three categories; districts, ecology, and places. It also includes data such as vegetation and public service stations. The primary use would be if a company wanted to build a new building in a vacant lot, they would use SanGIS to figure out where the lot is in correlation to exact city, districts for emergency services, county lines for legislative purposes, as well as coordinates...
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...1. What were the driving forces that lead Wells Fargo OFS to redesign their strategy and processes? Wells Fargo launched its online financial services much ahead of their competitors and with the astonishing response of the growing customer base, they enhanced the online services with all major banking services like reviewing their accounts and balances, bill payments etc. The OFS primarily focused on the maintaining the high attrition rate of online customers and provide all their customer with a low cost service medium. The OFS group recovered their cost by charging other department within the bank depending on the activity of the customer after logging into the portal. However due to this main the purpose of providing a low cost media to the customer was being lost in the need of generating OFS group revenue. Because of this the OFS had reached a point where the profits and costs were equal. Wells Fargo’s traditional approach to measure performance and strategies using the financial metrics led to poor decision making while the online banking needed a well-planned long term goal as it was one of the driving factor of the business in the coming years. Also, because of the rapidly changing technological trends on a daily basis in the internet media, the OFS had to be upstream in their approach to keep with the latest technologies. This involved new competitive threats and meeting the customer demands became a challenge due to the varied customer base in the online banking...
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...influence one another over time; and why places and the people who live in them develop and change in particular ways. Raising these questions is at the heart of the “geographic perspective.” Exploration has long been an important part of geography. But exploration no longer simply means going to places that have not been visited before. It means documenting and trying to explain the variations that exist across the surface of Earth, as well as figuring out what those variations mean for the future. The age-old practice of mapping still plays an important role in this type of exploration, but exploration can also be done by using images from satellites or gathering information from interviews. Discoveries can come by using computers to map and analyze the relationship among things in geographic space, or from piecing together the multiple forces, near and far, that shape the way individual...
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...that function well, as well as areas that we investigated and had concerns about. There is a level of reasonableness that goes into safety but accidents are not planned and in an emergency situation they are the risk of one is higher. An example of a emergency could be a fire, earthquake, power outage, flood, or threat. The purpose of addressing these concerns is to help prevent unnecessary accidents for staff and student. The building our team looked at was the Library and upper study hall by the library. Building Features The buildings were built to a certain level of safety and it is important to address the positives that already exist. * Sprinklers cover all area of floor space so fires would struggle to spread * Building maps located throughout the school that highlight exits and fire extinguishers * Easily spotted and accessible fire extinguishers * Stairs have added tread to avoid slipping for normal walking or emergency evacuation * Light fixtures have protective cover, so glass will never fall from ceiling Safety Oversights The following include safety concerns that arose concern when considering what could happen in an emergency situation when accidents happen. * When the building was first designed all the chair in the upper study by the library were bolted down away from the railing but over time more chairs have been added and those chairs are the same level as the railing. It is a full story fall down from that level and currently...
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...retreat (15 marks) Fieldwork is the collection of primary data carried out at the location in the field. Research is secondary data and archival research normally carried out before or after investigation in the field. Coastal retreat is the removal of sediment from the shoreline/erosion resulting in the coastline moving back. During the investigation it would be important to consider the different fieldwork technique that I have used e.g. GOAD mapping this technique is a record of different business and building in the location however this data is being collected by walking around the location looking at GOAD map to see changes overtime, this appropriate and out as evidence because if there was building on the coast that is not present it show in comparison that the coast has been retreat. This information may not be accurate because of the limitation has in the GOAD map may not have enough details about building, house and business details. The second fieldwork technique that I would undertake is field sketch/photos this is being collected by drawing a sketch of landmarks and geologically feature of the land like cliffs, headland and wave cut platform, the more detail being draw the more accurate the field sketch also the photos are being taken by a camera to record the feature of the location in more details. This may act as evidence for coastal retreat because if you compare other field sketch that was done by other researcher and there have being changes in the land mass...
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...Geography - Maps Continents and Oceans of the World There are 7 continents in the world 1. Africa 2. Antarctica 3. Asia 4. Australia 5. Europe 6. North America 7. South America There are 5 Oceans 1. Pacific 2. Atlantic 3. Southern 4. Indian 5. Arctic The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the world's five oceans, followed by the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, and Arctic Ocean. The ocean covers 71 percent of the Earth's surface and contains 97 percent of the planet's water. Map skills To use a map effectively you need to know how to read the information. This is done by learning basic map skills. Measuring Distance Being able to measure the distance between two points on a map is very important. It allows you to work out what distance is in real life. Every map is printed with a scale bar that converts the distance you measure on a map (usually in centimetres or inches) into a real life distance (usually in kilometres or miles). A quick way to measure distance is to count each square you cross on the map. Understanding Scale It wouldn't be possible for maps to show things the size they are in real life, so maps make things smaller using scale. Drawing something to scale means showing it at a different size to what it is in real life. When maps are drawn to scale things are made many times smaller than they really are. Because maps are important to a lot of people, this...
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...Question 2 Map scale is the relationship between the distance on a map and the distance in reality. Map scales can be represented as a scale ratio, a word statement or a graphic line scale. Example of a scale ratio would be 1:2500 and the word statement would be 1 cm on the map equals 25m on the ground, while a line scale is a line on the map representing distance in reality which can be measured to determine the scale. A large representational scale would be a large fraction like 1:2500, while a small scale would be a smaller fraction like 1:1000000. The larger the scale the closer to reality is...
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