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i think a pirate just stole the rest of our fucking beer. what an appropriate costume.
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That's because you were dressed like bitches
Why is the rum always gone..?
beer tastes bad...liquor's the way to go
Hahaha my friend who was dressed like a pirate did the same thing
Oh, I get it! Pirates are known for stealing so this is funny baecause someone dressed as a pirate stole your beer! Jeff
Fa-- win? I don't know...
I like poopers I like shit! The best damn job is a butt pirate!!
There are only butt pirates in Orlando
were you dressed as a ninja?
I mean u don't have to have a Halloween party on Halloween I've been to two already and it's just now Halloween night...
Did the pirate steal all your beer, or just your fucking beer?
This makes me think of Harold and Kumar
I was a priate! But I just stole a snickers bar...
this is great because i dressed up as a pirate tonight, and i drank the last bottle at the party.
You wanna know how I got these scars? -Joker
Garrrr shiver me timbers it was me that stole yer booty
Oh, I get it! Pirates steel boats and these pirates stole their beer! -Jeff
Way to represent, ORLANDOOOOO WOOOH HALLOWEEN LETS GO
I'm a pirate, I love me yo''re mamas booty. And my girls... And wife...
Haha love it.... You really don't have to be a pirate I was a sexy army chick and stole beer hehe...okay maybe not sexy but sounded sweet
This is the best halloween tfln yet.
But why is the rum gone?
8:55 college kids have been celebrating halloween since at least thursday, some of us since last weekend. you dont wait til halloween to dress up
That's cool, but I wouldn't steal the rest of your fucking beer.
All these texts wouldn't seem made up if u waited till tomorow to post them
Gar! I'll board ye from the rear and plunder the booty in yer poopdeck!
I'm Rick James bitch!
And let me guess, your costume is pirate?
He stole the beer bcuz he already had a little Captain in him but apparently he ran out...
That was me. Sorry, I was thirsty.
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I'd personally rather that not happen, since I don't really use them for anything other than making a couple force engines, shears, and claws force gems are a great and plentiful source of precantatio essence for me that saves me the hassle of wasting either my vis shards or my time crafting the type of sandstone that gives some of it.
The only tome you need is Tier 4. You can solo the wither (with punching), with a Tier 4 tome. You can punch TiC nether armor to mine it, without any tome at all. Tier5 lets you reach the absurdities of Fortune IV on your drill, but you don't need it. After Tier 4, it's fluff. Tier5 for ender - which isn't even part of the worst abuses, and then nothing you need. Even Sturdy is superfluous. You just said the cost of a tree farm "isnt [sic] all that much", and you don't need the armor for the drill. You'll want the armor, but it's not a part of the drill. You can reach tier4 in a matter of minutes, certainly less than an hour, and it's a permanent resource for your game not a consumable for the production of your drill. The only significant cost of the Power Drill is....<drumroll> The IC2 drill it's made out of.
Balance doesn't really a direct link to Difficulty. Balance means keeping everything at the same level. Something can be easy, but then made more tedious, less useful.... Something can be hard, but it must be worth it, powerful. Dartcraft is easy AND powerful. Thus it isn't balanced yet. Balancing has to be done
In a matter of minutes is pushing it (unless you get the best spawn ever) but sure, it is a one time investment so who cares about a few minutes either way. You still need the power to supply your drill, and you need a big power supply for that, unless you want to dig a hole the size of a creeper explosion and then want to sit around for half a minute untill your drill is recharged again. If you click once every second (to make it easy to calculate) you need a steady 150 EU/t power supply or, using the conversion rate of 2:5 (from ae IIRC) 60 MJ/t. With that kind of power, I usually have atleast one quarry running, but then I really don't like manual mining. Then you need to store that power somewhere, so atleast a lappack (batpack won't do, 20 second trips between return trips isn't really that great). Suddenly your 4 minutes plus a basic IC2 mining drill have turned into hours if not days (if you don't focus entirely on your tool). So yeah, the drill is somewhat balanced. Does the balance work at the high end? Not really, balancing by power usage doesn't really work if you have unlimited power.
Am I not entitled to my opinion? I am mining manually myself you know and I feel it is good enough. You don't have to get tons of stuff you don't need and would just hoard in barrels etc. GregTech does need a lot of stuff but you have to remember DartCraft is not in the same pack with that. Btw, there are no "tiers" in automation other than supplying more power or making more machines. You'll have to name what is lower tier and what is higher tier if you want to make an argument with that. If frame machinery is higher tier it would make no sense to compare the force drill to that since time investment is vastly different. Force drill you just make, frame machine you have to first figure out how to make and then actually make. You don't see real world manual tools outperforming industrial machinery and I'm sure some of the mods are trying to simulate real life to a degree. I'm sure this argument will be just shot down with the "it's a game" argument. There's one major difference in manual mining versus automation. Manual tools can apply Fortune and Silk Touch but automation has neither of those apart from Arcane Bore but that is balanced by its research and usage requirements. Now people want manual mining to be as fast as automatic machines while still applying enchant effects? I would be quite fine with the super drill if you couldn't use enchants with it on AoE mode.
And you need a power supply for that quarry too. 50MJ/t isn't cheap or easy. 60MJ/t if you're going through a tesseract (and then you need all the infrastructure for that) You can run the quarry for less MJ per tick but then it's slower, and then you're waiting on it as well and the drill at comparable power production would still be faster. http://minecraftbuildcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Quarry At 3k for a 3x3x3 area is 111EU/block, or with a standard 2.5:1 ratio, 44MJ
Fairly simple and stright forward. I'm not talking about Dartcraft over all but your statement that easy = better and convienance is king. Hence why I actually say that in my post.
I think this should be said since people keep bringing up Dartcraft and TiC. Regarding TiC's fortune, you can apply a single lapis to an item and via using it increase the amount and get fortune on it. For example, you can put a single lapis on a hammer and eventually get fortune 3 just from clearing cobblestone.
What exactly are you saying? That the act of mining alone increases the potency of your modifiers? Or are you saying what would happen if Dartcraft mechanics were applied to TiC?
It takes more then a singel lapis. Luck does nothing until you get enough to have furtune I and it takes 450 lapis to get to fortune 3
Tell me again how 1 lapis on a hammer turns cobblestone into more lapis? I've never experienced this functionality.
If you use a hammer to mine, you gain points towards fortune even if you've only put a single lapis on the tool. I have a hammer I stuck a single lapis on to and now it says it has 51 lapis on it, and it now has fortune and looting 1. This essentially means you can get fortune 3 from a single lapis if you use the tool very, very often. Edit: Also, it doesn't care WHAT you mine, just THAT you mine. You can also get looting on a scythe by killing mobs with it, for example.
I hear ya, that was my initial reaction when someone else stumbled across this by accident. I confirmed it via creative in that thread and just tried it in my survival world and it works pretty darn well. In about a minecraft day of mining with a stone hammer it has gotten that high, but right now I'm focused on getting a steel hammer instead so I can get high level fortune on it and hit some diamonds.
Guys, what Daemon is talking about it as TC feature where you can increase your Luck with mining as well as applying lapis as long as you've already applied at least one lapis to the tool. He is saying that using this you can get Fortune 3 by just mining with one lapis.
What if the reason everything in dartcraft has the word force in it is because he's trying to force you to use his mod by making everything overpowered?
I'm really starting to regret the 450 lapis I put on my battleaxe and the other 220 I've dumped onto a pick... Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk 2


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The citations stem from an inspection at the company's Pasadena, TX, facility where tanks are cleaned with a variety of chemicals, according to OSHA. The March inspection was prompted by a complaint.
"The employer is responsible for safeguarding workers from toxic and explosive hazards during chemical tank cleaning," Mark Briggs, director of OSHA's Houston South Area Office, said in a statement.
"Thankfully, these serious safety and health violations were found before any catastrophic or fatal incident occurred," Briggs said.
A tank cleaning company in Pasadena, TX, was cited for 33 alleged safety and health violations, including chemical, electrical and confined space hazards, OSHA says.
All Type Environmental is an industrial cleaning facility that specializes in handling hazardous cleaning and waste disposal, according to the company's LinkedIn profile.
A woman who answered the phone Wednesday (Sept. 25) at the company said no one was available to comment on the citations.
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The company received 21 serious violations, including alleged failure to:
According to OSHA, a serious violation occurs when there is substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result from a hazard the employer knew or should have known about.
Twelve other-than-serious citations allege that the employer failed to:
The company has 15 business days from receipt of the citations to comply, contest the citations and penalties, or request an informal conference with OSHA.
Comment from Billy Russell, (9/26/2013, 7:50 AM)
I would hope that this Company's Health/Safety officer has his credentials checked, Thankfully someone recognized what was "NOT" being done in accordance with Common sense in our industry in todays Times, just SMH this continues to be happening.
Comment from David Sublette, (9/26/2013, 8:38 AM)
The amount of citations suggests a lack of a safety program altogether. No respirators or air testing provided while cleaning with chemicals in a confined space? Glad someone spoke up or there would have been much more serious consequences.
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Criminology (from Latin crīmen, "accusation"; and Greek -λογία, -logia) is the scientific study of the nature, extent, management, control, consequences, and prevention of criminal behavior, both on the individual and social levels. Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in the behavioral sciences, drawing especially upon the research of sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social anthropologists, as well as scholars of law.
The term criminology was coined in 1885 by Italian law professor Raffaele Garofalo as criminologia. Later, French anthropologist Paul Topinard used the analogous French term criminologie.[1]
In the mid-18th century criminology arose as social philosophers gave thought to crime and concepts of law. Over time, several schools of thought have developed. There were three main schools of thought in early criminological theory spanning the period from the mid-18th century to the mid-twentieth century: Classical, Positive, and Chicago. These schools of thought were superseded by several contemporary paradigms of criminology, such as the sub-culture, control, strain, labeling, critical criminology, cultural criminology, postmodern criminology, feminist criminology and others discussed below.
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The Classical School, which developed in the mid 18th century, was based on utilitarian philosophy. Cesare Beccaria,[2] author of On Crimes and Punishments (1763–64), Jeremy Bentham (inventor of the panopticon), and other classical school philosophers argued that:[citation needed]
The Classical school of thought came about at a time when major reform in penology occurred, with prisons developed as a form of punishment. Also, this time period saw many legal reforms, the French Revolution, and the development of the legal system in the United States.[citation needed]
The Positivist school presumes that criminal behavior is caused by internal and external factors outside of the individual's control. The scientific method was introduced and applied to study human behavior. Positivism can be broken up into three segments which include biological, psychological and social positivism.[4]
Cesare Lombroso was an Italian Sociologist working in the late 19th century who is sometimes regarded as the father of criminology. He was one of the largest contributors to biological positivism and was founder of the Italian school of criminology.[5] Lombroso took a scientific approach, insisting on empirical evidence, for studying crime.[6] Considered as the founder of criminal anthropology he suggested that physiological traits such as the measurements of one's cheek bones or hairline, or a cleft palate, considered to be throwbacks to Neanderthal man, were indicative of "atavistic" criminal tendencies. This approach, influenced by the earlier theory of phrenology and by Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution, has been superseded. Enrico Ferri, a student of Lombroso, believed that social as well as biological factors played a role, and held the view that criminals should not be held responsible when factors causing their criminality were beyond their control. Criminologists have since rejected Lombroso's biological theories, with control groups not used in his studies.[7]
Sociological positivism suggests that societal factors such as poverty, membership of subcultures, or low levels of education can predispose people to crime. Adolphe Quetelet made use of data and statistical analysis to gain insight into the relationship between crime and sociological factors. He found that age, gender, poverty, education, and alcohol consumption were important factors related to crime.[8] Rawson W. Rawson utilized crime statistics to suggest a link between population density and crime rates, with crowded cities creating an environment conducive for crime.[9] Joseph Fletcher and John Glyde also presented papers to the Statistical Society of London on their studies of crime and its distribution.[10] Henry Mayhew used empirical methods and an ethnographic approach to address social questions and poverty, and presented his studies in London Labour and the London Poor.[11] Émile Durkheim viewed crime as an inevitable aspect of society, with uneven distribution of wealth and other differences among people.
Crime is learned through association. The criminal acts learned might be generally condoning criminal conduct or be justifying crime only under specific circumstances. Interacting with antisocial peers is a major cause of crime. Criminal behavior will be repeated and become chronic if reinforced. When criminal subcultures exist, many individuals can learn associatively to commit crime and crime rates may increase in those specific locations.[12]
The Chicago school arose in the early twentieth century, through the work of Robert E. Park, Ernest Burgess, and other urban sociologists at the University of Chicago. In the 1920s, Park and Burgess identified five concentric zones that often exist as cities grow, including the "zone in transition," which was identified as most volatile and subject to disorder. In the 1940s, Henry McKay and Clifford R. Shaw focused on juvenile delinquents, finding that they were concentrated in the zone of transition.
Chicago School sociologists adopted a social ecology approach to studying cities and postulated that urban neighborhoods with high levels of poverty often experience breakdown in the social structure and institutions such as family and schools. This results in social disorganization, which reduces the ability of these institutions to control behavior and creates an environment ripe for deviant behavior.
Other researchers suggested an added social-psychological link. Edwin Sutherland suggested that people learn criminal behavior from older, more experienced criminals with whom they may associate.
Theoretical perspectives used in criminology include psychoanalysis, functionalism, interactionism, Marxism, econometrics, systems theory, postmodernism, genetics, neuropsychology, evolutionary psychology, etc.
This theory is applied to a variety of approaches within criminology in particular and in sociology more generally as a conflict theory or structural conflict perspective in sociology and sociology of crime. As this perspective is itself broad enough, embracing as it does a diversity of positions.[13]
Social disorganization theory is based on the work of Henry McKay and Clifford R. Shaw of the Chicago School.[14] Social disorganization theory postulates that neighborhoods plagued with poverty and economic deprivation tend to experience high rates of population turnover.[15] These neighborhoods also tend to have high population heterogeneity.[15] With high turnover, informal social structure often fails to develop, which in turn makes it difficult to maintain social order in a community.
Since the 1950s, social ecology studies have built on the social disorganization theories. Many studies have found that crime rates are associated with poverty, disorder, high numbers of abandoned buildings, and other signs of community deterioration.[15][16] As working and middle class people leave deteriorating neighborhoods, the most disadvantaged portions of the population may remain. William Julius Wilson suggested a poverty "concentration effect," which may cause neighborhoods to be isolated from the mainstream of society and become prone to violence.[17]
Strain theory, also known as Mertonian Anomie, advanced by American sociologist Robert Merton, suggests that mainstream culture, especially in the United States, is saturated with dreams of opportunity, freedom, and prosperity--as Merton put it, the American Dream. Most people buy into this dream, and it becomes a powerful cultural and psychological motivation. Merton also used the term anomie, but it meant something slightly different for him than it did for Durkheim. Merton saw the term as meaning a dichotomy between what society expected of its citizens and what those citizens could actually achieve. Therefore, if the social structure of opportunities is unequal and prevents the majority from realizing the dream, some of those dejected will turn to illegitimate means (crime) in order to realize it. Others will retreat or drop out into deviant subcultures (gang members, "hobos": urban homeless drunks and drug abusers).[18]
Following the Chicago school and Strain Theory, and also drawing on Edwin Sutherland's idea of differential association, subcultural theorists focused on small cultural groups fragmenting away from the mainstream to form their own values and meanings about life.
Albert K. Cohen tied anomie theory with Freud's reaction formation idea, suggesting that delinquency among lower class youths is a reaction against the social norms of the middle class.[19] Some youth, especially from poorer areas where opportunities are scarce, might adopt social norms specific to those places that may include "toughness" and disrespect for authority. Criminal acts may result when youths conform to norms of the deviant subculture.[20]
Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin suggested that delinquency can result from differential opportunity for lower class youth.[21] Such youths may be tempted to take up criminal activities, choosing an illegitimate path that provides them more lucrative economic benefits than conventional, over legal options such as minimum wage-paying jobs available to them.[21]
British subcultural theorists focused more heavily on the issue of class, where some criminal activities were seen as "imaginary solutions" to the problem of belonging to a subordinate class. A further study by the Chicago school looked at gangs and the influence of the interaction of gang leaders under the observation of adults.
Sociologists such as Raymond D. Gastil have explored the impact of a Southern culture of honor on violent crime rates.[22]
Another approach is made by the social bond or social control theory. Instead of looking for factors that make people become criminal, these theories try to explain why people do not become criminal. Travis Hirschi identified four main characteristics: "attachment to others," "belief in moral validity of rules," "commitment to achievement," and "involvement in conventional activities".[23] The more a person features those characteristics, the less likely (s)he is to become deviant (or criminal). On the other hand, if these factors are not present, a person is more likely to become a criminal. Hirschi expanded on this theory with the idea that a person with low self control is more likely to become criminal.[24]
A simple example: Someone wants a big yacht but does not have the means to buy one. If the person cannot exert self-control, (s)he might try to get the yacht (or the means for it) in an illegal way, whereas someone with high self-control will (more likely) either wait or deny themselves of what want or seek an intelligent intermediate solution, such as joining a yacht club to use a yacht by group consolidation of resources without violating social norms. Social bonds, through peers, parents, and others can have a countering effect on one's low self-control. For families of low socio-economic status, a factor that distinguishes families with delinquent children from those who are not delinquent is the control exerted by parents or chaperonage.[25] In addition, theorists such as David Matza and Gresham Sykes argued that criminals are able to temporarily neutralize internal moral and social behavioral constraints through techniques of neutralization.
Symbolic interactionism draws on the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and George Herbert Mead, as well as subcultural theory and conflict theory.[26] This school of thought focused on the relationship between the powerful state, media, and conservative ruling elite and other less powerful groups. The powerful groups had the ability to become the "significant other" in the less powerful groups' processes of generating meaning. The former could to some extent impose their meanings on the latter; therefore they were able to "label" minor delinquent youngsters as criminal. These youngsters would often take on board the label, indulge in crime more readily, and become actors in the "self-fulfilling prophecy" of the powerful groups. Later developments in this set of theories were by Howard Becker and Edwin Lemert, in the mid-20th century.[27] Stanley Cohen who developed the concept of "moral panic" (describing societal reaction to spectacular, alarming social phenomena such as post-World War Two youth cultures (e.g. the Mods and Rockers in the UK in 1964, AIDS and football hooliganism).
Labeling theory refers to an individual who is labeled in a particular way and who was studied in great detail by Howard Becker.[28] It arrives originally from sociology but is regularly used in criminological studies. It is said that when someone is given the label of a criminal they may reject or accept it and continue to commit crime. Even those who initially reject the label can eventually accept it as the label becomes more well known particularly among their peers. This stigma can become even more profound when the labels are about deviancy, and it is thought that this stigmatization can lead to deviancy amplification. Klein (1986) [29] conducted a test which showed that labeling theory affected some youth offenders but not others.
At the other side of the spectrum, criminologist Lonnie Athens developed a theory about how a process of brutalization by parents or peers that usually occurs in childhood results in violent crimes in adulthood. Richard Rhodes' Why They Kill describes Athens' observations about domestic and societal violence in the criminals' backgrounds. Both Athens and Rhodes reject the genetic inheritance theories.[30]
Rational choice theory is based on the utilitarian, classical school philosophies of Cesare Beccaria, which were popularized by Jeremy Bentham. They argued that punishment, if certain, swift, and proportionate to the crime, was a deterrent for crime, with risks outweighing possible benefits to the offender. In Dei delitti e delle pene (On Crimes and Punishments, 1763–1764), Beccaria advocated a rational penology. Beccaria conceived of punishment as the necessary application of the law for a crime; thus, the judge was simply to conform his sentence to the law. Beccaria also distinguished between crime and sin, and advocated against the death penalty, as well as torture and inhumane treatments as he did not consider them as rational deterrents.
This philosophy was replaced by the Positivist and Chicago Schools and was not revived until the 1970s with the writings of James Q. Wilson, Gary Becker's 1965 article titled "Crime and Punishment"[31] and George Stigler's 1970 article "The Optimum Enforcement of Laws".[32] Rational choice theory argues that criminals, like other people, weigh costs/risks and benefits when deciding whether to commit crime and think in economic terms.[33] They will also try to minimize risks of crime by considering the time, place, and other situational factors.[33]
Gary Becker, for example, acknowledged that many people operate under a high moral and ethical constraint but considered that criminals rationally see that the benefits of their crime outweigh the cost such as the probability of apprehension, conviction, punishment, as well as their current set of opportunities. From the public policy perspective, since the cost of increasing the fine is marginal to that of the cost of increasing surveillance, one can conclude that the best policy is to maximize the fine and minimize surveillance.
With this perspective, crime prevention or reduction measures can be devised that increase effort required to commit the crime, such as target hardening.[34] Rational choice theories also suggest that increasing risk of offending and likelihood of being caught, through added surveillance, police or security guard presence, added street lighting, and other measures, are effective in reducing crime.[34]
One of the main differences between this theory and Jeremy Bentham's rational choice theory, which had been abandoned in criminology, is that if Bentham considered it possible to completely annihilate crime (through the panopticon), Becker's theory acknowledged that a society could not eradicate crime beneath a certain level. For example, if 25% of a supermarket's products were stolen, it would be very easy to reduce this rate to 15%, quite easy to reduce it until 5%, difficult to reduce it under 3% and nearly impossible to reduce it to zero (a feat which would cost the supermarket so much in surveillance, etc., that it would outweigh the benefits). This reveals that the goals of utilitarianism and classical liberalism have to be tempered and reduced to more modest proposals to be practically applicable.
Such rational choice theories, linked to neoliberalism, have been at the basics of crime prevention through environmental design and underpin the Market Reduction Approach to theft [35] by Mike Sutton, which is a systematic toolkit for those seeking to focus attention on "crime facilitators" by tackling the markets for stolen goods [36] that provide motivation for thieves to supply them by theft.[37]
Routine activity theory, developed by Marcus Felson and Lawrence Cohen, draws upon control theories and explains crime in terms of crime opportunities that occur in everyday life.[38] A crime opportunity requires that elements converge in time and place including (1) a motivated offender, (2) suitable target or victim, and (3) lack of a capable guardian.[39] A guardian at a place, such as a street, could include security guards or even ordinary pedestrians who would witness the criminal act and possibly intervene or report it to police.[39] Routine activity theory was expanded by John Eck, who added a fourth element of "place manager" such as rental property managers who can take nuisance abatement measures.[40]
Biosocial criminology is an interdisciplinary field that aims to explain crime and antisocial behavior by exploring both biological factors and environmental factors. While contemporary criminology has been dominated by sociological theories, biosocial criminology also recognizes the potential contributions of fields such as genetics, neuropsychology, and evolutionary psychology.[41]
In 1968, young British sociologists formed the National Deviance Conference (NDC) group. The group was restricted to academics and consisted of 300 members. Ian Taylor, Paul Walton and Jock Young - members of the NDC - rejected previous explanations of crime and deviance. Thus, they decided to pursue a new Marxist criminological approach.[42] In The New Criminology, they argued against the biological "positivism" perspective represented by Lombroso, Hans Eysenck and Gordon Trasler.[43]
According to the Marxist perspective on crime, "defiance is normal - the sense that men are now consciously involved…in assuring their human diversity." Thus Marxists criminologists argued in support of society in which the facts of human diversity, be it social or personal, would not be criminalized.[44] They, further, attributed the processes of crime-creation not to genetic or psychological facts, but rather to the material basis of a given society.[45]
Both the Positivist and Classical Schools take a consensus view of crime — that a crime is an act that violates the basic values and beliefs of society. Those values and beliefs are manifested as laws that society agrees upon. However, there are two types of laws:
Therefore, definitions of crimes will vary from place to place, in accordance to the cultural norms and mores, but may be broadly classified as blue-collar crime, corporate crime, organized crime, political crime, public order crime, state crime, state-corporate crime, and white-collar crime.[46] However, there have been moves in contemporary criminological theory to move away from liberal pluralism, culturalism and postmodernism by introducing the universal term 'harm' into the criminological debate as a replacement for the legal term 'crime'.[47]
Many different causes and correlates of crime have been proposed with varying degree of empirical support.
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Scenario 1. You go and he goes.
You both want to be with your mother on the holiday. You both have equal access, and it shows that he can't control her access. It's a draw until she decides that he has to go.
Scenario 2. You don't go and he goes.
It shows him that he can further control your mother just by showing up. He limits her interaction with you, and he wins. I don't think it'll force a long-term breakup, so there's no direct win here other than maybe a short-term win by creating Scenario 3.
Scenario 3. You go and he doesn't go.
If he doesn't go at your mother's request, it may put her more at risk for abuse later, though I think it's a long-term win. However, it probably causes her some short-term resentment toward you and won't do anything to solve the long-term problem. It's a win for you, but with some damage.
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The data itself comes from Russia's largest mobile retailer, Euroset, who have more than 5,000 stores across the vast country. Their latest report puts Nokia at 29% of the mobile market in Russia this summer, up from 27% in the spring. Samsung meanwhile has dropped to 27% from a previous 30% just a few months ago. That bump gives Nokia back the edge since Samsung beat them earlier this year (the two often go back and forth in terms of market share in the country).


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Titans improved its chances of making it to the knock-out phase with a thumping eight-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in a Group 'B' match of the Champions League T20 tournament at the JSCA Stadium here on Saturday.
Sunrisers, asked to take first strike, scored 145 for seven while Titans romped home in the 17th over.
With this victory, Titans reached eight points with two wins and a loss. The defeat was a big setback for Sunrisers, which has to win its next match and also expect favourable results from the other games. Titans will take on Trinidad & Tobago in the final league match while Sunrisers will meet Brisbane Heat. Both games are slated for Monday.
Losing its way
After the dominating batting display against Chennai Super Kings, when the team fell just a dozen runs short while chasing 202, Sunrisers lost its way after a good start. A late charge by the tailenders, particularly Dale Steyn, took the side to a fighting total.
Captain Shikhar Dhawan and Parthiv Patel, who were on song again, were particularly severe on Titans' new ball bowler Morne Morkel while adding 60 during the PowerPlay overs.
Dhawan was his usual self, producing a series of delightful strokes as the 50 came off just 5.1 overs.
Having tried his top four bowlers, Titans' captain Henry Davids turned to David Wiese, who brought the first success in the seventh over. Dhawan's upper-cut off a short ball flew to third man where Morkel made no mistake.
The 28-year-old medium-pacer sent back Parthiv in his second over, and off his next, Weise had Hanuma Vihari taken brilliantly by Davids.
The three quick wickets put the brakes on Sunrisers as the new batsmen struggled to settle down.
Fragile middle-order
Sunrisers' fragile middle-order was thoroughly exposed as Biplab Samantaray soon joined Vihari in the dug-out. The Hyderabad team could score just 45 between the seventh and 17th overs, and also lost seven wickets during that period.
It was left to Steyn (27) and Karan Sharma, who added 33 for the unbeaten eighth wicket off just 2.2 overs. Steyn hit Marchant de Lange for 6, 4, 6, 4 in the final over to end the innings on a high.
The Titans openers, Jacques Rudolph and Davids, made their intentions clear right from the beginning. Davids, in particular, went for his shots with gay abandon while Rudolph was all concentration and picked the balls to hit.
By the fifth over, the openers took the score to 39 for no loss while the 100 came off just 10.4 overs. Though Davids was hit on the helmet by a short-pitched delivery from Ishant Sharma, he recovered quickly and grew in confidence and aggression.
Astonishing shots
Davids' inside-out six off Ishant in the first over and another six off Steyn in the same manner in the fourth over stood out in his superb innings. The openers added 112, putting their team firmly on the road to victory.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Parthiv Patel b Wiese 26 (24b, 2x4, 2x6), Shikhar Dhawan c Morkel b Wiese 37 (21b, 7x4, 1x6), Jean-Paul Duminy b de Lange 17 (28b), Hanuma Vihari c Davids b Wiese 6 (9b, 1x4), Biplab Samantray st Mosehle b Davids 0 (2b), Thisara Perera (run out) 11 (16b), Darren Sammy c Behardien b Richards 1 (2b), Karan Sharma (not out) 11 (6b, 1x4, 1x6), Dale Steyn (not out) 27 (12b, 3x4, 2x6); Extras (b-1, lb-1, w-7): 9; Total (for seven wkts. in 20 overs): 145.
Fall of wickets: 1-62 (Dhawan), 2-71 (Patel), 3-83 (Vihari), 4-86 (Samantray), 5-102 (Duminy), 6-105 (Sammy), 7-112 (Perera).
Titans bowling: Henry Davids 4-0-18-1, Morne Morkel 4-0-42-0, Rowan Richards 4-0-24-1, Marchant de Lange 4-0-42-1, David Wiese 4-0-17-3.
Titans: Jacques Rudolph (not out) 49 (42b, 3x4, 2x6), Henry Davids c Sammy b Steyn 64 (42b, 7x4, 4x6), A.B. de Villiers c Perera b Ishant 9 (7b, 2x4), Heino Kuhn (not out) 15 (8b, 1x4, 1x6); Extras (lb-6, w-4): 10; Total (for two wkts. in 16.3 overs): 147.
Fall of wickets: 1-112 (Davids), 2-123 (de Villiers).
Sunrisers Hyderabad bowling: Karan 1-0-9-0, Steyn 4-0-23-1, Ishant 4-0-32-1, Perera 2.3-0-29-0, Mishra 2-0-17-0, Duminy 1-0-14-0, Sammy 2-0-17-0.
Man-of-the-match: H. Davids.
Keywords: Champions League Twenty20 match, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Titans


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Injured Rice 'probable' for SEC Tournament
Freshman forward Alyssa Rice, who was injured during the second half of the game against South Carolina, was in a walking boot Monday, but it's just precautionary, Kentucky confirmed. The Reynoldsburg, Ohio, native has an undisclosed foot injury and is listed … Continue reading
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Staley apologizes for actions at end of game
South Carolina Coach Dawn Staley apologized via Twitter for her sour reaction when Kentucky pulled its seniors out of the game Sunday night at Memorial Coliseum. Coach Matthew Mitchell called a timeout with 16 seconds left in the game, with … Continue reading
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The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) and the Seismological Society of America (SSA) are pleased to announce the selection of two speakers from the Earth science research community for the tenth annual IRIS/SSA Distinguished Lectures Series.
2015 Distinguished Lecturers
Dr. Thorne Lay
Department of Earth and Marine Sciences,
University of California, Santa Cruz,
Santa Cruz, California
A Global Surge of Great Earthquakes and What We are Learning From Them
During the decade 2004-2014, 18 huge earthquakes with seismic magnitudes larger than 8.0 struck around the world, sometimes causing horrendous destruction and loss of life. The annual rate of such events was 2.5 times greater than had been experienced over the previous century of seismological observations. Deployment of global networks of very high-quality seismic, geodetic, and tsunami recording systems had preceded most of these events, allowing unprecedented signals to be recorded for these great earthquakes.
Geophysicists have analyzed the recorded waves and ground motions to determine details of each earthquake, advancing our understanding of these dangerous events. Most of the earthquakes have involved surprises, rapidly revising scientific ideas about the behavior of huge fault ruptures and indicating the need for improved mitigation efforts.
Dr. Doug Wiens
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Washington University,
Saint Louis, Missouri
Fire and Ice: Volcanoes, Earth Structure, and the Evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
The continent of Antarctica supports the largest ice sheets in the world. The history of the ice sheets is intertwined with the geological history of continent, involving processes such as mountain building, the response of the land to the weight of glaciers, and heat flow melting and lubricating the bottom of the ice sheet. Very little is known about the history of Antarctica because the ice sheets preclude the usual geological sampling and mapping, so seismology offers a method to "see through the ice" and understand the continent beneath. Recent advances in technology now allow autonomous seismographs to be deployed across the continent for the first time.
In this presentation I will discuss projects that are installing seismographs across Antarctica and summarize recent discoveries. New results reveal that East Antarctica represents an ancient continent, with an average geological age of greater than one billion years and with highlands supported by thick continental crust. In contrast, West Antarctica shows evidence of recent tectonic activity, and high heat flow that may lubricate the base of the ice sheet. The seismographs record earthquakes from magma movement associated with volcanoes beneath the ice. The high mantle temperatures suggest low mantle viscosity, such that the response of the land to ice mass changes will occur within a few hundred years. These insights are changing the way we model the recent history of the ice sheet.
Seismograms also provide important constraints on the movement and forces acting on the ice sheets. "Icequakes" ranging from very small cracking events near the surface of the ice sheet to massive crevassing and calving episodes produce unique seismic signals that help reveal the physics of ice movement. The largest signals come from a unique region on the Whillans Ice Stream, where a 100 mile-long section of the ice stream lurches forward twice a day, triggered by ocean tides, and sending seismic waves traveling across the entire continent. This unusual behavior may signal the slowing down of this ice stream in response to changes in the amount of water along the ice stream bed.
2015 Lecture Series Schedule
Date | Speaker | Topic | Venue |
January 31, 2015 9:00AM | Dr. Jean-Paul Ampuero | Earth's Cocktail Party: Deciphering the Physics of Earthquakes With Networks of Seismic Arrays | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
March 04, 2015 11:00AM | Dr. Thorne Lay | A Global Surge of Great Earthquakes and What We are Learning From Them | University of Texas at El Paso |
May 09, 2015 9:00AM | Dr. Doug Wiens | Fire and Ice: Volcanoes, Earth Structure, and the Evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet | Fernbank Science Center |
May 13, 2015 10:00AM | Dr. Doug Wiens | Fire and Ice: Volcanoes, Earth Structure, and the Evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet | IRIS Webinar |
June 22, 2015 10:00AM | Dr. Thorne Lay | A Global Surge of Great Earthquakes and What We are Learning From Them | IRIS Webinar |
July 13, 2015 3:00PM | Dr. Thorne Lay | A Global Surge of Great Earthquakes and What We are Learning From Them | OMSI Science Pub, The Hollywood Theatre |
October 23, 2015 3:00PM | Dr. Thorne Lay | A Global Surge of Great Earthquakes and What We are Learning From Them | Cleveland Museum of Natural History |
October 26, 2015 3:00PM | Dr. Doug Wiens | Fire and Ice: Volcanoes, Earth Structure, and the Evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet | OMSI Science Pub, The Venetian Theatre |
The lecturers will be presenting talks aimed at general public audiences throughout 2015.
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All lectures must be arranged for general public audiences. Due to the nature of the funding source for this program, lectures can not be arranged as part of a University Department Colloquium Series.
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Distinguished Lectureship Archive 2003 - 2014
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2014 | Dr. Meredith Nettles | Glacial Earthquakes: Using Seismic and GPS Observations to Map Changes in Glaciers and Ice Sheets Worldwide |
2014 | Dr. Jean-Paul Ampuero | Earth's Cocktail Party: Deciphering the Physics of Earthquakes With Networks of Seismic Arrays |
2013 | Dr. Lara Wagner | Imaging the Ancient Margin: How the Southeastern United States Was Built (And Why You Should Care) |
2013 | Dr. Gavin Hayes | Mitigating Disasters: Earthquake Response in the 21st Century |
2012 | Dr. Miaki Ishii | Dissecting Giant Earthquakes: Things We Didn't Know |
2012 | Dr. Gregory Beroza | The Tortoise and the Hare: Slow vs Fast Earthquakes |
2011 | Dr. Wayne D. Pennington | Preparing for the Future: Scientific and Humanitarian Lessons from the Haiti and Japan earthquakes |
2011 | Dr. Beatrice Magnani | The New Madrid Earthquakes Two Hundred Years Later: What Have We Learned About Earthquakes at the Center of Tectonic Plates? |
2010 | Dr. Brian Stump | Forensic Seismology and Nucler Testing: The Detective Work of Seismologists |
2010 | Dr. Stephen Malone | Predicting Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions: What Can and Can't Now Be Done |
2009 | Dr. Aaron A. Velasco | Can a Large Earthquake in Another Country Cause One in Your Backyard? |
2009 | Dr. Richard C. Aster | Taking Earth's Pulse and Temperature Using Seismology: Roaring Oceans and Singing Icebergs |
2008 | Dr. Cliff Frohlich | Deep Earthquakes and the Secret of Seismology |
2008 | Dr. Uri ten Brink | Peace and Science in the Middle East |
2007 | Dr. Anne Sheehan | Seeing Beneath Mt. Everest: Probing a Breeding Ground of Destructive Earthquakes |
2007 | Dr. Brian Atwater | The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 - A Trans-Pacific Detective Story |
2006 | Dr. Mary Lou Zoback | The 1906 Earthquake - Lessons Learned, Lessons Forgotten, and Future Directions |
2006 | Dr. Ed Garnero | Vibrations From the Deep: Deciphering the Birth and Death of the Earth's Surface |
2006 | Dr. Seth Stein | Giant Earthquakes: Why, Where, When, and What We Can Do |
2005 | Dr. Michael Wysession | Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and a Modern Journey to the Center of the Earth |
2005 | Dr. Susan Hough | The Very Long Reach of Very Large Earthquakes |
2004 | Dr. David E. James | Revealing the Mysteries of the Earth's Deep Interior: Plates, Plumes, and the Birth of Modern Seismology |
2004 | David Wald | Rapid Earthquake Information: Citizen Science and New Tools for Emergency Response |
2003 | Dr. Roger Bilham | Death and Construction: Earthquakes on an Urban Planet |
2003 | Dr. Walter Mooney | The Discovery of the Earth: The Quest to Understand the Interior of our Planet |


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A bill backed by the National Rifle Association to protect Florida gun owners who display their weapon or fire a warning shot to deter an attacker sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee on a unanimous vote Wednesday.
The bill, SB 448, sponsored by Judiciary Committee Chairman Greg Evers, R-Baker, is aimed at ending the threat of prosecution for those protecting themselves or their families as one of the "unintended consequences" of the state's 10-20-Life law, supporters said.
While Florida's "stand your ground" law allows people to use deadly force if they are attacked, the 10-20-Life law requires a minimum sentence of 10 years if a firearm is used or displayed during a crime, 20 years if the gun is fired, and a 20 years to life sentence if someone is injured in the shooting.
The new bill "makes clear the original intent of 10-20-Life was to punish [criminals]," said Eric Friday, an attorney for the gun rights group Florida Carry. "It was never intended to apply to those who were attempting to act in self-defense."
NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer told the committee the bill would "stop prosecutors who are violating the intent of 10-20-Life."
The NRA supported 10-20-Life when it was passed in 1998, Hammer said.
"We never would have supported a bill that would allow prosecutors to prosecute someone acting in self-defense," she said. "A threat to use deadly force to stop a deadly assault is self-defense.
"Some prosecutors abuse their discretion … We hope this bill will put a stop to that."
Bill Cervone, state attorney for the Eighth Judicial Circuit and president of the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association, said his group wasn't opposed to the bill, but tried to defend prosecutors as "making difficult choices" in determining whether a charge should be filed. He said supporters of the bill made it sound like the state was rife with "renegade prosecutors" taking advantage of the law to put innocent people in prison.
"Place don't characterize all of Florida's prosecutors as some sort of renegades," he said. "We're trying to do the best we can."
Evers acknowledged that, but said the law has hurt innocent people.
"There needed to be a bill like this," he told Cervone.
The bill's House sponsor, Rep. Neil Combee, R-Polk City, was more adamant.
"There are people in our prisons right now that have never shot anybody," Combee said. "When did this start marking sense?"
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Bamboo treehouse eco-hotel concept is at one with the birds
July 16, 2014
Bamboo is a very versatile material and holds a lot of promise in architecture, as seen by projects like the Blooming Bamboo storm-proof home and the affordable Bamboo Micro House. Another example of this comes via Beijing-based architecture and design collective Penda, and its treehouse eco-hotel concept, dubbed one with the birds.
Penda's treehouse eco-hotel was designed for the AIM Legend of Tent competition. The competition aims to buck the trend of big Chinese building projects by installing low-impact eco-hotels that encourage guests to connect with nature in several key locations in China.
The treehouse draws some inspiration from the Native American Tipi, and like that nomadic structure, is re-usable, adaptable, and leaves no permanent damage when it's time to move on. Indeed, Penda's design brief states that when its hotel has reached the end of its life, it can be easily dismantled, and the bamboo used as scaffolding, or to build another hotel.
The treehouse comprises interconnecting grids measuring 4.7 x 4 m (15.4 x 13 ft), which are made from sticks of bamboo tied together with rope (no screws or nails are used anywhere in the structure). The grids can be easily expanded horizontally or vertically, and multiple modules can be placed within the framework.
Some of the modules proposed by Penda include a 12 sq m (129 sq ft) single tent, a 20 sq m (215 sq ft) toilet, a 100 sq m (1,076 sq ft) lobby, and a two story (62 sq m/662 sq ft) "presidential" tent.
As it's still an early concept, we've no hard information on how Penda would (or even if) any electricity or amenities are provided within its hotel. However, if the design does end up being built, some modest touches of modern-living should be relatively simple to install, with a carefully-placed solar array here, a water catchment system there, and a composting toilet elsewhere – the idea is to connect with nature, after all ...
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I think that is really cool. I think it is neat since one can be 'one with nature' in an enviromental way.
BigGoofyGuy16th July, 2014 @ 05:06 am PDT
Birds will kill themselves because of the reflections of trees on the glass surface. Birds will die becoming one with the glass.
Buellrider16th July, 2014 @ 08:03 am PDT
Buellrider is right. Typical Eco-arrogance.
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