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Impact of State Sentencing Policies on Incarceration Rates in the United States, 1975-2002 (ICPSR 4456)
Published: Sep 27, 2007
Principal Investigator(s):
Don Stemen, Vera Institute of Justice
Version V1
In order to assess the impacts of state-level sentencing and corrections policies in the United States implemented between 1975 and 2002 on state incarceration rates during that same time period, researchers conducted a two-phase study between November 2002 and March 2004. The first phase of the research involved building a framework for understanding the types of state-level sentencing and corrections policies in use between 1975 and 2002. Phase two of the project consisted of state-level data collection for all 50 states for all study years, 1975 to 2002. The researchers produced a dataset containing outcome variables that focus on the change and growth in state incarceration rates, non-policy control variables that were found in previous studies to be associated with changes in incarceration rates, and policy variables regarding sentencing structure, drug policy, time served requirements, habitual offender laws (HOL), and mandatory sentences.
Export Citation:
United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (2002-IJ-CX-0027)
Subject Terms
Geographic Coverage
Smallest Geographic Unit
Study Purpose
The purpose of this project was to assess the impacts of state-level sentencing and corrections policies in the United States implemented between 1975 and 2002 on state incarceration rates during that same time period. Specifically, researchers sought to better understand major characteristics of state sentencing systems including indeterminate/determinate sentencing structures, sentencing guidelines and sentencing commissions, sentences for drug offenses, truth-in-sentencing laws, habitual offender laws, mandatory sentencing laws, and "good time" sentence reduction policies as well as the complex, internal characteristics of each policy, which vary across states and over time. The ultimate goal was to produce an historical overview of the types of policies adopted over the last 30 years, the timing of adoption of each policy in each state, and the way each policy differs across states over time.
Study Design
The study consisted of two phases completed between November 2002 and March 2004. The first phase of the research involved building a framework for understanding the types of state-level sentencing and corrections policies in use between 1975 and 2002. To do this, researchers reviewed prior analyses of policies to construct an initial outline of policies or general areas and their characteristics. Next, members of the Vera Institute of Justice's National Associates Program on State Sentencing and Corrections (SSC) reviewed the outline, suggested minor changes in the characteristics detailed, and constructed an initial data collection instrument (DCI). This initial DCI microdatabase was pilot-tested by collecting data on three states, refined, and then a finalized version of the DCI was developed for use in the second stage of the study. Phase two of the project consisted of state-level data collection for all 50 states for all study years, 1975 to 2002. The year 1975 was chosen as the cut-off year since, according to most criminologists and practitioners, most of the dramatic changes in state-level sentencing and corrections policies have occurred post-1975. The principal investigators and six research assistants began by analyzing microfiche versions of state codes as amended in 1975. Microfiche versions of superseded state codes (including supplements) and state sessions laws were then used to collect data on changes to each state's code for each year between 1975 and 2002. Data collection generally involved reading the entire criminal law and criminal procedure sections of each state's 1975 code, locating the relevant policy, and recording information about the provisions of the policy into the DCI. Annual code supplements were then analyzed to note changes to each state's code. When a revised version of the entire code was published, data collection then involved reviewing the entire criminal law and criminal procedure sections of each state's code again. Where changes to policies were unclear from annual supplements, microfiche versions of state sessions laws were consulted, which provided the actual legislation altering the code. This process continued until data collection reached 2002, and analysis turned to the bound versions of state codes as amended in 2002.
Not applicable
Sentencing and corrections policies in all 50 states in the United States from 1975 to 2002
Unit(s) of Observation
States by year
Data Source
All data collection occurred using the bound versions of state codes and microfiche versions of state codes and sessions laws archived at New York University School of Law. To ensure the inclusion of all relevant data, secondary sources, such as law review articles, reports by state-level professional legal organizations, and state reports, were reviewed at the completion of each state-level coding. Users are referred to the final report record abstracts for a detailed description of data sources for the outcome and control variables.
census/enumeration data, aggregate data, and survey data
Mode of Data Collection
Description of Variables
The dataset contains outcome variables, control variables, and policy variables. The outcome variables pertain to the change and growth in state-level incarceration rates between 1975 and 2002. Control variables include violent crime rate, property crime rate, percent population between ages of 18-24, percent population between ages of 25-34, percent population African American, percent population of Hispanic origin, percent population living in urban areas, percent adherents to "fundamentalist" religion, income per capita, unemployment rate, percent population below poverty level, GINI income distribution coefficient, state revenues per 100,000 residents, public welfare per 100,000 residents, police officers per 100,000 residents, drug arrest rate, corrections expenditures per 100,000 residents, citizen political ideology, government political ideology, governor's party affiliation, and region. Policy variables capture information regarding sentencing structure, drug policy, time served requirements, habitual offender laws (HOL), and mandatory sentences. Specifically, sentencing structure variables include information on determinate sentencing, structured sentencing, presumptive sentencing guidelines, voluntary sentencing guidelines, and presumptive sentencing. Drug policy variables include sentencing enhancement score (cocaine, heroin, and marijuana), severity levels for possession and sale (cocaine, heroin, and marijuana), minimum sentence for 28 grams of cocaine (sale), maximum sentence for the lowest quantity of cocaine (possession), minimum sentence for 28 grams of heroin (sale), maximum sentence for the lowest quantity of heroin (possession), minimum sentence for 500 grams of marijuana (sale), and minimum sentence for the lowest quantity of marijuana (possession). Variables regarding time served requirements include both time served (all offenses) and time served (violent offenses). The habitual offender laws variables capture information regarding the two-strikes law, three-strikes law, HOL targeted for violent offenses, and HOL targeted for drug offenses. Lastly, variables pertaining to mandatory sentences include number of mandatory minimums for weapons use, number of mandatory minimums for violent offenses, number of mandatory minimums for offenses against protected individuals, number of mandatory minimums for offenses committed while in state custody, and mandatory score.
Response Rates
Not applicable
Presence of Common Scales
Original Release Date
Version Date
Version History
2007-09-27 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Standardized missing values.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.
This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.


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Following national reaction to a story that came out of a Loveland elementary school, Thompson School District spokesman Mike Hausmann said that the police have not yet been contacted about potential threats but may be in the future.
Hausmann said that media outlets and calls from outraged people across the country has been disruptive to both the district and to Mary Blair Elementary School, which is under fire for the reported suspension of a second grade student for throwing an imaginary grenade at an imaginary box of evil.
It's a portrayal that Hausmann also said is not accurate.
"Overwhelmingly, the majority of feedback we're getting is from people who do not live in this district and do not even live in this state," Hausmann said. "It's not people from the community by and large."
Mary Blair Elementary School's website was removed on Wednesday after at least one person, a man from Atlanta, emailed principal Valerie Lara-Black and included photographs from the school's website that he felt broke the school's proclaimed "absolutes policy," which outlines no real or play weapons are tolerated.
"Your policies are so incredibly inconsistent that you actually reproduce and praise the very behaviors on your website that you punish on the playground," the email states.
The man also included a picture of a gun in the email, writing:"Your computer's probably connected to a server owned by the school district. Yes, there are multiple records of your crime. I recommend that you resign immediately." Hausmann was unsure when the website would return.
The suspended 7-year-old, Alex Evans, and his mother Mandie Watkins, have also been attracting national and even international attention. Rush Limbaugh discussed the incident on his radio show and the story is making its rounds on major networks and in major newspapers.
Needless to say, Watkins' phone has been ringing incessantly.
"In some ways it's good because I want people to understand that this is an issue not just here," she said.
She's in talks for some major interviews, but Watkins said she would be limiting her family's exposure thereafter.
"There's a point at which it becomes not about the real issue anymore and I don't want that to happen," she said.
Others have also reached out in support, including the Air Force Academy, who have extended an invitation for Alex to visit and meet those who fight evil the way that Alex says he pretended to at school.
Jessica Maher can be reached at 669-5050, ext. 516, or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter: @JessicaMaherRH.

subset: commoncrawl


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Only terrorists, criminals and spies should fear secret activities of the British and US intelligence agencies.
That statement might have more credibility if it were not for the well documented use of RIPA powers for things unconnected to terrorism and serious crime.
but all those war crimes and law breaking are a "critical tool"...
How else will we be able to find everybody infringing MPAA and RIAA copyright-protected material?
Law abiding governments have nothing to worry about from whistleblowers. Only war criminals, the corrupt and the dishonest should fear the activities of the media.
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Wait till the EDL, BNP UKIP coalition gets in and there new STASI like security apparatus gets hold of the graph on connections and starts rounding people up.
Yeah, and you see here's the thing. Even if it's an ostensibly democratic government setting up this stuff to combat terrorism, if the next government turns out to be hard right racist fascists like the BNP, you've just put all that power into their hands. Unless you can guarantee 100% that a party like the national socialists will never get into power, these tools should not be constructed for whatever purpose.
"hard right racist fascists like the BNP" = right wing
"a party like the national socialists" = left wing
so you're arguing that neither left nor right oriented parties should ever get access to these tools when in power. May I add the center?
"hard right racist fascists like the BNP" = right wing
"a party like the national socialists" = left wing
so you're arguing that neither left nor right oriented parties should ever get access to these tools when in power. May I add the center?
I think he's implying that extreme parties of either persuasion would use the laws to enforce their ideology. Any group that believes that they are right to the exclusion of all other viewpoints is a danger and should be feared in power.
"hard right racist fascists like the BNP" = right wing
"a party like the national socialists" = left wing
so you're arguing that neither left nor right oriented parties should ever get access to these tools when in power. May I add the center?
I think he's implying that extreme parties of either persuasion would use the laws to enforce their ideology. Any group that believes that they are right to the exclusion of all other viewpoints is a danger and should be feared in power.
If you want to rephrase/salvage what this Fox News watching right wing drone was trying to express, it would be more accurate to say that totalitarian tendencies exists on both sides of the political spectrum. What he actually was implying, i.e. that the Nazis were left wing movement is a load of steaming horse manure. You only have to take a look at which elements of the political spectrum the Nazis preferred to murder: Communists, anarchists, social democrats, liberals, Christians that opposed his persecution of minorities and actually practiced christian core values like compassion, non-violence (and if you get right down to it some of the core teachings of Jesus Christ were pretty left wing: "Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." [Matthew 19:24], "But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first." [Matthew 19:30], it was later generations who turned Christ into a M16 carrying faith warrior). There were precious few right wing social conservatives and hard line nationalists that the Nazis lined up against a wall or sent to the gas chamber. The usual default justification for the Nazis being 'left wing' is that their movement had the word 'socialist' in its name. If that is true then by the same logic the Democratic People's Republic of North-Korea must be a fully functioning democracy with free elections and all the civil liberties that implies.
The debate about Nazi and where they sit gets skewed. Hilter found much that he shared and created the Nazi party from the German Workers party. He aligned himself with the socialists, until he was famously able to turn to them and stated in Parliament 'And now I don't need you any more'.
Politics is circular, not so much left or right. If middle ground sits at the tp of the circle, offering a level of moderate landscaping, other hardline doctrines slide down the circle, and meet at the bottom, which is where you'll actually find Nazi'ism and communisim and other foul totalitarian and political ideals on near common ground.
I laugh at leftists who persist in trying to find a big enough gap away from Nazi'ism. Socialism IS linked to nazi'ism both in history and idealogy. Hilter nationalised industry. He made enrolled people into the state, and he grew the fucking shit from the German workers party. He carried out a class war - many aspects of his bullshit came directly from socialism.It is true that parts of his evil craven idealogy were not socialist in nature, but parts of it were.
I agree that at both ends of the spectrum, you'll find a strange similar evil to achieve control in a totalitarian aspect share a commonality. Its why you'll find at rally's the right wing hardliners carry stanley knives and the hard left scum carry claw hammers. Neither side believes in open democracy.
In the 30's in Germany - it fell to gangs of brown shirts, or communists, and as the violence and loss of control escalated, the rule of law and democracy was lost. Democracy is not to be decided by small bands of thuggery precahing their twisted idealism as a new religion.
You imply his ideology was socialist in nature (or at least part of it was), and then contradict that statement in your second sentence stating he essentially used the socialist party to gain enough power to the point where they were no longer needed.
I don't think you understand the definition of ideology.
Simply claiming to be something, doesn't make it so. The reference above to the Democratic People's Republic of North-Korea is a good example, as are right wing extremists claiming to be born again Christians, yet follow none of the basic tenants of that religion. Socialism for Hitler was nothing more than a vehicle, not an ideology. The majority of scholars agree that his leanings were definitely right wing, although he often attacked both parties when they strayed from his personal ideology.
Any civilization today has aspects of socialism. it is nearly impossible to have a structured society without some form of body politic which actively promotes social services that the public recognizes are necessary for basic services. The very nature of civilization requires aspects of socialism to thrive.
It is simply the degree to which they think the government should control things that defines 'socialism'.
The debate about Nazi and where they sit gets skewed. Hilter found much that he shared and created the Nazi party from the German Workers party. He aligned himself with the socialists, until he was famously able to turn to them and stated in Parliament 'And now I don't need you any more'.
Politics is circular, not so much left or right. If middle ground sits at the tp of the circle, offering a level of moderate landscaping, other hardline doctrines slide down the circle, and meet at the bottom, which is where you'll actually find Nazi'ism and communisim and other foul totalitarian and political ideals on near common ground.
I laugh at leftists who persist in trying to find a big enough gap away from Nazi'ism. Socialism IS linked to nazi'ism both in history and idealogy. Hilter nationalised industry. He made enrolled people into the state, and he grew the fucking shit from the German workers party. He carried out a class war - many aspects of his bullshit came directly from socialism.It is true that parts of his evil craven idealogy were not socialist in nature, but parts of it were.
I agree that at both ends of the spectrum, you'll find a strange similar evil to achieve control in a totalitarian aspect share a commonality. Its why you'll find at rally's the right wing hardliners carry stanley knives and the hard left scum carry claw hammers. Neither side believes in open democracy.
In the 30's in Germany - it fell to gangs of brown shirts, or communists, and as the violence and loss of control escalated, the rule of law and democracy was lost. Democracy is not to be decided by small bands of thuggery precahing their twisted idealism as a new religion.
I again refer you to Hitler's kill list, how many right wingers and social conservatives did he line up against a wall? A few, but the vast majority of his victims were the 'liberals'/socialists' (which in Fox News parlance is synonymous with 'left wing' which in turn seems to be only two steps up from being a child molester) and people he deemed to be racially inferior. Hitler as a general rule seems to have gotten along very well with the moneyed classes even though he and his party were not ideologically devoted to private ownership and thus the Nazis did not engage in large scale nationalisation of industry in Germany. Dornier, Messerschmitt and Mercedes to name a few major German industrial corporations were not nationalised, Junkers on the other hand was 'nationalised' because its founder Prof. Hugo Junkers was a liberal who tolerated leftist practices like 'workers councils' among his employees. It is an interesting irony that the word 'Junkers' is pretty much synonymous with 'Stuka' which in turn is synonymous with 'terror' and yet it is the name of one of the few industrialists in Germany who saw Hitler for what he was and had enough spine to tell the little git to go f**k him self. To be fair to German conservatives quite a few of them loathed Hitler every bit as much as the left wing, the point is that most of them either supported him or went with the flow in when he gained power. Nationalisation seems to have been reserved for war vital industrial corporations whose leaders/owners were regime critical and who had the guts to stand by their convictions.
If you want to rephrase/salvage what this Fox News watching right wing drone was trying to express
You'd come over as marginally less deluded if you didn't jump on a post which clearly didn't have a bias toward either end of the political spectrum for being biased and do so by using clichéd national stereotypes which don't even apply; but hell if you intended to inform or influence anyone rather than rant you'd of spotted that it wasn't working and tried a little civility long ago.
Only dumbass Americans see national socialists as left wing (and modern day fascists wishing to wash off the Nazi stench but I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here)
I agree that the centre should not have the tools under discussion. You suggestion that far left and far far right are further away from each other than from a central democratic position is flawed.
The archetypal manifestation of the far left is communism. In comunism the party elite take full control of the the system, supposidley to distrubute wealth evenly among the population (although I do not beleive this has ever happend). The party also used there power to control the populace to maintain the status quo and there positions.
The archetypal manifestation of the far right is fascism. In fascism the goverment takes all the economic and political power and gives it to an elite few. The elite few are meant to provide a functioning society for the populace in exchange for them being held above all others (this has on occasion happend, however the elite more often than not (by a wide margin) abbuse there power, to the detriment of the populace).
Effectivley it can be shown that the far left and the the far right are closer than the moderate left to the far left or the moderate right to the far right. This has bee described as Horseshoe theory/horshoe of politics.
You also suggest that the "national socialist party" = "left wing", this really is not true anymore since WWII, national socialism is connected to the the German Nazi party, and only parties wishing to attach the Nazi image would use this terminology to describe themselves. The Nazi party was a [agressive] nationalist party, wich ultimatley used fascist techniques to backup there stance.
The national socialists were centrists. They promised that they would replace the destructive cycle of class warfare with a new spirit of cooperation against the "real" enemies of Germany...
No, he's not arguing that, because the Nazi's weren't left wing and I'm not sure why you'd think they were unless you assume because they have socialism in their name that makes them left-wing socialists, but then I guess you think the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a Democratic People's Republic too right?
"a party like the national socialists" = left wing
It's an expansive definition of left wing that includes Hitler.
Very true. Hadn't thought of it from that angle before but excellent point. Of course if they ever get into power they can just enact their own laws (presumably they have support if they were voted in..)
if people dont have ordinary names, they are usually up to no good.
so they could seize the UK assets stored in failed Icelandic banks (failed after being privatized on the suggestion of UK/US "experts")
Sorry, wtf, seriously??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsbanki_Freezing_Order_2008 [wikipedia.org]
Oh good grief. They didn't declare Iceland to be "terrorist".
They used a law called the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act (note how two of those three things aren't "terrorist") to freeze the assets of an Icelandic bank branch in the UK. They did so under provisions of the law that involve preventing actions harmful to the UK economy.
One can certainly question whether this was warranted or not, but it had nothing to do with terrorism. Nice try though.
The Act was mostly about terrorism, so when it was voted on in Parliament if you opposed it you were supporting terrorism. They tacked that bit on and were careful to word it such that it didn't only apply to terrorism. The House of Lords actually picked up on that but were unable to fix it.
It is a classic example of using terrorism to pass all kinds of bullshit into law by making it extremely difficult to oppose. We looked like complete dicks for using it against Iceland when it was clear to most people that that was never its intended purpose, or at least not the stated purpose of the Act when pitched to Parliament and the voting public.
Only terrorists, criminals and spies should fear secret activities of the British and US intelligence agencies.
That statement might have more credibility if it were not for the well documented use of RIPA powers for things unconnected to terrorism and serious crime.
It is all in the definition, my friend.
Only terrorists/criminals/spies should fear secret activities of the intelligence agencies, because once you are target by such an agency, you are a terrorist (and possibly a spy or a criminal too).
Just like drone attacks have no collateral damage because anyone they actually kill is effectively redefined to have been a terrorist all along.
What there is to fear.
Arrest, often extremely violent, even lethal.
Confiscation of all electronic goods for months (replace at own expense, no choice in today's connected era).
Extended trials and legal fees (measured in months if not years, Bradley Manning a glaring example).
Freezing of Assets
Imprisonment during extended trial, due to inability to fund high bail costs.
Threats of extended prison terms, measured in decades.
Trial by government compliant media, found guilty upon accusation and guilt spread far and wide to ensure all possible juries are tainted against you.
Threats against family members and friends to receive similar treatment.
Family members and friends actually receiving similar treatment.
Coercive tactics continue until you falsely plead guilty to a lesser charge and agree to remain silent.
Anyone recognise this pattern. It hasn't happened just once but time and time again. All this surveillance provides them with ample ammunition to make spurious and circumstantial claims to attack anybody, well at least anybody not extraordinarily wealthy and what happens when it is all over. Well, tough luck chump, tens of thousands of dollars gone, months behind bars, family members and friends fear association with you and unemployment. As for the government, hmm, whoops tee hee, our wrong and they can do it to you all over again.
The whole idea of due process was to keep abuse of power in check, not let strumped up liars like Uncle Tom Obama or The Shrub or Darth Cheney to abandon the whole process to empower the CIA and it's private for profit contractors.
Denmark has the same issue. We have a law allowing extradition to foreign countries of danish nationals in case of terrorism, which was enacted post 9/11 (November 2011 if I remember correctly). It has been used exactly once - not to extradite a terrorist but to extradite a woman who used to have a US-national boyfriend who smuggled drugs. She was charged with knowing about his activities and not reporting it - a very minor crime, and yet the danish courts, all the way to the supreme court - allowed the extradition. Fortunately for her, the crime she was charged with fell for the statute of limitation almost before the extradition proceedings began (i.e. a huge waste of time and money) so she could return as a free woman.
But it's a huge problem that a law specifically meant for terrorists were used in a relatively minor criminal case in a crime barely punishable by more than a fine here. So much for the terrorist angle.
They've simply redefined the words to mean anyone they want to harass or detain for any reason whatsoever. Anyone can be a terrorist now. We had a guy nut up at work. He'd been hurt on the job and due to a botched operation he was unable to work. He got jerked around for a while and had no pay and was in the process of being fired. Despairing and angry he made some foolish decisions and went to see the top manager at work. Fortunately for the bossman he wasn't in his office. The guy had a gun, I don't know if he was there to threaten or kill the guy but he was wrong anyway. The police were called and the man was trapped. His wife tried to get in to talk him out and so did his brother but the police told them "we don't negotiate with terrorists." Sadly the guy shot himself in his despair. Another terrorist dead. See how easy it is to slide into this kind of thing. Because they defined him as a terrorist in their minds he became nonhuman to them. Everyone hates terrorists. If you can define someone as a terrorist you can do any damn thing you want to them.
You could add to this the 'unofficial' abuses that are possible, such as undermining political opponents, blackmail etc., made possible by this kind of pervasive technology.
The temptation is there, and too much for many to resist, despite all the controls that are supposed to be in place.
Just an anecdotal example; a friend of mine was dating a police officer, after a while, one evening after a few drinks she let slip that she'd checked out all his official records before deciding to take things further. OK, understandable, but still an abuse of power.
Humans are human; give them these tools and they will abuse them.
'Only terrorists, criminals and spies should fear secret activities of the British and US intelligence agencies.
People who say things like this frighten me.
And this surprises who, exactly?
Come on, are any of us shocked or surprised by any of this, or is it really just yet another confirmation of how the governments really consider us all
guilty of something, and how common law (yes, that English institution) went by the by a long time ago?
I am waiting for the other penny to drop, when people start realising how much of that information gets funneled back in to large US corporations
when they are working on major overseas deals, etc..
Perhaps people will start realising they need to protect their own privacy - by which I mean encryption, not our insightful American friends ideas about
armed militias (hmm, yeah right). The tools have been there for a long time now, most people just dont take it seriously.
At least then they need to let you know they want your information (at least for email, etc...).
And this surprises who, exactly?
Been expecting it ever since they voted in conservatives. Right wing governments always increase surveillance under the guise of "Law and Order" and decrease liberties with the by-line "Good citizens have nothing to fear". All of this is done "for the children". If the state declares the child to be the most precious resource of the state, the people will accept any deprivation of liberty. It's not like an ultra-nationalist German politician didn't write a book on this in the 30's (or a leftist British author wrote a satirical version in the 40's).
And the USSR was right wing? You are easily fooled by propaganda. The leaning of the government is not relevent information.
Think about it. Everyone knows that the government is made up of perfect angels who would never abuse their powers or make mistakes, so what do innocent people have to fear? Nothing! History has shown us time and time again that corrupt governments simply don't and can't exist, and if you say otherwise, you just have an overactive imagination.
I say our next move should be to install government-owned surveillance equipment in everyone's houses. After all, if you have nothing to hide, what do you have to fear? People could be committing crimes in their houses, so it's justified.
Everyone has things they want to hide. Bank account statements hidden in envelopes for delivery, love letters hidden in drawers to avoid embarrassment.
Even if you have done nothing wrong there is always a way to hang you. The modern version of "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged" is "give me access to the search history of the most honest man..." Everything you ever searched for can and will be taken out of context and used against you.
It's nothing to raise a Führer over!
Interesting comment from Mr. Hague, a minister of the country that gave us the infamous Star Chamber [wikipedia.org].
From wiki:
The Star Chamber (Latin: Camera stellata) was an English court of law that sat at the royal Palace of Westminster until 1641.
I'm sure the victims of the Star Chamber at that time were equally comforted by the thought that if they were innocent, they had nothing to fear from the men in power. Of course.
My point being that any proceedings undertaken in secret, and therefore without oversight from the public will inevitably lead to abuses of power.
I am also troubled by the fact that the present US administration appears to go to great lengths to hide their workings from the US public whom they claim to serve. Just look at the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership [wikipedia.org] as an example. When even free trade agreements are being negotiated in secret, something is not right.
Interesting comment from Mr. Hague, a minister of the country that gave us the infamous Star Chamber.
Not that I disagree with your point, but that was 370 years ago. Would you find something Obama says about racism "interesting" because his country still had slavery only 150 years ago?
secret courts are making a comeback in the US.
For very limited purposes, generally not trials. They do issue warrants for national security matters and perform oversight.
"For very limited purposes, generally not trials."
Now. You see... you are answering on a thread starting talking about a secret chamber created for very understandable (for the time) concerns that, alas! was later misused.
See the parallelism?
I agree with you, actually.
I would not even be bringing this history lesson up but for the fact that the men in power today still think that secret proceedings is an acceptable way to conduct their business despite the fact that they tried, and failed terribly 370 years ago.
Just to make it clear, I have nothing against the UK, which is a fine country. I am however disappointed at this attitude evidenced by its current ruling elite, exemplified by Mr. Hague.
"Only terrorists, criminals and spies should fear secret activities of the British and US intelligence agencies." William Hague, the utter of this sentence, left one very important phrase, this being, "if you trust the government." If I were a Brit I wouldn't trust the government. Brits have been guaranteed fewer civil rights than Americans. But as an American I wouldn't trust the American federal or any state or local government to do the "right thing". Politicians make their careers on doing the wrong thing. It is my hope that the revelations of this unwarranted snooping will raise such a stink that some big heads will roll. And I don't believe for a minute that the government only massages this information for patterns when there is a threat. That is government-issued, anti-FUD bullshit at its best. They are always looking for patterns. That's what the NSA and friends do.
It depends what you mean by guaranteed civil rights
Your constitution guarantees freedom of speech (which ours does not explicitly) but you have more legislation that removes this in some (many) circumstances
"Your constitution guarantees freedom of speech (which ours does not explicitly) but you have more legislation that removes this in some (many) circumstances"
Even that's not true, the US constitution is nothing but a facade. It makes for a good talking point and a good thing to cry support for in practice but just about every successive US government in the last 100 years or more has breached it in some way for their own ends by placing a nonsensical interpretation on one or more of it's clauses. But for wh
Reminds me of:
Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.
Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
It seem too me that the capacities of surveillance tech has evolved much faster than public understanding and emotion on the issue. As a non-US citizen, I am disgusted by the idea of my emails or metadata derived from them are massively stored away if they pass through the US, or even my own country. I understand and respect that some level of this must exist in modern society, but we need to have checks and balances that can be vetted by he public.
And can it not be wrong, even though I have nothing to fear? Have I nothing to fear from this system even if I am not a criminal?
Ethically, it is limiting to my freedom that there exists a stash of information somewhere that might be abused when taken out of context. Does that not limit my freedom to express radical opinion in private discussions, or even do so satirically? Can I no long play with unpopular ideas using electronic communications? Can I no longer listen to the voice of my opponent without fear of at some point being labeled one of them?
Legally, how can it be that an email is less of my property than a letter I store in a deposit box in my bank, or send in the mail? Is it not mine or the recipients only? If the state had an army of people standing by to make copies of every letter sent, the situation would be perfectly analogous. Is that not ransacking me, or confiscating my property only to provide me a copy?
Safety wise, if a record of my life is aggregated in a single source that I have no knowledge of, how can I know that it is truly safe? How can I ensure politicians spend enough on it's safety? I keep my IDs safe to prevent identity theft. What happens the day my life is stolen, but the theft is classified?
And last but not least, what happens to the balance of power between a state and its people here? The state is the servant of the people, and it should always respect that. When the people become submissive to the state, nothing good happens. We've spend much blood in the past to put it where it belongs, but it always threatens to slip back. We need people like Edward Snowden to blow the whistle when that happens. The very fact that he is now in hiding shows how the power-balance has it's centre of gravity atm.
The limited revelations so far have focused on the technical scheme and said little about the regulatory scheme, how it was used operationally. Leaving out that sort of data is like noting that almost everybody has in their house or on their person a device which has a microphone and transmits all it hears to remote listeners, that is a telephone, but leaving out the fact that it is off until you pick it up or turn it on. The existence of this technology and program says very little about if it is legal and if it has been used appropriately.
Turning off telephone service is inconvenient. Turning off the intelligence services ability to gather timely intelligence can perilous.
Bali death toll set at 202 [bbc.co.uk]
London 7/7 terrorist attacks [www.bl.uk]
Madrid train attacks [bbc.co.uk]
9-11 attacks [telegraph.co.uk]
What has MI-5 had to say?
U.K. tracking 30 terror plots, 1,600 suspects [nbcnews.com] - updated 11/10/2006
British authorities are tracking almost 30 high-priority terrorist plots involving 200 networks and 1,600 suspects, the head of Britain's domestic spy agency said, adding that many of those under surveillance are homegrown terrorists plotting suicide attacks and other mass-casualty bombings.
What did the next head of MI-5 say a year later?
New MI5 chief says terror suspects in Britain have doubled in the last year [csmonitor.com] - November 6, 2007
The new chief of Britain's intelligence service MI5 painted a troubling picture of growing terrorist threat in Britain, saying the number of suspects in the country has more than doubled in the past year – and that many of the new recruits are teenagers....
and more:
At Least 4,000 Suspected of Terrorism-Related Activity in Britain, MI5 Director Says [washingtonpost.com] - November 6, 2007
LONDON, Nov. 5 -- British security officials suspect that at least 4,000 people are involved in terrorism-related activities in Britain and that al-Qaeda's "deliberate campaign" against Britain poses the "most immediate and acute peacetime threat" to the nation in a century, the head of Britain's domestic spy agency said Monday.
And in 2012?
MI5 warns al-Qaida regaining UK toehold after Arab spring [guardian.co.uk]
You cripple the security services at your peril. Unlike the IRA, al Qaida doesn't tend to phone in warnings before a blast.
Cheers [youtube.com]
Has our society become so timid and fearful that we are willing to sacrifice long cherished rights to freedom, liberty and privacy to the state in return for a dubious promise of security?
I say dubious, because for all the vaunted survelliance ongoing right now, it failed to stop the Woolwich stabbing attack [dailymail.co.uk]. It failed to stop the Boston marathon bombings [wikipedia.org].
In all the gruesome examples you cited, note that the acts of terrorism took place despite all the surveillance already taking place then. The effort has failed. How much more freedom and privacy will you demand the public sacrifice in order to achieve greater efficacy?
I think we are on a very slippery slope, where the temptation is all too great for the ruling parties to take the path of least resistance and extend the coverage gradually to all undesirables and enemies of the state - from terrorists to child pornographers to murderers to robbers to copyright infringers and finally to common members of the public. If you think this is impossible, look to China where it is happening even as we speak. The Chinese government even justified its censorship and surveillance of the internet on the basis of public security in a White Paper [english.gov.cn], including the following gem
China advocates the rational use of technology to curb dissemination of illegal information online. Based on the characteristics of the Internet and considering the actual requirements of effective administering of the Internet, it advocates the exertion of technical means, in line with relevant laws and regulations and with reference to common international practices, to prevent and curb the harmful effects of illegal information on state security, public interests and minors.
What lies at the end of the slippery slope? Alan Moore might have the answer. [wikipedia.org] I suggest you look at his book, it is an intriguing read.
Woolwich stabbing attack.
FFS, The Woolwich murder was *not* terrorism - it was murder, plain and simple. Terrorism is inciting fear in the masses in order to elicit a political change - did a single murder cause the masses to become exceptionally fearful? I don't think so. Why does this murder do anything more to cause fear than any of the other numerous racially/politically motivated murders which are unfortunately reasonably common? It doesn't. I'm certainly not quaking in fear for my life - I'm far more likey to be gravely injured while being robbed than attacked for political reasons.
So we'll go back to the definition of terrorism - inciting fear to elicit political change. After every incident, the British Government keeps telling us that if we don't let them pass new legislation that infringes on our civil liberties then we won't be safe from "terrorists". After the Woolwich killing the Communications Data Bill was revived despite previously being demolished on its previous appearance. The justification was that if the security services couldn't spy on everyone then we would all be in grave danger of being killed by terrorists. In the case of the Woolwich murder it seems that this isn't in any way justified - the people who carried it out were already known to the security services; they didn't need any new legislation to spy on them, a court order would've done the trick just as well.
After the April Jones murder, the Online Safety Bill was revived by the government - because apparently all our kids are in danger of being murdered by kiddy fiddlers and that censoring the internet will somehow set all the nutters on the straight and narrow. And yet there seems to be no evidence to support this - it is supposition that porn leads to criminal behaviour, it could be equally possible that there would be more of this criminal behaviour if people *couldn't* relieve themselves through porn. I don't know the answer, but it seems a pretty bad idea to blindly enact laws without much evidence either way - most of the anti-kiddy-porn laws seem to be "I find what you're into distasteful, so you should be locked up" rather than actually designed to stop people getting hurt. To compound these problems, the politicians seem to be conflating protecting the kids from porn with preventing the adults getting at kiddy-porn, which are two separate issues; the Online Safety Bill is supposidly about protecting the kids from being exposed to porn, but its being pushed in response to an adult abusing a child - a completely separate problem.
So I ask, who are the terrorists? Who is inciting fear for a political end? I would say its the government - they are going out of their way to tell people to be scared after every incident in order to push new legislation that people would otherwise find unacceptable; surely _that_ is exactly what terrorism is?
When I was growing up, there were a fair number of IRA bombings and they were always played down to avoid stirring up fear. These days the people in power seem to have realised that they don't need to pull the trigger to benefit from the effects of being a terrorist, they only need to stir up fear surrounding existing incidents instead. The terrorists seem to be winning.
You cripple the security services at your peril. Unlike the IRA, al Qaida doesn't tend to phone in warnings before a blast.
Because they were so incredibly effective at preventing 9/11 in the US, and so effective at stopping the London, UK subway bombings, and so effective at preventing the train bombing in Madrid, Spain, right? I'm feeling less imperiled already.
Perhaps if instead of complaining about information disclosures, they disclosed the plots they had been able to foil, and had rather public trials, we'd trust them more, but at this point, they act more like a police agency. Police agencies catch bad guys after the fact, after you are already dead from being blown up or shot or stabbed or raped. You know, after the crime.
I'd prefer not to live in a police state: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_state [wikipedia.org] since their track record at preventing criminal activity from occurring in the first place is generally piss-poor.
Because they were so incredibly effective at preventing 9/11 in the US, and so effective at stopping the London, UK subway bombings, and so effective at preventing the train bombing in Madrid, Spain, right? I'm feeling less imperiled already.
As I understand it, the surveillance was started some time after the 9/11 attacks, so it couldn't have stopped that. But as to attacks in the UK, there has been a steady stream of arrests and trials over the years. A number of those plots were aimed at mass casualties by attacking stadiums, that sort of thing. I'm surprised you apparently haven't heard of them.
Just a small sample:
London terror bomb plot: the four terrorists [telegraph.co.uk]
Fertiliser bomb plot: The story [bbc.co.uk]
Rucksack Bomb Plot Terror Suspects Nasser, Khalid [ibtimes.co.uk]
British Foreign Secretary on Surveillance Worries: '"Law Abiding Citizens Have N
What is N? Where can I get rid of N? Can I buy more N at the store? Should I be worried if I have N?
FFS, editors. FFS.
*head in hands*
Come on, you aren't law abiding anyway in the eyes of the government, so you shouldn't be worried about having N.
That will work to the same extent that the division of India and Pakistan was peaceful, leading to good relations and a sense of cooperation between the two. That is to say, not at all. Al Qaida is out for world conquest even if it takes 1,000 years. They are not in it for peaceful coexistence. The only peace they will seek with unbelievers is ceasefire until they can rebuild their strength.
This is a conspiracy theory that a good friend of mine passed along. I have no reason to believe it is true, but I think it can still illustrate the problem with that attitude.
First off, to recap, Anthony Weiner [wikipedia.org] was a member of congress from New York City. He accidentally tweeted a "calvin klein underwear ad" of himself on his official twitter feed. Within minutes he deleted the tweet, but the damage was done. He ended up resigning and the seat he held, which had been held by democrats for something like 80 years, went to a republican.
It turned out Weiner had two twitter accounts, a personal one and the official one. He had been regularly using the private account to send suggestive photos to women across the country. Not illegal, but douchey. Although for all we the public know, his (brilliant and hot) wife was fine with it, maybe they had a look-but-don't-touch agreement. Whatever it was, it was their business alone.
Now, just imagine that somebody at the NSA who was "friendly" to the republicans decided to do a little checking into Weiner and discovered what he was doing on his "private" account. Then they logged into his official twitter account using some back-door or even just something sloppy like a cookie they sniffed off the wire from his own most recent login. Once logged in, they "accidentally" posted the picture and then deleted it a few minutes later.
Viola, career ruined and republicans get a chance to pick up a seat they would never have had a chance at if nobody had been snooping on Weiner.
Like I said at the start, I have zero reason to believe that is actually what happened. He probably just forgot what account he was logged into - all the blood had left his brain for other parts of his body. But, what matters here is just how plausible this theory is. The only thing standing in the way of this sort of corruption is the personal integrity of basically everyone with access to these programs at the NSA. Imagine just how easily this kind of ubiquitous surveillance apparatus can be turned to political corruption. We have way too much of that already, no need to make it any easier.
After all, you, as a law abiding citizen, have nothing to fear, right ?
Yeah, that quote is really, really old and gets used by politicians a lot.
Lately, here in Germany, we've started throwing it back at them whenever they are hiding something from us. Like who gives them how much money or which companies they work for after their term, or who paid their campaign, or indeed their last holiday.
The "if you have nothing to hide..." should be told to them a lot more often, because they've been abusing it for a long, long time.
Also, since we know that sexual favours are as successful in swaying people as financial incentives, I would like a full record of who my politicians have been sleeping with during their terms. As there are more lies in this area than in any other, we should have 24/7 surveilance and automated reporting. What? You don't have anything to hide, do you?
Only terrorists, criminals and spies should fear secret activities of the British and US intelligence agencies.
There have already been stories of non-terrorist, non-criminal people being deported from the US when going there on vacation because of innocent remarks made on their social networking page that were mis-interpreted by the DHS.
If I have nothing to hide then no one has legitimacy or even moral ground to stand on and spy on me.
The proper way to find and punish criminal/terrorist activity is to first prove reasonable suspicion of crime THEN investigate by gathering incriminating evidence, and not the opposite of fishing for incriminating stuff then slap criminal intent on it hoping it'll stick.
Up until the Human Rights Act of 1998, which incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law, there was no legal right to privacy in the United Kingdom. There was some coverage in areas of legal and medical privacy under "Breach of Confidence" and related legislation around harrassment and data protection, but fundamentally the idea of "Privacy" is a very new one in UK law.
To see a UK politician (not just that, but one of the top 5 members of the ruling Government) being so cavalier about surveillance by organisations which have no judicial oversight, and justifying it with the old saw "you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide"...
This is the same politician (William Hague) who, in a speech to the Conservative Party's annual political conference in 2001 (at this point, he was the party leader, and the Conservatives were the opposition party to the ruling Labour government of the time... the Conservatives are now the government, having formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats after the last election) said:
"I think Britain would be all right, if only we had a different Government.
A Conservative Government that speaks with the voice of the British people.
A Conservative Government never embarrassed or ashamed of the British people.
A Conservative Government that trusts the people..."
So now, the Government wants to know what the voice of the British people are saying, so they are willing to spy on them.
The Government is either embarrassed by, ashamed of, or afraid of, the British people, so they are willing to spy on them.
The Government is so mistrustful of the people, that they are willing to spy on them,
And if there is any objection from the people, the response from the Government is "you only have something to fear if you have something to hide".
Sorry Mr Hague, but as far as I know I have nothing to hide (disclaimer, I am not a UK lawyer with extensive and up-to-the-minute knowledge of all laws on the statute books in the UK). All the same, I personally object strongly to having my legally conferred right to privacy circumscribed to satisfy the voyeurism tendencies of some random idiot who feels like peeking.
British Foreign Secretary on Surveillance Worries: '"Law Abiding Citizens Have Nothing to Worry About"
The same could be said for governments, too. Maybe Britain would be willing to open up it's government records as a show of good faith?
Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs. -- Kernighan


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Four games into the season, and nobody has come within 30 points of Connecticut.
Freshman Breanna Stewart had 20 points and 10 rebounds as the second-ranked Huskies continued to roll through the Paradise Jam tournament with an 81-39 win over Marist on Friday night.
Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis added 15 points for UConn while Kelly Faris and Moriah Jefferson each had 10.
Marist (2-3) was led by Emma O'Connor who had a career-high 18 points, but fouled out with just over 4 minutes left in the game.
"We beat a pretty solid team," said UConn coach Geno Auriemma. "We didn't play great, but we played good enough. When we had great possessions we scored, and then there were times when we just had empty possessions. As we go along in the season we'll fix those."
Connecticut blew the game open early, holding Marist without a field goal for more than 13 minutes while building a 42-14 halftime lead.
Jefferson said the team enjoys playing defense.
"It's hard-nosed and push up on everybody," she said. "I think I fit in well on the defensive side."
UConn (4-0), which routed Wake Forest 95-34 on Thursday, will close out the tournament Saturday against No,. 14 Purdue. The Boilermakers also are undefeated in the tournament and beat the Deacons 67-53 earlier Friday.
UConn opened the game in a full-court press and hit four of its first six shots from 3-point range. They used a 9-0 run to jump out to an early 17-5 advantage.
It was 22-9 before the Huskies went on their decisive 18-0 run, sparked by back-to-back 3-pointers from Stewart.
But it was the defense that dominated. UConn forced 15 first-half turnovers, and Marist shot just 23 percent from the field for the half and just over 25 percent for the game.
The Red Foxes made a little run to open the second half, scoring the first five points. But they went on another scoring drought during a 9-0 run put UConn up 64-28 midway through the half.
The Huskies shot 50 percent from the field hit 13 of 29 shots from 3-point range. They outrebounded Marist 42-23.
Junior guard Bria Hartley, who played in her first game of the season Thursday after missing the first two with an injured left ankle, played just 13 minutes and finished with a single point, but led the team with five assists.
Her scoring wasn't needed. Stewart took care of that, making eight of her 12 shots. It was the first career double-double for the 6-foot-4 freshman.
"You'll definitely see a lot more of those," said Faris. "She works hard to get those and obviously it shows how much of a versatile player she is."
She is averaging 18 points a game.
The Huskies haven't lost a regular-season tournament game since being beaten by Vanderbilt in the 1992 Hilton Head Super Shooting, a streak of 48-consecutive games.
UConn improves to 316-4 in its last 320 games against unranked teams, and are now 4-0 all-time against Marist, a team they hadn't faced since 2005.
Marist will finish its tournament Saturday against Wake Forest.


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- Age 26
Change is a matter of choice and it should be desired. You cannot make someone change unless they have the desire to.
People must be reminded that even with the highest education that if there is no good behavior applied they are more likely to fail.
HIV/AIDS is not a new song to youth, it has been sung for the past few years but it seems to be falling onto the ears of the deaf.
The only problem is that youth are putting a blind eye to this epidemic.
Almost every day someone is infected and it's really hurting as more people are among the youth.
The youth are Botswana's next leaders hence they are precious, they are assets to our country but we still rapidly losing them to the virus.
The new HIV/AIDS Youth intervention campaign is not targeting any new infections by 2016, but can we really make it?
We can only beat this disease by having self discipline. Discipline is the self rod that keeps someone in the road.
The education patterning HIV/AIDS issues are there and facilities catering for youth health services are now implemented but we are still have a high number of HIV positive people and a low number of HIV testing.
We cannot blame the government for failing us on this one, we the youth need to do something to stop the spread of HIV.
The Government has done it all from education, free ARVS, and we the Youth need to be empowered to do something to change.
The youth seem to be comfortable with this HIV/AIDS pandemic and as such no matter how much the Government tries, it cannot change anyone if they are comfortable with the way things are.
How privileged are the youth as they get to benefit through the month of youth against HIV/AIDS(MYAA) but they do not use those opportunities given to them by the government.
Drugs and Alcohol abuse is very high among the youth especially the tertiary and employed youth as they can easily access money.
Drugs are among other things that makes others get involved in unprotected sex without even knowing the partner's HIV status.
Remember everyone you introduce into your life leaves a deposit in your life, but be sure they do not deposit the deadly virus into your body.
Good health should be made an investment in everyone's life.
Good company can help in the fight against HIV zero infections in the sense that a good behaved person can be able to mold a morally sick person to change but only if they are willing.
The bible also read thus; whoever walks with the wise will become wiser but whoever walks within the companion of fools will become a fool Proverb 13: 20.
Multiple con-current partnerships are also among factors that contribute to an increase in the spread of HIV.
With great education implemented by the Government and sensitization campaigns as a quest to fight against HIV/AIDS if indeed this education was falling into positive thinking minds they wouldn't be any new infections by now.
Are we that ignorant? Because if the youth could see the efforts made by the Government and put some effort in too to try and change their perspective over the disease, stop feeling comfortable with it, that will increase the hands of fighting the disease.
It's a long way for the fight of zero new infections by 2016 but it can only be made shorter if the youth strive for the change.


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MILWAUKEE — The Rockies don't expect Jorge De La Rosa to save their season. They do expect him to at least give them a fighting chance.
That's what he did on a postcard Sunday afternoon at Miller Park, where the Rockies finally beat the Brewers, 10-4.
"He had to labor through a couple of innings, but he did a nice job for us," manager Walt Weiss said. "We needed a lift today and he gave us six innings and put us in position."
It helped that the Rockies scored three runs in the first inning and bashed 15 total hits to take some of the heat off De La Rosa, who notched his eighth victory of the season.
"I always try to pitch as long as I can and give us a chance to win every time I go out there," he said. "They responded very good with the bats, and I was glad for that."
Thanks to the victory, the Rockies tossed a couple of monkeys off their backs. They snapped a four-game losing streak and beat the Brewers for the first time in seven games this season. But the 500-pound gorilla — Colorado's 8-19 record in June — remains strapped to the team as it heads to Washington for a three-game series against the Nationals that begins Monday.
For a change, though, there were some postgame smiles in the Rockies' clubhouse.
"When our offense gets rolling, our guys seem to feed off each other," said left fielder Corey Dickerson, who went 2-for-4 with two RBIs but had to leave the game during his eighth-inning at-bat because of leg cramps. "Sometimes you need runs early, just to take the heat off a pitcher if they are struggling, or to give them confidence."
PHOTOS: Colorado Rockies 10, Milwaukee Brewers 4 - June 29, 2014
De La Rosa, a methodical lefty, didn't dazzle. But he provided a solid base from which to build a victory. He gave up four runs on four hits over his six innings and handled the Brewers' right-handed lineup with relative ease — all except for Ryan Braun. The Milwaukee slugger popped a solo homer to lead off the fourth, then doubled and scored in the sixth. Braun's career numbers vs. De La Rosa are astonishing: 9-for-13 (.692), including three home runs, three doubles and 10 RBIs.
"I guess you will have to ask him how he does it," De La Rosa said of Braun with a sheepish grin. "No matter what I throw, he seems to get the barrel on it. He's a good player. I have to tip my hat to him."
De La Rosa has been mercurial this season. He started slowly, going 2-3 with a 5.23 ERA in the first month of the season. In May, he channeled Dodgers lefty Clayton Kershaw — well, almost — going 4-0 with a 1.93 ERA. He's been mostly bad in June, but his victory Sunday was his second straight.
The Rockies, losers of 11 of their past 12 games entering Sunday, were in dire need of a transfusion of energy and a quick shot of optimism. They got it in the first inning, scoring three runs on four hits. Dickerson fought through a tough at-bat against starter Yovani Gallardo and hit an opposite-field double to left field, scoring Justin Morneau and Troy Tulo- witzki. Wilin Rosario then drove in Dickerson with a single.
The Rockies added three unearned runs in the fifth inning thanks to two errors on the same play by the Brewers that led to Rosario's three-run "Little League homer."
With Tulowitzki on first and Dickerson on second after back-to-back singles, Rosario hit a ball down the third-base line. Aramis Ramirez botched the back- handed attempt. The ball rolled into foul territory in the outfield as Dickerson and Tulowitzki scored. As the throw went home to try to get Tulowitzki, Rosario raced to third. Catcher Jonathan Lucroy tried to get Rosario at third but threw the ball away, allowing Rosario to score. The Brewers lead the National League with 51 victories, but that play elicited some hearty boos from the Sunday crowd of 43,656.
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Don't Miss Your Life! shows you how to slow down, wake up, let go, hold on, and LIVE! Enjoy real-life stories that will fire your imagination, soothe your jangled mood, remind you of your identity, and renew your hope. Discover how to create your own Memory Portfolio (and no, this is not about scrapbooking) as you explore your own special moments, recognize God's hand at work in your life, and emerge with more freedom, grace, and laughter than you can imagine.
I couldn't wait to begin listening again each time I got in my car! She openly shares her joys along with her struggles and with a full dose of humor. This is just the type of book that inspires you to do what's in your heart and take action.
This book was a looooonnnggg boring sermon. Not that we shouldn't all strive to find as much happiness in life as possible, but this author was just too preachy and she overdid the cheeriness. If the author had a child, grandchild, or any relative or friend who had been raped, tortured, or killed etc., I wonder how cheery she would be. In fact, in the second to last chapter, she mentioned a woman who had been raped by relatives. Strange that the author, while saying that the woman found God, did not say how the woman continued to cope. I finally gave up trying to read this book. I cannot recommend it to anyone.


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There are ingredients for major bloodshed and a long conflict in Ukraine. Whatever happens, this conflict, like any other, will at one point end with an agreement, writes Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja in his blog.
Translation of Minister Tuomioja's blog post (originally published on Sunday 13th April in Finnish on his personal blog):
"Tomorrow, the EU foreign ministers will convene in Luxembourg once again. Had this meeting not been already scheduled in our calendars, it would surely have been convened on the basis of the situation in Ukraine. There are ingredients for major bloodshed and a long conflict. Whatever happens, this conflict, like any other, will at one point end with an agreement. The question is how many unnecessary losses, suffering and human victims will be recorded before that is reached.
The elements for a settlement already exist in the agreement that ended the Maidan protests on 21 February. On this basis, where applicable, it is possible to continue building the kind of Ukraine where all Ukrainians – regardless of their language or background – can live in security in an undivided country that lives in peace with its neighbours. In a country that is also the kind of corruption-free democratic country governed by the rule of law that none of the previous leaders of Ukraine have offered to their citizens so far.
If the Geneva meeting between the representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the United States and the EU takes place on Thursday, and everyone comes to the meeting genuinely committed to seeking a solution, an agreement is possible. It must be based on Ukraine's right to choose its own path and arrange its relations with the EU and its neighbouring countries in the way it wishes. One starting point for the EU must be that the EU does not want to a Ukraine as a neighbour that is in continuous conflict with Russia, or anyone else for that matter. Nor does the EU want a situation that would mean denying the historical connection of the country's Russian-speaking population with Russia by any new commercial division lines either.
I am writing this well aware of the fact that all these wishes could be shattered soon."
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Updated: 2:30 p.m.
The Bengals looked to be at optimum health on the Paul Brown Stadium turf Friday morning with all hands on deck for the final full-scale workout before Saturday's trip to Buffalo and Sunday's game (1 p.m.-Cincinnati's Channel 12) against the 2-3 Bills.
Head coach Marvin Lewis made it sound like right end Michal Johnson (concussion) is going to get the call after returning to work with the defensive line for the first time since he missed the first game of his career last Sunday against New England. He had a full practice and is listed as questionable.
"The sun is peeking through," Lewis said.
In the last two weeks, cornerbacks
Bills head coach Doug Marrone indicted everyone is playing Sunday with the two question marks cornerback Stephon Gilmore (hand, back) and wide receiver Stevie Johnson (back), who also hasn't practiced this week because of a death in the family. Gilmore hasn't played since he broke his hand late in the preseason, but he did practice limited this week. So did running back C.J. Spiller (ankle).
The Bills will have back for the first time this season Pro Bowl safety Jarius Byrd (foot), who went full all this week.


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"Canonical today hoped to preempt all comers today with news of Ubuntu Mobile. Its first Linux variant aimed at handhelds, the software is tailored for the Mobile Internet Devices expected to launch in spring based on Intel's Silverthorne technology and is designed to recognize basic iPhone-like gestures such as swiping to scroll through menus and websites. A scrolling visual front end based on Flash or Clutter replaces the traditional Ubuntu desktop and is designed to be used solely with fingers, including an on-screen keyboard."


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Behind the scenes of Pioneer Theater Company's 'A Christmas Carol'
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Formation of the Canadian Group of Painters
By 1930 the Group of Seven was Canada's 'National School', dominating the image of Canadian art abroad. Yet the Group's very prominence caused open criticism from its opponents. The Royal Canadian Academy sought control of the National Gallery, and petitions and press articles debated the Gallery's favouritism to the Group. Concern over the possible exclusion of the younger, more progressive artists led to the formation of the Canadian Group of Painters in February 1933. The twenty-eight members included most progressive English-speaking artists from across Canada.
The early history of the Canadian Group was still dominated by the figures of Arthur Lismer, A.Y. Jackson, and Lawren Harris.
Lismer remained a key figure in art education and. in the 1930s. worked in Toronto, South Africa, New York and Ottawa. In January 1941 he took over the educational program of the Art Association of Montreal.
Lismer's paintings showed an increasing interest in complex structure and design. They developed logically and surely from panoramic landscapes to dramatic silhouettes, from tangled growth to still-life studies of dock-litter created in the early forties.
A.Y. Jackson was the sole Group member who was able to paint full-time, traveling to different parts of Canada and returning with sketches to be painted up into canvases. The consistency of his style and imagery was both a strength and a limitation, and in response, he expanded his explorations to Alberta and Northwest Territories. The barren lands, the ruggedness, and the solitude of the north were genuine stimulants.
Even though the Group of Seven never had a formal structure, Harris has often been seen as its leader. A keen student of theosophy, Harris saw art as "a clarifying and objectifying process" through which one could arrive at an individual experience of 'the essential order of all existence. The artist could achieve an expression of universal harmony only through concentration on the particulars of his or her own time, place and personality. On a trip to the Arctic with A.Y. Jackson in 1930 Harris was struck by the loneliness of the north, its silence, and its massive forms.
Harris' Arctic paintings progressed from a descriptive rendering to a more symbolic representation yet for the next three years he painted little. In the summer of 1934, Harris and Bess Housser (the wife of Fred Housser, secretary of the Canadian Group), obtained divorces and were married. The divorces created a conflict of loyalties among certain friends, and the Harrises moved to New Hampshire. The break from Toronto gave Harris the freedom to set off on his own path.
While the members of the Group of Seven dispersed, they guaranteed, through the Toronto Art Students' League and the Canadian Group of Painters, that a younger generation of followers would continue the Group tradition. Although this very heritage resulted in numerous mere imitators, Yvonne McKague's paintings of Cobalt are both part of the tradition and strong, individual expressions of the Canadian landscape.


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Chicken Tacos Recipe
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Even finicky eaters love "Taco Night" because they can add toppings to suit their tastes. In this chicken taco recipe, the chicken is coated with taco seasoning and then stir-fried, so the zesty flavor really shines through.
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- 1 envelope taco seasoning
- 1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 3 tablespoons butter, divided
- 1/3 cup chopped onion
- 1/3 cup chopped green pepper
- 8 taco shells, warmed
- Shredded lettuce and cheddar cheese
- Salsa, optional
- Place taco seasoning in a large resealable plastic bag; add chicken, in batches, and shake to coat.
- In a large skillet, cook and stir chicken in 2 tablespoons butter for 4-5 minutes or until no longer pink. Remove chicken and keep warm.
- In the same skillet, saute the onion and green pepper in remaining butter for 2-3 minutes or until crisp-tender. Stir in chicken; spoon into taco shells. Top with lettuce and cheese. Serve with salsa if desired. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as Chicken Tacos in Taste of Home Meals in Minutes Calendar Annual 2002, p7
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"This is one of my favorite ways to have tacos. We use soft flour tortillas instead of taco shells...really like this stuff, especially when it is served with the tomato and avacado salad shown in the picture or down below in the serve with section...SUPER YUMMY!!!!"


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BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse team got two goals and one assist each from sophomore midfielders John Ranagan and John Greeley and senior faceoff specialist Matt Dolente won 13-of-14 faceoffs to lead the 11th-ranked Blue Jays to a 10-3 win over visiting Manhattan at Homewood Field Wednesday evening. Johns Hopkins, which improves to 4-1, got goals from eight different players, while Manhattan slips to 0-6.
The Blue Jays needed just 72 seconds to open the scoring as sophomore attackman Zach Palmer dodged from behind the goal and scored from in tight to give the Blue Jays the early lead. The lead remained at one for nearly the entire first quarter before sophomore Lee Coppersmith blew home his second goal of the year off a feed from Palmer with 31 seconds remaining in the opening period.
A Rob Guida goal less than four minutes into the second quarter pushed the Blue Jay lead to 3-0, but that's as much distance as the Blue Jays could create in the first half as the Jaspers were content to hold the ball for long stretches, at least four of which resulted in stalling warnings before intermission.
Hopkins carried a three-goal lead into halftime at 4-1 as the teams traded goals in the final minute of the second quarter. A turnover right in front of Blue Jay net led to an empty net goal by Manhattan's Brendan Rogers with 48 seconds remaining in the first half, but Greeley answered 38 seconds later as he picked the far post off a skip-pass from Ranagan 10 seconds before intermission.
Any hopes for a Manhattan comeback were dashed in the first six minutes of the third quarter as the Blue Jays scored three times in s span of just over three minutes to push the lead out to 7-1. Ranagan sandwiched goals around Ben Smith's first career goal as a Blue Jay before the nine-minute mark of the third quarter to give JHU the six-goal lead.
Manhattan's Justin Jensen added an unassisted goal with 5:09 remaining in the third quarter as he worked from behind the goal and got free high in the slot before finding the far post through a screen to make it 7-2. Fourth-quarter goals by senior Kyle Wharton, Greeley and senior Mark Goodrich made it 10-2 before a late strike by the Jaspers accounted for the 10-3 final score.
Palmer joined Ranagan and Greeley as Johns Hopkins players with multi-point games as he scored the one goal and added two assists. Sophomore Pierce Bassett recorded six saves and allowed two goals before leaving with just under four minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. The Blue Jays held advantages in shots (38-23) and ground balls (36-25) and won 15-of-16 faceoffs in the victory.
Rich Akapnitis played a strong game in goal for the Jaspers as he posted 16 saves, including 12 in the second half and several of the point-blank variety.
Johns Hopkins will return to action on Saturday, March 12 when the Blue Jays play UMBC in the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic at M&T Bank Stadium. The JHU-UMBC game is the third game of a tripleheader that also includes the Syracuse-Georgetown and Virginia-Cornell games.
Manhattan (0-6) 0-1-1-1/3
#11 Johns Hopkins (4-1) 2-2-3-3/10
Goals: M: Jensen, Brooks, Rogers. J: Greeley-2, Ranagan-2, Guida, Wharton, Palmer, Coppersmith, Smith, Goodrich. Assists: M: None. J: Palmer-2, Boland, Castronova, Durkin, Greeley, Ranagan. Saves: M: Akapnitis-16. J: Bassett-6, Burke-1. Shots: M-23. J-38. EMO: M: 1-for-2. J: 1-for-2. Attendance: 401.


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Marvel Universe
Real Name
Carol Danvers
Ace, Binary, Lady Marvel, Warbird, others used during her espionage career
United States of America with no criminal record
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts
First Appearance
Marvel Super-Heroes #13 (1967)
Marvel Super Heroes #18, Ms. Marvel #1(2006)
124 lbs.
While on special assignment with Nick Fury, Carol met the Canadian agent called Logan. The two were eventually paired up and shared a number of adventures together. During one of their infamous escapades, they clashed with the brutal Sabretooth who was working for the Hellfire Club. During their time together, Logan and Carol became close friends, perhaps even lovers. Both have saved each other's lives numerous times.
When Carol was captured by the KGB and imprisoned at Lubyanka prison, Logan was among those who defied orders to save her. Following her affiliation with the C.I.A., Carol took a position with N.A.S.A. as the security director for Cape Canaveral. It was in this capacity that Carol first met Captain Marvel, the Kree warrior, Mar-Vell. In her official capacity, Carol was challenged with unraveling the mystery of this alien soldier. During her investigation, the two forged a unique bond, first as friends and then as lovers. It was this relationship that would change Carol forever.
Captain Marvel's mortal enemy, Colonel Yon-Rogg kidnapped Carol, using her as bait in his conflict with Mar-vell. In the course of the battle, Carol and Mar-vell were caught in the explosion of a Kree Psyche-Magneton device. The energy bombardment somehow caused Carol's genetic structure to be melded with Mar-vell's. While Mar-vell was apparently unaltered by the event, Carol was now a perfect hybrid of Kree and human genes. In addition, she possessed all of Mar-vell's Kree knowledge and training. Through this transformation, Ms. Marvel was born.
Because of her failure to capture Captain Marvel, Carol lost her job at N.A.S.A. She recovered quickly, writing a successful novel about her experience in the space industry. This lead to her landing a position as the editor of WOMAN magazine, a subsidiary of the Daily Bugle. Carol's viewpoints as a staunch feminist created tensions with her boss J. Jonah Jameson, but made her the perfect choice to be WOMAN magazine's editor.
Just as Carol was beginning this new chapter of her life, the powers and persona of Ms. Marvel began to emerge. At first, Carol experienced blackouts triggered by Ms. Marvel's precognitive seventh sense and the two personas were very distinct, both mentally and physically. As time went on and Carol came to accept her new role as Ms. Marvel, the two personalities merged. A second exposure to the energies of a Kree Psyche-Magnetron also imbued Ms. Marvel with some of the properties which formally resided in her Kree uniform (namely flight and the ability to change into costume at will).
Carol fought many villains during her career as Ms. Marvel, including Deathbird, MODOK, A.I.M., the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, the Hellfire Club, and Mystique. She also joined the Avengers for a brief period, and it was this affiliation which drew Carol to the attention of Marcus. The son of Immortus, Marcus observed the Avengers from afar and became obsessed with Ms. Marvel. Marcus kidnapped Carol using Immortus' technology to manipulate her mind and seduce her into loving him. Marcus impregnated Carol with a child who would rapidly grow up into Marcus himself, enabling him to escape Limbo. He returned Carol to the Avengers, unaware of her time and seduction in Limbo. Carol was shocked when she learned that she was pregnant and devastated since she was completely unaware of the identity of the father. The pregnancy ran its course in a matter of days, leaving Carol shaken - both as a woman and a hero. The child grew within a day into a full-grown man, one who was determined to win his "mother's" love. Carol, still bewildered by the entire experience, agreed to accompany Marcus back to Limbo. The Avengers wished the pair well. In Limbo, Marcus continued to age rapidly and quickly died of old age, leaving Carol alone in Limbo and free of his mind control. Carol was sickened by Marcus' manipulations and felt betrayed by the Avengers who failed to question Marcus` actions or motives.
Carol mastered Immortus' technology and returned to Earth, choosing to settle in San Francisco instead of returning to the Avengers. Carol's return to Earth was sensed by the precognitive Destiny. Destiny had previously prophesied that Ms. Marvel would be involved in an event that would destroy the life of Mystique's foster daughter, Rogue. Mystique had vowed to destroy Ms. Marvel before this could happen and developed an obsessive hatred for Ms. Marvel. Rogue, overhearing Destiny's concerns and Mystique's ranting, decided to take the battle to Carol herself. Rogue attacked Carol in San Francisco and the pair fought atop the Golden Gate Bridge. When Rogue tried to use her power-absorbing abilities on Carol, something went terribly wrong, and she absorbed too much of Carol's persona, making the transferal permanent. Driven mad by Carol's thoughts and memories, Rogue threw Carol's body from the bridge. Amazingly, Carol was rescued by Spider-Woman. At the hospital, Carol was identified and diagnosed as a tabula rasa - a blank slate. Jessica Drew called in Professor Xavier of the X-Men, who was able to pull forth Carol's memories and personality from her subconscious. However, he was unable to restore her emotional connection to those memories and experiences. Carol and Jessica spent some time at the X-Mansion while Carol recovered from her ordeal.
During this time, a now-powerless Carol confronted the Avengers and vented her anger for their betrayal of her. Carol remained with the X-Men for a brief time, during which she often accompanied them on missions. One such mission led to Carol's capture by the alien Brood. Fascinated by her Kree/Human physiology, the Brood performed experiments on Carol's genetic structure. This unleashed the full potential of Carol's Kree/Human physiology transforming her into the cosmic-powered Binary. Carol now possessed more power than ever due to her link to a white hole.
Carol returned with the X-Men and was strongly considering joining them on a permanent basis when the desperately troubled Rogue came to Xavier for help. Upon seeing Rogue, Carol flew into a rage and punched her into orbit. The X-Men reluctantly informed Carol that Xavier had allowed Rogue to join the X-Men. Unable to accept this, Carol opted to join the space pirates known as the Starjammers and to leave her troubles on Earth behind. As Binary, Carol was a valued member of the Starjammers and fought alongside them to restore Lilandra to the Shi'ar throne. In space, Carol was able to escape her loss and rebuild her life. The stars were her escape and offered her a whole universe in which to escape the emptiness her former life represented. Carol remained with the Starjammers for a number of years. During this time, she lived out her lifelong dream of exploring the stars. She formed a close friendship with Raza Longknife, the sullen cyborg member of the Starjammers. Despite fighting the Shi'ar forces and her former enemy Deathbird, Carol found herself frustrated at the lack of challenge among the Starjammers' adversaries. When Earth's sun was threatened, Carol chose to abandon her mission for the Shi'ar Majestrix Lilandra Neramani and aid the Avenger Quasar in saving it. This effort left Carol in a depleted state, and she spent months recuperating at the Avengers Mansion. During this time, she reconciled with the Avengers. When the Starjammers came to Earth and into conflict with the Avengers, Carol helped resolve the conflict and decided to try and rebuild her life on Earth.
Recently, Carol rechristened herself Warbird and rejoined the Avengers, following a reality-warping conflict with Morgan Le Fay. She brought with her a whole new set of problems. First, her powers were slowly depleting, and she attempted to hide this fact from the Avengers, leading to a conflict with Captain America. Carol had also developed a drinking problem, which was immediately noticed by recovering alcoholic and fellow Avenger, Iron Man. Her drinking, coupled with her determination to prove herself a worthy addition to the Avengers and her secretiveness about her power loss, led to reckless grand-standing and sloppy teamwork. This eventually endangered the lives of her teammates and led to a formal court-martial before her fellow Avengers. Rather than face her problems and a forced demotion to reserve status, Carol quit the team. This all occurred amidst the Avengers' conflict with a rebel faction of Kree. Seeking to join the battle despite leaving the team, Carol realized that she no longer had the capability to reach escape velocity in order to join the battle on the Moon between the Avengers and the Kree Lunatic Legion.
Disheartened, Carol realized that she'd hit rock bottom, and moved to Seattle to work on rebuilding her career as a freelance writer and novelist. She started to make some progress in accepting her alcoholism but refused to accept that she had a serious problem for months. After her drinking almost led to disaster in a number of combat situations, Carol was hospitalized for alcohol poisoning. Carol's doctor warned that she had done considerable damage to her internal organs and that another drink might kill her. This diagnosis combined with the knowledge that she had nearly killed a plane full of people during a drunken rage have forced Carol to admit the severity of her drinking problem. Carol has now accepted that she is an alcoholic and has started attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings on a regular basis. She has since been accepted into the ranks of the Avengers once more and taken the name "Ms. Marvel" once again.When the Scarlet Witch warped reality, Carol was one of the few people who remembered the events when reality was restored, and she determined to prove her worth as a true hero, something she had experienced during the events. She told this to Captain America when he offered her membership in the new Avengers team, but she declined, feeling unready to join that august assemblage. Cap assured her that a place would always be available to her in the Avengers.
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