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 [J's Philosophy blog] ID theft again tops list of FTC complaints: The complaints for the majority of reports in a database called called Consumer Sentinel, which now has over 2 million entries from consumers who think they've been scammed. The data is shared with 1,200 law enforcement agencies around the country, who use it to search for patterns of electronic crimes.

[Osusentinel.com] The Sentinel at The Ohio State University- The Open End: Mark Bahner, an environmental engineer and evident climate catastrophe skeptic, is betting that novelist Michael Crichton's projection of future global temperatures are more accurate than those of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

[Terrenceberres.com] The Provincial Emails: I noted that in an October 2, 2003 article, Adapting to change is driving force behind mergers, reported there were 1,300 parishioners at Sacred Hearts before the merger, and after absorbing Holy Assumption, there ultimately were still 1,300 families in the merged parish.

 [Legalaffairs.org] How Appealing: Proposed Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1, which would allow non-precedential rulings to be cited in all U.S. Courts of Appeals, is one significant step closer to becoming law: Yesterday at its meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the U.S. Courts (also known as the Standing Committee) unanimously approved proposed Rule 32.1. As a result, the rule will now be transmitted to the Judicial Conference of the United States, with a recommendation that the proposed rule be approved at the Conference's September 2005 session and transmitted to the Supreme Court.

[Sentencing.typepad.com] Sentencing Law and Policy: Offender Characteristics: In addition, I recently was informed that the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) will soon release a new report entitled "Three Strikes and You’re Out: An Examination of the Impact of Strike Laws 10 years after their Enactment," which asserts that the majority of people incarcerated under three strikes laws are "non-violent" offenders and that states without Three Strikes laws actually saw greater decreases in violent crimes than those with Three Strikes laws. JPI, which describes itself as "a nonprofit research and public policy organization dedicated to ending society’s reliance on incarceration and promoting effective and just solutions to social problems," has done a lot of previous important and valuable work on three strikes laws and on other issues relating to the scope of imprisonment (see, e.g., publications available here and here).

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