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I've had a few pleasant surprises over the last few days. The first of them was the nice responses I got to my guild search. I heard both on Twitter and via our correspondence of a few opportunities, all of which I plan to look into.
I want to clarify first, partially because of a suggestion I got and partially because, upon reflection, I know I wasn't perfectly clear about an important point:
While it would be acceptable to me to step into a guild and begin raiding almost immediately (upon reaching gearing level), I'm not looking explicitly for that. I'm more than happy to sit the bench while I get to know people in the guild and vice versa.
I don't begin to imagine I'm ready to jump into end-game stuff right away, neither from my gear level nor from my play, which is likely grossly out of practice. So if you read my post and thought, "Well, he seems like he'd be a great fit, but we don't have a spot for him, so I guess we're (or he's) out of luck," please go ahead and send me your information; I'm more than willing to wait.
It was also suggested I link my character's armory information, which I'm happy to do. My level 90, Iambic (A), is the closest to "raid ready," but I'm well aware her gearing is too low. My other characters, Paladi (A) and Stubborn (H), have the relevant achievements I mentioned in my raiding resumé. My other characters, only as proof they exist, are (horde side) Palmetto, Pious, Darthfarb, Greendel, and DavyOrckett, and (alliance) Magnificient and Lycandra. I haven't really raided on Iambic (by which I mean I haven't raided outside of LFR at all, and I think only once in LFR since I was still a bit opposed to it. Now, I think my "stronger" feelings have mellowed).
I realize wherever I end up I'll need to both prove my dedication and capability, so if my initial post came off too strongly, I didn't mean it to; I'm just very gung-ho to get started again. I suspect I'll wait until this weekend, when my wife goes out of town, and then really start pouring over the suggestions sent to me and hop on a few servers for some cold conversations, which are by far the hardest part of this process.
The second pleasant surprise had to do with the Steam Sale (and so many pleasant surprises do). I purchased Sang-froid, a game on the surface about killing wolves. I'd heard some good things from a few of you, and it had piqued my interest because it was the first game I remember in the greenlight process that I voted for (I'm mean; I vote a vast majority of them down. I only vote up things I know I'd buy). When its price fell, I snatched it up.
Keep in mind alongside Sang-froid I purchased Monaco, Dishonored, To the Moon, Dungeons of Dredmore, and The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, so when I tell you that I've already finished Sang-froid, I want you to know that it means not only that it's good but that it kept my easily-distracted gaming attention away from all the other games in the meantime.
It was excellent. The story was intriguing, the gameplay was fun, and the vast opportunity for problem solving with so many moving parts was a blast. I have no complaints at all about the game, and as you know, dear reader, that's a rarity.
I've played most of the other games in the list by now, except Dishonored, which I'm keeping for the future. Each one has been excellent in its own regard, and despite my lukewarm feelings towards Diablo 2-style games, Van Helsing has really impressed me in a lot of ways. You'll get a more full report on that in a separate correspondence, though, but likely not until I've finished it. Let it be known, though, that it has several obvious innovations that, now that they're here, it seems bizarre no one else has provided them.
More on that another time.
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July 24, 2013 2:31 pm
I actually think that will be a good thing, rimecat. It means that even if you have less raiding experience or worse gear you can post an extremely high proving grounds score that indicates your ability. And because the gear is normalized, it'll be harder for PUG raid leaders to ask for crazy high scores like they can for ilvl (since they can't reasonably ask for higher scores than they personally have).
For example, you see people wanting 515+ ilvl for ToT normal in PUGs at times despite the fact the place is tuned around 496 or so. Proving Ground scores will be Proving Ground scores – they cannot be inflated over time and are not dependent on anyone else.
July 25, 2013 9:58 am
Until we see what the final difficulty is, it's hard to say anything, It is possible that you can finish Gold but that Gold is nowhere near enough to make you ready for normal mode raiding. Really can't say yet. Blizzard themself has admitted that it is currently undertuned.
"Because we're just that good, even if we haven't "bothered" to get the title ourselves."
Eh, given the normalization, I find it difficult to believe people will accept organizers demanding something the organizer doesn't have (with some caveats, like if the organizer has a main with a large amount of heroic mode kills or something but hasn't bothered with Proving Grounds).


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Allen West Not Quitting CBC: 'Warriors Run To The Sound Of Battle'
However, he also added:
Cowards run from challenges, while warriors run to the sound of battle. I will not be resigning from the Congressional Black Caucus. Constitutional Conservatism is now and will in the future be a part of the Congressional Black Caucus.
There may be those who criticize my decision but consider if Henry O. Flipper or the Tuskegee Airmen had taken the easy out over the hard in. Those men are part of my legacy as a career military office, a proud legacy.
I look forward to hosting the CBC lunch meeting next week. Also, Chairman Cleaver and I will be issuing a joint statement on policies to rectify the disastrous unemployment statistics in the black community.
The only other African-American Republican in Congress is Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC), who like West was also first elected in 2010. However, Scott declined an invitation to join the CBC, while West accepted.
For his part, West has made his fair share of racially loaded remarks about Democrats. Three weeks ago, he compared Democrats' overwhelming margins among black voters to the "plantation" of the slavery era, and likened liberal African-American politicians such as Maxine Waters to "overseers" -- the men who committed the day-to-day atrocities of ruling over slaves in the antebellum South.
"So I'm here as the modern-day Harriet Tubman," West declared, "to kind of lead people on the Underground Railroad, away from that plantation into a sense of sensibility."
Also in mid-July, following his exchange with DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) -- in which West responded to her attacks against his vote to privatize Medicare with a letter telling her that she had "proven repeatedly that you are not a Lady" -- West also accused Democrats attacking him because he is a black conservative.
"What we do is we totally invalidate the liberal social welfare policies and programs," he said. "And you know, I'm the threat because I'm the guy that got off their 21st-century plantation, and they cannot afford to have a strong voice such as mine out there, reverberating and resonating across this country."


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Q: Can you tell me about the impact of the Castle Bravo nuclear test which takes place in the Pacific on March 1, 1954?
MS: I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing. First of all, it's important because it's such a huge test. It's a 15-megaton thermonuclear explosion, which is much larger than the Administration or the Atomic Energy Commission even expected. It turns out to be a very devastating test, in terms of its consequences. Twenty-three Japanese fishermen are radiated as a result of the nuclear test. It's estimated that probably thousands of Marshall Islanders were also affected by this particular test, which was code named Bravo (unfortunately).
It's also important because I think it shows how the United States, how the Eisenhower Administration was forced to deal with these kinds of explosions. It helps to explain how they developed public relations strategies in order to deal with not only the domestic reactions in the United States to this huge test but also to foreign reactions, which turned out to be very, very negative. There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing. And they were followed by other countries as well, at that time, that began to support this whole call for a nuclear test ban.
Q: Well, we won't comment on the irony of India being the proponent of that line of thinking. But going back to `54, it's essentially a secret test that we're talking about. And in some way, what happens is that that incident with the fishermen and the problem that develops with the fallout, both on the islands and with regards to the fishing boat, essentially blows the cover of the test. It becomes an international incident, if you will, because of this tremendous fallout problem. Describe to me a little bit more, if you can, the building anxiety or concern that is expressed not just by government but also by a lot of citizens around the world.
MS: In Japan, it becomes a huge issue in terms of not just the government and its protest against the United States, but all different groups and all different peoples in Japan start to protest. It becomes a big issue in the media. There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing. They're very concerned about, first of all, why the United States even has the right to be carrying out those kinds of tests in the Pacific. They're also concerned about the health and environmental impact. It has a huge, Bravo and other tests, have huge impact on the fishing industry, which directly affects the Japanese.
Related to that, the Marshallese at the same time send a lot of protests to the United States. They ask that the tests be stopped. They point out that it's affecting the environment on their islands, the fact that many of the islands have been radiated, and that it had to be evacuated and moved off to other places that they're not familiar with, and that they're not happy. They're not happy living on the places where they've been evacuated. They went into quite a bit of detail about the actual impact of the Bravo test. They complained about the fact that, first of all, they hadn't been warned about the test, about the fact also that they weren't evacuated.
Some of them, the Rongelapese, for example, probably were exposed to the most radiation. They were left on their island for 50-- it was 50 hours, I believe. And in the meantime, nobody came to them and explained that they had been affected by a nuclear test. So their children were out, you know, eating and drinking, drinking the water, eating the food, playing in the radioactive dust. Because they said that it looked like snow...They suffered from all kinds of health effects within the first couple of days. Their hair fall out. Their skin became spotty. They suffered from nausea. And all the time that this was happening...the Atomic Energy Commission, for example, didn't send anybody to help these people, in terms of explaining to them first of all what had happened to them, and then also trying to help them with these health problems. So those were many of the complaints that were directed towards the United States.
But because of what had happened to the Japanese as well as the Marshallese, the protest spread to other parts of the world as well. India was a very strong protester against nuclear tests in the Pacific. The protest also spread to Canada, to parts-- different parts of Western Europe, such as Great Britain, Italy, France...Many of the peoples within those countries began to protest against the Americans. And not just the Americans but also the tests that were being carried out by the British and the Soviet Union at the same time.
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Tongue cancer is a subgroup of head and neck cancer. Cancer develops from the squamous cells of the tongue, forming a localized tumor. Cancer cells have the potential to grow and spread.
Tongue cancer is often grouped with other mouth cancers, such as cancer of the lips, hard palate, cheek lining, the portion of the mouth underneath the front of the tongue, or gums. These cancers are collectively known as oral cancer.
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Cancer occurs when cells in the body divide without control or order. Eventually these uncontrolled cells form a growth or tumor. The term cancer refers to malignant growths. These growths can invade nearby tissues including the lymph nodes. Cancer that has invaded the lymph nodes can then spread to other parts of the body.
It is not clear exactly what causes these problems in the cells, but is probably a combination of genetics and environment. Changes may occur as a result of:
Tongue cancer is more common in men, and in people aged 40 years and older. Other factors that may increase your chance of tongue cancer include:
Tongue cancer may cause:
Tongue cancer may be detected by your dentist during a routine dental cleaning, or by your doctor during a routine physical exam.
To confirm diagnosis, your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. This may include examining your tongue for lumps or masses. A fiberoptic scope may be used.
The physical exam, combined with all of your test results, will help to determine the type and stage of cancer you have. Staging is used to guide your treatment plan. Like other cancers, tongue cancer is staged from I-IV. Stage I is a very localized cancer, while stage IV indicates a spread to other parts of the body
Tongue cancer treatment depends on the stage of the cancer, and the size and location of the tumor.
This is surgical removal of the cancerous tumor and nearby tissue, and possibly nearby lymph nodes. This is often the preferred treatment when the tumor is on the visible side of the tongue, when it is less than 2 centimeters, and when it is on one side and does not involve the base of the tongue.
This is the use of radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Radiation therapy is used when the cancer is at the back of the tongue.
Chemotherapy is sometimes used with radiation to destroy the cancerous growth, especially if surgery is not planned.
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Head and neck cancer. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T115660/Head-and-neck-cancer. Updated March 28, 2016. Accessed September 14, 2016.
Head and neck cancer—for patients. National Cancer Institute website. Available at: http://www.cancer.gov/types/head-and-neck. Accessed April 30, 2013.
Tongue cancer. Cancer Research UK website. Available at: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancers-in-general/cancer-questions/tongue-cancer. Accessed April 30, 2013.
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jlebel says: Darklands was one of the first games to popularize the use of alchemy as a gaming mechanic. Well known for being set in historic Germany; this is a Microprose classic.
Gothic 2 Gold Edition
jlebel says: One of my favorite games. Alchemy is not required, but if you do invest time and skill points it can be quite helpful. What I like is gathering ingredients while exploring the world. (Gothic and Gothic 3 also have alchemy)
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jlebel says: The higher level white and black potions are helpful and easy to get at if you have a party member that can Grandmaster in the alchemy skill. Even still, most characters can make the basic potions (yellow, blue and red). (MM6 & MM8 also have alchemy)
Realms of Arkania 1+2
jlebel says: Blade of Destiny includes an alchemy feature, but due to interface problems tends to be less than useful. (Arkania 3 also has alchemy)
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jlebel says: Not as involved as alchemy in Gothic or Morrowind, but the player can create useful potions with mundane ingredients found around the world.
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jlebel says: Alchemy becomes available as the player finds Formulae, usually in the form of scrolls. It is possible to make potions, oils and bombs. (Witcher 2 also has alchemy)
jlebel says: Probably not alchemy in the Elder Scrolls sense, but a more scientifically minded approach. The protagonist is a scientist that works with Synthesis Equipment to create medicine. A central mechanic of the game.
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jlebel says: With empty bottles and reagents, the player can make a few basic potions once a distillery is found.
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jlebel says: With the alchemy skill and some reagents one can create potions or even enchant a weapon or some armor.
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Ultima™ 9: Ascension
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Wow, so that's what she looks like when she smiles! Beautiful!!!
Wow love this interview. For once she seemed to be just calm and have fun with the interview. Her and Rob both have the awkward nervous tick though….when they're thinking of what they wanna say next they run their fingers through their hair lol.


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The Spirit Little Cedar Tree (Minido Geezhigans in Ojibwe; also known disrespectfully as the "Witch Tree" or "Witch's Tree") is a cedar monarch that sprouted from seemingly barren rock on the Hat Point prominence some four hundred years ago. (Erosion actually wore away the soil in which the tree first took seed, and its roots have grown beyond what has been worn away, giving the appearance of a tree growing from rock.) For generations the Ojibwe left offerings of tobacco at the tree for safe passage on the big lake. When they encountered Grand Portage, French voyageurs respected the tradition and left offerings of their own. Reports conflict as to how it came to be called the "Witch Tree." Some say it was given that name by the voyageurs and other early European explorers; others give credit to Dewey Albinson, one of many artists drawn to draw the tree. (St. Paul artist Kent Aldrich carved the woodblock of the Spirit Little Cedar Tree seen here.)
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I'm not saying that we should take way the second amendment. I'm just saying that I think ES brings up a valid point. There are problems that come from the fact that we enshrined gun ownership in the highest level of the law, and one of those problems is the natural occurrence of people believing that their right to own and use a gun overrides somebody's right to live. For any gun control measure to be effective, we should start addressing that problem as well.
The only way to address the "problem" of it being enshrined at the highest level of law is by changing that law. That requires the amendment process, which is simply not going to happen. Even if it could get through Congress with the sufficient supermajority (which it can't), there's no way that you will get the necessary number of states to ratify it. It would only take 13 states opposing to scuttle it. You might not like that it is enshrined as a right, but it is, and that is a serious constraint to any attempt at gun control legislation. Too many of the proposals out there simply don't take that into account.
I'm not saying the fact that it is a law is a problem. I'm saying that there are problems which arise from that fact. And that any gun control measure will need to address those problems if it is to be effective.
Except you can't do that through passing more laws. Where those laws conflict with a higher law (i.e. the Constitution, including the Second Amendment), they would be invalid. Part of the problem is that any right comes with the potential to abuse that right. In order to have free speech, you have to tolerate those who use it to harm others (see Westboro Baptist Church for all the examples you need). Similarly, with the right to keep and bear arms you have the potential that some people will abuse that right. Sometimes that abuse carries a high price. However, as with other rights, prior restraint isn't the solution. All you can really do is encourage (rather than force) people to act responsibly, and deal with them after the fact when they do abuse their rights.
I would say it would depend on whose life it is and what the specific situation is. If someone attacks me or my family, then I most certainly will not hold their life in great value. If someone were to try and rape my wife or my daughter, even if I knew for a fact that they were not going to otherwise harm/kill them, you better believe that I would do everything in my power up to and including using lethal force to stop them. By choosing to make such an attack, their life is no longer my concern. Stopping them from that attack is. That would even extend to defending property in some situations. For example, in a situation like after Katrina hit New Orleans, if someone were to try and steal food from my family, or take our generator (or its fuel), they would constitute a direct threat to my family's welfare. (When we went without power for several days this summer, our generator was the only thing that let us keep enough milk around for my son.) Again, I would do what I had to to stop them. I agree that the man in the article from Texas was excessive, but that doesn't mean that all defense of property with lethal force is. The recommendations I have been given for home defense in multiple self-defense courses (and from my attorney, who is an expert in my state's self-defense laws) is if someone is trying to break into my house, I should call 911, and while on the phone call out in a clear voice that I am armed and not to come in. If the intruder continues to try and break in, then it is reasonable to assume that they are armed and willing or intent on doing me and my family harm. On the other hand, if they have already broken in and are only taking property, I can try to detain them at gunpoint, but I am not legally justified in shooting them if they refuse to stop. They can just walk away (with TV in hand, if they choose).
D.C. v Heller rewrites the second amendment as follows: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, [T]he right of the people to keep and bear arms [for immediate personal self defense] shall not be infringed. There's probably a second version in force too: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, [T]he right of the people to keep and bear arms [for hunting and sport] shall not be infringed. I'm hopeful that in the long run the D.C. v Heller interpretation of the 2nd amendment will prove unworkable and be boxed in a bit. Urban and suburban handgun bans are a good thing, in my view no different from how the primary Chicago area Illinois counties have no gun season for deer hunting, only archery seasons. There are places where the right to hunt with guns for sport/leisure butts up against the safety rights of other people. Handguns in homes with children and in densely populated urban areas in general are I believe another analogous situation, where the right of self defense potentially should be overridden by more pressing safety concerns.
KK, obviously I was not referring to a "true" or at least debatable self-defense case. But purposely going after someone, which was what was being discussed at the time, is not such a scenario.
Heller did not rewrite the Second Amendment to erase the militia clause. It simply pointed out that the militia clause does not limit the Second Amendment, and that it was originally understood to include self-defense (as it was heavily derived from the Bill of Rights of 1689). That document had two complaints, and two accompanying provisions, that provided the basis for the Second Amendment: If you look at the various state constitutions and their analogous provisions to the Bill of Rights, many reference opposition to standing armies in place of the militia clause. It is also instructive to look at Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765), which explains the English right to self-defense at the time. In the section entitled "Of the Absolute Rights of Individuals", it says: Those two points alone demonstrate that the right to keep and bear arms was intended to be an individual right. The "militia" interpretation didn't rise up until US v. Miller in 1939, and that is a ruling that has been grossly misapplied over the years. Ultimately, all that Miller said is that Congress could not restrict firearms that would be associated with militia service. However, because there was no finding of fact (either way) saying whether a short-barreled shotgun was commonly used in the military (it was, and was known as a trenchgun), the case was then remanded to the lower courts to resolve that question. However, because Miller was killed a month after the Supreme Court arguments (and before the ruling was issued), upon remand the case was then dismissed as moot. The key holding in Miller stated: Even then, prior to 1939 the Second Amendment was also considered an individual right. For example, in the Dred Scot decision, it was specifically given as a justification for why blacks shouldn't be considered citizens: If it were not seen as an individual right, and instead was only tied to service in the militia, then there would have been no need to list it among the other individual rights that a "negro" would have as a citizen. In short (I know, too late for that), despite your repeated claims that Heller was a rewrite of the Second Amendment, it is actually quite faithful to the original understanding and meaning of the right to keep and bear arms.
I guess I'd like some clearer evidence of 1) how "defence, suitable to condition and degree and as allowed by law" was defined precisely under English law and 2) why Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England are enforceable as interpretive guideposts for the American constitution (e.g. where its controlling authority is written into U.S. constitutional law) and why it should trump the plain language of the text or more recent U.S. constitutional law as controlling authority. If we're supposed to rely on the interpretation of text a century older than the bill of rights to determine the framer's intent rather than what they might have thought about its meaning a century later, then it seems to me we're on much safer ground relying on plain textual meaning and recent precedent. Cherrypicking precedent and defining phrases however we want, just as you are doing, is also how the Supreme Court does its job, so there's no reason to be confident the law won't change again fairly soon.
basically peter hitchens was right (ugh, i know) when he said that the US basically missed the opportunity for meaningful gun control in about the 20s - we went for alcohol prohibition instead, which actually increased the gun violence problems
Blackstone's commentiaries actually provides some of those details of how things were defined under English law. They were essentially the definitive book on what English law was at the time. They were the basic text used by lawyers (and actually sold far more copies in America than in England), and were heavily quoted and cited throughout the Constitutional Convention. Blackstone's Commentaries were also used as the basis for the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Marbury v. Madison, creating the underlying framework of the Supreme Court's interpretive powers. They were used heavily to build support for ratifying the Constitution, and also in criticism of the Constitution as it was originally proposed (which led to the Bill of Rights, which were also heavily based on Blackstone). As for your "plain language" argument, the Blackstone commentaries help identify what that "plain language" meant at the time it was written. Even the Supreme Court in Miller could identify how the militia was interpreted at the time: In fact, by the standards set forward in Miller, there's absolutely no basis to prohibit AR-15s (or even full-auto M16s or M4s), as those are arms "of the kind in common use" for military service.
Just as you've avoided questions from me. It's clear that you like to misrepresent what I say, so why should I bother responding when you'll just twist it around anyways? I'll get to your questions when I get to them. If I feel like it. EDIT: Besides, you didn't really ask any questions in your last post. The 5 that you did ask all appeared to be rhetorical, except for possibly the last one. They were: In response to the last question, hunting is one of the biggest benefits from firearms. It helps maintain healthy deer populations (among other animals), provides millions of pounds of food to people (many of whom are low income), and the fees for licenses go to support countless conservation efforts. A significant portion of the meat collected from hunting goes to help the needy, courtesy of programs like Hunters for the Hungry. It is both lawful and a huge benefit to society. That's not a shifting of the goalposts at all.
Read my edit, and you'll see I answered the only question you actually asked in the only post I didn't respond to yesterday.
Except I will not let you accuse me of goalposting and let it slide, KK. You can't have your cake and eat it too
I missed this edit from Jabba: I;m sorry, but I've provided you with a plethora of sources and examples supporting the Heller interpretation of the Second Amendment. Where are your sources? Even Miller (the prior Supreme Court precedent that you want to rely on) doesn't support the sort of restrictions that you want. As I said, under Miller's criteria, AR-15s (or even M16s) are fully protected by the Second Amendment, as they represent arms "of the kind in common use" for military service. In summary of the evidence I've offered: The historical context of the Second Amendment supports it being an individual right. That context includes the English Bill of Rights of 1689 and Blackstone's Commentaries, which provided the basis for the Colonies' complaints against Great Britain (and the basis for the rights that they chose to protect against infringement). The militia consisted of all able-bodied men who were expected to provide their own privately-owned arms. Numerous state constitutions treated the right to keep and bear arms as an individual right. The Supreme Court cited the right to bear arms as an example alongside other individual rights in 1857. US v. Miller didn't allow unlimited government regulation (let alone prohibition) of firearms. At worst, it limits the Second Amendment individual right to arms "of the kind in common use" for military service. Whether or not a specific firearm (including the short-barreled shotgun at issue in the case) meets that criteria was not decided at that time. Heller is consistent with the historical context that led to the adoption of the Second Amendment as well as the interpretations of that Amendment prior to 1929. It's not incompatible with the actual holding in Miller.
My point is that Blackstone is not a controlling authority, more an accepted dictionary of the law, although true maybe that distinction is blurry, particularly in a case like Marbury. Like all SC justices after him, Marshall uses whatever's handy for rendering a decision, in this case conjuring up the U.S. SCt jurisdiction over constitutionality. I'd still like some detail about what was meant by "defence, suitable to condition and degree and as allowed by law." It seems to me that the operative definition of defence is focusing on common defence for communal protection against outside enemies or even personal protection when law enforcement is not more widely available, but that the evidence that personal protection in a non-frontier setting was the intended focus is thin.
You would seriously shoot a hungry person after a disaster? You would actually consider taking a person's life over food?
What are your sources for that? Blackstone might not be authoritative, but it is at least a persuasive authority, based on how it was utilize by those who wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights. You provide a lot about how you want it to be interpreted, but you don't provide much in the way of sources for why it should be interpreted that way. Even your "plain language" argument has to be tempered by how that plain language would have been understood in 1791. If that food is necessary to provide for my wife and children during a disaster, you can count on it. If we have extra, we would be willing to share if asked. But a person who would steal (rather than ask) cannot be relied upon to leave enough for us. Should I let my family starve because someone else wanted our food more? My first responsibility is to take care of my family.
KK, I rarely ask rhetorical questions to intelligent people. - Do you think it makes sense to just prepare proposals on rifle restriction, when more than half of all murders are committed with pistols? - Do you think your 2nd Amendment is a boon or a curse? - Do you think that Heller ruling is a boon or a curse? - Do you agree that this is a discussion about guns, not just rifles? - Do you agree that your claim that guns are primarily used for sport is unfounded, and that basing your claim on US figures alone is incredibly disingenious - exactly because of the problem we are discussing? - Where have I been goalposting?
No, I don't, as I've already said before (which is why I've argued against it). I think the Second Amendment protects an important individual right. As such, it is better than the alternative. I think the Heller ruling has some issues (particularly with how they kicked the can down the road), but that it is generally a good ruling. I agree it is about more than just rifles, however you cannot just treat all guns as if they are the same. I completely disagree with this. In the US, guns are primarily used for sport, by at least an order of magnitude more than any other purpose. As the main thrust of this discussion has been focused on the US, then it is a shifting of the goal posts to try and incorporate statistics from outside the US. See above.
no, it doesn't. but I'm still curious about the details of "defence, suitable to condition and degree and as allowed by law." I'd say that common practices arising over centuries in England with the rise of the middle class and walled towns probably dictated numerous restrictions on possessing and carrying arms in an urban setting, and that these kinds of developments and the differences between urban and rural areas, between well-settled lands and frontier areas was apparent to the constitutional authors and taken into account.


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A Pair of Tefillin for Sandy Koufax
October 6, 1965, the first game of the '65 World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers versus the Minnesota Twins. It's Yom Kippur night at Metropolitan Stadium, 47,797 in attendance. Sandy Koufax, lead pitcher of the LA Dodgers, refuses to play.
Koufax's refusal to pitch on Yom Kippur gained him the respect and admiration of many Jews. His courage gave many Jews the strength to not be ashamed of their Judaism.
The day after Yom Kippur, Koufax received a visit in his S. Paul hotel room from Rabbi Moshe Feller, regional director of the Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch -- the educational arm of the Lubavitcher Hasidic movement. Feller congratulated Koufax for not playing on Yom Kippur and for "the great assist he gave Rabbis and Jewish educators the world over."
Rabbi Feller also brought Sandy a pair of tefillin. "Since you bat right and throw left," he told the pitcher, "I wasn't sure what type to get you." (Tefillin are worn on the weaker arm -- right-handed people wrap them around their left arm, and lefties on their right arm.) "But considering what your left arm has accomplished, I decided to get you the type you put on your right arm."
Koufax accepted the gift and thanked Rabbi Feller for visiting. "The Talmud says that tefillin is representative of all the Mitzvot of the Torah," Feller later explained. "So I could not think of a better way to honor a person for enhancing Jewish values, than by presenting him with a pair of tefillin."
Two weeks later, at a Simchat Torah gathering, the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, spoke about the Jewish pitcher who refused to play on Yom Kippur (the following is a free translation from the Yiddish). "The first condition in influencing a child," said the Rebbe, "is that the child must see a living example by his parents. If the child sees the parent studying Torah at a time when the parent would otherwise be involved in business dealings, thereby surrendering a few dollars of profit, and perhaps causing that he won't be written up as one of the top dealers -- this is an example of self-sacrifice for the child.
"Or when the parent gives up a half hour of watching television, reading the newspaper and discussing politics... even though he thinks that knows what [President] Johnson ought to do, and if Johnson would ask him, he would tell him to do it this way.... When he renounces all of this, and he doesn't even know what the World Series is, that's an example for your child... (Those who don't know what 'World Series' is -- good for them. I wish that I didn't know...)
"There was a young man, and in fact he had a beard, he went to see the pitcher that wouldn't pitch on Yom Kippur and he told him that he does not play baseball on Rosh Hashanah either. The young man told the pitcher that he would like to give him a present. He gave him a pair of tefillin. The pitcher told him that he still remembers tefillin, however, he did not want to put them at that time. The young man left, and that day the pitcher lost the game... But at the end it turned out that he won the World Series, and on his table there were the tefillin. In the end, even 'a distant individual will not be distanced' and he will merit to put them on, and another Jew will be added to those who have donned tefillin..."
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Came Yom Kippur
A Hank Greenberg Poem
Author: Edgar Guest ©. Published: 1934. Appeared In: Detroit Free Press
"Came Yom Kippur — holy fast day world wide over to the Jew,
And Hank Greenberg to his teaching and the old tradition true
Spent the day among his people and he didn't come to play.
Said Murphy to Mulrooney, 'We shall lose the game today!
We shall miss him on the infield and shall miss him at the bat
But he's true to his religion — and I honor him for that!'"
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Dull ache on the inside of the ankle06/30/2009 |
What might cause a dull ache on the inside of the ankle that seems to stretch down into the arch of the foot?I thought it might be because my running shoes were too worn but I replaced them and it didn`t make any difference.
I don`t really notice this when I am running, its most of the rest of the time that I feel it.
Thank you for your question. As a runner myself, I know how frustrating leg and foot pain can be. It sounds as though you may have an inflamed or irritated posterior tibialis tendon.This usually is the result of
- overuse (too much mileage, not enough recovery time),
- a secondary condition as the result of another injury (e.g., ankle sprain), or
- simply tight lower leg muscles (gastroc-soleus complex).
I would start by stretching out the calf using a Foam Roller. This is a great tool for runners to help lengthen the fascia (lining over the muscle) and reduce knots in the muscle. They are available at most sporting good stores.
Secondly, I would check the inserts in the running shoes as they tend to be very thin. You many consider purchasing an over-the-counter orthotic (e.g., Dr. Scholl's) to support and cushion the arch.
Lastly, give yourself an ice massage after your run. Fill up a dixie cup with water, freeze it, and then peel off part of the cup and using small, circular strokes, massage the sore area for about 10 minutes.
If symptoms persist, see your physician to rule out any other serious injury such as a stress fracture.
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Below is a copy of a one page will by Marietta Adams and provides a wealth of information. She was married to Charles W. Adams, but I know nothing of her family or even her maiden name. Because of the names on the will, I was researching the census records and before I knew it, I had not only her surname of Sprague, but most of her entire family. Below this Amanuensis, is a descendant chart with the new names. The names in red were named in her will.
"Stafford Jan. 24th 1899
I Marietta Adams of the town of Stafford being of sound mind and memory do make and declare this to be my last will and testament
-- After paying my just debts and funeral expenses--I give to my nephew Fred Blood the Farm known as the Eddy Adams Farm. And the Balance of my property I want to have divided between my Brothers Henry and Daniel and my sister Sarah Blood; And Earl and Ora Sprague Alvin Sprague, Frank Sprague and Alice Bradfield said nephews and nieces to have the amount divided between them that would have been their fathers if they had been living. I mean by this to divide said balance into five equal parts. My Brothers and Sister three parts--nephews and nieces mentioned above two parts. I also request that the Cemetery lot be endowed."
"Surrogate's Court
Be it Remembered, That on the day of the date hereof the last Will and Testament of Marietta Adams late of the town of Stafford, in the County of Genesee, deceased, being the foregoing written instrument, was upon due proof admitted to probate in the Surrogate's Court of said County, according to law as a valid Will to pass Real and Personal Property, which said last Will and Testament and the proofs and examination taken thereon, are recorded in the Surrogate's Office of said County, in Volume 26 of Wills, on pages 13 - 16 inclusive.
In Testimony Whereof, The Surrogate of the said county has caused his seal of office to be hereunto affixed.
Witness, Hon. Safford E. North, Surrogate
of said County, the 11th day
of May A. D., 1899
F. A. Lewis, Clerk Surrogate's Court"
Descendants of Solomon Sprague
Generation No. 1
1. SOLOMON SPRAGUE was born September 06, 1806, and died May 12, 1849 in Batavia , Genesee Co., New York . He married MERCY HOYT, daughter of ASA HOYT and BETSEY HOYT. She was born Abt. 1810 in Vermont .
Children of SOLOMON SPRAGUE and MERCY HOYT were:
2. i. JOEL SPRAGUE, b. Abt. 1827, New York ; d. November 12, 1886.
3. ii. DANIEL SPRAGUE, b. May 20, 1829, New York ; d. April 04, 1914.
4. iii. SARAH SPRAGUE, b. November 09, 1838, New York ; d. July 01, 1917.
iv. ELLEN SPRAGUE, b. March 07, 1841, Batavia, Genesee Co., New York ; d. May 31, 1872, Batavia, Genesee Co., New York .
v. CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, b. Abt. 1843, New York ; d. March 25, 1887.
5. vi. MARIETTE (ETTIE) SPRAGUE, b. Abt. 1846, New York ; d. Bet. January 24 - May 11, 1899, Batavia, Genesee Co., New York .
vii. HENRY SPRAGUE, b. September 03, 1848, New York ; d. July 25, 1937; m. HELEN J. DE WOLFE.
Generation No. 2
2. JOEL SPRAGUE (SOLOMON) was born Abt. 1827 in New York , and died November 12, 1886. He married ABIGAIL ADELIA WARNER. She was born Abt. 1828 in New York .
Children of JOEL SPRAGUE and ABIGAIL WARNER were:
i. ALVIN SPRAGUE, b. May 14, 1852, New York .
ii. FRANK SPRAGUE, b. Abt. 1863, New York .
6. iii. ALICE SPRAGUE, b. October 25, 1867, New York ; d. November 16, 1938.
3. DANIEL SPRAGUE (SOLOMON) was born May 20, 1829 in New York , and died April 04, 1914. He married MARY HUNTINGTON. She was born 1828 in New York , and died Bef. 1900.
Children of DANIEL SPRAGUE and MARY HUNTINGTON were:
i. HOMER SPRAGUE, b. Abt. 1854, New York .
7. ii. CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, b. April 1867, New York .
4. SARAH SPRAGUE (SOLOMON) was born November 09, 1838 in New York , and died July 01, 1917. She married LUMAN BLOOD April 1858, son of NASON BLOOD and RHODA EVEREST. He was born March 26, 1833 in Bethany , Genesee Co., New York , and died March 05, 1908 in Alexander, Genesee Co., New York .
Children of SARAH SPRAGUE and LUMAN BLOOD were:
i. ARTHUR BLOOD, b. April 1864, New York .
8. ii. FRED S. BLOOD, b. Abt. 1867, New York ; d. 1941, Genesee Co., New York .
iii. CORA BLOOD, b. Abt. 1868, New York ; m. EMERY LINCOLN.
5. MARIETTE (ETTIE) SPRAGUE (SOLOMON) was born Abt. 1846 in New York , and died Bet. January 24 - May 11, 1899 in Batavia , Genesee Co., New York . She married CHARLES W. ADAMS, son of HORACE ADAMS and BETSEY YARINGTON. He was born 1844 in New York , and died 1897 in Batavia , Genesee Co., New York .
Child of MARIETTE SPRAGUE and CHARLES ADAMS was:
i. ARTHUR T. ADAMS, b. 1881, Genesee Co., New York ; d. 1882, Batavia, Genesee Co., New York .
Generation No. 3
6. ALICE SPRAGUE (JOEL, SOLOMON) was born October 25, 1867 in New York , and died November 16, 1938. She married FRANK BRADFIELD. He was born June 1866 in Michigan , and died Bet. 1900 - 1910.
Children of ALICE SPRAGUE and FRANK BRADFIELD were:
i. ROY S. BRADFIELD, b. September 1892, New York .
ii. EDNA BRADFIELD, b. January 1895, New York .
iii. AGNES M. BRADFIELD, b. August 1897, New York .
7. CHARLES A. SPRAGUE (DANIEL, SOLOMON) was born April 1867 in New York . He married ANNA? (__). She was born January 1864 in New York .
Children of CHARLES SPRAGUE and ANNA? SPRAGUE were:
i. GLENN SPRAGUE, b. July 1890, New York .
ii. ROY SPRAGUE, b. April 1892, New York .
iii. LILY SPRAGUE, b. June 1893, New York .
iv. CHESTER SPRAGUE, b. November 1895, New York .
v. FLOYD SPRAGUE, b. July 1898, New York .
8. FRED S. BLOOD (SARAH SPRAGUE, SOLOMON) was born Abt. 1867 in New York , and died 1941 in Genesee Co., New York . He married VIOLA P. She was born Abt. 1874 in New York , and died 1953 in Genesee Co., New York .
Child of FRED BLOOD and VIOLA BLOOD is:
i. ETHEL H. BLOOD, b. Abt. 1893, New York .


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Frank and Pat Diaz P'13 reside in Chicago with their kids Elisabeth, Daniel '13, and Michael. Daniel has been a member of the Cross Country Team all four years at Emerson and is currently the captain. He is preparing to run the Boston Marathon on April 15.
Devoting time to the student's sport will be the biggest challenge. The student needs to make sure they understand the time commitments. Time management becomes very important. Most students also have a part-time job and need to consider time needed for competing and training when they are looking at their available time to work. It's best to be up front with potential employers, and let them know about the student's sport as this will avoid a lot of frustration after the athlete is hired. Most employers are willing to be flexible with the athlete's work hours.
Having a sense of belonging and feeling connected to Emerson can be the most rewarding experience. The experience can be especially helpful for new students who are feeling a little lost. Team sports help students meet new friends with similar interests that they can bond with and hopefully make friends for life.
Athletes must meet NCAA compliance before participating, and there is a minimum GPA requirement of 2.0. Please make sure to seek guidance from an academic advisor or the Athletics Department if there are any questions.
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Because of our distance, we were unable to fly in for meets, but our athlete knew we were there in spirit. Obtain a schedule of events from the Athletics Department or from your student and send texts before the competition. Be there afterward even by phone to congratulate or console. Have your student send pictures that you can text and email to family members to get everyone involved in supporting your athlete.
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Director Peter Jackson has thrilled his Facebook fans by providing an unprecedented stream of photos from the set of the final film in The Hobbit trilogy to celebrate the completion of filming in New Zealand.
The film-maker, pictured, posted images of dwarves, crew members and the actor Martin Freeman, who plays the protagonist, the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.
The photo updates began and ended with pictures of Jackson's cat, Mr Smudge. The final photo shows the director, who is from New Zealand, and cat cuddling, along with the caption: "A long day. A great day. Thank you all for being part of it! Now for some sleep!"
The second film, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, will be released in December, and the finale, The Hobbit: There and Back Again, appears next year.
The Hobbit, based on J R R Tolkien's novel of the same name, is the prequel to Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. It follows Baggins' adventures as he tries to help a group of dwarves regain their wealth and stature from the dragon Smaug.
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An outstanding N.C.C. Cadet in Government Degree College, Bhadarwah, G.G.M. Science College and S.P. College, Srinagar |
courted arrest more than a dozen times and jailed during the Janata Government (1977-79) in different parts of the country |
Chairman, First International Youth Conference, Delhi, 1982 |
Member, (i) Delegation to the 11th World Youth and Students' Festival, Havana (Cuba), 1978, (ii) Central Haj Committee, 1980-82,(iii) Governing Council, Rajaji International Institute of Public Affairs and Administration, 1980-82, (iv) Jammu and Kashmir Bhoodan Committee, (v) Parliamentary Delegation to Mexico and Greece and (vi) Indian Parliamentary Group |
Leader, (i) Indian Delegation of Sarvodaya to Sri Lanka to visit one thousand Gandhian model villages, 1973, (ii) Youth Congress Delegation to Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Russia, 1980-82, (iii) Young M.P.s' Delegation to Iraq, 1981, (iv) Indian Goodwill Haj Delegation to Saudi Arabia, 1987, (v) Indian Parliamentary Delegation to Sweden, 1991 as Parliamentary Affairs Minister, (vi) Indian Parliamentary Delegation in the Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting held in New Delhi, 1992 as Parliamentary Affairs Minister and (vii) a number of Congress Party and Ministry of Civil Aviation Delegations to more than three dozen countries, 1991-96 |
Convener, (i) Central Campaign Committee of A.I.C.C. for 1998 Parliamentary Elections and (ii) Committee for Golden Jubilee Celebrations of India's Independence of A.I.C.C. |
has held many positions in the Indian National Congress |
Member, Congress Working Committee (CWC) since 1987 |
General Secretary, All India Congress Committee since 1999 |
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Education | M.Sc. (Zoology) Educated at Government Degree College Bhadarwah, G.G.M. Science College, Jammu, S.P. College, Srinagar and Kashmir University, Srinagar |
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Oil slips towards $50 on doubts over output-cut extension
LONDON Oil fell further towards $50 a barrel on Monday, pressured by uncertainty over whether an OPEC-led production cut will be extended beyond June in an effort to counter a glut of crude.
NEW YORK Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc's (RBS.L) admission that its employees coordinated with a trader at another bank to manipulate benchmark interest rates is not necessarily the knock-out punch needed by plaintiffs who accuse the British-based bank of collusion.
As part of a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Wednesday by British and American authorities, RBS admitted its derivatives traders agreed with a UBS AG UBSN.VX trader to seek to manipulate the London interbank offered rate, known as Libor, calculated for the Japanese yen.
But that agreement would not be considered a final judgment and therefore could not be used as evidence the bank engaged in an antitrust conspiracy, some legal experts said.
"It's not evidence of anything," said Eleanor Fox, a professor at the New York University School of Law specializing in antitrust. "It's only a settlement."
Under the Clayton Act, a U.S. antitrust statute, final judgments obtained by the government can be used by plaintiffs as evidence of wrongdoing by defendants. But the law also makes clear that plaintiffs cannot use "consent judgments or decrees entered before any testimony has been taken."
RBS, which agreed to pay $612 million to U.S. and British authorities, is the third bank to resolve liability with regulators for its role in rate-rigging. Switzerland's UBS agreed in December to pay penalties of $1.5 billion and Britain's Barclays Bank Plc BARCR.UL has paid $453 million. Parts of those settlements have been used to boost the credibility of lawsuits filed by private plaintiffs.
RBS and some of the world's other biggest banks are facing several class action lawsuits alleging they colluded to manipulate Libor, which sets prices on trillions of derivatives and other financial products. The lawsuits claim billions of dollars in damages.
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In the Baltimore case, a hearing on the defendants' motion to dismiss will be heard on March 5 by U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan. William Carmody, an attorney representing the city of Baltimore, said on Wednesday he had not carefully studied RBS's deferred prosecution agreement, but added that the statement of facts contained in it was remarkable for its length and specificity.
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Conversations from the Cullman Center: Nathan Englander in Conversation with Barry Edelstein, moderated by Alexis Soloski
October 18, 2012
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Former fellow Nathan Englander discusses his new play, The Twenty Seventh Man, which opens at the Public Theater in November, with the director Barry Edelstein and the journalist Alexis Soloski.
The novelist Nathan Englander discusses his new play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, with the theater director Barry Edelstein, in a conversation moderated by the journalist Alexis Soloski. Set in a Russian prison in 1952, the play is adapted from one of Englander's stories in the collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. It will be performed at The Public Theater from November 7 to December 9.
Nathan Englander is the author of two internationally best-selling story collections, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, as well as a highly acclaimed novel, The Ministry of Special Cases. A former Fellow at the Cullman Center and at the American Academy in Berlin, he has won the PEN/Malamud Award, the Bard Fiction Prize, and a place on The New Yorker's list of "20 Writers for the 21st Century." He teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Hunter College. His short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Washington Post.
Barry Edelstein has directed classical and contemporary plays over the past twenty years, including several acclaimed productions of works by Shakespeare. He was head of the Off-Broadway Classic Stage Company from 1998 to 2003, and was appointed Director of the Shakespeare Lab at The Public Theater in 2007. He is the author of Thinking Shakespeare.
Alexis Soloski is a drama critic for the Village Voice and a member of the New York Drama Critics Circle. She writes frequently for The New York Times, The Guardian, and American Theater, where she has served as Jerome fellow. A post-doctoral lecturer in Literature Humanities, she teaches at Columbia University.
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H.R.3190 - United States Parole Commission Extension Act of 2013113th Congress (2013-2014)
Sponsor: | Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1] (Introduced 09/26/2013) |
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Latest Action: | 10/31/2013 Became Public Law No: 113-47. (TXT | PDF) (All Actions) |
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Summary: H.R.3190 — 113th Congress (2013-2014)All Bill Information (Except Text)
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Public Law No: 113-47 (10/31/2013)
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
United States Parole Commission Extension Act of 2013 - Extends the United States Parole Commission for five years.
Directs the Commission, within 180 days after enactment of this Act, to report the following, for FY2012-FY2013, with regard to each type of case over which it has jurisdiction: (1) the number of offenders; (2) the number of hearings, record reviews, and National Appeals Board considerations conducted by the Commission; (3) the number of hearings conducted by the Commission by type of hearing; (4) the number of record reviews conducted by the Commission by type of consideration; (5) the number of warrants issued and executed compared to the number requested; (6) the number of revocation determinations by the Commission; (7) the distribution of initial offenses; (8) the distribution of subsequent offenses; (9) the percentage of offenders paroled or re-paroled compared with the percentage of offenders continued to expiration of sentence; (10) the percentage of cases in which the primary and secondary examiner disagreed on the appropriate disposition of the case, the release conditions to be imposed, or the reasons for the decision; (11) the percentage of revocation and non-revocation hearings in which the offender is accompanied by a representative; (12) the number of administrative appeals and the action of the National Appeals Board in relation to those appeals; and (13) the Commission's annual expenditures for offenders.
Directs the Commission to report on: (1) the percentage of decisions within, above, or below its decision guidelines for federal initial hearings and federal and D.C. Code revocation hearings; (2) the projected number of federal offenders that will be under its jurisdiction as of October 31, 2018; (3) an estimate of the date on which no federal offenders will remain under its jurisdiction; and (4) its annual expenditures, including travel expenses and the annual salaries of its members and staff.
Requires the Commission to make such reports for each of FY2014-FY2018 within 90 days after the end of the fiscal year.
Directs the Commission, within 180 days after enactment of this Act, to report on: (1) the parole failure rate for the District of Columbia for the preceding fiscal year, (2) the factors that caused that rate, and (3) remedial measures that might be undertaken to reduce that rate.


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The first chapter in Even Haezer, the section of the Tur and Shulchan Arukh dealing with the laws of marriage, deals with the obligation to marry and have children. The second chapter discusses the ideal spouse whom we should marry.
Seemingly, the main consideration mentioned in the Tur is family background, or yichus. The chapter opens: "A man should only marry a woman who is appropriate to him, one who has no disqualification, for anyone who marries a woman who is inappropriate to him, when the Holy One blessed be He testifies to the tribes [that they belong entirely to the people of Israel], He won't testify to him".
Of course this in no way contradicts the importance of finding a spouse with a good character and with compatible traits. It just means that the search begins with those with a good family background. Afterwards the quality of the match is determined by personal qualities. Indeed the Tashbetz writes that when Chazal state that "From Hashem a woman to a man" (Moed Katan 18b), it refers to this kind of compatibility: "insofar as this woman is suitable for this man in manifestations and humor [today we would say "chemistry"] between them, according to the divine decree". (Tashbetz II:1.)
But when we look more deeply we find that the idea of good background is itself intimately connected with good character. When the Tur goes on to describe how we gauge a person's pedigree, he doesn't discuss how many generations we check their descent. Rather: "And what is the sign of pedigree? Someone who hears an insult and doesn't respond, as Rav Ada stated, 'The pedigree of Bavel is silence'."
Later on, the Tur cites Rambam, who writes that in general all Jewish families can be assumed to have yichus, a kosher background. The exceptions: someone from a family which is very quarrelsome, and "someone who is insolent and cruel and misanthropic, and doesn't do acts of loving kindness, we suspect that he is a Givonite [symbolizing lowly background], for the signs of the holy nation of Israel is that they are bashful, merciful, and kind" (Isurei Biah 19).
So the insistence on family background comes to focus not on pedigree, but rather on character traits and the educational environment of the prospective spouse. Even the mandate to seek the daughter of a Torah scholar is given a perspective which ties it to the traits of the spouse: "A person should always try to marry the daughter of a Torah scholar and to marry his daughter to a Torah scholar, for if he dies or is exiled, his children will be Torah scholars". The emphasis is switched from the technical fact of the wife's background to the practical consideration of the educational environment she will create for the children.
(I have heard that the Chazon Ish ruled that any woman who was educated in a reputable Torah seminary should be considered a "daughter of a Torah scholar" for the purposes of marriage, for this very reason.)
We learn from the Tur that much of the distinction between family background and character is really artificial. The importance of family background in Jewish law and tradition is itself bound up with the idea that our nation as a whole is naturally displays and esteems elevated character traits: forbearance, modesty, kindness. This doesn't mean that a distinguished pedigree is not impressive or importance; it just means that ultimately we are trying to find a partner who will have an enlightened soul and wonderful characteristics, and the family background is one, but only one, correlate for these human qualities.