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Supreme Court orders makers of gun parts to comply with federal "ghost gun" rules

October 16, 2023 / 5:08 PM / CBS/AP

The Supreme Court on Monday ordered two internet sellers of gun parts to comply with a Biden administration regulation aimed at "ghost guns," firearms that are difficult to trace because they lack serial numbers.

The court had intervened once before, by a 5-4 vote in August , to keep the regulation in effect after it had been invalidated by a lower court. In that order, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined with the three liberal justices to freeze the lower court's ruling. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh said they would deny the request from the Biden administration to revive the rules.

No justice dissented publicly from Monday's brief, unsigned order , which followed a ruling from a federal judge in Texas that exempted the two companies, Blackhawk Manufacturing Group and Defense Distributed, from having to abide by the regulation of ghost gun kits.

Other makers of gun parts also had been seeking similar court orders, the administration told the Supreme Court in a filing.

"Absent relief from this Court, therefore, untraceable ghost guns will remain widely available to anyone with a computer and a credit card — no background check required," Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the administration's top Supreme Court lawyer, wrote.

The regulation changed the definition of a firearm under federal law to include unfinished parts, like the frame of a handgun or the receiver of a long gun, so they can be tracked more easily. Those parts must be licensed and include serial numbers. Manufacturers must also run background checks before a sale — as they do with other commercially made firearms.

The requirement applies regardless of how the firearm was made, meaning it includes ghost guns made from individual parts or kits or by 3D printers.

The regulation will be in effect while the administration appeals the judge's ruling to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans — and potentially the Supreme Court.

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The parts for this “ghost gun,” a homemade firearm with no serial number, were ordered online by 18-year-old Zachary Burkard, who then assembled the gun and used it to kill two teenage schoolmates, Calvin Van Pelt and Ersheen Elaiaiser, in 2021. Photo courtesy of Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ordered two internet sellers of gun parts to comply with a Biden administration regulation aimed at ghost guns, firearms that are difficult to trace because they lack serial numbers.

The court had intervened once before, by a 5-4 vote in August, to keep the regulation in effect after it had been invalidated by a lower court. No justice dissented publicly from Monday’s order, which followed a ruling from a federal judge in Texas that exempted the two companies, Blackhawk Manufacturing Group and Defense Distributed, from having to abide by the regulation of ghost gun kits.

Other makers of gun parts also had been seeking similar court orders, the administration told the Supreme Court in a filing.

“Absent relief from this Court, therefore, untraceable ghost guns will remain widely available to anyone with a computer and a credit card — no background check required,” Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer, wrote.

The regulation changed the definition of a firearm under federal law to include unfinished parts, like the frame of a handgun or the receiver of a long gun, so they can be tracked more easily. Those parts must be licensed and include serial numbers. Manufacturers must also run background checks before a sale — as they do with other commercially made firearms.

The requirement applies regardless of how the firearm was made, meaning it includes ghost guns made from individual parts or kits or by 3D printers.

The regulation will be in effect while the administration appeals the judge’s ruling to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans – and potentially the Supreme Court.

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ghosting noun [U] ( WRITING FOR SOMEONE )

• Some writers might decide to take up ghosting.
• He worked on the ghosting of the general's bestselling autobiography .
• How did he react to the book ghosting claims ?
• bang something out
• bash something out
• borrow something from something
• readability
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ghosting noun [U] ( STOPPING COMMUNICATION )

• Ghosting is a way of splitting up with someone or avoiding going on another date .
• Sending a break-up text is better than ghosting.
• Ghosting can happen to anyone.
• affiliation order
• break something up
• break up with someone
• child support
• give someone the heave-ho idiom
• give someone the push idiom
• go off with someone
• run out on someone/something
• throw someone over

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ghosting noun [U] ( UNCLEAR IMAGE )

• Ghosting is the appearance of shadow-like images on the screen .
• High-definition video was sharper , but still showed some ghosting.
• The moon had six to eight overlapping copies , a distortion called ghosting.
• indiscernible
• melt (away) into something
• not see hide nor hair of someone idiom
• super-subtle

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Questions to Enliven Synod-2023

T he first session of the “Synod on Synodality,” currently meeting in Rome, is slated to be followed by a second such month-long affair in October 2024. Both aim to build a “Synodal Church of Communion, Participation, and Mission,” which is certainly a laudable goal. Two weeks into Synod-2023, however, it must be asked whether the Synod’s methodology is conducive to serious conversation characterized by the  parrhesia —the frank speaking—so often recommended by Pope Francis.

The Catholic Church has held synods since 1967, two years after Paul VI created the Synod of Bishops. No one involved in these gatherings over the past half-century is likely to argue that a perfect method for making synods interesting, effective, and humanly bearable has ever been devised. Rhetoric can, and has, gotten out of control: One weary cardinal, asked after the first week of Synod-2001 whether everything had been said on the Synod’s topic, replied, “Yes, everything has been said. But not everyone has said it.” Different methodologies—more open discussion in general assembly; more small-group discussions, openly structured—have been tried. None has proven completely satisfactory.

However, what is particularly striking about Synod-2023 is how closely micro-managed its small-group discussions are. The synodal  Instrumentum Laboris  (Working Document) includes thirty-three single-spaced pages of “worksheets” through which the small groups are to make their way, question by question, in precisely time-calibrated segments monitored by “facilitators” appointed by the Synod General Secretariat. Whether this method of discussion-management (or discussion-control) will prove an improvement over previous synodal methodologies remains to be seen; the odds seem long to me.

This raises the question of whether the discussion might be gingered up if the prescribed questions, which are largely focused on issues of intra-Church process as defined by the (secular) criterion of “inclusivity,” were complemented by dropping questions of a more substantive, Christian nature into the conversation. Happily, such a set of questions was suggested by Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, which I found in a statement by the International Catholic Jurists Forum published in the  National Catholic Register . If I may paraphrase:

Does the call of Christ for repentance, with which the Lord began his public ministry (Mark 1:15), necessarily create an ecclesial culture of “exclusion”?

How should we understand the Lord’s clear, countercultural, and challenging teaching on the permanence of marriage, or on the consequences of undisciplined appetites? Are these teachings alienating? Might they be liberating? And if liberating, what do they teach us about the true meaning of freedom?

Many followers left Jesus after he told them, “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you” (John 6:53). Given that abandonment, and the Lord’s follow-up question to those who remained (“Do you also wish to go away?” [John 6:57]), can we say that radical inclusivity was the Lord’s highest priority?

Why should Catholics be surprised or made uncomfortable when so many people in Western societies reject the Church’s moral teaching on the life issues, on the true expressions of human love, and on our created givenness as men and women? Does rejection of those teachings mean that they’re wrong? Those teachings are surely countercultural today; but doesn’t their rejection call us to more effective communication of the truths the Lord has given the Church?  

What has drawn people to Christ and the Church over two millennia—an inclusivity that rendered the Church indistinguishable from the ambient culture and surrounding society, or a mode of life that, while countercultural, was manifestly more life-affirming and ennobling?

It is certainly true that “everyone is welcome in the Church,” as we hear so often today. But mustn’t that sentence be completed, such that it’s clear that everyone is welcome in the Church on Christ’s terms, not their own? In our work of evangelization, how do we communicate that with compassion, recognizing that we are a Church of sinners who often fall short of the mark—but who have no authority to change the mark?

These questions should prompt a synodal reflection on why John Paul II was such a powerful evangelical magnet for young people. It was not, I suggest, because he pandered to them. It was because he was transparently honest about the demands of the gospel and challenged young adults—and the rest of us—never to forget that the grace of God makes spiritual and moral grandeur possible in our lives.

If the call to “inclusivity” means blunting the sharp edges of the gospel, then that call is not a work of the Holy Spirit.  

George Weigel’s column “The Catholic Difference” is syndicated by the  Denver Catholic , the official publication of the Archdiocese of Denver.

George Weigel  is Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington, D.C.’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he holds the William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies.

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Definition of MTSS

The California Department of Education’s (CDE) definition of Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) provides a basis for understanding how California educators can work together to ensure equitable access and opportunity for all students to achieve the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). MTSS includes Response to Instruction and Intervention (RtI 2 ) as well as additional, distinct philosophies and concepts.

CDE’s Definition of MTSS

In California, MTSS is an integrated, comprehensive framework that focuses on CCSS, core instruction, differentiated learning, student-centered learning, individualized student needs, and the alignment of systems necessary for all students’ academic, behavioral, and social success. California has a long history of providing numerous systems of support. These include the interventions within the RtI 2 processes, supports for Special Education, Title I, Title III, support services for English Learners, American-Indian students, and those in gifted and talented programs. MTSS offers the potential to create needed systematic change through intentional design and redesign of services and supports that quickly identify and match the needs of all students.

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Comparing mtss to rti 2, mtss differences with rti 2.

MTSS has a broader scope than does RtI 2 . MTSS also includes:

• Focusing on aligning the entire system of initiatives, supports, and resources.
• Promoting district participation in identifying and supporting systems for alignment of resources, as well as site and grade level.
• Systematically addressing support for all students, including gifted and high achievers.
• Enabling a paradigm shift for providing support and setting higher expectations for all students through intentional design and redesign of integrated services and supports, rather than selection of a few components of RtI and intensive interventions.
• Endorsing Universal Design for Learning instructional strategies so all students have opportunities for learning through differentiated content, processes, and product.
• Integrating instructional and intervention support so that systemic changes are sustainable and based on CCSS-aligned classroom instruction.
• Challenging all school staff to change the way in which they have traditionally worked across all school settings.

MTSS is not designed for consideration in special education placement decisions, such as specific learning disabilities. MTSS focuses on all students in education contexts.

MTSS Similarities to RtI 2

MTSS incorporates many of the same components of RtI 2 , such as

• Supporting high-quality standards and research-based, culturally and linguistically relevant instruction with the belief that every student can learn including students of poverty, students with disabilities, English learners, and students from all ethnicities evident in the school and district cultures.
• Integrating a data collection and assessment system, including universal screening, diagnostics and progress monitoring, to inform decisions appropriate for each tier of service delivery.
• Relying on a problem-solving systems process and method to identify problems, develop interventions and, evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention in a multi-tiered system of service delivery.
• Seeking and implementing appropriate research-based interventions for improving student learning.
• Using school-wide and classroom research-based positive behavioral supports for achieving important social and learning outcomes.
• Implementing a collaborative approach to analyze student data and working together in the intervention process.

Venn Diagram of MTSS and RtI 2

The following figure displays similarities and differences between California’s MTSS and RtI 2 processes. Both rely on RtI 2 ’s data gathering through universal screening, data-driven decision making, problem-solving teams, and are focused on the CCSS. However, the MTSS process has a broader approach, addressing the needs of all students by aligning the entire system of initiatives, supports, and resources, and by implementing continuous improvement processes at all levels of the system.

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Mark Parsons out as Spirit head coach after one season

• October 17, 2023

Mark Parsons’ return as head coach of the Washington Spirit lasted only one season. The team announced on Tuesday that Parsons would not be retained for the 2024 season.

Parsons, who first coached the Spirit on an interim basis in 2013 and continued through the 2015 National Women’s Soccer League season, returned to the club at the end of 2022. The Spirit finished the season 7-6-9 (W-L-D) and failed to make the six-team playoffs in the 12-team league.

“We are grateful for Mark’s contributions in the 2023 season,” said Spirit president of soccer operations Mark Krikorian in a statement. “He helped lay a strong foundation and set us on a path to excellence. We wish him all the best in the future.”

Parsons previously coached the Netherlands women’s national team but departed after a disappointing European Championship title defense in 2022 that saw the Dutch exit in the quarterfinals.

Parsons came to prominence in the NWSL as coach of the Portland Thorns from 2016 through 2021. With the Thorns, Parsons won two NWSL Shields and one NWSL Championship.

Washington becomes the fifth NWSL team currently looking for a head coach. The Chicago Red Stars, Houston Dash, Kansas City Current, and Angel City FC all have interim coaches. Angel City is the only team among the group to have qualified for the postseason.

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Steve Borthwick must summon the spirit of 2019 for England to beat South Africa

Posted: October 16, 2023 | Last updated: October 16, 2023

So here England are again four years on from Japan, heading into a semi-final as underdogs against the World No 1 defending champions.

The difference is that Eddie Jones had been planning that semi-final performance against New Zealand for the best part of two years with the subsequent 19-7 victory coming to define the better part of his tenure as England head coach. Steve Borthwick has six days to enact a plan to topple the Springboks.

By dint of his appointment nine months out from the World Cup, Borthwick has not had the luxury of long-term planning, instead focusing all his efforts into being his mantra of “ready for September 9”, the opening game against Argentina.

What Borthwick can draw upon is the squad’s experience of 2019 and a deep well of conviction that England have been cast as underdogs throughout this tournament. They haven’t. Against Argentina, the teams were dead even. For every other match, they have been heavy favourites.

But we should not let the bookmakers’ odds spoil the internal narrative that has built up within the squad from Borthwick’s “people said we won’t make it out of group” to Maro Itoje saying we have been “pretty much underdogs all tournament.”  Against South Africa, they definitely are rank outsiders. Indeed you can still get 14-1 on them winning the whole thing, and this will suit England just fine.

All teams are always in search of extrinsic motivation, which is why they so quickly grasp on to the underdog tag. This is also why the experience of the 2018 Philadelphia Eagles resonated with second row Itoje. The Eagles were unfancied and unloved but ended up beating the all-conquering New England Patriots in a stunning upset in the Super Bowl, leaning heavily into the underdog narrative as articulated by centre Jason Kelce.

“We were a bunch of underdogs,” Kelce said in a speech at the Eagles’ trophy parade. “And you know what an underdog is? It’s a hungry dog. And Jeff Stoutland has had this in our building for five years – it’s a quote in the O-line room that has stood on the wall for the last five years – “Hungry dogs run faster.” And that’s this team.”

This struck an immediate cord with Itoje. “I watched a documentary this week, Kelce on Amazon Prime,” Itoje said. “He said ‘Hungry dogs run faster.’ That’s going to be our goal. We’re going to go in there hungry. We’re going to go in with absolute passion and desire.”

Jones too leant into the underdog narrative against New Zealand , claiming that “pressure is going to be chasing you down the street”. Everything Jones did that week was meticulously planned. The morning after the 40-16 quarter-final victory against Australia, Jones called a 9am team meeting in which he sliced a kiwi fruit in half with a samurai sword. He dominated the media exchanges, making not so veiled insinuations of spying, while the game’s defining image was of Owen Farrell’s smirk as England lined up in a ‘V’ formation against the All Blacks’ haka.

Borthwick is unlikely to reprise any such media tropes and would run a mile from engaging in any form of ‘mind games’. Asked about the biggest lessons that England can draw from the 2019 experience, Itoje pointed to managing their emotional energy during the week.

“We knew they were the No 1 team in the world but it was about what we’re going do and how we are going to play and how we are going to impose ourselves,” Itoje said. “That’s the aim every week, but when you get to this level there’s a heightened emotion and a heightened awareness. There’s something where you can feel the difference in the week. The goal of this week will be not to get too excited too early, build throughout the week and make sure when it comes to Saturday night that we’re absolutely buzzing and ready to go.

“You don’t want to come away from them and think ‘What if?’ What if I did this? What if I did that?’ You want to take the bull by the horns and that is what will be necessary next week.

“You have to attack it. You have to attack every facet of the game. When you get to the semi-final level of World Cups, you are playing the higher quality teams and everything is a contest. Every scrum, every breakdown, every carry, every set piece, you have to make it a contest. Whoever wins the most contests will win the game.”

England ripped into the All Blacks from the off in Yokohama with Manu Tuilagi scoring a try after two minutes that New Zealand struggled to recover from. Hooker Jamie George believes that England must also land the first blow against the Springboks at the Stade de France.

“We were the underdogs in that (2019), no one gave us a chance in that,” George said. “No one will give us a chance again. We don’t mind that. We didn’t play the game too early in the week. We were very clear about how we wanted to approach the game. Ultimately it was us setting the intensity of the game and trying to blow them away, Teams previously hadn’t done that to the All Blacks. We’ll have a look at whoever we’re playing and Steve’s said he’s got a plan.”

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