person, as well as online:

"In 2012, Hodgkinson took part in a protest outside the downtown Belleville post office. He said he was part of a '99%' team drawing attention to the amount of money and political power the top 1 percent of Americans acquired."

Hodgkinson also appears to have written letters to the News-Democratfor several years. A resident by his name wrote repeated letters to the editor, often arguing in favor of raising taxes on the rich.

"We need to vote all Republicans out of office," said a letter in 2011. "Let's work to get this country back."

"This country is in need of a major change in more ways than one, but let's start with the federal income tax rates," said a 2008 letter.

A real estate agent who has workedwith Hodgkinson told the News-Democrat that "from a business standpoint, he did not seem like he is a radical — opinionated but not a radical."

"He wasn't obnoxious, he wasn't problematic," Charlene Brennan said. "When he did home inspections for me, he didn't rile up the buyers or make ridiculous statements."

Law enforcement records show that Hodgkinson had been arrested on suspicion of battery and motor vehicle damage, among other arrests.

In 2006, he was arrested for battery after allegedly punching a young woman in the face and striking and choking another individual. In the same incident, he fired a shotgun. Charges in that case were dismissed.

Hodgkinson was still in Illinois as recently as March, when the St. Clair County Sheriff's Department responded to a "shots fired" call and found Hodgkinson


shooting a hunting rifle. He had a valid firearms owner identification card, and the deputies advised him to shoot his weapon safely.

But he has been in Northern Virginia since early April, according to The Washington Post. A bar manager at a restaurant in Alexandria told the newspaper that Hodgkinson visited repeatedly and seemed like "not a friendly person" but did not discuss politics or why he was in Alexandria.

The former mayor of Alexandria, Bill Euille, told the Post he had spent the last month and a half talking to Hodgkinson nearly every morning. Euille worked out at the local YMCA (next to the baseball field that was the site of the attack) and realized Hodgkinson, who was showering at the Y every morning, was living out of hisOccupational Health and the Performing Arts: An Introduction.
Workplace hazards in the performing arts cause injuries, disabilities, and deaths every year. Occupational health professionals are familiar with most of these hazards and are particularly qualified to contribute to efforts to reduce them. This article reviews current health issues in the performing arts and highlights opportunities for occupational health contributions. Recognized experts in performing arts medicine were consulted and articles illustrating performing arts health issues were reviewed. Literature sources included medical databases, unindexed art-health publications, and popular press articles. Resources discussing hazards and health issues in theater, dance, voice, and instrumental musicians were located and reviewed. Treatment providers have a history of involvement with segments of the performing arts. The occupational health approach to workplace health issues can effectively complement


was approved in August 2011. The company has been testing the efficacy of Adcetrics in the management of lymphoma. In a conference held at world trade center, Seattle Genetics’ CEO and president, Clay Siegall, confirmed that the drug had been used in the treatment of more than 15,000 lymphoma patients worldwide.

To meet the excellent treatment standards of the drug, Seattle Genetics was conducting the third advanced clinical trial on the drug. The advanced testing uses Adcetrics as the first treatment for new cases of lymphoma. Based on the trials, the drug is reported to have shown positive results.

In a meeting held with the company’s investors, Seattle Genetics’ management confirmed that it was confident that the sales of Adcetrics would increase. In 2015, the company made estimated sales ofBesides working as the CEO of Seattle Genetics company, he is a member of the board of directors of Alder Biopharmaceuticals. He has also formed affiliations with various pharmaceutical companies to help Seattle Genetics to come up with better cancer therapies.

Cancer is one of the world’s primary medical problems today. At least one life in every family is lost to cancer. Various medical programs have been established seeking the cure for cancer. Although cancer is treatable at an early stage, the world still hopes to find a cure to save lives. Joe Biden’s visit to Seattle Genetics gave Puget Sound, cancer research company fame in the country. Seattle Genetics, the Bothell- based company is focused on enlarging its capacity for drug production. The Seattle cancer research center is


none- targeted cells of the body while killing the cancer cells. Seattle Genetics focuses on providing patient care, teamwork, and individual excellence with the aim of fighting cancer and cancer-related diseases. Focused on expanding clinical opportunities of brentuximab vedotin, a drug developed for various lymphoma conditions, Seattle Genetics merged with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company. Seattle Genetics has full rights to brentuximab vedotin in Canada and the United States.

About Clay Siegall

Clay Siegall is the co- founder and president of Seattle Genetics. He serves as the chief executive officer and chairperson of the Seattle board of directors too. The trained scientist focuses on developing new cancer treatments and trials for various types of cancer. He is responsible for the leadership positions at Seattle Genetics focused on developing antidrug conjugates (ADCs). ClaySiegell’s leadership skills ranked Seattle Genetics one of the best in the world having entered partnerships with the likes of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Pfizer. Dr. Siegall commits himself to innovations for various cancer treatments.

Avi spends a god amount of his time in looking for sleep solutions to all his patients in dentistry. When Avi Weisfogel is out of work, he has a hobby in hockey and enjoys his time watching and associating with the New York Rangers hockey team. This very year the New York Rangers Hockey team will host a camp of hockey for the youth as well as their smaller fans in the region in their training premises.

This hockey training club camp has identified itself as being part of the go skate team that is seeking


to have the children being educated and inspired to take efforts to realize their dreams as the world’s best hockey players in their future times. The children will be matured in skill as well as interest and as a result, be educated in this field. The program also combines efforts from all over its reaches to gather more than ten thousand children from the entire New York locality every year.

This year’s camp will see a week’s training opportunity for all the youth and children who will be attending the training process. The players are set to be from the ages between seven and fifteen years pf age. The sessions as well as configured to occur between the months of July and also August for intensive training for all.The games and training will be hosted at the official training ground of the hockey team and will set to run from 8 o’clock in the morning to 5 o’clock in the evening every day of the week for the entire two months. The camp this year has promised that all the learners that will engage in the training program will leave with appropriate training from the categories including Rangers Alumni, the coaching staff as well as the hockey professionals from the locality. The students will also be awarded the rare opportunity to socialize and meet the ranger’s players.

Avi, as a general dentist, from his very first week, has treated sleep patients. He has also had to join various marketing forums for dentists that did not give him


she is one. Though she is anything but average in terms of appearance and even the manner that she creates and markets her products, she does maintain a normal business mentality that continuously allows Lime Crime to shine against other companies. When Galore Magazine interviewed Doe Deere, she provided them with information that supports the reason for her power as a female entrepreneur.

Describing how really nothing she did to launch Lime Crime involved traditional business strategy, the rainbow-haired Queen of Unicorns simply got lucky when it came to not only choosing a company name, but when it came to satisfying her consumers.

As a young girl, Deere wanted to be a musician and never imagined herself as being a CEO. In fact, she never considered herself great at doingher makeup and she happily exclaims that she never quite had a traditional, acceptable eye for color. Despite this, though, she did always want to influence people to be themselves. When her music career proved fairly ineffective or just simply not what tugged at her heartstrings sufficiently, Deere decided that it was time to share her homemade makeup with a greater audience.

Alas, the Queen took to the internet and decided that Lime Crime was a fairly catchy name that supported the originality of her brand. Thankfully, the domain name was available and Deere was able to begin selling her products under it. Today, Lime Crime is one of the most successful businesses in the beauty industry, which Doe attributes this success to her attention to her fans, or


Dozens of flood warnings are in place across England as more heavy rain is expected in the coming days.

Severe warnings remain in place on the River Don in South Yorkshire with residents in Doncaster attempting to clear up and protect their houses from the rising waters.

Parts of northern England have suffered a month's worth of rain in 24 hours, forcing many to leave their homes.

One woman was swept away to her death after the River Derwent burst its banks near the town of Matlock in Derbyshire on Friday.

Police said the woman's body had been found by a stretch of the river near the town of Darley Dale.

The flooding has become a general election issue with political leaders visiting affected areas ahead of next month's poll.

Opposition Labour Party leaderJeremy Corbyn visited homes in South Yorkshire that were soaked by overflowing rivers.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson praised the work of local emergency services as he visited Matlock on Friday.

The prime minister also warned that the UK was seeing more "serious flooding" and that the country needed to prepare.


day do something with the concept, adding a new and fresh spin to the plot.It would be another few years for that final element of this eclectic brew would reveal itself to him when one day he started thinking of Burroughs legendary Martian series.

Just like that the pieces were suddenly all there and when he mentally assembled them in his ever wondrous imagination, there he beheld the story of an American General who, upon his death in the Middle East, awoke to find his soul had been replaced in a brand new body; a body locked in the lab of a mad sorcerer on the planet Mars.Yet more revelations arise when this character, General John Blackthorn discovers his spirit has not only traveled through space but also timeas this is a Terra-Formed Mars of the far-flung future.

Within minutes of his bizarre awakening in his younger, stronger body, Blackthorn manages to escape the sorcerer with several other soul-transplanted fellows.In their flight, he eventually meets the beautiful, dark haired sorceress Aria and the fur skinned humanoid creature Oglok of the Mock Men.It is this trio, once met, that join forces to travel the amazing, fantastic landscape that is a post-apocalyptic Mars.Their further adventures are chronicled by a half dozen of the finest writers in new pulp today.

Mark Bousquet, Joe Crowe, Bobby Nash, James Palmer, Sean Taylor and I.A. Watson spin exciting, fast moving adventures that pit Blackthorn and his allies against lizard men, battling robots and an ocean wide haunted valley from which no one has ever


his role of Sean Taylor on VH1's "Drumline: A New Beat"(Deadline.com); "The Crazy Ones" co-executive producers Joe Port and Joe Wiseman have inked a two-year overall deal with CBS Television Studios, ending their run at 20th Century Fox Television (Deadline.com); "Parenthood" executive producer David Hudgins has signed a two-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television, closing his run at Universal Television (Deadline.com); and Emily Bergl will guest on "Elementary" as "an alternative tattoo artist who becomes a suspect in her ex-husband's murder" (TVGuide.com).Needing to relieve himself, the man stepped out of a bus into the night air of the Syrian desert.

The bus was part of a convoy carrying 300 Islamic State fighters that had been stuck there for days, prevented by American bombers from moving forward and prevented by the presence of women and children from being bombed.

The man walked a short distance away and began to urinate.

An American Hellfire missile ended the excursion.

By the American military’s count, 20 Islamic State fighters in the convoy died like that.

Those killings were among the consolation prizes the Americans claimed after ending the two-week standoff this week, reversing a vow never to let the militants pass and yielding a tactical victory to the Islamic State.

American officials say the decision to withdraw was the


Detective Superintendent Des Bray says about $150,000 was taken between 2005 and October of this year.

"We don't know the circumstances [in which] he was killed. He could have been killed in a fit of rage and then the theft of the money was an afterthought, or he could have been killed deliberately to take over his bank account and steal his money, so both of those are certainly motives that we're looking at," he said.Sir Billy Connolly has admitted he is "near the end" and "slipping away" as he opened up about living with Parkinson's disease.

The comedian said it was an "adventure" that "doesn't frighten me".

He was diagnosed with the degenerative neurological condition in 2013, which impacts movement and speech.

Glasgow-born Sir Billy spoke out about the condition as part of his BBC series "Made in Scotland".

Known for his energetic performing style, he said Parkinson's stopped him moving around the stage like he did at his peak.

"My life, it's slipping away and I can feel it and I should," Sir Billy will say in the documentary airing on Friday, according to the Daily Mirror.

"I'm 75, I'm near the end. I'm a damn sight nearer the end than I am the beginning.

"But it doesn't


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we looked at the fit in the club, the fit in the bullpen, the likelihood of bouncing back, in our minds, Ernesto Frieri has a chance to make a really good impact on us,” Huntington said.

He added that it was a great change of scenery opportunity for both players.

Brown asked about Gerrit Cole not making a rehab start before returning to the rotation Saturday. Huntington said that teams cannot force a player to go on a rehab stint.

“We are always going to believe that it’s better for the player to go compete against a different colored uniform. In this situation, Gerrit had the one sim game, felt that he was getting quality feedback from Gaby Sanchez and Neil Walker, and was allowing him to face high-level competition. Hehave won 13 straight home games against the
Orioles, and 22 of 24 at the Rogers Centre against Baltimore.
The Orioles' last victory in Toronto was a 7-5 win on Aug. 7,
2009.

Overbay won it with a leadoff drive to right on the second pitch
he saw from Mark Hendrickson (1-6). It was Overbay's 20th homer,
making him the fifth Blue Jays player to reach the mark this
season.

"He missed his spot and left it over the middle of the plate,"
Overbay said.

Overbay said manager Cito Gaston urged him to swing for the
fences before his winning shot.

"He came up to me and said 'Don't be afraid to get your 20th
right now,"' Overbay said. "I was like, all right."

David Purcey (1-1), the seventh Toronto pitcher, worked a
scoreless inning for the win.

Baltimore's Ty Wigginton hit his 22nd


enough to the point where I felt like
it would even take some of my pitches and push against them."

Encarnacion's 16th homer denied Guthrie his first victory in
Toronto since June 7, 2008. The right-hander allowed four runs
and seven hits in 6 1-3 innings.

"Every one of their guys is a threat," Guthrie said. "If you
leave a pitch up, they have a chance to go deep."

Guthrie eclipsed 200 innings for the second straight season, the
first Orioles pitcher to accomplish the feat since Mike Mussina
and Sidney Ponson in 1999 and 2000.

"To take on that responsibility of getting deep in games and
constantly feeling confident that he can give the bullpen a
little blow, that's huge," Showalter said. "Even though it may
not seem like it in the season we've had as a whole, that's
impressive."

Mike Gonzalezcame on after Jose Molina followed Encarnacion's
drive with a single to right. Mike McCoy ran for Molina and
stole second after Travis Snider struck out. Yunel Escobar
walked but Gonzalez escaped by striking out major league home
run leader Jose Bautista.

The Blue Jays got the winning run to second with one out in the
ninth but Jim Johnson threw a called third strike past John Buck
and got Snider to ground out, sending it to extra innings.

Toronto's Vernon Wells made the defensive play of the game, a
running, leaping catch to snare Wigginton's liner to center in
the ninth.

Baltimore used three hits and three walks to score three times
in the second against Ricky Romero. Brandon Snyder hit an RBI
double before Julio Lugo and Nick Markakis each drew
bases-loaded walks.

Hill replied with his 25th homer in the


bottom half and Snider
cut it to 3-2 with a one-out drive to right in the third, his
11th.

Romero allowed three runs and five hits in five innings, putting
him over 200 innings for the first time. He matched a season
high by walking five and struck out three.

The Orioles loaded the bases against Brian Tallet with one out
in the sixth, but came up empty when Brian Roberts flied out and
Lugo struck out looking.

Toronto tied it at 3 in the bottom half when Overbay hit a
bases-loaded sacrifice fly.

Bautista also made a pretty defensive play, diving to catch Adam
Jones' liner to right in the fifth, then throwing to first to
double off Wigginton. It was his 12th outfield assist.

NOTES: Lugo started for the first time since Sept. 4 after being
sidelined by recurring headaches. Lugo'slast appearance came
Sept. 10, when he pinch ran against Detroit. He started at DH.
... Baltimore RHP Rick VandenHurk will come out of the bullpen
Sunday to make his first start of the season against Toronto RHP
Shaun Marcum. ... Orioles C Matt Wieters was held out of the
starting lineup for the second straight game, but is expected to
start Sunday.


Paul O'Connell's Ireland career ended as he suffered a serious hamstring injury in last weekend's win over France

World Cup quarter-final: Ireland v Argentina Venue: Millennium Stadium, Cardiff Date: Sunday 18 October Kick-off: 13:00 BST Coverage: Live on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio Ulster, plus live text commentary on BBC website

Ireland will miss Paul O'Connell's inspirational presence and leadership on the pitch against Argentina on Sunday but I still think he will play a major role in helping his country reach the World Cup semi-finals.

From what we are being told, he will be rejoining the squad before Sunday's quarter-final following his hamstring surgery and I can guarantee you that he will be delivering the mother of all rallying speeches to the players before the game.

By all accounts,Paulie's selflessness was exhibited in the Ireland dressing-room after last weekend's magnificent win over France.

Many of us would have been down in the dumps in those moments after suffering an injury which you knew was the end of your international career as well as dashing cherished dreams of playing in a World Cup final.

But that's not Paul O'Connell's way.

I've heard from a few of the boys that he was really upbeat in the dressing room and talking about the pride he felt in his team-mates. That's just so typical of the man.

Ireland face tough task against in-form Pumas

With Ireland's talisman missing and other strong characters like Johnny Sexton, Peter O'Mahony and Sean O'Brien also ruled out, that might lead to concerns about a leadership deficit but I expect


new captain Jamie Heaslip and Rory Best to fill that void by taking on increased responsibility on Sunday.

Best was at the absolute top of his game last weekend.

There was one passage of play in the second half where Rory made tackles four or five times in a row - in between sticking his head in the ruck trying to steal the ball several times.

It was one of most remarkable bits of action I've seen on a rugby field.

Overall, the key for Ireland on Sunday will be avoiding early mishaps.

If Argentina do go six or 10 points up then a few doubts could creep into Ireland ranks - given the big names that are missing.

Even during Joe Schmidt's reign, Ireland have sometimes struggled when chasing games and you don'twant to have to get into that position against a team with backs of the quality of Nicolas Sanchez, Juan Martin Hernandez and Juan Imhoff.

It is going to be an extremely tough test against an Argentina line-up whose attacking ability is far superior to that of the Pumas squad that reached the World Cup semi-final in 2007 - when they beat Ireland along the way.

The old stager Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe, Argentina's talisman in the O'Connell or Sergio Parisse mould, remains from that squad.

During my career, Lobbe and I ran over each other a few times and he is a player I have lot of respect for.

Lobbe's presence is another reason why I would have opted to switch Iain Henderson to the back row because the young Ulsterman


having the best back row in the world and we just started to believe all that and already had half an eye on a seemingly winnable World Cup semi-final against England or France.

Schmidt's Ireland never, ever get ahead of themselves. He just totally forbids that.

Despite all the injuries and O'Brien's suspension, Ireland will be ready to deliver the optimum performance and whether that will be good enough to see off the Pumas is the big question.

Sunday's game is likely to be a lot tougher and closer than the France match, but I believe Ireland will edge a tight verdict and reach the country's first ever World Cup semi-final.

Stephen Ferris was talking to BBC Sport's John HaugheyThe Easter Egg Tree Strangely enough, such a thing as an Easter tree already exists, and it can be found in Germany. Around 1945, when he was just a young boy, Volker Kraft saw his very first Easter Tree (Eierbaum, Osterbaum or Ostereirbaum, in German), and decided he would have one of his very own, when he grew up. Time passed and young Volker became a married man, with a family and everything. But his childhood dream stuck with him and he decorated his first Easter Tree, in 1965. He used 18 colored plastic eggs.

But the tree was growing fast and he and his wife, Christa couldn’t afford to waste so many Easter eggs. So they began drilling holes into the eggs, using the contents in the kitchen,


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Spiralling knife, drugs, and gang crime in London has been leading many concerned Somali parents to send their teenage offspring, who grew up in Britain, away to Africa for their own safety.

With 50 to 70 per cent of members of the Somali community in Islington, north London, “directly affected” by knife violence and ‘county lines’ drugs crime, mothers who arrived from the troubled African country during the 1990s told the Observer they felt they had “no choice” but to send their children away from an increasingly dangerous UK.

Sadia Ali, the treasurer of the Islington Somalia Forum and a mother of seven, said she sent her 15-year-old son away to live in the country she once fled as a result of the threat of local gang violence in London,ground, weighed only 96g, practically bald and with its eyes still closed.

After multiple conversations with the land owner and local badger group, we decided the cub had to come into the hospital. As this cub was so young, it required around-the-clock care including feeds throughout the night. Cuan Wildlife Rescue, in Shropshire, were more than happy to take the cub in and to give the little cub regular feeds day and night.

Six weeks later, our second cub of the year arrived from Wrexham Clwyd. As it was later in the season, the cub was far more developed; their eyes were open and they were sporting the typical black and white badger stripes.

The original cub was coming on in leaps and bounds, and after both were tested and cleared


President Barack Obama speaks at the Linamar engine-parts factory in Asheville, North Carolina, February 13, 2013.It’s fitting that President Obama in his State of the Union address chose Youngstown, Ohio, as a model for a high-tech manufacturing hub initiative, but it would be even more fitting if he pointed out that Ohio is also the inspirational home for the fast-growing idea that workers should become not just employees but owners of the companies in which they work.

In his State of the Union address President Obama praised creation of the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute in Youngstown, Ohio, and announced the launch of similar “manufacturing hubs” that can introduce new technologies elsewhere in the United States.

Youngstown is a fitting place for this . . . probably, the president feels,Second, they found that many of Youngstown’s religious leaders were also upset because if the huge mill went down, a good part of the economy and livelihood of the community would go down.

The steelworkers and an ecumenical coalition headed by a Catholic and an Episcopal bishop began to demand that the mill be put back to work under some form of worker or worker-community ownership. They found a sympathetic ear in Washington in the shape of an assistant secretary of housing and urban affairs named Bob Embry. Suddenly they had enough money to finance a really professional plan for how to put the old mill back into operation with the latest modern technology.

I was called in to help oversee the development of the plan and to help advise


on other matters. (All this now seems like only yesterday . . . ) To make a long story short: The young steelworkers and the ecumenical coalition became very sophisticated about what they were taking on.

They knew their only chance against the big steel companies (all of which were less than enthusiastic about the idea of workers owning mills) was to build a popular political base around the state and, to the extent feasible, around the nation. This meant capitalizing on the bold tale of workers taking on the big guys, drawing in the press and also mobilizing the national religious community.

At the time, they also had to take on the national union leadership. The United Steelworkers in 1977 had absolutely no interest in the idea – andend there. Neither the young steelworkers nor the ecumenical coalition were naive. They knew they were up against some of the most powerful corporate (and at the time, union) players in the country. They were fully aware they might well lose the battle. They also knew, however, they were on to a very important idea, one whose time – they hoped – would one day come no matter what.

“Why should workers not own the companies in which they work?” they kept asking. Why can’t this become an idea to put into everyday practice – now or in the future? Accordingly, as part and parcel of their strategy they made it their business to help educate the public and the press and the politicians in the state and around


the country about what they were trying to do both locally and, in a much more fundamental sense, as a larger national strategy and vision.

And so the Youngstown story did not, in fact, die when the Carter administration turned its back on the workers in 1978. Instead, the inspiring example of the workers and the ecumenical coalition – plus the very sophisticated educational and political work done by the local steelworkers and the religious leaders to spread the word – had ongoing impact.

There are now many, many worker-owned businesses in the state of Ohio, and the support system for building them is one of the best in the nation. There is also a very energetic organization, the Ohio Employee Ownership Center at Kent State University that provides assistanceto a community-building strategy – and supported in part by larger institutions that not only have broad interests in the community but also are dependent in part on public programs supported by the workers’ and the community’s tax dollars, such as Medicare, Medicaid and educational funds.

Put another way, the process that can be traced to the Youngstown effort – including its seeming failure – has also led to innovation, further development and greater sophistication.

As time has passed, new priorities and another set of alliances have also begun to develop. Now, all of the linked worker-owned companies are green by design. For instance, the Evergreen Cooperative Laundry operates out of a LEED Gold-certified building and it uses (and heats) around one-third as much water as that used by other


The mayor as of this writing, Frank Jackson, looks very, very good in the press.

As noted, at one point, the Youngstown effort focused also on a joint “Community-Worker Partnership” – following the idea that the interests of the whole community, not just the steelworkers at one particular plant, were at stake. And the Cleveland effort – along with many others – offers further ways to think about this idea, about many different ways to democratize ownership and about the logical community building and other relationships involved in a different economic system.

The tale does not end in Ohio. Many other workers’ groups and many other cities around the nation have picked up on – and been inspired by – the line of development represented in the above tale. Effortslike that in Cleveland are being developed in Atlanta; Pittsburgh; Washington, DC; Amarillo, Texas; and many other cities.

Nor is that all. The United Steelworkers, whose national leadership once opposed the Youngstown effort, have also evolved. The union recently announced a very creative strategy to help build “union co-op” worker-owned companies around the nation. Efforts are under way, in particular, in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. There are also signs that other unions are beginning to realize they might gain additional leverage by exploring new strategies.

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is launching a worker-owned and unionized laundry project in Pittsburgh and is involved in a ground-breaking partnership with New York City’s Cooperative Home Care Associates, an effort that provides home services for the elderly, chronically ill and people living with


310 F.3d 889
Anthony C. GREENE, Plaintiff-Appellant,v.Jack BARBER, Edward Hillyer, Victor Gillis, William Hegarty, and the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 01-1247.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
Argued: August 1, 2002.
Decided and Filed: November 8, 2002.

COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Michael O. Nelson (argued and briefed), Grand Rapids, MI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Janice F. Bailey (argued and briefed), G. Douglas Walton, Dep. City Attorney, City Attorney's Office for the City of Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids, MI, for Defendants-Appellees.
Before: NELSON, BOGGS, and NORRIS, Circuit Judges.
OPINION
DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.

1
This is a civil rights action in which the plaintiff claims that three police officers employed by the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, arrested him without probable cause and in retaliation for his having insulted one of the officers. He further claimsin addition to the police department, several courtrooms, the prosecutor's office, and the city traffic division. An information counter, staffed by interns, is situated in the lobby of the building.

4
Mr. Greene spoke to an intern named John Lind about fees that were being demanded for the return of the car. Using an "animated expressive voice" rather than his "normal conversation voice," Greene asked Lind why he was being required to pay storage fees for a period before he had received notice that his car was in storage.

5
Unable to answer the question, Lind directed Greene to his supervisor, Lieutenant Jack Barber. Greene repeated his question to Barber.

6
The exchange that followed was subsequently described thus by Mr. Greene:

7
"Well, Lt. Barber became very arrogant, you know, very very arrogant with me,


noise was interfering with the operation of the counter.

15
A third intern, Jenell Strobridge, testified that Mr. Greene could be heard throughout the hall of justice lobby and that Greene engaged the attention of the 25 to 30 people she thought present there. When Mr. Greene called Lieutenant Barber an "asshole," she said, he was not "screaming or anything, but [his voice] was loud enough to attract the attention of other people in the lobby." Based on the record as a whole, and accepting Mr. Greene's testimony as true, it is fair to conclude that Mr. Greene was not speaking sotto voce.

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On being told he was under arrest, Mr. Greene demanded to know why. Greene testified that Lt. Barber did not answer, but ordered him to place his handson the counter. Greene refused and started yelling at this point, telling Barber that there was no basis for the arrest and that it was illegal. He also shouted for Grand Rapids Chief of Police William Hegarty (whom he knew) to stop the arrest.

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Officer Edward Hillyer was entering the lobby from an adjacent part of the building when he heard Barber tell Greene he was under arrest. Hillyer undertook to help Barber with the arrest, he explained, because it appeared that Greene was not cooperating. Hillyer caught Greene's arm and attempted to steer him toward the information counter, from which Greene was backing away.

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Captain Victor Gillis, whose office was located near the information counter, came out at about the same time. He too heard Lt. Barber tell Mr.


Greene he was under arrest, and he too assisted in the effort to restrain Greene.

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When one of the officers took his arm, Mr. Greene testified, "things just went ballistic." The upshot was that he was sprayed with oleoresin capsicum (commonly known as pepper spray) while both of his arms were being held by the officers. Blinded by the chemical agent, he began stumbling across the lobby.

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It took the police officers several moments to handcuff Mr. Greene, even after he had been sprayed. Chief Hegarty finally appeared on the scene and told Greene, "just cooperate and we'll get through this."

21
Mr. Greene was charged with creating a disturbance, in violation of Grand Rapids Code Section 9.137, and with hindering and opposing a police officer. A Michigan jury ultimately acquitted himthe protection of the First Amendment. See Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568, 62 S.Ct. 766, 86 L.Ed. 1031 (1942), where the Supreme Court affirmed the conviction of an individual held to have violated a New Hampshire law by addressing the following words to a public official — a city marshal — on a public sidewalk near the entrance to the city hall of Rochester, New Hampshire:

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"You are a God dammed racketeer" and "a dammed Fascist and the whole government of Rochester are Fascists or agents of Fascists." Id. at 569, 62 S.Ct. 766.

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In explaining its affirmance of the conviction, the Supreme Court had this to say, among other things:

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"Allowing the broadest scope to the language and purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment, it is well understood that


out of an incident that occurred in July of 1996 — a few months before Mr. Greene's arrest — when one James McCurdy, who had been celebrating the graduation of a nephew from college, was conversing with fellow celebrants on a public street at 5 o'clock in the morning. A passing police officer asked the men what was going on. In the exchange that followed, Mr. McCurdy, using four-letter words of Anglo-Saxon origin, made known his unwillingness to produce identification or go back inside his house. He was then placed under arrest. After concluding that the officer had no probable cause to arrest Mr. McCurdy for violating an Ohio statute that prohibits an intoxicated person from "creat[ing] a condition that presents a risk of physical harm," a dividedThis is the story of a Victorian family, whose colourful members have been vividly brought back to life by a descendant, Hew Stevenson. What a crew they were! Backed by dividends from industry, they had the freedom to follow their own stars, becoming architects, explorers, feminists, founders of big game parks, MPs, owners of islands and starters of wars – as well as scallywags and black sheep. We shake each one by the hand and learn his or her story, the result being an intimate, elegantly written chronicle of a stratum of society which the history books rarely penetrate: the affluent, enterprising, unpredictable rentier class which was the backbone of the professions, the Empire and the officers’ mess.


Pterygium in Ibadan.
This is a retrospective study of 500 eyes of 400 patients with pterygium seen over a 3 year period to determine the clinical presentations and outcome of surgery. The study showed that it was a fairly common eye condition in the south western part of Nigeria. It formed 9% of all new cases seen in the eye clinic of the University College Hospital, Ibadan and 20% of all planned ocular surgery in the same hospital. 70% of patients studied came to hospital because of the growth in their eyes. 80% of the pterygia were large, fleshy type in the nasal position. 65% of patients were outdoor workers. Surgical excision was by the 'Bare sclera' method. 40% of these patients had a recurrence of the growth. Therenor
rejects a nomination submitted by the Governor.

     Article 4, section 12 of the Texas Constitution provides:

          All vacancies in State or district offices,
          except members of the Legislature, shall be
          filled unless otherwise provided by law, by
          appointment of the Governor, which appoint-
          ment, if made during its session, shall be
          with the advice and consent of two-thirds of
          the Senate


present.  If made during the
          recess of the Senate, the said appointee,
          or some other person to fill such vacancy,
          shall be nominated to the Senate during
          the first ten days of its session. If
          rejected, said office shall immediately
          become vacant, and the Governor shall,
          without delay, make further nominations,
          until a confirmation takeswhen the Senate is in session.

     Two Attorney General Opinions have considered the Senate's
failure to act on an appointment made while the Legislature
is in session. Attorney General Opinion O-4864 (1942);
Attorney General Opinion 2797 (1930). On both occasions,
the Attorney General concluded that an appointment required
the joint action of the Governor and the Senate before
it became effective. Where the Senate failed to act on
the nomination, the appointment was never complete and the
individual'never obtained any right to assume the office.
Accordingly, we believe it is established that the Senate's
failure to confirm a nomination made while the Senate is
in session renders the appointment a nullity.

     A different case is presented when the appointment is
made during the recess of the Senate. A recess appointee
may immediately take


the oath and begin exercising the
duties of the office. Attorney General Opinion M-267 (1968).
Thus, unlike the instance of the individual whose nomination
is made during the session and who may not exercise the
duties of office unless and until the Senate confirms his
appointment, the recess appointee is already exercising
the responsibilities of office at the time his name is
presented to the Senate. Accordingly, it is necessary to
consider the effect of article 16, section 17 of the Texas
Constitution.  That section provides:

             All officers within this State shall
          continue to perform the duties of their
          offices until their successors shall be
 nomination is neither
          confirmed nor rejected by the Senate,
          he may continue to exercise the duties
          of office until his appointment is
          rejected at a subsequent session of the
          Senate or until the Governor makes another
          appointment.

                               Attorney General of Texas

Opinion Committee

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Teacher who advises colleagues on how to avoid affairs with students caught having sex with 16-year-old boy from her school

Caught in the act: Courtney Bowles, 31, was discovered in the back seat of her car with a 16-year-old boy

A teacher who advises colleagues on how to avoid affairs with students was caught having sex with a teenager in the back of her car.

Courtney Bowles was found by a police officer naked lying on top of the boy, who was also completely naked, from her school in Colorado.

A partly consumed bottle of vodka was also found in the car with the couple.

Her student lover initially said he was 20 years old - but later admitted he was 16.

Bowles,31,was employed at his school as a teacher's instructional coach. It washer job to trains teachers on how to maintain a professional distance from students.

Unfortunately for the teacher, the evidence of her dalliance with the student was rather overwhelming when a police patrol spotted a lone car parked in a park in the town of Loveland.

When an officer shone his torch into the car he saw they were having sex.

According to an arrest report the officer wrote: 'The female was on top of the male and she quickly jumped off of the male when she saw my flashlight shining into the vehicle.

'I told both subjects that I could see they were naked and they needed to get dressed and talk to me.'

Mother of two: Bowles, who faces up to 10 year in jail if convicted, is on $50,000 bail


- but cannot approach anyone under teh age of 18, including her own children

Awaiting hearing: Bowles faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of charges relating to the sexual assault of a child

Investigators said the boy initially told the officer he was 20 years old, but when asked for identification he produced a school ID card that showed him to be 16.

The officer also found a bottle of vodka inside the vehicle.

Bowles, a mother of two, was booked into the Larimer County Detention Centre on charges of sexual assault, sex assault of a child by a person in a position of trust and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

She was released on $50,000 bail but not allowed contact with anyone aged under 18 years ofThere are Americans so wealthy that their children stand to inherit billions of dollars. Think of those kids and their power. Now imagine if the Obama Administration invited them to the White House: 100 fantastically rich heirs to massive fortunes. That would be news, right?

Sure enough, the New York Times covered it. What I find bizarre are the decisions the newspaper made in its coverage. The article appeared in the Style Section, on page 8. Its headline: "Including the Young and the Rich." Here's how it begins:

On a crisp morning in late March, an elite group of 100 young philanthropists and heirs to billionaire family fortunes filed into a cozy auditorium at the White House. Their name tags read like a catalog of the country’s wealthiest and most


night and told her I wanted to come home. The next day I told my boss I wanted to be transferred. I'm so thankful that both of them obliged. After making that transition in July, I started doing really well. Loss had been a big part of my life in the year prior. Eight people that I knew passed away, some close some not. In September it was my Uncle, who died of cirrhosis from alcoholism. It had been exactly one year since the first of those eight passed. Again, I relapsed. It was one night and a few drinks, but a mistake nonetheless. I hadn't been to a funeral for any of the others. Death has always terrified me. But I went to my Uncle's funeral, andsponsored a contest for students in the area to suggest a name. The winning entry came from a Francis T. Nichols High School (now Frederick Douglas High School) student who selected "Bywater" because the neighborhood borders the Mississippi River and the Industrial Canal. A group of businessmen used the name "Bywater" in promoting the area in 1947. The name stuck.

Before it was called Bywater

In the early 1700s, the commons or unassigned land below Faubourg Marigny were plantations. The Company of the Indies gave these tracts of land as concessions, the first parcels of land given to private owners. Pierre Dreux owned the LaBrasserie plantation and opened a brewery there. After various owners the land was sold to Nicholas Daunois (or Daunoy), who called it the Daunois plantation.

© GNO


Community Data Center Houses along Poland street

By the early 19th century, French Creoles had designed six faubourgs or suburbs in the area that together were called Faubourg Washington. The faubourgs were Daunois, Montegut, De Clouet, Montreuil, Cariby and deLesseps. Ownership changed often, but the plantations remained throughout the district. Urbanization of these plantations began in the early to mid-1800s.

In 1831, Daunois sold the lower fourth of his plantation to the Levee Steam Cotton Press Company, who operated, at one point, the largest cotton press in the world. It was a major source of employment for the neighborhood and of sales for local suppliers. Railroad tracks were laid to support the operation. This section of Bywater was called the Lower Cotton Press. The press is gone, but the railroadcorridor along Press Street, what was once called Cotton Press Street, impacts the neighborhood significantly.

Boxing in the Bywater For boxing fans of the 1800s, the Old Olympic Club at Montegut and Royal Streets, was the place to go. Called, "the cradle of American boxing," three world champion fights were held on successive nights at the club in September 1892. At the turn of the 19th century, it burned to the ground and was not rebuilt.

As a result of manumitted offspring of "slave" owners and immigrants from Haiti escaping its revolution, 20 percent of the city's total population by the late 1800s were free people of color. Many of them moved in the Bywater area. St. Vincent de Paul's Catholic Church was erected to serve the French speaking population,


due to the large number of Creoles in the community. When the Irish populated the district in the 1830s and 1840s, St. Peter and Paul's Parish was established in 1848 to serve the needs of the Irish Catholics. The 1840s and 1850s saw a major influx of German immigrants who settled in Bywater. The Marigny-Bywater area was called "Little Saxony" and St. Paul's, a Lutheran church near Franklin Avenue, was founded to meet their needs. By the end of the 1800s, large numbers of Italians had settled in the area. Development expanded to St. Claude Avenue in Bywater into the early 20th century as immigrants from southern and eastern Europe continued to pour into the city.

Image courtesy New Orleans Public Library (nutrias.org). Permission for reuse required. "The SouthernRailroad Bridge on Florida Ave. across the Industrial Canal before work began on the building of new concrete and steel approaches and converting the span into a vehicular crossing of the canal in the downtown section. 1937 " [WPA Photographs: Bridges]

The Board of Commissioners, Port of New Orleans built the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, completed in 1921. One of its casualties was the Ursulines Convent. The Ursuline nuns owned an eighty-acre parcel of land on which they built their convent in 1826. In 1912, it was demolished to construct the Navigation Canal. The canal's purpose was to connect the Mississippi River with Lake Pontchartrain, a shorter distance than to the mouth of the river, and to stimulate industrial development along its banks .

Naval Support Activity New Orleans

The Naval


Support Activity, one of the largest military installations in the New Orleans area, occupies space on both the East and West banks of the Mississippi River. The East bank complex, in Bywater, sits on 30 acres of land and has three of the installation's largest buildings. A major part of the tenant commands are housed here. The buildings were constructed in 1919 for use as a general depot during World War I. After the war, they were used by the Quartermaster Corps and leased to the Board of Commissioners, Port of New Orleans.

The East bank installation experienced a number of uses as the changing needs of the military dictated. With the advent of World War II, the facility was once again a total military complex. When the QuartermasterCorps released the buildings, the official title was the New Orleans Port of Embarkation. The New Orleans Army Terminal was the tract of land and in 1965, the name changed to the New Orleans Army Base.

Today, the Naval Support Activity New Orleans, both on the East bank in this neighborhood, and a larger site on the West bank in the U.S. Naval Support Area neighborhood, houses approximately 40 tenant commands with personnel from all branches of the military service. NSA New Orleans (to include both East and West Bank facilities) is the national headquarters for both the Navy Reserve Force (NAVRESFOR) and the Marine

Forces Reserve (MARFORRES).

Industrial Canal Lock Replacement Project

The Industrial Canal Lock Replacement Project is a U.S. Corps of Engineers project to expand the canal and replace


the locks with larger facilities. The project will affect four neighborhoods, Bywater, St. Claude, Lower Nine and Holy Cross. Bywater, whose impact on its community is lesser than those separated from the city by the Industrial Canal, is one of many neighborhoods giving input to the mitigation plan for the neighborhoods. The Corps established The Community-Based Mitigation Committee (CBMC), a committee to advise the Corps on mitigation plans. Most of the committee members are residents or business members of the four neighborhoods surrounding the Industrial Canal.

© Neil Alexander [email protected] View of NOCCA from the levee.

NOCCA

The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) provides intensive training in the arts to Louisiana's high school students. It was founded in 1973 by a diverse group of artists, educators, business leaders,and community activists who saw the need to develop the region's young talent.

Greats such as Wynton Marcelis, Branford Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr., Terence Blanchard, Nicholas Payton, Jeanne-Michele Charbonnet, and Wendell Pierce have graduated from the institution.

Changing times

At one time in Bywater's history, there were five Catholic parishes: Annunciation, St. Cecilia, Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Gerard, and St. Vincent de Paul. However, due to a smaller church population, the Archdiocese of New Orleans decided to consolidate the parishes into one and named it Blessed Francis Seelos, headquartered at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church.

© GNO Community Data Center Folk art outside of Dr. Bob's Studio.

The Bywater neighborhood has an interesting mix of residential, commercial and industrial activity, along the riverbank. The Pauline Street Wharf remains busy. Warehouses and


industrial companies, such as the National Rice Mills warehouse, Kearney Company and Dreyfus Contractors and Marine Equipment use the river and canal for its businesses. And yet the neighborhood has become a residential hotspot for artists. As a result, many galleries can be found throughout the neighborhood, including Studio Inferno, a glass blowing studio and showcase, and Dr. Bob's Studio. The very active Bywater Neighborhood Association is dedicated to the improvement of Bywater.

Learn more about some of the galleries (bywater.org/galleries.htm ) Learn more about the Bywater Neighborhood Association (bywater.org )

Bywater's rich history is still evident today. Creole cottages, Victorian doubles, and Greek Revival and Italianate townhouses flavor the neighborhood.

Sources:

1999 Land Use Plan: New Orleans City Planning Commission

www.new-orleans.la.us/cnoweb/cpc/1999_dist_seven.htm

Bywater History

bywater.org/bwhist2.htm

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here, but from very different perspectives. Permit me to offer two of them to you.

I recently watched the film of The History Boys. I will have more to say about the film (and the play upon which it is based) in a future essay. This work from Alan Bennett is flawed and problematic in some ways, but it is hugely entertaining, often wonderfully written, and stupendously theatrical in the very best sense. I am very sad that I never saw it onstage. The acting is superlative across the board, including from the young men who play "The History Boys," students who are being prepared for examinations for admittance to the best colleges in Britain, such as Oxford. The central conflict in the play is between Hector, a teacherof about 60 who "merely" provides "inspiration," which the headmaster considers "unquantifiable" and therefore insufficient, and Irwin, a young man in his twenties, who views education as a "performance," where the primary goal is to satisfy the requirements of the system as it exists, solely so that one may be successful.

Hector instructs largely by subverting the accepted conventions of teaching; for example, in one game with his students, they try to stump him by acting out the final scenes of different films, including the wonderful Noel Coward-David Lean Brief Encounter (with a dizzyingly uncanny Celia Johnson recreation from the indecently talented Samuel Barnett), and the Bette Davis-Paul Henreid Now, Voyager (a title which comes from Walt Whitman, you will recall). In a key scene where we see Hector's


methods at work, he and the young man played by Barnett discuss Thomas Hardy's "Drummer Hodge." Hector says:

The best moments in reading are when you come across something -- a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things -- which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.

As brilliantly acted by Richard Griffiths and Barnett, and in the context of who these people are and of their relationship, it's a wonderful moment. (The film is acted by the cast of the original production, which had played at the National Theatre in London fora year prior to the film being made.)

At the very end of the play (where the speech is just a bit longer than in the film), we again hear words spoken by Hector earlier:

Pass the parcel.That's sometimes all you can do.Take it, feel it and pass it on.Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day.Pass it on, boys.That's the game I wanted you to learn.Pass it on.

Toward the end of my essay, "The United States as Cho Seung-Hui: How the State Sanctifies Murder," I offered an excerpt from Albert Jay Nock's, Our Enemy, the State. In rereading Nock's remarkable book recently, I was deeply touched by the final passage of the book proper (which is followed by a brief Epilogue, an essay written some


and sleeps with me every night, curled up in my arms at my side. Unfortunately, Fidele, who had waited nine years to become Top Cat (Elyot and Beanie, a heavensent pair of brothers who graced my life when Fidele first walked up to my door in 1993, died in 1997 and 2002, respectively), is determined to make life exceptionally difficult for any newcomer who dares to challenge her authority. Fidele periodically marches into the bedroom, where Wendy feels entirely safe and where she still spends most of her time, and noisily chases Wendy under the bed. It takes me several minutes to calm everyone down after these episodes. I think Cyrano and Wendy will become friends in time, but Fidele is also making that difficult at the moment.back by a rope that is visibly frayed and weak. It appears the rope might snap at any moment, and the blade will descend to plunge through the man's neck. Blood will spurt over the platform on which the guillotine sits, and the man's head, brutally shorn of the rest of his body, will thud onto the darkened platform below, onto the wood stained with the blood from earlier victims. This scene has been enacted many times before.

One aspect of the drama playing out before you is exceptionally strange. No one is forcing the man to remain on his knees, with his head calmly resting on the block. He could get up and walk off the platform at any moment. Yet he doesn't. He appears to be entirely


unconcerned about the fatal danger above him, the blade that hangs there with infinite patience, silently waiting for its moment. There are others watching this scene with you. Some of them, like you, shout out warnings to the man. Still he does not get up. You and the others have been unable to move the man, or to disable the blade. Only the man on the platform can save himself. He won't. He stays on his knees, with his head on the block. With every moment that passes, the rope holding the blade back weakens. You know, as the man himself knows, that the rope will break eventually.

Yet he stays there. Warnings continue to be shouted; he continues to ignore them. The rope frays still more. Some people-- full dictatorial powers to the executive. As I explained in the earlier essay, the executive and certain entities it controls can designate anyone, including any American citizen, as an "unlawful enemy combatant." That person can then be imprisoned for the rest of his life, with no recourse whatsoever. Period.

...

The critical point is what, in principle, the grant of power includes. As noted, the grant is absolute: it includes everything. As I have pointed out, the determination of the Bush administration to achieve absolute power has been indisputably clear since shortly after 9/11. And this is hardly the first time that I and others have noted that the mechanisms for a complete dictatorship have now been put in place.

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With proper preparation, and with the requisite understanding that freedom


part of the American public on their side, then let him. He will stand alone, revealed as the enemy of liberty and civilization that he is.

But here is where stupidity enters the picture. Just as the man does not grasp the operation of the guillotine or the fact that, if he does not move, the blade will kill him, our political class (and most writers and bloggers) appear not to understand the profound dangers of the Military Commissions Act because of only one fact: its full powers have not yet been implemented. In an earlier essay, I quoted Jacob Hornberger on this point. Hornberger deconstructs two common objections to the statement of fact that the Executive now possesses full dictatorial powers. With regard to the second objection, heDemocratic member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, co-wrote the provision along with committee chairman Sen. John Warner (R-Va.). Sen. Ted Kennedy openly endorsed it, and Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), then-chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, was an avid proponent.

...

This expansion of presidential prerogative illustrates how every federal failure redounds to the benefit of leviathan. FEMA was greatly expanded during the Clinton years for crises like the New Orleans flood. It, along with local and state agencies, floundered. Yet the federal belly flop on the Gulf Coast somehow anointed the president to send in troops where he sees fit.

"Martial law" is a euphemism for military dictatorship. When foreign democracies are overthrown and a junta establishes martial law, Americans usually recognize that a fundamental change has occurred. Perhaps


countries in the past. At every step, almost all politicians and writers cheer as the leviathan state grows, and as individual liberty is destroyed. The number of times this pattern can be successfully repeated depends upon how hungry for power the political class is, and how ignorant (or stupid, if you will) the public is. Our political class has a boundless hunger for power which will remain unsatisfied until its power is absolute, and the American public adamantly refuses to learn a single damned thing. Our road to Hell is open and unobstructed.

The reaction to the first two blades on the part of politicians and most political writers is also the same: there is next to response at all. As Bovard notes, the president can declare martial lawof suspects be? How many years would it be until Americans learned of how much power the government had seized? Is there any reason to expect that a series of attacks would not quickly result in attempts to proclaim de facto martial law?

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If Bush does bomb Iran, the chain reaction could wreck American democracy. The Bush administration shows no signs of developing either an allergy to power or an addiction to truth. The American republic cannot afford to permit a president to remain above the law and the Constitution indefinitely. Anything that raises the odds of a terror attack reduces the odds of reining in the government.

So you see how the third blade, an attack on Iran, ties into the second blade, the president's unlimited ability to impose


committed by the British military, it is sure to be completely ignored here. We are America the Good, and our soldiers are Heroic Nobility Itself. Never mind the confessions of American torturers, whose growing number we can only guess at. Keep in mind that at some point, all those Americans who have tortured and engaged in other acts of unforgivable and unjustified violence will return to civilian life. Cho Seung-Hui was an amateur; these will be professional killers who come to live and work among us.

Phil Shiner, a solicitor who acts for the family of Baha Mousa and in 40 other cases of torture, beatings and killings by UK forces in Iraq, writes in The Guardian:

Images of the battered, bloodied, bruised face of Baha Mousa, tortured to deathhave to face.

First, the incident led to more than just a single death. Photographs and medical evidence show our troops nearly killed another civilian, and badly injured five others. The judge found that a group of soldiers had engaged in systematic torture and humiliation, but none had been charged because of an "obvious closing of ranks". Who were the torturers?

Second, the torture included the use of four techniques banned by the government in 1972: hooding, stressing and sleep and food deprivation. ...

Third, the facility where Mousa and others were tortured was small. The soldiers' shouting and detainees' screaming were audible to anyone on the site. So, who are those in command who knew, or ought to have known, what was going on in the critical 36 hours before


When our troops were supposed to be exercising policing functions, we appear to have shot first and asked questions later.

Uncomfortable questions about our complicity in war crimes with the US also lurk beneath the surface. The evidence from prosecution witnesses in the court martial shows that the US was putting pressure on us to adopt its interrogation techniques.

Consider that the facility involved in the Mousa incident was in the middle of an urban area and the abuse occurred in broad daylight. By comparison, our theatre internment facility, Camp Bucca in southern Iraq, was in the middle of nowhere. But the government claims the US ran Camp Bucca. The evidence in the court martial is clear. We had two compounds for UK detainees, they had six. We had jurisdictionover UK detainees who were subject to questioning by our tactical questioners. So why the blatant denial of responsibility where it is obvious the UK did have jurisdiction? The MoD admitted in 2004 that six other Iraqis had died while in detention with British troops, and we know all British detainees were taken to Camp Bucca until Christmas 2003. We also know that US forces killed Iraqis during "riots" at the facility and that three US soldiers were discharged in 2004 after being found guilty of abusing prisoners. If Mousa died in our custody where he did, what was happening in the British section of Camp Bucca?

In some form, all these horrors, which have been repeated endless times in Iraq, which continue today and will continue for endless


hegemony, but one still condemned by the inherent impossibility of success.

The intellectual and material commitments made during the past half-century of American military, bureaucratic, and intellectual investment in global interventionism will be hard to reverse. The Washington political class remains largely convinced that the United States supplies the essential structure of international security, and that a withdrawal of American forces from their expanding network of overseas military bases, or disengagement from present American interventions into the affairs of many dozens of countries, would destabilize the international system and produce unacceptable consequences for American security. Why this should be so is rarely explained. -- William Pfaff, "Manifest Destiny: A New Direction for America"

Toward the end of that essay, which largely focuses on the uniformity of belief and purpose thatunites all members of our governing class, Republican or Democrat, in the realm of foreign policy, I wrote:

As Pfaff notes, such a noninterventionist approach would have avoided Vietnam, and the related tragedies in Cambodia and Laos as well. And it would have avoided our endless interventions in the Middle East since World War II, and in Iraq today. I am pleased to note that, still later in his essay, Pfaff discusses "limits to the feasibility of humanitarian intervention," a subject I addressed in Part I of this series. He also notes the expansion of our interventionism into Africa, which I mentioned just the other day.

Tragically, both for us and for the world, adoption of a noninterventionist approach by the United States would appear impossible in the foreseeable future


Follette to have been entirely correct in his unrelenting opposition to the U.S. entrance into World War I. The verdict of history and the avoidance of unnecessary human suffering and death do not concern such people; only political power does. (In very large part, the conduct of our political class and of most bloggers is the consequence of the most barbaric and primitive kind of tribalism. Their goal is the elevation to power of their tribe, and the diminution of the power of the other tribe; almost all other matters are inconsequential details to this kind of psychology. I will be discussing tribalism, its roots, and its far-reaching, immensely destructive effects in a new series of essays, which I hope to begin in the next several days.)

The Washingtonof the critical facts on this issue.

The Times story begins:

The House on Wednesday narrowly approved a $124 billion war spending bill that would require American troops to begin withdrawing from Iraq by Oct. 1, setting the stage for the first veto fight between President Bush and majority Democrats.

Only hours after Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander in Iraq, told lawmakers he needed more time to gauge the effectiveness of a troop buildup there, the House voted 218 to 208 to pass a measure that sought the removal of most combat forces by next spring. Mr. Bush has said unequivocally and repeatedly that he will veto it.

"Last fall, the American people voted for a new direction in Iraq," said Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California. "They made it clear


troops to continue carrying out military operations in Iraq's Sunni heartland indefinitely.

The plan, coming from the Democratic majority in Congress, makes an exemption from a 180-day timetable for completion of "redeployment" of U.S. troops from Iraq to allow "targeted special actions limited in duration and scope to killing or capturing members of al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations of global reach."

The al-Qaeda exemption, along with a second exemption allowing U.S. forces to re-enter Iraq to protect those remaining behind to train and equip Iraqi security forces and to protect other U.S. military forces, appears to approve the presence in Iraq of tens of thousands of U.S. occupation troops for many years to come.

The large loopholes in the Democratic withdrawal plan come against the background of the failure of theU.S. war against the insurgency – including al-Qaeda – in Anbar and other Sunni provinces and the emergence of a major war within the Sunni insurgency between non-jihadi resistance groups and al-Qaeda.

The Sunni resistance organizations represent a clear alternative to an endless U.S. occupation of hostile Sunni provinces that has driven many activists into the arms of al-Qaeda.

Although the wording in the House-Senate appropriations bill appears to suggest a very limited mandate for operations against al-Qaeda, at least one influential Democratic figure, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden, intends to interpret it broadly enough to allow the administration to continue at roughly the present level of U.S. military operations in Anbar province, even after the U.S. has withdrawn its troops from the Baghdad area.

The Democrats have been


long been building in that country. Quite literally multi-billions of dollars have gone into them. In a prestigious engineering magazine in late 2003, Lt. Col. David Holt, the Army engineer "tasked with facilities development" in Iraq, was already speaking proudly of several billion dollars being sunk into base construction ("the numbers are staggering"). Since then, the base-building has been massive and ongoing.

In a country in such startling disarray, these bases, with some of the most expensive and advanced communications systems on the planet, are like vast spaceships that have landed from another solar system. Representing a staggering investment of resources, effort, and geostrategic dreaming, they are the unlikeliest places for the Bush administration to hand over willingly to even the friendliest of Iraqi governments.

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There are at least fourWednesday as the UN scolded the Iraqi government for holding back figures on civilian deaths. Overall, the media reported that 52 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and 80 were injured in violent attacks. The U.S. military reported that a GI was killed in a non-hostile incident. A British soldier was also killed.

Military sources reported on the death of a GI in Baghdad and on a British soldier who was killed in Basra yesterday. This death marks April as the bloodiest month for British soldiers since March of 2003. April has also been deadly for American troops with a daily average nearing four soldiers per day. The toll for April is at least 86 American deaths and 11 British.

The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq criticised Baghdad


on Wednesday for concealing the casualty figures from its sectarian war and charged that many detainees have "disappeared".

While placing the blame for the majority of violent civilian deaths on the insurgents and illegal militias fighting in Iraq, UNAMI expressed concern about the human rights record of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government.

In its quarterly report on the human rights situation, the UN mission said the Iraqi government had stopped providing casualty figures and denied that its previous reports had exaggerated the death toll in the conflict.

In a report on January 16, UNAMI said more than 34,400 people had died in the daily acts of violence across the country in 2006.

But these stories only concern human beings who are ripped apart, lives being snuffed out, people's bodies and minds destroyedRotary Sun Dial Sign Installed

Back some years ago when the Marquette Park "Kids Park" was created, Gary Rotary funded the creation of a huge sundial, located on the ground nearly in the middle of the park. The gnomon, which casts a shadow on to the dial to indicate the time, also serves as a huge pole for a windsock. Recently George McGuan, Jack Tonk, and friends Linda Bonner Fisher and Darin Barwig, installed a sign by the sundial and gnomon indicating the contribution by the Gary Rotary Club. The sign was created by Kids Stuff Playground Equipment, owned by Rotarians George McGuan and partner Dick Hagelberg.


treatment did tickle - the wife gave it to silence one of the strangers who only discovered there was no money after that painful door slam. On hindsight, it also resembled a Simpsons' episode, mostly because of the use of the repetitive use of a visual motif and the camped-up acting of the cast. It's a shame though that the surprises could have been more outrageous because it was a good set-up. Maybe have superheroes, flashers, criminals, celebrities, iconic figures or something.

I could not help but feel that music really was not this team's cup of tea. There was little musical flair in the songs and even the shooting style. The camera was often too static. But sincerity in the musical delivery did cover up half of itsLawsuit Tossed; Another Pending

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A judge has dismissed one of two lawsuits over whether black slaves once owned by members of the Cherokee Nation have the right to tribal citizenship.

U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy in Washington ruled Friday that a lawsuit brought by the slaves' descendants could not proceed because the tribe was not a defendant in the case and couldn't be compelled to abide by the court's ruling. The tribe's chief and federal officials were named as defendants.

Kennedy transferred a related suit brought by the tribe to the federal court in Tulsa, Okla., where it was initially filed.

The slave descendants claim the tribe had no right to strip them of tribal citizenship because an 1866 treaty guaranteed their tribal rights.


Dragon Ball FighterZ Coming To Nintendo Switch This Year

The Dragon Ball franchise continues to bring in new fans regularly and with such a massive fan base, there are plenty of video games being developed regularly. One of the latest titles to release under the franchise was Dragon Ball FighterZ. This title released earlier the year where players received a fluid and fast-paced fighting title by developers Arc System Works.

Since its release publishers Bandai Namco had expressed an interest of bringing the game over to the Nintendo Switch, but its only until now that the game is confirmed for the platform. Bandai Namco released a tweet earlier today stating that players can expect Dragon Ball FighterZ to make a debut on the Nintendo Switch sometime later this year.

Now playersforth in part in the description which follows, and in part may become apparent to those skilled in the art upon examination of the following or may be learned by practice of the invention. The advantages of the invention may be realized and attained by means of the instrumentalities and combinations particularly pointed out in the appended claims.


The air forces of the three countries gathered 200 personnel in a multinational training exercise for the first time, in order to qualify them for combating unlawful aerial activity.

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The A-29 Super Tucano in flight during the Amazonas I exercise, which was intended to qualify military personnel in Brazil, Peru, and Colombia in the combat of unlawful aerial activities perpetrated in the common border region of these three countries. (Photo: Brazilian Air Force First Sergeant Johnson Barros)

An aircraft takes off from the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira in the state of Amazonas and is identified by radar. Aircraft from the Brazilian Air Force (FAB, per its Portuguese acronym) are activated to intercept the unknown aircraft, which is forced to change its flight path. In doingso, it enters Colombian territory. Pilots from the Colombian Air Force (FAC, per its Spanish acronym) intercept the aircraft and force it to change direction once more. Finally, the suspect aircraft enters Peruvian airspace, where fighters from the Peruvian Air Force (FAP, per its Spanish acronym) force it to land in the town of Iquitos, terminating its flight.

This was the agenda for the first day of the Amazonas I exercise, which brought together military personnel from Brazil, Colombia, and Peru against unlawful acts perpetrated in the airspace over the common borders of these three countries. The operation, including the deployment of aircraft to the exercise location and back to the base, was conducted June 19 th to 23rd, but the activities took place between June 20th and 22nd.

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more than two countries.

“Before 2017, we had staged missions similar to Amazonas I, where an aircraft would fly a certain route and used it to practice coordination among the different forces involved, the scrambling of interceptors, the transfer of traffic between the air defense centers, etc.,” said Col. Alvim. “But those missions were all binational. This operation was the first multinational effort,” he emphasized.

Practical experience

Amazonas I exercise was conducted over three days. Each day one country assumed the role of the target aircraft, beginning with Brazil, while the others had to operate the interception aircraft.

During the exercise, a C-98 Caravan simulated an unknown aircraft, which was intercepted by the air forces of the three participating countries. (Photo: Brazilian Air Force First Sergeant Bruno Batista)

In the morning, the targetother hand, deployed A-37 Dragonfly and KT-1P aircraft. FAB also mobilized the E-99 airborne early warning and control aircraft for the mission, which operated as an operations center secondary to the Integrated Center for Aerial Defense and Air Traffic IV, one of the FAB units responsible for commercial and military air traffic control, airspace surveillance, and aerial defense command and control in Brazil.


Khayelitsha residents and supporters at the launch of the Ujamaa guerilla gardening project next to the Khayelitsha Football for Hope Centre. Photos: Christine Hogg

In April 2016, a group of about 12 people cleared a patch of public land previously used as an illegal dumping ground next to the Khayelitsha Football for Hope Centre. They are known as Ujamaa: a collective of guerrilla gardeners. They are encouraging people from surrounding communities to be less dependent on supermarkets.

Using a self-built pool to capture rainwater for irrigation, they planted vegetables such as spinach, kale, beetroot, and cabbage, in Khayelitsha’s sandy soil. There are no fences or security guards at the site and the produce is free for anyone to collect and harvest themselves.

According to Ujamaa members, Nonzame Nkata, Songezo Maha andFrench Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said "there is no doubt" that the chemical attack in the vicinity of Damascus was carried out by the Syrian regime.

Fabius, who made the remarks at a joint press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, reiterated France's position and said: "All signs indicate that there was a chemical massacre in Syria." (AFP)


Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel prizewinner, made an impassioned appeal to her followers on Wednesday "to continue the march on the road to freedom", on the eve of the first visit by a British foreign secretary in more than half a century.

William Hague's trip is intended as a reward for the regime for political reform and an encouragement to do much more. In a statement issued while he was on the way to Burma, the foreign secretary said: "The release of some political prisoners, the dialogue with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, improvements in media freedoms, and changes to legislation that have enabled the National League for Democracy to participate in this year's byelections are welcome reforms which we urge the government tobuild on."

Hague is due to fly into the capital, Naypyidaw, to meet the Burmese leadership, including the new president, Thein Sein. He will then fly to the southern city of Rangoon for talks with leaders of the country's ethnic minorities. He will have two meetings with Aung San Suu Kyi: a private dinner today and more substantive discussions tomorrow, followed by an encounter with another famous former political prisoner, an actor and director known as Zaganar, who was among 250 political prisoners freed in October as part of the government's political reforms.

"I am visiting the country to encourage the Burmese government to continue on its path of reform, and to gauge what more Britain can do to support this process," Hague said.

"Further steps are needed that will have


the Guardian was "a mission of democratisation". However, many analysts and campaigners are sceptical about the depth of recent reforms and the willingness of the military, which has ruled the country since 1962, to relinquish power.

Hague's visit follows that of Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, last month and Aung San Suu Kyi's recent decision to stand in April's parliamentary byelections. A general election was held in November 2010 when she was still under house arrest and was boycotted by the NLD. Since then, however, following reforms, the NLD has decided to enter the new national assembly, though it is dominated by the army.

Min Yaing, a founder of the youth protest movement Generation Wave, said he welcomed the succession of foreign diplomats visiting Burma, which is alsoknown as Myanmar, because they would counter Chinese influence in the country.

With American and European Union sanctions in place, Beijing has been able to build a major presence in Burma in recent years.

"This is good for our movement. Before, the government was just looking to China all the time. Now they are not just listening to one voice," Min Yaing, 31, said.

Thi Ha Saw, editor of a newspaper in Rangoon, added that Hague's visit would "help reformers within the regime" as it would be seen as "evidence of recognition by western powers".

There was a danger of a backlash against the reforms, he warned. "The president is a moderate but there are hardliners who could take over. There is pressure to move fast and get as much change done


minorities. There was widespread disappointment at the limited extent of an amnesty announced on Tuesday which saw sentences cut but resulted in the actual release of only between 10 and 30 political prisoners.

None of the most important dissidents or ethnic minority leaders currently held in extremely harsh conditions on often arbitrary or trivial charges were released. The limited scope of the amnesty, the fourth in a series that has seen more than 200 prisoners freed, has put Aung Sun Suu Kyi in a difficult position, with many campaigners unhappy at continued dialogue with the authorities while fellow activists remain in jail.

"This is just playing a political game. If they were serious they would release everybody," said Than Naing Oo, who was released from Insein jail near Rangoon onTuesday. He was serving a three-year sentence for distributing pro-democracy leaflets.

Hla Soe, a politician from the Arakhai minority, said that he distrusted the government and the "deal" they had done with Aung San Suu Kyi. "The government is still ignoring ethnic rights. That is what I want to tell Mr Hague and the international community," he said.

However, on one central street in Rangoon last night, crowds witnessed a daring bid to force the speed of change as images of police repression during unrest in 2007 were projected on a big screen as part of a film festival. Inside a nearby conference hall thousands had gathered to watch a series of politically charged films that provoked gasps and applause from an audience unused to such open defiance of Burma's


"But there really is two weeks to go and in this era of instant news that can spread, anything can happen."

Just under two weeks from the election, voting has already begun in 27 states and will commence soon in another 12 states, both in person at public venues and via postal votes.

Democrats are reportedly outpacing early mail-in ballots in Florida and North Carolina compared to when Barack Obama defended his presidency in 2012.

Republican voters have requested slightly more mail-in ballots than Democrats, but not as many as when Mitt Romney lost Florida and narrowly won North Carolina four years ago.

Every major electoral college forecast has Mrs Clinton on track to clinch the 270 electoral college votes, with the forecast ranging from 278 to 352. AP

"Democrats have narrowed alreadythe advantage that the Republicans had in 2012," said US Election Project analyst Michael McDonald, who tracks early and absentee voting patterns, said to Politico.

'Not encouraging' for Trump

Republican voters tend to be older and often live in distant rural areas, so are more inclined to mail in their ballots early.

Democrats tend to easily outperform in early in-person voting, which ramps up next week.

David Kochel, a former strategist for Mr Romney, said Mr Trump had to win Florida and North Carolina.

"The early vote totals in North Carolina are not encouraging for the Trump campaign," he said.

On Tuesday, Republican pollster Frank Luntz tweeted that 658,177 Democrats had voted early (525,076 by mail and 133,041 in-person) in Florida, just behind 665,092 Republicans (556,058 mail and 109,034 in-person), in a bad sign


for Republicans given that they historically have a larger lead early on.

Democrats are also buoyed by early voting trends in Nevada and Arizona, a traditional Republican state that is surprisingly in play for Mrs Clinton since Mr Trump's poll numbers plunged this month.

The Trump campaign has claimed it is seeing strong enthusiasm in Florida, whose crucial 29 electoral college votes will shape which candidate can reach the required 270 votes across the states.

It also is talking up its prospects of flipping Ohio and Iowa, which President Obama won in 2012.

New voters lean left

The mail in ballots are not being opened until election day, so it's impossible to know for sure which party is winning. Generally, all that is known is the person's party of registration. About 90 perSan Diego State dismissed their Monty Montezuma mascot as well.As a note, all three institutions of higher learning indeed survived, as did over 75 other schools and colleges who surrendered their usually red-painted Caucasian male ‘mascot’ wearing an Indian headdress, in favor of some other symbol.Twenty years ago, a Federal Judge in Los Angeles upheld the ban of Indian mascots at all schools in the district. As an alternative, the Westlake Village High School, continued with the ‘warrior’ theme, but changed from an Indian symbol years ago, to a ‘W’ with a snappy Roman soldier. Of course, they also discovered that the school was built on a former Chumash village site.The typical image of a Native American as a ‘warrior’ may be offensive to some, but it is


far less offensive than the travesty made of the Chumash heritage in implying they had an aggressive, rather than an agrarian, nature.In fact, the closest the Chumash ever came to acting as ‘warriors’ was in 1824, when they burned the Mission to the ground and fled to the hills. Of course, this was after withstanding years of subjugation, exploitation, and oppression at the hands of the Franciscan padres and having the Spanish ‘royalty’ order their Achilles tendons severed, in order to reduce the chance of their escape.In researching this column, I found a Jay Rosenstein documentary entitled, “In Their Honor” shown on the PBS series, Point Of View, in 1997. In it, the filmmaker examines racism, stereotypes and the powerful effects of mass-media imagery on our mistaken, thoughin the event of his death or total and permanent disability.  Section 437(a), 20 U.S.C. § 1087(a), as added by Act of Oct. 16, 1968, Pub.L.No.90-575, Title I, § 113(a), 82 Stat. 1020.

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Bellard dropped out of school in late 1969.  The note came due in late 1970, but Bellard made no payments.  On April 10, 1974, the United States paid the lender's insurance claim.  Its attempts at collection from Bellard met with no greater success than had the lenders.  On October 17, 1979, it instituted action against him to recover the principal amount of the note and the interest accrued.

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Debate in the district court focused on the nature of the interest asserted by the United States.  Characterization of the interest was critical:


arguing that it sued on the note not in its status as the original lender's assignee, but as a surety whose cause of action accrued when it made good Bellard's obligation.  By the United States' reckoning, it filed suit with six months to spare.

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The district court decided that section 430(b) reflected the Congress' intention to limit the Government's rights against student borrowers to the derivative interest of an assignee.  It sustained Bellard's affirmative defense, and granted him summary judgment.  The Government appeals.

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Bellard does not deny that the Government acted as the guarantor5 of his loan.  His position is advisedly taken: the United States' obligations under the Federal Insured Student Loan Program bring it squarely within hornbook definitions of a guarantor.6  The hallmark ofby the Government.

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Finally, search of the legislative history of the Act turns up no evidence of a congressional intent to abandon the right of indemnification.  There is no mention of section 430(b) throughout the extensive proceedings conducted by the House and Senate in connection with the Act.  The few comments made in the floor debates on the Act bearing at all on interpretation of that section show, not a desire to limit the federal government's recourse against defaulting borrowers, but a concern for the extent of the Government's potential liability and an interest in minimizing its losses.11  Against this background, we cannot conclude that the Congress, by granting the Government remedies of an assignee, announced its intention to deny the Government indemnification from students whose


obligations it guaranteed.12

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The United States' right to seek indemnification against Bellard accrued upon its April 1974 payment of the lender's claim.  This action, commenced in October of 1979, is not barred by the six-year prescriptive period limiting actions by the Government on contractual rights.  The district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Bellard on the ground that the Government's rights had expired is, accordingly, reversed, and the cause is remanded for proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.

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REVERSED AND REMANDED.

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 The Parks School of Business is an educational institution located in Denver, Colorado.  It appears from the scant information in the record that Bellard executed his promissory note in Lafayette, Louisiana, and that the proceeds were applied to his tuition at the Spencer Businessthe Secretary, and the Secretary shall if requested (at that time or after further collection efforts) by the beneficiary, or may on his own motion, if the insurance is still in effect, pay to the beneficiary the amount of the loss sustained by the insured upon that loan as soon as that amount has been determined.  The "amount of the loss" on any loan shall, for the purposes of this subsection and subsection (b) of this section, be deemed to be an amount equal to the unpaid balance of the principal amount and accrued interest, including interest accruing from the date of submission of a valid default claim (as determined by the Secretary) to the date on which payment is authorized by the Secretary, reduced to the


are always welcome.

Once a month Dan Young, Physics Division Hall C designer, and his Samoyed, Nikko, visit patients at the Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters. In order to visit CHKD, in addition to his CGC/TDI rating, Nikko had to be evaluated by the CHKD program staff. Young takes along some of Nikko's show ribbons to pass out to the children.

Joyce Miller, Physics Division Hall A designer, and her greyhounds, Sammy and PG, will be attending an event called Greyhounds Rock in Fredericksburg, Va., this year, a fund raiser for canine cancer research at Ohio State University.

Brian Kross, Detector Group designer, and his boxer, Loki, participate in the Paws to Read program at Hampton and York public libraries.

Certification:

The Canine Good Citizen, CGC, is a certification program of theidea of how classes are taught check out this Youtube video:

Past Events:

What Every Dog Should Know About Quantum Physics

The JAG Dog Training Club kicked off its 2016 Therapy Dog/Canine Good Citizen class on Tuesday, February 9, at the special Science Series Lecture, "What Every Dog Should Know About Quantum Physics." The Science Education Dept. invited Chad Orzel, a popular science writer and assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Union College in upstate New York, to lecture at the lab. In addition to teaching and doing research at Union, he contributes physics-oriented articles to the Forbes blog http://www.forbes.com/sites/chadorzel/ and has written three books. Two of the books explain modern physics through imaginary conversations with his German Shepherd, Emmy.

JAG Dog Training Club Graduated its Sixth Class


Dustin Misener started using drugs in his early teens growing up in rural Oklahoma. By his 30s, he was battling an addiction to methamphetamine and had racked up multiple drug-related convictions in Oklahoma.

“I was just getting out there pretty bad,” Misener said.

Misener, 32, is a U.S. Army veteran. Now he works cutting grass and setting up stage equipment for concerts. His hands are lined and calloused from a life of hard work.

When a nonprofit program in Oklahoma City called Firstep promised Misener help with sobriety in exchange for working on a demolition crew, it seemed like a good deal— until he got injured on the job.

At Firstep, Misener attended 12-step meetings, ate food that primarily came from a local food bank, and slept in one of the rowsher family.

“With this behind me, it’s put me right where I need to be,” she said.

Recovery program kept part of clients’ disability pay

Former Firstep client Shawn Staats, 42, was injured while working on a demolition crew at the program in March. After the accident, he says program leaders told him he was required to turn over part of his disability pay.

Staats signed up for the program after he was arrested and charged with methamphetamine possession in Carter County. He entered Firstep at his attorney’s suggestion in order to avoid being held in jail while his case worked its way through the court system.

Firstep assigned Staats to work on a demolition crew where he made minimum wage tearing out old sheetrock at an upscale apartment complex in Oklahoma City’s