Report: Iran has drone pictures of Israeli bases

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? Iran has images of sensitive Israeli military bases taken by a drone that was launched by Lebanon's Hezbollah movement and downed by Israel earlier this month, a senior Iranian lawmaker claimed Monday in the latest boast from Tehran about purported advances in the capabilities of its unmanned aircraft.

The announcement gave no details about the photos ? other than calling the Israeli bases "forbidden sites" ? but it suggested Iranian drones have the ability to transmit data while in flight. It also appeared aimed at warning Israel about the options for retaliation for any possible strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.

A prominent lawmaker, Ismaeil Kowsari, also was quoted as saying that the Iranian-backed Hezbollah possesses more sophisticated Iranian-made drones than the one that was downed, including some that could carry weapons. There was no immediate comment from Israeli officials.

"These drones transmit the pictures online," Kowsari he told the semiofficial Mehr news agency. "The pictures of forbidden sites taken and transmitted by this drone are now in our possession."

The lawmaker, who heads the parliament's defense committee, said Hezbollah is "definitely" equipped with more sophisticated drones, but gave no further details.

Hezbollah "won't announce it as long as it doesn't see the need to do so ... That's why we say we will respond to Israel inside (its) territory, should it take any action against us," said Kowsari, a former commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guard.

Iran has claimed that Iranian-made surveillance drones have made dozens of apparently undetected flights into Israeli airspace from Lebanon in recent years. Israel has rejected the account.

Iran's Defense Minister Ahmad Vahid also claimed on Sunday that Tehran has drones far more advanced than the Ayub unmanned aircraft launched by Hezbollah, saying it was not the "latest Iranian technology, definitely." He did not elaborate.

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has said the Ayub drone was manufactured in Iran and assembled in Lebanon.

Iran routinely announces technological breakthroughs in its defense program. Last month it claimed to have started producing a long-range missile-carrying drone with a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles).

The Shahed-129, or Witness-129, covers much of the Middle East including Israel and nearly doubles the range of previous drones produced by Iranian technicians, who have often relied on reverse engineering military hardware with the country under Western embargo.

But it's unclear whether the new drone contains any elements of an unmanned CIA aircraft that went down in eastern Iran last year. Iran said it has recovered data from the RQ-170 Sentinel and claimed it was building its own replica.

Iran's claims are impossible to independently confirm because the country's arsenal is not open to widespread international inspection with multinational war games or other cooperation.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/report-iran-drone-pictures-israeli-bases-093717698.html

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Are Discounts Shrinking?

Whether they are flippers or buy-and-holders, more than a few investors? business plans rely heavily on healthy discounts between the price paid for a foreclosure or short sale and the full price a property can be expected to command after it has been renovated and rented or listed for sale.

It?s a good idea to play close attention to discount trends in your market, which may require a subscription to a good foreclosure data provider.? On the mythical national level, it?s also possible to get a sense for how discounts are faring.? Right now there are some unusual currents stirring the pond.

Like everything else in real estate economics, distress sale discounts are a function of supply and demand.? However, the factors that drive supply and demand for foreclosures may have little to do with traditional housing economics. Foreclosure supply is increasingly a function of where you live, state laws more than local economic conditions are determining the speed with which foreclosures are processed and, in turn, local inventories (see Foreclosures Split America). Short sales don?t suffer than problem, but to some degree still are limited by lenders.

On the demand side for foreclosures and short sales, is the arrival of big money hedge funds driving up prices?? What about first-time buyers who are finally waking up to the fact that market is passing them by?? Are new investors getting into the game before the rule change?? Are established investors doing as many deals as they can while discounts are still healthy?? I don?t know of any good data that answers these questions, but if you have an opinion, please leave a comment below and tell us what?s going on in your market.

The tight supply of foreclosures has been a major cause of the record low overall inventories that are driving the increase in home values this year.? ?Should prices for foreclosures and short rise faster than full price properties, discounts should shrink.? Depending on whose numbers you believe, though September national median existing home prices have risen from 2 to 11 percent, year-over-year.? Are distress sale prices exceeding that rate and shrinking discounts?

RealtyTrac probably has the best national numbers on discounts, since their data is based on actual transactions filed in the courthouse.? Through the second quarter discounts on properties in foreclosure or bank-owned sold at an average price that was 32 percent lower than the average price of a non-foreclosure home, a slight improvement from a 30 percent discount in the first quarter and also a 30 percent discount in the second quarter of 2011 (RealtyTrac?s third quarter data should be out soon).? ?So it?s safe to assume that distress sale prices were tracking overall prices fairly closely through the first six months of the year.

However, perhaps the RealtyTrac numbers don?t tell the whole story.? As any investor knows, the discount also reflects the condition of the property.? Have discounts on move-in ready foreclosures and short sales actually been shrinking or is the mix of damaged and move-in ready properties changing? Thousands of foreclosures coming on the REO market this year were tied in agonizing long processing delays due to Robogate.? No doubt they suffered damage as a result.? Demand is limited:? amateur investors and first-time buyers don?t buy seriously damaged properties.? Buyers are serious, experienced investors who know what they are doing.? ?Could it be that prime distressed sales have been cherry-picked in many markets, leaving the serious rehabs to the pros (See Why Short Sale Discounts are Growing & The Best Banks for Bargains)?

The National Association of Realtors conducts a monthly survey of its members called the Realtor Confidence Index .? The RCI covers a wide range of issues, from appraisals to sales to foreign investors. The NAR data is not as good as RealtyTrac, since it does not come from actual transactions but it still could give us a better understanding of what?s going on.

The September survey, posted yesterday, reported that foreclosures and short sales sold at deep discounts ? accounted for 28 percent of April sales (17 percent were foreclosures and 11 percent were short sales), down from 29 percent in March and 37 percent in April 2011.? Foreclosures sold for an average discount of 21 percent below market value in April, while short sales were discounted 14 percent. (Note: It?s not a good idea to compare these numbers directly with the RealtyTrac data since they come from very different sources.)

Realtors participating in the survey also rated the median prices for damaged foreclosures and short sales in their markets. ?Foreclosures in the lowest tiers, ?below average? or ?Bottom 1 percent? enjoyed a discount (29.4 percent to 36.1 percent) twice as deep as move-in ready properties and those requiring little work (15.2 percent to 17.0 percent).

It?s quite possible that a change in the mix of quality on the market today could be keeping median discounts? lower than they would be if the mix were the same as it was a year ago.? The fact that discounts have stayed steady in the RealtyTrac numbers may reflect this changing mix and may be masking a shrinking of the discount for top tier quality properties.? What do you think?? Share your thoughts below.

A final caveat.? Discounts aren?t the final word when deciding whether to buy a property.? As my friend Broderick Perkins advises, be sure to do your homework (Don?t judge a foreclosure by its price).

Photo: Mikko Luntiala

Author: Steve Cook

Steve's Website: http://Realestateeconomywatch.com

Steve has written 51 articles for us.

Steve Cook is managing editor of Real Estate Economy Watch and UPI Real Estate, and provides communications consulting services to leading real estate organizations. Previously he was vice president of public affairs for the National Association of Realtors.

Source: http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2012/10/24/are-discounts-shrinking/

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Partner event: Windows 8 Workshops: Game Development

Welcome to the DC chapter of MoDev - a mobile development, design and marketing community for DC, Virginia, Maryland and beyond.

Our free meetups occur the first and third Wednesdays of each month and include pizza and drinks. The first Wednesday we cover consumer related issues and the third Wednesday we focus on government and enterprise. But we are more then just a meetup group. We offer free marketing services, video record and post all of our sessions and put on full conferences such as MoDevUX, MoDevTablet and MoDevEast.

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Shakespeare's The Tempest comes to the Menlo-Atherton High ...

The Tempest by William Shakespeare will be performed for the next two weekends at the Menlo-Atherton High School Performing Arts Center, a production of the school?s drama department.

?It?s been four or five years since a play by Shakespeare was performed here,? said drama teacher Debra Zwicker-Sobrepena aka Ms. Z. ?And that was staged in a classroom ??this is the first time there will be a fully-staged production.

?I wanted a play that had enough roles for females. That?s not always easy when choosing Shakespeare. The Tempest is also a great mix of drama and comedy.?

Twenty-six actors are participating along with a supporting crew of 15. The play will be performed at 7:30 pm on Oct. 26 and 27 as well as Nov. 1 and 3. There will be a special after school matinee at 3:30 pm on Friday, Nov. 2. There?s also a 2:00 pm performance on Oct. ?27. Tickets ??$12 for adults, $8 students/seniors ??are available at the door or?online in advance.

As we?ve done with past productions, we stopped by a dress rehearsal to hear what?s on the actors? minds. Their responses match where they are in the photo, moving right to left.

Chris Macrae (junior) who plays Ferdinand in his first M-A production: ?My favorite movie of all time is?Forbidden Planet,?and it?s based on?The Tempest.?So when I saw that audition call, I decided I had to give it a try. It?s been an amazing experience with a fabulous cast and crew. We?re one big dysfunctional family!?

Hannah Berggren (senior) on playing Miranda: ?It?s hard playing Miranda. Is shea ditz or just ignorant of the outside world? The challenge is to get the correct balance of her personality.?

Janet Pale (senior) who plays Prospero on being a female who plays a male: ?This is my third production but the first where I?ve played a male character. I don?t see much of a difference, although I?m consistently having to think about dropping my voice to sound like the calculating wizard Prospero.?

Ariel Sullivan (freshman) who plays Caliban on being the new kid in the production: ?I was a bit terrified at first. This is the biggest role I?ve ever had with the most people in a cast. The juniors and seniors are great ??I love hanging out with them.?

Maddie Rostami (junior) who plays Ariel on why this a different kind of role: ?I get to be a bit ridiculous and I like that! Ariel isn?t human, so there are less restrictions. I get to do ridiculous leaps and throw myself around a bit on stage. She?s very driven to achieve her total freedom.?

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Burger King Gingerbread Desserts: Fast Food Review

by Erik R. Trinidad

It's not even Halloween yet, but the folks at Burger King are already gearing up for the December holiday season. They're doing this in a most festively secular way, by offering two new gingerbread frozen treats, in addition to offering a Minibon from Burger King's partnered chain Cinnabon. The BK gingerbread incarnations come in shake and sundae form, just in case it's not too cold when the winter holidays roll in. Here's how they rate:

The Claims: The new limited-time Gingerbread Cookie Sundae is a serving of vanilla soft serve with gingerbread-flavored syrup mixed in, topped with gingersnap crumbles. ($2.49; Calories: 350) Its drinkable counterpart, the Gingerbread Cookie Shake is the same soft serve and syrup only blended, and topped with whipped cream in addition to the gingersnap crumbles. ($1.99; Calories: 640, medium size)

The Verdict: B. I could complain that these gingerbread cookie treats fail to have the texture of cookies in them -- they could have come topped with at least one cookie -- but I won't. I understand that from a logistical point of view, the folks at BK probably can't guarantee that every cookie is going to be whole when they're shipped from warehouse to restaurant, which is probably why they went with the crumbles to begin with.

But never mind about texture; these items aren't supposed to be about the textures of cookies, but the taste of them -- and the taste is definitely evident in both of these items. I mean that in a generically good way; that's because gingerbread cookies have a distinct blended flavor of cinnamon, cloves and ginger, merely based on a general recipe that anyone, or any mass-market cookie factory, can make.

The syrup tastes like gingerbread cookies without the texture, and it doesn't take much to infuse that flavor with the vanilla. It's almost as if the vanilla absorbs it all in and transforms into gingerbread-flavored ice cream, leaving little to no trace of vanilla bean. The gingerbread syrup's flavor is overpowering, which is I say is a good thing since that's what they're going for. The garnish of crumbles is a nice touch, giving you just enough dry texture to give it the "cookie" in each item's name.

In the end, both items have the taste of gingerbread, topped with the taste of gingerbread. Does that mean it's lesser of a product because there's not much dimension to it in terms of taste? No. If you're a fan of gingerbread, get it. If not, this is obviously not the thing for you. Go ahead and be festive by having something else, even if it is two months early.

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Informant: NYPD paid me to 'bait' Muslims

This handout photo provided by Jamill Noorata, taken May 3, 2012, shows Shamiur Rahman, left, sitting with Siraj Wahhaj at John Jay Community College in New York. Rahman, a 19-year-old American of Bengali descent who has now denounced his work, was a paid informant for the New York Police Department's intelligence unit was under orders to ?bait? Muslims into saying bad things as he lived a double life, snapping pictures inside mosques and collecting the names of innocent people attending study groups on Islam, he told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Jamill Noorata)

This handout photo provided by Jamill Noorata, taken May 3, 2012, shows Shamiur Rahman, left, sitting with Siraj Wahhaj at John Jay Community College in New York. Rahman, a 19-year-old American of Bengali descent who has now denounced his work, was a paid informant for the New York Police Department's intelligence unit was under orders to ?bait? Muslims into saying bad things as he lived a double life, snapping pictures inside mosques and collecting the names of innocent people attending study groups on Islam, he told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Jamill Noorata)

NEW YORK (AP) ? A paid informant for the New York Police Department's intelligence unit was under orders to "bait" Muslims into saying incriminating things as he lived a double life, snapping pictures inside mosques and collecting the names of innocent people attending study groups on Islam, he told The Associated Press.

Shamiur Rahman, a 19-year-old American of Bengali descent who has now denounced his work as an informant, said police told him to embrace a strategy called "create and capture." He said it involved creating a conversation about jihad or terrorism, then capturing the response to send to the NYPD. For his work, he earned as much as $1,000 a month and goodwill from the police after a string of minor marijuana arrests.

"We need you to pretend to be one of them," Rahman recalled the police telling him. "It's street theater."

Rahman, who said he plans to move to the Caribbean, said he now believes his work as an informant against Muslims in New York was "detrimental to the Constitution." After he disclosed to friends details about his work for the police ? and after he told the police that he had been contacted by the AP ? he stopped receiving text messages from his NYPD handler, "Steve," and his handler's NYPD phone number was disconnected.

Rahman's account shows how the NYPD unleashed informants on Muslim neighborhoods, often without specific targets or criminal leads. Much of what Rahman said represents a tactic the NYPD has denied using.

The AP corroborated Rahman's account through arrest records and weeks of text messages between Rahman and his police handler. The AP also reviewed the photos Rahman sent to police. Friends confirmed Rahman was at certain events when he said he was there, and former NYPD officials, while not personally familiar with Rahman, said the tactics he described were used by informants.

Informants like Rahman are a central component of the NYPD's wide-ranging programs to monitor life in Muslim neighborhoods since the 2001 terrorist attacks. Police officers have eavesdropped inside Muslim businesses, trained video cameras on mosques and collected license plates of worshippers. Informants who trawl the mosques ? known informally as "mosque crawlers" ? tell police what the imam says at sermons and provide police lists of attendees, even when there's no evidence they committed a crime.

The programs were built with unprecedented help from the CIA.

Police recruited Rahman in late January, after his third arrest on misdemeanor drug charges, which Rahman believed would lead to serious legal consequences. An NYPD plainclothes officer approached him in a Queens jail and asked whether he wanted to turn his life around.

The next month, Rahman said, he was on the NYPD's payroll.

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne did not immediately return a message seeking comment about Tuesday. He has denied widespread NYPD spying, saying police only follow leads.

In an Oct. 15 interview with the AP, however, Rahman said he received little training and spied on "everything and anyone." He took pictures inside the many mosques he visited and eavesdropped on imams. By his own measure, he said he was very good at his job and his handler never once told him he was collecting too much, no matter whom he was spying on.

Rahman said he thought he was doing important work protecting New York City and considered himself a hero.

One of his earliest assignments was to spy on a lecture at the Muslim Student Association at John Jay College in Manhattan. The speaker was Ali Abdul Karim, the head of security at the Masjid At-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn. The NYPD had been concerned about Karim for years and already had infiltrated the mosque, according to NYPD documents obtained by the AP.

Rahman also was instructed to monitor the student group itself, though he wasn't told to target anyone specifically. His NYPD handler, Steve, told him to take pictures of people at the events, determine who belonged to the student association and identify its leadership.

On Feb. 23, Rahman attended the event with Karim and listened, ready to catch what he called a "speaker's gaffe." The NYPD was interested in buzz words such as "jihad" and "revolution," he said. Any radical rhetoric, the NYPD told him, needed to be reported.

Talha Shahbaz, then the vice president of the student group, met Rahman at the event. As Karim was finishing his talk on Malcolm X's legacy, Rahman told Shahbaz that he wanted to know more about the student group. They had briefly attended the same high school in Queens.

Rahman said he wanted to turn his life around and stop using drugs, and said he believed Islam could provide a purpose in life. In the following days, Rahman friended him on Facebook and the two exchanged phone numbers. Shahbaz, a Pakistani who came to the U.S. more three years ago, introduced Rahman to other Muslims.

"He was telling us how he loved Islam and it's changing him," said Asad Dandia, who also became friends with Rahman.

Secretly, Rahman was mining his new friends for details about their lives, taking pictures of them when they ate at restaurants and writing down license plates on the orders of the NYPD.

On the NYPD's instructions, he went to more events at John Jay, including when Siraj Wahhaj spoke in May. Wahhaj, 62, is a prominent but controversial New York imam who has attracted the attention of authorities for years. Prosecutors included his name on a 3 ?-page list of people they said "may be alleged as co-conspirators" in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, though he was never charged. In 2004, the NYPD placed Wahhaj on an internal terrorism watch list and noted: "Political ideology moderately radical and anti-American."

That evening at John Jay, a friend took a photograph of Wahhaj with a grinning Rahman.

Rahman said he kept an eye on the MSA and used Shahbaz and his friends to facilitate traveling to events organized by the Islamic Circle of North America and Muslim American Society. The society's annual convention in Hartford, Conn, draws a large number of Muslims and plenty of attention from the NYPD. According to NYPD documents obtained by the AP, the NYPD sent three informants there in 2008 and was keeping tabs on the group's former president.

Rahman was told to spy on the speakers and collect information. The conference was dubbed "Defending Religious Freedom." Shahbaz paid Rahman's travel expenses.

Rahman, who was born in Queens, said he never witnessed any criminal activity or saw anybody do anything wrong.

He said he sometimes intentionally misinterpreted what people had said. For example, Rahman said he would ask people what they thought about the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, knowing the subject was inflammatory. It was easy to take statements out of context, he said. He said wanted to please his NYPD handler, whom he trusted and liked.

"I was trying to get money," Rahman said. "I was playing the game."

Rahman said police never discussed the activities of the people he was assigned to target for spying. He said police told him once, "We don't think they're doing anything wrong. We just need to be sure."

On some days, Rahman's spent hours and covered miles in his undercover role. On Sept. 16, for example, he made his way in the morning to the Al Farooq Mosque in Brooklyn, snapping photographs of an imam and the sign-up sheet for those attending a regular class on Islamic instruction. He also provided their cell phone numbers to the NYPD. That evening he spied on people at Masjid Al-Ansar, also in Brooklyn.

Text messages on his phone showed that Rahman also took pictures last month of people attending the 27th annual Muslim Day Parade in Manhattan. The parade's grand marshal was New York City Councilman Robert Jackson.

Rahman said he eventually tired of spying on his friends, noting that at times they delivered food to needy Muslim families. He said he once identified another NYPD informant spying on him. He took $200 more from the NYPD and told them he was done as an informant. He said the NYPD offered him more money, which he declined. He told friends on Facebook in early October that he had been a police spy but had quit. He also traded Facebook messages with Shahbaz, admitting he had spied on students at John Jay.

"I was an informant for the NYPD, for a little while, to investigate terrorism," he wrote on Oct. 2. He said he no longer thought it was right. Perhaps he had been hunting terrorists, he said, "but I doubt it."

Shahbaz said he forgave Rahman.

"I hated that I was using people to make money," Rahman said. "I made a mistake."

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Staff writer David Caruso in New York contributed to this story.

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Science-Based Medicine ? The War Against Chiropractors

In 2011, chiropractor J.C. Smith published The Medical War Against Chiropractors: The Untold Story from Persecution to Vindication. He promises an expos? comparable to Harriet Beecher Stowe?s expos? of slavery in Uncle Tom?s Cabin. His thesis is that the AMA waged a shameless attack on competition, motivated only by money. I think the reality is closer to what he quoted from Dr. Thomas Ballantine, Harvard Medical School:

The confrontation between medicine and chiropractic is not a struggle between two professions. Rather it is more in the nature of an effort by an informed group of individuals to protect the public from fraudulent health claims and practices.

The book is self-published, long-winded, repetitive, and flawed. It is a vicious screed crammed with bias, half-truths, insulting language, and innumerable references to Nazis and racial prejudice. In my opinion, Smith not only fails to make his case but degrades chiropractic.

Practicing Medicine without a License

Before chiropractic licensure was approved, many chiropractors were jailed for practicing medicine without a license.? Smith thinks this was a bogus charge because they never used drugs or surgery. (He?s wrong: practicing medicine is not defined as using drugs or surgery, but as diagnosing and treating any human disease, pain, injury, deformity, or physical condition. They were clearly breaking the law.) Chiropractors were forced to hide like Anne Frank or like slaves on the Underground Railroad. The Juice Man squeezed them for protection money; if they couldn?t pay, his thugs beat them up.

The AMA

The AMA did some very regrettable things. They used inappropriate language, referring to chiropractors as rabid dogs. They attacked chiropractors as killers without any supporting evidence. Their intent was to destroy chiropractic. They tried to conceal what they were doing. Their biggest mistake was to prohibit MDs from associating with chiropractors.

The Code of Ethics stated:

A physician should practice a method of healing founded on scientific bases; and he should not voluntarily associate professionally with anyone who violates this principle.

According to Smith, this expanded to prohibit a physician from belonging to any club, church, or organization if a chiropractor was also a member. If this is true, it is inexcusable. He relates a story from a chiropractor whose mother came home from a bowling league game crying because an MD on the opposing team had made a big stink that he wouldn?t bowl against her husband just because he was a chiropractor.

The AMA distributed ?Quack Packs? and 10,000 copies of an anti-chiropractic book, Ralph Lee Smith?s At Your Own Risk: The Case Against Chiropractic. The complete text of that book is available online.

It had made an enemy of Scientology when it accused it of practicing psychiatry without a license. Smith says L. Ron Hubbard turned Dianetics into a religion just to escape AMA persecution, but it?s my understanding that he deliberately set out to invent a religion. At any rate, Scientology was so mad at the AMA that it decided to help chiropractic retaliate against At Your Own Risk. Scientologists pilfered secret documents about chiropractic from AMA headquarters and published them in the book In the Public Interest. The book not only had ties to the Church of Scientology, but had a cover illustration that superimposed the AMA caduceus on a swastika.

The Wilk Case

In 1976 an antitrust lawsuit was filed by Chester A. Wilk and 4 other chiropractors (one of whom later dropped out) against not only the AMA but also against 9 other medical organizations such as the American College of Radiology, and against 4 individuals. This began an odyssey lasting 14 years, with two separate federal trials, a series of appeals, complicated legal wrangling, and conflicting evidence. Some of the defendants settled out of court; 6 organizations and one individual went to trial. The AMA won, but the judge was accused of improperly instructing the jury and allowing inaccurate documents into evidence, so there was a second trial. In 1987, Judge Susan Getzendanner dismissed the charges against some of the defendants but found the AMA guilty of violating Section 1 (but not Section 2) of the Sherman Antitrust Act. No damages were awarded. The AMA was only required to pay the plaintiffs? legal costs and to change its policy and inform MDs that they could associate with chiropractors. Chiropractors crowed about their victory, but it actually did little to change ?discriminatory? practices or to enhance the reputation of chiropractic.

The decision was not by any stretch of the imagination an endorsement of chiropractic. The judge said:

The study of how the five original named plaintiffs diagnosed and actually treated patients with common symptoms was particularly impressive. This study demonstrated that the plaintiffs do not use common methods in treating common symptoms and that the treatment of patients appears to be undertaken on an ad hoc rather than on a scientific basis? ?I am persuaded that the dominant factor was patient care and the AMA?s subjective belief that chiropractic was not in the best interests of patients? [but]?this concern for scientific method in patient care could have been adequately satisfied in a manner less restrictive of competition.

Saved By George

He eulogizes chiropractor Jerry McAndrews and his brother George, the lead attorney in the Wilk v. AMA antitrust trial. The McAndrews family was heavily invested in chiropractic ever since their father?s asthma was relieved by a chiropractic adjustment where his heels allegedly touched the back of his head. (Really? What kind of adjustment does that?) They blamed his early death on persecution by the AMA. George ?saved chiropractic.? Had it not been for him, the AMA would have destroyed chiropractic just as it destroyed homeopathy, naturopathy and other alternative health care professions. (Wait ? aren?t those still around? And if chiropractic was saved, why is he still complaining?) Jerry reminisced to Smith, recalling that during the Wilk trial George?s office was burglarized and their phones were tapped, forcing them to speak in the cornfields behind Jerry?s home. (Really? Did they have any actual proof of wiretapping? Did they report it at the time? Did the corn have ears?)

How Powerful is the AMA?

The 1910 Flexner report attempted to reform medical education by recommending that American medical schools adopt higher standards and adhere to science. Smith thinks that the Flexner Report made the AMA an invisible branch of the government and an accrediting agency. It didn?t. He thinks the AMA controls the entire healthcare system, but today less than 30% of American physicians belong to it. ? It is a professional association that promotes the art and science of medicine, lobbies on issues that affect its members, and publishes several highly respected medical journals. The AMA never had any power to accredit or regulate physicians or punish them; the most it could do was deny membership.

Smith really hates Morris Fishbein, AMA spokesperson and quackbuster who fought quack MDs like John Brinkley, the goat gland doctor. ?He refers to Fishbein as a demagogue, dictator, Mussolini, and racketeer; he compares his persecution of chiropractors to Hitler?s persecution of the Jews.? He thinks Fishbein took dictatorial control of state licensing agencies. (Total nonsense!)

To put Fishbein?s anti-chiropractic campaign into perspective, it began in the 1930s, two decades after the Flexner Report. The value of science was widely accepted but evidence-based medicine was in its infancy.? Until 1974, chiropractors were still not licensed in Louisiana, where they were still guilty of practicing medicine without a license. Fishbein encountered rampant quackery in product and drug sales, among conventional medical doctors and among people practicing medicine without a license. He fought against it wherever he found it, and he found reason to put chiropractic high on his list.

Smith is irate because under Fishbein the AMA accepted advertising from tobacco companies, even touting the supposed health benefits of cigarettes. But they didn?t know any better. As soon as they did know better, in the 1950s, when evidence of harm mounted, they stopped accepting tobacco ads, well before the first Surgeon General?s Report was published.

How powerful could the AMA be when it was not able to prevent the licensing of chiropractors in all 50 states or block coverage of chiropractic by Medicare?

The Evidence for Chiropractic

Smith contradicts himself. He re-defines what chiropractic claims to treat, saying that no displacement can be seen on x-ray but that there is a problem with function. Then he continues to speak of subluxations and of misalignments that require correction. Then he says obvious misalignments like scoliosis may not be problematic. He speaks of proper flow of nerve energy, saying spinal dysfunctions disrupt this flow to cause heart attacks and visceral disorders like dysmenorrhea, asthma, enuresis, and infantile colic. He even believes that spine dysfunctions can cause brain damage and premature aging. He believes that manipulation is effective in all these disorders. Worst of all, he believes there is credible scientific evidence to support these beliefs. (Maybe there is some ?evidence,? but it isn?t credible.) He claims that chiropractic has outgrown its origins and become more science-based, but in reality he sounds very much like D.D. Palmer.

He relies on old, discredited evidence like the 1979 New Zealand Chiropractic Report. Its three-person panel consisted of a barrister, a chemistry professor, and a retired headmistress of a girls? school. It relied heavily on testimonials, failed to appreciate the scientific process, and demonstrated bias. ? He thinks it vindicates chiropractic, but its recommendations were actually devastating to chiropractic: chiropractors should be strictly monitored, should not present themselves as doctors, should not encourage patients to consult a chiropractor in preference to a medical doctor for any condition, and should not mislead the public into believing that chiropractic is an alternative to medicine.

He ignores more definitive, up-to-date evidence that spinal manipulation therapy (SMT) is effective but not superior to other treatments for low back pain and is ineffective for non-musculoskeletal conditions. Even the NCCAM damns it with faint praise:

[Spinal manipulation] can provide mild-to-moderate relief from low-back pain. Spinal manipulation also appears to work as well as conventional treatments such as applying heat, using a firm mattress, and taking pain-relieving?medications.

He quotes Gary Null, Natural News, and Dana Ullman (all infamous on this blog.) He devotes several pages to attacking Ann Landers for being in cahoots with the AMA and getting her information from them. (Isn?t it reasonable for a non-medical columnist to consult medical experts to ensure accuracy?)

His defense of chiropractic is based on questionable evidence plus fallacious arguments from popularity, patient satisfaction, and cost-effectiveness. Also the argument from antiquity: Hippocrates and Imhotep wrote about it. (No, they didn?t write about chiropractic; they wrote about manipulation.)

He doesn?t understand what science means. He calls chiropractic ?an unorthodox science.? He says the first chiropractor was not unscientific. I explained in a previous post why chiropractic is not scientific.

Strokes

He presents the Cassidy study as if it were definitive proof that chiropractic neck manipulation doesn?t cause strokes. He fails to report or respond to the criticisms of that study.

He downplays the risks of chiropractic, resorts to tu quoque arguments about the risks of medical care, and cites the low cost of chiropractic malpractice insurance. He compares rate of neck manipulation stroke to rate of death from surgery (apples and oranges ? but they are both fruits, so maybe I should say cabbages and carburetors!). He calls neck manipulation safe but doesn?t consider the risk/benefit ratio (if there is no benefit, any risk is unacceptable).

Back Surgery

He devotes a great deal of space to criticizing doctors for doing back surgery, especially spinal fusions. He doesn?t need to: the medical establishment itself has already criticized back surgery. It has recommended reforms: elimination of unnecessary and ineffective operations and sticking rigorously to indications that are evidence-based. Smith says the disc theory is dead. It isn?t. He?s right that too many back surgeries have been done for disc disease, but ruptured discs can cause permanent nerve damage and disability, and surgery can improve outcomes when done only for proper indications. He quotes a doctor who called for a moratorium on back surgery when he found that after 2 weeks of rehabilitation his patients no longer required surgery. Rehabilitation, not manipulation. Smith doesn?t seem to realize this is as much an argument against chiropractic as against surgery. He doesn?t admit that back surgery is ever indicated and he blames its use on the machinations of a medical industrial complex motivated only by profits. One wonders how much he really understands: at one point he even refers to the disc as cartilage. He seems to think proving that back surgeries are unnecessary equates to proving that chiropractic is effective; it doesn?t. He calls for doctors to reform back surgery but doesn?t call for reforming chiropractic to adhere to similar evidence-based standards.

In 1994 a report by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) concluded that SMT was one of only 3 treatments for acute low back pain that were supported by evidence (the others were over-the-counter nonsteroidal drugs (NSAIDs) and heat/cold applications). The report didn?t recognize chiropractic or even mention chiropractors.

Because of the report?s endorsement of spinal manipulation and its criticism of spinal surgeries, the North American Spine Society and the manufacturers of spinal fusion hardware sought an injunction to prevent its release. When that failed, NASS took the fight to Congress, where the agency?s budget was cut and it was stripped of its ability to make treatment recommendations. Smith blames the AMA for this, although he does not show that they were involved.

FSU

He devotes 21 pages to the failed attempt to establish a school of chiropractic at Florida State University (FSU), an effort that was ridiculed in the famous campus map parody?showing other pseudoscientific departments like the Bigfoot Institute. The state legislature had appropriated $9 million annually to support such a school, with 151 votes for and only 1 against. So Smith claims FSU went against the will of the people. Ironically, nearby Life Chiropractic College opposed the bill because of fear it would lose students to a cheaper and more scientific program. Several FSU faculty members threatened to resign, and eventually the school?s Board of Governors squashed the proposal, voting it down by a wide margin. 3 chiropractors at the Board meeting spoke out against a school.

According to Smith, a noble cause was killed by medical demagogues and political subterfuge. He argued that it would have allowed chiropractors to explore the clinical scope of chiropractic and conduct research in an academic setting.

He thought that MDs were only attacking chiropractic because it was based on a vitalistic philosophy, which doctors and scientists oppose because they are mostly atheists. He characterized the fight as a ?religious war to keep the heretics out of the medical den of iniquity.? He also characterized it as an attack on academic freedom and compared it to the bigotry in America before Civil Rights, when desegregation led to resentment and deadly attacks.

Raymond Bellamy, MD, orthopedic surgeon and professor at FSU (and husband of our own Jann Bellamy), became the lightning rod leading what Smith calls an academic revolt. He characterizes Bellamy?s effort as ?not a studious argument as much as it digressed into a tirade of propaganda and slanderous accusations.? He rants about Bellamy for several pages, accuses him of conflict of interest, and says ?instead of demeaning black Americans as unworthy of a college education alongside white students, Bellamy and his mob debased chiropractors as unworthy of a university presence alongside them.? He likens it to Creationists being allowed to ban the study of evolution from the biology program. He compares FSU to a white country club that only invites its white friends.

He considers Bellamy the embodiment of the undercover dictatorship at FSU, says his book-burning mindset will go down in the annals of academia alongside the book-burning policy of Joseph Goebbels, accuses him of suppressing free speech, and even says:

Gov. Wallace demonstrated his racial politics to the world and Dr. Raymond Bellamy felt justified with the same intense prejudice to keep the ?nigger-chiropractors? out of FSU.

Such despicable and defamatory accusations are beneath contempt and don?t even deserve a response.

He says

The FSU project would have cleared the air on many issues and either proved chiropractic to be placebo as Bellamy contends or else it would have brought an ageless healing art to the forefront to help millions of people who suffer from both musculoskeletal disorders and those who suffer from spinovisceral reflex nerve disorders that mimic serious visceral disorders.

In other words, chiropractic should be accepted in a university on equal terms with established sciences so we can then test it and find out if it is scientific (!?). Don?t imagine for a minute that chiropractors would alter their practice if the tests found it to be unscientific. No, it would only give chiropractic a foot in the door and lend it a prestige it has not earned.

Whining

He admits that ?a small percentage? of chiropractors can be viewed as charlatans, but then he makes excuses. They have been reduced to ?desperation? and they are not to blame because they have been ?ghettoized.? It is the medical societies who are to blame for any chiropractic malfeasance.

He feels slighted because chiropractors are not featured on national TV as spokespersons on health like Dr. Sanjay Gupta and because there has never been a chiropractor TV hero like Marcus Welby.

He says the AMA?s war has left a lingering stigma harmful to chiropractic, but he himself undermines that argument: he says chiropractic has achieved its place as ?the third-largest physician level health profession in the world, only behind medical physicians and dentists.? Does he imagine that if prejudice were eliminated chiropractors would be first or second? Chiropractors are licensed in every state, are practicing in the VA and military hospitals, are funded by Medicare and insurance companies? and yet he still feels unfairly persecuted.

Language

His use of language is inflammatory and offensive. He calls the AMA ?the most terrifying trade association on earth.? Edzard Ernst is a ?medical spin doctor.? Stephen Barrett is a ?renowned medical propagandist? and a ?medical misinformer.? The medical profession is guilty of war crimes. Suppression of chiropractic is a social injustice like racism and sexism. Marcus Welby is like Joseph Goebbels. Attacking chiropractic was like making Rosa Parks sit in the back of the bus. Doctors are like storm troopers. He accuses the AMA of bigotry and of attacking free enterprise. He compares it to the KGB, Gestapo and CIA, and even mentions the showers of Auschwitz.

Harriet Hall ?Medical Chauvinist?

He devotes 4 whole paragraphs to attacking me, based only on 2 short sentences attributed to me in an article about alternative medicine in the Boston Globe. It reported my concern that ?Congress will elevate [alternative] practitioners to the same level as medical doctors.? He said ?Her arrogance was clear that there is no room on the medical throne for anyone other than MDs.? He said I showed my ?bias? when I said ?If it [alternative medicine] were shown to be truly effective, it would be part of regular medicine.? He countered that if conventional medicine were truly effective, we would not be in the present healthcare crisis ? something of a non sequitur, no? He said I was ?spewing propaganda.? And was a ?medical monarchist? who didn?t want to see my ?medical Bastille? toppled by equality. (I certainly don?t want to see science toppled by equality with pseudoscience and quackery.)

Consider that my two quoted comments were about alternative medicine and didn?t even mention chiropractic. Also consider that he didn?t bother to find out that I have written extensively about chiropractic (which he could easily have discovered just by Googling my name) and he has not tried to answer any of my arguments against chiropractic.

What He Doesn?t Say

Nowhere does he mention chiropractors like Sam Homola, a regular guest author here, who have criticized chiropractic from within. Nowhere does he mention that half of chiropractors are still undermining public health by discouraging immunizations. Nowhere does he acknowledge or respond to the arguments against chiropractic, for instance the wealth of material on Quackwatch?s Chirobase, Homola?s numerous books and articles, and magazine and blog articles by me, Steven Novella, David Gorski, and many others. Nowhere does he acknowledge the critiques of the Cassidy stroke study and the other studies he cites.

What Might Have Been

Throughout, he confuses chiropractic with spinal manipulation. They are not the same thing. SMT is a specific treatment also used by other practitioners including MDs, DOs, and PTs for specific indications; chiropractic is a whole system of care built around manipulation. Chiropractors do perform the majority of manipulations; but they do them for indications that the other professions do not accept, and many of them do a lot of other silly things that can only be described as quackery.

The Flexner report resulted in accreditation standards that closed half of American medical schools. Most schools of competing medical systems like homeopathy, naturopathy, and eclectic medicine closed. Many osteopathic schools stayed in business by bringing their schools into compliance with Flexner?s recommendations. Chiropractic might have done the same, but it didn?t.

The AMA fought optometrists the same way they fought chiropractors. Optometrists were in competition with ophthalmologists for the eye market, and the AMA tried to prohibit MDs from associating with them, but they lifted the prohibition when faced with an anti-trust lawsuit similar to Wilks.? Optometrists agreed to play a limited role within mainstream medicine; they are licensed to do only certain of the many things ophthalmologists do. Chiropractic might have done the same, but it didn?t.

What if chiropractic had policed its own ranks, limited itself to providing only short-term treatment for certain types of musculoskeletal pain, worked hard to determine which manipulation techniques were most effective, abandoned techniques that it found ineffective, and denounced vaccine rejection, applied kinesiology, and other forms of quackery? Manipulation might have been more widely accepted as a therapeutic tool if it had not been so tainted by the company it kept. Chiropractors could have become ?physical therapists for the back,? experts in manipulation that MDs could refer patients to with confidence.? Chiropractic might have been integrated into the medical mainstream just like osteopathy and optometry, but it didn?t even try.

Not Recommended

The AMA did some bad things in pursuit of a good end (fighting quackery), but Smith?s book does bad things in pursuit of a bad end (promoting unscientific health care).

I didn?t buy the book. I requested it from my public library through Interlibrary Loan. They had to search far afield for a copy, and they eventually located one in a library 2370 miles away, the Texas Chiropractic College Library. From the date due sticker, it appears to have never been checked out. I can only suspect the book is not very popular or widely read, even by chiropractors. I don?t regret reading it, because I learned a few things about history and about the thinking processes of chiropractors; but it left a very bad taste in my mouth and I certainly can?t recommend it.

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Source: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-war-against-chiropractors/

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Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office West Bank crime report, Oct. 21 ...

This information reflects initial calls for service reported by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office for the west bank of Jefferson Parish. Locations are approximate due to automated location methods and address inconsistencies, the Sheriff's Office says. Burglar alarm calls are excluded.

14th Street and Curtis Street - Oct. 21, 5:06 p.m., suspicious person.
100 block of 5th Street - Oct. 21, 4:49 p.m., suspicious person.
1500 block of Abbey Road - Oct. 21, 1:25 p.m., criminal damage.
2200 block of Alex Kornman Boulevard - Oct. 21, 11:30 a.m., suspicious person.
4100 block of Ames Boulevard - Oct. 21, 3:20 p.m., vehicle wreck.
Ames Boulevard and Barataria Boulevard - Oct. 21, 8:45 p.m., suspicious person.
Ames Boulevard and Happy Street - Oct. 21, 5:43 a.m., disturbing the peace.
Ames Boulevard and Lapalco Boulevard - Oct. 21, 8:08 p.m., suspicious person.
Ames Boulevard and Lapalco Boulevard - Oct. 21, 9:49 p.m., suspicious person.
3000 block of Aspin Drive - Oct. 21, 9:54 p.m., auto theft.
Avenue East and 8th Street - Oct. 21, 4:14 a.m., disturbing the peace.
4100 block of Barataria Boulevard - Oct. 21, 6:43 p.m., suspicious person.
Bay Adams Drive and Caminada Drive - Oct. 21, 2:01 p.m., suspicious person.
4400 block of Bay View Drive - Oct. 21, 8:42 p.m., battery.
500 block of Behrman Highway - Oct. 21, 5:43 p.m., vehicle wreck.
2400 block of Belle Chasse Highway - Oct. 21, 3:37 p.m., vehicle wreck.
Belle Chasse Highway and Wall Boulevard - Oct. 21, 8:15 p.m., suspicious person.
5000 block of Belle Terre Road - Oct. 21, 3:30 p.m., residence burglary.
300 block of Bellemeade Boulevard - Oct. 21, 5:27 a.m., vehicle wreck.
Betty Boulevard and Lapalco Boulevard - Oct. 21, 9:33 p.m., suspicious person.
4400 block of Blk Ames Boulevard - Oct. 21, 9:53 p.m., suspicious person.
1700 block of Blk Heatherwood Drive - Oct. 21, 5:11 p.m., suspicious person.
2500 block of Blk Kirkwood Drive - Oct. 21, 2:16 a.m., illegal discharge of weapon.
5900 block of Blk Lapalco Boulevard - Oct. 21, 9:08 p.m., suspicious person.
1500 block of Blk Manhattan Boulevard - Oct. 21, 1:06 a.m., battery.
7500 block of Blk River Road - Oct. 21, 2:30 p.m., suspicious person.
600 block of Blk Terry Parkway - Oct. 21, 6:59 p.m., suspicious person.
Bridge City Avenue and 6th Street - Oct. 21, 10:35 p.m., suspicious person.
900 block of Brown Avenue - Oct. 21, 4:13 p.m., vehicle wreck.
2600 block of Buccaneer Drive - Oct. 21, 7:45 p.m., battery.
Carrie Lane and Geranium Drive - Oct. 21, 8:45 p.m., suspicious person.
1500 block of Central Park Boulevard - Oct. 21, 8:02 p.m., theft.
1500 block of West Chelsea Road - Oct. 21, 9:30 a.m., disturbing the peace.
1600 block of Cooper Road - Oct. 21, 4:50 p.m., battery.
Delmar Street and Dupont Drive - Oct. 21, 8:18 p.m., suspicious person.
2700 block of Dolores Drive - Oct. 21, 9:12 p.m., illegal discharge of weapon.
2700 block of Dove Avenue - Oct. 21, 11:04 a.m., criminal damage.
2900 block of Dove Avenue - Oct. 21, 12:44 a.m., residence burglary.
2100 block of Fernando Court - Oct. 21, 4:24 p.m., vehicle wreck.
10 Four O'clock Lane - Oct. 21, 7:36 p.m., suspicious person.
100 block of Friedrichs Road - Oct. 21, 7:24 p.m., illegal discharge of weapon.
1800 block of Gladstone Drive - Oct. 21, 8:39 a.m., battery.
500 block of Heritage Avenue - Oct. 21, 8:37 p.m., disturbing the peace.
200 block of Holmes Boulevard - Oct. 21, 10:43 a.m., assault.
200 block of Holmes Boulevard - Oct. 21, 12:30 p.m., burglary.
800 block of Jean Lafitte Boulevard - Oct. 21, 10:00 a.m., suspicious person.
11000 block of Lapalco Boulevard - Oct. 21, 4:50 a.m., vehicle wreck.
11000 block of Lapalco Boulevard - Oct. 21, 5:33 a.m., vehicle wreck.
1600 block of Lapalco Boulevard - Oct. 21, 6:03 p.m., theft.
2200 block of Lapalco Boulevard - Oct. 21, 10:30 p.m., suspicious person.
4800 block of Lapalco Boulevard - Oct. 21, 10:46 a.m., theft.
4800 block of Lapalco Boulevard - Oct. 21, 2:53 p.m., theft.
4900 block of Lapalco Boulevard - Oct. 21, 11:16 a.m., suspicious person.
600 block of Lapalco Boulevard - Oct. 21, 6:58 p.m., suspicious person.
Lapalco Boulevard and Westminster Boulevard - Oct. 21, 6:12 a.m., vehicle wreck.
Layman Street and Church Street - Oct. 21, 7:33 p.m., illegal discharge of weapon.
Lorene Drive and Whitney Avenue - Oct. 21, 11:05 p.m., vehicle wreck.
1500 block of Mac Arthur Avenue - Oct. 21, 5:24 p.m., suspicious person.
1000 block of Manhattan Boulevard - Oct. 21, 12:40 a.m., disturbing the peace.
1000 block of Manhattan Boulevard - Oct. 21, 7:13 a.m., disturbing the peace.
1500 block of Manhattan Boulevard - Oct. 21, 6:01 p.m., theft.
1500 block of Manhattan Boulevard - Oct. 21, 9:06 p.m., theft.
2000 block of Manhattan Boulevard - Oct. 21, 4:02 a.m., criminal damage.
Manhattan Boulevard and Gretna Boulevard - Oct. 21, 2:45 a.m., suspicious person.
Marrero Road and River Road - Oct. 21, 10:24 p.m., suspicious person.
1100 block of Medical Center Boulevard - Oct. 21, 11:06 a.m., suspicious person.
Millender Drive and Lincolnshire Drive - Oct. 21, 1:12 a.m., suspicious person.
Morningside Drive and Guardian Avenue - Oct. 21, 1:03 a.m., illegal discharge of weapon.
Patriot Street and Barataria Boulevard - Oct. 21, 7:21 p.m., suspicious person.
Paula Court and Goldie Lane - Oct. 21, 11:36 a.m., suspicious person.
Sauvage Avenue and Lapalco Boulevard - Oct. 21, 9:04 p.m., suspicious person.
800 block of Seven Oaks Boulevard - Oct. 21, 11:39 a.m., theft.
1500 block of Stonebridge Drive - Oct. 21, 7:38 p.m., suspicious person.
50 Terry Parkway - Oct. 21, 9:11 a.m., burglary.
300 block of Terry Parkway - Oct. 21, 10:49 a.m., vehicle wreck.
500 block of Terry Parkway - Oct. 21, 9:25 p.m., disturbing the peace.
600 block of Terry Parkway - Oct. 21, 3:53 p.m., disturbing the peace.
Tusa Drive and Barataria Boulevard - Oct. 21, 12:26 p.m., battery.
2200 block of South Von Braun Court - Oct. 21, 11:27 p.m., criminal damage.
Wall Boulevard and Commerce Street - Oct. 21, 8:05 p.m., suspicious person.
100 block of Westbank Exp - Oct. 21, 12:09 a.m., suspicious person.
100 block of Westbank Exp - Oct. 21, 10:52 a.m., robbery.
100 block of Westbank Exp - Oct. 21, 5:07 p.m., theft.
1600 block of Westbank Exp - Oct. 21, 8:58 p.m., theft.
3700 block of Westbank Exp - Oct. 21, 12:00 a.m., disturbing the peace.
4800 block of Westbank Exp - Oct. 21, 6:26 p.m., theft.
7800 block of Westbank Exp - Oct. 21, 7:09 a.m., suspicious person.
Westbank Exp and Ames Boulevard - Oct. 21, 6:14 p.m., vehicle wreck.
Westbank Exp and Manhattan Boulevard - Oct. 21, 9:38 a.m., disturbing the peace.
900 block of Westwood Drive - Oct. 21, 5:29 p.m., theft.
2600 block of Whippletree Drive - Oct. 21, 4:34 p.m., suspicious person.
4800 block of Wichers Drive - Oct. 21, 11:24 a.m., suspicious person.
200 block of Willowbrook Drive - Oct. 21, 10:14 p.m., suspicious person.
3800 block of Woodbriar Drive - Oct. 21, 6:54 p.m., suspicious person.
2000 block of Woodmere Boulevard - Oct. 21, 10:19 a.m., suspicious person.
Woodmere Boulevard and Post Drive - Oct. 21, 9:55 p.m., vehicle wreck.
300 block of Wright Avenue - Oct. 21, 11:49 a.m., criminal damage.

Source: http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/10/jefferson_parish_sheriffs_offi_1097.html

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AP PHOTOS: The life and times of George McGovern

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AP PHOTOS: The life and times of George McGovern
By The Associated Press??By The Associated Press

FILE - In this March 25, 1974 file photo, U.S. Senator George McGovern,looks out an airplane window on a flight to Pierre, S.D., to begin a four-day campaign swing. A family spokesman says, McGovern, the Democrat who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide, has died at the age of 90. According to a spokesman, McGovern died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 at a hospice in Sioux Falls, surrounded by family and friends. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - In this March 25, 1974 file photo, U.S. Senator George McGovern,looks out an airplane window on a flight to Pierre, S.D., to begin a four-day campaign swing. A family spokesman says, McGovern, the Democrat who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide, has died at the age of 90. According to a spokesman, McGovern died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 at a hospice in Sioux Falls, surrounded by family and friends. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - In this undated file photo, Sen. George McGovern sits in the cockpit of a training plane. A family spokesman says, McGovern, the Democrat who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide, has died at the age of 90. According to the spokesman, McGovern died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 at a hospice in Sioux Falls, surrounded by family and friends.(AP Photo, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 24, 1961 file photo, President John F Kennedy talks, with George McGovern, right, a special presidential assistant who also is director of the Food for Peace program, at the White House in Washington. A family spokesman said he passed away peacefully, surrounded by family and life-long friends early Sunday morning Oct. 21, 2012. He was 90. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - In this June 1960 file photo, U.S. Rep. George McGovern, joins Sen. John F. Kennedy on the campaign trail in Sioux Falls, S.D. A family spokesman says, McGovern, the Democrat who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide, has died at the age of 90. According to a spokesman, McGovern died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 at a hospice in Sioux Falls, surrounded by family and friends. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 1961 file photo, George McGovern sits at his desk in Washington, D.C. A family spokesman says, McGovern, the Democrat who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide, has died at the age of 90. According to a spokesman, McGovern died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 at a hospice in Sioux Falls, surrounded by family and friends. (AP Photo, File)

Proud liberal. Staunch foe of the Vietnam War. Decorated World War II bomber pilot. Three-time U.S. senator. Presidential candidate dealt a crushing defeat by Richard Nixon in 1972.

George McGovern left an enduring legacy when he died Sunday morning at age 90.

"We are blessed to know that our father lived a long, successful and productive life advocating for the hungry, being a progressive voice for millions and fighting for peace," a family statement said.

Here's a photographic look at McGovern's life and political times.

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Gaming Nexus - The Walking Dead: Long Road Ahead - Review ...

Nobody does a dark middle chapter quite like The Walking Dead.? This is an episode where everything you think you know about this series gets turned upside down.? Secrets are exposed and lies come to a head.? This is a volatile chapter full of incredible moments and explosive action.? Buckle up, because Long Road Ahead is a bumpy ride worth taking.

Before we get started, let me spend a minute bringing everybody up to speed.? If you haven't played either of the first two episodes, then this review is not for you.? For the sake of not being redundant, everything I have to say about the controls and presentation is covered in my review of A New Day.? If you have played the first two episodes, then you're probably already sold on the series and this review won't sway you one way or the other.? As such, I plan on reviewing this game with a few spoilers sprinkled in.? You have been warned.

Things start out peaceful enough back at the motel.? Sure there's the occasional squabbling, but everybody is still alive and, thanks to a recent trip to town, there's enough food to last through the winter.? But Lilly, still reeling from the events of the last episode, believes that somebody in the group is stealing rations.? It doesn't take long before things start to unravel.? And things only get worse from there.

Events force the group to hit the road, where they eventually run into what looks like an abandoned train.? Suddenly the goal is clear -- they need to get this train going and ride it all the way to Savanna, Georgia.? That's easier said than done, or so our gang of survivors learns.? This is the episode where loose threads finally come to a head and secrets come out.? And more importantly, your party changes in dramatic ways in this episode.? There will not be a dry eye in the house when you complete this thrilling chapter.

Unlike past episodes, this was a slow burn.? For the first hour I felt letdown, worried that nothing substantial would happen.? Even after the group hit the road, it didn't feel as exciting as A New Day or Starved for Help.? And then, completely out of the blue, the story picks up steam.? Suddenly you're in the middle of one crucial decision after another.? Before you know it the cast of characters has changed in significant ways.? What some TV shows do in two or three seasons, Long Road Ahead does in one single three hour episode.

This is the most action packed chapter yet.? This time around you'll find multiple reasons to use your gun.? And not just your pistol, but a rifle, monkey wrench and other blunt objects.?? Still, nobody is going to mistake The Walking Dead for an action game.?? Calling The Walking Dead an action game is like calling Resident Evil 6 survival horror.? But be prepared, a quick trigger finger will be required in more than one situation.

It's hard to top the highs of the last episode, and Long Road Ahead doesn't even come close.? Still, this is a strong episode with all kinds of tough decisions to be made.? It's also a funny episode, with more humor than I was expecting.? One of the choices you make involves giving Duck a high five.? If you choose not to, the game will ridicule the player for leaving the kid hanging.? And it's not just the non-verbal jokes, but also how Duck and Lee seem to bond in this episode.? I found myself laughing at several moments, and that's not something I remember doing in either of the first two episodes.

Perhaps it's the change of scenery, but it felt like there was a lot more to do in this episode.? The game starts up with an interactive moment, and from there we're treated to train puzzles and a potentially explosive car wreck.? There's also some fun investigation stuff in the early part of the game, though I wish that was a little more involved.? For those complaining that you never get to control Lee directly, Long Road Ahead is for you.

There are a few jump scares that caught me off guard, but the horror isn't nearly as effective here as it was in Starved for Help.? Even using the comic book-style art design, the stuff at the St. John Dairy is as creepy as video games get.? There's nothing quite that scary in this episode, which is disappointing.? Still, this does move the story along in some interesting (and occasionally gruesome) ways.

You can really see the choices you made in past episodes coming back to haunt you in Long Road Ahead.? I can't wait for the series to be over, so that I can go back through the game using a completely different path.? This chapter is full of those choices, and I can already tell you that I'm going to have a lot to answer for the next time I play The Walking Dead.? Even when I go out of my way to make the "right" decision, I'm finding that every choice leads to sadness and death.? By the time the credits rolled, I wasn't sure that anybody in this game was going to survive until the very end.

Long Road Ahead is yet another strong episode in The Walking Dead.? This middle chapter is the very definition of bad road trip.? Secrets come out and important cast members die, it's that kind of episode.? It may not hit the highs of the first two chapters, but I guarantee that you'll remember the events found in these three hours for the rest of your life.

* The product in this article was sent to us by the developer/company for review.

If you hate sadness and heartache, then Long Road Ahead is not for you. This is a journey fraught with triumphs and setbacks, often happening simultaneously. This is yet another strong episode that reinforces my opinion that The Walking Dead is one of the best games of the year!

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