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A US monitoring organization says a new video by Uighur extremists in western China threatens credible terrorist attacks on the Olympic Games, set to start Friday in Beijing. The warning comes just days after a deadly attack, believed to have been launched by Uighur terrorists, that left 16 Chinese police dead.
The New York Times reports that the IntelCenter, a US group monitoring terrorist posts online, said the video, released by a group calling itself the "Turkistan Islamic Party" (TIP), opens with a shot of a burning Olympics logo and an explosion superimposed over an Olympic site.
According to IntelCenter's description, a man holding an assault rifle, who identifies himself as Abdullah Mansour, says in the Uighur language: "We, members of the Turkestan Islamic Party, have declared war against China. We oppose China's occupation of our homeland of East Turkestan, which is a part of the Islamic world."
He warns Muslims not to go to the Games and not to let their children go. "We do not want to see any Muslim brothers and sisters who believe in Allah and his Holy Prophet Muhammad, who believe in the next life and the day of judgment, get hurt by our fire targeted at China," he says.
Bloomberg reports that IntelCenter said the video, which is dated Aug. 1, specifically warns Muslims to avoid taking buses, trains, and planes with China's predominant Han ethnic group. Bloomberg adds that the TIP released a similar video on July 23.
News of the video comes just days after a group of extremists killed 16 Chinese police in an attack in the western city of Kashgar. During the attack Monday, two men drove a truck into the police, who were jogging, and threw explosives into a nearby police barracks. The attackers are suspected to be members of the Uighur community, western China's Islamic minority. The Uighurs, concentrated in Xinjiang Province, are generally unhappy with growing dominance of Han Chinese in Uighur areas and Beijing's restrictions on Uighur religious and social practices.
Italy's AKI reports that there may have been an attack Friday as well, this time in the city of Ili in northwest Xinjiang. AKI writes that, according to Arabic broadcaster al-Jazeera, a large explosion killed nine people, though it was unclear whether the explosion was intentional or accidental. AKI later reported that Chinese officials denied that an explosion had occurred.
The Associated Press reports that IntelCenter believes the TIP video's threat is genuine given the group's attack Monday.
"I think what they're doing is they're trying to capitalize on the buildup to the games," said Ben Venzke of the Washington-based IntelCenter, which provides counterterrorism intelligence to U.S. government agencies.
Venzke said Friday that his group believes that based on the militant group's demonstrated ability to conduct bombings "and the apparent opportunity TIP believes the Olympic Games presents in terms of targeting and striking a blow to China, that the threat is credible and should be taken seriously."
He said the release of a five-page written threat, in conjunction with two videos over the last three months by the group "is indicative of an orchestrated campaign designed to fulfill jihadists belief that they should provide warning before launching a significant attack."
In Kashgar, the site of Monday's attack, the government announced "stepped up controls" in an effort to prevent a repeat attack, reports Agence France-Presse.
"The Kashgar government at all levels has taken a series of measures to prevent and strike down any trouble," said an announcement on the government's website.
"To ensure stability, (authorities) have strengthened controls on non-residents to root out trouble, stepped up controls on key people, religious figures and trouble-making petitioners to stay abreast of things," it said.
The announcement gave no further details and did not specify what "key people" meant. China has already launched a nationwide effort to halt people petitioning the government over various grievances during the Games.
But the problems between Uighurs and Han Chinese in Kashgar run deep, reports The Wall Street Journal. Beijing has promoted a "gold rush" into western China, prompting Han Chinese to relocate into Xinjiang to make their fortunes, but the migration has resulted in a culture clash.
...the Uighurs and the fast-growing population of transplanted Hans occupy what looks like two Kashgars. Ethnic Hans are rarely seen near the city's traditional Uighur bazaar, where the walls are made of mud and blacksmiths pound iron into door hinges and pots. Instead, they shop at a modern market with escalators and a guard who checks handbags for weapons. Visible from the grounds of a 556-year-old mosque in the old city and rising from behind mud structures is a new Ferris wheel, and beyond that a 59-foot-tall statue of Mao Zedong. Feeding suspicions, few speak the other's language.
Uighurs say they are afraid to speak out. To explain why, an unemployed Uighur sitting in a restaurant demonstrates by grabbing his own neck and forcing it near the floor, then putting his hands behind his back as if he were being handcuffed. Another Uighur, a guard at a hospital entrance, describes an often intimidating police presence in the city, but cautions as a Han person approaches, "Don't tell her what I said."
Han people worry that they are surrounded by devout followers of a religion they don't understand well. [Dang Dongming, a Han former soldier now living in Kashgar], for instance, claims he can identify Islamic fundamentalists by their long beards and draped jackets. "When they come close to me, I'm afraid," he says.
The Wall Street Journal notes that the differences even go so far as what time it is. Han Chinese set their clocks according to the national time zone dictated by Beijing, 2,200 miles west of Kashgar, while local Uighurs set their watches two hours earlier to reflect the distance.

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Last year, as part of my "open problem of the week" series (now long since on hiatus), I featured one of my favorite problems, namely that of establishing scarring for the Bunimovich stadium. I'm now happy to say that this problem has been solved (for generic stadiums, at least, and for phase space scarring rather than physical space scarring) by my old friend (and fellow Aussie), Andrew Hassell, in a recent preprint. Congrats Andrew!
Actually, the argument is beautifully simple and short (the paper is a mere 9 pages), though it of course uses the basic theory of eigenfunctions on domains, such as Weyl's law, and I can give the gist of it here (suppressing all technical details).
This is a well known problem (see for instance this survey) in the area of "quantum chaos" or "quantum unique ergodicity"; I am attracted to it both for its simplicity of statement (which I will get to eventually), and also because it focuses on one of the key weaknesses in our current understanding of the Laplacian, namely is that it is difficult with the tools we know to distinguish between eigenfunctions (exact solutions to ) and quasimodes (approximate solutions to the same equation), unless one is willing to work with generic energy levels rather than specific energy levels.
The Bunimovich stadium is the name given to any planar domain consisting of a rectangle bounded at both ends by semicircles. Thus the stadium has two flat edges (which are traditionally drawn horizontally) and two round edges, as this picture from Wikipedia shows:
Despite the simple nature of this domain, the stadium enjoys some interesting classical and quantum dynamics. The classical dynamics, or billiard dynamics on is ergodic (as shown by Bunimovich) but not uniquely ergodic. In more detail: we say the dynamics is ergodic because a billiard ball with randomly chosen initial position and velocity (as depicted above) will, over time, be uniformly distributed across the billiard (as well as in the energy surface of the phase space of the billiard). On the other hand, we say that the dynamics is not uniquely ergodic because there do exist some exceptional choices of initial position and velocity for which one does not have uniform distribution, namely the vertical trajectories in which the billiard reflects orthogonally off of the two flat edges indefinitely.


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Located only steps away from your Kingston holiday rental, you can take a stroll in the Royal Botanical Gardens and enjoy the beautiful landscaping and blooms. If you see a fruit truck man at the side of the road be sure to stop and buy some of the fresh, exotic local produce that Jamaica has to offer. Taste some local sweet treats such as guinep, ohtaheite apple and soursop. And definitely be sure to try a Jamaican breakfast favorite, ackee and saltfish with breadfruit. There are so many great flavors to sample, so make sure to bring some back to enjoy later in the comfort of your holiday home.
Play a round of golf at The Manchester Golf Club and feel a part of history, as this spectacular club was established in 1868. Drink a cup of the famed Blue Mountain coffee at the club house or indulge in a glass of an aged Jamaican rum, distilled locally. Watch a cricket match during your Kingston holiday rental stay; it's a national pastime and games can be quite lively. Drive to Port Royal, located just a few minutes outside the city, where you can learn about the history of pirates such as Henry Morgan and Bluebeard.
While staying in a Kingston holiday rental tour the birthplace of reggae music, Trench Town, one of the island's most famous inner city neighborhoods. If you prefer to be immersed in the colorful culture of this area there are many rental apartments and condos available. Music is a big part of the Jamaican culture and Kingston is the center of music, festivals, and nightlife. Don't miss the reggae and dancehall music festivals, including "Sunsplash" and "Sting," where many musicians perform and 'battle' on stage. And with a busy and exciting nightlife you'll have your fill of fun parties, clubs and lively bars where you can dance the night away.
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The PCM has detected a malfunction in the exhaust gas temperature sensor circuit. Bank 1 indicates the bank of the engine that contains the number one cylinder. See the manufacturer's service manual (or equivalent) for the location of the number one cylinder. S1 or Sensor 1 denotes an upstream sensor and all other sensors are downstream sensors.
The exhaust gas temperature sensor utilizes sensors in the exhaust system to input voltage readings to the PCM. Variations in system voltage that exceed manufacturer's predetermined limitations will cause a code to be stored and a service engine soon lamp to be illuminated.
There will probably be no obvious codes other than an illuminated service engine soon lamp and a stored trouble code.
Loose, broken, burned, or corroded wiring and/or terminals and connectors are the most common cause of this trouble code bring stored. Other causes may include the exhaust gas temperature sensor being shorted internally (or to ground), a faulty sensor, the presence of an aftermarket off road exhaust system that causes a decrease in back pressure, a severe exhaust leak upstream from the exhaust temperature sensor will also cause this code to be stored. Obviously, engine overheating can also be the cause of an actual exhaust over temp condition.
The most common source of mishaps when diagnosing this code comes from mistaken identity. Frequently the oxygen sensor is either mistaken for the exhaust gas temperature sensor or it is believed that the exhaust gas temp sensor is integrated into the heated oxygen sensor. Of course, this is incorrect and replacement of the oxygen sensor/s will not lead to a successful diagnosis. Make sure that the engine is not overheating before proceeding with a diagnosis of this code.


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So yesterday's post, 15 Reasons I Left Church, generated a massive response, which I was not expecting. (Must have struck a nerve.) Thank you so much for your comments. They were honest, encouraging, challenging, and true.
As I mentioned yesterday, I left church when I was 27, and for a couple of years, I really struggled with my faith. But as many of you pointed out, sometimes leaving church is the best way to find the Church, and that's exactly what has happened as I've encountered the goodness and grace of God's people at the Catholic church down the street, at the local church that rallied to bring food to my mom during her cancer treatments, through our quirky, grace-filled (but sadly now defunct) church plant, among friends and neighbors and fellow searchers, and, of course, with you.
Dan and I are still in search of a faith community that feels like home, but at the risk of sounding cliché, "not all who wander are lost." So in that spirit, here are 15 reasons I've returned to the Church—with a capital-C:
1. Jesus
2. The Book of Common Prayer
3. The fact that when somebody gets sick or dies or has a baby or loses their job, it's the church ladies who are the first to show up at the front door with a casserole and a hug
4. Anne Lamott
5. Communion
6. Connecting with other searchers who may not be part of a church, but are part of The Church (this includes many of you!)
7. The first sermon I ever heard from a woman
8. Sucking up my pride and embracing the fact that, like it or not, I need community...and real community isn't about surrounding myself with people just like me
9. Liturgy that reads like poetry
10. Madeleine L'Engle
11. My parents, who, though we don't always agree on all the political or theological details, have modeled Christian compassion and grace better than anyone I know and who have supported me through every "evolution" of faith
12. The Biologos Foundation, and especially Karl Giberson, who was the first to reach out to me and tell me that I didn't have to choose between my intellectual integrity and my faith
13. The Mission (our church plant), which even though it failed on paper, changed my life and gave me hope for the future of the Church
14. Friends with whom we gather each week for movies, food, conversations about God, and the occasional (slightly awkward) church visit
15. Grace, grace, grace, grace, grace, grace, grace
So what keeps you a part of the Church, even when it's hard?
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While mystery surrounded the Ducks' choice of starting goaltender for their playoff game against the Kings on Saturday night -- indications were that it will be Jonas Hiller, because injured Frederik Andersen didn't skate Saturday morning and choosing rookie John Gibson seems too big a gamble -- the Kings went about their morning-skate business as usual with no apparent lineup changes.
Defensemen Willie Mitchell and Robyn Regehr remain sidelined by undisclosed injuries, with no timetable mentioned for their possible return. Mitchell was injured in Game 6 of the Kings' first-round series against San Jose, and Regehr was hurt in the first game against the Ducks.
The Ducks' 3-2 victory on Thursday cut the Kings' series lead to two games to one and continued the pattern of the road team winning each game. Andersen started Thursday but couldn't finish after he sustained a lower-body injury midway through the third period. Hiller got the win in relief.
The Ducks on Saturday recalled top goaltending prospect John Gibson from their Norfolk (Va.) farm team, and he was on the ice Saturday morning at Staples Center along with Hiller and Igor Bobkov. Hiller was the first goalie off the ice, usually an indication that he will start, though that wasn't the case Thursday.
Kings players said it made no difference which goalie started for the Ducks in Game 4.
"Not really. More so I think against San Jose because [Antti] Niemi was the No. 1 all year, whereas these two guys have split all year," Kings captain Dustin Brown said, referring to the Sharks having started both Niemi and Alex Stalock against the Kings in the first round.
"So it's no different for them, and we've seen both goalies."
Defenseman Drew Doughty said the Kings' approach will remain the same no matter who's in goal for the Ducks.
"They're pretty similar goalies, though obviously one catches left and one catches right," he said, referring to the left-handed-catching Andersen and righty Hiller. "And one is a little better at puckhandling. That was really the only differences.
"It doesn't affect us at all. We just need to get to the goalie early, get a few goals on him quick. We haven't got to their goalies in any of the games. Yeah, we've won a few games but we haven't got as many shots as we'd like to get. We haven't got the second opportunities. We haven't got in front of them and got screens. So we have a lot bigger job to do on their goalies, and we're going to start tonight."
Doughty said he didn't think the Ducks would start Gibson and that he expected to face Hiller.
"He did a pretty good job when he came in last game, in the third, after not playing for 50 minutes," Doughty said. "I don't see Gibson coming in, but hopefully we can push Hiller out and make Gibson come in late. That would be good."
Game 5 is scheduled for 7 p.m. PDT Monday at Honda Center.


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The Marshfield United Soccer Club boys U9 team won the Global Premiere Soccer Tournament over Labor Day weekend.
In the cup final, Marshfield knocked off GPS South Coast, 5-0. The tournament is annual preseason event from U9-15 boys and girls teams from across New England.
Marshfield defeated teams from the South Coast, Western Massachusetts, Boston and New Hampshire in the tournament. Marshfield did not surrender a goal in the first three games of the tournament, including a 1-0 win over GPS NH Select.
"The boys were delighted with the victories and look forward to bring this excitement to the fall season," said Marshfield Youth Soccer director Doug Burns.
"The champions performed extremely well on the field, but the character and sportsmanship we displayed was equally if not more impressive," said Marshfield coach Ed Sylvia. "The champs did the business on the field, but were also very gracious in victory and displayed class far beyond their years, especially after winning in the final.
"The teams we played throughout the tournament were select kids from across New England. I, for one, wouldn't look any further than Marshfield for the best boys in the state. I feel blessed and honored to be able to be a part of this special team."
The Marshfield U9 girls team also competed in the tournament, finishing 1-1-1.


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Councilman Wade Hunter, who voted against the measure, argues it does. But the majority on council apparently don't agree with him.
Hunter, Councilmen Eddie Coates and Harold Williams were outvoted, 4-3, on the matter.
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A fact-checking intervention – a joint effort by Macedonian and Bulgarian social media users – has helped independent journalists expose forged documents used as lure for suspicious humanitarian donations.
During the previous weeks, Macedonian social media users were agitated after learning about alleged mistreatment of Eva Ilievska, a baby girl with malfunctioning heart, who was a subject of an online donation campaign a few months ago. Dozens of online portals and other media relayed the appeal for more funds, using titles like "Scandalous – Little Eva was Denied Health Care in Bulgaria – Due to Lack of Money for the Operation."
People were donating money via designated humanitarian phone numbers and to the family's bank account, and indignantly shared such links [1] [mk] via Facebook, calling upon their friends to contribute, too. These articles contained photos of the baby, who was born in April, and a scan of the alleged official document issued by a Bulgarian clinic.
However, when a Facebook user from Bulgaria noticed this appeal, she quickly realized that the scanned document contained many factual inadequacies: the name and address of the hospital were wrong, the telephone numbers were strange, and, most of all, the text in Bulgarian looked as if it was not written by a speaker of the language, but appeared to be an automated online translation.
Other Bulgarians (including Global Voices' Rayna St. [3] and Veni Markovski [4]) confirmed these facts [5] [mk, bg] through Facebook comments, while their Macedonian friends tagged several journalists in order to involve them in the discussion. Over the weekend, the cat was out of the bag on a larger scale.
Immediate further research [6] [mk] by professional journalist Meri Jordanovska from 24 Vesti (24 News), who contacted the child's father as well as the head of the Bulgarian clinic, revealed that the document was indeed a forgery. In fact, the girl's operation had already been completed and she was back in Skopje for further treatment.
Margarita Conzarova, M.D., the director of the Sofia-based Clinic for Child Diseases and Heart Surgery, confirmed that she had not issued such a letter. In fact, the EUR 25,000 had been paid by the Macedonian State Healh Fund (80%) and the parents (20%), presumably using part of the previously donated funds. The Bulgarian surgeon said that a new operation on the child was not to be conducted for at least a year.
Dozens of Macedonian portals and other media relayed the news [7] [mk]. According to unofficial information in Jordanovska's article, over EUR 20,000 had been donated by concerned citizens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3uPSPUtooNA [8]
In the meantime, the Ilievski family members have been issuing contradictory statements. First, they were asking for more money via the this Facebook page [9] [mk], then they were quoted claiming that the page was run "by the community" or that it had been hacked, and that they did not know who was asking for money, using appeals claiming that little Eva was to have a surgery in the next few days, and that EUR 3,000, then EUR 2,100 were still lacking.
Articles by another web-savvy journalist, Miroslava Simonovska of the Fokus daily and the Plusinfo portal, complemented the information, and showed [10] [mk] that well after the operation, the father has continued to ask for money from people directly via e-mail. The director of the Skopje Clinic for Child Diseases, Aspazija Sofijanova, M.D., has filed criminal charges and the police started an investigation [11] [mk] into possible fraud.
Macedonian citizens often donate money via text messages, as they believe that the three national mobile operators have checked the claims of the people who beg for money in order to solve health issues. So far, no statement by the mobile operators has been issued to the effect that they would return the money if the investigation proves fraud.
Journalists claim that, to their credit, the operators do not take a cut from the proceedings, but transfer the whole sum to bank accounts of the people in need, and the 18% VAT to the state budget.
One of the participants in the Facebook discussion wrote about the baby:
…Again, the biggest loser is the most innocent person…
Meri Jordanovska concluded her second article this way:
It remains unclear for what purpose did Eva's parents gather money and who is hiding behind the August 23 document, which claims that the Bulgarian clinic is asking for more money for treatment. The Ministry of the Interior is on the move to clear up this case, so that the citizens could regain trust in calls for humanitarian donations.


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PETALUMA, CA – Despite dominance by the Chinese Crested breed, a boxer with an underbite has won the 2009 World's Ugliest Dog contest!
The World's Ugliest Dog Contest is in its 21st year and runs in tandem with the Sonoma-Marin Fair. The Chinese Crested breed has dominated the contest for the past seven years, and represented more than 50% of this year's entrants.
However, Pabst, a rescue dog adopted from a shelter three years ago, took the show by storm. Named for his "bitter beer face", Pabst won the mutt round and the overall World's Ugliest Dog top prize. He netted $1,600 for his adoring owner, Miles Egstad.
Egstad had never heard of the contest until seeing it on TV, and only entered his dog after friends convinced him to. He had no idea the crowd would be chanting Pabst's name while the judges decided on the final winner! "I don't think he's that ugly!" said Egstad upon winning.
Do you think Pabst was the ugliest? Check out Miss Ellie, the blind 15-year-old who won the pedigree category:


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As the former union bastions of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin flipped from blue to red on election night, with votes rolling in for a billionaire real-estate mogul with a cheap populist varnish, the once-mighty American labor movement saw its life flash before its eyes.
Early in the Democratic primary, virtually every labor union lined up behind Hillary Clinton—seeing her as a better political bet than the socialist insurgent Bernie Sanders. In the general election, they spent record amounts of money on their ground-game operations to turn out the vote for Clinton and give Democrats a majority in the Senate.
The stakes were high. With Clinton in the White House, unions had assurances that President Barack Obama's pro-worker regulatory regime—which had expanded the number of workers who could receive overtime, and had mandated minimum pay standards and paid sick leave for federal contract workers—would remain intact. They likely would have persuaded her to continue using executive authority and leveraging the government's contracting power to lift up workers. The Department of Labor would have continued to adopt innovative enforcement practices for wage and hour laws, while the National Labor Relations Board would have continued to interpret labor law in ways more supportive of workers and their unions. And with a Democratic Senate, a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, an infrastructure plan stocked with good-paying jobs, and even a higher minimum wage were all at least on the table. Even if the Democrats didn't retake the Senate, Clinton would have served as a roadblock against Republicans' anti-worker animus.
But it was not to be. When the Democrats' Electoral College firewall collapsed, so too did the last line of political defense between a vulnerable labor movement and a Republican Party that has become even more uniformly opposed to unions and workers' rights since 2006—the last time the GOP had unified control of the federal government.
The impending GOP attack on organized labor and workers will have multiple fronts: executive action, legislation, court rulings—and with Republicans in control of more than half the states, not just the federal government.
Unions need only look to Wisconsin and the orchestrated attack led by Republican Governor Scott Walker and his right-wing business allies to glimpse what might befall the nation. Soon after he was elected in 2010, Walker went after the state's public-sector unions and gutted their collective-bargaining rights. After labor unions went all in on a recall election and failed, Walker went on to re-election in 2014 and signed into law right-to-work legislation the following year. Union membership rolls in Wisconsin have been decimated, significantly reducing the level of resources unions allot to organizing and politics. After Wisconsin flipped for Donald Trump, both the right and the left agreed on one thing: Walker's attack on unions had been a deciding factor.
Clearly, the next four years for labor will be bad. How bad?
"In theory, with full GOP control, Republicans could repeal the National Labor Relations Act. They could repeal the Fair Labor Standards Act. They could repeal the entire New Deal," says Catherine Fisk, a labor law professor at the University of California, Irvine. "There's nothing to stop them except their own political strategy and fears of sparking a huge backlash."
THE NEW DEAL IS NOT LIKELY to be repealed, at least not in its entirety. The National Labor Relations Act has been so corroded by employers' violations of its terms—for which the penalties are negligible—that there's little point in repealing it. But Trump will almost certainly roll back most of Obama's labor-related executive orders and rules. Federal courts have already made that job easier: In November, a federal circuit judge in Texas enjoined the rule that would have granted millions of workers access to overtime pay, just days before it was to go into effect, and his opinion signaled that he would likely throw out the rule altogether. While Obama has appealed the injunction, as of now the future of the overtime rule will ultimately be in the hands of Trump. And another federal judge, also in Texas, struck down Obama's persuader rule, which required companies to better disclose union-busting activity.
Unions need only look to Wisconsin and the orchestrated attack led by Republican Governor Scott Walker and his right-wing business allies to glimpse what might befall the nation.
Among Obama's labor-related orders likely to be struck down by the new administration are the executive orders mandating that companies with substantial federal contracts provide a $10.10 minimum wage and paid sick leave for their contract workers, and furthermore disclose past labor-law violations. Orders requiring federal contractors to adhere to federal anti-discrimination laws for LGBTQ employees could also be wiped away.
"There's a 25-year tradition of presidents very early in their tenures reversing the labor and employment executive orders of their predecessor presidents of a different party," says Seth Harris, who served as acting labor secretary for Obama, between the tenures of Hilda Solis and Tom Perez.
Advocates don't need to look far back into history to get a sense of what a Republican Department of Labor could mean. George W. Bush's labor secretary, Elaine Chao, pared down the enforcement wing of the department to the point where, according to a Government Accountability Office report, workers' wage-and-hour complaints often languished. She also intensified union auditing to bog down union staff with paperwork, and cost unions a lot of time and money. (The auditing exposed little wrongdoing.)
"The traditional approach of Republicans has been to emphasize compliance and de-emphasize enforcement. That doesn't stop enforcement; it just reduces enforcement's importance in the compliance regime," says Harris. "That's been the mode going back to Reagan."
Unions are already considering the likelihood that Congress will pass national right-to-work legislation, which would ban private-sector unions from requiring dues payments from workers who benefit from union representation and contracts. If enacted, national right-to-work would significantly deplete both their membership and their treasuries. Trump has voiced support for such a law. Unions are also on the lookout for attempts to repeal or weaken such venerable labor laws as the Davis-Bacon Act, the prevailing wage statute that sets pay standards for workers on federally funded construction projects. (That measure could be part of the GOP's infrastructure plan.) Several prominent Republicans have already co-sponsored legislation for national right-to-work and repeal of Davis-Bacon.
The right is also dead set on reversing the National Labor Relations Board's decisions that have tilted in favor of labor. House Speaker Paul Ryan's vaunted "Better Way" agenda has a special section on the NLRB, which laments, "It is hard to imagine a federal agency that has imposed more radical change on America's workplaces than the political appointees at the National Labor Relations Board," citing as examples rules that have made it easier for unions to organize workplaces.
Ryan's plan calls for curtailing the power and scope of the NLRB, but that may change now that Trump will be appointing anti-union members to the board. "When Democrats are in power, Republicans try to starve the Department of Labor and NLRB," says Nelson Lichtenstein, a professor of labor history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. "When they get into power, they don't want to starve it anymore. They want their people in it."
Though it may take a while for Trump to get his NLRB appointees approved, once a pro-business majority is in place the board will begin hearing cases that could reverse the Obama-era decisions that sped up union elections, allowed "mini-units" (a distinct set of an employer's workers) to unionize, and established a new joint employer standard that makes corporations responsible for contractors' and franchisees' violations of their workers' rights and labor law generally. A landmark NLRB decision that granted graduate student teaching and research assistants the right to form a union might be on the chopping block, too.
"At the NLRB, there is no middle ground. Precedent means nothing," Lichtenstein notes. "It totally switches back and forth now."
House Speaker Paul Ryan's vaunted "Better Way" agenda has a special section on the NLRB, which laments, "It is hard to imagine a federal agency that has imposed more radical change on America's workplaces than the political appointees at the National Labor Relations Board."
Wilma Liebman, a former Democratic chair of the NLRB, anticipates that Trump's board will not only reverse Obama's decisions, but will likely dramatically expand management rights, employers' property rights, and employers' free speech rights over the rights of workers and their unions. "I wouldn't expect too much that would be pro-worker. The question is how bad, and how fast?" she says.
JUST LAST YEAR, PUBLIC-SECTOR unions were facing the near certainty that the Supreme Court would rule in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association that non-union members were not required to pay mandatory "agency fees" for a public-sector union's collective-bargaining services. The prospect of a massive reduction in dues payments, and with that, the unions' clout, stared them squarely in the face.
But Justice Antonin Scalia's sudden death led to deadlock on Friedrichs; no decision came down. A new liberal justice appointed by Obama (or, after the Senate Republican stonewall, Clinton) would almost certainly have protected public-sector unions from such attacks for decades to come.
Now, President Trump is expected to nominate a reactionary in the same mold as Scalia. And though a deadlocked Court was unable to rule on Friedrichs, there are a couple of dozen cases working their way through the lower courts that would accomplish the same union evisceration that Friedrichs was intended to. With that, the GOP will have succeeded in its campaign to attack the public sector—which, with 35 percent density, is by far the most heavily unionized sector in the country.
A conservative Court is also expected to reject impending cases that seek to do away with mandatory arbitration clauses that prohibit workers and consumers from participating in class-action lawsuits.
With Trump's court likely to rule that public-sector union-represented workers need not pay dues, those unions are scrambling to shore up their ranks. The leadership of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees—a 1.6 million-member organization that is one of the nation's four big public-sector unions—says it got scared straight when it looked like Friedrichs would be upheld before Scalia died. AFSCME had already seen what could happen on a state level: After Walker gutted state workers' collective-bargaining rights, AFSCME lost two-thirds of its Wisconsin membership. "I think we took things for granted," AFSCME President Lee Saunders told The Washington Post in 2015. "We stopped communicating with people, because we didn't feel like we needed to. That was the wrong approach, and we don't want to fall back into that trap."
The union has focused on intensive internal organizing efforts, trying to rebuild connections with its members over the long term, not just when election season comes around. Since 2014, it has trained thousands of its members in how to talk to their co-workers about the union and what they want from it. "The result has been a substantial culture shift. Workers even in the smallest locals are now more empowered to make change, rather than waiting for someone from 'the union' to do it for them," Saunders wrote in an op-ed for the Prospect. "And our frontline local leaders and staff representatives have gone from being service providers to organizing coaches. More and more, we're teaching people to fish instead of giving them a fish."
The back-to-basics strategy appears to be working. The union says it has signed up about 380,000 new dues-paying members since it began the effort and hopes that continued contact with members will encourage them to stay in the union voluntarily if a Friedrichs-style case does come to fruition.
THIS, OF COURSE, IS NOT THE first time that organized labor has faced an existential crisis—in fact, most of the movement's history is characterized by existential crises. As always, it's labor's response that will determine whether the oft-predicted demise of the movement will come to pass.
"What terrifies me most is [that] we adopt this conservative cautionary crouch. That means that even if everything we do that's cautionary and conservative is successful, we'll just be weaker on the other end of it," says Stephen Lerner, a labor strategist who organized the Service Employees International Union's groundbreaking Justice for Janitors campaign in the 1990s. "So we have to figure out how we do this in a way that will build a broader movement, not circling the wagons trying to save something that wasn't working in the first place."
A signature issue of Trump's campaign was his promise to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, which would likely entail greatly stepped-up workplace raids. As more Latino and immigrant workers have joined unions over the past two decades, labor has become perhaps the leading advocate of fully legalizing the undocumented. Now, one of its top priorities, observers say, will be resisting any assault on the undocumented community, including efforts to increase deportations.
Lichtenstein thinks that the Republican strategy will be to starve cities of federal funding as a means to undermine the power of union strongholds. Trump has already threatened to defund cities that maintain their sanctuary status for undocumented immigrants, as many major Democratic mayors have pledged. In addition, infrastructure and other critical federal spending programs could be selectively diverted to non-urban areas, creating a cash crisis for city budgets. "Every mayor, no matter how liberal they are, will be forced to take a harder line against the unions [especially public-sector], because money will be tight," Lichtenstein says. "That will generate a kind of civil war within the Democratic political world."
Where Republican governors have cut funding to Democratic cities, unions often have reacted forcefully. Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rauner, for instance, has reduced state funding to Chicago, and, in response, Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel has privatized city services and closed public schools, running into fierce opposition from the city's teachers union, which has relied on militant tactics to block some of Emanuel's initiatives.
Spurred by movement like Fight for 15, liberal cities and blue states will likely continue to serve as incubators of progressive policies that improve the quality of low-wage work.
"That will happen in all sorts of places around the country," Lichtenstein says. "Paul Ryan knows that. He's been thinking about this for ten years. They have a well-developed idea of what they want to do: A fight inside of the cities, plus Friedrichs, will create Wisconsin on the national scale."
Lichtenstein anticipates that as attacks against unions escalate, the movement will become more radical. "When you're defeated and weak, you become radical institutionally. This is based in history," he says.
Indeed, the centers of resistance, struggle, and progress will almost surely continue to be in localized areas—the liberal metropolises and the (few) Democratic-controlled states where union density is higher and progressive organizations are more influential. In such terrains, unions have experienced successes that may provide models for the broader movement, as more and more cities, at least, turn blue.
The Culinary Workers Union—a heavily Latino and female local that represents hotel and casino workers in Las Vegas—is a political powerhouse that, despite being in a right-to-work state, has maintained a robust membership of 60,000 and has pioneered strong leadership and service programs. The Culinary Workers have made Las Vegas a union town, and translated the power of their numbers and spirit into political success. In November, the union's members played a key role in helping Clinton and Democratic Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto win in a contentious purple state, and also helped elect Jacky Rosen, a former Culinary member, and Ruben Kihuen, the son of a Culinary housekeeper member, to Congress in formerly Republican-held seats.
"We won because we were committed to doing this internal power-building," says Bethany Khan, the local union's communications director. "We'll continue to be very aggressive and militant on fighting for and protecting workers. We've done that for over 81 years and will keep doing that."
The union will have to—especially since it's in a heated dispute with the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, in which Trump himself has an ownership stake. Trump and his business partner have refused to recognize the union after workers voted in favor of unionization, and the hotel has appealed at every step. The union—which since 2001 has helped 16,000 Nevadan immigrants become citizens—has also pledged to be on the front lines against any type of anti-immigrant assault from Washington. "We will not stand for someone separating our families and the people we love," Khan says.
In Chicago, after an insurgency by the reformist left wing of its rank-and-file caucus led to a more confrontational strategy, the teachers union has become one of the most effective organized forces during Mayor Emanuel's divisive tenure. It has led fights against austerity measures, school closings, and privatization of the Chicago Public Schools system. After a tense showdown over contract negotiations this fall, a last-minute contract deal was reached to avert a strike. The teachers union was able to get most of its contract demands and protect teacher salary and benefits by forcing the city to redirect $88 million from a tax increment financing fund. The union's public protests, broad-based coalitions, and strikes—and its campaign that highlighted how financiers have captured public money—can provide a road map for urban teachers unions under a Trump presidency, which looks to have its eyes set on privatizing the public education system.
"No one has quite digested that they basically had a strike against the city's ruling class and said you better find the money somewhere," Lerner says. It is these types of more radical strategies that the broader movement needs to embrace—adding offense to all the defensive maneuvering unions will be compelled to undertake.
Beyond Chicago, Lerner points to initiatives like the Committee for Better Banks campaign—backed by the Communications Workers of America—as an example of using unions not only as a vehicle for advancing workers' rights, but for the common good. For the past few years, the campaign has been organizing front-line bank workers—tellers, sales associates, call center operators, and so on—including the Wells Fargo employees who helped blow the whistle on the company's widespread account-creation fraud. Unionizing bank employees, Lerner says, would not only ensure that jobs would pay a middle-class wage, but also allow bank workers to come forward about corporate misconduct without fear of repercussions.
DURING THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY, liberal cities and blue states will likely continue to serve as incubators of progressive policies that improve the quality of low-wage work. In response to the Fight for 15 campaign, several of the country's largest cities have instituted a $15 minimum wage, as have the nation's two largest states, California and New York. A number of cities are on the verge of passing new ordinances mandating paid sick leave, paid family leave, and access to predictable schedules and full-time hours for retail workers.
Ballot measures continue to prove effective at cutting through political resistance and putting pro-worker policy directly before the voters. On Election Day, three states—Arizona, Colorado, and Maine—approved ballot measures that would increase their minimum wage to $12 by 2020. Washington state voters approved a measure to hike their minimum up to $13.50 by 2020. Arizona's and Washington's measures included mandatory paid sick leave as well. Voters in San Jose, California, approved a measure requiring businesses to offer available hours to part-time workers before making additional hires. During the midterm elections of 2014, voters in four red states—Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota—also approved minimum-wage increases.
While many cities and counties in red states are preempted by state law from passing their own local minimum-wage or paid sick leave policies, organizers have found alternative, if less-comprehensive, routes, such as living-wage ordinances for city workers and contractors. Wisconsin, for instance, prohibits localities from passing minimum-wage ordinances. In Milwaukee County, however, the Wisconsin Working Families Party (WFP), after launching in 2015, and the Alliance for Good Jobs have helped recruit and elect progressive activists to the County Board of Supervisors, among them Marcelia Nicholson and Sequanna Taylor, both activists in the city's teachers union, who won their seats in April. Nicholson promptly drafted a living-wage ordinance that would mandate a $15 minimum wage, phased in by 2022 and then tethered to inflation, for county employees and contract workers. The ordinance was overwhelmingly approved in early November, just days before Election Day. In September, the WFP helped pass a similar ordinance in Dane County, home to the state's capital of Madison.
Following a pattern established in Los Angeles in the 1990s, the state's WFP and Milwaukee's Alliance for Good Jobs also brokered a deal with NBA basketball team the Milwaukee Bucks, which is currently building a new arena, to establish a community benefits agreement that mandates that all the arena's service workers are paid $15 an hour by 2023; that at least half of the employees will come from impoverished Milwaukee neighborhoods; and that these workers will have a right to unionize with card-check neutrality. The groups hope to expand these types of agreements to other types of private-sector employers in the city.
Power on the Sidewalk: Las Vegas hotel union members protesting outside Donald Trump's hotel-casino, with Democratic candidate Ruben Kihuen, whom they helped to unseat a Republican congressman in November's election.
What the Wisconsin groups are doing amounts to "taking the movement for $15 and union, and working to establish those goals through local measures," says Peter Rickman, a co-chair of the Wisconsin Working Families Party, who helped lead the living wage and community benefits campaigns.
IN JUST FOUR YEARS, THE FIGHT for 15 has experienced great success in pressuring politicians and private employers to increase their minimum wages. So far, some 19 million low-wage workers stand to benefit from raises that, in aggregate, total up to $62 billion, according to a report from the National Employment Law Project. That's ten times the total raise workers received when the federal minimum wage was last increased in 2007. And the movement, backed by SEIU, of low-wage workers, predominantly young African Americans and Latinos in cities, has begun expanding its mission to intersect with the black-led movements against police violence and voting restrictions and Latino-led demands for immigration reform. The Fight for 15 could very well become the labor movement's spear under Trump: a broad-based coalition of marginalized workers, in the streets and making demands for both economic and civil rights. In its first action since Trump was elected president, the Fight for 15 staged protests which included civil disobedience in more than 300 cities across the country with a broad collection of low-wage workers—fast-food, child-care, and home-care workers; airport employees and adjunct professors—as well as allies and elected officials.
But the campaign faces impending problems, both legal and monetary. SEIU has so far funneled more than $70 million into the movement and has pledged to maintain funding into the future. While the movement has succeeded in winning wage hikes, it still struggles to find a path to unionization, which for SEIU is the other long-term goal of the project. Instead of trying to organize unions shop by shop, which is very resource-intensive and not likely to succeed, the union has placed its hopes in a case before the NLRB that argues that corporations like McDonald's have the same level of responsibility for workers as their franchisees—meaning if one franchise unionizes, McDonald's would be compelled to sit at the bargaining table as well. If that can happen, SEIU believes, it would be easier to wage a mass unionization campaign throughout the company. However, Trump's election poses potential obstacles to both that case and the NLRB's joint-employer standard (which makes both the franchisee and the parent company liable for labor-law violations) more broadly. And if the Supreme Court, augmented by a Trump appointee, goes after public-sector unions—and if national right-to-work passes—SEIU's membership numbers are likely to decline along with its budget. Its ability to fund a massive operation like the Fight for 15 without a clear path for new members could become a luxury SEIU could not afford.
New York City Council Member Brad Lander is proposing a legislative remedy to address that. In early December, he introduced a bill that would require local fast-food restaurants to allow workers to send dues to labor advocacy organizations (like the Fight for 15) directly from their paychecks. Such a policy could be a critical experiment in sustainable funding for alt-labor initiatives, like workers centers, which typically rely on union and foundation funding, and perhaps become a first step in strengthening worker institutions that are not traditional unions.
TRUMP'S ELECTION AND THE GOP's control of Congress have blindsided unions. Yet the forthcoming challenges are not new and have been the subject of fierce debate within the labor movement for years. "A lot of it [will be] just an acceleration of things that are already happening," says Ruth Milkman, a sociologist of the labor movement at the City University of New York. The right wing's plot to destroy the American labor movement, once again, will have its home base in Washington, D.C.
How to organize and grow while confronted with increasingly scarce resources, and in the face of an ongoing existential threat and an adversarial power structure, is, now more than ever, the ultimate labor question. Whether there's a good answer to that question remains to be seen.


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Today we released version 2 of our Simple Conficker Scanner (SCSv2). It contains a new scanning method which allows for detection of machines infected with the recent Conficker version (D or E, depending on the naming scheme - the tool calls it D). Although the patch to the vulnerable function NetpwPathCanonicalize() was updated in the new variant, the RPC response codes for specially crafted requests are still different for infected machines. This enabled us to write a network scanner to distinguish Conficker zombies from clean hosts. The scanning results look like this:
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Saint Louis University's mascot doesn't just bring team spirit. He's a symbol of good luck on campus and around the world.
Just what is a Billiken?
The Billiken is a mythical good-luck figure who represents "things as they ought to be."
Before he was Saint Louis University's mascot, he was a national sensation, a figure who was turned into dolls, marshmallow candies, metal banks, hatpins, pickle forks, belt buckles, auto hood ornaments, salt and pepper shakers, bottles and more.
To buy a Billiken gives the purchaser luck, but to have one given to you is better luck.
PHOTOS: The Billiken mascot through the years
Who invented the Billiken?
Florence Pretz, a Missouri art teacher and illustrator, patented her "design for an image" of the Billiken in 1908.
She later told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "I concluded if there is a chance that we shape our own lives, and my clay was mine to fashion as I would, I might as well make an image, which embodied hope and happiness to sort of live up to."
It is believed that Pretz found the name Billiken in a poem by the Canadian poet Bliss Carman and gave the name to her patented design, which she sold to the Billiken Company of Chicago. It is not confirmed if the firm acquired its name from the Billiken or if it was an established name before the company bought the rights from Pretz's invention.
When did the Billiken become SLU's mascot?
No one is sure exactly when the Billiken first became linked to SLU.
There are several popular stories, all of which tie the Billiken to John Bender, who took over coaching SLU's football team in 1910, and his resemblance to the cheery good luck symbol. According to one, a cartoonist drew a caricature of the coach in the form of a Billiken and posted it in the window of a local drugstore. The football team soon became known as "Bender's Billikens."
Another version of the story says that Billy Gunn, who ran a drug store near Saint Louis University, was responsible for the link. According to a 1946 obituary, "Coach Bender walked into Mr. Gunn's drugstore one afternoon and was greeted by the proprietor with: 'Bender, you're a real Billiken!' William O'Connor, a noted sportswriter who was there, took up the name for Bender, and eventually the University teams became known as the Billikens."
Where else is the Billiken found?
SLU is the only university to claim the Billiken as its mascot. He's a noted good luck charm in other parts of the world, though.
In Alaska, Eskimos render the Billiken in carvings as good luck charms. In Osaka, Japan, a wooden Billiken statue sits in Tsutenkaku Tower, where visitors rub his feet for good luck. And on the south side of Chicago, Ill. the school year can't start without the annual Bud Billiken Parade.
How has the Billiken changed over the years?
SLU's mascot has gone through quite a few physical changes over the years, all of which have brought luck to Saint Louis University's sports teams and smiles to the faces of SLU fans. But at Saint Louis University, students have tied the school mascot to the University's Jesuit mission. Now being a Billiken is a way of life. See what they have to say in this video.


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Houston Glass Show and Sale
Located on the Fort Bend County Fair Grounds in Rosenberg, Texas, from Feb 17-19, 2012, the Houston Glass Show and Sale will feature the rarest and best depression era glass, pottery and china from 1920 through 1970. Both glass and antiques will be shown. For additional information see www.glassshow.com or contact Max Miller at 713-410-4780.
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A guy walks into a bar and asks the bartender if he'll give him a free beer for an amazing trick. The bartender agrees. The guy pulls out a hamster that begins dancing and singing.
"That is amazing!" says the bartender and gives him a beer.
"If I show you something else, will you give me another beer?" The bartender agrees.
The guy pulls out a small piano and a frog. The same hamster plays the piano while the frog dances and sings.
The bartender, completely wowed, gives him another beer.
A man in a suit, who's been watching the entire time, offers to buy the frog for a large sum, and the man agrees.
"Are you nuts?" asks the bartender. "You could've made a fortune off that frog."
"Can you keep a secret?" asks the man. "The hamster's a ventriloquist."


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I was actually going to wait until they made it around the corner but my impatience got the better of me.
I took this while enjoying happy hour
Ahhh... a lighthouse
I found these gravestones in the historic Sleepy Hollow cemetery, an 85-acre cemetery in NY containing about 45,000 interments from 1849 on. Check out this LIST of 19th century notable 'residents'
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Sweet Pete calls it a day
I've never heard of this school
Monmouth County's 9/11 Memorial has three symbolic components: a timeline walkway to recollect the day's events; a stone base carved with the names, ages and hometowns of the county residents who lost their lives; and an eagle sculpture with a beam from one of the fallen towers.
"How to eat a cricket" - OK, I know the quality is not so great ... but as a way of appealing to the 8 yr. old boy in all of us - check out the carnage.
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Science writer Simon Singh wrote an article for the Guardian which the British Chiropractic Association claimed libelled them and so went the way of the courts. Justice Eady decided there were words used which conveyed a meaning which Singh had not intended, but that the case should go to trial nonetheless. Singh is appealing the decision.
In the meantime, the searchlight of skepticism was directed towards chiropractic. Hundreds of complaints were sent to the General Chiropractic Council meaning the GCC were unable to cope with the volume of complaints and causing some chiropractors to rapidly remove or rehash their websites, with some of them throwing in the towel and admitting that Chiropractic has never cured anyone of anything.
Sense about Science has been working with Singh to campaign to keep libel laws out of science.
As part of that, they have arranged for Singh's original article to be scanned by lawyers, have the few words removed that were called into question, so that the article can be reprinted without fear of libel. The important point of this article is that, the whole feel, meaning and impetus is unchanged by the removal of a few contentious words. The thrust of the article is the statement of fact that there is little/no evidence for most (all?) of the claims of chiropractic.
I am pleased to reprint the lawyer-friendly article below - it should also be noted that the BCA have no issue (and therefore tacitly agree with?) everything in the article below.
Beware the spinal trap
Some practitioners claim it is a cure-all, but the research suggests chiropractic therapy has mixed results – and can even be lethal, says Simon Singh.
You might be surprised to know that the founder of chiropractic therapy, Daniel David Palmer, wrote that "99% of all diseases are caused by displaced vertebrae". In the 1860s, Palmer began to develop his theory that the spine was involved in almost every illness because the spinal cord connects the brain to the rest of the body. Therefore any misalignment could cause a problem in distant parts of the body.
In fact, Palmer's first chiropractic intervention supposedly cured a man who had been profoundly deaf for 17 years. His second treatment was equally strange, because he claimed that he treated a patient with heart trouble by correcting a displaced vertebra.
You might think that modern chiropractors restrict themselves to treating back problems, but in fact some still possess quite wacky ideas. The fundamentalists argue that they can cure anything, including helping treat children with colic, sleeping and feeding problems, frequent ear infections, asthma and prolonged crying – even though there is not a jot of evidence.
I can confidently label these assertions as utter nonsense because I have co-authored a book about alternative medicine with the world's first professor of complementary medicine, Edzard Ernst. He learned chiropractic techniques himself and used them as a doctor. This is when he began to see the need for some critical evaluation. Among other projects, he examined the evidence from 70 trials exploring the benefits of chiropractic therapy in conditions unrelated to the back. He found no evidence to suggest that chiropractors could treat any such conditions.
But what about chiropractic in the context of treating back problems? Manipulating the spine can cure some problems, but results are mixed. To be fair, conventional approaches, such as physiotherapy, also struggle to treat back problems with any consistency. Nevertheless, conventional therapy is still preferable because of the serious dangers associated with chiropractic.
In 2001, a systematic review of five studies revealed that roughly half of all chiropractic patients experience temporary adverse effects, such as pain, numbness, stiffness, dizziness and headaches. These are relatively minor effects, but the frequency is very high, and this has to be weighed against the limited benefit offered by chiropractors.
More worryingly, the hallmark technique of the chiropractor, known as high-velocity, low-amplitude thrust, carries much more significant risks. This involves pushing joints beyond their natural range of motion by applying a short, sharp force. Although this is a safe procedure for most patients, others can suffer dislocations and fractures.
Worse still, manipulation of the neck can damage the vertebral arteries, which supply blood to the brain. So-called vertebral dissection can ultimately cut off the blood supply, which in turn can lead to a stroke and even death. Because there is usually a delay between the vertebral dissection and the blockage of blood to the brain, the link between chiropractic and strokes went unnoticed for many years. Recently, however, it has been possible to identify cases where spinal manipulation has certainly been the cause of vertebral dissection.
Laurie Mathiason was a 20-year-old Canadian waitress who visited a chiropractor 21 times between 1997 and 1998 to relieve her low-back pain. On her penultimate visit she complained of stiffness in her neck. That evening she began dropping plates at the restaurant, so she returned to the chiropractor. As the chiropractor manipulated her neck, Mathiason began to cry, her eyes started to roll, she foamed at the mouth and her body began to convulse. She was rushed to hospital, slipped into a coma and died three days later. At the inquest, the coroner declared: "Laurie died of a ruptured vertebral artery, which occurred in association with a chiropractic manipulation of the neck."
This case is not unique. In Canada alone there have been several other women who have died after receiving chiropractic therapy, and Edzard Ernst has identified about 700 cases of serious complications among the medical literature. This should be a major concern for health officials, particularly as under-reporting will mean that the actual number of cases is much higher.
If spinal manipulation were a drug with such serious adverse effects and so little demonstrable benefit, then it would almost certainly have been taken off the market.
Simon Singh is a science writer in London and the co-author, with Edzard Ernst, of Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial. This is an edited version of an article published in The Guardian for which Singh is being personally sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association.


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A videotaped sworn statement has surfaced that bolsters the contention that Florida Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist had a recent romantic relationship with a convicted felon and former travel aide to U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris.
Last week, I reported that 21-year-old GOP staffer Jason Wetherington had claimed to credible sources that he had a sexual relationship with the 50-year-old Crist and had identified the frontrunner's "long-term partner" as Bruce Carlton Jordan, who remains on state probation after serving a 30-day jail sentence for a conviction on grand theft and forgery charges.
Crist has repeatedly denied that he is gay and, with the election looming next week, has recently become more vocal in his stance against adoption by gay couples and in support of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage.
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Crist's campaign spokeswoman, Vivian Myrtetus, responded to my questions with an e-mail: "Wild, false rumors like this one are a sad commentary on the politics of personal destruction which is so hurtful to the political process," she wrote. "This is a completely false story from a convicted felon."
Evidence, however, is piling up that he and Jordan, whom the GOP candidate claims not to remember ever having met, had a relationship and that his Republican opponent Tom Gallagher knew about it prior to the September 5 primary vote.
Much of the information surrounding the relationship came, unwittingly and somewhat ironically, from the Harris U.S. Senate campaign, where Jordan worked as the congresswoman's personal travel aide not long after his release from jail in February.
It was while he was employed in that capacity that another traveler on the Harris campaign, Dee Dee Hall, befriended him. that I obtained over the weekend, Hall swears that Jordan confided to her that he had an ongoing romantic relationship with Crist.
On the tape, Hall sits in a sharply collared blue blouse and talks about a Fourth of July outing with Harris on the wealthy island enclave of John's Island near Vero Beach.
Hall's attendance at the private party was a perk of traveling with her boyfriend, Jay Vass, who was the pilot for Harris' U.S. Senate campaign at the time.
As the evening wore on, Hall says that she began talking with Jordan, whom she had already befriended on the campaign trail, about romantic relationships. She says she wanted to set up Jordan, whom she knew to be gay, with a friend.
"He said that he was involved with Charlie," she says on the tape after she was sworn in by a court reporter. "I was like, 'OK.' He just stated his first name. He said, 'Maybe you've heard of him.' He said Charlie Crist."
She then asked Jordan what it was like to have a romantic relationship with "such a public figure."
"And he said... Charlie was apparently having some issues with that and trying to keep it under wraps and just trying to deal with it in general, you know," she said, later adding that Jordan seemed troubled that Crist was seeking counseling. "He was kind of quiet about it after that point, like he was concerned about Charlie's decision to seek counseling."
I couldn't reach Hall for comment, but Vass, who is well-known in state Republican circles, confirmed that she gave the statement and said that Jordan also confided in him about the relationship.
Vass has been a pilot for top Republican politicians in Florida for nearly a decade. He's flown Gov. Jeb Bush, most every member of the state Cabinet, and a veritable who's who of GOP bigs, including Crist, whom Vass knows personally. His company, Celtic Air, is represented by major Tallahassee lobbyist Wilbur Brewton.
Speaking from his manufacturing company's office in Live Oak, Vass not only confirmed Hall's sworn statement but also added that Jordan had told him of his romantic relationship with Crist as well and that he too had given a sworn statement to that effect.
"It's the truth," said Vass.
Vass, who is a registered Republican, said that while he was serving as the pilot for the Harris campaign this summer, he spent many hours with Jordan. He said that during that time, Jordan told him and other Harris staffers that he was dating Crist.
The pilot also said that Jordan and other Harris staffers were matter-of-fact about the relationship and treated as a fact that Crist is gay. He recounted the evening of June 20, when he was at the Blue Martini bar in Tampa with Jordan and Harris campaign scheduler Jennifer DeBord.
Vass said that DeBord was aware of the relationship - and had seen e-mail exchanges between Jordan and Crist and that the 42-year-old Jordan admitted it to him.
"I couldn't believe they were so open about it," says Vass. "I asked him, 'Aren't you afraid of this coming out?' And Jordan said, 'It will come out sooner or later, and just as long as long as it comes out after the election, I don't care.'
"Everybody knew that Charlie was gay and what absolutely floored me about it was they made no attempt to hide it or disguise it."
When reached at the Harris campaign office, DeBord denied having any knowledge about Jordan and Crist. "I have no knowledge of anything," she said, obviously perturbed at the questions. "I know nothing about that. It is not my business."
Vass, meanwhile, happens to be a very good friend of state Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher, who was Crist's opponent in the primary. Not only has Vass flown Gallagher on campaign stops, but he has also given the politician flying lessons, and the two men have considered business ventures together.
"I was thinking how to expose this," Vass says frankly. "I told Tom [Gallagher] about it, and he said, 'That's what we all suspected. I don't know what we could do with this information.' I said, 'I don't either Tom. All I can do is tell you what I heard.'"
Vass said he also told Harris of Jordan's claim while the two were at the Pompano Beach Airport. Harris, who has said she dated Crist many years ago, told him she "had no idea" about the relationship, he says.
"She said it was a shock to her, and I honestly believe that," Vass told me. "[Harris] said that she and Charlie dated in the past and that during that time she went home and took a lot of cold showers."
Vass did a background check and discovered that Jordan was a felon who had stolen money from two organizations that employed him, including the Tallahassee-based Florida Funeral Home Directors Association, where Jordan served as executive director.
The pilot took that information to Steve Andrews, a Tallahassee attorney and Gallagher backer. And that ultimately led to Jordan's ouster from the campaign and an August 11 article in the Miami Herald about Jordan's ties to Harris and his friendship with Crist, with no mention of a possible romantic relationship.
Ultimately, a private detective in Tallahassee, who spoke to me on condition of anonymity, took the sworn statements of both Vass and Hall. The P.I. indicated that he had been investigating Crist for several months. He wouldn't reveal who hired him for the job.
Rumors abounded that Crist would be outed prior to the September 5 primary, but it never happened. Sources say that Gallagher ultimately decided not to do anything with the information, fearing what it would do to the Republican Party and his own political career.
Sources, however, also say that the Hall videotape was released to a veteran St. Petersburg Times reporter, but the newspaper chose not to publish a story.
I became aware of Jordan two weeks ago when a source revealed that Wetherington, who also worked on the Harris campaign, had identified him as Crist's long-term partner. It was only after that story was published that sources came forward about Dee Dee Hall and Vass.
There is no known tie between those two and Wetherington, who has reportedly left the state until next week's election; the pilot says he never met him and didn't recognize the picture that ran on the New Times website.
I have been unable to contact Jordan, but his father, Albert Jordan, confirmed to me that his son and Crist were friends. Bruce Jordan was known by many to be friends with Crist. In 2003, Jordan, as executive director of the funeral directors' group, used his friendship with Crist to persuade him to appear at the group's annual conference, when Gov. Jeb Bush canceled on short notice. Last week, however, Crist not only denied to me that he had a sexual relationship with Jordan but also that he has ever had sex with a man in his life. One denial, however, that seems particularly dubious is his contention that he doesn't remember ever meeting Jordan at all, especially considering recent photographic evidence. The two men were definitely at the same function on August 5 at, of all places, the annual Possum Festival in Wassau, a tiny town on the Panhandle.
At the festival were numerous politicians, including Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls Rod Smith and Jim Davis and both Harris and Crist. Vass recalls flying Harris and her travel aide, Jordan, to the festival, but the pilot didn't accompany them to the event.
The private investigator, however, says he was there. And he snapped several photographs of Jordan, including one which allegedly shows the two men greeting each other. Crist is grinning at the man alleged to be Jordan, whose back is to the camera. A black backpack he was carrying is visible and his distinctive bald spot is evident, however. At the end of her sworn statement, Dee Dee Hall positively identified the man in the photograph as Jordan.
"Jordan was following Crist everywhere he went at the possum festival," the P.I. told me. The investigator said that it was obvious the two men knew each other. But still there is no proof of a sexual relationship between them, just two witnesses who swear that Jordan told them of the relationship. Similarly, a pair of sources also say Wetherington made claims of a sexual liaison with Crist, though Wetherington has denied it.
Max Linn, the Reform Party candidate who made a splash at Monday's gubernatorial debate, has said repeatedly that Crist has admitted to him on twice that he is at least bisexual [see "Charlie Crist Is NOT Gay," Julia Reischel, October 19]. And Linn is a multimillionaire financial planner who for years was a Republican insider and bankroller.
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In other words, Linn has some credibility. But most people in the know seem locked in denial, which doesn't surprise Vass at all, especially since Crist has raised $22 million and the state GOP is expected to pump at least that much into the race.
There's big money at stake and a lot of political jobs.
"All the people close to him know he's gay, but they aren't going to say anything because all their jobs depend on him winning the election," he explains. "I don't have anything to gain from telling you this right now, and it's probably going to keep me from flying Republicans again.
"But it's about the man's lies and it's the right thing to do, I guess."


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9. You remove your false teeth to change your appearance.
8. You ask for soft high fiber candy only.
7. When someone drops a candy bar in your bag, you lose your balance and fall over.
6. People say: 'Great Boris Karloff Mask,' And you're not wearing a mask.
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4. By the end of the night, you have a bag full of restraining orders.
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2. You're the only Power Ranger in the neighborhood with a walker.
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1. You keep having to go home to pee.
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