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Ding, Dong, DADT Is Dead
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is dead ... in 60 days that is. No longer an "if." And the question of "when" has been answered. Victory, at this point, is ours. The repeal of the Clinton policy under which LGBT service people serving out country in the Armed Forces were forced into hiding is unquestionably a win for our side. But the real winners in all of this are the brave men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces -- all of them, gay and straight. In fact, this couldn't have happened without the support of the entire military.
There is no question about it. By January 2011, Americans were done with the debate over DADT. Aside from your run-of-the-mill crackpot right-winger, most people began to see DADT for what it was: a discriminatory policy that hurt the armed services not helped it. Poll after poll told the president and the Pentagon alike that the time for repeal was now.
The problem? "Now" is not a word that the courts, nor Congress, understand. The system is just not set up that way. No matter how much we all would've liked to have seen DADT written off immediately, history will show, Obama did it right.
Yes, the Department of Justice continued to protect it. Yes, the Pentagon still processed discharges even after Obama told them to repeal the outdated law. But in the end, it was his savvy decision to meet with, and work out a plan with, Pentagon officials that ultimately would put this destructive policy to an end for the last time.
When the Pentagon surveyed the troops, many of us scratched our heads and asked, "What are they up to?" After all, it is uncommon to ask the enlisted soldier how he feels about, well ... anything. The service runs as a dictatorship, not a democracy. He who has the most rank holds the law of the land.
A simple "roger that" or "aye, aye" is all that is required of the newly commissioned officer or enlisted man. But this was different. DADT struck a chord, not only with service men and women, but also with America. Social change was blowing in and the service chiefs could feel it.
So they set out to ask the troops (deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as at home) and their families, "Is the DoD ready to be Gay friendly?" The troops and their spouses answered back with a resounding "yes." That's all she wrote, as they say.
As a 10-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, I can tell you with some degree of certainty that had those survey results come back with the troops saying DADT repeal would have a negative impact, the president could've moaned and complained all he wanted to but the service chiefs wouldn't have moved an inch. But that didn't happen. The troops, gay and straight alike, said in very clear terms, "It's time for DADT to go."
And so it has. As we watch the clock wind down on the remaining days of a law that will be looked upon poorly by U.S. history, we should know that this is a victory that will have positive ramifications for the modern Gay rights movement that we don't yet see.
The best example that comes to mind is the Employment Non Discrimination Act, or ENDA. The U.S. military is a huge employer in our nation and it has just gone gay. This will be looked at closely by lawmakers who are championing a federal ENDA.
While it may be true that the service is not yet transgender inclusive, there is no doubt in my mind that those days are coming. The LGB service member might soon be the LGBT service member, once the dialogue and debate surrounding gender transformation and military service is satisfied. Still, trans non-inclusive and all, it is a win for us to allow LGB men and women to serve openly and that is not something that should be discredited.
And then there is that pesky federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). It always creeps into our lives -- and our victories -- time and time again. This is a complicated one for the Pentagon because now they are faced with defending the decision to not award spouse benefits to same-sex spouses of military members because of DOMA.
While the federal government argues about keeping their nose out of the business of each state, the Pentagon does not have that luxury. The way the top brass sees it; they have to uphold the law on military installations because it is a federal one. The repeal of DADT has opened up the dialogue for debate, and just like transgender military service, I believe we will also see the Pentagon ultimately awarding benefits to spouses of a gay or lesbian service member. The dominos are finally beginning to fall.
On September 20, when DADT is laid to rest, the worst thing we can do as a community is bicker over what we don't have. Instead, we should celebrate the victory for what it is. If there is a LGB service member or veteran in your life, thank them for their service and congratulate them on being a part of history and celebrating in freedom; likewise for a heterosexual service member, as they were the ones in a strong majority that told the Pentagon to send DADT to the brig.
This victory in some people's eyes may not be complete, and yes, we should fight (and we will) for full equality in the ranks, but let's not let that stop us from enjoying the win we did get: DADT is dead.


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The electrical specifications of a comparator are basically the same as those of an operational amplifier (Vio, Ib, etc.), except for the parameter "response time". What does this parameter prescribe?
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Street-level London air pollution warnings coming via mobile phones
The air pollution in Central London and the London borough of Croydon is being forecast daily as part of a pioneering ESA-backed project.
Around a thousand asthma sufferers and other vulnerable individuals in Croydon should soon receive text message warnings to their mobile phones before elevated air pollution days, with additional patients in other London boroughs receiving the service later on.
The YourAir service predicts levels of the pollutants nitrogen dioxide, ozone and airborne particles – exposure to which can harm people with asthma, lung and heart problems, and in the very highest concentrations can harm otherwise healthy people.
The forecasts include predictions of overall effects on health on an index from one to ten. Unlike previous systems, YourAir resolves air pollution down to the scale of individual streets – highest levels are often found along routes with heavy traffic or other pollution sources, so information on street-by-street changes in pollution help vulnerable people make informed choices about their travel routes.
The prototype service covers Central London and Croydon in South London. Croydon is one of the largest boroughs by area and the largest by population, with 330 000 residents.
YourAir is being developed by Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants (CERC) as a demonstration service of ESA's PROMOTE project, intended to deliver atmospheric information to support informed decision making in this field and improve quality of life.
PROMOTE is itself part of Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES), a joint initiative between ESA and the European Union to integrate all available space- and ground-based information sources to develop an independent European environmental monitoring capacity from planetary to local scales.
"The YourAir service works by combining data from the various sources available," said Iarla Kilbane-Dawe of CERC. "It combines regional air quality forecasts provided by PROMOTE with information on local road traffic patterns.
"We also employ information from monitoring stations around the city. Because their coverage is limited they don't help with generating forecasts, but serve as a key way of validating our results, which so far have been around 90% accurate. For the next stage of the project we aim to improve the accuracy further by integrating other data sources, especially satellite observations and more data on traffic patterns."
Regional air quality information is important because not all the pollution affecting a city actually originates there. Depending on the weather, studies show that up to half the air pollution found in some European cities might have come from elsewhere in the continent – the Ruhr in Germay for instance, or as far away as Italy's Po Valley.
Satellite-based atmospheric sensors such as Envisat's Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (SCIAMACHY) can monitor such transboundary movement of air pollution, and so provide constraints for the model used for air pollution forecasts, increasing their accuracy.
"With air pollution arising, its distribution drops off steeply away from major roads or other sources because it mixes vertically as well as horizontally," Kilbane-Dawe explained. "On most days the air rises, taking the pollution with it – as high as 800 metres in the winter, or two kilometres in the summer. So within an hour or so of rush hour the concentrated pollution can waft away."
Some of the highest pollution levels occur when the meteorological situation means local pollution remains trapped close to the ground, combined with pollution plumes from elsewhere.
In the case of London this happens most often during the winter – the animation above shows citywide pollution patterns during the 24 hours of 15 November 2000, when such a high pollution event took place.
"This animation was created by us for the Building Exploratory, an interactive exhibition in the London borough of Hackney," Kilbane-Dawe added. "The traffic data used to generate this animation isn't yet available in real time - the animation includes detailed data from all 31 London boroughs - but it illustrates well the way pollution can concentrate near major roads and follows traffic patterns, and it demonstrates what we expect will become a routine type of urban air quality forecast within a few years."
A linked project called airTEXT involves sending a text message to the mobile phones of a thousand vulnerable individuals during the evening before days when air pollution may be moderate or high. The message will also advise on steps they can take to minimise their pollution exposure and manage their symptoms.
Also backed by PROMOTE, AirTEXT is a partnership between CERC, Croydon Council, the Croydon Primary Care Trust and the South West London Health Protection Unit.
PROMOTE and GMES
PROMOTE is an ESA project that seeks to develop beneficial operational services for organisations and citizens that will use atmospheric data to address the concerns of both policymakers and individual citizens.
The four areas in which PROMOTE services are being developed are air quality, stratospheric ozone, UV exposure and climate change. Partners in the PROMOTE consortium include Météo France, the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) and the Max Planck Institute in Germany.
The project is part of the GMES Services Element (GSE), an initial portfolio of services being developed as part of GMES. This is a joint initiative of ESA and the European Commission designed to establish a European capacity for the provision and use of operational information for Global Monitoring of Environment and Security.
- Pollution mapping
- Video shows GMES in action
- Global air pollution map produced by Envisat's SCIAMACHY
- PROMOTE Website
- YourAir - Central London forecast
- YourAir - Croydon forecast
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Officials in U.S. states ravaged by Hurricane Sandy were still assessing damage Tuesday, turning their focus to federal assistance.
Both New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie have made it clear they think Congress should send tens of billions of dollars in federal aid to their states, The Wall Street Journal reported.
"We expect to be treated in exactly the same way that the victims of Katrina were treated," Christie said.
Cuomo suggested New York needs $30 billion in federal aid, a number that could serve as a starting point for talks with the Obama administration and congressional leadership.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he also expects to receive federal funds to repair storm damage to public schools and public hospitals.
Thirty-seven of New York's 1,750 schools are in buildings that remain out of commission forcing the relocation of some 18,000 students.
Storm damage continues to hinder commuting. In New York officials said delays and overcrowding could plague the public transit network for weeks.
While power outages have decreased across the region, tens of thousands of residents in New York and New Jersey remain in the dark because their homes must be inspected before electricity can be safely turned on.
Officials said it might take weeks to restore those customers.
Christie said by the end of this week New Jersey would open Fort Monmouth to shelter as many as 500 families left homeless by the storm.
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Seriously, it's become a problem and I can't help myself. That's exactly what happened when Cathy of "Wives With Knives" posted her recipe for Glazed Apple Pie Bars. I could not stop thinking about that recipe!
...and, I'm not even a fan of apple pie! Blasphemy, I know. I've mentioned, numerous times, that pie crust doesn't rock my world. But, that has changed, now that I found a pie crust recipe that I like. I'm convinced that adding egg and vinegar makes for a very tender pastry crust. (I used my food processor to make the pie crust.) I'd have to ask Alton Brown why that is, but it works-- and you can't taste the vinegar, either.
However, I find that the dough can be a little testy to work with, because it breaks apart and requires a bit of patching. That's why I found making a pie in a half-sheet baking pan makes the task easier to do. Thanks, Cathy, for that tip, because I have one of these pans and I use it all the time.
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I like to make an egg wash, to brush on top of the pie crust. (You can also use heavy cream.) I buy sparkling sugar -- where else-- from King Arthur Flour. I sprinkle it on top and then set the pie on a large baking sheet (or my baking stone) at 375F for about 35-45 minutes.
TASTING NOTES: This crust is my new favorite (always subject to change). It's very tender. I loved the cinnamon in the filling, but you could certainly leave it out. Using a blend of apples is a good way to go, because you have sweet and the Granny Smith tart, plus you have different levels of apple texture...from soft to slightly crispy. I liked the crunchiness of the sugar and the glaze was a nice touch, as well. This pie was a hit with all of us, and a friend described this as "the best strudel he has ever eaten". I can see why, because the pastry is so tender.
This recipe goes on the top of the pile as a "keeper recipe". Cathy, thanks for inspiring me to make a pie in a non-traditional pan. This would be perfect as a potluck kind of dessert, because you can make smaller slices to go around.
As always, you will find a printable recipe card at the very end of this post. If you can't view it, click here.


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Stepinac trots by White Plains on Turkey Day
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When Stepinac captain Caleb Gilligan-Evans was called over to talk to reporters after the Crusaders' 38-14 win against White Plains in the 41st Turkey Bowl, the senior took his time. He laughed with teammates before taking a breath and breathing two simple words:
"It's over," Gilligan-Evans said, referring to both the game but also his incredible four-year Stepinac legacy. "The last one. What a way to go out. I'm so proud of this team and everything we've accomplished. We won our last game."
The words were a fitting end to Gilligan-Evans, and the rest of the senior Crusaders careers; simple and to the point.
Gilligan-Evans, Austin Taps, Vincent Narog and Garfield Heslop have been a part of perhaps the best era of Stepinac football in school history, and after their final victory against White Plains, they reflected on the win.
"It's bittersweet," said Taps, who was given the game's sportsmanship award. "On one hand we handled business and got the last win of the season. On the other, this is the end to our high school careers. Stepinac is such a great family and an incredible community. It's tough to deal with it coming to an end."
It was the second straight year that Stepinac defeated White Plains in the Turkey Bowl, both lopsided victories, and the fifth time in six seasons. Combined with a CHSFL AA championship last year and the school's first AAA championship appearance this year, and this group may go down as one of the best Stepinac cores ever.
"It's incredible what these guys have accomplished," Stepinac coach Mike O'Donnell said. "And they really deserve it all. They work hard, they do things the right way and most importantly, they're good people. You can't ask more from your players and these guys have been a pleasure."
Gilligan-Evans ran for 96 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries and Narog had three receptions for 94 yards and a touchdown.
White Plains took a 14-10 early in the second half on Ryan Brooks' 56-yard interception return for a touchdown. But three players later Narog took a screen pass 70 yards for a touchdown to give Stepinac the lead for good.
"My time here has been amazing," Narog said. "I wasn't really sure what it would be like at Stepinac when I first came here. But looking back now, these have been the best years of my life. The school's amazing, the football team is amazing; it's just an honor to have been a part of it."
Taps caught a 25-yard touchdown and also blocked a punt in the first quarter to set up Gilligan-Evans' touchdown. Fellow seniors Lance Ladson and Ryan Wasylenko also had big days with Ladson rushing for a 30-yard touchdown and Wasylenko returning an interception 20 yards for a touchdown. Junior Daniel Hoffer threw for 127 yards and two touchdowns on 5 for 9 passing.
"You have to give them credit," said White Plains coach Skip Stevens. "They made plays when it counted and, I don't know why, but we just had some awful turnovers. We had worked all week on protecting the ball and then we go out and turn it over like that; it just wasn't what we were trying to do."
White Plains had seven turnovers, many of which came at the worst possible time for the Tigers, but moved the ball on some long drives. Michael Scotman ran for 68 yards and a touchdown on 17 carries, had a fumble recovery and took home the sportsmanship award.
"You can't turn the ball over that many times against a good team and expect to win," Scotman said. "Obviously the way it ended is upsetting, but White Plains is a great place. We're really a family here and all of us seniors are going to miss it."
Brooks had the long interception return for White Plains' other touchdown and Luke Puff had six tackles. Senior Travis Coleman played tough in the trenches for the Tigers.
After the game, O'Donnell turned his attention back to Gilligan-Evans and his incredible career. Gilligan-Evans will go down as one of the great Crusaders of all time and O'Donnell says what he has brought to the program is irreplaceable.
Gilligan-Evans is one of the few players in Turkey Bowl history to play in the game all four years of high school and is currently leaning towards going to Yale to continue his career, but is still weighing his options.
"Caleb Gilligan-Evans is a true role-model," O'Donnell said. "Forget the football field; he is just an incredible person. There's no way we will be able to replace what he has brought to this program and I'm very proud to say that he played for me. I'm going to miss him."
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supreme Court justices on Tuesday wrestled with the sensitive issue of whether a thirsty Texas water district has the right to access water across the Oklahoma state line.
The case arose under the Red River Compact, an agreement between Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma that apportioned water within the Red River basin. The compact was approved by Congress in 1980.
The Tarrant Regional Water District, which provides water in the fast-growing Dallas-Forth Worth area, would like to access water in Oklahoma, but the Oklahoma Water Resources Board has refused. Oklahoma law restricts allocations of water out of state.
Texas as a whole has been facing a major drought.
Under the compact, the states have equal rights to water in the area in question - in a basin that straddles the Texas-Oklahoma border - but the water district and Oklahoma disagree over what exactly that means. The water district says it means Texas can seek access to 25 percent of the water in question, irrespective of the state line, as stated in the compact. Oklahoma disputes that interpretation.
The Obama administration intervened in the case in support of the Texas water district.
It was unclear based on Tuesday's hour-long oral argument how the court would rule, although several of the nine justices voiced concerns about the water district's argument.
One was Justice Samuel Alito, who told the water district's lawyer, Charles Rothfeld, that the image of Texas having the right to "go into Oklahoma" was troubling.
"I mean, it sounds like they are going to send in the National Guard or the Texas Rangers," Alito said.
Chief Justice John Roberts appeared more sympathetic to the water district, noting that the "whole point" of the compact is that the states all ceded some rights.
"Each state has to give up a little here or a little there to solve a problem," he said.
A decision is expected by the end of June.
The case is Tarrant Regional Water District v. Hermann, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 11-889.
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The American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association have recognized Massachusetts General Hospital for implementing specific quality improvement measures outlined by both associations for the treatment of stroke patients.
The Get With The Guidelines®(GWTG)-Stroke Gold-Plus Quality Achievement Award honor hospitals that maintain an 85% or higher adherence to stroke guidelines for two or more consecutive years. These evidence-based guidelines are designed to ensure stroke patients receive the best possible care. Mass General achieved Plus Level by fulfilling at least 75% of additional, optional quality measures.
Mass General attained the Target: Stroke Honor Roll designation by achieving a door-to-needle (DTN) time of 60 minutes or less for 50% of tissue plasminogen activator (TPA)-eligible patients. TPA is a protein that breaks down blood clots, which are hardened pieces of blood that can develop in the body. When a blood clot disrupts blood flow to the brain, a stroke occurs. Quick treatment is important in saving lives and reducing the amount of damage to the brain.
"The GWTG Gold Plus award and the Target Stroke Honor Roll are awarded to hospitals that deliver the highest rates of evidence-based stroke care and the most rapid delivery of TPA," says Lee Schwamm, MD, executive vice chairman of the Department of Neurology and director of the Mass General Stroke Service. "The Mass General Stroke Service is so proud of this recognition and so grateful to the multidisciplinary staff of the of the Mass General Fireman Vascular Center and the Emergency Department, who provide fast, quality care to our patients every day."
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HIV/AIDS News Digest: May 17, 2011
May 18, 2011
Here is a quick look at a few HIV/AIDS stories recently reported in the media:
Almost 20 years ago, basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson announced to the world that he is HIV positive. In "I Survived," Johnson opened up to Newsweek's Allison Samuels about the challenges of living with HIV for the past 20 years, how it impacted his family and the importance of being adherent to his meds.
On whether he thinks about the day he publicly disclosed:
"I don't look back that much at all, and I don't spend a lot of time on regrets. I do regret putting my family and my wife, Cookie, through that entire experience and having to deal with certain things. But that's really the only regret I have."
On being the healthy poster boy for HIV:
"I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad -- just look at Magic and how well he's doing. I'm blessed that the medicine I take really worked well with my body and makeup. It doesn't work like that for everyone. A lot of people haven't been as fortunate as I have."
On dealing with his diagnosis in the beginning:
"I would say hands down, the first five years were the most difficult for me. That was before advances in medicine, and I was still struggling with my career. It wasn't the way I wanted things to go. It took me a while to figure out I needed closure to get unstuck. I was just stuck."
Starting on July 1, 2011, the Columbus AIDS Task Force (CATF) will be merging with ARC Ohio, the AIDS Resource Center Ohio. After a yearlong assessment, CATF and ARC Ohio concluded that both organizations would benefit from a merger. In a written joint statement, the Board Chairs of both agencies called the merger a "proactive, strategic and sound business decision."
The newly merged organization will become the state's largest AIDS service organization and will provide services to nearly three-quarters of the state. "I think without a merger, we would have survived. But what I would like to do is excel a little more than just survive," says Peggy Anderson, CATF's current chief executive. She says the organization simply wasn't prepared for the economic downturn.
Current clients from both CATF and ARC Ohio shouldn't see any changes in programs or services.
Watch the NBC4-Columbus news segment below:
For the second year in a row, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that Baton Rouge has the second highest rate of AIDS in the U.S., next to Miami.
According to 2009 data, per every 100,000 people in the Baton Rouge metro area, 30.6 have AIDS -- in 2008, the rate was 40. Experts admit that the number has gone down, but there is still much more that needs to be done.
"Baton Rouge has hovered around in the top 10 for years and we have been second in the nation for a couple of years now," said Timothy Young, executive director of the HIV/AIDS Alliance for Region Two Inc. He added, "The thing that is alarming is we still are having problems reaching the most at-risk population, young black men."
Other HIV/AIDS Articles in the Media
Aid for AIDS International Founder, Jesus Aguais, on Homophobia and LGBT Issues (From Americas Quarterly)
Why HIV Treatment Needs 10 Times Its Current Funding (From The Atlantic)
"Stop AIDS" Program Spreads Prevention Message (From Miami Herald)
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Amazing rocket propulsion. Testament to NPC's idiocy that they don't check underneath their own chair afterwards. The suggestion for some of those answers were gold.
2. Plot prediction
Given the behavior of the NPC's in contrast to the new Student President, it certainly makes you think that he's not an NPC. Plot is certainly moving forward now that an important factor (Tenshi's presidency) has changed.
3. Finding inconsistencies
Fact 1: The appearance of Guild shows that they have been fighting for many years.
Fact 2: From the way Yuri talks about the test period, they have been going through it many times as well
Inconsistency: Yet she thinks up this 'switch the exam' idea only now? I know she said that 'we're idiots', but she's shown enough cunning to NOT miss a chance to harass Tenshi.
Theory: Given how Otonashi is remembering his exam material, I'm thinking that the school goes through a reset, leaving those inside with vague memories of the past cycles.
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Awesome ep, best yet. First part was hilarious with slow-motion replays among others. I also love the animation during the music scenes, so damn fluid, showing off personality among the band members, not simply being passive.
I'm quite glad Kanade didn't turn out to be a papercut, cold quiet doll as the first impression is also. Of course, I'd still love her even for that. Yuri starts to get on my nerves but who knows what future eps has in store...
|2010-05-01, 05:51
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et tu, brute?
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Perth WA
Age: 32
Thats it, i am in love tenshi errr tachibana kanade! anyone else with me? man that scene where kanade got stripped from her position, her first disappointed look at losing her ticket and when otonashi thought how lonely she is..
its just so sad man : (
|2010-05-01, 06:04
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Komrades of Kitamura Kou
Join Date: Jul 2004
Age: 33
Besides the obvious humanization of Tenshi/Kanade which was really well done (all she wanted was mapo ), probably the biggest thing for me in this episode is of course Otonashi thinking about Kanade and... well am I the only one seeing the Otonashi-Kanade connection? I have to hand it to Maeda Jun, he does the same character (sub)types a lot in his stories (Kanade for this series) and yet he still manages to pull it off every damn time while pulling your heartstrings in the process.
As for the story itself well Yuri has made it clear the very distinct possibility that Kanade's also human and perhaps simply has a belief system radically different from theirs, and not only because she was the student council president.
The next episode looks like it'll be plot and drama heavy.
|2010-05-01, 06:20
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
A very good episode i'll give this episode 10/10 if only they can make Angel's suffering be much more intense not just eating tofu in the dark all alone.
Angel's character can be seen in this episode she just wanted to be a good student council president and protect the school's law, she is not an angel just an ordinary student council president.
And i do think that Angel and Naoi is not an NPC, but that makes another problem if they're an ordinary dead humans like Yuri and the others, then wouldn't that means that they are supposed to disappear when they follow the school's laws? Are they some kind of "system administrator"?
Anyway like i said before great episode 9.3/10
|2010-05-01, 07:18
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Virginia Tech
My general impressions:
OP - Why the hell is this lagging so badly? (It's my broken fan)
First 5 minutes - Is this just going to be a formulaistic show?
Next 5 - Come on, Key, we did the act of everyone getting made a fool of. It loses its impact.
Last 10 - OK, so this actually IS going to get serious
Post-ED - O.O
I think next week is Key's real chance to regain the momentum I think they lost from episode 4 and the start of this episode. It's really time for this to get into the romantic middle and start tragedy.
8.5/10 for potential, rounded down to 8 because I don't think this deserves a 9.
|2010-05-01, 07:34
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Germany
3 times rocket chair in slow motion replay + music = pure win
2 times the "Stop fighting" shout from Yurippe joke with Otonashi explaining to Angel = lame
Conclusion of this ep Tenshi/Angel/Kanade Tachibana is my favorite female char even before Yurippe which drops in the ranking for me.
|2010-05-01, 07:56
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: where the rose's grow~
I loved this episode~ it was so funny ^^ very good and I so feel for kanade too~ perhaps she was actually protecting them all along what with the new student council and all at the end, but I still dont understand why yuri wants to fight against everything, to me thats not really clear maybe it'll be shown in the future episodes. 10/10 for me~ :3
|2010-05-01, 08:11
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
This episode is great because Tenshi (Tachibana Kanade) actually is depicted as a normal human student.
She told Otonashi her name innocently, only to have the gang sabotaged her test answer sheet.
Also, it's kinda sad to picture Kanade sitting in a corner, enjoying her Mapo Tofu.
The episodes are getting better, mixing drama + comedy each episode while keeping the story going.
|2010-05-01, 08:29
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Australia
The comedy in the first half was hilarious. The repeating of Yuri shouting is unnecessary through, but it's within KEY's formula , i guess. (Takamatsu's secret was a real surprised)
It was sad to look at Tenshi (Tachibana Kanade) this episode. Actually if we think more about it, she has always been lonely like that. This event just allow us audiences to actually realize it.
I don't like how some of us start to resent Yurippe through. If she was the first to rebel. The time it take her to collect such large group of people (especially the "Guild")and become their trusted leader would be several years at least. Her history fighting with Kanade has been long. And based on SSS members reaction about the possibility that Kanade may join them, i will say we are in Otonashi' shoes only. That's why we can so easily feel sympathy and head-over-heel to Kanade.
In fact, Yurippe was sensitive enough to acknowledge the possibly change in Kanade's emotion instead of keep up with their ignorance. I bet none of us would even notice Kanade's food choice and analyse over it like the way Yurippe did
|2010-05-01, 08:53
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2007
Age: 32
Oh was I the only one who saw a hint of envy in Yuri's face when she saw Otonashi and Kanade talking so casually together...I smell love triangle!
OMG! Why did I just say that now there will be yet another shiper war!
|2010-05-01, 08:59
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Wells Fargo & Co., the biggest U.S. bank by market value, bought a stake in Rock Creek Group LP to provide more hedge-fund offerings to clients amid a push to double the asset-management unit within seven years.
The lender purchased a 35 percent stake in the Washington- based firm and has an option to make a majority investment over time, Wells Fargo asset-management chief Mike Niedermeyer said in an interview. Rock Creek oversees about $7 billion as a fund- of-hedge-fund business, giving clients access to handpicked hedge funds and emerging markets, the bank said in a statement, which didnt disclose financial terms.
We view this as one of the fastest-growing segments in the asset-management business, said Niedermeyer, whose business manages $450 billion for customers at San Francisco- based Wells Fargo. While its of a greater interest to larger clients, its quickly becoming a larger area of focus for middle-size and smaller endowments, and state pension funds.
Chief Executive Officer John Stumpf, 59, has sought to expand businesses that are less likely to be hampered by new global banking regulations and record-low interest rates. In April, Wells Fargo announced it would buy Merlin Securities LLC, a prime brokerage that caters to hedge funds and other clients with as much as $2 billion in assets.
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Our clients have expressed their desire for increased alternative investment solutions, and this partnership allows us to meet those needs, Niedermeyer said in the statement.
Rock Creek, in addition to picking hedge funds, also has tools that allow clients to analyze portfolios and stress-test investments, Niedermeyer said in the interview. The firm has about 50 employees and is run by Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss, a former World Bank chief investment officer.
Wells Fargo made the investment through a unit within asset management that groups together boutique asset managers and lets them keep their investment processes independent, according to the statement. The unit is run by Tom Hoops.
Wells Fargo will double its asset-management unit within seven years by expanding in international markets and investing in more alternative-asset funds, Niedermeyer said in an interview earlier this year when the unit managed $444 billion.
The purchase of the Rock Creek stake shows Wells Fargo wetting their feet in alternative-asset managers, said Karl DCunha, senior managing director at Madison Street Capital, a Chicago-based investment bank. Wells Fargo also owns a minority stake in Overland Advisors LLC, a hedge fund that was started in January 2010 when the bank decided to segregate a proprietary- trading group.
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They have the capacity to be completely invested in all sorts of alternative-asset managers but they are very selective and choosy, DCunha said in a phone interview. This is a conservative way to go about it.
Wells Fargo rose 1.7 percent to $34.96 today in New York trading. The shares have gained 27 percent this year, lagging the 31 percent advance of the 24-company KBW Bank Index. Wells Fargos market capitalization is about $184 billion.
Rock Creek has grown assets under management by 89 percent since the end of 2008, when the firm had $3.7 billion of investors money, according to Niedermeyer. Assets could grow to more than $10 billion by the end of 2013, DCunha said.
In 2010, Rock Creek received $200 million to invest for the New York state pension fund, the third-largest in the U.S. at the time. The firm lost money for New Jerseys pension system in 2006 with an investment in Amaranth Advisors LLC, a hedge fund that imploded with wrong-way bets on natural gas.
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Four-fatality Bishop area accident report finally released
More than a year since a terrible accident south of Bishop last August took the lives of four athletes coming and going from a Mammoth high-altitude training camp, a final report puts the responsibility for the crash on the shoulders of one driver, 17-year-old Natalie Nield of San Diego.
The accident occurred on the night of Aug. 9, 2010, when the Ford Expedition Nield was driving south veered off the highway onto the shoulder of U.S. 395 "for an unknown reason," flipped, rolled, caught fire and crashed into an oncoming, northbound van carrying 14 more athletes and an adult driver.
The fiery crash killed two student athletes in the Ford — Nield, and Amanda Post, 18 — and an adult passenger, John Adams, a running coach who once lived in Mammoth. The driver of the van, Wendy Rice, 35, of San Diego, also died in the accident.
The accident left two student athlete passengers of the Ford — Drew Delis, 19, and Derek Thomas, 19 — seriously burned and permanently injured. Several students in the van suffered injuries and the driver of a third vehicle minimally involved in the accident also was injured.
Inyo County Sheriff's Deputy Shane Scott was recently awarded a medal of valor for his part in rescuing some of the survivors. A Bishop off-duty volunteer firefighter, John Williamson, who came upon the accident just minutes after it occurred aided Scott and is currently being examined by the California State Association of Firefighters valor awards committee as another candidate for a similar award (See MT Nov.25, 2010, p. 20-23, for more on Williamson).
The accident has been termed "the most serious accident in Inyo County history," and the cause of the accident has remained a subject of intense interest, even a year later.
Although the report will not be released to the public but only to the "parties of interest" (including the victims and their families and related legal firms and insurance companies), Bishop CHP officer Dennis Cleland summarized the report to the MT Tuesday.
"It was determined that the driver of the Ford Expedition, Natalie Nield, 17, was headed southbound on U.S. 395 at a minimum speed of about 85 mph when she encountered two big rigs ahead of her, occupying both lanes, with one big rig was passing the other. The two rigs were going slower than Nield, and she failed to gauge their speed correctly."
Nield then took "evasive measures" and steered the Ford onto the right shoulder, Cleland said, then turned "aggressively" to the left, which allowed the Ford to go into an "unrecoverable" slide sideways, across the southbound lanes. The Ford then hit the center divider and continued its slide, moving into the northbound lanes. At some point during the roll and slide, the Ford caught fire for an unknown reason.
By the time the Ford came to rest on the east shoulder of the northbound lanes, it was upside down, with its undercarriage in the air, still on fire.
At the same time, a northbound van full of California Baptist University cross country runners bound for a Mammoth high altitude training camp collided with the Ford, causing the already compromised fuel tank on the Ford to explode.
Another vehicle, a Subaru driven by a young Oregon woman named Tanager (no last name), was behind the van, which had just passed it. The Subaru collided with the van, and this collision inflicted minor injuries to the Subaru driver, Cleland said.
By the time emergency responders were able to get close to the accident, Ford passengers Amada Post and Natalie Nield were dead, as was the driver of the van, Wendy Rice. Ford Passenger John Adams survived the crash but was on life support until October, several months after the crash.
Cleland said the accident was "the worst accident in Inyo County to date" and hopes people can learn from that terrible night.
"There can be such a high price to pay for being distracted, or for driving beyond your ability," he said.
An interdisciplinary team called Multi-agency Investigative Team, or MAIT, created the final report. It was released to Bishop CHP on Oct. 5, and to the "parties of interest" on Oct. 10.
It is possible that civil lawsuits associated with the crash will reveal more details of the accident, but Cleland said there would be no further release of information about the accident to the public.


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Producing Bias-Free Policing: A Science-Based Approach
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The "fair & impartial policing perspective" reflects a new way of thinking about the issue of biased policing. It is based on the science of bias, which tells us that biased policing is not, as some contend, due to widespread racism in policing. In fact, the science tells that even well-intentioned humans (and thus, officers) manifest biases that can impact on their perceptions and behavior. These biases can manifest below consciousness.
Social psychologists have shown that "implicit" or "unconscious" bias can impact what people perceive and do, even in people who consciously hold non-prejudiced attitudes. Implicit bias might lead the line officer to automatically perceive crime in the making when she observes two young Hispanic males driving in an all-Caucasian neighborhood or lead an officer to be "under-vigilant" with a female subject because he associates crime and violence with males. It may manifest among agency command staff who decide (without crime-relevant evidence) that the forthcoming gathering of African-American college students bodes trouble, whereas the forthcoming gathering of white undergraduates does not.
The implication of the science is that even the best law enforcement officers may manifest bias because they are human, and even the bestagencies, because they hire humans, must be proactive in producing fair &impartial policing. Agencies (at least those that hire humans) need to implement what is called a "comprehensive program to produce fair &impartial policing." This program addresses the ill-intentioned police who produce biased policing and the overwhelming number of well-intentioned police in this country who aspire to fair & impartial policing, but who are human like the rest of us. Elements of this comprehensive program encompass (a) recruitment/hiring; (b) agency policy; (c) training; (d) leadership supervision and accountability; (e) assessing institutional practices and policies; (f) outreach to diverse communities; and (g) measurement.
The training element of the comprehensive program is critical for changing the way we think about biased policing in this country and preventing its occurrence. While training cannot easily undo the implicit associations that took a lifetime to develop, the social psychologists have shown that, with information and motivation, people can implement controlled (unbiased) behavioral responses that override automatic (biased) associations. The implication is that law enforcement departments need to provide training that makes personnel aware of their unconscious biases so that they are able and motivated to activate controlled responses to counteract them.
The FIP perspective has been placed into five training programs. There is a 1.5-day command level (or command and community stakeholder) training. With COPS Office funds, curriculums for recruits/patrol officers (6 hours) and for first-line supervisors (5 hours) have been developed. There is a train-the-trainer session during which trainers learn to implement the recruit/patrol and supervisor curriculums in their own agencies/academies. And new as of July 2013 (by popular demand) is the training curriculum for mid-management (e.g., Captains). All of the curriculums described above have received very positive evaluations from participants.
The FIP perspective conveys more accurately how bias might manifest in policing. And the further great news about the FIP perspective is that it reduces (the very understandable) police defensiveness around this issue and is embraced by community members who are concerned about biased policing. Both of these impacts are critical for producing change in jurisdictions—change that can be produced jointly by police and the members of the communities they serve.
Evidence-based policing is not just about implementing better informed and tested crime control approaches, but also about how to effectively achieve fair &impartial policing. Developing and implementing training to control implicit bias that is based in rigorous science, not conjecture or personal beliefs, is especially important to this long-standing aspiration of enforcement and community stakeholders. And it appears practice is headed in the right direction. Several states are moving toward state-wide adoption of the FIP curricula including Kansas, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and South Carolina. The Special Litigation Unit (SLU) of the USDOJ, which investigates agencies that are suspected of engaging in unconstitutional practices, including biased policing, is promoting (and, in some cases requiring) training that addresses how unconscious or implicit biases impact on even well-meaning officers. The COPS Office, that has invested $1 million in the FIP initiative, is currently supporting train-the-trainer sessions around the nation and bringing FIP training to agencies at risk for SLU investigations with the hopes that those agencies can get on track to produce fair &impartial policing and avoid SLU intervention.


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In this article I showed you how you can protect your PHP code using the ionCube PHP Encoder. While I only showed your the absolute basics, there are many other features available with the encoder that make it ideal for projects of all sizes.
Some of those features include:
- Adding a licensing mechanism to your code so only license-holders can use your code
- Handling various events in the loading process (such as if the loader isn't found)
- Writing custom properties to an encoded file
Additionally, if you use a tool such as Phing to simplify your PHP application build process, there is a built-in hook to run all of your code through ionCube PHP encoder.
One of the issues PHP developers face is that PHP is an interpreted language, meaning PHP source code is readable by anybody who downloads your applications. In this article I will show you how to protect your intellectual property by encoding your PHP source code.
The tool we are going to use to protect our code is ionCube PHP Encoder. Before releasing your PHP software, you use the encoder to convert your plain-text PHP files into special encrypted files.
Because your PHP is encoded into a special byte-code (as opposed to just being obfuscated), a loader must be installed on your web server. A loader is a PHP module that must be installed.
On the ionCube website there is a loaders page which contains the latest versions of the loader for all supported platforms (you must install the correct loader for your platform).
Before we proceed, let's take a quick look at an encoded file. Listing 1 shows a basic PHP script.
We can then run this script through the encoder. While there are many different options available, encoding a script with the default options yields the following PHP file.
While you cannot understand what this code does just by looking at it, your PHP installation with the correct loader installed interprets this just as if it was the code in Listing 1.
The ionCube PHP Encoder is a command-line script you run either one or more files, or on an entire set of folders. If you're encoding an entire PHP application you would typically run it on the original source folder. The encoder will duplicate the entire tree, except the PHP code will be encoded.
In the previous section I showed you what the encoded PHP code from a basic "Hello World" script looks like. The command I used to generate this encoded script is as shown in Listing 3.
In this example, the
-o specified the output location. In this example I just created the encoded file in the same directory with a different filename. Typically you would want to create the file with the same filename as the original (without replacing the original source code).
To achieve this, set the input and output both to be a directory. The encoder will automatically recurse through all directories in the input directory and encode all PHP files.
To demonstrate this, let's assume
helloworld.php is in a directory called
src. Listing 4 shows the command we use to encode this entire path. The example outputs the encoded files to the
build directory.
We now have a directory called
build which is identical to
src except that the PHP files are encoded.
There are many other command-line options. You can discover some of these by running
ioncube_encoder5 with no arguments. Additionally, the "Encoder User Guide API" document (available from here) is extremely useful.
Depending on how your web application has been designed, there may be some non-PHP files you would to prevent users from being able to read. A good example of such files is XML files or Smarty template files.
The ionCube PHP Encoder includes an encryption option. This feature is used to protect non-PHP files (but it differs from the PHP encoding since the output isn't a bytecode format format).
To encrypt files, the
--encrypt command-line option is used. You can then specify a file pattern that will be encrypted. For example, if you want to encrypt every file with extension
tpl you would specify
--encrypt "*.tpl". Without doing so, the encoder would simply copy all
tpl files exactly as-is into the target directory.
Listing 5 shows the command we can now type on our
src directory. The directory contains the
helloworld.php script and a template called
Let's now take a look at what effect this had on the source code. Listing 6 shows the original template file.
Now when we run the command from Listing 5, not only is the PHP script encoded, the
index.tpl file is encrypted. Listing 7 shows what the encrypted file may look like.
Your application must be able to handle these encrypted files. Fortunately, when a loader is present in a PHP installation, a number of additional functions are made available that allow you to deal with encrypted files.
ioncube_read_file() will decrypt files that have been previously encrypted. This function accepts a filesystem path as its only argument and will return the decrypted data. If the input path was not encrypted it will be returned as-is.
ioncube_read_file() method will only work from within an encoded PHP file. Additionally, it can only decrypt files that were encrypted with the same encoder that encoded the PHP file. This prevents other people from being able to decrypt your files.
Since we encrypted a Smarty template in the previous example, let's take a quick look at the changes required to Smarty to read encrypted files. The ionCube website contains notes on patching Smarty so it is compatible. This change ensures
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ioncube_write_file() function which allows you to directly write encrypted data from within your application. This allows you to protect data generated by your application.
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Southwesterly winds Tuesday helped clear smoke from one of several fires consuming thousands of acres in Arizona.
David Albo with the Tonto National Forest said the smoke came from the still uncontained Sunflower Fire in the Tonto National Forest Monday evening, The Arizona Republic reported.
Flames consumed about 3,100 acres and police said they're still investigating its cause.
Air quality officials issued a health watch Monday for the Phoenix area, said Mark Shaffer of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.
An ozone health watch issued Monday was extended into Tuesday because of high temperatures.
Other fires still burned across the state, including the Gladiator Fire, which forced nearly all residents of Crown King to evacuate their homes Monday, said Dwight D'Evelyn of the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office. Only about 12 homes in Crown King remained occupied. D'Evelyn said about 1,300 acres have burned so far. The blaze that was started by a house fire that ignited a propane tank. The fire was not contained early Monday.
On the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, the Bull Flat Fire burned more than 700 acres near the Canyon Creek Fish Hatchery, the Republic said. Officials said the fire was 45 percent contained Monday afternoon and could have been started by a lightning strike.
The Elwood Fire has burned 1,506 acres on the San Carlos Indian Reservation, Bureau of Indian Affairs official Duane Chapman said. It was 5 percent contained as of Monday afternoon, and the cause was under investigation.
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MAKING THE BAND: Taylor Fredricks band creates noise in the music business
CHURUBUSCO — Numerous would-be musicians dream of forming a band that will become the next sensation on the music scene. When Taylor Fredricks started playing guitar, his dream was much the same.Although his partnership with some small-town musicians was unexpected, Fredricks and three Churubusco natives came together to form the Taylor Fredricks Band. Adding one last member, the band is now made up of Fredricks on vocals and guitar; Dylan Jones, of Churubusco, on drums; Harrison Sade, of Churubusco, on guitar and vocals; Travis Kreager, of Churubusco, on keys and Brandon Beer on bass and vocals.The Taylor Fredricks Band, based out of Fort Wayne, started off as Fredricks in a solo project. He started playing at the age of nine and was performing at local coffee shops by age of 13. In the beginning, Fredricks performed Christian music, but tired of songs based around one particular subject. Wanting to write songs about his life, he branched out and started developing a new style.After being signed to DMI Entertainment Group in February of 2010, Fredricks was in need of a band to back him musically if he was going to be playing larger shows."We went through some changes in members, but what we ended up with is the best configuration of talent," Fredricks said. "I started out as a solo act, but changed and added the band, which has taken the music to the next level."To read the rest of this story, see the July 26 issue of The Post and Mail. Don't have a subscription? Call (260) 244-5153 or subscribe to our e-edition. For breaking news, sports updates and additional coverage, bookmark the homepage and find us on facebook and twitter.


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Mindy Ross Gallery in Kaplan Hall at SUNY Orange
Viewers will be able to experience the "playful dynamic approach" which Collens says guides her in painting and creating three-dimensional works in the forms of models and large pieces. Through her works she would like to convey to viewers her "curiosity-fueled thought process [which] is at the heart of my artmaking process." Exhibit on display Mon-Thur 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-6pm, Aug 7 – Oct 15, 2017. Art master class with Collens in the OCTC Great Room 101on Oct 3, 3pm. Artist reception Oct 3, 4:30-6:30pm.
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There's been a lot of hoopla about secret hidden-camera videos of low-level employees of the anti-poverty group ACORN lately -- some of them quite embarrassing. I haven't seen any video yet from "real reporters" James O'Keefe or Hannah Giles of an ACORN employee who works in the agency's Charlotte, N.C., office by the name of Hector Vaca. And don't hold your breath waiting for Vaca to appear on the Fox News Channel anytime soon, because he doesn't fit the story line.
Vaca was one of eight ACORN employees in North Carolina who was just laid off because of funding problems -- problems closely related to the recent exposes by the right-wing media. His work had nothing to do with what millions of folks with the time and the money to be sitting on a couch watching TV at 5 p.m. when Glenn Beck comes around think ACORN mainly does, i.e., advising garishly dressed prostitutes and pimps. Vaca was actually helping folks in Charlotte who are battling the worst economic crisis in our lifetime and fighting for them to stay in their houses, a project so "radical" that Citigroup and Bank of America (just the kind of folks you'd expect to partner with ACORN in its vast "socialist" conspiracy) are backing it. It is work that is so important that Vaca is continuing to do it now, even without a paycheck:
In Charlotte, head organizer Hector Vaca spent time this week driving through neighborhoods, visiting homeowners who are struggling with their mortgage payments. The program, in partnership with Citi, aims to offer free advice to residents who could be facing foreclosure. Vaca, 35, said he hands out fliers and will offer his cell phone, too, to homeowners who want to call for free assistance right away.
Vaca, who said he grew up poor as the child of an immigrant, has been an ACORN organizer for three years."I love my job," he said. "I get to help people who have never been able to get the help they need."
This, in a (pardon the awful pun), nutshell, is what the ACORN scandal is really all about. Forget the videos, forget the "pimp." The reason that Hector Vaca loves what he does is the reason that Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and their dittoheads hate what Hector Vaca does. He is helping people who were have never been able to get the help they need...before he pulled up to their driveway.
Even in a media world where 24 hours of daily cable blather is so rarely tethered to the real-world concerns of Americans, the ACORN saga stands out as a story that everyone is talking about but no one is stepping back to even try and comprehend or place into any kind of rational perspective. The conservative dwellers of Glennbeckistan who've been flooding newsrooms across America -- including here at the Daily News -- with calls complaining that we're not covering the ACORN story know next to nothing about the anti-poverty group other than their belief that it single-handedly elected Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States (it didn't) and that it receives billions of dollars in taxpayer money (it doesn't).
At the same time, I would encourage the handful of fellow progressives who see the story solely as a Fox News witch hunt to acknowledge this part of the bigger picture: That ACORN is a large non-profit that is very poorly run, and in need of some major reform. It would be good, in a way, if that's what this story were really about -- making things work better. But conservatives don't want to reform ACORN, nor do they want another, better-run outfit to come along and do some of the things it does -- helping the urban poor find better housing or increasing voter registration. They want to destroy ACORN and the things it does. Period.
I'm not not going to bog this down with a long history of ACORN, which grew out of 1960s' activism working with welfare recipients in the nation's battered cities -- you can learn a little more about it here. The group has had a number of successes in areas that matter in American life, including fair-housing issues, voter registration (it was a key backer of the Motor Voter law), helping Hurricane Katrina victims and even fighting for Vietnam veterans during a time when that was not a popular issue. So why is it poorly run? Well, the videos now in heavy rotation on Fox show that some of its lower level workers are either under-trained or unethical or both, while ACORN has also been rocked by wrongdoing at the top of the organization. So have a number of well-known non-profits that aren't under regular assault from the right-wing media -- but that still doesn't make it right.
Beyond that, there is evidence of major structural flaws within ACORN -- generally, a group that has both an advocacy side and a political side that supports candidates is a recipe for trouble. Then there is the serial wrongdoing by workers that ACORN hired to do voter registration, the episodes that are regularly described as a "voter fraud scandal." But no actual voter fraud -- that is, people who were unlawfully registered casting real ballots and influencing the outcome of election (as happened in this case, for example) -- took place. In fact, it was ACORN itself that was defrauded by hiring workers who tried to get paid extra money by signing fake names like "Mickey Mouse," which may explain why it was ACORN officials who reported these crimes to the authorities. The significance of this scandal -- which is really more like embezzlement than voter fraud -- points back to the notion that ACORN needs to be better run...a lot better.
Yet this reality -- that ACORN is an established group with worthy goals and some success but also poor management -- is not what's driving the story. The folks who are spearheading this investigation of ACORN -- O'Keefe, Giles, Beck, and all the others -- aren't reporting this story because they want corrupt employees and bad managers weeded out, so that the taxpayers are getting the best return on the relatively minuscule amount of money -- just $53 million over the last 15 years -- that it's received from the feds. Nor will the "fair and balanced" network ever tell you that other ACORN employees turned away the bogus pimp and prostitute -- most notably right here in Philadelphia, where employees called the cops on O'Keefe -- or bother to explain the real work of ACORN, as done by decent people like Hector Vaca.
The real reason they are after ACORN is that they don't like its core mission -- siding with beleaguered homeowners over banks, and trying to register inner-city residents to vote at the same rates as the suburbanites who've dominated American politics since the 1980s. Taking down the group's mission of urban empowerment won't strengthen America, just the Republican Party. And you don't need a Ph.D. in social work or journalism to figure this out, since O'Keefe has made it clear that ACORN's success -- and not its corruption -- is what prompted him to launch his investigation. Here's what he told the Washington Post:
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"Politicians are getting elected single-handedly due to this organization," he said. "No one was holding this organization accountable. No one in the media is putting pressure on them. We wanted to do a stunt and see what we could find."
But O'Keefe didn't go after the voter registration unit of ACORN. Maybe that's because real investigative journalism is hard work, but more likely it's because powerful people like U.S. Attorneys, who didn't even have to dress up like pimps because they have subpoena power, already tried that angle and didn't find one single bogus vote cast. Instead, the two young filmmakers and the deep-pocketed FNC are taking down ACORN through the back door, and if what has already happened in North Carolina is any indication, they will succeed.
You know, this is all so much like the "debate" over health care. No one disagrees that the medical system here is a mess, but one party, the Republicans, offers no serious plan whatsoever -- gambling for the raw political edge they might gain by a liberal-centrist failure to pass any bill. Likewise, there is no interest here whatsoever in ending housing discrimination, stopping predatory lending, or coming as close as possible to 100 percent participation on Election Day -- the kindof things that all Americans should be inclined to support, regardless of party or ideology.
James O'Keefe's America is one where powerful banks can continue to walk all over the working poor, and where demoralized urbanites don't bother to vote. The right-wing's attitude toward fighting poverty is exactly the same as Rush Limbaugh's attitude toward Barack Obama before he had yet served one day in the White House.
They want them to fail.


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Agent Does Consult Transfer to CVP and Completes Consult While Connected to IVR
|Problem Summary
|The agent does a consult transfer to CVP and then completes the consult while still connected to the IVR, instead of waiting until finally being connected to the agent.
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| To avoid this issue, do a single step transfer instead of a consult transfer to get the caller transfered to the CVP IVR. In the event you still want to use a consult transfer into CVP for some reason (for example, an agent desktop is customized for only one flavor of transfer), you can create a separate SIP trunk that has MTP enabled. This SIP trunk will service the route patterns destined for CVP. The DNIS you are using is different than the warm transfer DNIS, so there should be no problem using separate SIP trunks.
It happens for SIP only (H323 is fine). Future enhancement to the VXML gateway will support reinvitations on the IVR leg, in which case MTP will not be required on this particular call flow.
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|The set up includes adding an additional SIP trunk with MTP, allowing MTP to be allocated only on the warm transfer legs. 1) Create the secondary SIP trunk, call it "Outbound SIP trunk-Warm Xfers" to differentiate it with the incoming SIP trunk that handles calls from CUPS or CVP. 2) Apply MTP and point it to the CVP IP address. 3) Create the Route Pattern for the VRU label and set the outbound sip trunk.
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