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Skip to comments.Possible 9th victim contacts cops in Sandusky case [another Penn State coach victim?]
Posted on 11/08/2011 12:51:55 PM PST by Colofornian
MONTOURSVILLE, Pa. Another potential victim has contacted authorities in the child sexual abuse investigation of former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, a state police criminal investigation supervisor said Tuesday.
The man, now an adult, contacted the department on Sunday after seeing media accounts of Sandusky's arrest, Lt. David Young at the Montoursville station said.
Young said investigators took a statement from him and forwarded it to the Rockview station for officers there to pursue.
The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, which first reported that the man had come forward, said he is in his 20s, knew Sandusky from The Second Mile charity and had never told his parents or authorities about the alleged encounters from about a decade ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at centredaily.com ...
And so it begins..................
Now that it's become public, we may see dozens of kids coming forward. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
I like that "potential victim" language.
My AM drive time was all sex either on Sports Talk or Politics.
ESPN has been pounding this all afternoon. I have been watching for the past two hours. Kurt Herbstreet made a profound remark: He said (not direct quote here), but like: Sandusky has been on this campus as late as last couple of weeks. JoePa KNEW way back in 2001 that Sandusky did this to the kid in the shower. WHY was Sandusky allowed to be on campus for all these years since that first incident? Why? Why didn't JoePa ban him from campus long long ago?" Personally, I think he should be fired. The AD, assistant coach who saw it fired. The president of the university fired. They need to clean house and start totally over. The millions in civil lawsuits JoePa and the school are about to have to pay is going to be huge.
Shame on you Joe. Hit the bricks!
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**Sandusky has hosted many summer football camps and remains involved in The Second Mile, a children's charity he founded in State College, Pennsylvania in 1977.**
For 34 years!!! This is just so despicable. There must be hundreds of victims. May he rot in hell..soon.
It's not just Paterno, he's just the 82 year old dude they are going to throw under the bus to save their OWN asses.
The ENTIRE top administration knew about this, FOR YEARS, and still did nothing.
And since they are OBVIOUSLY a bunch of smug academic elites who feel they are above the law, because, darn it, they are just so morally superior, and all, they feel they shouldn't have to suffer the consequences.
It was just a bunch of faceless KIDS that were raped after all. What are they, compared to the glory of the University, and their own careers?
We can only speculate how many other boys in this program who, like the victims cited in the grand jury report, also stayed at Sandusky's home, traveled with him, etc. It's stomach turning. And the "cover" he seems to have received is just unimaginable.
Good reflective article by an SI reporter.
Pedophiles take everybody down with them:
...protector-enablers (Paterno + Schultz + Curley, PSU A.D. + McQueer-y + whoever else knew @ Penn State)
...fan base [students, boosters, sponsors -- at least those who stay in denial and become part of the broader cultural problem]
...associates (The Big 10...already known as the Pedophile Conference due to Kinsey and his Indiana University employee-hosts) See: How Alfred C. Kinseys Sex Studies Have Harmed Women and Children [Big 10 harbors perp culture]
Since the eastern portion of the Big 10 features THE scumbags of the earth (Ohio State which goes way out of its way to promote homosexual activism coupled with its sports scandals, Pedophile-enshriners Indiana University, and now the Pedo State University NitKinsey Lionizers), time to boycott the Big 10...and its network...and its biggest sponsors.
meant to ping you to post#11
I know what you mean...maybe you can straighten things out for me: did Herman Cain have sex with Joe Paterno?
And notice that the Penn State officials are still defending themselves...not coming forward with any admission of wrongdoing on the part of anybody there!
No repentance; no forgiveness! Just call 'em "UnrePENTant State University!"
Some will be frauds, some won't. Either way, this is going to get uglier.
Spanier will not make it to the end of the year.
State Pen U?
Why should he make it to the end of the DAY?
the infowarrior
Bingo...add that one to the list:
Pedo State
State Pen U
The Nittany Lyin's
The NitKinsey Lionizers
T-shirts for the Penn State home crowd to purchase since they have such "Pedo Pride"
The time for "saving asses" is over (both literally and figuratively.)
They're all going down. Every person in the Penn State pantheon who had any knowledge of this freak and what he was up to.
Psychos all of them - worried about their "football rep" while young boys were being anally raped for decades.
Some, but not enough, will go to prison. The rest will have their careers and lives ruined. They deserve no less.
There was also a report back in 1998.
So the incident you are speaking of was not, as you had it, "that first incident".
It was the second one. At least.
He shouldn't but the Board of Trustees won't act that quickly.
Expand that to the DA's office, Second Mile and the several public school officials that either looked the other way or urged parents not to report Sandusky.
That was a good article. Thanks for the link.
Famous quotes made this week:
Spanier: I fully believe in the honesty and character of Curley and Schultz
Paterno: If these charges are true ...
It helps to read all the posts against this behavior. But we've seen it before, and I'm sure it will happen again. Ped State will suffer a few repurcussions, and perhaps Paterno will be forced out with a sweet severence/etc. (not that he needs it) but there will be no justice.
Look at Clinton's behavior.
OJ was set free
MJ was never found guilty
Politicians, Athletes and celebrities continue to get a free pass on life, while the rest of us are used to "set an example".
I don't know which is worse, the perp or the defender of the perp.
I don't know what will happen to PSU as an organization but lots of heads will roll on this one. The 'Happy Valley' club will be no more.
All depends upon timing there:
Defenders of perp post perpetrating are NEVER as bad as the perps...
But enabler-defenders of perps who allow perps the same license to go on perpetrating ARE as bad as the perps...
And that's what we have here in Ped State.
FREEPER NewinTexas offered up this list of "in-the-know" PSU people on another thread:
People we know that knew Sandusky raped little boys and kept quiet.
President Spanier
AD Curley
VP Schultz
PSU Attorney Courtney
Second Mile Attorney Courtney
University Police
County DA Gricar
County Prosecutors
Coach McQueary
Various elementary and high school officials
Second Mile officials
Joe Paternos staff including down to the janitors
Source: Penn State Cancels Paterno News Conference Amid Scandal
Thanks for the bump. I am sure there are more.
Here's hoping that Nebraska pounds the hell out of the Nittny Lyins on Saturday.
If you even suspect somebody is committing these heinous acts, and you are in a position to do something about it, as Paterno was, you'd better be prepared to move the heavens and the Earth to get it stopped....PRONTO! Just banning him from campus (which they didn't do anyway), wasn't enough....he needed to be stopped before one more child got abused. And THAT'S the bottom line!
I don't give half a damn about college football. As such I "don't have a dog in this fight".
I just think a rabid leg humping child attacking dog needs to be put down post haste - and a dog owner who allows children to be around a dog for years after two reports of it attacking children is absolutely criminally negligent.
Not only pounds the hell outa the Nittny Lyins, but doens't take the foot off the gas. Ever.
Not only do I hope the Huskers pound the hell outa the Nittny Lyins, but that they don't take the foot off the gas. Ever.
Yes, the "Penn State faithful" need a reality check on what kind of cognitive dissonance and denial was going on here.
I'd say the shame factor is so severe right now for the "Happy Valley" crowd ("Happy" as in "gay" -- only commandeered now by the "Happy Valley" happies...the pedophiles)...that the KnitKinsey Lionizers should do what the "Unknown Comic" did on a TV program...
Their fans should all wear paper bags as the "Unknown Lionizer fans"
Victims now 20
NPR called it "involved in sex with young boys", as if it was not forceable rape but racy same-sex fun. Make no mistake, it's another MASSIVE homosexual cover-up.
If you are always found hanging around kids, taking them to big time events,even taking them for overnight trips to his house.
Oh yeah, stuff like that does not remain unnoticed.
Same way the schools administration acted when they investigated Michael Mann (Hockey Stick Temperature Chart Fame) for Climate Change irregularities. They found no wrong doing when the entire civilized world saw wrong doing in the Climategate emails. We now know how that was possible. The entire upper administration of cronies for this school needs to be booted.
The university selected a president who wrote his doctoral thesis on... Wait for it...
Wife Swapping.
A previous student body president submitted a grievance about the aggressive pro-homosexual agenda, but nothing was done.
In my estimation, this likely extends to the trustees.
Updated list:
People we know that knew Sandusky raped little boys and kept quiet.
President Spanier
AD Curley
VP Schultz
PSU Attorney Courtney
Second Mile Attorney Courtney
University Police
State College Police
Child Services
County DA Gricar
County Prosecutors
Coach McQueary
Various elementary and high school officials
Second Mile officials
Joe Paternos staff including down to the janitors
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I figured it would do a get mime type on the upload and then use something like %mime_type% in the path template.
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Wait--didn't Volver open like two months ago? Are you just getting it now in Seattle?
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A Letter To Charles Koch: Do You Consider Climate Science To Be On A 'Solid, Firm Foundation' As Richard Muller Does?
When infamous industrial billionaire Charles Koch funded a study to review the science of global warming, it's very likely he didn't expect the chief scientist, Richard Muller, to conclude that "humans are almost entirely the cause" of an accelerating warming trend.
So will Charles Koch ignore the study he supported? Greenpeace's Executive Director Phillip Radford sent a letter to Charles Koch yesterday, asking him if the science he funded is enough to convince him of the urgency of climate change. Here's the letter in full:
As you know, one of your grant recipients – Dr. Richard Muller of University of California Berkeley – recently published an op-ed in the New York Times about his "total turnaround" from climate skepticism based on the results of his latest study. The Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation granted at least $150,000 to Dr. Muller's Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) study. Dr. Muller's results are consistent with decades of scientific evidence, fully convincing him that global warming is happening and "humans are almost entirely the cause."
Based on Dr. Muller's evidence and the views of virtually all climate scientists, I am writing to inquire about the influence of these findings on your previously expressed skepticism about climate change.
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"I did talk to Charles Koch. He emphasized from the beginning that he was concerned about valid issues in the science. He wanted us to straighten out those issues. He didn't know what answer we would get. He just wanted it to be put on a solid, firm foundation. That's what we've done."
For years, you and your brother, David Koch, have directly provided over $61 million to organizations that deny science and cast doubt on global climate change, in addition to millions more in hidden funding through your "Knowledge and Progress Fund." This includes support for the Heartland Institute, which is currently supporting a project run by the retired TV weatherman Anthony Watts in attempts to discredit the results of the BEST study. You may recall that the Heartland Institute ran the infamous billboard comparing the Unabomber with those who acknowledge the existence of global warming.
Organizations you finance continue to delay action to curb global warming even as the United States is experiencing unprecedented heat records, drought, wildfires, and violent storms. Your own home state of Kansas is at the center of the summer's extreme drought, which has led to prairie fires and forced ranchers to sell their cattle due to lack of grass and water. Your oil and gas business activities, not to mention the political funding you can afford, have helped ensure that these all-too-real disasters will become more frequent as the global climate continues to warm.
Our country desperately needs to reduce carbon pollution in order to take a lead on the global stage, and you have an opportunity here to stop obstructing such leadership. Please tell us, Mr. Koch: do you now consider anthropogenic global warming to be on a "solid, firm foundation" as Dr. Muller does? Will groups that deny climate science continue to receive support from Koch Industries and its associated foundations? If so, will you urge them to discontinue such unscientific and unproductive interference in policy-making focused on addressing climate change?
We look forward to your response and urge you to take this inquiry seriously. Too much is at stake to continue delaying solutions to civilization's largest challenge.
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That was almost a really strong letter, with a potential to communicate.
But sliding into relatively personal attacks that imply a lack of integrity is most likely to get anyone's back up. However true the accusations are, of course does not matter in terms of triggering a psychological defense.
So it ends up being unclear whether Phillip Radford was really trying to communicate to Charles Koch, or if this was an attempt to communicate with the public in the guise of communicating with Charles Koch.
Anyway, it would be terrific if Charles Koch actually hears what Dr. Richard Muller concluded.
Appealing to honor actually works sometimes, especially with proud, self-confident people. And the biosphere could afford to catch a few lucky breaks about now.
Great joke — pretending that the Koch Brothers care about the science and might even end their ruthless, relentless and rapacious obstruction of the urgently needed phase-out of the fossil fuels on which their ever-increasing wealth and power depend.
This is a really hilarious satire!
It is like asking Assad to call in his murdering army and host a barbeque for the press corps.
I don't see how that letter engages in personal attacks. It lays out Koch's record and the facts that they have been the top funder of misinformation on global warming.
It does that while also laying out that Koch claimed (a lie in my opinion) that he would listen to the results.
The thing is, the Koch Brothers do not interact with the rest of us beyond their army of think tanks, political attack dogs and the like. They are famously secretive and will not engage public debate. They do not talk to the press.
It would be great if they addressed this publicly but it would be very surprising if they do.
For people who want to control our public institutions, the Kochs really should be more open to public discussion and debate.
But they refuse to engage the rest of us respectfully and, instead, fund campaigns of lies and propaganda. Clearly, they do not believe in the American system of government.
This letter is well written but will may do more harm than good, unless the intention is to educate the public under the guise of writing the letter.
I like the idea of putting the fratelli Koch on the spot-but it's naive to think the Koch brothers will publicly admit anything. The Assad comparison is apt.
I have a different question for Mr Koch:
"Please explain to me why you should not be frog marched to The Hague and prosecuted for crimes against humanity?"
You're right, of course. Koch is evil, and crazy, too. He not only won't respond, he will continue to fund anti clean energy campaigns.
The quoted conversation with Muller was just for drill, since he would only like the result if it makes him money.
You do something about evil by fighting it. The Kochs will never be persuaded.
I can't help but wonder if this is just climate denialism shifting in third gear. First deny the climate is changing for as long as feasibly possible. Then deny we're responsible for as long as feasibly possible. Perhaps now the focus will be on denying that the repercussions are of concern, before finally telling us in 2015 that it's now too late to do anything anyways…All set against the never changing backdrop of "Drill baby drill".
The current administration has thrown in the towel and you think a letter to Charles Koch that begs surrender to reason is going to make him grab defeat from victory? I have a big, body size, paper bag for you to fit into.
It's more ambiguous than that. The Kochs are MIT-trained engineers, sons of an engineer, and most of their Koch Industries provide technical chemical products and services. They aren't completely opposed to science, far from it.
I see the Kochs instead as pragmatists who when presented with the BEST results might measure the implications in relatively short-term consequences to their interests. As I wrote before, it is to their advantage that the BEST results lengthened the climate change time line to decades before their corporate culpability.
Steven, the last sentence may mislead.
The link says the Kochs committed to raising $400 million, but the link does not quote the Kochs on how it would be spent, other than, ".. steering funding to build sophisticated, county-by-county operations in key states."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76849.html#ixzz22sY3ON3m
You inferred that "most of those millions [are] going toward ads designed to cut down the clean energy industry," but we don't have proof of such an overt directive.
Time will tell, of course!
Great question!
the kock father is the founder of the John Birch Society. Does that give you a clue as to their motivations and predilections?
Well, does it?
Do you really think that Charles Koch cares at all about what the Muller funded study's conclusions were? That he funded such a study is meaningless if it does not lead to a change in his position on global warming and the role of fossil fuel burning plays in it. Like most corporate executives, it is his "bottom line" that is of primary concern to the Kochs. This study is a clear example of "paralysis by analysis." If you don't want any action taken, you fund a study of the problem. Until the Koch brothers use their vast wealth to help find actual solutions to confronting global warming, rather than confusing the issue though ads and by helping to elect those who are deniers, nothing will be done. Ultimately until Americans get "big money" out of politics, our political system will continue to be corruped by it. The Koch brothers and their enormous wealth and determination to use it to achieve their political and economic ends are a symptom of a cancer steadily eating away at American democracy and our ability to confront such dire issues as global warming.
Romney & the Kochs were all born into wealth.
Silver spoons, golden cadillacs & platinum porches with car elevators.
Does anyone here really belive a leopard is going to change it's spots?
"Appealing to honor actually works sometimes . . . "
whether it appeals to the Kochs or not, an appeal to honor — to doing the right thing — might appeal to fence sitters and undecideds. It is important to leave other readers a way out.
Also, appeal to their cheapness: "Don't pour money down a dry hole — skeptics are a waste of your precious money."
There is something distinctly sureal about this letter. Yesterday after years of obstruction, the USA announces it is reneging on the 2C agreement. Today we have Obama complaining about Romney not being sufficiently pro-coal. And Radford wants to reduce emissions, not to help save the biosphere or humanity but to 'lead' the world? If it wasn't so serious, I'd be dying laughing, ME
The Koch Brothers Go After Zach Galifianakis and 'The Campaign'
I have to wonder if Joan Savage is right. I would not be surprised if they do have a genuine interest in science.The Koch bros are engineers, so they have a back ground in science. Also I have been perplexed by the paradox that if they are so apparently anti science( clearly anti climate science) how can they be major sponsors of Nova? Nova is arguably the best science based program on TV IMHO. Are they not large donors to the Smithsonian? Now was that Just to create an exhibit casting doubt on climate science?
I don't support their activities. They have done more harm then anyone I am aware of. from funding anti climate science, working to create the Tea party and sending the US political system so far to the right that our government is paralyzed at the time we need them most to act.
Dont get me wrong, I think we won't see any response to Radford's letter. But I think Muller's results, and about face, possibly could in a small way start to sway Koch's opinion if he trusts Muller, and Koch has a shred of belief in science. But more likely his libertarian ideology will allow some way to discount the BEST findings.
They don't strike me as ideologues. Their funding of the Tea Party can be seen as a pragmatic move to gain control of Congress. They leave the ranting and stump speeches to others.
The sad thing is that a large number of the right wing will still refuse to believe, or claim to not believe, this study, as it interfears with their ability to maximize profits without responsible corporate behavior. They'd perfer to completely deplete the environment to maximize profits.


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Mole people.
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Mole people.
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Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This book is about them, the so-called "mole people" living alone and in communities, in the frescoed waiting rooms of long-forgotten subway tunnels and in pick-axed compartments below busway platforms. It is about how and why people move undergraound, who they are, and what they have to say about their lives and the treacherous "topside" world they've left behind. There are even the voices of young children taken down to the tunnels by parents who are determined to keep their families together, although as one tunnel dweller explains, "once you go down there, you can't be a child anymore." Though they maintain an existence hidden from the world aboveground, tunnel dwellers form a large and growing sector of the homeless population. They are a diverse group, and they choose to live underground for many reasonssome rejecting society and its values, others reaffirming those values in what they view as purer terms, and still others seeking shelter from the harsh conditions on the streets. Their enemies include government agencies and homeless organizations as well as wandering crack addicts and marauding gangs. In communities underground, however, many homeless people find not only a place but also an identity. On these pages Jennifer Toth visits underground New York with various straight-talking guides, from outreach workers and transit police to vetern tunnel dwellers, graffiti artists, and even the "mayor" of a large, highly structured community several levels down. In addition to chilling and poignant firsthand accounts of tunnel life, she describes the fascinating and labryrinthine physical world beneath the city and discusses the literary allusions and historical points of view that prejudice our culture against those who "go underground". Toth has gained unprecedented access to a strange and frightening world, but The Mole People is not a daredevil journalistic account of a foreign place. It is one young woman's personal examination of her society, the despair it permits and her own inherited prejudices and fears. It is a thoughtful exploration of our times, when rising levels of urban poverty, drug addiction, and mental illness coincide with shortages in low-income housing, diminishing welfare services, and crime and brutality on the streets. With clarity and compassion this book exposes people too long hidden from view, individuals helping one another and even hoping for a better life as they struggle to survive their cruel portion of America.
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I've just recently installed the latest 2.0.3 version of The Events Calendar and have run into a couple of issues. I'll seperate them out so as not to confuse the issue.
First issue can be found @ http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-the-events-calendar-dynamic_sidebar-hiding-gridview
So on to the second issue, I've found an issue with the pagination of upcoming events in the list view, when running the Post Limits plugin.
When a user clicks on the Event List option, changing the url to http://www.charlosa.com/blog/events/upcoming/ the first page displays correctly, as does Page 2, having selected "Next Events", however page 2 does not show the "Next Events" link, despite there being more events to show.
Following some investigation, I was able to track the issue down to the use of another Plugin called Post Limits and specifically that The Event Calendar is using what Post Limits calls the "Front Page Limit" and the corresponding "paged (non first page)".
Now I appreciate that the simply answer to get pagination working would be to simply deactivate the Post Limits plugin (and this has been tested and works), but seen as the ability to limit the number of posts per page across the site is a key factor in the styling of the site, I don't really see that as a viable solution.
I do like The Events Calendar and I'd like to stick with it, but I need to find a solution to allow it to work with the Post Limits plugin.
I guess it's also worth pointing out that if the grid view issue linked above can be resolved, then this becomes less of a headache and more of a nuisance - as without Gridview working, the Calendar is totally dependent on the List View working properly
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Eben Moglen's keynote address at LinuxCon last week, "Doing What it Takes: Current Legal Issues in Defending FOSS," called for a strategic shift in the free software movement. Moglen, the founding director of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and one of the principal drafters of the GPLv3,... Read more
Maybe you've heard of Lawrence Lessig. Maybe as Larry Lessig. Then again, maybe you haven't. But perhaps you've heard of free culture as a movement or Creative Commons or DRM, or copyright law. How about freedom?
For all the debate and litigation around software patents, I thought that there was at least one point on which all sides could agree: the objective of the U.S. patent system is to stimulate innovation. A recent IP blog takes issue with that premise, and proposes an alternative objective:... Read more
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Recently the NZ govt announced that it was to remove software from the list of items that can be patented. This decision came after hectic lobbying from the open source community on one side and the proprietary vendors on the other side.
The willingness to collaborate brought us free and open source software. Now we continue to see that willingness to collaborate permeate our government agencies. A prime example is the Peer To Patent program developed at New York Law School by Prof.
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Company president Sarou Iwata posted the confirmation on the Nintendo Japan Twitter today, along with the Google translated message, "Good evening [Iwata], is Nintendo's Iwata. Than 16 hours on Thursday, 13 tomorrow, will be broadcast on the Internet "sale presentation on Wii U". Happy to announce the price and release date and other information of body Wii U."
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Kinect with Linux
The Minority Report has been in rotation on cable lately, and you've probably seen the futuristic vision of Tom Cruise standing in front of a large screen, manipulating information with waves of his hands. That vision is a bit closer to reality, thanks in part to the economies of scale of the game industry. I don't often have reason to sing the praises of Microsoft, particularly not in a magazine devoted to Linux and all things open. But one thing our friends in Redmond do very well is to commoditize hardware. They've done just that with the Kinect by creating it as a natural interface for the Xbox 360 game console. What's more, they've allowed open-source developers to create drivers for the device, and they've even allowed the third party who developed the technology, PrimeSense, Inc., to release its own device drivers for Linux, Windows and OS X.
Figure 1. The Author, as Seen in Kinect's Depth View
Natural Interfaces
Computer interfaces that use "natural" interaction have been termed, appropriately, natural user interfaces, or NUI. The implication is not so much that the interface itself is natural (let's face it, there is no natural, unlearned way to interact with a machine), but that the interface is very easy to learn, and in that sense natural. Natural user interfaces are a very active research topic, and a wide variety of prototypes have been demonstrated. The list of projects exploring natural interfaces and Kinect is ever-expanding. Here are some that have been ventured on the Net:
Robotic vision systems.
Interior room mapping.
Light control with gestures.
Sign-language computer interfaces.
Standardized gesture interfaces.
Music with gestures (including the floor piano from Toys).
Virtual keyboards.
Instruction (such as dance, karate and tai chi).
Gesture-based presentations.
The Kinect—Sensor Heaven
The Kinect is tightly packed with an array of sensors and specialized devices to preprocess the information received. Communication between the Kinect and the game console or Linux is through a single USB cable.
Several different estimates have been made of the cost to manufacture Kinect, ranging from about $56 to $150. Whatever the real cost, we have to hand it to Microsoft for reducing the cost of its original prototype (reportedly $30,000) by at least two orders of magnitude to create a viable commercial product.
You can view a complete teardown of the Kinect on YouTube (see Resources), and inside you will find the following:
A projector that projects a field of infrared beams, used to detect depth.
Two cameras (each 640x480): a monochrome infrared camera that is used to detect the array of reflected infrared beams (this is the information used to construct the image of depth) and a color camera that can be used to capture snapshots or as a Webcam.
Four microphones.
A motor to tilt the sensor array up and down for best view of the scene.
An accelerometer to sense position.
Camera interfaces and preprocessors for the two cameras.
512MB of DDR memory and 8MB of Flash.
USB interfaces.
The infrared beams are encoded, and as they are reflected off surfaces in front of the sensor array and detected by the infrared camera, a preprocessor in the Kinect calculates the distance from the array to the reflecting surfaces. Proprietary software can use that information to identify likely humans in the scene and the likely positions of their arms and legs.
Kinect Open Source
The short history of the Kinect and open source is interesting, instructive, and it demonstrates the awesome power of open source:
On November 4, 2010, Microsoft released the Kinect in the United States.
That same day, Adafruit Industries announced it would pay anyone $1,000 for an open-source driver for the device on Windows or any other operating system.
Hours later, Microsoft announced that it would not condone hacking of any of its devices. Adafruit responded by raising the bounty to $2,000.
By Saturday, November 6, a hacker going by the name AlexP claimed to have hacked the interface to the Kinect's motor. Microsoft said it wasn't true. Adafruit raised the reward to $3,000.
By that Monday, AlexP had posted video proving his ability not only to control the motor, but also to interface to the depth perception and color camera on the Kinect. He could have chosen to release the code and collect the prize, but instead, that Tuesday, he posted a message saying he would release the code if $10,000 were contributed to fund his further work.
Tuesday evening, Adafruit released a large dataset recorded by a USB analyzer watching the data stream between the Kinect and Xbox. Hackers worldwide started using the dataset to work out the details of the interface.
On Wednesday, the Kinect was released in Europe. Hector Martin, near Bilbao, Spain, purchased one that morning, and using the Adafruit published data, was able to get it connected to his PC by noon. The results were published on the libfreenect site, and the prize was won.
But the story doesn't stop there. By Friday of the same week, Microsoft reconsidered its position on the open-source drivers. In a remarkable bit of semantic derring-do, Microsoft said the Kinect had not been hacked by its definition, and actually praised the developers expanding the use of the device.
In just a few days, the Open Source community had seized the opportunity provided by Microsoft and created an open-source alternative that created an explosion of possibilities for research into natural interfaces.
Rick Rogers has been a professional embedded developer for more than 30 years. Now specializing in mobile application software, when Rick isn't writing software for a living, he's writing books and magazine articles like this one.
How much can stably Kinect can operate with Linux?
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Hi my dear friends,
I do know after the zippitzappie the cup of coffee a asus-64 bits rf/v1-v2 modded would of this linux-kinect eassely.
Mine pain of a doubte more on xbox original including v4.4
so, what is topic issue pc or xbox and see yourself to download toolbox v4.8
from nvidea okay that is fine to me reightn?
Good luck everyone keep that working for the good times!
I wonder, can the demo
I wonder, can the demo software extract and operate on data coming from the microphone array in the kinect?
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OO and functional programming are two very different programming paradigms, and design patterns (DP) is a significant part of OO design and programing. DP do not have such role in functional programming.
One could even say, that DP are not needed in functional programming -- there is no itch which DP is cure for.
Jeremy Gibbons is writing the book. Until it's finished, you can read his blog, Patterns in Functional Programming. He recommends reading his posts from oldest to newest.
Browse his publications as well. He covers Gang of Four patterns in Design Patterns as Higher-Order Datatype-Generic Programs and describes the patterns of programming with recursive equations in Origami Programming (folds and unfolds).
The simple fact is that many OO Patterns would be considered Idioms in functional languages (especially the original GoF patterns). For instance the Iterator pattern (built-in to languages like C# now) just isn't necessary in a Lisp or ML which has sequence operators.
A lot of the patterns we use in O-O systems are there to help us get the "non essentials" out of the way so we can focus on coding objects. In other words, the patterns are solutions to the non-interesting parts of the application. We should leverage patterns to address common needs that have been solved before (like the patterns in Fowlers Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture for dealing with things like database transmission, or xUnit Patterns for boosting your unit testing) so that we can focus on adding business value for the application.
I'm sure that beyond the specifics of the GoF patterns, there are design patterns that will be applicable to functional programming as well. The thing is that O-O is the dominant paradigm. Writing a pattern book that targets functional developers...well frankly won't get a greenlight from a publisher. That's what it boils down to. There isn't enough of a market for Functional Patterns to have a significant number of books dedicated to the topic.
If you're genuinely interested in learning the design patterns look no further than Haskell. If you take the time to learn the language the hard way you'll run into and get cozy with most of the foundational patterns -- they're baked into the language.
Don't skip over monads. There are a bunch of long-winded explanations out there and it takes some doing to have the ideas sink in, but if you keep plugging away, eventually it'll dawn on you and you'll be amazed at how many design patterns can be build on top of this one abstraction/interface.
Once you grok Haskell, you'll have enough of the FP arsenal at your disposal to be dangerous. Point is, keep at it until you get it. There are no shortcuts.
A good talk (~45 min) on this topic by Stuart Sierra:
Not necessarily binding and authoritative, but I recognized a number of his examples from my own experience using FP for data analysis.
Examples written in Clojure, but likely applicable to any FP language. The names he gives to the patterns he covers are:
Insofar as the design methodology for FP is to design your types to accurately reflect the problem space and the implementation should follow automatically, the FP equivalent of a book on design patterns is something like Chris Okasaki's Purely Functional Data Structures.


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In 1911, Constantine P. Cavafy, the Greek poet living in Alexandria, wrote his poem "Ithaki" regarding the legendary Greek warrior Ulysses, who began his voyage back to his homeland ITHAKI, after the end of the Trojan War. A journey that should have taken him few days, lasted for many years..
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- Luxor Intro, 16 reviews, 24 photos
- Top 5 Page for this destination Temple of Abu Simbel Intro, 16 reviews, 24 photos
- Red Sea Hills Intro, 15 reviews, 18 photos
- Greece Intro, 9 reviews, 20 photos
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Top 10 Alexandria Things to Do
- fort of Qaitbey- 41 Reviews, 87 Photos
- Down town area & cornich- 33 Reviews, 101 Photos
- new Library of Alexandria- 39 Reviews, 85 Photos
- Montazah palace and gardens- 25 Reviews, 83 Photos
- Roman amphitheatre- 17 Reviews, 52 Photos
- Mosques and islamic sites- 20 Reviews, 42 Photos
- kom el shokafa catacombs- 22 Reviews, 33 Photos
- Pompey's Pillar- 21 Reviews, 33 Photos
- museums- 19 Reviews, 31 Photos
- Beaches- 15 Reviews, 27 Photos
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