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Jerry Sandusky Declares Innocence in Audio Recording, Will Speak at Sentencing
Sandusky regretted not taking stand during trial, according to defense attorney.
Oct. 8, 2012 -- Jerry Sandusky didn't take the stand during his child sex-abuse trial this summer, but Tuesday at his sentencing he will declare that he is innocent despite the 45 verdicts finding him guilty, his lawyer said Monday, as Sandusky made the same claim in a new audio recording.
"They can take away my life, they can make me out as a monster, they can treat me as a monster, but they can't take away my heart," Sandusky said on the recording first played Monday on a Penn State student radio station. "In my heart, I know I did not do these alleged, disgusting acts. My wife has been my only sex partner and that was after marriage. Our love continues."
Sandusky, who made the recording in jail, pointed an accusing finger at his victims, claiming he was trying to help them through his charity only to see them join what he suggested was a conspiracy against him.
"A young man who was dramatic, a veteran accuser, and always sought attention, started everything," Sandusky said. "He was joined by a well-orchestrated effort of the media, investigators, the system, Penn State, psychologists, civil attorneys and other accusers. They won. I've wondered what they really won: Attention, financial gain, prestige ... will all be temporary. Before you blame me, as others have, look at everything and everybody."
Sandusky's denial of guilt drew an angry response from Thomas Kline, the attorney for one of his victims, who called the statement, "a lashing out on the eve on his sentencing."
"There is no chance that Mr. Sandusky was innocent," Kline said. "It is preposterous to suggest that 10 separate victims, their families, their parents, their lawyers, the prosecutors, and the press and everyone else conspired to somehow convict Mr. Sandusky."
The former Penn State defensive coordinator faces anywhere from 10 years to more than 400 years in prison when Judge John Clelands hands down his sentence at the end of Tuesday's hearing. At age 68, any significant sentence could mean life in prison for Sandusky.
Before Cleland decides on prison time, however, Sandusky and his victims will both have the opportunity to make statements.
Kline, an attorney for "Victim 5," told ABC News that his client will take the stand and testify "as to the harm that Mr. Sandusky caused to him."
"It's just a tragedy," Kline said, "compounded by the fact that we have a man that was a convicted who won't come forward and show any contrition and any remorse."
He expected Sandusky, lacking remorse, would get tantamount to a life sentence.
Victim 5, now 22, reported being approached from behind by Sandusky in the shower in the Penn State locker rooms in 2001. Sandusky lifted the boy up to the shower head and held him around his stomach, though Victim 5 said during the trial he didn't remember any sexual abuse.
According to defense attorney Joe Amendola, Sandusky so regretted not taking the stand during his trial that he is anxious to speak directly to the court Tuesday.
"It's as certain as certain can be" that Sandusky will declare his innocence, Amendola told the Associated Press.
Sandusky's family members have also written letters to the judge on his behalf, Amendola said. Sandusky's wife Dottie, who has insisted on his innocence throughout the trial, will be present in the courtroom, Amendola said.
The statements from both Sandusky and the victims will follow a 9 a.m. hearing to determine whether Sandusky will be classified a sexually violent predator. If he is found to be sexually violent, he will be mandated to register as a sex offender if ever released from prison.
After Cleland decides Sandusky's status as a sexual predator and hears the testimony from both sides, he will decide on a sentence. He could choose to sentence Sandusky to as few as 10 years in prison if he orders concurrent prison time, in which Sandusky would serve the sentence for each count at the same time.
But if Cleland instead chooses to sentence him to consecutive terms, Sandusky could face more than 400 years in prison.
Sandusky will undergo extensive evaluations after sentencing, including his medical and mental health needs, health care, security level, and program needs, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.
Sandusky's security will likely be an issue as authorities decide where to place him in the state prison population, as his case could make him a target for other inmates.
There are 25 prisons for men in Pennsylvania that Sandusky could be sent to, none of which have a special housing unit or facility for sex offenders, the department said.
ABC News' Michael S. James contributed to this report.


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Today's society has been adapted to the prosperity of the past, forget the
simplicity of the past society; experienced the peace of today's society, the
loss of the past simple society; experience of today's social competition, the
absence of past social happiness. The pursuit of too much perfection, I am an
imperfect child, the lack of a little love.
Imperfect child, want a childhood. I had hoped to see a playground, take a roller coaster; I had expected to take a look at the sea, a view of the ebb and flow; I also hope that the hands of a lollipop, candy to experience my happiness; Wanted more than a limited edition of the Viking, although I do not know what is a Viking, but at the same table told me that with him, you can have a childhood. I just want a childhood.
Imperfect child, has been very "perfect." My mother always told me to make me a perfect child. She said: You have only been perfect, can be better than others. is it? Although I have questions in mind, but did not ask why. So I have been surrounded by a variety of remedial classes, has been surrounded by various subjects, has been holding out the papers. Mom did not ask me tired, her heart I have been very perfect. Maybe I'm really perfect.
Imperfect child, or not perfect. I thought I could have been perfect, has been holding out the papers, although ninety-eight nothing, really nothing, I was the first. At the same table just pass the line just, I have a lot more than he points it! I saw his mother reward him a kiss, nice, the original poor performance can also be parents love. But my mother why hit me? Because I did not test one hundred points? Because I'm no longer perfect? I really do not understand, the world of adults.
When the light is no longer fly, the sun is no longer shine, rain is no longer sweet, can you give me a hug? mom. I am an imperfect child, the lack of a little bit is not because of the perfect to get the love.

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The 45-year-old "Austin Powers" starlet took to her Twitter account to make the news official following a report in the British tabloid News of the World that the actress is having an affair with Australian cricket player, Shane Warne.
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A powerful earthquake caused major damage to Haiti when it hit off the coast of the Caribbean nation of 10 million rocked by political violence and poverty.
The US Geological Survey (USGS) said that a magnitude 7.0 quake struck shortly before 5 p.m. local time Tuesday, about 10 miles from the nation's capital Port-au-Prince,
Alain Le Roy, the United Nations. peacekeeping chief in New York, told the Associated Press late Tuesday that the headquarters of the 9,000-member Haiti peacekeeping mission and other U.N. installations were seriously damaged."Contacts with the U.N. on the ground have been severely hampered," Le Roy said in a statement, adding: "For the moment, a large number of personnel remain unaccounted for."
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As one of the poorest nation's in the world, Haiti is a place where many relief and aid organizations have experienced personnel on the ground. And many were responding quickly to the calls for donations and assistance. "Initial reports indicate that the quake has caused extensive damage, and we fear that casualties could be widespread," said Randy Martin, Mercy Corps director of Global Emergency Operation in a statement Tuesday night. "Our team will quickly assess what the most pressing needs are in earthquake-affected areas."
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Homemade Laundry Soap Made from Homemade Soap
recipe and tutorial for my homemade laundry soap before over at Crafting a Green World, but this time I used only a little bit of grated Fels Naptha left over from the last time Will and I made this recipe, and for the remainder of grated bar soap that the recipe calls for I hand-grated some of my own hot-process bar soap:
rare occasions that he starts a load of laundry), and I do believe that we're once again all set for laundry soap for a good long while.
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- Big mamma frog said...
Sounds great and am going to try it. Just one thing, I know Borax is pretty toxic when taken internally and can be a skin irritant, so was wondering how safe it is to use (I'm guessing it all gets rinsed away?). I have kids with sensitive skin so usually have to use washballs or next-to-useless sensitive skin wash powder. It would be good to try an alternative. Does anyone know where I can get white vinegar in large quantities in the UK?
- June 10, 2011 at 5:32 AM
- Teresa Robeson said...
I've dying to make my own powdered laundry soap (I made the liquid type once and didn't like it), but want to wait until I make my own CP soap. Does using the Fels Naptha still make it economical?
I love that your kids are so enthused about helping with everything you do! Mine are usually grumpy or uninterested. :/
- June 10, 2011 at 8:57 PM
- Tina said...
I love making my own laundry soap (and need to make some soon). I have been thinking of using some handmade soaps I get that is called Buzz Off- It is an all natural soap with bug repellent qualities.
- June 11, 2011 at 7:15 AM
- julie said...
I can't imagine not being able to buy gallons upon gallons of white vinegar! I use it for a spray cleaner, too, and a laundry rinse, and a dishwasher rinse...I wonder if one can purchase stock in vinegar?
I think borax is pretty mild, but you could also try a few loads of laundry without, I suppose. Soap and detergent don't rinse out well, as a rule, unfortunately, although they do better in an he machine--it's why you have to occasionally strip cloth diapers when you use them.
I did the math when I used Fels Naptha, and it was below 3 cents a load with it. Fels Naptha is pretty cheap, so I'm probably only saving a penny a load, if that much, with my homemade, and I actually do plan to switch back to using Fels if I can remember to have some on hand the next time I need to make laundry soap. Since it's a laundry soap bar, my theory is that it will clean better than my skin soap bar, but I'll have to use this batch for a while before I can be certain.
- June 12, 2011 at 8:12 AM
- Teresa Robeson said...
Thanks, Julie! I look forward to seeing your analysis of which laundry soap cleaned better. :)
- June 12, 2011 at 12:11 PM
- Heather@Cultivated Lives said...
One of these days I'm going to give that a try. I just love that your kids make it right along side you! Oh what wonderful family memories and what important training they are getting, even at an early age!
- June 16, 2011 at 12:08 AM
- julie said...
After using my homemade soap in the laundry soap recipe for a while now, I'm going to go ahead and say that it doesn't work quite as well as using Fels Naptha. The difference isn't huge, though, and I already use Fels Naptha as a stain stick to pretreat stains if I know that I've got them, so perhaps that helps, too. The biggest difference, I think, is that I think that I'm seeing more grease stains that don't get washed out, but they wash out a second time with pretreatment. I tend to keep both Fels Naptha and homemade soap on hand, so I'll probably just throw whatever I have more of into my laundry soap recipe from now on.
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text: When it comes to exploring the far reaches of our solar system, robots rule. Man may have left footprints on the moon but our probes have landed on or orbited every single other planet as well as countless asteroids and comets, beaming back valuable data and amazing images. The next few years will see greater milestones, with a rover scaling a mountain on Mars and a spacecraft getting the first close-up view of Pluto. But there's always more to be done. Eager planetary scientists would love to get new information about each body in our solar system and numerous propositions have been made, including missions to fly through the clouds of Venus or drill down to the ocean on Europa. NASA's latest budget hit the agency's planetary science division particularly hard, making some of the more expensive missions nigh impossible. But there's always room for hopes and dreams. Other countries' space agencies are picking up the pace in their own robotic exploration — with occasionally disastrous results — while newcomers like India and China are laying down the foundation for future exploration. Here, we take a look at some of the coolest missions that we would love to see happen some day. Let us know in the comments which ones we missed out on or some ideas you'd like to see in the future. Above: Lunar Network Colonizing the moon is no longer in NASA's cards, but planetary scientists are still eager to learn everything they can about Earth's nearest celestial neighbor. Several years ago, a team of scientists proposed the International Lunar Network to NASA. The mission would plop four nuclear-powered science stations on the moon — each lasting about six years — to listen for moonquakes caused by meteorites with seismometers 10 times more sensitive than those left by Apollo astronauts. The devices were also pegged to study lunar magnetism and monitor the surface's heat flow, but cost estimates for that plan ran close to $1.2 billion. Instead of letting the idea of a lunar seismic network die out, other scientists dreamed up LUNETTE: a smaller network of three nodes with a cost of about $425 million to NASA. (International collaborators would have picked up the remaining tab of $375 million.) Each solar-powered node would weigh about 220 pounds and last two years. And to survive the blisteringly cold 14-day-long lunar nights, each node would conserve power and trickle it out during a hibernation mode. The scientists' proposal was rejected in 2011 — NASA narrowed its running to three missions last year — but a similar proposal might reappear during a call for entries next year. Image: NASAMercury Lander Our solar system's innermost planet is also one of the least explored. NASA currently has the MESSENGER spacecraft in orbit around Mercury, sending back snapshots of its surface. But in a few years, Mercury orbit may get a little more crowded. Due to launch in 2015, BepiColombo – a spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) – will fly two separate orbiters around the little planet, simultaneously mapping its surface and exploring its strange magnetic field. The mission could have been even more exciting and achieved a valuable first: landing a probe on the surface of Mercury. A proposed lander would have used retrorockets to descend to a polar region, where permanent shade could have provided respite from the glaring sun. The probe would have deployed a mole to tunnel a few feet under the planet's surface and a micro-rover that could have explored a small area away from the lander, perhaps stumbling upon the ice deposits thought to exist at the poles. Unfortunately, budget cuts scaled back the ambitions of BepiColombo's engineers. But getting to see pictures from the surface of our solar system's smallest planet would have been one of the most exciting developments possible. Images: 1) The BepiColombo spacecraft arriving at Mercury, where it will separate into two orbiters. ESA 2) The proposed BepiColombo lander, with mole and micro-rover. ESANuclear Venus Mission The last probes to reach Venus' hellish surface were Russia's Vega 1 and Vega 2 landers in 1985. Each spacecraft lasted about an hour before croaking in the 840-degree-Fahrenheit heat and crushing pressure. Planetary scientists consider Venus to be an Earth gone wrong and have been itching to go back and study its surface and atmosphere ever since, but NASA has poured its reserves into studying Mars. In 2006, however, Geoffrey Landis of NASA Glenn Research Center imagined a multibillion-dollar mission to Venus involving a nuclear-powered rover, multiple atmosphere-skimming airplanes and an orbiting mothership (above). The plan has since been scaled back to just a nuclear-powered lander, and NASA is finally entertaining the idea of a Cythrerean adventure by building an Extreme Environment Test Chamber– a thick-walled device that's uniquely suited to simulate the punishing conditions on the planet's surface, among other environments in space. Image: Venus probe descending to the surface. NASAMartian Flyers While Mars is probably the most heavily explored planet after our own, scientists are always looking for the next great way to see the sights on the Red Planet. One oft-dreamed-about concept would be a Mars sample return mission, which would fly a chunk of the surface back to Earth for closer study. But the much cooler concepts involve nice little tours of Mars. While rovers have extended researchers' range of view, an ideal situation would be a vehicle that can fly hundreds of miles to examine multiple locations over the course of a mission. Over the years, many have proposed such "hopper" missions, including engineer Robert Zubrin's Gashopper (.pdf), which would use readily available carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere to create a simple rocket propellant, taking the vehicle for 20-mile jaunts. Add some wings to the mix, and the vehicle could fly to spy on distant terrain. Another awesome concept is the Mars Cannon Assisted Flying Exploration (.pdf), or CAFE mission, which would fire small aircraft over specific regions such as a canyon. And one of the coolest ideas is the small flying robots seen seen in the video above, the brainchild of engineer Robert Michelson of Georgia Tech. Such a mission would deploy tiny insect-like "entomopters" from a mobile base on Mars. Rapidly flapping wings would allow the probes to fly with ease in the lighter Martian gravity, taking pictures of the landscape and potentially grabbing small samples for study. Video: NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Image: J.D. Denhar et al, Mars Cannon Assisted Flying Exploration (CAFE), Concepts and Approaches for Mars Exploration (2012)Exploring Jupiter's Moons Though NASA launched the Juno mission to explore Jupiter's formation and properties, the giant planet's moons remain one of the most interesting targets in the solar system. A long-standing concept is the international Europa Jupiter System Mission/Laplace. The mission, developed together by NASA and ESA with possible additions from both the Japanese and Russian space agencies, would have sent spacecraft to orbit two of Jupiter's moons: Europa and Ganymede. Both are known to contain water ice, with an enormous ocean suspected of sitting below the surface of Europa's frigid crust. The potential for life on either of these worlds makes a compelling case for further exploration. The NASA component of this mission was estimated at $4.7 billion last year, a price that is too far out of range for even the most optimistic NASA budget scenarios, and the mission has been put on ice. But the concept lives on with the European component, now called the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE). Recently selected for a 2022 launch date, this mission will visit the Jovian system, focusing on the previous two moons and one other, Callisto. Perhaps one day in the far future, NASA or another space agency will get to work on one of the most ambitious proposals that periodically pops up: a lander and drill to explore the ocean on Europa. Using a heated head, a probe could slip down through the Europan ice and deposit a remote submersible in the water to explore and search for any life forms. While the technical challenges of such a mission would be great, the payoff could potentially be spectacular. Images: 1) The Europa Jupiter System Mission/Laplace mission. Michael Carroll/NASA. 2) A cryobot that could explore the ocean of Europa. NASATitan Target One major target for exploration in the solar system has always been Saturn's moon Titan. With its thick atmosphere, liquid ethane lakes, and subterranean water ocean, Titan really seems like a good place to find life. In 2005, NASA and ESA landed the Huygens probe on the edge of what seemed to be a dry lakebed on the moon but more detailed exploration remains high on the to-do list. The ambitious Titan Saturn System Mission (TSSM) would have been a joint NASA/ESA mission to send a spacecraft to orbit the enigmatic moon. In addition, it would have dropped a large balloon to drift through Titan's atmosphere, taking important wind and weather data, and floated a boat-like lander on a lake to get a better understanding of the liquid forces shaping Titan's surface. The mission remains on the drawing board, though one component of it may still see the light of day. The Titan Mare Explorer (TiME) would be a simpler undertaking, simply sending the boat-like probe to explore Ligeia Mare, one of Titan's largest lakes. TiME is currently under investigation, competing with two other possible missions, including the Comet Hopper, for a 2016 launch slot. Images: 1) Titan Saturn System Mission. NASA/European Space Agency. 2) TiME. NASAIce Giant Exploration Since Voyager 2, no spacecraft has gotten up close and personal with our solar system's ice giants, Uranus and Neptune. Mission proposals to explore these planets and their moon systems — similar to the Galileo spacecraft's tour of Jupiter or Cassini's flights around Saturn — have come up from time to time. During the most recent planetary science decadal survey, officials selected a Uranus probe as their number three most-wanted mission. But the $2.7 billion estimated price tag means that such a mission is unlikely to happen any time soon. British scientists have also proposed the much cheaper $600 million Uranus Pathfinder mission to the European Space Agency, though officials have yet to make a decision. Why no love for Neptune? Its moon, Triton, is known to be geologically active, with icy volcanoes spewing nitrogen from its surface. Unfortunately, Neptune's great distance and the fact that closer Uranus remains mostly unexplored mean that the farthest planet in our solar system sits a little lower on the list of potential exploration. Perhaps with enough time and money, Neptune may one day get its turn. Images: 1) Uranus and its moons. NASA Ice Giants Decadal Study 2) Possible probe for a Uranus or Neptune mission. NASA Ice Giants Decadal StudyOther Bodies Planets are not the only interesting places to explore in our solar system. In addition to much-beloved dwarf planet Pluto, there is a number of small rocky bodies waiting to be visited. One potential mission that NASA is currently looking into is a Comet Hopper, which would land on Comet Wirtanen and watch it change as it approaches the sun. The probe would have the capability to hop from location to location on the comet, mapping out and exploring much of its surface. The mission is competing with the Titan Mare Explorer for funding from NASA. Image: NASA/GSFC/University of MarylandDave Mosher contributed to this report.


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Welcome to the third installment of the Pink Scarf Project, our tribute to breast cancer awareness month! This week, our two scarves come from Cheryl and Andi, our Hub Mills Store employee/knitting phenom and our customer service guru.
Our first scarf, designed by Cheryl, is knit in Wool Bamboo and employs a provisional cast-on. If you're not familiar with this technique, take a look at our tutorials section of the website and knit away!
I was working on Hope from the Classic Elite Sanctuary pattern book when we were told about the pink scarf project.While working on the ribbing, I thought it would make a nice scarf and I loved working with Wool Bamboo.I just changed the ribbing a little to make it reversible and added a little ruffle to each end. And voila! My first design.
Next is a scarf from Andi Clark. You might recognize her name from one of her many published patterns, or perhaps from our Staff Allegoro Project, where her knit lace edging sparked many readers' creativity. This simple reversible lace scarf knit in Silky Alpaca Lace dresses up any outfit, and I think her inspiration to hold the yarn double is easy to relate to for many knitters.
I love knitting lace. But lace yarn is too thin for me to comfortably handle. What to do? Double it! This scarf is knit with two strands of Silky Alpaca Lace. With two strands, you can use a large needle and the knitting flies. I picked this pattern because it is reversible. It's an easy pattern, but you have to pay attention to it. Once done, block the life out of the scarf and it will be beautiful!
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I think you left out the first ruffle on the Rose Scarf pattern.ReplyDelete
Hello Martha! The first ruffle is worked after the rest of the scarf is completed by pulling out the waste yarn of the provisional cast on and working the ruffle with the resulting live stitches. If you click on the words "provisional cast on", the link should take you to a tutorial on our website. Good luck!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2010 at 12:33 PM
The scarf looks beautiful; however, even tho I have good eyes, it is impossible to read the directions on such small print. Is there any way to enlarge the view of the scarf and the directions? Thanks. Judy BernsteinReplyDelete
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This is much less of a problem for Python than it would be for most
languages because the dynamic features of the language mean that exec and
eval are actually needed very rarely in practice.
I'm hoping that JavaSoft will eventually fix the design of the ClassLoader
API to make this possible in a secure fashion. It is currently possible
to kludge together a solution by shipping the bytes for the new Python
class back to the server and then downloading them back to the client,
but I can't imagine this effort will be worthwhile. However, the
fact that it can be done convinces me that there is no inherent security
problem with the functionality that Jython wants.
If somebody has a really strong need for exec and/or eval in a Jython
applet, it would certainly be possible to add this support. This
would involve implementing a true Python interpreter instead of the current
dynamic Python -> Java bytecode compiler. I haven't yet seen an application
that is sufficiently compelling to convince me that this effort would be
worth my time (not to mention the hassle of maintaining two parallel code
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As longtime readers know, my goal in writing these posts is to try to use political science, (loosely defined – often it's more my political intuition) to make sense of political events as they happen. That means that rather than foist my political viewpoint on you in the guise of independent analysis, I try as much as possible to use past events as a means of understanding current issues and to try to predict future outcomes. The weakness of this approach, however, is that the effort to ground the analysis in a reading of history can blind one to unexpected developments. In this vein, consider Newt Gingrich's unexpected (to most pundits) climb to the top of the Republican leaderboard. Despite the recent barrage of negative media coverage, the latest national polls continue to show him edging slightly ahead of Mitt Romney, and Tuesday's national security debate, if the pundits are to be believed, probably didn't hurt his standing, although we can't as yet be certain whether his more moderate approach to immigration will cost him Tea Party support.
Moreover, he has climbed to the top of the polls in Iowa, largely due to Tea Party support, and has moved into second place in New Hampshire, albeit a distant second based on most polls to Mitt Romney. Here are the current Iowa standings, based on the Realpolitics composite poll tracker (Gingrich is green, Cain red and Romney purple).
Here's what is interesting about Gingrich's unexpected success: he is doing it without much in the way of boots on the ground. Rather than engage in the type of meet-and-great retail politics that the experts tell us is a prerequisite for doing well in Iowa and New Hampshire, Gingrich so far has engaged in an unconventional campaign "of ideas" based on using social media and public debates to get his message out. According to the Des Moines candidate tracker , Gingrich has obtained front-runner status in the Iowa polls despite his campaign holding far fewer events – 86 so far – and Newt making fewer appearances (48) than either Rick Santorum (226 events, 76 appearances) or Michelle Bachmann (114, 58), both of whom languish near the bottom of the Iowa polling pack so far (Santorum is brown and Bachmann black in the chart above). Similarly, Mitt Romney is a close third in the Iowa polls, although he has so far had very little presence in the state – in fact, he has visited the state even less frequently (18 and eight) than Newt, although that may change in the next few weeks. So far, at least, it appears that polling in Iowa is not simply a function of the relative scope of the candidates' ground games.
It is too early, of course, to draw firm conclusions. But in pursuing his unconventional strategy, Newt appears to be trying to bypass the traditional nomination gatekeepers, particularly the party politicos and media opinion leaders who wrote the Newtster off after his campaign staff largely deserted him last summer. Indeed, they now appear flummoxed by Newt's rise from the political ashes, and his apparent staying power despite recent revelations regarding his financial ties as a lobbyist to the government-backed mortgage firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Newt's belated effort to back away from his initial, er, "fib" that he was hired as a "historian" seems not to have hurt him at all.
Gingrich's rise to front-runner status raises an interesting question: is his campaign strategy based on social media, debates and direct communications the way of the future? Conventional wisdom says the best way to get voters to the polls is by having the campaign infrastructure in place to wage a door-to-door campaign. Whether by choice, or by necessity, Newt seems intent on defying this wisdom. If Newt is right, he will retrace the footsteps of previous innovators, like Jimmy Carter, who in 1976 was the only candidate to grasp the importance of doing well in the early events in Iowa and New Hampshire. He did partly out of necessity, since he lacked the resources to go head-to-head with the better known candidate in the larger primary states. Similarly, Barack Obama invested heavily in smaller caucus states in 2008 because he recognized he could not beat Hillary Clinton in the larger primary states. In politics, as in life, necessity is often the mother of invention.
It is too early to evaluate whether Newt's unconventional approach will become the model for future campaigns, or instead will fail to translate polling support into actual votes and delegates. Keep in mind that other "innovative strategies" (remember Giuliani's decision to skip Iowa and New Hampshire in 2008?) didn't turn out so well. If Newt does win the nomination, however, it will be another illustration that political scientists are usually right – except when they aren't.
Note: my colleague Bert Johnson and I are posting on the web short (8-10 minutes) discussions of the current campaign. If you are interested in hearing our unscripted (and therefore more entertaining) thoughts, our latest is at the Middlebury website here.
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Yes, I want to load just everything (ideally even when loading a savegame). Of course most "ideal" wish is to load even 3D models, but as Graf said, 3D models is low priority
Imho, for "loading just everything" better to add options to ingame menu (for example like current "precache gl textures" display option). This way we will have at least 2 benefits:
1) You can turn on/off this during a game without restarting gzdoom and/or modifying the mod
2) Mod will be playable for people with low amount of RAM (they just turn those precaches off)
Ok. Here is the bug report with some thoughts and suggestions: https://mantis.zdoom.org/view.php?id=454
Thanks, now it's clear!Graf Zahl wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2017 9:46Precaches are done on map load. For each savegame load, first the map needs to be loaded, so it should be precached as normal.
Regarding models, that's not going to be a quick fix, because the models exist somewhere outside the system. Refactoring the model subsystem to be better integrated is on the to-do list but not with the highest priority.


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By many measures, the U.S. economic recovery looks good on a spreadsheet, but convincing the man on the street about that will take months of solid improvement in the job market and some good-old, hearty American consumer spending.
"The vast majority of people are still struggling to make their mortgage payment and pay their bills," says Scott Anderson of Wells Fargo. "Consumer confidence is still near recessionary levels."
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Though many analysts say a stubbornly high unemployment rate of near 10 percent is mostly to blame, they also acknowledge the problem is much broader and more complicated than that.
"I see the recovery as highly uneven," says Anderson.
Other economists call it a two-speed recovery.
Manufacturing, capital spending durable goods, and even exports, are bouncing back faster than the services sector and consumer spending.
"The services sector is half of consumption and where most of the jobs are," says Robert Brusca of FAO Economics, one of the more optimistic economists at the moment. "That sector still holds the key to the recovery. We haven't seen spending pick up that much."
GDP data for the first quarter provides some telling differences. Consumption of goods increased at a 6.2 percent pace, versus. a 2.4-percent one for services.
Meanwhile, investment in equipment and software rose 13.4 percent, while that in residential housing shrank 10.4 percent.
(Industrial production and retail sales reports due out Friday may reinforce that trend, although tax refunds could provide a monthly pop.)
"Business made a lot of money with cost cutting in the second half of 2009 and was willing to spend some of that money in first part 2010," says Ken Goldstein of the Conference Board. "But it's as if business has money to hire or pay more, but not both."
Goldstein and others say the long-awaited pop in job creation in April was accompanied by a slightly anemic 1.6-percent annual increase in average hourly wages.
"In good times that number is usually 4 percent," explains Goldstein. "Where's the income to sustain [retail sales]?
Retail sales are up 1.5 percent during the first three months of 2010 versus the year-ago period, the low end of the growth spectrum.
"The consumer has to figure out how to proceed with less leverage, lower wage-levels and an environment where unemployment and threat of unemployment will remain high for a long time," says Richard Hastings of Global Hunter Securities.
Labor market data Thursday brought another reminder of that. New jobless claims were 440,000 in the most recent week, remaining far higher than they typically are at this point in a recovery. The number of people continuing to receive benefits hovered around 4.6 million
Economists say the weak labor market reinforces consumer austerity.
"People are economizing on services and a lot of that is discretionary spending," says Brusca.
There's a transaction, paycheck—even sometimes a job—at stake at the other end of those decisions, whether it's a cabbie, a handyman or a hotel operator.
"It's a little bit disconcerting to go on a trip when there's still ten-percent unemployment," Loews Hotels Chairman & CEO Jonathan Tisch told CNBC. Maybe your spouse or relative is out of work—and that doesn't provide a great environment."
For that reason and others, Tisch does not see a full industry recovery until 2011 or 2012.
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Even in the recoveries following the previous two recessions, both of which were considered short and shallow ones, consumer confidence was slow to bounce back. The recession of 2008-2009 is already considered the worst since the Great Depression.
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Tizen Reference Device Spotted at Tizen Developer Conference
The release of developer phones generally indicates the arrival of a new operating system (OS) in the coming months, and in this case, we are looking at Tizen.
Several companies at the 2012 Tizen Developer Conference held in San Francisco were spotted using reference devices provided by Samsung for demos. Looks wise, the Tizen developer unit resembles the Apple iPhone with a circular home button at the bottom of its 4.65-inch Super AMOLED display.
Not surprisingly, the Tizen 1.0 user interface has the look and feel of Google Android though the animations and transitions found in today's mobile OSes are notably absent. It also has basic support for social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
Powered by a dual-core 1.2GHz processor and 1GB RAM, the Tizen developer unit appeared to run smoothly. Other specs include an 8-megapixel rear camera, a 2-megapixel front facing camera, 16GB storage capacity, a microUSB port, Wi-Fi connectivity and GPS.
The Linux Foundation and the LiMo Foundation announced the launch of Tizen in September 2011 as a new Linux-based open source mobile OS. Intel and Samsung are jointly backing the efforts in developing Tizen. Earlier this year, Samsung unveiled its plans to merge its home-grown mobile OS, bada with Tizen. The company also stated that "at least one to two" devices running on Tizen will be released this year.
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A week after the story of the fraudulent robocalls first broke — or rather re-broke, the rudiments of the story having been reported at the time of the last election — the scandal remains a puzzle.
On the one hand, the allegations are too widespread, the technical capacity required too great, for this to be a simple matter of human error, or a few overzealous volunteers, even allowing for the probability that many of the reports of fraudulent calls are themselves bogus. For example, Aaron Wherry of Maclean's magazine has compiled a list of 21 ridings in which voters were given false information on poll locations, in suspicious circumstances. In some cases the calls purported to come from Elections Canada, in others from one party or another, but falsely in either event.
In dozens of other ridings there have been reports of people supposedly calling on behalf of, say, the Liberals doing everything they can to discredit them: calling at odd hours, or on holy days, or otherwise going out of their way to annoy their recipients. As with the phoney poll locations, the vast majority of these calls have been reported by the opposition parties. Though that is not necessarily proof that anyone in the Conservative party was behind them — the self-interest of the other parties is clear — there is enough evidence to demand further investigation.
On the other hand, the calls would seem too random, the risks too great relative to any possible reward, to suggest the involvement of anyone higher up. In most of the ridings where the Conservatives have been accused of making fraudulent calls, the Conservative candidate won going away. Only in a handful of such ridings was the result even close, and even there any such clandestine operation would have had to have been wildly successful to have turned the hundreds or even thousands of votes needed to change defeat into victory. Moreover, in many other ridings that were very close, there have been no reports of such activity.
That doesn't make any of this right, of course, but it does make it a puzzle. There just doesn't seem any sense of strategic direction to the calls. And why would any party take such a risk — not only of discrediting the party, but of jail time for those involved — for such a meagre reward? Even if you accept the NDP MP Pat Martin's theory, that the intent was not to win ridings but to reduce the other parties' votes, and thus deprive them of funds under the per vote subsidy, the game does not seem worth the candle. (The subsidy is on the way out anyway.) How on earth would anyone even think they could get away with such a scheme?
Except . . . they are getting away with it — whoever they are. Here we are nine months after the fact, and Elections Canada appears still to be in the early stages of investigating the whole affair. The RCMP have been called in, but seem to have confined their efforts to the riding of Guelph, where most attention has focused. Certainly we can have no confidence in Parliament to get to the bottom of this. Several days of question period have been worse than useless in this regard, while the chance of any parliamentary committee looking into it is remote, so long as the Conservatives hold a majority. For that matter, the opposition parties themselves have been notably slow to report or even collect evidence of the fraud, though they were supposedly among its victims, while the media, after those first contemporaneous reports, seemed to lose interest, until Postmedia's story last week, detailing a possible Conservative connection to the Guelph calls, woke everybody up.
This is dispiriting. You needn't be convinced of the Conservatives' involvement to harbour some serious concerns, and with reason: as I've said before, the presumption of innocence does not require us to be deaf, blind and stupid. Yet the institutions we trust to hold government to account in this country are so weak — well, do we trust them any more? I'm not convinced that there are such systemic issues raised here as to warrant a public inquiry, and I'm not sure anyone has really made that case. Rather, it seems that people have so lost confidence in these other institutions that a public inquiry becomes almost their fallback response.
What everyone needs to do first is go back to square one, to ground zero in this affair: the riding of Guelph. From recent reporting, we now have two crucial pieces of intelligence. One, that the calls giving out false information on where to vote came from a cash-prepaid cellphone registered to a bogus name ("Pierre Poutine"). That tells us the caller knew he was doing wrong — that the deception was deliberate. And two, that the Conservative campaign in Guelph was a client of the same automated calling outfit, RackNine Inc., that the infamous Mr. Poutine used, having called it more than 30 times during the campaign — and, what is more, didn't report it on its expenses. Without casting aspersions on anyone else, that strongly suggests the anonymous crank caller had some ties to the party.
Presumably he did not pay RackNine out of his own pocket. So the question then becomes: who paid his expenses? And, broadening out, who footed the bill for similar operations, live or automated, in other ridings? As in any such investigation, "follow the money" and you cannot go far wrong.