At its last 2011 home football game, Penn State remembers child sex abuse victims (The Christian Science Monitor)

(UPDATE: The Associated Press reports that capping the worst week in school history, No. 12 Penn State couldn't overcome a 17-point deficit and was stopped short on a 4th-and-1 late in a 17-14 loss Saturday to No. 19 Nebraska.)

Unrest at Penn State University over the firing of a collegiate-football icon appears to have yielded to a concern for the victims of alleged pedophile and former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, whose arrest Nov. 5 also toppled Penn State University's legendary coach Joe Paterno.

A candlelight vigil on campus Friday night in support of the victims, drawing thousands of students and alumni, and the brisk sale of blue T-shirts in advance of today's final home game for the Nittany Lions were aimed at offsetting images earlier in the week of unruly crowds torching a TV van and toppling street lamps in State College, Pa., in protest of Mr. Paterno's dismissal.

Yet even as students strove to express their collective support for the victims, others were emphasizing the critical role individuals play in promptly reporting instances of sex abuse with children.

During halftime at Friday's "Carrier Classic" collegiate basketball game aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson at the US Navy's base at Coronado Island in San Diego Bay, President Obama noted that "it's a good time for the entire country to do some soul-searching?. You can't just rely on bureaucracy and systems in these kinds of situations. People have to step forward ? we don't leave it to somebody else to take responsibility."

Even then, however, the system can break down.

The grand jury report that led to Mr. Sandusky's indictment, as well as the arrest of two university officials for failing to report to police what they had been told about one of the incidents, describes the testimony of one victim whose mother did report the incident to university police.

The encounter occurred in 1998, according to the report. At the time, the county district attorney declined to press criminal charges, the report said, while one of two State College detectives investigating the incident essentially issued a warning to Sandusky.

Today's game takes place in an atmosphere of heightened security. The university reported that it had received a bomb threat overnight involving the football stadium. Repeated checks by local police have found no explosives.

And assistant coach Mike McQueary, who testified to the grand jury that he witnessed one incident in 2002 involving Sandusky and a young boy in the showers at the university's football facility, was put on administrative leave and under protective custody Friday after receiving threats for not immediately reporting the incident to police, although a day or so later he did report the incident to Paterno.

While Penn State's team battles Nebraska on the football field Saturday, analysts who specialize in sports law are examining the potential legal battles Paterno and the university could face.

State Attorney General Linda Kelly has been quoted as saying that her team won't charge the former head coach with failing to report the allegations of child sexual abuse Mr. McQueary presented to him.

But in a blog post earlier this week at Sports Illustrated's SI.com, Michael McMann, who heads the Sports Law Institute at the University of Vermont, noted that Paterno could still be vulnerable to several other criminal charges, including perjury, obstruction of justice, or concealing evidence.

In addition, adds CBS Radio's legal-issues analyst Andrew Cohen, Paterno and the university remain vulnerable to civil suits. Because the Fifth Amendment's right to remain silent applies only to criminal cases, any civil suits that may emerge from the scandal could tell a more fulsome story than a criminal trial would about how the university handled reports of Sandusky's alleged behavior.

Paterno reportedly has retained prominent Washington, D.C., attorney Sedwick Sollers.

In a blog post for theatlantic.com, Mr. Cohen writes, "If Paterno and Penn State are sued for monetary damages, all of the relevant actors will be required to answer questions in sworn depositions and then later at trial."

Questions from attorneys during those processes, he concludes, would make any questions from the media look mild in comparison.

Donations for two child-abuse prevention organizations were being accepted at the stadium gates Saturday, the Associated Press reports, and a sign on the scoreboard let fans know how they could continue to help.

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Tritton's $50 Trigger headset now shipping, lets budget-minded FPS players keep their wallets fat

It's been about a month since MadCatz began shipping the first of its four Tritton and Xbox 360 co-branded headsets (the $80 Devastator), and today the company's announced that its $50 Trigger variant is now officially traversing mail routes. At a glance, its nearly identical to the Devastator, offering stereo sound via a wired connection, but that 30 dollar price decrease comes with a trimmed-down feature set -- there's no Selective Voice Monitoring functionality, it packs smaller 40mm drivers (from 50mm), its in-line remote packs volume rollers in place of buttons and there's no mention of PMP-compatibility. Basically, the Trigger's apparently aimed squarely at uping your in-game audio without breaking the bank -- not to mention that it's especially tempting if you've just splurged on the latest Modern Warfare and Battlefield titles. As usual, you'll find more info at the source link below and the full press release after the break.

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Endangered rhinos airlifted to new home

How do you move a sleeping rhino? With a helicopter and a whole lot of rope.

Nineteen black rhinoceroses recently took flight as part of an effort to establish new, safe habitats for the critically endangered animals. The 1.5-ton rhino species has been devastated by poaching; in the early 1990s, there were only 2,000 black rhinoceroses left in the wild, according to the World Wildlife Fund for Nature of South Africa. The rhinos are coveted for their horns, which are sold as aphrodisiacs on foreign markets.

WWF's Black Rhino Range Expansion project aims to protect the species by expanding their range. But rhinos aren't easy to transport. Prior translocation efforts have involved sedating rhinos with tranquilizer guns, and then either moving them in trucks or airlifting them in nets to waiting vehicles.

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Now, a new ? and visually striking ? procedure dispenses with the nets in favor of suspending the sleeping rhinos by the ankles for a short flight to a ground-based transport. [ Photos of flying rhinos ]

"This new procedure is gentler on the darted rhino, because it shortens the time it has to be kept asleep with drugs, the respiration is not as compromised as it can be in a net, and it avoids the need for travel in a crate over terrible tracks," said Jacques Flamand, who directs the rhino project.

The flights only last about 10 minutes, Flamand said in a statement, and helicopter transport makes it easier to get the animals out of rough terrain.

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The 19 rhinos were moved from the Eastern Cape of South Africa to the Limpopo province of northern South Africa. Since 2003, the WWF has relocated almost 120 of the animals, expanding the black rhino range by 25 percent. The project has established seven new black rhino populations. To keep poachers at bay, the rhinos relocate to lands guarded by security.

"Translocating rhinos always involves risk, but we cannot keep all our eggs in one basket," Flamand said. "It is essential to manage black rhino populations for maximum growth as it is still a critically endangered species, and this is what the project does by creating large new populations, which we hope will breed quickly.??

You can follow LiveScience senior writer Stephanie Pappas on Twitter @sipappas. Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter @livescienceand on Facebook.

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GOP candidates: Fix US economy or fail like Europe (AP)

ROCHESTER, Mich. ? United in agreement for once, Republican presidential rivals warned forcefully Wednesday night the United States could be doomed to the same sort of financial crisis that is afflicting Europe unless federal deficits are drastically cut and the economy somehow revived.

Though sexual harassment allegations facing Herman Cain have dominated the GOP campaign for more than a week, the debate in economically ailing Michigan focused almost entirely on financial worries and proposed solutions in the U.S.

The candidates generally stuck to practiced speech lines ? with a late exception. In the middle of one answer, Texas Gov. Rick Perry found himself unable to recall the names of all three of the Cabinet-level agencies he wants to eliminate, even leaning over to Rep. Ron Paul for help at one point.

"The third agency of government I would do away with ? the Education, the Commerce. And let's see. I can't. The third one I can't. Oops," he said, forgetting for a moment that he wants to abolish the Department of Energy.

On one specific issue that Congress must address soon, the candidates generally backed an extension of the Social Security payroll tax cut scheduled to expire at the end of the year. That was a rare moment of accord with President Barack Obama and many congressional Democrats, who have been warning that consumers could be hurt if the reduction is not renewed.

"I'm not prepared to raise taxes on working Americans in the middle of a recession that's this bad," said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a sentiment quickly seconded by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Perry disagreed, and Rep. Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota said she opposed the one-year reduction when it was approved late last year. She said it had so far "blown a hole of $100 billion in the Social Security trust fund."

Asked about Europe's financial troubles, the candidates seemed to speak with one voice in saying Italy and other European countries should rise or fall on their own without any American bailout. And several of the White House hopefuls warned that unless U.S. deficits are cut and the economy invigorated, America is headed for the same type of downward spiral.

"Europe is able to take care of their own problems. We don't want to step in and bail out their banks and their economies," former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said as he and GOP rivals met for the first time in three weeks in campaign debate.

Even so, he said the United States should continue contributing to organizations like the International Monetary Fund that are working to prevent a meltdown in troubled economies overseas.,

Paul was more emphatic about the debt. "You have to let it liquidate. We took 40 years to build up this worldwide debt," he added.

Cain said there wasn't much the United States could do to directly to help Italy at present because the economy there is in such difficult shape. "We need to focus on the economy or we will fail," he said, referring to the U.S. and calling for spending cuts, a strong dollar and measures to stimulate growth.

The Cain accusations did come up, though briefly.

"The American people deserve better than someone being tried in the court of public opinion due to unfounded accusations," he said when the question came up early in the debate. "I value my character and my integrity more than anything else. And for every one person that comes forward with an unfair accusation there are probably, there are thousands who come forward and say none of that ever happened with Herman Cain."

Romney, a former venture capitalist, was asked if he would keep Cain on the job as a CEO given the accusations. He responded, "Herman Cain is the person to respond to these questions. He just did."

On another point, Cain felt it necessary to make a post-debate apology to House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, whom he had called "Princess Nancy" for sidetracking Republican legislation when she was speaker.

The announced topic for the evening was the economy, a subject that produced few if any early sparks among rivals who often spar energetically.

Perry, Gingrich, Bachmann and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum joined Romney, Cain, Paul and Huntsman on stage at Oakland University in Michigan, a state where unemployment is 11.1 percent and well above the national 9 percent jobless rate.

The debate took place less than two months before Iowa's kickoff caucuses, as the pace of campaign activity accelerates and public opinion polls suggest the race remains quite fluid. Romney and Cain currently share co-front-runner status in most surveys, with Perry and Gingrich roughly tied for third, within striking distance.

Not surprisingly, none of the contenders found much to like in Obama's economic stewardship.

Perry said the next president should systematically judge all of the government regulations enacted since Obama took office on a standard of whether they created jobs. Any that failed should be repealed, he said.

Bachmann sharply criticized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. She said the latter had recently given multimillion-dollar bonuses to executives even though it was seeking a new federal bailout.

Gingrich, who last held public office more than a decade ago, bristled when asked what advice his company had given Freddie Mac for a $300,000 fee. "Advice on precisely what they didn't do," he shot back ? stop backing mortgages to applicants who aren't credit-worthy.

The government rescued mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in September 2008 to cover their losses on soured mortgage loans. Since then, a federal regulator has controlled their financial decisions.

The cost to taxpayers so far has been about $169 billion, the most expensive bailout of the financial crisis.

There was only scant mention of the Michigan auto industry, which benefited in 2008 and 2009 from a federal bailout that both President George W. Bush and Obama backed.

All eight Republicans on the debate stage say they wouldn't have offered government assistance.

Not so Obama, who stood outside a factory not far from the debate site recently and said government bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler were a success that saved thousands of American jobs.

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USDA OKs Christmas tree tax (Politico)

The Obama administration has given the green light for a new fee of 15 cents on all Christmas trees.

The new tax will be used to raise funds for an advertising campaign promoting the benefits of live trees, as opposed to artificial ones. The tax is expected to raise approximately $2 million, according to McClatchy News.

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A 12-member board will be charged with directing the funds toward advertising and research ventures.

The industry was divided on the issue. Nineteen states? grower organizations lit up at the prospect of the tax, while Christmas tree growers in Texas and Vermont generally opposed it, according to the McClatchy and the Chicago Tribune.

Indeed, of the 565 comments that were submitted to the Agriculture Department, 70 percent supported the proposal, and 26 percent opposed it.

Nationwide, there are about 12,000 commercial farms specializing in Christmas tree production, with an especially heavy concentration in North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

Fresh tree sales declined from 37 million in 1991 to 31 million in 2007, according to the Agriculture Department. Meanwhile, sales of artificial trees nearly doubled to 17.4 million between 2003 and 2007, according to McClatchy.

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Behavioral therapy for obesity may help family too (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? When obese people lose weight with behavioral therapy, their family members may get a bit trimmer as well, a new study suggests.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is one option for managing obesity, though it's not widely available. It focuses on changing people's thoughts and attitudes on eating and other lifestyle habits, and giving them practical ways to make improvements -- like tracking their daily calories and keeping an "eating diary."

In the new study, Italian researchers wanted to know whether the things obese patients learn in CBT might have a "ripple effect" in their families.

They surveyed family members of 149 obese patients going through the CBT program at the University of Bologna -- which consisted of 12 to 15 weekly group meetings.

Six months after their relatives started the program, the study found, family members -- mainly spouses and adult children -- showed some changes for the better as well.

On average, they'd cut more than 200 calories from their daily intake at the study's start. They were also eating a bit less fat and refined carbohydrates, and a bit more fruit.

It all translated into a weight loss of just over two pounds, on average. But the effects were bigger for the 35 relatives who were actually obese themselves.

They lost an average of six pounds, and seven of them lost enough to become officially "overweight" instead of obese.

"CBT in a family member might have a ripple effect (for) other family members," senior researcher Dr. Giulio Marchesini told Reuters Health in an email.

One reason could be that family members decided to make positive changes to help the person who was in CBT -- like ridding the kitchen of sugary, fatty temptations.

Even more likely, Marchesini said, is that the person in behavioral therapy instituted some healthy changes at home. A majority of the CBT patients -- 101 of the 149 -- were women, and were likely "in charge" of meal planning, Marchesini pointed out.

"I do not know how much this possibility might translate into different cultures," he noted, "but this is definitely the case among Italian families."

The study, published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, had its limitations. One was that the researchers tried to survey almost 500 family members of their patients, but got responses from fewer than half -- 230.

So the responses might have come from the most motivated patients and supportive families, and might not reflect the reality for everyone who tries CBT for weight loss, according to Marchesini's team.

In general, cognitive-behavioral therapy requires motivation, since it's time-consuming and people have to commit to changing their outlook and behavior. And it's not universally available, Marchesini noted. That's true in the U.S., as well as Italy.

He argued that the potential effects on an obese patients' family should be taken into consideration when thinking about the cost-effectiveness of CBT.

In the U.S., the cost of CBT varies depending on the specific program, but a typical figure would be between $100 and $200 per hour. Insurance may or may not cover it.

There's some evidence that other weight-loss treatments can end up having effects on family members as well. In a small study out last month, surgeons at Stanford University found that obese relatives of patients who underwent obesity surgery lost weight in the year following the procedure.

The benefits were small. On average, obese family members (limited to those living with the patient) lost eight pounds.

The study included only 35 patients and 50 family members, and it doesn't prove that weight-loss surgery for one person will benefit the whole family. But the researchers said it makes sense that it might, since obesity is a "family disease."

Even when people have surgery to treat severe obesity, they have to commit to lifelong lifestyle changes afterward.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/uIwIuY Journal of the American Dietetic Association, November 2011.

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Carlsberg Q3 earnings worse than expected

(AP) ? Danish brewer Carlsberg on Wednesday reported a worse-than-expected third-quarter result as bad summer weather in Northern and Western Europe hit its beer volumes. It also saw a decline in its important Russian market.

Still, the company relieved investors by reiterating its operating profit forecast for the full year 2011, and shares rose some 5 percent to 385.30 kroner ($71.30) on the Copenhagen stock exchange.

Net profit for the quarter came to 2 billion kroner ($370 million), up slightly from 1.9 billion kroner for the same three months a year ago, but 2010 was weighed down by heavy restructuring costs in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Britain and the disposal of a logistics business in France.

The company blamed most of the downturn on poor weather in Northern and Western Europe, especially in the month of July, which last year gave the company an upswing as unusually warm weather attracted hordes of thirsty beer-drinkers.

It also pointed to a declining market in Russia, where local and international brands are putting up stiff competition.

Sales for the quarter dropped to 17.4 billion kroner, compared with 17.7 billion a year earlier.

"2011 has been a challenging year and we have faced headwinds from rising input costs, adverse weather conditions and soft trading conditions in our largest market," CEO Joergen Buhl Rasmussen said.

Going forward, he said his company plans to "speed up structural initiatives to become even more efficient and customer focused and we will continue to drive value in the category."

Sydbank analyst Morten Imsgard said that overall there wasn't much positive news in the report, noting that what is happening in Russia "is a serious situation for Carlsberg."

He also added that he had "not expected such a large swing in the results due to sluggish summer weather."

Still, he noted that the markets seemed to have been comforted by the full-year forecast reiteration and that the numbers were not as bad as they could have been.

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