What does one day worth of Flickr uploads look like? (Yahoo! News)

Artist prints over a million photos and piles them in an art gallery

Just how many photos get uploaded to the popular photo-sharing site Flicker each day? "A lot" doesn't quite begin to cover it; the actual number is typically over a million. To get a visual idea of exactly how many photos that is, artist Erik Kessels printed out a day's worth of Flickr uploads and dumped them in a new installation at the Foam gallery in Amsterdam.

The photos fill up several gallery rooms in drifts and piles, like a snowfall of random lives. According to Kessels in an interview, the sense of chaotic mess is intentional.

"We're exposed to an overload of images nowadays," says Kessels. "This glut is in large part the result of image-sharing sites like Flickr, networking sites like Facebook, and picture-based search engines. Their content mingles public and private, with the very personal being openly displayed. By printing all the images uploaded in a 24-hour period, I visualize the feeling of drowning in representations of other peoples' experiences."

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A decade on, U.S. terrorism tribunals are bogged down (Reuters)

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) ? The beige-carpeted room where an al Qaeda chief appeared last week charged with blowing a hole in the side of an American warship looks like any modern U.S. court, with pop-up computer screens at lawyers' tables and a judge in black robes presiding from the bench.

But it sits in a warehouse-like building on an abandoned airfield at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba, ringed by barbed wire and nestled among rows of khaki tents and trailers in an "expeditionary" compound that was never meant to be permanent.

A decade after President George W. Bush authorized military tribunals for terrorism suspects, the Obama administration is plodding forward with new tribunals at a glacial pace, hampered by persistent political and legal arguments over the procedures and principles involved.

"I think we've botched this so bad that we're past the point of redemption," said retired Air Force Colonel Moe Davis, a former chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo tribunals and now one of their strongest critics. He quit because of what he called political meddling and pressure to use evidence obtained through methods he considered torture.

The tribunals authorized by Bush in an executive order on November 13, 2001, were set up to try non-U.S. citizens on terrorism charges outside the regular U.S. federal and military courts.

Those who plotted the hijacked plane attacks of September 11, 2001, were neither civilians nor warriors and did not deserve the legal protections granted to either, Bush argued.

Ten years and three major revisions later, the tribunals remain largely untested.

Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, arraigned last week in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen, would be only the second prisoner to get a fully contested trial at Guantanamo. His case is not expected to be ready for trial for at least another year and his lawyers are questioning what legal precedents apply.

"One might say there are certain gaps that are not present in other more developed systems ...." the chief judge in the Guantanamo tribunals, Army Colonel James Pohl, said during the arraignment. "I think we all know the uniqueness of the system," replied Richard Kammen, Nashiri's lawyer.

NOT MEANT TO BE PERMANENT

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the original version of the tribunals in 2006, ruling that the president had no power to create a court system. It said that authority rested with Congress, which created a new version of the tribunals in 2006 and then revised them at the behest of the Obama administration in 2009 to grant the defendants more rights.

Congress in recent months added a new wrinkle, with proposals that the military tribunals be expanded to try all foreign terrorism suspects, including those arrested in the United States, a prospect which horrifies civil rights advocates.

"Don't make our armed forces judge, jury and jailer for terrorism suspects," said Heather Hurlburt, executive director of the nonprofit National Security Network. "The military is completely unequipped for it."

The Guantanamo tribunals are not strictly military.

Justice Department lawyers are included in the prosecution teams -- an assistant U.S. attorney from Kansas is leading the case against Nashiri -- while civilian lawyers from many top U.S. firms bolster the defense.

Kammen, a civilian attorney from Indianapolis, was brought in on the Nashiri case because he has experience handling death penalty cases, something most military lawyers lack. Nashiri, a round-faced 46-year-old Saudi merchant and alleged al Qaeda chieftain, could be executed if convicted of masterminding the bombing that killed 17 sailors.

The prosecution of five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks is currently on hold while the government conducts extensive security reviews of civilian lawyers chosen to join their defense teams as "learned counsel" with death penalty experience.

Prosecutors have asked to try those five, including self-described mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, on capital charges. President Barack Obama planned to send them to New York for trial in federal courts but Congress has blocked the transfer of Guantanamo prisoners to U.S. soil for any reason.

FROZEN AND THAWED

Shifting political winds have complicated the trials.

Obama froze the tribunals upon taking office in 2009 and ordered the Guantanamo detention operation shut down by January 2010. But Congress blocked his efforts to make civilian courts the preferred venue for terrorism trials, so Obama thawed the Guantanamo courts and allowed new cases to proceed this year.

Nashiri's lawyers questioned whether he could be held forever even if acquitted. The Bush and Obama administrations have both said the law of war allows them to hold Guantanamo prisoners indefinitely, until the end of hostilities in the war against terrorism.

Six cases have been completed in the Guantanamo court. But four defendants pleaded guilty in exchange for leniency and one was convicted in a trial in which no defense was presented because the defendant said the tribunal lacked legitimacy.

Of the 171 prisoners remaining at Guantanamo, the United States wants to try about three dozen but Nashiri is the only one currently facing charges.

"These are extremely complicated cases," a lawyer involved in the prosecution said.

Critics of the Guantanamo tribunals point out that the U.S. federal courts have tried more than 400 people on terrorism charges in the last decade. The post-World War Two Nuremberg tribunals managed to try more than 200 Nazi leaders and other accused war criminals in four years.

The Guantanamo tribunals have proceeded so slowly largely because of legal challenges to the system.

NEW RULES

The tribunal rules are still being tweaked. Two days before Nashiri's arraignment, the Pentagon released 202 pages of new rules, bolstering criticism that it's an ad hoc system with rules made up on the fly.

Army Brigadier General Mark Martins, the sixth Guantanamo chief prosecutor in seven years, said the changes were largely administrative and dealt with procedures such as travel reimbursement and how the lawyers would be paid.

"None of these is unfair to the accused," Martins said.

The Guantanamo tribunals have many fans in Congress, where a recent proposal in the House of Representatives would have blocked the use of federal courts to try foreign terrorism suspects. Senate Republicans inserted provisions into a 2012 defense authorization bill that would broaden the use of military detention for suspected terrorists.

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he would block consideration of the defense bill until those provisions were changed. Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson said they would "overmilitarize" U.S. counterterrorism efforts.

In an editorial published last month in the Chicago Tribune, three former federal judges said the "deeply disturbing" provisions could limit trial options and strip the FBI and local and state law enforcement agencies of the ability to gather intelligence from terrorism suspects.

"Not only would such an effort ignore 200 years of legal precedent, it would fly in the face of common sense," they said. "Such an effort to restrict counterterrorism efforts by traditional law enforcement agencies would sadly demonstrate that many members of Congress have very little faith in America's criminal justice system."

(Editing by David Storey)

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Obama to China: behave like "grown up" economy (Reuters)

HONOLULU (Reuters) ? President Barack Obama told China on Sunday that the United States was fed up with its trade and currency practices, as he turned up the heat on America's biggest economic rival at an Asia Pacific summit.

"Enough's enough," Obama said bluntly at a closing news conference at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting where he scored a significant breakthrough in his push to create a pan-Pacific free trade zone.

Using some of his toughest language yet against China, Obama -- a day after face-to-face talks with President Hu Jintao -- demanded that China stop "gaming" the international economic system and create a level playing field for U.S. and other foreign businesses.

"We're going to continue to be firm that China operate by the same rules as everyone else," Obama said. "We don't want them taking advantage of the United States."

There was no immediate response from China, which has in the past shrugged off U.S. demands that it allow its currency to float freely and take steps to reduce its huge trade surplus.

And it was unclear how much of Obama's tough rhetoric was, at least in part, political posturing aimed at economically weary U.S. voters who will decide next November whether to give him a second term.

Obama insisted that China must let its currency rise faster in value, saying it was being kept artificially low and was thus hurting American companies and jobs. He said China, which often presents itself as a developing country, is now "grown up" and should act that way in global economic affairs.

Obama's remarks came as Asia-Pacific leaders sought to present a unified front, with a pledge to bolster their economies and lower trade barriers in an effort to shield against the fallout from Europe's debt crisis.

The 21 members of APEC -- which accounts for more than half of the world's economic output -- said they had agreed on ways to counter "significant downside risks" to the world economy.

That followed an appeal by Obama, seeking to reassert U.S. leadership to counter China's expanding influence around the Pacific Rim, for a commitment to expand trade opportunities as an antidote to Europe's fiscal woes.

It is a "time of uncertainty" for the global economy, the summit's final communique said, with growth and job creation weakened not only by the euro zone crisis but by natural disasters like Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami.

"We recognize that further trade liberalization is essential to achieving a sustainable global recovery in the aftermath of the global recession of 2008-2009," the leaders said after talks in Honolulu.

The communique expressed a firm resolve "to support the strong, sustained and balanced growth of the regional and global economy" -- a clear reference to U.S. concerns about a huge trade deficit with China's export-driven economy.

In another bow to U.S. pressure, APEC committed, albeit in somewhat vague terms, to reducing tariffs on environmental goods and services, even though China had resisted the idea. APEC also committed to support clean energy.

Differences persist over currencies and trade -- a point hammered home by U.S.-China tensions at the summit -- and the question remains how far leaders will be able to go in turning promises into action when they return home.

Many, Obama included, will face resistance to opening markets further to foreign competition.

(Reporting by Reuters APEC team; Additional reporting by Chris Buckley and Judy Hua in BEIJING; Writing by Matt Spetalnick and Emily Kaiser; Editing by John O'Callaghan)

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Islamist kills 7, self in Kazakhstan (AP)

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan ? A radical Islamist killed seven people, including five law enforcement officers, in a rampage Saturday in Kazakhstan's southern city of Taraz, authorities said. The suspect blew himself up as officers moved in to arrest him.

The shootout and bombing is the latest in a recent string of Islamist-related attacks in Kazakhstan and will deepen worries of a mounting terrorist threat in the former Soviet Central Asian nation.

Kazakhstan has been largely untroubled by Islamist-related violence, but the past few months have seen an anomalous spike in attacks that authorities have tied to radical organizations.

The prosecutor general's office said in a statement that the killings began in the morning when the suspect opened fire and killed two security service officers who were tailing him.

Authorities said the attacker, identified only as Kariyev, later attacked a weapons store, killing the owner and a customer. He then commandeered a vehicle and shot dead two police officers.

Kariyev subsequently returned to his home, where he picked up a grenade launcher that he then used to fire on a local branch of the Committee for National Security, the successor agency to the KGB.

"As an attempt was made to disarm Kariyev, he blew himself up, which resulted in the death of police captain Baitasov, who led the platoon engaged in the capture," the statement said.

Kazakhstan, a vast oil-rich and mainly Muslim nation of 17 million people along Russia's southern border, had been all but untouched by Islamist violence since gaining independence in 1991. But the killing of two police officers in western Kazakhstan in June was linked by authorities to indigenous terrorist groups.

That prompted security operations in which two more police officers and nine suspected terrorists were killed.

Most recently, the Jund al-Khilafah militant group claimed responsibility for two blasts in late October in the western oil town of Atyrau. Only one person ? the man engaged in setting the bombs ? was killed.

Jund al-Khilafah had previously warned that it intended to engage in a terror campaign in Kazakhstan if the authorities declined to overturn what it claims is a ban on wearing the Islamic veil. Kazakh authorities deny that there is such a ban.

Authorities did, however, respond to the wave of violence in the summer by swiftly passing a law that tightens registration rules for religious groups. Supporters of the bill said it would help combat religious extremism.

Passage of the law marked a reversal of President Nursultan Nazarbayev's earlier attempts to cast Kazakhstan as a land of religious tolerance.

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Associated Press writer Nataliya Vasilyeva contributed to this report from Moscow.

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US couple wins once-in-a-century wedding (AP)

PORT CHARLOTTE, Florida ? On Friday ? 11-11-11 ? Sheila Barnett and Melissa Patrick will walk down an aisle and stand in front of a giant, crescent-shaped window at the Crowne Plaza in Manhattan, look each other in the eyes and say, "I do."

The same-sex couple from Florida was one of 11 couples to win the hotel's "Marry Me 11-11-11 Wedding Contest" on Facebook, which gave away dream weddings on that once-in-a-century day that's supposed to be lucky for love: Nov. 11, 2011.

Yet as Barnett and Patrick packed their nearly identical dresses for the ceremony (Patrick will wear white, Barnett, purple), they tried not to think about one fact: when they return home, their marriage won't be legal in Florida.

"I don't like it," said Patrick, who sat in her living room on a recent day with her arm around her fiancee.

Same-sex unions aren't recognized under Florida law. In 2008, Florida voters amended the state's constitution to define marriage as a union only between one man and one woman. A gay rights group is sponsoring legislation in the upcoming session to provide domestic partnership benefits to committed same-sex couples in the state.

A same-sex couple from New York and another from Ohio also won the contest. Ohio has an amendment similar to the one passed in Florida, but gay marriage is legal in New York. The state also recognizes unions from other states.

The couples flew to New York on Wednesday. On Thursday, everyone was to rehearse for the ceremony and then tour the city.

Barnett and Patrick, who are both 37, haven't always been in same-sex relationships ? and are reluctant to identify themselves as lesbians, saying that their love "blindsided" both of them. Barnett was in a relationship with the same man for 20 years ? married for many of them ? and Patrick had a long-term relationship with a man. Both have children from those prior relationships.

"I fell in love with a person, for who she is and everything about her," Barnett said. "Not because she was a female."

Said Patrick: "Love doesn't discriminate, I'll tell you that. You're able to fall in love with anyone if it's right."

The two women met 20 years ago in high school and played on the softball team together. They were friends, but nothing more. After graduating, Patrick moved to Indianapolis and became a firefighter.

They kept in touch throughout the years and in 2010, Patrick visited Florida on vacation. She and Barnett spent every day together, and when it was time for Patrick to leave, they both cried.

"When she left it was one of the saddest days of my life," said Barnett, who is a hairdresser. "Something was going on, but I didn't know what it was."

The couple dated long distance, and then Patrick quit her job as a firefighter and moved to Florida so they could be together. They initially planned to hold a commitment ceremony in the summer of 2012, but a friend told them about the Crowne Plaza contest a few months ago.

"Two women, true love, awesome story and it's just that simple," they wrote. They asked friends and family to vote for their entry, and were chosen in October. Steve Ward, a matchmaker who also is the star of VH1's "Tough Love" show, will perform the ceremony on Friday. The hotel will serve a lavish lunch and provide plum-and-white flower bouquets or corsages, along with wedding photos and video. As part of the promotion, every couple stays at the hotel free and was able to invite 10 friends or relatives.

Patrick and Barnett spent the past week getting ready for the trip: having their nails done in an identical French manicure with black heart details on their ring fingers, buying winter clothes and deciding where to visit once they get to the city. Barnett has never been to the Big Apple.

"She wants to go purse shopping," Patrick said of her fiancee. "I want to visit Ground Zero and eat some New York pizza."

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Perry says his campaign won't end

Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry looks at his notes during a Republican Presidential Debate at Oakland University in Auburn Hills, Mich., Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry looks at his notes during a Republican Presidential Debate at Oakland University in Auburn Hills, Mich., Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry points his head as he speaks during a Republican Presidential Debate at Oakland University in Auburn Hills, Mich., Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. At right is Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Republican presidential candidates Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, speak during a Republican Presidential Debate at Oakland University in Auburn Hills, Mich., Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry laughs during a Republican Presidential Debate at Oakland University in Auburn Hills, Mich., Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

(AP) ? Rick Perry says he "stepped in it" when he couldn't remember the third federal department he would cut if elected, but insisted the debate blunder wouldn't force him out of the Republican presidential field.

"Oh, shoot, no," Perry told The Associated Press on Thursday morning, the day after making the error during a GOP debate. Asked whether his campaign, which is struggling to regain traction, could survive, Perry replied: "This ain't a day for quitting nothing."

Perry says others have made similar mistakes and that the screw-up will humanize him. "The president of the United States said there were 57 states one time. Everybody makes mistakes," Perry said.

During a May 2008 campaign stop in Beaverton, Ore., then-candidate Barack Obama said he had spent the past 15 months visiting every corner of the U.S. "I've now been in fifty ? seven states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go, even though I really wanted to visit but my staff would not justify it." News accounts at the time chalked it up to fatigue during an exhausting stretch of campaign travel.

Perry hoped to stem any fallout from his own gaffe through a blitz of early morning interviews and TV appearances.

His glaring mistake was by far the worst in a series he's made over the course of six presidential debates. The pattern plays into stereotypes that the Texas governor isn't smart enough or qualified enough to be president ? particularly as Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate to beat, has stood on the same stages and performed almost flawlessly.

It also raised questions about whether Perry can take on not just his Republican rivals but also Obama.

In the early morning after the debate, Perry tried to cast the mistake as a humanizing one that shows voters he isn't the "slickest" politician but someone who makes mistakes like everyone else. In the AP interview, he insisted that he is more qualified than Romney to be president.

"More so," he said when asked if was as qualified as the former Massachusetts governor. "Almost 11 years of chief executive experience of an entity a lot bigger than anything that he ever ran, and created more jobs, taking our four years and overlapping them as governors. The success that Texas was going through between 2002 and 2006 far overshadowed Massachusetts. So absolutely."

"If Americans are looking for the slickest politician, the smoothest debater, I readily admit, I'm probably not their guy," Perry said.

But while Perry's earlier flubs brought him down from the top of the polls and forced a shift in campaign strategy, this one has prompted questions about whether he can even continue in the race. Donors were privately nervous ? or even panicking, though Perry's advisers said Thursday that they already have the cash they need to run through to South Carolina.

And Perry himself is defiant. "The chattering class and the political pundits will try to guide this campaign," Perry said. "I'm going to be out talking to the people in South Carolina and Florida and New Hampshire and Iowa, those early primary states, about our vision for the country."

Still, the extended debate exchange is destined for endless television replay and will provide easy fodder for attack ads.

In the debate, Perry said he would eliminate three federal agencies but struggled to name them.

"Commerce, Education and the ? what's the third one there? Let's see," he said.

Perry's rivals tried to bail him out, suggesting the Environmental Protection Agency.

"EPA, there you go," Perry said, seemingly taking their word for it.

But that wasn't it. And when pressed, he drew another blank.

"Seriously?" asked moderator John Harwood, one of the CNBC debate hosts. "You can't name the third one?"

"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," Perry said. "Oops."

Later in the debate, Perry revisited the question and said he meant to call for the elimination of the Energy Department.

On Thursday, Perry said he just couldn't think of it.

"There were so many federal agencies that come to mind, that I want to get rid of, that the Energy Department would not come out," he said in an interview taped for ABC's "Good Morning America."

He's trying to turn it to his advantage. On NBC's "Today" show, Perry sought to make the best of the gaffe, saying that forgetting the name of one of the agencies illustrated the "core point" of his campaign ? that there are too many agencies. He's already blasted an email to supporters asking them, "What part of the Federal Government would you like to forget about the most?" His website now asks them to vote for one.

The immediate fallout has been brutal.

"We all felt very bad for him," Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman also running for the nomination, said after the debate.

"Rick Perry just lost the debate. And the entire election. You only had to name three," Tim Albrecht, the top spokesman for Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, who is unaligned in the GOP race, tweeted from his personal account.

"Perry response will be on highlight reels for years to come," tweeted businessman Jack Welch.

His campaign obviously recognized just how bad it was. In dramatic fashion, Perry bee-lined it to the "spin room," the place where reporters gather to interview campaign surrogates, and immediately indicated that he knew he had made a really bad mistake. The first words out of his mouth as reporters crowded around were: "I'm glad I had my boots on because I really stepped in it tonight."

The next few days will shed light on whether voters care about the misstep ? and punish him for it.

Over the past two weeks, Perry has sought to prove he's still a credible challenger to Romney by rolling out detailed policy proposals. But he's found himself dogged by suggestions that he had been drinking or taking drugs when he gave an animated speech in New Hampshire. It went viral online, prompting Perry to state that he was not, in fact, under the influence of a substance.

NBC's "Saturday Night Live" did a widely viewed Perry parody last weekend.

In recent days, the candidate started to take his message directly to voters by running sunny, biographical television ads in early primary states like Iowa and New Hampshire. It's an effort to reintroduce himself to Republican primary voters in a safer setting that circumvents the news media.

Wednesday's was the latest tough debate for the GOP candidate who has struggled in the national spotlight since entering the race in August, the last time he was at the top of polls. His standing has fallen throughout the fall, and he's fighting to gain ground less than two months before the leadoff Iowa caucuses.

He has committed to four more debates in a year when the GOP electorate is clearly tuned into them, but his advisers are considering skipping future ones.

Presidential debates have offered pivotal moments for decades, from Al Gore's audible sighs in 2000 to Michael Dukakis' tepid answer about the death penalty in 1988.

A statement by Gerald Ford in a 1976 presidential debate is among the most memorable, however. Ford famously baffled audiences when he said, "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" and refused to back down when pressed by the moderator. The moment haunted the rest of his losing campaign.

Perry had no public schedule Thursday and planned to raise money privately at events in Tennessee. His next public campaign stops were scheduled in South Carolina on Friday ? the day before yet another debate.

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Pets Of The Week: National Adoption Weekend ? CBS Detroit

The Michigan Humane Society?teaming up with PetSmart as part of its National Adoption Weekend, to be held November 11-13 at PetSmart locations.?MHS will hold six off-site adoption events around metro Detroit this weekend, featuring adoptable dogs, cats, rabbits and more.

See a photo gallery of adoptable cats and dogs here.

The adoption events will be held at the following times and PetSmart locations. Please note that, in addition to dogs, cats and rabbits, the West Bloomfield store event will also feature additional small animals from MHS such as degus, hamsters, chinchillas and guinea pigs:

Friday, Nov. 11:
?West Bloomfield: 7260 Orchard Lake Road, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
?Taylor: 23271 Eureka Road, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 12:
?Roseville: 20530 E. 13 Mile Road, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
?Rochester Hills: 2724 South Adams Road, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.?
Sunday, Nov. 13:
?Dearborn: 5650 Mercury Drive, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
?Chesterfield: 51347 Gratiot Avenue, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The adoption process mirrors that at MHS? three adoption centers. Adoptions are on a first-come, first-served basis to qualified families, with a listing of pets available at www.michiganhumane.org/adopt.

MHS? adoption fees for cats and kittens at its PetSmart partner locations are $60; adoption fees for dogs over 4 months are $175; puppies and lap dogs (20 pounds or less) are $275; rabbits are $20; adoption fees for small and furry friends like degus vary by species. The dogs and cats have been spayed or neutered and received age-appropriate vaccinations. All cats have been microchipped at no additional cost. For more information, call 1-866-MHUMANE or visit www.michiganhumane.org.

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Penn State scandal: Students raise funds for child abuse victims

Penn State scandal: Penn State students plan a vigil and fund-raising events ahead of Saturday's Penn State vs. Nebraska game. This is the last home game of the Penn State football season.

Penn State students are calling it a "Blue Out."

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In an effort to shift the focus from Penn State head coach Joe Paterno's firing to the victims of alleged sexual abuse, Penn State students are planning several events Friday and Saturday ? including wearing blue at Saturday's football game.

Normally, Penn State football fans wear white to games to create a "white out" effect in the stands. At Saturday's game, fans plan a "Blue Out," and money raised by selling blue T-shirts will go to Prevent Child Abuse Pennsylvania.

After picking up a ?Stop Child Abuse Blue Out? T-shirt at McLanahan?s store in State College, Penn.,? Penn State student Erin Grogan told the Penn State Collegian that wearing the shirt is a way to remember and support the victims in the case.

?I think this week has been on the wrong side of this,? said Grogan, apparently referring to the student protests which turned violent after it was announced Wednesday night that Penn State football coach Joe Paterno had been fired.??

Too much focus has been on other people besides those affected by the alleged abuse, Penn State sophomore Grogan told The Collegian.

On Friday, the mother of one of the boys allegedly abused by former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, spoke to ABC's "Good Morning America" She was not identified beyond being the mother of "Victim No. 1" in the 23-page grand jury report that led to Sandusky being charged with 40 counts of abusing eight boys over a 15-year period.

In the interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, the boy's mother says she gradually became aware of the abuse her son was suffering. She said that her son would do things to intentionally misbehave to get himself grounded and avoid having to see Sandusky. She said that he asked her, at one point, how to look up information about sex offenders.

"[I] proceeded to ask him if there was something he needed to tell me, if there was something going on ? it wasn't 'til a month later when he indicated he was uncomfortable with leaving the school with him, and [Sandusky] pulling him out of classes at school," she said.

In Texas, prosecutors say they have opened an investigation into whether charges should be brought against Sandusky. According to the grand jury report,? "Victim No 4" said hat he was sexually assaulted by Sandusky during a visit to San Antonio for the 1999 Alamo Bowl.

Meanwhile, at State College, Penn., students are planning several events tonight in support of the alleged victims.

A candlelight vigil for victims of sex abuse is planned on the Penn State campus at 9:30 p.m. Friday. Several speakers are scheduled, as well as performances by the Penn State Blue Band, a marching band, and "Nota," a well-known student a cappella group.

At 10 p.m. a moment of silence will be held on the Penn State campus for victims of abuse.

"We are just as horrified, if not more than a lot of people,"? Kyle Harris, a Penn State senior who is one of the vigil organizers, told CNN. "We want to make an impact. We want to show these kids we care."

Tammy Lerner, director of the Foundation to Abolish Child Abuse, told CNN that her group plans to hold a vigil Saturday night at 7 p.m. Saturday to promote awareness about abuse and other issues related to the recent developments -- such as university transparency and protocols over the issue, legislative change and focus on those who have been abused.

"This whole thing has not been victim-centered," she said.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/9DAxV68RAI8/Penn-State-scandal-Students-raise-funds-for-child-abuse-victims

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