$300 Samsung Galaxy Note Will Hit AT&T On February 19

Samsung isn't the first company to break into the phablet space, but those of you waiting for a (more than) worthy successor to devices like the Dell Streak 5 won't have much longer to wait. AT&T has just announced that their pocket-busting Galaxy Note will be hitting their sales channels on February 19, complete with a $300 price tag.

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German court upholds ban on original Galaxy Tab 10.1

While Samsung was more than willing to redesign its flagship tablet in the face of the German court's ruling last year, the higher regional court in Dusseldorf maintains that the original still can't be sold within its borders. As Samsung and Apple continue their legal fisticuffs worldwide, the claim from Cupertino that the 10.1-inch Android tablet is too similar to its own iPad has seen more attention than most. Samsung returned the favor by counter-suing over mobile technology patents, although it's been just as unfortunate here, losing two out of the three infringement claims. The final case will be ruled on in early March. Today's decision will also encompass the Galaxy Tab 8.9, although given that this ruling is based on Germany's own unfair competition law, it makes it unlikely to be replicated elsewhere. Meanwhile, the Galaxy Tab 10.1N remains on shelves -- and very desperate tablet fans just a short drive away from neighboring countries still able to sell the original.

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Authorities: Man, 2 toddlers found dead in Va home (AP)

RICHMOND, Va. ? Authorities say they are investigating the suspicious deaths of a 40-year-old man and two 3-year-old girls ? all related ? whose bodies have been found in a home in central Virginia.

Hanover County Sheriff's spokesman Chris Whitley told The Associated Press the bodies were found Saturday afternoon after investigators were called to a home in Mechanicsville, near Richmond.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch identified the dead as a father and his two twins but Whitley declined to elaborate on their relationship or the cause of death.

Sgt. Whitley says authorities are collecting evidence as part of a "death investigation" and seeking to determine the sequence of events that led to the deaths. He says preliminary information indicates there are no suspects at large. He declined to release their names early Sunday.

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Time short for Gingrich to close gap in Florida

Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, speaks to media during a news conference outside the Exciting Idlewild Baptist Church, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, in Lutz, Fla. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, speaks to media during a news conference outside the Exciting Idlewild Baptist Church, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, in Lutz, Fla. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, watches Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on television as he rides his campaign bus with his brother Scott, and sister-in-law Sheri, to Hialeah, Fla., after campaigning in Naples, Fla., Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, speaks to media during a news conference outside the Exciting Idlewild Baptist Church, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, in Lutz, Fla. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, rides in his campaign bus with his grandson Parker, 5, as they drive from Naples, Fla., to Hialeah, Fla., to continue campaigning Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Jameson Williams, 2, of Sarasota, holds a sign outside a scheduled campaign event for Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, at Sarasota Bradenton International Airport in Sarasota, Fla., Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. Santorum is staying home in Philadelphia to be with his 3-year-old hospitalized daughter Isabella, and is canceling campaign stops in Florida. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

MIAMI (AP) ? Newt Gingrich slammed GOP rival Mitt Romney on Sunday for the steady stream of attacks he likened to "carpet-bombing," trying to cut into the resurgent front-runner's lead in Florida in the dwindling hours before Tuesday's pivotal presidential primary.

Surging ahead in polls, Romney kept the pressure on Gingrich, casting him at an appearance in south Florida as an influence peddler and continuing his heavy advertising blitz questions the former House speaker's ethics.

In what has become a wildly unpredictable race, the momentum has swung back to Romney, staggered last weekend by Gingrich's victory in South Carolina. Romney has begun advertising in Nevada ahead of that state's caucuses next Saturday, illustrating the challenges ahead for Gingrich, who has pledged to push ahead no matter what happens in Florida.

An NBC News/Marist poll published Sunday showed Romney with support from 42 percent of likely Florida primary voters, compared with 27 percent for Gingrich.

Romney's campaign has dogged Gingrich at his own campaign stops, sending surrogates to remind reporters of Gingrich's House ethics probe in the 1990s and other episodes in his career.

Gingrich reacted defensively, accusing the former Massachusetts governor and a political committee that supports him of lying, and the GOP's establishment of allowing it.

"I don't know how you debate a person with civility if they're prepared to say things that are just plain factually false," Gingrich said during appearances on Sunday talk shows. "I think the Republican establishment believes it's OK to say and do virtually anything to stop a genuine insurgency from winning because they are very afraid of losing control of the old order."

Gingrich objected specifically to a Romney campaign ad that includes a 1997 NBC News report on the House's decision to discipline Gingrich, then speaker, for ethics charges.

Romney continued to paint Gingrich as part of the very Washington establishment he condemns and someone who had a role in the nation's economic problems.

"Your problem in Florida is that you worked for Freddie Mac at a time when Freddie Mac was not doing the right thing for the American people, and that you're selling influence in Washington at a time when we need people who will stand up for the truth in Washington," Romney told an audience in Naples.

Gingrich's consulting firm was paid more than $1.5 million by the federally-backed mortgage company over a period after he left Congress in 1999.

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, trailing in Florida by a wide margin, stayed in his home state, where his 3-year-old daughter, Bella, was hospitalized. She has a genetic condition caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 18th chromosome. Aides said he would resume campaigning as soon as possible.

Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who has invested little in Florida, looked ahead to Nevada. The libertarian-leaning Paul is focusing more on gathering delegates in caucus states, where it's less expensive to campaign. But securing the nomination only through caucus states is a hard task.

The race began moving toward a two-person fight in South Carolina, and has grown more bitter and personal in Florida.

The intense effort by Romney to slow Gingrich is comparable his strategy against Gingrich in the closing month before Iowa's leadoff caucuses Jan. 3.

Gingrich led in Iowa polls, lifted by what were hailed as strong performances in televised debates, only to drop in the face of withering attacks by Romney, aided immensely by ads sponsored by a "super" political action committee run by former Romney aides.

Gingrich has responded by criticizing Romney's conservative credentials. Outside an evangelical Christian church in Lutz, Gingrich said he was the more loyal conservative on key social issues.

"This party is not going to nominate somebody who is a pro-abortion, pro-gun-control, pro-tax-increase liberal," Gingrich said. "It isn't going to happen."

But Gingrich, in appearances on Sunday news programs, returned to complaining about Romney's tactics, rather than emphasizing his own message as that of a conservative with a record of action in Congress.

"When we get to a positive idea campaign, I consistently win," Gingrich said. "It's only when he can mass money to focus on carpet-bombing with negative ads that he gains any traction at all."

Romney and the political committee that supports him had combined to spend some $6.8 million in ads criticizing Gingrich in the Florida campaign's final week. Gingrich and a super PAC that supports him were spending about one-third that amount.

Gingrich worked to portray himself as the insurgent outsider, collecting the endorsement of tea party favorite Herman Cain, whose own campaign for president foundered amid sexual harassment allegations.

It was unclear how aggressively Gingrich would be able to compete in states beyond Florida. The next televised debate, a format Gingrich has used to his advantage, is not until Feb. 22, more than three weeks away.

Romney already has campaigned in Nevada more than Gingrich, is advertising there, and stresses his business background in a state hard-hit by the economy. His campaign welcomed the Sunday endorsement of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nevada's largest newspaper.

Michigan and Maine, states where Romney is well-positioned, also hold their contests in February. Arizona, a strong tea-party state where Gingrich could do well, has its primary Feb. 28.

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Associated Press writers Steve Peoples in Naples and Shannon McCaffrey in Lutz contributed to this report.

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Greek PM tries to win backing from parties for reforms (Reuters)

ATHENS (Reuters) ? Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos met leaders of political parties in his coalition on Sunday to persuade them to back painful reforms demanded by the near-bankrupt country's foreign lenders.

Now that Greece is close to clinching a long-awaited debt swap deal with private bondholders, attention is shifting to difficult talks with lenders who want new austerity measures before they hand over funds from a 130 billion euro bailout.

But the mix of spending cuts and reforms to reshape the economy risk heaping more misery on austerity-weary Greeks in the short term and few politicians want to be associated with them as they gear up for elections expected as early as April.

"This is a crucial day. We must all show strength and seriousness," George Karatzaferis, leader of the far-right LAOS party that is one of three parties in Papademos's government, told reporters before entering talks at the premier's office.

Karatzaferis, whose party's ratings have slipped in opinion polls since December, in recent weeks has stepped up threats to quit the coalition citing a lack of cohesion between partners that include the Socialist PASOK and conservative New Democracy parties.

Underscoring the struggle Papademos faces in implementing reforms, Greece's parliament last week voted against extending pharmacy hours soon after officials from the troika of lenders -- the European Central Bank, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund -- arrived in town to discuss the bailout.

They have demanded Greece make extra spending cuts worth 1 percent of GDP - or just above 2 billion euros - this year, including slashing defense and health spending as well as cutting redundant state entities.

But Greece's European partners are increasingly worried the country no longer has the will or ability to push through change.

European paymaster Germany is pushing for Athens to relinquish control over its budget policy to European institutions as part of discussions over a second rescue package, a European source told Reuters.

Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos reacted angrily to the suggestion on Sunday, saying Greece was perfectly capable of making good on its promises.

"Anyone who puts a nation before the dilemma of 'economic assistance or national dignity' ignores some key historical lessons," Venizelos said in a statement before heading to Brussels for a European Union summit on Monday.

BOND SWAP PROGRESS

Euro zone leaders at the summit will have the chance to discuss Greece's debt swap deal, which both sides late on Saturday said was close to being finalized after months of negotiation.

Under the swap, private creditors take a 50 percent cut in the nominal value of their Greek holdings in exchange for cash and new bonds. Their actual losses are expected to be much higher depending on the coupon, or interest rate, involved.

Both sides said the deal was along the lines of a proposal made by Jean-Claude Juncker, the chairman of euro zone finance ministers, suggesting creditors had accepted his demand for a coupon of less than 4 percent. That would result in actual losses of close to 70 percent for creditors on their holdings.

Two sources close to the talks said elements of a deal were largely in place with a coupon of below 4 percent, but that a final agreement could not be clinched until euro zone finance ministers signed off on the plan.

The talks had earlier run into trouble over the coupon and whether the ECB and other public creditors must also take losses on their holdings.

Negotiations were further complicated by hedge funds that have built up positions in Greek bonds and who now either want the country to go under so that insurance against the debt could be paid out or hope for payment in full by holding out.

Greece has responded by threatening to enforce losses on investors who do not voluntarily sign up to the swap.

A deal, aimed at chopping 100 billion euros off Greece's debt load, must be sealed in about three weeks at the latest as Greece has to repay 14.5 billion euros of debt on March 20.

Without a deal and a subsequent release of funds from the bailout plan, Greece would sink into an uncontrolled default that risks spreading turmoil across the euro zone.

(Additional reporting by John O'Donnell in Brussels, Writing by Deepa Babington; editing by Tim Pearce)

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Jon Kitna to coach football at Tacoma high school (AP)

TACOMA, Wash. ? Jon Kitna was hired as the football coach at Lincoln High School in Tacoma after retiring from a 15-year NFL career.

Kitna was introduced Thursday. He was recently hired at his old high school as a math teacher. Kitna received his math education degree at Central Washington University, where he was a standout quarterback and led the Wildcats to a share of the 1995 NAIA national title. Kitna went on to an NFL career with Seattle, Cincinnati, Detroit and wrapped up his career as a backup for the Dallas Cowboys.

Kitna was first contacted about the job three years ago, but decided to keep his NFL career going then. Kitna believes the Abes can become a state and possibly national power.

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Costa Cruises offers compensation to rescued passengers (Reuters)

ROME (Reuters) ? Costa Cruises has offered 11,000 euros ($14,500) in compensation to each of the more than 3,000 passengers aboard its liner that ran aground and capsized two weeks ago, Italian consumer groups said on Friday.

The offer is an attempt by Costa Cruises to limit the legal fallout of the accident off the coast of Italy.

Each passenger on the Costa Concordia will also receive a refund on the cruise and the costs of their return home. The offer applies to all passengers, whether child or adult, who suffered no physical injuries.

Injured passengers will be dealt with individually.

Sixteen bodies have been recovered after the 290-metre long cruise liner, with more than 4,200 passengers and crew on board, struck a rock near the Tuscan island of Giglio.

The ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, is under house arrest and is blamed for causing the accident by steering too close to the island's shore.

Costa Cruises' U.S. parent company Carnival Plc is already facing legal action for compensation. Those accepting Friday's offer will have to agree to drop all future litigation, and receive payment within seven days.

Codacons, a consumer group which did not participate in the negotiations, is collecting names for a class action suit to be filed in Miami requesting 125,000 euros for each passenger.

Carlo Rienzi, president of Codacons, said the offer was insufficient and urged passengers to see a doctor to check whether they had suffered psychological trauma.

John Arthur Eaves, a U.S. personal injury lawyer, is urging passengers to file individual lawsuits in the United States. Eaves represented families of some of those killed when a U.S. military jet struck and severed cables holding skiers in a cable car in northern Italy in 1998, killing 20.

"The class action is not the right tool for this case," Eaves told Reuters Television. "In this case people need to be treated like individuals. Everyone in this boat had different damages."

But Roberto Corbella, head of Italy's association of tour operators, and who helped Costa negotiate the offer with the consumer protection groups, urged passengers to accept it.

"Lawsuits have uncertain outcomes, they take a long time, there are legal costs, and some studies indicate that it's not at all certain that passengers would get more than the company is offering," he said.

"DANGEROUS CONDITIONS"

Crew member Gary Lobaton has already filed a lawsuit against

Carnival in a U.S. district court. His lawyers said in his court filing that he was not aware of the "dangerous conditions" of the cruise ship until it was too late to abandon it safely.

Keiko Guest, a photographer from Atlanta, was a passenger on the Concordia and she said she may consider the offer as long as the equipment she lost was covered by it.

"If they would return my stuff to me alongside this money offer I'd feel better," she said. "I don't know how appealing it will be for some people" who lost $10,000 rings.

Passengers have complained the evacuation was chaotic, with some left waiting in lifeboats for two hours before being able to leave the ship. Several bodies were found by divers in submerged evacuation assembly points, wearing life vests.

On Thursday, Italy's top-ranking Coast Guard official, Marco Brusco, said Schettino lost "a precious hour" which made evacuating the ship more difficult.

Had the order been given earlier "the lifeboats could have been launched calmly, people could have been reassured," Brusco said in Senate testimony.

As divers searched the submerged parts of the ship, Dutch salvage team SMIT finalized preparations to remove fuel from its tanks.

"We could finish today the process of inserting valves on six tanks," said a spokesman for the civil protection agency, which is in charge of operations. That would open the way for fuel removal to begin on Saturday or Sunday.

Many other toxic materials are still onboard the Concordia, including a ton of chlorine to disinfect pools, insecticides, and detergents, according to a list of products distributed by Italian officials. ($1 = 0.7601 euros)

(Additional reporting by Emilio Parodi on Giglio, Gabriele Pileri in Rome, and Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware.; Editing by Myra MacDonald)

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Nikon's Monster 36 Megapixel D800 Arriving Next Month? [Rumors]

The hugely-anticipated Nikon D800 might be hitting soon—like a week and a half soon. Nikon Rumors claims the impending mega-DSLR will shoot 36 megapixels, confirming earlier speculation. And it'll kick off on February 7th. More »

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Business Headlines: Monster Layoffs; Bain's Latest Bet ? CBS Boston

BOSTON (CBS) ? Nobody?s more familiar with high unemployment than the job recruitment website monster.com and the Maynard-based company has just laid off 400 people worldwide.

That?s about 7-percent of its total workforce.

It includes less than 100 employees at its headquarters in Maynard.

Monster is trying to re-structure and says it may soon hire back some of those it has let go.

BAIN?S LATEST BET

Bain Capital has been in the news a lot this week, as the company that earned Mitt Romney his millions.

Well, the private equity firm and its venture capital affiliate are investing $238-million in a San Francisco company called Smart Trade.

That?s a company that provides warranties for iPads, iPhones and laptops, as well as competing products like the Kindle Fire.

And you know that many consumers will be buying those warranties.

CASINO UPDATE

Ameristar casinos has bought 41 acres of land in Springfield, where it hopes to build a resort casino.

The site is right off of Interstate 291, and has been mostly unused since 1970.

It will be up to the state?s gaming commission to assign the casino licenses.

According to the new law, one of them will have to be somewhere in western Massachusetts.

Watch Lisa?s report:

Lisa van der Pool of the?Boston Business Journal?can be seen weekdays at 6 a.m. on WBZ-TV.

You can follow Lisa on Twitter at?@lvanderpool.

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European Union sends 90 observers for Senegal vote (AP)

DAKAR, Senegal ? The European Union says that it will deploy 90 observers to Senegal for the West African country's February presidential elections.

Thijs Berman, a deputy in the European parliament who is heading the mission, said Thursday that the Senegalese government had accorded them "total freedom." He says that EU monitors will be allowed to visit any polling precinct and any building related to the tallying of the votes.

Tension is rising in Senegal, following this week's announcement that 85-year-old President Abdoulaye Wade deposited his application to run for a third, seven-year term.

The constitution was changed after Wade came to power in 2000 in order to impose a two-term limit. Wade has argued that the law is not retroactive, and he should be allowed to seek a third term since the legislation was not in effect when he was first elected president.

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Remarkable Creatures: At La Brea Tar Pits, Relics From Long Before Freeways

[unable to retrieve full-text content]At the La Brea Tar Pits, fossils preserved in tar provide a time capsule of the creatures that roamed Southern California 10,000 to 40,000 years ago.

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Summary Box: Siemens quarterly net down 17 percent (AP)

LOSING STEAM: Industrial equipment maker Siemens AG said Tuesday that net profit fell 17 percent to euro1.46 billion ($1.89 billion) in the final quarter of 2011 due to delays in major wind-power and rail projects.

EUROPE DEBT IMPACT: CEO Peter Loescher said the result showed that troubles In financial markets from Europe's debt crisis "have left their mark on the real economy" through weaker demand.

WORLD VIEW: Siemens fortunes are a clue to demand in the global economy, since the company is active far beyond its German home ? in the U.S., Asia and the developing world.

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Breastfeeding mums told to buy a ticket for baby (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) ? London Olympic organizers attempted to placate breastfeeding mums on Tuesday after facing a backlash from women who have been told they cannot bring babies into venues without buying a separate ticket.

Tickets for the Games which start in just over six months' time went on sale last March, before some of the purchasers discovered they were pregnant, and most events sold out immediately.

Many of the tickets returned on a re-sale website have also been at the top of the price range.

Mothers have expressed frustration and anger on the mumsnet.com website with the chatroom drawing 125 posts and ranking as the most active topic after complaints were first aired earlier this month.

"I'm shocked by the conversation I just had with the London 2012 ticketing people," reported littlepinklizard.

"Our baby is due 2 June, so was enquiring about what I need to do about tickets for the new baby. They said everyone needs a ticket - fine. Children's tickets are 1 - fine.

"But there are no children's tickets for the horse jumping so I have to pay 95 to have a 3 month old in a sling. I said I was planning to bf (breastfeed) and couldn't go without the baby.

"They said the only alternative was to re-sell my ticket or give it to someone else."

LOCOG confirmed the official policy was that everyone entering a venue had to have a ticket.

However, following the complaints and suggestions that the policy was in breach of sexual equality laws, they suggested they could review the situation.

"We want families and young people to come and enjoy the Games, which is why we created Pay Your Age tickets at a third of sessions," said a spokesperson.

"Of course we understand that some new mums may want to take their babies to events they have tickets to, and we will look at what we can do when the remaining tickets go on sale in April."

A million tickets, held back for contingency reasons while venues were tested and licensed, are due to go on sale in April along with returns.

LOCOG has already said it intends to get as many as possible into the hands of those who had failed to get any in previous ballots.

(Editing by John Mehaffey)

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Who's homeowners insurance is responsible to pay if my neighbors ...

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The tree collapsed into my yard causing my grill and table umbrella to break, also broke the fence. He had the tree removed and repaired the fence but who pays for my broken stuff. The neighbor is saying that my homeowners insurance pays but shouldnt?s it be his???

Chosen Answer:

Call your insurance ASAP.

If the neighbor?s tree fell due to their own negligence (the tree was dead and rotted out but they failed to remove it, etc) then it is their responsibility. If the tree fell because of a storm or other act of God than your insurance should pay.

Either way, this is for the insurance companies to work out. So call your agent, explain the situation, and let them work it out.
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Turkish hospital performs triple limb transplant (AP)

ANKARA, Turkey ? A hospital in southern Turkey on Saturday was attempting the world's first triple limb transplant, attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man, the country's state-run news agency reported.

A team of doctors at Akdeniz University Hospital, in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, was at the same time transplanting the face of the same donor onto another patient ? a 19-year-old man. It would be Turkey's first face transplant.

"Today could be a day of many firsts for the medical world," the Anadolu Agency quoted Dr. Zafer Aydin as saying.

"We are hoping that the operation is a success and that it is a world first," said Aydin, who heads the organ transplant unit at the hospital in western Turkey where the donor's limbs were removed. "Two arms and a leg have never been transplanted on one patient until today."

The hospital in Antalya said an announcement would be made after the surgery.

Anadolu said Atilla Kavdir, the 34-year-old receiving the limbs, lost his arms and right leg when he was 11 after he hit power lines outside his home with an iron rod to scare away pigeons and received an electric shock.

The teenage face transplant recipient was burned in a house fire when he was a baby.

The limbs and the face became available early on Saturday and the hospital began the operation at 3:15 a.m., Anadolu said.

The world's first double arm transplant was in Germany in 2008, while the first double leg transplant took place in Spain in July 2011.

More than a dozen face transplants have been carried out around the world, starting in November 2005 with a French woman who was mauled by her dog. The first face transplant in the U.S. was in December 2008.

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BC-Penn State Ties, 1st Ld-Writethru,745Paterno, Penn State helped unify PennsylvaniaAP Photo PAGP132, NY109, PAWIC103, PAWIC103, PAJL102, PAJL106, PAWIC107Eds: Adds details, quotes. With AP Photos.By KEVIN BEGOSAssociated Press

PITTSBURGH (AP) ? For years, Penn State University game days meant long lines of cars and RVs bearing fans making pilgrimages from all corners of Pennsylvania to a school right in the middle of the state, and by extension, to coach Joe Paterno, the man long regarded as its center.

The school's flagship campus, established in 1855 in the small town of State College and conceived as a place for farmers to receive a scientific education, sits in the state's geographic center. But its physical presence is also woven throughout Pennsylvania, with two dozen campuses scattered across the state.

So Paterno's death from cancer on Sunday has created emotional ripples that have spread throughout the university's broad network of alumni, both within the state and far beyond.

In a state where professional sports loyalties are usually divided between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the Penn State Nittany Lions are a team embraced by all Pennsylvanians.

Many alumni credit Paterno not just with winning national college football titles, but for helping to transform a rural agricultural college into a 21st century scientific and engineering powerhouse.

"He, along with his wife Sue, helped transform a sleepy land grant institution in the center of a blue collar state into an academic giant. Penn State became an elite institution without becoming elitist in large part due to the leadership of this Ivy League-educated man from Brooklyn," said Anthony Lubrano of Glenmoore, Pa., who graduated in 1982 and is seeking a seat on the school's Board of Trustees. "His contributions to humanity far outweigh his notoriety on the gridiron."

Former Penn State receiver Kenny Jackson, who played on the 1982 national title team, recalled a coach who demanded at least as much from his players in the classroom as he did on the field.

"I just remember how important it was that we got educated. I know it sounds cliched, but I saw the man do it every day. That man made sure I got an education," Jackson said.

In a larger sense, Paterno continued a tradition that began when the school's founders challenged the assumptions of the mid-19th century.

"The goal was to apply scientific principles to farming, a radical departure from the traditional curriculum grounded in mathematics, rhetoric, and classical languages," Penn State's official history notes.

And though the last few months of Paterno's life were tarnished by the child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, some said that the time has come to judge him on the full circle of his career. Sandusky is accused of molesting 10 boys over a 15-year span, sometimes in the football building.

Thousands of people paid tribute to Paterno during a candlelight vigil outside Penn State's administration building Sunday night. Former players were among those who spoke, including Oakland Raiders offensive lineman Stefen Wisniewski.

"When I think back on Joe Paterno's legacy, the events of the last two months won't even cross my mind," Wisniewski said.

Today Penn State has more than 557,000 living alumni and it's become one of the largest employers in the state. But Paterno and the school managed to hold on to some admirable small town qualities.

"At the end of the day he was just another dad, too," said Bob Branstetter, who grew up in State College and was on the high school hockey team with Paterno's son, Scott. "There was never an air around Joe Paterno. He was iconic, but he was just a normal guy."

Chris Wesling, 22, a college senior from Pittsburgh studying psychology, said the school has a strong sense of togetherness, despite its far flung physical nature.

"The branch campuses help," Wesling said, "and sports is a universal language."

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said it's true that Penn State alumni and fans are "everywhere" in the state, and that Paterno ran what became known as Pennsylvania's football team.

Paterno balanced football with academia "as well as anybody," Rendell said, but added that "he made a mistake" in the case of Sandusky, who has maintained his innocence.

"He should have inquired about why nothing was done" to Sandusky after the first reports of abuse, Rendell said, while adding that doesn't negate Paterno's good deeds, such as giving millions back to the school.

"He made a mistake, but I think Joe Paterno still lived an incredibly positive life. He goes down in my book as an incredible human being," Rendell said.

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Associated Press reporter Mark Scolforo contributed to this story from State College.

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Why should we stop online piracy?

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Congressional bill names are a reliable indicator of the state of conventional wisdom in the US. That Congress is weighing bills called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) tells us that, at a minimum, the idea of stopping online piracy is popular.

It shouldn't be. There's no evidence that the US is currently suffering from an excessive amount of online piracy, and there is ample reason to believe that a non-zero level of copyright infringement is socially beneficial. Online piracy is like fouling in basketball. You want to penalise it to prevent it from getting out of control, but any effort to actually eliminate it would be a cure much worse than the disease.

Much of the debate about SOPA and PIPA has thus far centred around the entertainment industry's absurdly inflated claims about the economic harm of copyright infringement. When making these calculations, intellectual property owners tend to assume that every unauthorised download represents a lost sale. This is clearly false. Often people copy a file illegally precisely because they're unwilling to pay the market price. Were unauthorised copying not an option, they would simply not watch the movie or listen to the album.

Dead weight bounce

Critics of industry estimates have repeatedly made this point and argued against the inflated figures used by SOPA and Protect IP boosters. But an equally large problem is the failure to consider the benefits of illegal downloading. These benefits can be a simple reduction of what economists call "dead-weight loss". Dead-weight loss exists any time the profit-maximising price of a unit of something exceeds the cost of producing an extra unit. In a highly competitive market in which many sellers are offering largely undifferentiated goods, profit margins are low and dead-weight loss is tiny. But the whole point of copyright is that the owner of the rights to, say, Breaking Bad has a monopoly on sales of new episodes of the show. At the same time, producing an extra copy of a Breaking Bad episode is nearly free. So when the powers that be decide that the profit-maximising strategy is to charge more than $100 to download all four seasons of Breaking Bad from iTunes, they're creating a situation in which lots of people who'd gain $15 or $85 worth of enjoyment from watching the show can't watch it. This is "dead-weight loss", and to the extent that copyright infringement reduces it, infringement is a boon to society.

After all, things like public libraries, used bookstores, and the widespread practice of lending books to friends all cost publishers money. But nobody (I hope) is going to introduce the Stop Used-Book Stores Now Act purely on these grounds. The public policy question is not whether the libraries are bad for publishers, but whether libraries are beneficial on balance.

Download or pizza?

By the same token, even when copyright infringement does lead to real loss of revenue to copyright owners, it's not as if the money vanishes into a black hole. Suppose Joe Downloader uses BitTorrent to get a free copy of Beggars Banquet rather than forking over $7.99 to Amazon, and then goes out to eat some pizza. In this case, the Rolling Stones's loss is the pizzeria's gain and Joe gets to listen to a classic album. It's at least not obvious that we should regard this, on balance, as harmful.

Meanwhile, the benefits of forcing copyright holders to compete with free-but-illegal downloads are considerable. I am not, personally, in the habit of infringing on copyrights (though I will cop to some book lending and the fact that my fianc?e and I, like any sensible couple, share Netflix and Hulu subscriptions) but recently have found myself firing up btjunkie.org again. Why? Because the BBC in its infinite wisdom decided to start airing season 2 of its excellent programme Sherlock in the UK without making it available at any price to Americans [including the author]. That's dumb, but until relatively recently it was a universal problem. It used to be that studios and labels didn't make their wares available to people willing to pay for them. That created an underground market for pirated TV shows and music. The pirated market, in turn, pressured the entertainment industry to create legal options such as iTunes and Hulu. The illegal competition is a valuable consumer pressure on the industry.

This is not to say that we should have no copyright law or that there should be no penalties for piracy. Used-book stores may slightly depress sales of new books, but they don't threaten to destroy the entire publishing industry. Large-scale, unimpeded, commercialised digital reproduction of other people's works really could destroy the US's creative industries. But the question to ask about the state of intellectual property policy is whether there's a problem from the consumer side. If infringement got out of hand, we might face a bleak scenario in which bands stop recording albums and no new TV shows are released.

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In Bowerbird Romance, Master Illusionists Get the Girls [VIDEO]

Male great bowerbird. Image by algaedoc via Flickr

Male bowerbirds are virtuoso architects. To woo females they construct an intricate structure (a bower) from twigs that they meticulously decorate with a variety of found objects. The result is the ultimate avian bachelor pad. Biologists have long marveled at the male bowerbirds? elaborate courtship scheme. Now new findings add to a growing body of evidence that it is even more complex than previously thought.

Among great bowerbirds, which live in Australia, the bower takes the form of an? ?avenue? made of twigs that opens out onto a ?court? assembled from bones, stones, shells and other gray items that are together referred to as gesso. When a female pays a visit, she stands in the avenue and looks out onto the court, where the male proceeds to pick up and display a variety if brightly colored objects. If she likes what she sees, she will mate with him.

Great bowerbird bower. Image courtesy of L. A. Kelley

Female view of the court. Image courtesy of L. A. Kelley

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Previous research revealed that the males create visual illusions in building their bowers, carefully arranging the gesso according to a size gradient in which smaller objects are placed closest to the avenue and larger ones farther away. Because objects generally appear smaller with distance, this arrangement tricks the eye into thinking the gray gesso components are uniform in size, and that the court is smaller than it actually is. This ?forced perspective? may somehow make the brightly colored objects that the male displays look more appealing to the female.

Great bowerbird bower court viewed from above reveals a size gradient in the gesso objects, with smaller items placed closer to the "avenue" where the female is standing (left side) and larger items placed farther away (right side). Image courtesy of L. A. Kelley

In the January 20 Science, Laura A. Kelley and John A. Endler of Deakin University in Australia report that female great bowerbirds do indeed tend to choose the males that produce the best forced-perspective illusions in their courts. In fact, they write, ?illusions may be widespread in other animals because males of most species display to females with characteristic orientation and distance, providing excellent conditions for illusions.?

But in a commentary accompanying the Science report, Barton L. Anderson of the University of Sydney cautions that whether the male bowerbirds are intentionally creating these illusions to attract mates, and whether females are specifically choosing this behavior or some other, as-yet-unknown behavior that is correlated with the production of forced-perspective displays remain unknown.

In the videos below, a male great bowerbird woos a female in his bower (top) and another male succeeds in his courtship (bottom).

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CameraBag 1.93 (for iPhone)

CameraBag 1.93 (for iPhone) ($1.99) is largely the same as version 1.4 of the app, which I reviewed in 2008, with some modest enhancements. On the upside, it now has 16 filters (up from 10 in CameraBag 1.4), it?s more stable, supports higher-resolution images, and lets you e-mail images from within the app. The downsides are that it still doesn?t let you adjust the images, and there?s no integration with social media. CameraBag is a solid and fun app, if one that's behind the curve, expecially when compared with newcomers like Instagram (free, 3 stars).

Other photo apps, such as Camera Genius ($1.99, 3.5 stars) and Camera+ ($1.99, 3 stars) now offer not only creative filters but shooting aids like timers and burst mode, and the ability to tweak contrast, saturation. Most can also upload images to Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, or their own online galleries. But CameraBag still has its place, and will appeal to those who crave a simple way to fancy up their iPhone photos.

CameraBag lets you transform your photos to resemble vintage photographic styles simply by clicking on the appropriate filter. Photo buffs will find it does a creditable job of imitating historical photo techniques, and even those who just want to spruce up their iPhone images should enjoy experimenting with this app. If you want to edit your photos, or upload them to social media or photo-sharing sites, though, you?ll have to use other tools.

Operating CameraBag is simple. When you open the program, you see a dark screen with four icons at the bottom: snap a picture, email an image, save an image, or load an image from your iPhone's photo library. This is actually a plus over some of the newer apps, which only let you manipulate photos taken within the app. After you select or shoot a picture, the name of the last-used filter appears above the image, such as Colorcross or Infrared.

Vintage-Style Filters

By tapping on the filter name, you get a list of all 16 filters. Their one-word names, such as Plastic, Fisheye, and 1974, give a clue as to the filter's nature. Tapping a name selects the corresponding filter. Shoot a fresh picture or import one from the photos stored on your iPhone, and a thumbnail of the image with filter applied appears in the center of the screen. Swiping a finger across the screen advances to the next filter, so if you keep swiping, you can see the image with all of the effects applied in turn.

The information icon at the screen?s top-left lets you access a Photo Options menu lets you save the original photo (if you?re shooting images from within the app), use borders or cropping (which, when enabled, are automatically applied when appropriate to a particular filter), and turn filters off so they don?t appear when you're swiping through the thumbnails. You can see the provenance for Instagram in some of this.

The filters themselves cover a wide range of styles, from professional and specialized techniques (Magazine, Fisheye, Infrared) to consumer snapshots (1974, Instant) and toy cameras (Plastic). Every photo is an opportunity to experiment, and you can't be quite sure in advance which filters will work best on a particular image without trying each of them.

Helga and Lolo mimic the pictures taken with the Holga and Lomo hobbyist cameras with similar names. These cameras have cult followings both despite and because of their significant optical flaws, which can create unusual effects. The filter names are slight variations on the camera names, presumably to avoid infringing on the camera companies' trademarks.

Helga produces significant vignetting (a reduction in brightness at the edges of photos, particularly in the corners), while Lolo pictures appear oversaturated, often to the point of garishness. Helga generally didn't appeal to me. Lolo's high saturation, on the other hand, detracted from many indoor shots and portraits, but it nicely enhanced some outdoor scenes. It was particularly good at twilight shots, for which it really punched up the color and brightness of the sky and city lights. Both Helga and Lolo crop images to a square format, as the cameras they're modeled after do.

Cinema crops images to widescreen format. This is good if the images were taken in landscape orientation, but it lops off much of the top and bottom of portrait-mode images. Not the most exciting filter.

Colorcross provides vivid yet hazy, darkroom-style colors, while Plastic oversaturates colors, usually reds and yellows. Mono provides good, balanced black-and-white images while 1962 produces high-contrast monochrome images reminiscent of that era. Silver evokes the early days of photography, with a silvery blue (and sometimes yellow) tint. Magazine provides rich tones, while Italiano gives the images a mild, sepia tint and adds a trace of vignetting. Lightleak adds a streak of brightness across the image.

The 1974 effect reproduces the style of the day's photos by rendering color images with a slightly yellowish tinge that I generally found warm and cheery. And, as you'd expect, Fisheye distorts images as though they were shot through a fisheye lens, while Infrared mimics the result you'd get shooting through an infrared filter. I liked the ghostly, negative-like look of many of the Infrared images I created. Fisheye works best in shots of overarching branches, tall buildings from below, or funhouse portraits.

The Instant mode provides wide-bordered Polaroid-style snapshots?though you won't experience the anticipation of watching the image slowly materialize on film. Original lets you save the image unchanged, even if you just shot it from within CameraBag.

CameraBag lets you choose between 4 settings for image size (width of 600, 800, or 1,200 pixels, or full size). Even at full size, saving an image is relatively fast (about 4 seconds).

A Little Too Retro

Whether you're a photography buff or just want to spruce up your iPhone photos, you're sure to have fun producing many intriguing versions of your iPhone images with CameraBag. Experimenting with the app is an adventure: Before you apply a filter, you never know quite what you're going to get. Some of your variations created with these retro filters may even look better than your original.

But speaking of retro, CameraBag just hasn?t kept up with the times: Many iPhone photo apps are more full-featured. Camera Genius lets you upload images directly to Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter, while Camera+ includes those services while adding Picasa and Tumblr to the mix. Camera Genius offers a wider range of filters, including many vintage ones, while Camera+ provides 27 different effects. They let you fine-tune your images, as do both Photoshop Express and Editors? Choice Snapseed (4 stars, $4.99), which are focused on editing. With CameraBag, you get to choose between filters, but that?s about all.

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