Joe Paterno Fired: Penn State Students Riot in Protest

Pennsylvania State University, angered thousands of students tore through State University, Pennsylvania, overnight street protests Qiaopatenuo shooting, long after the head football coach was removed from his position effective immediately.

In a "We want to JoePa," game "and" F *** the media! "Student riots turn the TV van, knocked down a lamppost on the train, toilet paper and throwing stones at police, set off fireworks and chants.

Police met with tear gas, riot crowd, because it became clear that military personnel, riot, the current number of students. Local police departments in each county contributed their efforts to control the crowd, with the state police and county police.

Some students are directed at the media via satellite local CBS affiliate, to break its Windows and threats, burning hymn of the van overturned their anger.

At least two students were arrested and at least one person was injured, a girl was hit in the head with a stone was taken to the hospital.

To three o'clock, the crowd mostly rainy conditions, State College, many students may be encouraged to return home subsided. A small group of students gathered in Beaver Stadium to sing the school alma mater, Joe Paterno  statue, after the dissolution of the mob.

Penn State Nittany Lions quarterback Matt McGloin tweeted the following Thursday night: "This is a tough time, but we now feel anger is nothing more than victims through.keep them in our prayers."

Joe Paterno , 84, announced his "absolute destruction" scandal, and will retire at the end of the season, do not leave their own terms. Pennsylvania State University head coach will not coach the past five years another game, according to the trustee.

"Right now, my football coach, and I have become accustomed to things," Joe Paterno  said, according to the Associated Press.

When he spoke, people gathered in the Joe Paterno 's house, to see tears. Joe Paterno  final out, advises students to go home and study, and thank them for their continued support.

"I am disappointed with the decision of the Board of Trustees, but I have to accept it," he said in a statement. "After the tragedy, we must have patience, let the legal process for, I appreciate the outpouring of support, but to stress that everyone should remain calm and please respect the university, its property and all of our value. "Joe Paterno and Spanier at Pennsylvania State University, the end of the line, a few hours later, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it will launch a university officials to investigate allegations of improper handling.

Education Department checks to see if the university did not comply with the Jeanne Clery Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act disclosure "(Clery Act), which requires public colleges reported criminal offenses on campus.

"Minister of Education Arne Duncan said:" If these allegations of sexual abuse are true, then this is a terrible tragedy that a young boy, in a news release. "If it turns out, some people at school know about the abuse, no or cover it, which makes matters worse, schools and school officials have a legal and moral responsibility to protect children and young people from violence and abuse. "financial crisis as arrest of former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with abuse of more than 15 years of at least eight boys.

Campaign director Tim Curley and Gary Schultz Vice President of Finance was accused of not reporting sexual abuse, police and lying in a grand jury under oath in the investigation process.

Joe Paterno  and Spanier under tremendous pressure, because they at least have one thing to tell, but did not notify the police.

Joe Paterno said that before he was fired today in a statement: "I am absolutely devastated, in this case development." "My children and their families feel grief, I pray for their comfort and relief."

"This is a tragedy, it is a lot of pain in my life one post with interest, I think I do more," he said.

Joe Paterno has coached 46 years at Penn State University football team is winning at the top of college football coaches.

"He said:" I have been incredibly blessed and I love to spend my entire career, in his written statement, he was dismissed. "I thank all the coaches, players and staff has been working as part of the plan, and our fans and supporters of other words, me and my family will always be in your debt."

However, the Tom Bradley has been named interim coach the rest of the season, John P Surma, Pennsylvania State University's vice chairman, told reporters tonight.

"These decisions are thoughtful and the University's best interests as a whole," he added.

Spanier issued a statement, it seems that part of the consent Surma emotions.

"The university is a large and complex the organization, although I have been honored and act in the best interests of the University, responsibility," he wrote. "In this case, I believe it to my successor, to solve the problem before us is a clear path to the best interests of the university."

Spanier has apparently submitted a letter, or resignation, only in a closed-door meeting before tonight's press conference to accept the board, a source told ABC News' Lauren Pearle. In an earlier statement, Trustees rejected Joe Paterno and Spanier, the Joe Paterno said it was his intention "to the university and has been entrusted to my care a young man's best interests. "

"This is why I decided to announce my retirement at the end of the season," Joe Paterno said. "At this moment, the Board should not spend a minute to discuss my condition, they have more important things to solve, I think this is easy for them, because I can."

Coach and his team and coaching staff yesterday morning, said he broke down in tears, and tell them that he left a closed-door meeting, according to the Associated Press. Reported that the players, but also choking back tears, gave him a standing ovation as he walked into the gym. Sandusky was arrested Saturday and charged with molesting eight men over 15 years, all the people, through his charitable organization, the second mile, a group of families, and to promote plans for troubled boys meet.

The charges stem from an incident in March 2002 graduate assistant coach Mike McQueary reported that sexual abuse of Sandusky in the locker room shower at the Pennsylvania State University football department of a boy. McQueary Joe Paterno tell what he saw, and in turn, Patrick Curley and Schultz told Teno. The men did not report the incident to the police.

Pennsylvania Attorney General said on Monday, Curley, and Schultz is a legal requirement to notify the police of the incident, but Joe Paterno is a legal obligation to tell his boss. But Joe Paterno police under fire not so-called "moral responsibility" to remind them of the crime.

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Perry says Debate gaffe won't break my campaign

Rick Perry brushes off badly, and from Wednesday's debate that a human error may in fact, he is certainly not tank his campaign the way, some analysts predict.

Wednesday night in Michigan, Perry said he would cut the federal government's three bodies, but only two of them by name. "Business, education, and - what is the third let us see," Perry said, before his opponent voluntary EPA to regulate the pollution is very unpopular with conservatives.

Asked carelessly, Perry acknowledged the CBS "Early Show" that he made ​​a mistake.

"I was in it to strengthen my wife would say," Perry said.

"We have made ​​mistakes, I am a person, the problem here is that I have a lapse of memory, many federal agencies to remember, I forget, I just think this is the Department of Energy," Perry said.

Perry, because he's late summer into the race made ​​a series of entries in the debate gaffe, he knows it. "I admit that I may not be the best debater, smooth politician on the stage," Perry said, claiming to be "personal matter, when it comes to creating a working environment can, in fact, the class focused on entrepreneurs there, create these jobs, Americans are really needed. "

When asked whether he understood, political observers call it the death knell for his campaign, Perry tried to play down his gaffe, while still admit that this is a mistake.

"You stand, however, many million people, in front of us, and you have an idea of the loss, to ensure that any time it affects you, but the fact is that a mistake will not make or break a campaign," he said. .

Perry Indicates CBS News / National Journal on Saturday in South Carolina's foreign policy debate, but he will not submit any further debate.

"I will be South Carolina on Saturday night, I do not know my schedule is over," Perry said. His aides also hinted that it might not participate in the upcoming presidential debate, Governor of Texas.

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Why can't Americans vote online?

Tuesday is Election Day in the United States, and although the mostly state and local races won't stir the same passions as next year's presidential contest, millions of people will cast ballots.

They'll do it in much the same way that Americans have for centuries: by showing up at a polling place and ticking off boxes for their candidates of choice.

All of which raises the question: In an era when virtually every daily task can be done on the Internet, why can't we vote online, too?

The answer depends on whom you ask.

Advocates say the time is right to seriously consider letting voters cast a ballot from the comfort of their homes or even on the screens of their mobile phones.

"We've voted the way we have for the past 200 years because we couldn't do any better than that," said Rob Weber, a former IT professional at IBM who runs the blog Cyber the Vote. "Now, we have this technology that has revolutionized the rest of our lives ... (and) can revolutionize our voting system and could revolutionize our political system." But critics, many of them in the cybersecurity world, argue that letting people cast votes from their home computers is a recipe for chaos.

"My position hasn't changed over the years," said Avi Rubin, a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University who specializes in computer security. "Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change."

Rubin said that, in addition to politically motivated reasons for attempting to corrupt online votes, many hackers with no real political agenda could still see the challenge of tinkering with an election too attractive to pass up.

"People's computers are not getting more secure," Rubin said. "They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware." Other countries, though, have gone further down the road toward online voting than U.S. election officials have.

Canada has been near the forefront. In all, 80 Canadian cities and towns have experimented with Internet voting in municipal elections. The town of Markham, in Ontario, has offered online ballots in local elections since 2003.

An independent report by digital-strategy firm Delvinia showed that early voting increased 300% the first year Internet voting was allowed. Twenty-five percent of the people who voted online in 2003 said they didn't vote in the prior local election, and overall turnout rose nearly 10% from 2006 to 2010, according to the report.

"Not only is Markham a perfect example of how internet voting is being successfully implemented in a binding election; with other municipalities following suit, Canada is becoming a global leader in the implementation of Internet voting," the report read.

Sweden, Latvia and Switzerland are among the countries that have tested Internet voting.

But when it comes to national elections, Estonia is the clear leader.

The tiny Baltic nation (its population of 1.3 million is roughly the size of San Diego) has allowed online voting for all of its citizens since 2007. In this year's election, nearly one in four votes was cast online, according to its elections commission. Priit Vinkel, an adviser to Estonia's National Electoral Committee, said security is of the utmost concern.

"Internet voting relies basically on a single factor: trust," Vinkel said. "Building and stabilizing this trust is the most important but also the most difficult task of the state."

In Estonia, that security includes a national ID card that can be used remotely and a voting system built to recognize unusual activity, Vrinkel said. He said security officials have detected no serious attempts to tamper with the votes.

But, in Rubin's mind, that's not enough.

He says the Internet's known security risks alone could be enough to call an election's results into question.

"In any election, it's important that the public perceive that the election is held fairly," Rubin said. "If you allow online voting and you're unable to detect any fraud, but it turns out later that many computers were compromised ... there's no way to audit or backtrack or recount or do anything to figure out what actually happened.

"The real question is whether you're interested in providing more questions about the outcome of an election or less."

Weber, who writes his blog from New York, acknowledges the difficulties but says they shouldn't be enough to stop progress on Internet voting -- which he and others believe will increase participation, particularly among younger voters.

"If there are concerns about any of this, the answer is to further work on those concerns, not declare that the Internet is entirely dangerous and will always be entirely dangerous, and you can never trust it," he said.

He notes that trillions of dollars have been moved around via online banking and that functions as sensitive as air-traffic control take place on the Internet.

He also said that for critics to hold up the current U.S. voting system as a model of safety is laughable.

"Machines, memory cards, even things on paper" can be manipulated, he said. "How many times in our history have we found a box of ballots in someone's garage a couple of weeks after an election?"
As recently as last year, West Virginia experimented with allowing a small number of military members from five counties to vote online, although that pilot program was criticized by some security experts. West Virginia's Secretary of State Natalie Tennant has appeared to back away from pushing to make it statewide.

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10online holiday scams to avoid

Many of us are already shopping online, or will be soon, for the holidays. McAfee is pushing its software with its release of the "decimal most dangerous online scams" this season, but there's also some good info here. Consider it a gift of knowledge for you as you surf the Web for presents for your loved ones:
1- Malicious mobile apps: "These are mobile apps designed to steal information from smartphones, or send out expensive text messages without a user’s consent. Dangerous apps are usually offered for free, and masquerade as fun applications, such as games. For example, last year, 4.6 million Android smartphone users downloaded a suspicious wallpaper app that collected and transmitted user data to a site in China."
2- Mobile malware: More of us are using our phones for shopping, to research products or to redeem coupons. McAfee says Android phones are "most at risk," citing "a 76 percent increase in malware targeted at Android devices in the second quarter of 2011 over the first, making it the most targeted smartphone platform."

McAfee also says new malware "has recently been found that targets QR codes, a digital barcode that consumers might scan with their smartphone to find good deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, or just to learn about products they want to buy."
3.  Phony Facebook promotions and contests: "Who doesn’t want to win some free prizes or get a great deal around the holidays? Unfortunately, cyber scammers know that these are attractive lures and they have sprinkled Facebook with phony promotions and contests aimed at gathering personal information." One recent scam promised two free airline tickets — something that sounds appealing at this time of year especially — "but required participants to fill out multiple surveys requesting personal information."

4.  Scareware, or fake antivirus software: We've seen lots of examples this year. "Scareware is the fake antivirus software that tricks someone into believing that their computer is at risk — or already infected — so they agree to download and pay for phony software." McAfee says it's one of "the most common and dangerous Internet threats today, with an estimated 1 million victims falling for this scam each day."

5.  Holiday screensavers: Ah yes, we love our screensavers for special times of the years like Christmas. But some of the free ones are loaded with more than holiday cheer. "A recent search for a Santa screensaver that promises to let you 'fly with Santa in 3D' is malicious," McAfee says. "Holiday-themed ringtones and e-cards have been known to be malicious too."
6.  Mac malware: Those two words wouldn't have even been put together in the same sentence a few years ago. But, as McAfee correctly says, "with the growing popularity of Apple products, for both business and personal use, cyber criminals have designed a new wave of malware directed squarely at Mac users." McAfee Labs says as of a year ago, there were "5,000 pieces of malware targeting Macs, and this number is increasing by 10 percent month on month."
7.  Mystery shopper scams:  "There have been reports of scammers sending text messages to victims, offering to pay them $50 an hour to be a mystery shopper, and instructing them to call a number if they are interested.  Once the victim calls, they are asked for their personal information, including credit card and bank account numbers."

8.  Hotel "wrong transaction" malware emails:  "In one recent example, a scammer sent out emails that appeared to be from a hotel, claiming that a 'wrong transaction' had been discovered on the recipient’s credit card.  It then asked them to fill out an attached refund form. Once opened, the attachment downloads malware onto their machine."

9.  “It” gift scams: Looking for the kind of gift that might sell out quickly this year? "When a gift is hot, not only do sellers mark up the price, but scammers will also start advertising these gifts on rogue websites and social networks, even if they don’t have them," says McAfee. "So, consumers could wind up paying for an item and giving away credit card details only to receive nothing in return. Once the scammers have the personal financial details, there is little recourse."

10. “I’m away from home” scammers: You know this by now, or should: "Posting information about a vacation on social networking sites could ... be dangerous. If someone is connected with people they don’t know on Facebook or other social networking sites, they could see their post and decide that it may be a good time to rob them. Furthermore, a quick online search can easily turn up their home address."

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Taylor Swift Wins Second Entertainer of the Year Trophy

It was a mix of old favorites and new blood at the 45th Annual Country Music Association Awards, as many acts on the show claimed their first trophies. The first award of the night was proof of this, as Republic Nashville's The Band Perry, the biggest winner of the night, notched its first-ever win in the single of the year category for the multiformat hit "If I Die Young." The tune also won song of the year honors for lead singer Kimberly Perry. But their night was far from over. The trio had one more speech to make, winning the new artist of the year award. Jason Aldean shocked many by walking away with album of the year for My Kinda Party. It was also the first major win for Broken Bow Records, Aldean's label.

Not all the winners were first-timers, however. Sugarland claimed its fifth straight win in the vocal duo of the year category. Lady Antebellum won the vocal group of the Year for a third straight year, and it was a repeat in the male and female vocalist categories with husband and wife Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert reigning in their respective categories for a second straight year.

Reprising her win in 2009, Taylor Swift won the evening's biggest prize -- the entertainer of the year trophy.

"One of my favorite things this year is the camaraderie of these artists," she said in her speech, alluding to the fact that acts such as Ronnie Dunn, Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw joined her on the concert stage at various times this year.The awards kicked off in exhilarating fashion with Shelton performing the 1980s classic "Footloose" with the song's original performer, Kenny Loggins. Shelton recorded the song for the recent theatrical remake.

Other highlights of the night performance-wise were Lambert's fiery take on her funk-filled hit "Baggage Claim," the Zac Brown Band's stirring rendition of the classic "Georgia on My Mind," with special guest Gregg Allman, as well as Vince Gill, Brad Paisley and Keith Urban's tribute to Glen Campbell, who is in the midst of his farewell tour.

Speaking of tributes, in his first CMA appearance in a quarter-century, Lionel Richie performed a medley of his hits with Darius Rucker ("Stuck on You"), Rascal Flatts ("Dancing on the Ceiling") and the same song he performed with Alabama in 1986 -- "Deep River Woman," with Little Big Town. The R&B legend will release Tuskegee, a duets album in March.

The night was also a return to the CMA stage for Faith Hill, who performed her just-released single "Come Home."

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