President of Pa. charity linked to abuse resigns (AP)

PITTSBURGH ? The youth charity at the center of the child sex-abuse charges against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky received donations in recent years from hundreds of corporations, community groups and individuals ? including the judge who arraigned Sandusky earlier this month.

On Monday, The Second Mile's president resigned, saying he hoped his departure would help restore faith in its mission. The group also announced it had hired Philadelphia's longtime district attorney as its new general counsel.

Jack Raykovitz, a practicing psychologist, had led the group, which was founded by Sandusky in 1977, for 28 years.

Raykovitz had testified before the grand jury that recommended indicting Sandusky on child abuse charges. The panel said Sandusky found his victims through the charity's programs.

Annual reports show how widely popular the charity was before the scandal hit. Hundreds of corporations, community groups and individuals donated each year.

Among them was State College District Judge Leslie A. Dutchcot, who set Sandusky's bail earlier this month. She and her husband donated between $500 and $999 to The Second Mile in 2009, and she volunteered for the group, according to annual reports and her website.

The judge set bail for Sandusky at $100,000 unsecured ? meaning he did not have to post collateral to be freed but would have to post $100,000 if he ever failed to show up for a hearing.

Dutchcot did not immediately respond to a question on whether she will recuse herself from the case because of those past ties to The Second Mile. She has also removed the mention of The Second Mile from her website.

Major companies and their foundations also have given to The Second Mile. Between 2008 and 2010, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Highmark Foundation, The Hershey Company and State Farm Companies Foundation all gave $50,000 or more to the charity.

Raykovitz said in a statement Monday that he hopes his resignation would mark the beginning of a "restoration of faith in the community of volunteers and staff" at The Second Mile.

Tax forms indicate that Raykovitz's wife, Katherine Genovese, was executive vice president of The Second Mile. She has been with the group since 1984. It's not clear if she still works at the charity, as the staff biography page has been removed from the website.

The Second Mile has said that its youth programs serve as many as 100,000 children a year.

Sandusky, who retired from Penn State in 1999, informed The Second Mile board in November 2008 that he was under investigation. The charity subsequently barred him from activities involving children, charity officials said.

The ex-coach allegedly assaulted eight children over a 15-year span. His attorney has said he's innocent.

Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley and Senior Vice President Gary Schultz were charged with perjury. Both have denied wrongdoing and have left their university posts.

The scandal led to the departure of university President Graham Spanier and the dismissal of legendary head coach Joe Paterno after law enforcement officials said they didn't do enough to stop suspected abuse when it was reported to them in 2002.

The Second Mile also announced a new general counsel on Monday. Lynne Abraham is replacing Wendell Courtney, who resigned last week.

Abraham served as the top prosecutor in Philadelphia for nearly two decades, during which she was known for her no-nonsense approach. The city's first female district attorney, she earned the lasting nickname "one tough cookie" from former Mayor Frank Rizzo. She decided not to run again in 2009 and became a partner at the Philadelphia office of the Archer & Greiner law firm in early 2010.

The Second Mile board also said that it would conduct an internal investigation to assess policies and make recommendations regarding future operations. They hope to have those findings by the end of December.

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Chile judge rules out trial for priest over abuses (AP)

SANTIAGO, Chile ? A Chilean judge is ruling out criminal charges against a prominent priest accused of molesting children.

Judge Jessica Gonzalez says the statute of limitations has expired on the crimes that Fernando Karadima is accused of committing against three youths. A fourth case was eliminated because the victim's age at the time was not firmly established.

But her ruling on Monday says that the allegations are "truthful and reliable."

Karadima is now 80 and the Vatican already has sanctioned him by ordering him to a life of "penitence and prayer."

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Pacific rim leaders mull ways to fend off EU woes

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, right, talks with Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd during a dinner with APEC ministers at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, right, talks with Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd during a dinner with APEC ministers at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Vietnam's President Truong Tan Sang, left, gestures as he speaks with to Emery Koenig, executive vice-president and chief risk officer of Cargill, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC, summit Friday, Nov. 11, 2011, in Honolulu. Man at center is an interpreter. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Vietnam's President Truong Tan Sang, left, speaks with Emery Koenig, executive vice-president and chief risk officer of Cargill, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC, summit Friday, Nov. 11, 2011, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Presidents Ollanta Humala, of Peru, right, and Truong Tan Sang, of Vietnam, shake hands during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC, summit Friday, Nov. 11, 2011, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Presidents Ollanta Humala, of Peru, right, and Truong Tan Sang, of Vietnam, shake hands during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC, summit Friday, Nov. 11, 2011, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

HONOLULU (AP) ? A push to build a Pacific free trade bloc gained ground Friday with Japan's decision to join negotiations, as Asia-Pacific leaders converging on Hawaii for an annual summit mulled ways to prevent Europe's crisis from derailing the global recovery.

The weekend meeting of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, which brings together leaders from Russia to Chile, is focused on creating jobs and business through nuts-and-bolts measures such as investment in infrastructure and reforms aimed at providing more access to financing for the poor.

Such moves are gaining urgency, with the European Union warning of a possible "deep and prolonged recession" next year as the debt crisis that has engulfed Ireland, Portugal and Greece shows signs of spiraling out of control. A European recession would be felt sharply in the U.S., where growth is already anemic, and in Asia, which relies on Europe as a big market for its cars, clothing, consumer electronics and other exports.

"In the coming 12 months there is quite a strong likelihood that things will go worse," Hong Kong's chief executive, Donald Tsang, told a gathering of business leaders on the sidelines of the APEC meetings. "Global performance will be dragged down and then there will be an awakening, I hope," he said.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in opening a meeting of foreign and economic ministers that many forces outside the Pacific region will have an impact on it. "Global trends and world events have given us a full and formidable agenda," she said. "And the stakes are high for all of us."

As host of the annual summit, the U.S. has made expanding trade, promoting green growth and deepening cooperation on regulation and standards to help dismantle barriers to trade and nurture faster growth.

"We've even created an unofficial slogan: 'Get Stuff Done," Clinton said.

The U.S. also is hoping to garner support for a Pacific free trade pact that many APEC members see as a building block for a free trade area that encompasses all of Asia and the Pacific, covering half the world's commerce and two-fifths of its trade.

That goal advanced Friday with Japan's announcement that it will seek to join the bloc, called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, despite strong opposition from farmers fearful of exposure to greater foreign competition.

The Pacific trade pact, known as the TPP, currently includes Chile, New Zealand, Brunei and Singapore ? all relatively small economies. The U.S., Australia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Peru are negotiating to join. The participation of Japan, the world's third-largest economy, would vastly expand its reach.

At the same time they are working toward a broader agreement, countries continue to forge separate free-trade agreements. On Friday, Vietnam and Chile were to due to sign a free trade agreement on the sidelines of the APEC meetings.

The U.S. recently clinched long-sought free trade pacts with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama ? agreements that if ratified will bring to 20 the number of countries that have free trade agreements with the U.S.

In Honolulu, Washington was keeping up pressure on China to commit to faster trade liberalization and to freeing its currency, which U.S. officials say remains undervalued even though it has gained substantially against the U.S. dollar in recent years.

A statement by APEC finance ministers released Thursday included a call for exchange rate flexibility. Treasury Department officials said China's willingness to back such a commitment ? both at the Group of 20 meeting in Cannes last week and in Honolulu this week ? could encourage similar moves by other Asia-Pacific economies.

But Beijing's apparent openness to move faster on its currency policy was not matched by similar support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which earlier this week a senior official in Beijing described as "overly ambitious."

Overall, given APEC's lack of negotiating power ? all decisions are by consensus ? prospects for major changes are slim. But over the years the group's incremental efforts have helped build support for closer economic ties and freer trade.

Clinton said that by agreeing on something as rudimentary as shared safety standards for televisions, countries in the region saw exports of TVs jump by nearly half in three years.

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Associated Press writer Jaymes Song contributed to this report.

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Katie Holmes Dishes on How Suri Is Just Like Tom Cruise

 

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Insurer Allianz net drops to $350 million (AP)

FRANKFURT, Germany ? German insurer Allianz SE saw third quarter profits sag to euro258 million ($350 million) from euro1.27 billion ($1.73 billion) the year before because of investment losses and Greek bond writedowns from Europe's debt crisis.

The company's result was well short of the euro766 million predicted by analysts surveyed by FactSet. Revenue fell 1.8 percent to euro24.07 billion.

Munich-based Allianz said Friday it lost euro122 million from writing down Greek bonds, and euro817 million ($1112.43 million) from the fallen value of its holdings in other financial companies such as banks and insurers.

Greece is in the process of working out a debt reduction that includes bondholders taking 50 percent losses on the value of their investments. Fears that Greece's problems will infect larger countries such as Italy have led to sharp swings on stock and bond markets.

Allianz said it would stay with its profit estimate for the full year of operating earnings of euro8.0 billion plus or minus euro0.5 billion.

"All market participants are confronted at this time with the uncertainty and large swings on capital markets," said Oliver Baete, head of controlling, reporting and risk.

The company's basic property and casualty insurance business showed a slight decline of 1 percent in operating earnings to euro1.11 billion ($1.51 billion), and its combined ratio slipped to 97.6 percent from 97.1 percent in the same quarter a year ago. The ratio measure costs and claims against premiums, ratios under 100 therefore show the gain from basic underwriting.

The company said it suffered higher losses from natural catastrophes but was able to make up some of that with higher prices.

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Sneak Peek: Glee???s Troubletones Perform an Adele Mash-Up (omg!)

The Brit is back on Tuesday's Glee! While Adele's songs have been covered on the show before, The Troubletones' performance may very well be the best yet.?Santana, (Naya Rivera), Mercedes (Amber Riley), Brittany (Heather Morris) and the rest of the newly formed girl group take on a mash-up of "Rumour Has It" and "Someone Like You." The performance is also the show's 300th musical number.

Harry Potter, Glee lead People's Choice Awards nominations

Check out the sneak peek:

The Glee episode titled "Mash Off" airs Tuesday at 8/7c on Fox.

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Women see naked men differently too

ScienceDaily (Nov. 10, 2011) ? or both men and women, wearing revealing attire causes them to be seen as more sensitive but less competent, says a new study by University of Maryland psychologist Kurt Gray and colleagues from Yale and Northeastern University.

In an article published November 10 in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the researchers write that it would be absurd to think people's mental capacities fundamentally change when they remove clothing. "In six studies, however, we show that taking off a sweater-or otherwise revealing flesh-can significantly change the way a mind is perceived."

Past research, feminist theory and parental admonishments all have long suggested that when men see a woman wearing little or nothing, they focus on her body and think less of her mind. The new findings by Gray, et al. both expand and change our understanding of how paying attention to someone's body can alter how both men and women view both women and men.

"An important thing about our study is that, unlike much previous research, ours applies to both sexes. It also calls into question the nature of objectification because people without clothes are not seen as mindless objects, but they are instead attributed a different kind of mind," says UMD's Gray.

"We also show that this effect can happen even without the removal of clothes. Simply focusing on someone's attractiveness, in essence concentrating on their body rather than their mind, makes you see him or her as less of an agent [someone who acts and plans] and more of an experiencer."

Objectification vs. Two Kinds of Mind

Traditional research and theories on objectification suggest that we see the mind of others on a continuum between the full mind of a normal human and the mindlessness of an inanimate object. The idea of objectification is that looking at someone in a sexual context-such as in pornography-leads people to focus on physical characteristics, turning them into an object without a mind or moral status.

However, recent findings indicate that rather than looking at others on a continuum from object to human, we see others as having two aspects of mind: agency and experience. Agency is the capacity to act, plan and exert self-control, whereas experience is the capacity to feel pain, pleasure and emotions. Various factors -- including the amount of skin shown -- can shift which type of mind we see in another person.

In multiple experiments, the researchers found further support for the two kinds of mind view. When men and women in the study focused on someone's body, perceptions of agency (self-control and action) were reduced, and perceptions of experience (emotion and sensation) were increased. Gray and colleagues suggest that this effect occurs because people unconsciously think of minds and bodies as distinct, or even opposite, with the capacity to act and plan tied to the "mind" and the ability to experience or feel tied to the body.

According to Gray, their findings indicate that the change in perception that results from showing skin is not all bad. "A focus on the body, and the increased perception of sensitivity and emotion it elicits might be good for lovers in the bedroom," he says.

Their study also found that a body focus can actually increase moral standing. Although those wearing little or no clothes -- or otherwise represented as a body -- were seen to be less morally responsible, they also were seen to be more sensitive to harm and hence deserving of more protection. "Others appear to be less inclined to harm people with bare skin and more inclined to protect them. In one experiment, for example, people viewing male subjects with their shirts off were less inclined to give those subjects uncomfortable electric shocks than when the men had their shirts on.," Gray says.

However, Gray and his coauthors note that in work or academic contexts, where people are primarily evaluated on their capacity to plan and act, a body focus clearly has negative effects. Seeing someone as a body strips him or her of competence and leadership, potentially impacting job evaluations. "Even more than robbing someone of agency, the increased experience that may accompany body perceptions may lead those who are characterized in terms of their bodies to be seen as more reactive and emotional, traits that may also serve to work against career advancement," they write.

Even the positive aspects of a body focus, such as an increased desire to protect from harm, can be ultimately harmful, the authors say, pointing to the "benevolent sexism" common in the United States in the 1950s, in which men oppressed women under the guise of protecting them.

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