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Sunday, October 20, 2013
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Norwegian-Somali 'radicalized' before mall attack
In this frame grab from surveillance video provided by Kenya Police via KTN, a gunman shoots a man trying to take cover inside the Westgate Mall, Sept. 21, 2013, in Nairobi, Kenya. Several attackers from the Somali militant group al-Shabab stormed the mall on Sept. 21, killing at least 67 people during a four-day siege. (AP Photo/Kenya Police via KTN)
In this frame grab from surveillance video provided by Kenya Police via KTN, a gunman shoots a man trying to take cover inside the Westgate Mall, Sept. 21, 2013, in Nairobi, Kenya. Several attackers from the Somali militant group al-Shabab stormed the mall on Sept. 21, killing at least 67 people during a four-day siege. (AP Photo/Kenya Police via KTN)
ADDS SOURCE INFORMATION AND PROVIDES ALTERNATE CROP - In this June 2007 photo provided by a former classmate, Norwegian-Somali Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow sits on a rock during a school outing in Larvik, Norway. Dhuhulow has been identified as one of the gunmen who attacked an upscale mall in Kenya, officials said Friday Oct. 18, 2013. (AP Photo)
In this photo taken from footage from Citizen TV, via the Kenya Defence Forces and made available Friday, Oct. 4 2013, a man reported to be Umayr, one of the four armed militants walking in a store at the Westgate Mall, during the four-day-long siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya which killed more than 60 people last month. A Kenyan military spokesman has confirmed the names of four attackers as Abu Baara al-Sudani, Omar Nabhan, Khattab al-Kene and Umayr. (AP Photo/ Kenyan Defence forces via Citizen TV)
In this frame grab from surveillance video provided by Kenya Police via KTN, the streak of a bullet just fired from a gun, is seen as a guman fires his weapon inside the Westgate Mall, Sept. 21, 2013, in Nairobi, Kenya. Several attackers from the Somali militant group al-Shabab stormed the mall on Sept. 21, killing at least 67 people during a four-day siege. (AP Photo/Kenya Police via KTN)
In this frame grab from surveillance video provided by Kenya Police via KTN, two gunmen wander through the Westgate Mall, Sept. 21, 2013, in Nairobi, Kenya. Several attackers from the Somali militant group al-Shabab stormed the mall on Sept. 21, killing at least 67 people during a four-day siege. (AP Photo/Kenya Police via KTN)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Quiet and respectful at the mosque as a boy, Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow later became angry and radicalized, people in the coastal town in Norway where he grew up said Friday of the Somali native — the first Westgate Mall attacker to be identified.
Security camera images show the 23-year-old and three other gunmen firing coldly on shoppers as they made their way along store aisles after storming the upscale mall four weeks ago Saturday.
Until recently, investigators had referred to the attackers only by the colors of their shirts. However, two officials in Nairobi, one Western and one Kenyan, confirmed Friday that one of the gunmen had been identified as Dhuhulow.
The suspect's 26-year-old sister, reached in the southern Norwegian town of Larvik, said his family was unaware of any role he may have played in the four-day siege that killed at least 67 people.
"I don't want to believe this. I don't believe that this is him. It doesn't look like him. It isn't him," Idman Dhuhulow told The Associated Press from the quiet town of 40,000 nestled between mountains and the sea, where Dhuhulow lived after his family moved there from Somalia in 1999.
She said her brother went to the Somali capital of Mogadishu for a three-month visit in 2009, then moved to Somalia for good in March of the following year.
He had been studying economics in Norway and "his plan was to go back to Mogadishu and study there," she said.
"We had the best relationship that you can have. He was nice and careful," she said, adding that she had read media reports that he had become radicalized but "that's not something I saw."
Mohamed Hassan, a leader in the Somali immigrant community in Larvik, also described Dhuhulow as respectful to his elders as a young boy and teen.
"He was a quiet, lovable boy while he was here. I never saw him fight other young boys. He was not a troublemaker here in Larvik," Hassan said.
However, others recalled a different Dhuhulow.
Bashe Musse, a Somali Norwegian community leader in Oslo, said Dhuhulow had become radicalized in the years before he left Norway. And another man, who would give only his first name Yussuf, also said a man he believes was the Norwegian-Somali gunman was associated with "pretty radical" circles in Norway.
"He was mad. He didn't feel at home in Norway," said Yussuf, who declined to give his last name for fear of reprisals from sympathizers of al-Shabab, the Somali militant group behind the mall attack.
Yussuf said he met the man he knew as Abdi in 2008 in Oslo and had not had any contact with him since, but several people he knew recognized him in the closed-circuit TV footage of the mall attack.
"We said that it could be him when we looked at the video," Yussuf said.
The newly released images from the mall's security cameras show four men armed with AK-47 rifles cold-bloodedly firing on defenseless shoppers. At one point, a gunman is seen shooting a man trying to hide behind a statue of an elephant. Bleeding profusely, but still alive, the man squirms. Then another gunman comes back and finishes him off.
In other scenes, terrified shoppers and employees are seen scrambling for safety, some scuttling like crabs, as tracer bullets flash overhead.
Authorities have so far been unable to identify any of the assailants from the bodies pulled from the rubble of the mall, where a raging inferno tore through its main department store and a roof parking lot collapsed.
Charred human remains recovered Thursday were awaiting forensic tests Saturday to determine if they belong to the attackers. They filled two plastic containers measuring a foot wide and a foot across, and were recovered along with four AK-47 rifles from a section of the mall that collapsed as security forces battled the terrorists, authorities said Friday.
Johansen Oduor, the chief Kenyan government pathologist, said he didn't know if the remains were those of two bodies or three because the remains were sealed and he hadn't seen them yet.
The Somali Islamic militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the Sept. 21 attack, saying it was in retaliation for Kenya sending troops into Somalia to go after the extremists. Kenyan officials initially said it was carried out by 10 to 15 gunmen, but the security camera video shows only four. A police official said three suspects are in custody, though none directly took part in the attack.
Besides the AK-47 rifles, 11 magazines of ammunition — all apparently used by the attackers — were also found in the rubble, a security official said. A rocket-propelled grenade, likely from Kenyan security forces, was also recovered. The two officials insisted on anonymity because the information has not been released publicly.
Somali authorities may have had Dhuhulow in their grasp earlier this year, when a man with the same name was arrested in Mogadishu in connection with the murder of a Somali journalist. The man was released by a Somali court in March for lack of evidence.
Meanwhile, in Larvik, those who knew Dhuhulow said they were shocked that someone who grew up in their midst had been identified as a suspect in the Nairobi mall attack.
Hassan described the community as a "wonderful multicultural" place with a strong track record of peaceful integration. "The language school here, where foreigners come to learn Norwegian, is brilliant. It is teaching other communities how to do it," he said.
Robert Rognli, the principal of Thor Heyerdahl High School, which Dhuhulow attended from 2006-2009, described Larvik as a "typical Norwegian town with a typical Norwegian community spirit."
A former high school classmate of Dhuhulow's said it was hard to believe that the teen she once knew could have carried out such an attack.
"The video I saw looks a lot like him. But it's difficult to see," said the woman, who didn't want her name used because she was uncomfortable being associated with a terror investigation.
"He was a quiet guy," she said. "He was very committed to his religion, but not extreme. He brought a prayer mat to school."
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Lewis reported from Stavanger, Norway. Associated Press writers Tom Odula in Nairobi, Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Karl Ritter in Stockholm contributed to this report.
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Report: Microsoft to boost Xbox TV lineup with street soccer series
After snagging CBS exec Nancy Tellem and launching a Halo-based TV series with Steven Spielberg, Microsoft's Xbox Entertainment Studios appears to be tackling a whole new genre. According to Deadline Hollywood, the fledgling TV division will launch its first reality-TV series for Xbox Live based on street soccer called Every Street United. Eight 30-minute episodes will be produced featuring undiscovered talent playing four-on-four soccer across eight different countries. The idea is to have the top eight compete in a climactic final match during the World Cup, though final details are still up in the air. The show will reportedly target Xbox's sports-crazy demographic, though the choice seems a bold move for Microsoft -- which is clearly thinking outside the US box.
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Pussy Riot Member Withdraws Prison Release Plea
Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
WARSAW – Jailed Pussy Riot musician Maria Alyokhina withdrew her application for an early release, while her bandmate, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova resumed her hunger strike on Oct. 18.
Alyokhina explained her move as a gesture of solidarity with Tolokonnikova.
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"I have no moral right to take part in this court hearing at a time when my friend and fellow convict Nadezhda Tolokonnikova does not have such opportunity," Alyokhina was quoted as saying by the Russian wire service RIA Novosti. She also called for an early release for all female convicts who have small children, just like Tolokonnikova and herself.
Meanwhile, Tolokonnikova, who was moved back from the hospital to her prison on Oct. 17, has resumed a hunger strike, according to the Twitter account of Gruppa Voina (@gruppa_voina), affiliated with Pussy Riot. Tolokonnikova’s husband, Pyotr Verzilov, explained her decision by the fact that Tolokonnikova’s demands about transferring her to another prisons were not fulfilled.
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Tolokonnikova originally went on a hunger strike on Sept. 23 out of protest against poor treatment of inmates at correctional facility #14 in Mordovia, southeast of Moscow. She suspended the hunger strike on Oct. 1 due to health complications, but said she was ready to resume if her demands were not met. Her hunger strike put the correctional facility under scrutiny, and instances of mistreatment of inmates were discovered.
Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova are serving two-year sentences for the anti-Putin “punk prayer” they performed at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral in February of 2012. They are due for release in April 2014.
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Saturday, October 19, 2013
Katy Perry Reveals Kate Hudson Friendship; Singer's Real Name Is Katheryn Hudson!
Katy plus Kate equals BFFs! Katy Perry revealed that she and Hollywood stunner Kate Hudson not only share a love for the California sunshine -- the two are actually quite good friends as well.
And, Perry pointed out, the pair even share a name!
"When we text, it's like 'Hudson here,'" Perry, whose real name is Katheryn Hudson, said during the SiriusXM Town Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 15. "We are buds and we get along. …We have become friends and go to game nights together, we play this game called Mafia … we play it all the time."
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Among the games that Perry, 28, and Hudson, 34, play with their pals are Mafia and running charades.
"We stopped going to clubs and we started staying home and having game nights, which is really fun," Perry continued. "And she is super cool, she is gorgeous, to die for."
A few of Perry's other current girl crushes include Stevie Nicks, Gwen Stefani, and current on-the-rise pop star Ariana Grande.
"I love her so much," the Prism singer gushed. "She has the best female vocal in pop music today, I would say. She has literally the best voice. Best voice live. She kills it."
"And I got to hang out with her and listen to her record [Yours Truly] before it came out because I wanted to reach out to her and just be like,'Hey girl, you're just about to go through a whirlwind,'" she said.
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To prepare for her own whirlwinds -- recording Prism, the followup to the mega-smash Teenage Dream -- the pop star said she escapes home to Santa Barbara, where she can feel like herself again.
"My hometown is a lot of the reason why I get to kind of go back to the feeling of when I was a teenager, when I was 13 and I picked up the guitar and was inspired by music," she said. "And I still am inspired by music but it’s nice I get to go home to Santa Barbara and feel like Katheryn Hudson, which is who I really am."
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JPMorgan Strikes Tentative $13B Mortgages Settlement
JP Morgan Chase & Company headquarters in New York.
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JP Morgan Chase & Company headquarters in New York.
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In what would be the largest such settlement in U.S. history, JPMorgan Chase & Co. has reportedly reached a tentative deal with the Justice Department that would see the bank pay $13 billion to settle civil charges related to wrongdoing by some of its units just before and during the housing crisis.
The deal, sources tell news outlets including NPR, would not absolve JPMorgan from possible criminal liability.
Word of the tentative agreement emerged around 3 p.m. ET. Saturday. We posted when the news broke and followed with background and more details.
Our original post and subsequent updates follow. Scroll down and "read up" if you want to see how the story developed.
Update at 5 p.m. ET. Sources Tells NPR About The Tentative Deal:
Two sources familiar with the talks tells NPR Justice correspondent Carrie Johnson that the tentative agreement was reached Friday night and that the language of the deal is still being written. But the sources said the general outlines of what's been reported are correct.
Update at 4:30 p.m. ET. The Accusations:
The Federal Housing Finance Agency, as Bloomberg notes, "accused JPMorgan and its affiliates of making false statements and omitting material facts in selling $33 billion in mortgage bonds to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from Sept. 7, 2005, through Sept. 19, 2007. The regulator said executives at JPMorgan, Washington Mutual and Bear Stearns Cos., which were acquired by JPMorgan in 2008, knowingly misrepresented the quality of the loans underlying the bonds, among other things, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan."
Update at 4 p.m. ET. No Release From Criminal Liability:
"The tentative deal does not release the bank from criminal liability, a factor that had been a major sticking point in the discussions," according to Reuters' source for the story.
Update at 3:45 p.m. ET. "Moving Closer" And Some Details:
The New York Times characterizes the news this way: JPMorgan and Justice "are moving closer to a $13 billion settlement." The Times adds that:
"The bank would be expected to pay about $9 billion in fines, according to a person briefed on the negotiations. JPMorgan, the nation's largest bank, is also likely to spend $4 billion in relief for struggling homeowners, another person briefed on the talks said."
Update at 3:35 p.m. ET. Settlement Would Be A Record:
ABC News had previously noted that the settlement was expected to be the "largest-ever payment in the history of financial regulation," topping the "previous record when BP paid out $4.5 billion following criminal charges related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill." Fox Business calls it the "largest-ever settlement involving a U.S. company."
Update at 3:20 p.m. ET. Deal Reportedly Reached Friday:
According to CNBC, "Attorney General Eric Holder and JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, along with two lawyers, struck the deal Friday after the market close."
Bloomberg News reports that "the settlement amount, which increased from $11 billion to $13 billion during negotiations [Friday] night, the person said, includes a $4 billion accord with the Federal Housing Finance Agency over the bank's sale of mortgage-backed securities."
3:08 p.m. ET. We're seeing multiple reports that:
— "J.P. Morgan has reached a $13 billion tentative settlement with the Justice Department." (The Wall Street Journal)
— "JPMorgan Chase has reached a $13 billion tentative deal with the Justice Department, said a person familiar with the negotiations." (CNBC)
— "JPMorgan Chase & Co. has reached a tentative resolution of all civil mortgage-related matters with the U.S. Department of Justice, a person familiar with settlement negotiations said." (Bloomberg News)
— "JPMorgan Chase & Co has reached a tentative $13 billion deal with the U.S. Justice Department to settle a range of mortgage issues, a source close to the talks said on Saturday. The settlement does not include any release from criminal liability for the bank, the source said." (Reuters)
NPR's Business Desk is working the story. We'll update as things develop.
At $13 billion, the settlement would be about $2 billion more than recent reports had predicted. As The Associated Press has written, JPMorgan had been:
"Said to be discussing an $11 billion national settlement with the Department of Justice over mortgage-backed securities. The securities lost value after a bubble in the housing market burst, helping to bring on the financial crisis."
Last month, as we wrote, the bank "agreed to acknowledge that it violated federal securities laws and [to] pay $920 million in penalties assessed by regulators in the U.S. and U.K. to settle charges related to the huge trading losses racked up by its London traders last year."
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AP PHOTOS: Skid Row, a battle of misery and hope
George Mendez, foreground, a 55-year-old recovering alcoholic, sits in front of a drunk woman in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles on Tuesday, July 23, 2013. The area, originally agricultural until the 1870s when railroads first entered Los Angeles, has maintained a transient nature through the years from the influxes of short-term workers, migrants fleeing economic hardship during the Great Depression, military personnel during World War II and the Vietnam conflict, and low-skilled workers with limited transportation options who need to remain close to the city's core, according to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
George Mendez, foreground, a 55-year-old recovering alcoholic, sits in front of a drunk woman in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles on Tuesday, July 23, 2013. The area, originally agricultural until the 1870s when railroads first entered Los Angeles, has maintained a transient nature through the years from the influxes of short-term workers, migrants fleeing economic hardship during the Great Depression, military personnel during World War II and the Vietnam conflict, and low-skilled workers with limited transportation options who need to remain close to the city's core, according to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Sonya Martinez, 38, who says she has been homeless for 10 years off-and-on, sits in San Julian Park while waiting for her husband in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. In the last week of January 2013, The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority counted 1,020 homeless people on the street and 2,443 in an emergency shelter or in transitional housing. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A recovering drug addict walks past a sign during a narcotics anonymous meeting in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, Wednesday, July 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Homeless people attend a daily Bible study class at the Emmanuel Baptist Rescue Mission in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles on Thursday, July 18, 2013. The church doubles as a shelter for homeless men and the Bible study attendance is required in order to get a bed assignment. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A woman casts a shadow on the shutters of a closed store with a "God Loves You" message written on it in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles has been home for thousands of homeless people, a tenuous comfort zone for many who hit the rock bottom of their lives in America.
The area, originally agricultural until the 1870s when railroads first entered Los Angeles, has maintained a transient nature through the years from the influxes of short-term workers, migrants fleeing economic hardship during the Great Depression, military personnel during World War II and the Vietnam War and low-skilled workers with limited transportation options who need to remain close to the city's core, according to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
It's also a battleground where the poor fight merciless drug addiction and alcoholism.
On Skid Row they're offered a place to sleep, food, counseling and even spiritual support. Some win the battle and turn their miseries into testimonies. Others don't. It's not a rare scene on Skid Row to spot addicts doing drugs in the open even when police patrol the area.
Temptation lurks on every corner of the grid — but so do helping hands.
The fight continues today. The warm afternoon sunlight shines on those who sleep on the sidewalk.
Here's a gallery of images from Skid Row by photographer Jae C. Hong.
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Former Oilers coach Bum Phillips dies at 90
HOUSTON (AP) — Bum Phillips, the folksy Texas football icon who coached the Houston Oilers during their Luv Ya Blue heyday and also led the New Orleans Saints, died Friday. He was 90.
"Bum is gone to Heaven," son Wade Phillips tweeted Friday night. "Loved and will be missed by all — great Dad, Coach, and Christian."
Phillips died at his ranch in Goliad.
Wade Phillips is the Houston Texans' defensive coordinator.
Born Oail Andrew Phillips Jr. in 1923 in Orange, Phillips was a Texas original in his blue jeans, boots and trademark white Stetson — except at the Astrodome or any other dome stadium because he was taught it was disrespectful to wear a hat indoors.
"Mama always said that if it can't rain on you, you're indoors," Phillips said.
Phillips loved the Oilers and when coaching the team in the 1970s, he famously said of the Cowboys: "They may be 'America's Team,' but we're Texas' team."
He took over as coach of the Oilers in 1975 and led Houston to two AFC Championship games before he was fired in 1980. He was responsible for drafting Heisman Trophy winner Earl Campbell, the player who was largely credited with the success of the franchise.
It was a time marked by a frenzied fan base that filled the Astrodome to root for the Oilers and wave their blue and white pompons during games.
Houston lost to Pittsburgh 34-5 in the AFC Championship game in Campbell's rookie year. The Oilers returned to the game the following season only to be beaten again by the Steelers, this time 27-13.
The Oilers went 11-5 in 1980 but lost to Oakland in the AFC wild-card round and Phillips was fired. He was 55-35 with the team in the regular season.
Fans loved his no-nonsense demeanor and were entertained by his often blunt comments
"Football is a game of failure," Phillips was quoted as saying. "You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else."
Among his best Bumisms: "There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired." On Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula: "He can take his'n and beat your'n and take your'n and beat his'n." On Campbell's inability to finish a mile run: "When it's first-and-a-mile, I won't give it to him."
He left Texas to coach the Saints in 1981, going 27-42 before retiring after the 1985 season.
Phillips played football at Lamar Junior College before joining the Marines during World War II. After the war he went to Stephen F. Austin where he played two more football seasons before graduating with a degree in education in 1949.
He spent about two decades coaching in high schools and colleges mostly in Texas — he assisted the likes of Bear Bryant at Texas A&M, Bill Yeoman at Houston, and Hayden Fry at SMU — before making the jump to the AFL in 1967 as an assistant under Sid Gillman with the San Diego Chargers. Phillips came to Houston in 1974 as Gillman's defensive coordinator and became coach and general manager when Gillman resigned after that season.
Phillips picked up the nickname Bum as a child when his younger sister couldn't pronounce brother correctly and it sounded like bum. He embraced the nickname and was quoted as saying: "I don't mind being called Bum, just as long as you don't put a you in front of it."
Phillips did some work as an analyst on television and radio football broadcasts for a bit before retiring to his ranch in Goliad. He experienced some health problems in recent years and underwent a triple bypass in 2005.
Although he left Houston, he always remained fond of the city. The Oilers moved to Tennessee and became the Titans in 1997 and Houston returned to the NFL in 2002 when the Texans began play.
He was asked how he feels about the two teams in Texas in 2007 when son Wade was named coach of the Cowboys.
"Your son is coaching one team and the other team is the town you love more than any other," he said. "It's kind of hard to pull. They're not on the schedule, so I don't have to make that decision this year."
Wade Phillips talked about his father a few days after his 90th birthday. Houston led the Seahawks 20-3 at halftime on his birthday on Sept. 29, only to lose 23-20 in overtime. Wade Phillips told his dad that the first half of the game was his birthday present.
"He's real positive when you lose and gets on me when we win, saying, 'You better play better than that or you might not win the next one,'" Wade Phillips said.
He said his father was still sharing tips with him this season.
"He always gives me a little advice about why did you play this on that certain down and this stuff," Wade said. "He's sharp on all the football stuff."
Phillips is survived by his second wife, Debbie, and six children from his first marriage along with almost two dozen grandchildren.
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Puzzle your way around each level of Super Squares
Super Squares is a simple, addictive puzzle games for iPhone and iPad. The goal of Super Squares is to connect each square to another one of the same color, collecting all the stars in a level along the way. Draw different routes to avoid obsticles, and avoid blocking a color's path. Certain levels give you a set number of bombs in order to destroy obsticles. You can buy more if you run out, though it's easy enough to figure out how to beat the level with the given bombs.
Super Squares is very engaging, and free to download, though there are in-app purchases. While you can play through the first 300 levels for free, you will need to pay to unlock more. There are several packs available for $0.99 a piece, but you can buy all every level for $3.99. A universal game, Super Squares can be found on the App Store now.
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Friday, October 18, 2013
Tea Party Activist: It Was Worth 'Getting In The Ring'
Sal Russo of the Tea Party Express speaks at the National Press Club in 2011. Russo predicts the Tea Party will be re-energized for the 2014 midterm elections.
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Sal Russo of the Tea Party Express speaks at the National Press Club in 2011. Russo predicts the Tea Party will be re-energized for the 2014 midterm elections.
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It's been a tough week for the Tea Party and its supporters in Congress. The Affordable Care Act survived the Capitol Hill standoff largely untouched. President Obama and the Democrats stared them down and won. And fights with establishment Republicans revealed the depth of division within the GOP.
Public opinion polls show support for the Tea Party has fallen dramatically — to its lowest point ever. But Tea Party activists say that the movement isn't going away.
Sal Russo of the Tea Party Express, one of largest such groups in the nation, was philosophical about what many say was a losing battle to begin with.
"You fight every fight, you know, ideally to win," he says. "But sometimes, you know you have a long shot at it, but it's worth getting in the ring and giving it a shot, and that's what we did."
Russo also predicts that you'll see a re-energized and motivated Tea Party in the year leading up to 2014's midterm elections.
"I don't think you're ever going to repeat the huge wave of 2010, but I think it's going to be stronger than 2012," he says. "I think people are ginned up and saying, 'Look, we can't just keep spending money like drunken sailors.' "
Asked about falling public support for the Tea Party, Russo says polls go up and down.
But Tom Zawistowski, who heads the Portage County Tea Party group in Ohio, says such polls aren't to be believed because of the way the president, the Democrats and the media portray them.
Tom Zawistowski of the Portage County Tea Party in Ohio says his group is now focused on local elections next month.
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Tom Zawistowski of the Portage County Tea Party in Ohio says his group is now focused on local elections next month.
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"We don't have horns — you know, we're not from another planet," he says. "We're just like all the other people listening to your show. And we have our own life experiences and we see things in a certain way."
When asked what comes next for them, he points to elections coming up on Nov. 5. And he's talking 2013, not 2014.
"We're engaged with school boards, and we're out interviewing school board candidates, and we're talking to township trustees and city council members," he says. "Those are important people. They serve us as much as the guys in D.C., if not more so."
A major force behind the Tea Party has been the Washington, D.C.-based organization FreedomWorks. Matt Kibbe, the group's CEO, said on C-SPAN on Friday that it's the Republican Party — not the Tea Party — that needs to learn from this week's events in Washington.
"Everything's more democratized," he says. "And Republicans should come to terms with that. They still want to control things from the top down, and if they do that, there will absolutely be a split. But my prediction would be that we take over the Republican Party, and they go the way of the Whigs."
The Whig Party, of course, dissolved in the mid-1800s.
But there are also plenty of questions ahead for the Tea Party: Will it be able to recruit good candidates? Will it be able to raise money as it has? And how will the events of this week affect how general-election voters view the organization?
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Dallas police probe shooting of mentally ill man
On Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, Joyce Jackson holds a drawing made by her son Bobby Gerald Bennett, in Dallas. Jackson says Bennett, who is a schizophrenic, wanted to take the drawing with him out of the house leading to an argument that caused her to call police Monday. Surveillance video from a neighbor's camera shows Bennett standing as two officers approach him. Seconds later, Officer Cardan Spencer fires at Bennet who now remains in a hospital intensive care unit. Dallas police have opened a criminal investigation and placed the officer on administrative leave indefinitely. (AP Photo/Nomaan Merchant)
On Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, Joyce Jackson holds a drawing made by her son Bobby Gerald Bennett, in Dallas. Jackson says Bennett, who is a schizophrenic, wanted to take the drawing with him out of the house leading to an argument that caused her to call police Monday. Surveillance video from a neighbor's camera shows Bennett standing as two officers approach him. Seconds later, Officer Cardan Spencer fires at Bennet who now remains in a hospital intensive care unit. Dallas police have opened a criminal investigation and placed the officer on administrative leave indefinitely. (AP Photo/Nomaan Merchant)
This image from video courtesy of Maurice Bunch shows Bobby Gerald Bennett, left, standing as two Dallas Police officers approach him. Seconds later, Officer Cardan Spencer fires at Bennet who now remains in a hospital intensive care unit. Dallas police have opened a criminal investigation and placed the officer on administrative leave indefinitely after he shot and wounded Bennet who is a schizophrenic. (AP Photo/Maurice Bunch)
This image from video courtesy of Maurice Bunch shows Bobby Gerald Bennett , left, after Dallas Police Officer Cardan Spencer shot Bennet, who now remains in a hospital intensive care unit. Dallas police have opened a criminal investigation and placed the officer on administrative leave indefinitely after shooting the schizophrenic man. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Maurice Bunch)
DALLAS (AP) — Surveillance video showing a Dallas police officer shooting a mentally ill man standing still about 20 feet away contradicts the assertion of an officer that the man threatened his safety by lunging at him with a knife.
Bobby Gerald Bennett remains hospitalized after being shot in the stomach Monday. The officer who shot him, Cardan Spencer, is on indefinite administrative leave pending a criminal investigation after a neighbor released surveillance video that captured the incident.
Bennett was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on a public servant, but Police Chief David Brown announced Friday that the charge would be dropped.
Bennett's mother, Joyce Jackson, said in an interview Friday that her 52-year-old son has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and that he was off his medication at the time of the shooting. Jackson said she was arguing with Bennett when she called the police. She was told that officers who have been trained in dealing with the mentally ill would arrive to assist her.
The officers arrived outside her southeast Dallas home around noon to find Bennett sitting on a chair in the street holding a knife. At this point, accounts of the incident differ.
Spencer wrote in a police report that Bennett refused to drop the knife and moved toward him and another officer "in a threatening manner." Spencer says that's when he fired at Bennett four times from about 20 feet away, wounding him.
The video tells a different story. Although the police report says Bennett "lunged" at the officers with a knife, in the video he stands up from the chair but then doesn't appear to move at all until the gun is fired and he crumples to the ground.
The surveillance video doesn't include audio, and Spencer wrote in his report that Bennett yelled at them, "You all are gonna need more officers than this!" But it doesn't show that the incident "escalated, which led an officer to fire his weapon upon the individual," as police spokesman Warren Mitchell said in a statement a few hours after the shooting.
Police Chief David Brown said in a statement Thursday night that Spencer has been placed on indefinite administrative leave pending a "thorough criminal investigation."
Jackson said she and her son had been arguing about whether he could take an ink drawing of a rose he had done for his late grandmother, she said. The drawing is framed on the wall of her home.
The argument soon escalated to the point where Jackson felt she needed police assistance.
"I'm devastated that I felt the need to call 911," Jackson said.
Jackson said her son struggles with mental illness and often leaves her home to sleep on the streets, but said he is an avid artist and reader and isn't violent. According to state criminal records, he was convicted of larceny, vehicle theft and forgery in the 1980s but has no recent arrests.
"I was expecting help from someone that's a lot more knowledgeable than me," she said. Mitchell, the police spokesman, declined to say Friday whether the two officers sent to Jackson's home had any specific mental health training.
Jackson did not see the shooting. She was inside her home when she heard four gunshots. She said it was a "miracle" that her neighbor's camera recorded the incident. Otherwise, "I wouldn't have had a leg to stand on," she said.
Maurice Bunch installed the surveillance camera two years ago after a trailer was stolen from his driveway.
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Morning Report: Firas Zahabi talks Georges St-Pierre's frustrations and explains testing demands
Firas Zahabi, founder of Montreal's TriStar Gym and trainer to UFC Welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre, spoke with SiriusXM Fight Club this week about comments the champ had made about a lack of support from the UFC. St-Pierre told a Canadian media outlet he didn't feel fully backed in his pursuit of more extensive drug screenings. When asked how St-Pierre felt the UFC had let him down, Zahabi gives his take on the debacle:
"I'm not sure exactly what he meant to ... we're kind of passed that,' said Zahabi. "We don't really talk about it anymore. We just do the testing. At the end of the day, we wanted VADA because VADA can ensure HGH testing. If you really want to know the nuts and bolts, they were going to ensure HGH testing on every test. Doing it the other way, with Nevada, they wanted to do it random. Nobody knows when we're testing at any time. We're OK with random testing. We want random testing plus HGH on every test. So it doesn't matter the cost. 'It costs more to do that test?' Fine, do it for every single test because we to hear anybody say anymore that Georges is taking growth hormones. Georges has been accused of that for years, since the beginning of his pro career, and we want to be able to prove to everybody that he's been tested thoroughly for HGH."
What followed was a highly publicized back and forth between not only the two fighters' camps, but also Keith Kizer, executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
"It turned out to be a controversy. It turned out to be a big problem. We had a lot of misunderstandings. I think everybody wants to be clean. I think Johny Hendricks is clean. I think Georges is clean. I think everybody wants to do the best job possible, but it was just too ... I don't know. Everybody interpreted one thing from the next. Johny Hendricks said 'Oh, you guys want to do VADA? Then we don't want to do VADA.' Not Johny Hendricks himself, but his camp. And they were like 'We want to do the most thorough testing possible,' and they don't even test for HGH or whatnot."
Frustrated by the entire process, Zahabi says he was willing to help bankroll the testing himself to finally settle the matter.
"There was just so much back and forth and I don't even know who was saying what anymore. I just said 'look, just test them with both tests. Get the best test possible. Get the highest criteria possible. Lets do that.' I'm ready to put money in myself if that's going to make everyone happy. I know it's quite expensive, but I was ready to do anything to make everybody happy and just have the strictest testing. It just didn't work out that way. Georges was disappointed with the UFC. I don't know why, you'd have to ask him, but it was a big controversy for something so simple."
UFC president Dana White told Ariel Helwani Thursday that he doesn't understand St-Pierre's concerns regarding the UFC's support, calling the situation 'f***ing weird.'
"I don't know how 'we didn't back him up,' said White. The UFC was involved in all of those conversations that they had with the commission. Originally, Georges St-Pierre said he was going to pay for it, then he wasn't going to pay for it. Just the whole thing was done very weird. If he feels we didn't support him ... I mean, I don't know. The whole thing is f***ing weird."
"I haven't talked to him about it. He's very fired up about it because he went out there and started this thing and then it turned into a huge clusterf**k. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to tell him. The whole f***ing thing is weird."
St-Pierre will defend his welterweight title to Hendricks in the main event at UFC 167 on Nov. 16, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Brazilian Anderson Silva and Canadian George "GSP" St. Pierre are two competitors who usually show up near the top on the best fighter in MMA pound-for-pound lists. I will exclude Jon Jones at the moment, the future will determine whether he claims the all-time title. While Silva has been a human wrecking ball destroying such greats as Rich Franklin (twice), and Dan Henderson en route to 16 straight wins before his loss to Weidman, St. Pierre has used his superior wrestling game to suffocate opponents and literally make them quit on the mat while winning his last 16 out of 17 fighst in the UFC. In short their records stand at a eerily similar 16-1 over their last 17 fights during a period which many call the golden age of MMA.
Often called the best wrestler in MMA, the criticism against St. Pierre recently has been his inability to finish fights as he has six straight decision wins. Silva on the other hand has always been a devastating finisher, but it seems that his embarrassing wealth of talent has dulled his competitive edge and lately he seems content to taunt his opponents in the ring in a bizarre manner rather than try and finish them. Their most recent fights are probably the best indicator to use when arguing which of these fighters is better pound-for-pound or the.
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Looking forward to some delicious eats and stimulating conversation, Eva Longoria and Melanie Griffith showed up at E. Baldi restaurant in Beverly Hills on Thursday afternoon (October 17).
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Costly cigarettes and smoke-free homes
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Researchers find both effectively reduce tobacco consumption among low-income smokers
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say high-priced cigarettes and smoke-free homes effectively reduce smoking behaviors among low-income individuals a demographic in which tobacco use has remained comparatively high.
Writing in the October 17, 2013 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, principal investigator John P. Pierce, PhD, professor and director of population sciences at UC San Diego School of Medicine, and colleagues found that expensive cigarettes $4.50 or more per pack were associated with lower consumption across all levels.
"Living in a state where the average price paid for cigarettes is low ($3.20 or less per pack) means that all smokers, regardless of income, will smoke a lot more than those who live in a state with higher prices," said Pierce. "This is the case for those living below the federal poverty level as well as for the wealthy."
When smokers agreed to a smoke-free home, not only were they more likely to reduce their smoking but, in addition, if they quit, they were less likely to relapse.
"Price is a deterrent to smoking," said Pierce, "but successful quitting (90 or more days) was associated in this study only with a smoke-free home."
The challenge to anti-smoking groups is that low-income smokers are less likely to adopt a smoke-free home environment. Pierce offered several possible explanations: "First, there's a higher prevalence of smoking in people with lower incomes, which means that there will be more spouses who smoke as well. When both adults smoke, there is much lower motivation to introduce a smoke-free home. Also, social norms against smoking have historically been lower in those with lower incomes.
"No one is mandating a smoke-free home," Pierce continued. "We are telling people that if they really want to quit, then introducing a smoke-free home will help them be successful. This study supports the current policy of increasing (cigarette) prices and building social norms that protect against secondhand smoke. These policies will reduce consumption among all smokers reducing potential harm and the ensuing smoke-free homes will help smokers quit successfully."
The findings are derived from the 2006-2007 Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey, a monthly nationally representative cross-sectional survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. The researchers analyzed three sets of supplement data containing responses from more than 150,000 participants aged 18 and older who self-reported both income and smoking habits.
Maya Vijayaraghavan, MD, assistant clinical professor in the Department of Family and Preventive medicine and the study's first author, said one potential avenue for intervention was to increase regulation of secondhand smoke in public housing.
"This may change norms around smoking among low-income populations living in public housing," Vijayaraghavan said. "What is important is that clinicians need to emphasize social norms concerning tobacco use and should encourage and discuss strategies for adopting smoke-free homes among all smokers. Additionally, there is a lot of interest in raising cigarette price to reduce smoking. While we have evidence that moderate increases reduce smoking behavior in all income groups, it is important to match such a policy with support to help lower income smokers to quit successfully."
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Study co-authors include Karen Messer and Martha M. White, both at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.
Funding support for this study came, in part, from UC Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program grants 18CA-0134 and 21RT-0135.
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Researchers find both effectively reduce tobacco consumption among low-income smokers
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say high-priced cigarettes and smoke-free homes effectively reduce smoking behaviors among low-income individuals a demographic in which tobacco use has remained comparatively high.
Writing in the October 17, 2013 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, principal investigator John P. Pierce, PhD, professor and director of population sciences at UC San Diego School of Medicine, and colleagues found that expensive cigarettes $4.50 or more per pack were associated with lower consumption across all levels.
"Living in a state where the average price paid for cigarettes is low ($3.20 or less per pack) means that all smokers, regardless of income, will smoke a lot more than those who live in a state with higher prices," said Pierce. "This is the case for those living below the federal poverty level as well as for the wealthy."
When smokers agreed to a smoke-free home, not only were they more likely to reduce their smoking but, in addition, if they quit, they were less likely to relapse.
"Price is a deterrent to smoking," said Pierce, "but successful quitting (90 or more days) was associated in this study only with a smoke-free home."
The challenge to anti-smoking groups is that low-income smokers are less likely to adopt a smoke-free home environment. Pierce offered several possible explanations: "First, there's a higher prevalence of smoking in people with lower incomes, which means that there will be more spouses who smoke as well. When both adults smoke, there is much lower motivation to introduce a smoke-free home. Also, social norms against smoking have historically been lower in those with lower incomes.
"No one is mandating a smoke-free home," Pierce continued. "We are telling people that if they really want to quit, then introducing a smoke-free home will help them be successful. This study supports the current policy of increasing (cigarette) prices and building social norms that protect against secondhand smoke. These policies will reduce consumption among all smokers reducing potential harm and the ensuing smoke-free homes will help smokers quit successfully."
The findings are derived from the 2006-2007 Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey, a monthly nationally representative cross-sectional survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. The researchers analyzed three sets of supplement data containing responses from more than 150,000 participants aged 18 and older who self-reported both income and smoking habits.
Maya Vijayaraghavan, MD, assistant clinical professor in the Department of Family and Preventive medicine and the study's first author, said one potential avenue for intervention was to increase regulation of secondhand smoke in public housing.
"This may change norms around smoking among low-income populations living in public housing," Vijayaraghavan said. "What is important is that clinicians need to emphasize social norms concerning tobacco use and should encourage and discuss strategies for adopting smoke-free homes among all smokers. Additionally, there is a lot of interest in raising cigarette price to reduce smoking. While we have evidence that moderate increases reduce smoking behavior in all income groups, it is important to match such a policy with support to help lower income smokers to quit successfully."
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Study co-authors include Karen Messer and Martha M. White, both at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.
Funding support for this study came, in part, from UC Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program grants 18CA-0134 and 21RT-0135.
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