Occupy LA deadline comes, many say they won't go

A crowd gathers at the Occupy LA protestors' camp outside of Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Friday the campsite will be dismantled beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday. (AP Photo/Phil McCarten)

A crowd gathers at the Occupy LA protestors' camp outside of Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Friday the campsite will be dismantled beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday. (AP Photo/Phil McCarten)

A crowd gathers at the Occupy LA protestors' camp outside of Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa stated Friday that the protestors's campsite will be dismantled, beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday. (AP Photo/Phil McCarten)

Occupy LA protestors remove their belongings from outside of Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa stated Friday that the protestors's campsite will be dismantled, beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday. (AP Photo/Phil McCarten)

An unidentified Occupy LA protestor sweeps the steps of Los Angeles City Hall with a palm frond as another speaks using a bull horn in Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa stated Friday that it is time for the campsite to be dismantled, beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday. (AP Photo/Phil McCarten)

Unidentified Occupy LA protestors are camped outside of Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa stated Friday that the protestors's campsite will be dismantled, beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday. (AP Photo/Phil McCarten)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Hundreds of Occupy Los Angeles protesters showed no sign they planned to move Sunday ahead of a city-imposed midnight deadline to abandon their encampment, saying they would instead hold an "eviction block party."

Although city officials have told demonstrators they must leave the weeks-old protest site and take their nearly 500 tents with them by 12:01 a.m. Monday, just a handful were seen packing up Sunday.

Instead, some passed out fliers containing the city seal and the words: "By order of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, this notice terminates your tenancy and requires you to attend the Occupy L.A. Eviction Block Party."

"The best way to keep a non-violent movement non-violent is to throw a party, and keep it festive and atmospheric," said Brian Masterson as he helped a friend break down her tent. "And I'm going to be doing as much as I can to stop violence."

He said he had turned his own tent into a "non-violent booby trap" by filling it with sandbags to make it tough to tear down.

"We can't beat the LAPD, but we can make it difficult for them to do their job, and have fun while we're doing it," Masterson said.

Villaraigosa issued a statement a few hours before the deadline Sunday night, outlining the city's plan and his hopes for a "spirit of cooperation."

He said that even after the park's official closure police "will allow campers ample time to remove their belongings peacefully and without disruption."

Villaraigosa said police and social workers will walk through the park handing out information on the closure and services available.

The mayor did not say what tactics authorities would use for those who refuse to leave ? or when they will begin using them.

The atmosphere was already festive Sunday afternoon. A punk-pop band played protest songs on one of the lawns. The protest's artists were out in great numbers showing their work, and twice the usual number of news trucks surrounded the tent city.

Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart drew a crowd as he stood on the City Hall steps and argued with protesters on topics like Bank of America and Warren Buffett.

Some campers packed up their tents and belongings Sunday to avoid police trouble, but said they intended to return without them in support of their fellow protesters.

"I would prefer not to take the tent down," said Tiffany Wallace as she packed up her campsite. "But we need to be strategic for this movement to last. This is not just for the occupation of this particular location. This is for mobilizing working class people nationally and internationally."

Digital fliers were being posted on Facebook and Twitter encouraging people to go to City Hall at midnight in solidarity with occupiers.

City Councilman Bill Rosendahl appeared on the City Hall lawn to issue a late plea for protesters to leave.

Occupy organizers said thanks, but no thanks.

"Until the grievances of the 99 percent are addressed to end corporate control of the system, the government and the media, Occupy LA will be here exercising our 1st Amendment rights," Julie Levine, one of several Occupy spokespeople, told the Los Angeles Times.

Police, for their part, have said little about what tactic they would take if protesters ignore the deadline.

Chief Charlie Beck has told reporters that officers would not be sweeping through the camp and arresting everyone the minute the clock ticks past midnight.

But in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that was published Sunday, Beck indicated he expects that arrests will become inevitable at some point.

"I have no illusions that everybody is going to leave," Beck said. "We anticipate that we will have to make arrests."

When it comes to that, he said, police officers "will not be the first ones to apply force."

Meanwhile, local clergy and labor leaders implored both sides to ensure that the 2-month-old demonstration remain peaceful.

"We are grateful to the Occupy movement for refocusing the country to the issue of income inequality," Maria Elena Durazo, executive secretary and treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, said in a statement issued Sunday.

"We call for nonviolence in all acts of civil disobedience by Occupy LA and in professional procedures by the LAPD. We are committed to a long-term movement from the 99 percent to hold Wall Street and the banks accountable for devastating our economy," Durazo added.

Villaraigosa has expressed admiration that, at least so far, the Occupy Los Angeles movement has remained peaceful, unlike those in some other cities around the country.

But while the mayor, a former labor organizer himself, has said he sympathizes with the movement, he added it's time to close the encampment of some 500 tents that dot the lawn in front of City Hall for the sake of public health and safety.

The 2-month-old movement is also at a crossroads, Villaraigosa said, and must "move from holding a particular patch of park to spreading the message of economic justice."

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Mali: German killed; Dutch, SAfrican, Swede seized (AP)

BAMAKO, Mali ? Gunmen killed a German man in Mali's most famous city of Timbuktu and seized three men from the Netherlands, South Africa and Sweden, their tour guide said, as officials on Saturday ordered a plane to evacuate foreigners from the tourist destination.

Tour guide Ali Maiga said the South African man also holds a British passport. Maiga was with the tourists during Friday's attack at a Timbuktu restaurant. A witness and an official said gunmen burst into the restaurant, grabbed four tourists dining there and executed one when he refused to climb into their truck.

Officials on Saturday evacuated foreigners from Timbuktu to the capital, said a man who owns a hotel in Bamako where the tourists previously stayed. He asked for anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.

Dutch officials did not say whether any of the hostages are Dutch. The kidnappings come before an expected official visit by Mali's president to the Netherlands next week.

"In the interests of the people involved, we never comment on these cases," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ward Bezemer told the Associated Press.

Until a few years ago, Timbuktu was one of the most visited destinations in Africa, but it is now one of the many former tourist hotspots in Mali that have been deemed too dangerous to visit by foreign embassies because of kidnappings by the local chapter of al-Qaida.

Friday's incident comes after two French citizens were grabbed in the middle of the night from their hotel in the Malian town of Hombori on Thursday. French judicial officials have opened a preliminary investigation into their kidnappings.

Neither kidnapping has yet been claimed by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, whose members have kidnapped and ransomed more than 50 Europeans and Canadians since 2003.

If Friday's kidnapping is by AQIM, it will mark the first time they have taken a hostage inside of Timbuktu's city limits. Thursday's kidnapping would be another first ? the first hostage taking south of the Niger River.

The group's footprint has grown dramatically since 2006, when the Algerian-led cell first joined al-Qaida. Security experts estimate the group has been able to raise around $130 million from ransom payments alone.

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Associated Press writer Mike Corder contributed to this report from The Hague; writer Anita Powell contributed from Johannesburg.

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Stock trading mixed after rough week

Traders Richard Cohen, left, and Lewis Vande-Pallen, right, work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. Stocks are taking a sharp fall in early trading Monday amid reports that a congressional committee will fail to agree on a plan to cut the U.S. government's budget deficit.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Traders Richard Cohen, left, and Lewis Vande-Pallen, right, work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. Stocks are taking a sharp fall in early trading Monday amid reports that a congressional committee will fail to agree on a plan to cut the U.S. government's budget deficit.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Stocks are mixed in light trading, with the S&P 500 index recovering slightly from six straight days of losses. Even with modest gains Friday, major indexes remain on track to post their worst week since September.

Worries about Europe's debt crisis flared up again Friday after Italy had to pay 7.8 percent to borrow for two years at a debt auction. It's another sign that investors are growing hesitant to lend to European countries.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 25 points, or 0.2 percent, to 11,282 as of 11:45 a.m. Eastern.

The S&P 500 index is up 4 points, or 0.4 percent, to 1,166. The Nasdaq is down 2 points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,457.

Trading will end at 1 p.m. Eastern time. Markets were closed Thursday for Thanksgiving.

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Congo: 2 killed in clashes days ahead of poll

A sea of electoral posters line the streets of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Friday Nov. 25, 2011. On Monday Nov. 28 2011, Congolese will elect their president and national assembly. between 11 contenders for president and 18,835 for the 500 parliamentary seats. The election commission has set itself a Friday deadline to deliver 186,000 ballot boxes and more than 64 million ballot papers to nearly 64,000 polling stations, in a country of 2,345,000 square kilometres (906,000 square miles) -- 77 times the size of former colonial ruler Belgium. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

A sea of electoral posters line the streets of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Friday Nov. 25, 2011. On Monday Nov. 28 2011, Congolese will elect their president and national assembly. between 11 contenders for president and 18,835 for the 500 parliamentary seats. The election commission has set itself a Friday deadline to deliver 186,000 ballot boxes and more than 64 million ballot papers to nearly 64,000 polling stations, in a country of 2,345,000 square kilometres (906,000 square miles) -- 77 times the size of former colonial ruler Belgium. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) ? Two people were killed in pre-vote clashes Saturday in Congo's capital and security officials fired into a crowd that included tens of thousands of opposition supporters, prompting officials to ban rallies before a critical poll that observers say could re-ignite violence in the vast central African nation.

Violence erupted Saturday among political supporters who had gathered to greet the top opposition presidential candidate, who had planned to come to the airport in a car convoy. Supporters of the president also gathered there to meet him, though he did not pass through the airport.

At the airport, security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition into the burgeoning crowd.

Scuffles erupted on the road to the airport. Two dead bodies were seen along that road. One of them, a young man, was badly bludgeoned and appeared to have been stoned to death. A second body, also a man, was seen being carried away by Red Cross medics on the same road. It was not immediately clear how he had been killed.

Police also fired tear gas to push the crowd away, but riot police manned the airport hours later to prevent opposition presidential candidate Etienne Tshisekedi and his entourage from leaving the scene.

It was not immediately possible to determine the total number of casualties from Saturday's clashes.

Saturday's violence prompted the governor to call off political rallies ahead of Monday's vote. Governor Andre Kimbuta made the announcement on state television Saturday.

"Because of the escalating violence seen in Kinshasa, all public demonstrations and other political meetings are canceled this Saturday," Kimbuta said. "This is for a better result of the electoral process. The urban authority calls on the population's patriotism."

Human rights groups had expressed fears about an atmosphere of spiraling violence and hate speech ahead of the vote in the large mineral-rich nation. The outcome of the vote is almost certain to keep President Joseph Kabila in power.

Earlier this month in Kinshasa, gunmen fired on Tshisekedi campaigners putting up posters, wounding two. In the southern mining city of Lubumbashi, another 16 were injured in violence pitting Tshisekedi's supporters against a rival opposition party. Young people in the eastern city of Goma took to the streets after popular folk musician Fabrice Mumpfiritsa was kidnapped after he refused to sing songs supporting Kabila. He was found three days later, legs and eyes bound and so badly beaten he had to be hospitalized.

"We all know that the country is not ready to hold this election," said Jacquemain Shabani, the secretary general of Tshisekedi's party, which was the first major opposition party to stand up to former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko in the 1980s. "It's inevitable that it will bring conflict if they go ahead with it."

How the elections unfold will be a likely indicator of whether Congo is consolidating its fledgling democracy or returning to a state of widespread instability after decades of dictatorship and civil war, according to the International Crisis Group.

The violence is just one of the numerous challenges that could derail Monday's vote and re-ignite conflict. Tension is running high, partly because many polling stations have not yet received the necessary voting materials.

On Friday, just days before the poll, at least 33 of the 80 planes carrying voting materials to the provinces were unable to take off because of bad weather.

Election experts say it is unlikely the ballots will be able to reach the remote interior in time in a country with so few paved roads, and where there are some 60,000 polling stations spread out over a territory the size of Western Europe.

"We have been trying to sound the alarm but to no avail," said Jerome Bonso, coordinator of the Coalition for Peaceful and Transparent Elections.

"The end result of a democratic election should be the resolution of conflict. Instead, we're heading into an election which is by its very nature bound to aggravate conflict ..." he said. "And the planes carrying the voting materials have not even taken off yet."

Voters will be choosing between 11 presidential candidates and more than 18,000 candidates for the 500-seat parliament.

In a nation where a third of adults cannot read, voters will be handed a ballot as thick as a book, due to the overwhelming number of parliamentary contenders. Politicians are using campaign rallies to explain to voters where to find their names on the ballot paper.

Jason Stearns, former coordinator of the United Nations Group of Experts on the Congo and the author of a book on the country's political history, said the number of candidates is bound to create confusion inside polling stations because the ballot is confusing even for those who know how to read. It will also create delays in an election that is supposed to take place in a single day, and may result in a large share of people not being able to cast their votes.

"There is an overwhelming number of candidates and voters will have a limited amount of time in voting stations," said Stearns, who pointed out that even the three best-known candidates, including Kabila, are informing voters at rallies of their place on the ballot paper.

"Even among the 11 presidential candidates, every one of their campaign advertisements stress their number on the ballot. Kabila is No. 33. Tshisekedi is No. 11," said Stearns.

It's the country's first election since the landmark 2006 vote which was considered the country's first democratic vote in 40 years, but was marred by weeks of street battles led by supporters of the losing candidate.

Congo's history of back-to-back wars also provides a backdrop. Kabila, a former rebel leader, first took control of the country a decade ago, after the 2001 assassination of his father, Laurent Kabila, who ruled Congo after overthrowing dictator Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997.

He was elected president in 2006, a vote which was overseen and organized by the U.N. The runner-up was former warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba, now on trial at the Hague. He refused to accept defeat, unleashing his private army on the capital, leading to weeks of street battles. There are no warlords in the race for president this time, and none of the candidates have personal militias at their disposal, Stearns said.

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Associated Press writer Saleh Mwanamilongo in Kinshasa, Congo contributed to this report. Callimachi contributed from Dakar, Senegal.

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92% The Descendants

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One of the year's best films, a bubbly meditation on family and responsibility that weighs just enough to matter.

With so many balls in the air the temptation is to rush from one plot strand to another, but Payne takes the opposite approach. He also captures the complexity of emotional reactions that grief stirs.

It's a lovely, heartfelt character study of common, everyday people trapped on the horns of an uncommon but not unheard-of dilemma.

The latest exhibit in Payne's careful dissection of the beached male, which runs from Matthew Broderick's character in "Election" to Jack Nicholson's in "About Schmidt" and Paul Giamatti's in "Sideways."

This mature, well-acted dramatic comedy is deeply satisfying, maybe even cathartic.

A tough, tender, observant, exquisitely nuanced portrait of mixed emotions at their most confounding and profound -- all at play within a deliciously damp, un-touristy Hawaii that's at once lush and lovely to look at.

A large patch of the movie's social contract are the Hawaiian notions of 'aina, malama and pono. It joins the short list we aren't embarrassed to screen for malahini.

A heartbreaking story with satisfying emotional payoffs, and truly beautiful Hawaiian photography.

George Clooney and Shailene Woodley are terrific as lost-soul dad and old-soul daughter in Alexander Payne's funny, thoughtful film.

Marked by stellar performances and an incisive screenplay, The Descendants packs a real Hawaiian punch.

The best thing here is Clooney, cleverly dropping some of his man's man mannerisms to make Matt less of an idea and more of a human.

It's smart, funny, heartbreaking, heartwarming, wise, and, despite some sad moments, genuinely optimistic. I experienced more feelings watching it than I usually get from ten movies.

Well-acted and touching with a mild eye for human foibles, this is one of the better-written films of the year.

What's so special about Payne's approach in The Descendants is how acutely observed and subtle the movie is, especially since the previews are selling it as a broader, more absurd comedy.

If you see The Descendants, see it for Clooney (and Woodley), but don't believe the hype that it's one for the ages.

A lot of The Descendants is affecting, but its mushier tone is often less emotionally resonant than the bitter sarcasm of Payne's earlier work.

This unforgettable movie succeeds by making audiences feel like a part of the family. Clooney knocks it out of the park with a marvelous performance. Woodley makes a strong bid for a supporting actress nomination. The supporting players are all given...

Here's where I am right now: The Descendants is the best movie of 2011. It is the movie of the year, in many ways beyond its simple superlative overall excellence.

(Clooney) is at the top of his game in his scenes alone with the comatose Elizabeth. Asking questions that are unable to be answered, his pain at his loss and her betrayal is heartbreaking.

Audiences will argue about whether it's a comedy or a drama, but they'll agree they saw a wonderful film.

The Descendants finds Payne, now 50, having arrived in midlife with a new maturity, eschewing solipsism and snickers for a deeper engagement with the world.

Clooney has never been better, displaying more range and less actor-ego than ever before... The Descendants would still be a splendid movie without him; with Clooney, it's one of 2011's very best.

It's good, but far less than you'd expect from the guy who started his career with the gleefully provocative Citizen Ruth and Election.

In the hands of writer-director Alexander Payne, Clooney has rarely seemed so much at home.

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Calvin O. Butts, III: Thanksgiving 2011: America Trusts God, But Will God Trust America?

On this Thanksgiving of 2011, America is at a crossroads. Overall civility in politics and society is at an all-time low. Political leaders, placing party and re-election over doing the right thing, are not creating meaningful or sustainable policies. American businesses are not hiring. Working people cannot pay their bills or provide opportunity for their children. Markets are unstable. Untold numbers of Americans live in economic poverty that promotes a mental culture of poverty, hopelessness and distrust. The "99%" is starting to fight against the "1%". Whether real or perceived, division is taking over.

So why are we thankful to God?

By tradition, on our currency and in our courtrooms, Americans say "In God we Trust." Congress affirmed this pledge just a few weeks ago. But it is one thing to talk the talk; it is a whole other thing to walk the walk by acting worthy of God's trust in us. We hope, starting with this Thanksgiving, that Americans, led by Congress, can reach for that higher bar.

Thanksgiving presents us with moral lessons that can help get us there, and Thanksgiving, for us and our children, presents a teachable moment about who we are and what we stand for.

Rooted with Pilgrims who broke bread with indigenous peoples after they landed on America's shores, Thanksgiving is an icon of goodness and decency. In an unpolluted land that presented both opportunity and risk to the Pilgrims, their first instincts were to thank the Almighty for their journey, their destination, and their warm neighbors.

In this tradition, Thanksgiving is recognition that we are not alone in this world or in our land, that we are beholden to God, to our families and to our community. We do not operate as silos, separated from one another by miles of wilderness, but, rather, we are united in common traditions, roots, values and destiny.

The Founders recognized this destiny when they wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all "men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, among which are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Early thought leaders declared America the new "Promised Land" because of the opportunities and values it presented. Extending from that, early writers and leaders envisioned that, like the Biblical Israelites who traveled from Egypt to the Promised Land, America had a covenant with God to actualize values and principles. The world at the time of the first Thanksgiving was not a friendly world -- it was a world of privilege for the few and tyranny for the many.

America changed that picture. In its founding documents, the authors espoused opportunity, equality, fairness and faith.

But like the biblical travelers, we have had our struggles with God and eternal values. In the interest of commerce, we instituted slavery. In the interest of expansion, we took over indigenous peoples' lands. In the interest of male pride, we oppressed women. In the interest of profit, we oppressed workers. These blemishes on the American character are an undisputed part of history.

Along the way, we have paid dearly to reclaim values and, we suppose, God's trust. Emancipation, Voting rights. Civil rights. Working rights. Safety nets such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, also, followed as we and our elected leaders combated bigotry, poverty and greed with our core values.

So at this Thanksgiving and beyond, with so much hanging in the balance, isn't it time for Congress and others to get back to the values that have rescued us from the brink in the past?

Four years ago, Purple America interviewed almost 1,000 people on the streets of America. They were big business leaders and workers, small business owners and entrepreneurs, coffee shop and fast food workers, religious leaders, retirees, stay-at-home moms, students, doctors, lawyers, mail carriers, teachers, immigrants and homeless people.

They all expressed a common ground through 12 values -- Equality, Faith, Family, Freedom, Love and Respect, Self-Expression, Doing the Right Thing, Community, Giving Back, the Good Life, Opportunity, and Success. These are not religious values, nor are they conservative or liberal, Republican or Democratic. They are righteous values that can earn us God's trust and rebuild our trust in each other.

To Congress: If we say, "In God We Trust," then let's mean it by acting in ways that don't violate God's trust or that of the American people. As leaders and role models, we have a responsibility to lead in a civil, principled and God-like way. Partisan battles that lead us to political Armageddon don't support the real cause of America.

To the American people: Let's truly be thankful for the country God has given us, a country rooted in values and virtues that have inspired the world. Let's not trash it or each other. Let's live our values.

To business leaders: Be thankful to our country, whose citizens and values have enabled you to grow and prosper. It is time for you to be responsive to and lead through these values. Principled companies have discovered that values are good business.

And, at this time of national Thanksgiving, may we be authentic in thanking our country based on the way we act toward each other. Our faith and values have been and can again become our grounding elements. If we really trust God, then we must create a country where, because of its people, culture and deeds, God also trusts us.

To see America's shared values and add your voice, go to www.Purpleamerica.us

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Andrew Hunter, a 24-year-old restaurant server in Georgia nearly threw away a quarter of a million dollars. Instead, he pulled a $3 winning ticket out of his trash and traded it in for three more tickets ? one of which won him $250,000.

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U.S. hands over detainees to Iraq, with one exception (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? U.S. officials in Iraq have handed over to the Iraqi government all detainees in their custody as the Obama administration prepares to withdraw, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, with the exception of one high profile prisoner.

Lieutenant Colonel Todd Breasseale, a Pentagon spokesman, said the detainee handover had been completed as of Tuesday, with the exception of Ali Mussa Daqduq, who U.S. officials say is an operative for the Lebanese group Hezbollah.

"Since the process began a few years ago, we've been working to complete this transfer safely and securely in a way that wouldn't overburden the Iraqi system," Breasseale said.

"Mr. Daqduq remains in US custody. There are serious and ongoing deliberations about how to handle this individual in order to protect U.S. service members as well as broader US interests," he said.

The move to transfer all but one U.S. detainee to Iraqi authorities comes a little over a month before the deadline for withdrawing all U.S. troops from Iraq.

There are now around U.S. 20,000 troops left in Iraq. As commanders race to meet their deadline, only a small force of around 150 U.S. military officials, reporting to a State Department security office at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, are expected to be left on January 1.

The drawdown, laid out in a 2008 bilateral agreement, culminates more than eight years of major U.S. military presence in Iraq, where more than 4,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed since the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Tens of thousands of Iraqis are believed to have been killed in the sectarian and insurgent slaughter that followed.

Daqduq is suspected by U.S. officials of orchestrating a 2007 kidnapping that resulted in the killing of five U.S. military personnel. He must be transferred to Iraqi custody by the end of this year under terms of the U.S.-Iraq security agreement.

Some U.S. lawmakers fear Iraq will be unable to hold Daqduq, who was born in Lebanon, for long. U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Obama administration would like the Iraqis to release him to U.S. custody.

Daqduq's fate is one of the remaining unanswered questions following President Barack Obama's decision to abandon efforts to secure an extended military presence in Iraq.

Violence in Iraq is a far cry from what it was at the height of the war in 2006-07, but bloodshed continues and political stability remains elusive.

If U.S. officials were able to remove Daqduq from Iraq, it's unclear where he would go. It appears highly unlikely Obama would want to add to the population at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, which he promised but has so far failed to close.

(Reporting by Missy Ryan; editing by Todd Eastham)

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After Sunday?s loss to the Cowboys, which was capped by Dallas receiver Dez Bryant beating Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall for a gain that preceded the game-winning field goal, Hall said he?s so bad that the team should cut him.

Hall now says that he has heard from a laundry list of NFL greats regarding his greatness.

?I had so many calls from other guys in the league telling me how great I was as a corner,? Hall said, via the Associated Press.? ?And I?m, like, ?Dude, I?m not on suicide watch.?? It was amazing, just the reaction that I didn?t think it was going to get.?

Hall claimed that he heard from men like Larry Fitzgerald, Ben Roethlisberger, Chad Ochocinco (OK, they aren?t all great players), and Ray Lewis.

But before Mr. Martini declares that he busted the juke-a-box, let?s consider whether Hall was having a crisis of confidence ? or whether he was hoping to get a free ticket out of town in the hopes of signing with a contender for the stretch run.? After all, Hall was once cut by the Raiders after earning $8 million for eight games, before landing in D.C. and eventually pocketing another big-money contract.? Now that he?s playing for a bad team with no immediate prospects for success, maybe that was the first step of a clumsy, passive-aggressive exit strategy.

If that?s the goal, he?s still holding out hope.? Indeed, he reiterated his position on Wednesday.

?I stand by it,? Hall said. ?I wear this ?C? on my chest for a reason. I hold myself to a higher standard than a lot of other people.?

Then came the possible glimpse into his soul.

?I probably haven?t been as productive as I would like to,? Hall said.? ?I don?t know if this defense is built for a corner to go out here and get eight or nine picks or seven picks.? It?s built to stop the deep ball and manage the game.?

In other words (possibly), ?I want out.?

If he really wants out, we?d have more respect for Hall if he simply laid down on the job.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/22/power-rankings-posted-for-your-non-approval/related

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David Henderson: There Is More to Ending Homelessness Than Simply Building Affordable Housing (Huffington post)

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New details emerge about German neo-Nazi group (AP)

BERLIN ? New details are emerging about a band of neo-Nazis suspected in 10 killings, including indications they knew a policewoman they are thought to have slain.

The dapd news agency reported Tuesday that federal police president Joerg Ziercke said the family of the policewoman killed in 2007 wanted to rent a pub in a small eastern German town, but a man connected to the neo-Nazi group instead got the lease.

Bild newspaper cites Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich as saying the circumstances are unclear but it appears the policewoman "was not killed coincidentally."

Of the group's suspected founders, Beate Zschaepe, 36, is in custody while Uwe Boehnhardt, 34, and Uwe Mundlos, 38, are dead. Ziercke says autopsy results indicate Mundlos killed Boehnhardt before killing himself earlier this month as police closed in.

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NY pain doctor arrested after man's fatal overdose (Providence Journal)

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Penn State investigator Freeh had rocky FBI tenure (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Louis Freeh, named on Monday to head an investigation into the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State University, served for eight years as director of the FBI where he faced widespread criticism for a series of high-profile blunders.

Freeh was named by trustees of Penn State to examine why an assistant football coach was allegedly allowed to repeatedly sexually abuse boys over a period of nearly 15 years.

The strongest criticism of Freeh's controversial tenure as FBI head from 1993 to June 2011 came from the commission that investigated the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

Under Freeh, the FBI was hampered by a resistance to change, inadequate resources and legal barriers, a September 11 commission report said. Freeh also was criticized for failing to usher the FBI into the modern, computerized age.

Testifying before the commission in 2004 about FBI counterterrorism efforts, Freeh said: "The political means and will to declare and fight this war didn't exist before September 11."

Counterterrorism "was not a national priority," he said, adding that operations were severely underfunded and understaffed, partly due to a 22-month hiring freeze imposed by Congress.

During his tenure, the FBI was plagued by several blunders that drew criticism from members of Congress.

One incident involved discovery of a spy in the FBI's own ranks. Robert Hanssen, who had been a FBI agent, pleaded guilty in 2001 to spying for Moscow for more than 15 years.

Another blunder involved misplaced FBI files from its investigation into the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

The discovery of thousands of pages of documents that were not turned over to defense lawyers led to a one-month delay in the 2001 execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

Another incident involved its investigation of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee, who was suspected of espionage at the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory. He pleaded guilty in 2000 to a less severe charge when the case against him collapsed.

Freeh was FBI chief when FBI agents focused on security guard Richard Jewell as a suspect in the 1996 bombing at the Olympics in Atlanta. It later turned out that Jewell had nothing to do with the bombing.

A graduate of Rutgers Law School in New Jersey, Freeh joined the FBI and served as a special agent from 1975 to 1981 in the New York City field office and at FBI headquarters.

As an FBI agent, he helped run the waterfront racketeering investigation that convicted more than 125 labor leaders, shipping executives and underworld figures.

He became a federal prosecutor in New York, where he headed a team that broke up a major Sicilian Mafia heroin ring.

In 1991, Freeh was appointed a federal judge in New York. In 1993, President Bill Clinton named him FBI director.

Leaving the FBI two years shy of his 10-year term, Freeh, now 61, became a senior vice chairman at MBNA Corp.

In 2007 he founded Freeh Group International Solutions, based in Wilmington, Delaware. The global risk management firm's services include business compliance studies, corporate fraud and corruption investigations and security studies.

(Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Greg McCune)

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PFT: Bears hope to get Cutler back? |? Sign Bulger?

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The Bills may be regretting the decision to give quarterback Ryan Fitzpatick a six-year, $59 million deal.

If they are, they can walk away from nearly $49 million of it after the season.

Per a league source, the Bills could trade or cut Fitzpatrick before the seventh day of the 2012 league year and owe him nothing further than the $3.22 million base salary he was already due to earn in 2011 and the $10 million signing bonus he was paid upon inking the new deal last month.

On the seventh day of the 2012 league year, the Bills owe Fitzpatrick a $5 million option bonus.? If they don?t exercise the option, Fitzpatrick?s base salary for 2012 would increase from $2.8 million to $7.8 million, and it would be fully guaranteed for injury only.

In 2013, Fitzpatrick has a $3 million roster bonus, which also is guaranteed for injury only, along with a base salary of $4.25 million, $3.2 million of which is guaranteed for injury only.

In 2014, there?s another $3 million roster bonus (non-guaranteed) and a non-guaranteed base salary of $4.35 million.

For 2015, 2016, and 2017 Fitzpatrick has non-guaranteed base salaries of $7.2 million, $8.75 million, and $9.45 million, respectively.

Though there?s no reason to believe ? yet ? that the Bills will move on, the point for now is that, if they choose to do so, they will avoid a bunch of money that either isn?t guaranteed at all, or that is guaranteed for injury only.

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Historic rehab tax credits helping to boost ... - Finance & Commerce

Posted: 11:20 am Mon, November 21, 2011
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Tags: construction, Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office, Minnesota?s Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit, Tim Pawlenty

Minnesota?s Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit has produced at least some of the jobs promised when former Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed it into law in April 2010.

A report out Monday from the University of Minnesota Extension and the Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office found that the 14 projects preliminarily approved, as of June 30, to take advantage of the credit are expected to create 1,808 construction jobs. That?s in line with the jobs creation estimates between 1,500 and 3,000 that came out in 2010, said David Kelliher, director of public policy and community relations at the Minnesota Historical Society.

The tax credit was but a part of the overall Minnesota Jobs Stimulus Bill, which in total was expected to create 12,000 to 20,000 jobs.

The new report says developers plan to spend an estimated $342 million on the 14 projects, with $250 million going toward rehabilitation expenses that qualify for the tax credit. Total economic impact is expected to be $451 million. The credit covers up to 20 percent of qualifying rehabilitation expenses; that?s on top of a federal tax credit that can cover another 20 percent.

Thirty states ? including Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, Missouri, and Kansas ? already had similar programs in place when Minnesota approved its own tax credit.

The report points out that the credit so far will support a total 2,948 jobs when indirect and induced jobs are added onto the construction jobs directly supported by the tax credit.

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Could Weight Loss Be Early Sign of Alzheimer's? (HealthDay)

MONDAY, Nov. 21 (HealthDay News) -- People with early evidence of Alzheimer's disease are more likely to be underweight than people who don't have this type of dementia, a new study suggests.

"Weight loss may be a manifestation of the disease process progressing," said Eric Vidoni, lead author of a study appearing in the Nov. 22 issue of Neurology. "This may be further evidence for body-wide or systemic changes associated with Alzheimer's disease ... and it certainly supports the idea that Alzheimer's disease-related changes could be silently occurring, i.e., a 'preclinical' phase."

The findings may hold implications for diagnosis, prevention or treatment, but these are likely to be years or even decades away.

"A long history of declining weight or BMI (body mass index, a ratio of weight to height) could aid the diagnostic process," said Vidoni, who is assistant director of the University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Center in Kansas CityIs.

At this point, though, it's too early "to make body composition part of the diagnostic toolbox," he added.

"If weight loss is part of the disease process, this could suggest, along with the many papers linking metabolic dysfunction with AD, that preventing such dysfunction could reduce the progression of AD," said Ian Murray, an assistant professor of neuroscience and experimental therapeutics at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine. "Of course this is, at present, speculative."

Previous studies have found that people who are overweight in middle age or earlier have a higher risk of developing Alzheimer's. And those who are overweight in their later years actually may have a lower risk of Alzheimer's, something known as the "obesity paradox."

Vidoni and his partners looked at PET (positron emission tomography) imaging of the brain and analyzed cerebrospinal fluid for markers of Alzheimer's disease in 506 people. Participants represented a range of cognitive function, some with no memory problems, some with mild cognitive impairment and some with Alzheimer's.

People with evidence of Alzheimer's -- either in brain scans or protein levels in the cerebrospinal fluid -- were more likely to have a lower BMI than those who did not show early evidence of the disease.

And the markers of brain changes for Alzheimer's were most evident in people with normal memory functioning or mild cognitive impairment, although it's not clear yet why this is.

There are a number of theories -- but only theories at this point -- to explain the findings.

One is that the Alzheimer's disease process is affecting the hippocampus, that part of the brain involved in metabolism and appetite.

Or inflammatory processes may be driving both the decreased BMI and the cognitive changes.

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A whack to the head ? 200,000 years ago

An ancient argument may have resulted in someone cracking the head of an ancient early human called the Maba Man. A healed lesion on this 200,000-year-old skull may have come from violent trauma, though not bad enough to have killed him.

"People are social mammals, we do these kinds of things to each other," study researcher Erik Trinkaus, of Washington University in St. Louis, told LiveScience, referring to interpersonal aggression. "It's another case of long-term survival of a pretty serious injury."

The Maba Man skull pieces were found in June 1958 in a cave in Lion Rock, near the town of Maba, in Guangdong province, China. They consist of some face bones and parts of the brain case. From those fragments, researchers were able to determine that this was a pre-modern human, perhaps an archaic human. He (or she, since researchers can't tell the sex from the skull bones) would have lived about 200,000 years ago, according to Trinkaus.

Skull depression
Decades after the skull bones were discovered, researcher Xiu-Jie Wu at the Chinese Academy of Sciences took a close look at the strange formations on the left side of the forehead, using computed tomography (CT) scans and high-resolution photography. The skull has a small depression, about half an inch long and circular in nature. On the other side of the bone from this indentation, the skull bulges inward into the brain cavity.

After deciding against any other possible cause of the bump, including genetic abnormalities, diseases and infections, they were left with the idea that Maba somehow hit his head. The certainties stop there, though. The researchers suggest that all they really know is the ancient human suffered a blow to the head.

"What becomes much more speculative is what ultimately caused it," Trinkaus said. "Did they get in an argument with someone else, and they picked something up and hit them over the head?"

Based on the size of the indentation and the force needed to cause such a wound, it's possible it was another hominid, Trinkaus said.

"This wound is very similar to what is observed today when someone is struck forcibly with a heavy blunt object," said study researcher Lynne Schepartz, from the school of anatomical sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, adding that it "could possibly be the oldest example of interhuman aggression and human-induced trauma documented."

Another possibility: Maba might have had a run-in with an animal. A deer antler would be about the right size to make the forehead mark, though the researchers don't know if it would be forceful enough to crack Maba's skull.

Healing after injury
After the whack on the head, Maba shows considerable healing, suggesting he survived the hit. It could have been months or even years later that he would have died, of some other cause. These hominids lived in groups and Maba would have been taken care of by his group mates.

Though nonlethal, the injury likely would have given Maba some memory loss, the researchers said. "This individual, which was an older adult, received a very localized, hard whack on the head," Trinkaus said. "It could have caused short-term amnesia, and certainly a serious headache."

"Our conclusion is that most likely, and this is a probabilistic statement, (the injury) was caused by another person," Trinkaus said. "Ultimately all social animals have arguments and occasionally whack another and cause injury."

The study was published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

You can follow LiveScience staff writer Jennifer Welsh on Twitter @microbelover. Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter @livescience and on Facebook.

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NBA Stars Host ?Obama Classic? to Raise Cash for 2012 (ABC News)

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Woman says her son a mentor to accused Ohio teen

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ? The mother of a jailed Ohio man said Saturday her son has "a very caring heart" and was a mentor to a teenager charged in a deadly robbery scheme in which police say victims were lured with bogus help-wanted ads on Craigslist.

Carol Beasley told The Associated Press that she spoke to her son Richard and she prays that a newspaper report that he is a suspect is not true.

"The most I can say is this is just a big shock to us," she said in a telephone interview. "I pray it's some other person and not him."

Richard Beasley, 52, was in jail on unrelated charges when police arrested two suspects in the robbery scheme, including a 16-year-old boy Beasley's mother says he befriended. The teenager was charged Friday with attempted murder. A judge issued a gag order in the case, and the names of the two victims and the adult suspect, who so far has not been charged, were not released.

Authorities say a South Carolina man who responded to a bogus ad for a farmhand in Ohio was taken Nov. 6 to a desolate area and shot in the arm. He escaped and sought help at a farmhouse in Caldwell. The Columbus Dispatch identified the man as Scott W. Davis, 48, citing a Noble County Sheriff's Office incident report. Davis reportedly lived with his mother in Canton.

Last week, authorities found one hand-dug grave they believe was intended for the man who escaped and a second grave that held the body of a Florida man. The newspaper reported that paperwork in the case against the teenager says he was assisting a Richard J. Beasley in attempting to murder the man who survived.

Carol Beasley, 70, acknowledged that her son has a history of trouble with the law, but she was at a loss to explain where things went wrong. She said her son took the teenager to church almost weekly, took him fishing and to the movies or to play video games, and the two also did volunteer work delivering food to needy people.

"He worked as a street chaplain, did a lot of things like that, that's why all of this is difficult, you know?" the mother said. "I don't know, maybe sometimes when you work with street people, maybe you are just too close to the edge. It's all kind of confusing to me."

Richard Beasley faced previous charges in Ohio, including aggravated menacing, tampering with evidence, possession of criminal tools and illegal cultivation of marijuana, court records show. He also was convicted in Texas of burglary and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle in 1985, sentenced to a 40-year prison sentence and placed on parole for 34 years in 1989.

Beasley was in the Summit County jail Friday on drug trafficking, compelling prostitution and fugitive-from-justice charges when police made arrests in the robbery scheme. The Associated Press generally does not report the names of minors charged with crimes. A message left with an attorney for Beasley listed on court documents was not returned.

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Associated Press writers JoAnne Viviano and Doug Whiteman contributed to this report.

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Lost wedding bands come full circle

It was several days before Lori Daniels realized her two Tiffany wedding bands were missing.

An injury required her to temporarily wear the rings on her right hand, and, unaccustomed to the feel, Daniels didn't notice when they disappeared.

They could have been anywhere. So the stay-at-home mother of three didn't just tear apart her home looking for the rings.

"I reorganized my entire life," she said. "I didn't tell my husband for a day or two. I searched high and low for a few days before I broke that news."

Enter Bruce Cunningham and Brian Frederick, who work together at Premiere Systems, 1400 N. Kingsbury St. ? 21/2 blocks from the learning center where Daniels takes her children twice a week.

About three weeks ago, they each found one of Daniels' rings independently, eight hours apart, but neither man mentioned the find to the other. Cunningham showed the ring he found to colleague Ann Johnson, and they wrote a Craigslist ad and contacted a local Tiffany store manager to try to locate the ring's owner. Frederick held on to the ring he found and, weeks later, hearing his colleagues talk about finding a Tiffany ring, asked to be part of the search.

On a whim, Daniels stopped by the same local Tiffany store and told a clerk she'd lost her rings. Eventually, the clerk and manager realized they had been contacted about the same bands. The date engraved inside one of the bands helped to solve the mystery.

On Friday morning, Daniels was reunited with her rings, three weeks after losing them.

"You've shown so much integrity and compassion," Daniels told the two men as she presented them and Johnson with cards and a cash reward.

"In a bad economy, I didn't ever expect someone to turn them in," Daniels said, adding that she'd compiled a list of area pawn shops to scour. "You've restored my faith in people in Chicago."

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