Annabelle (2014) 98 min  -  Horror  -  3 October 2014 (USA) 6,2 Your rating:     -/10   Ratings: 6,2/10 from 3 161 users   Metascore: 40/100 Reviews: 38 user | 5 critic | 20 from Metacritic.com A couple begin to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists. Director: John R. Leonetti Writer: Gary Dauberman Stars: Ward Horton, Annabelle Wallis, Alfre Woodard | See full cast and crew »

Whew, has anybody caught their breath yet?
College football has long been a blast, but this was intoxicating, captivating and downright exhausting.
One of the arguments against a playoff in college football was that it would somehow ruin the week-to-week drama and suspense?
Let's revisit that theory after surveying the carnage in what was a head-spinning Week 6 in a sport that seems to get more entertaining by the minute.
Not only did five of the top eight teams in the Associated Press poll go down in the same week for the first time in history (the AP poll dates back to 1936), but right there, front and center in the College Football Playoff conversation, are some not-so-usual suspects.
Case in point: The state of Mississippi has all of a sudden become football nirvana, so much so that they're dreaming about the Egg Bowl deciding the champion in the SEC West, which might as well be the ninth-toughest division in the NFL.
Ole Miss sent No. 3 Alabama packing, a riveting 23-17 win before a raucous crowd in Oxford that was sealed by Senquez Golson's spectacular interception in the back of the end zone. And earlier in the day, not quite two hours south in the Magnolia State, Dak Prescott and Mississippi State blew past No. 6 Texas A&M for a 48-31 win, the Bulldogs' second straight triumph over a top-10 foe.
There have been some great players, games and moments when it comes to football in the state of Mississippi, but nothing quite like this.

"I came here and the 2013 class came here to change the culture around here," said Ole Miss sophomore defensive tackle Robert Nkemdiche, who was the No. 1 player in the country when he signed with the Rebels last year. "We came here to do something different. I could have gone to Bama or LSU but wanted to come here and make a difference, and that's what we did."
The unbeaten Rebels also played a prominent role in shaking up the college football hierarchy on what was a deliciously unpredictable week of football that started late Thursday night on the West Coast with No. 2 Oregon's stunning 31-24 upset loss at home to Arizona.
And while we're talking about some of the new faces in this whole playoff debate, what about Rich Rodriguez's Wildcats, who at 5-0 are the only unbeaten team in the Pac-12. Nobody was talking about Arizona back in August when breaking down a Pac-12 race that was supposed to go through Eugene, Oregon, Palo Alto, California, or Los Angeles.
It still might, too, but all four of the nationally ranked teams in those cities -- Oregon, Stanford, UCLA and USC -- lost this week. The grand total of ranked teams losing this week was 11, and there are only 10 unbeaten teams remaining in the FBS ranks -- and we're barely one week into the month of October.
Little did we know that the chaos was just beginning Thursday night with Arizona's ambush of Oregon and Marcus Mariota's Duck Parade. That was just an appetizer.
Not too long after the goal posts were ripped down at Ole Miss' Vaught-Hemingway Stadium and paraded to the Square in downtown Oxford, Mississippi, TCU was finishing off a 37-33 upset of No. 4 Oklahoma. The Sooners were unable to survive even after coming up with turnovers on back-to-back possessions late in the fourth quarter. It was the biggest splash yet for Gary Patterson's Horned Frogs in the Big 12, and don't look now, but they're unbeaten and sure to move up in the polls.
And how could we forget Notre Dame?
Two years removed from playing in the BCS national championship game, the Irish rallied in the final minutes to edge No. 14 Stanford 17-14 to keep their record unblemished. Quarterback Everett Golson wasn't at his best for much of the game, but he was clutch when it counted. His 23-yard touchdown pass to Ben Koyack came on fourth-and-11 and won it for the Irish with 1:01 to play.
Golson's game winner was hardly the play of the day. That distinction belonged to Arizona State's Mike Bercovici, who uncorked a 46-yard Hail Mary touchdown pass to Jaelean Strong on the final play of the game to stun USC 38-34 in the Los Angeles Coliseum.
Yep, it was that kind of day, and more are sure to follow as we look ahead to the College Football Playoff committee's first official ranking on Oct. 28.
At this rate, there might not be any unbeaten teams left when we get to that point.
Buckle up, because it's anybody's guess who will still be standing when the four playoff teams are unveiled in December. None of the big boys are really out of it, and that's whether you're partial to Alabama, Michigan State, Oklahoma, Oregon or UCLA.
And, oh yeah, if you really want to know what kind of day it was, it ended with Washington State rolling up 812 yards of total offense and quarterback Connor Halliday setting a new FBS passing record with 734 yards -- and the Cougars somehow losing 60-59 to Cal.
Get some rest. We're all going to need it.

 

 

Plot

U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) is sent to Iraq on a mission to protect his brothers-in-arms.

Cast

• Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle^[1]
• Sienna Miller as Taya Renae Kyle^[2]
• Max Charles as Colton Kyle^[3]
• Luke Grimes^[4]
• Kyle Gallner as Winston^[5]
• Sam Jaeger as Captain Martens^[6]
• Jake McDorman as Ryan Job^[7]
• Cory Hardrict^[8]
• Navid Negahban^[9]
• Eric Close^[9]
• Eric Ladin as Squirrel^[9]
• Joel Lambert^[10]
• Rey Gallegos^[9]
• Kevin Lacz as himself^[11]

Production

On May 24, 2012, it was announced Warner Bros. had acquired the rights to the book with Bradley Cooper set to produce and star in the film.^[1] In September 2012, David O. Russell stated that he was interested in directing the film.^[12] On May 2, 2013, it was announced that Steven Spielberg would direct the film.^[13] On August 5, 2013, Spielberg dropped out of directing the film.^[14] On August 21, 2013, it was reported that Clint Eastwood would instead direct the film.^[15] On March 14, 2014, Sienna Miller joined the cast of the film.^[2] On March 16, 2014, Kyle Gallner was cast.^[5] On March 18, 2014, Cory Hardrict was cast in the film.^[8] On March 20, 2014, Navid Negahban, Eric Close, Eric Ladin, Rey Gallegos and Jake McDorman also joined the cast, as did^[7][9] Luke Grimes and Sam Jaeger, on March 25, 2014.^[4][6] Kevin Lacz, a former Navy SEAL, is portraying himself and serving as a technical advisor.^[11] Another former Navy SEAL, Joel Lambert, also joined the film; he'll portray a Delta sniper.^[10] On June 3, Max Charles was added to the cast to portray Kyle's son, Colton Kyle.^[3]

Filming

Principal photography and production began on March 31, 2014 in Los Angeles;^[16] it was also partly shot in Morocco.^[17] On April 23, LA Times reported that 10 days of filming in an Afghan village was set to begin at the Blue Cloud Movie Ranch in the Santa Clarita area.^[18] On May 7, shooting of the film was spotted around El Centro.^[19][20] Later on May 14, Cooper was spotted filming some scenes in Culver City, California,^[21] and then he followed by shooting scenes again in Los Angeles on May 16.^[22] On May 30, Cooper and Miller were spotted during the filming of their characters' wedding scenes; they were filming aboard a yacht in Marina del Rey.^[23] On June 3, Cooper was spotted in the form of a Navy SEAL marksman aiming during the filming of some scenes at a Los Angeles shooting range.^[24]

Release

On August 12, 2014, it was announced that the film would receive a limited release on December 25, 2014, before opening wide on January 16, 2015.^[25]

Don't blame the turnovers, the penalties and the injuries that afflicted the visitors. Don't for one minute do what Alabama fans tend to do as a defense mechanism at moments like this. Don't suggest for a second that Alabama lost this football game all by its lonesome.

Sorry, SEC East. This post just isn’t for you.

Sure, we learned about Georgia (Todd Gurley can do anything), Florida (Treon Harris should start) and Kentucky (these Cats are on to something). We even found out, once and for all, that South Carolina is a playoff fraud.

But in the end, it was in the West that we learned the most.

1. You’ve got to Hail State: Welcome to the Mississippi State bandwagon, everyone. I’ve kept your seats warm for you this whole time. I understood how you were skeptical those first three games against nonconference cupcakes Southern Miss, UAB and South Alabama. I even got how you weren’t completely sold after the Bulldogs went on the road and beat LSU this past week. But if you aren’t ready to go all-in after the way State trounced Texas A&M, 48-31, on Saturday, there’s no helping you. Geoff Collins’ defense might be the best in the SEC. Did you see the way the front seven affected Kenny Hill and the Aggies’ passing game? Dak Prescott, meanwhile, is now a legitimate Heisman Trophy contender. I know you saw how he imposed his will against A&M and scored with his arm and his legs. With Prescott leading the charge and that defense behind him, there’s nothing stopping the Bulldogs from taking a shot at the division crown. It’s a radical idea, I know, but it’s time to start accepting this brave new world we live in.

2. A Rebel yell: Ole Miss didn’t play well for the better part of three quarters. Bo Wallace was doing his usual Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde thing, and the running game was practically nonexistent. The missed face mask call that resulted in a fumble return for a touchdown right before halftime seemed like the type of play that would decide the game. Ole Miss would fold under its own disappointment, and Alabama would come out in the second half and pull away. But then Ole Miss grew up. It wasn’t three quarters of maturation from the Rebs on Saturday night; it was three decades' worth. What Hugh Freeze has done is completely change the way Ole Miss thinks of itself. We saw that against Alabama. Wallace didn’t beat himself up after a few early mistakes; he got right back in the saddle. The defense, which fought valiantly with little help, never gave up in the 23-17 win. And when Ole Miss absolutely needed a big play, it got it -- twice. Wallace threw a game-winning touchdown pass, and Senquez Golson followed that up with a game-clinching interception. In doing so, Ole Miss proved it belonged. It proved, despite what we might think about football in the Magnolia State, these guys really can play.

3. Alabama isn’t dead: Take the emotions of the game out of it. Let’s think about this like the College Football Playoff selection committee might. Alabama lost to a team ranked in the top 15. It lost on the road. And it lost in the final few minutes. It lost a game in which its quarterback had a subpar performance; its most explosive weapon on offense, Kenyan Drake, was knocked out of the game in brutal fashion; and two starters, linebacker Denzel Devall and center Ryan Kelly, were sidelined with injuries. If there’s such a thing as a quality loss, this was it. It’s not quite Michigan State losing at Oregon, given that Sparty put itself out there scheduling that game, but it’s close. That’s little consolation to Alabama right now, but in a few months, it might mean something. The SEC West is a bear. Who really thinks a team is going to survive the division undefeated? If Alabama can get better play from its offensive line and secondary, what’s to say the Tide can’t get right back in it? A loss at Ole Miss isn’t going to be enough to keep them out.

4. Aggies allergic to defense: In the words of Kevin Sumlin: “What?!” He ought to go up to every defensive player in the locker room and ask that question in a much more hostile tone than he’s become accustomed to. Because the Aggies have no defense, that’s what. Mark Snyder was supposed to coax some improvement out of a defense that was the worst in the SEC the past season, but that hasn’t happened. Players are too often out of position. Tackles too often go missed. Quality execution is too often a foreign concept. The excuse of inexperience has grown tiresome. Go look at the past few recruiting classes -- there’s talent there. It’s time Texas A&M takes a long, hard look in the mirror and decides what it wants to be. Because as out-of-sorts as Hill and the offense looked against Mississippi State on Saturday, they weren’t the problem. You have Myles Garrett. You have Deshazor Everett. It’s time you have some semblance of a defense.

5. And then there’s Auburn: No one is talking about Auburn, and that’s probably the way Gus Malzahn wants it. But week after week, the Tigers keep winning. Forget that Nick Marshall hasn’t become Joe Montana. Forget that the win at Kansas State wasn’t pretty. Forget it because it doesn’t matter. Style points mean nothing. If Saturday showed us anything, it’s that surviving is all that matters. Alabama wishes it could have done that. So do Oregon and Oklahoma. Auburn, for all its supposed flaws, is undefeated and in line to move into the top 3 in the polls. If you don’t think Auburn is good enough to win the West again, I don’t know what to tell you. LSU might not be the team we’ve become accustomed to in recent years, but it’s still LSU. All Auburn did was beat the Bayou Bengals like they stole something. The 41-7 win might not grab the headlines like Ole Miss' and Mississippi State's wins, but it counts the same.

Users have called on Google to remove the game, which has been available to download since 29 July

Google is facing criticism for continuing to allow Android mobile users to download a game called “Bomb Gaza”, in which players are required to “drop bombs and avoid killing citizens”.

 

The app, which was uploaded on 29 July, has been installed up to 1,000 times and received at least one report as “inappropriate”. As of Monday evening, the game was no longer available on Google Play.
According to the game’s description and a series of screenshots, users gain points by controlling aircraft marked with Israeli flags as they drop bombs on cartoon Hamas militants.
It comes as more than 1,800 Palestinians have been killed in the ongoing Gaza conflict. Israel has confirmed that 64 of its soldiers have died in combat, while three civilians have been killed by cross-border shelling from Gaza.
Responding to the game in its review section online, Iqra Iqbal wrote that it was an “abomination”, adding: “This is a violation of human rights. My beloved brothers and sisters are dying in Gaza and some stupid ignoramus decides to make a game like this.
Others said it was a “messed up game” and “disgusting”, while Saadat Ali said: “Request all to scroll to the bottom and flag this app as inappropriate to Google.”


People also took to Twitter to voice their criticism of the game, and user Elliott Clarkson wrote: “Google Play's approval process? Non-existent. So games like Bomb Gaza get through.”
It is not the only game available on Google Play that involves bombing Gaza, including "Iron Dome", “Gaza Assault: Code Red” that tells users to “secure the region” by taking control of “an Israeli UAV equipped with powerful weapons in an attempt to secure the region”.


 A spokesman from Google said that the company does not comment on specific apps, but that it "remove[s] apps from Google Play that violate our policies."

 

Although this is not always the case you may have noticed this yourself, in some cases, however, the bubbles in a circular shape, although most of the times were not as well as they are trying to take a circular shape as much as possible. The reason lies in the phenomenon of "cohesion - cohesion" as these bubbles are only very thin layers of liquid material that originated them and their fractions, which together hold together because of attractive forces between them.

This arises from what is known as surface tension, which works to resist anything is trying to transit through it. Inside the bubble of air trapped there who is trying to get out, causing a strain on those layers of liquid "bubble wall" at home and abroad there are a greater quantity of air is also pressing on the other side of the surface of the bubble.

Now for the bubble the best way to resist those forces is to take the form most dense and compact, a circular shape, "remember not being able to break the eggs in case of pressing them vertically because of the principle of distribution of powers." At the present time scientists were able to work bubbles cubic and triangular several ways to study different surfaces from the perspective of engineering.

Now you can also respond to these questions .. why water droplets appear circular in shape, and why air bubbles appear in the water also circular in shape?

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When we refer to the theory of relativity, we actually refer to the special theory of relativity theories and both the public and deployed the world Albert Einstein in the early twentieth century, and for non-scientists, it is difficult to understand these theories despite the radical change that has occurred emitted as a result of physics.

     In an attempt to explain the theory simply stated that the man when Oancatin spend an hour doing something he loves and feels like a minute, but let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and feel like an hour

But the details of the theory, of course, is much more complicated, before the relative was believed to everyone that the time and place both fixed values ​​and angle of vision on the ground they are already as well, but Oancatin proved mathematics that perspective the absolute things is illusion and that the time and place can be exposed both to modify and change. It is possible to place that compresses or expands and can rate the passage of time, or at least that increases as well as in the event of exposure to the strong gravitational field or move too quickly.

Examples that illustrate the relative too many you can imagine that with you an hour you by placing them in orbit around the Earth to move too quickly compared to where you are on the ground now if still you can see the time will look smaller than they were when they were in your hands you will also notice that the clockwise spin slower The reason is a phenomenon called "Stretch time - time dilation" assume relative to time and place, both of which have one thing called spacetime, which is affected only by gravity and speed Amany that if there was a body under the influence of the forces of gravity is too large or moving too quickly, the time for this body will become slower compared to the other body is not exposed to the same forces. 

These may seem assumptions illogical and strange but it's actually true, as I mentioned examples that support in our lives many, for example, the Global Positioning System GPS depends on the specific measurements of time positioning on the earth revolves satellites of this system on the ground quickly 14 thousand kilometers at a great speed compared Bsratna on the ground and thus in the case has not set the hours of system engineers on the ground to compensate for the time difference caused by the speed of those sites will see us on the map, just 10 kilometers from the real site.

Can you think of some examples that support relative of the reality of life?

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To know the answer to this question you should know at the outset scientific definition of the word magnet which is simply any material or component of a magnetic field, which is in the range of electrons moving in the same direction, these electrons are always striving to be associated with other electrons. Any magnet has two poles, north and south of the area where the magnet comes out caused by electrons from the North Pole and enters once again across the Antarctic.

If we look at the iron as an example, we will find that it contains many of the electrons of others linked to it in any individual case and therefore magnets When approaching a piece of iron is attracted to him because of the forces of attraction between electrons, which seeks to link and of the magnetic field generated by.

You have to think about these questions .. why some materials are attracted to the magnet and the other is not attracted, and how to turn ordinary materials magnet?

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Have you ever wondered how one day one of you is the age of the earth? I think a controversial question was already over the past three centuries past, in 1654 one of the researchers who called John Lightfoot offered to answer this question and said that the earth was created in exactly nine o'clock on the morning of 26 October 4004 BC, based on his calculations on the Bible.

In the seventeenth century the world called the Comte de Buffon heating the sample similar in composition to the ground with making and based on the rate of low temperature by estimating the age of the Earth is about 75,000 a year.

In the nineteenth century, a scientist Lord Kelvin equations and using some of the age of the earth as much as 20 to 40 million years old, and this was the last attempts until it was discovered the radioactivity of the material and its use in determining the age of different materials by measuring the rate of decay. This is the method currently used to determine the age of rocks and fossils and archaeological samples and even samples that come by astronauts from the moon and Mars, and based on that method has been estimating the age of the Earth is about 4.54 billion years margin of error of less than 1%.

Now you can respond to this question .. How old is the universe?

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A group of researchers discovered that the blue color in the sky affects our feelings in a positive Vtgalna more responsive and adaptable to the challenges related to emotions, but you may ever wondered why the sky looks blue?

The short answer very lies in a phenomenon called dispersion means the spread of the light falling on an object in several different directions, for we receive the sun's rays must pass the atmosphere of the Earth, which consists of several layers as we all know and has a different set of gases and particles. Collide sunlight those obstacles are scattered here and there, and as we know, rays sun is made up of several different shades of each spectrum has a specific wavelength and thus has a specific color and features a nice blue color wavelength is relatively small and thus easily spread through those obstacles and scattered in the sky, causing those blue that we see .

But you may also be wondering what about the time of sunrise and sunset, where the color of the sky red or yellow or orange? In those times the sun be much farther away from the noon time and age and thus Vohatha travel longer distances to reach our eyes and this affects the advantage of short-wavelength blue color and allows us to see some other colors. Also worth noting that if you look directly to the sun will not only see the white around it for you in this case to consider the sun's rays directly you see in this moment all the spectra and colors combined.

Now you can respond to this question too .. Why do you look the ocean blue?

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In the Bosnia and Herzegovina town of Mostar, a local dive club instructor jumps from the Stari Most, or Old Bridge, to the Neretva River below. "Divers have been leaping from the bridge for hundreds of years," writes Chester Boyes, a member of our Your Shot community. "On this day, we were going to try it for ourselves. Here, our instructor shows us how it's done before we try our luck."
Noticing the size and energy of the crowd, Boyes quickly ran down to the river's edge, hoping to catch his instructor in flight. "I arrived just in time."
Boyes’s picture recently appeared in Your Shot’s Daily Dozen.
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Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Four Billion BCE: Battered Earth
Illustration Credit: Simone Marchi (SwRI), SSERVI, NASA Explanation: No place on Earth was safe. Four billion years ago, during the Hadean eon, our Solar System was a dangerous shooting gallery of large and dangerous rocks and ice chunks. Recent examination of lunar and Earth bombardment data indicate that the entire surface of the Earth underwent piecemeal upheavals, hiding our globe's ancient geologic history, and creating a battered world with no remaining familiar land masses. The rain of devastation made it difficult for any life to survive, although bacteria that could endure high temperatures had the best chance. Oceans thought to have formed during this epoch would boil away after particularly heavy impacts, only to reform again. The above artist's illustration depicts how Earth might have looked during this epoch, with circular impact features dotting the daylight side, and hot lava flows visible in the night. One billion years later, in a calmer Solar System, Earth's first supercontinent formed.

Destiny developer Bungie has released detailed stats from the game's beta tests.

The 4.6 million players who took part in the trials are said to have been involved in 88.4 million matches between them.


There were 164 million deaths during the beta and players racked up a combined total of 3.7 billion kills and 62 million revivals.

Destiny fans also created 6.5 million Guardians, 851,264 of which went to the moon.

Furthermore, the Destiny companion app for mobile devices was used by 777,000 players during the tests.


"We're running out of ways to thank you for what the Beta has meant to us. We hope you had fun," said community manager David 'DeeJ' Dague.

"Destiny will be a better game because you played it. Perhaps that's the best gesture we can manage - to deliver a game that's better than it was before your contribution.

"Today is the first day of August. Start the countdown on your last month of waiting. Next month, we'll all start playing Destiny for real."

The full game will debut as part of a white PS4 console bundle on September 9, along with a release on Xbox 360, Xbox One and PS3.

LOUISVILLE – Tiger Woods' latest injury "doesn't bode well right now" for his chances to play in the Ryder Cup, U.S. captain Tom Watson said Monday.
A day after withdrawing after eight holes in the last round of the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational with a bad back, Tiger Woods doesn't know if he'll be playing in this week's PGA Championship.
Woods flew back Sunday afternoon to his South Florida home instead of heading to Valhalla Golf Club for the year's last major championship after he aggravated his back and was forced to withdraw.
Woods is at his home resting.
"He has to rest and get treatment and assess later," said Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, in a text. "Pointless to make that decision (on playing) now without proper time to give him the best chance."

James Brady, the former White House press secretary who was badly wounded in the assassination attempt against President Ronald Reagan and later became an advocate for gun control, has died. He was 73.
His family announced Brady's death in a statement released Monday afternoon, saying he "passed away after a series of health issues."
"Jim touched the lives of so many and has been a wonderful husband, father, friend and role model," his family said. "We are enormously proud of Jim's remarkable accomplishments -- before he was shot on the fateful day in 1981 while serving at the side of President Ronald Reagan and in the days, months and years that followed.
"Jim Brady's zest for life was apparent to all who knew him, and despite his injuries and the pain he endured every day, he used his humor, wit and charm to bring smiles to others and make the world a better place. Over the years, Jim inspired so many people as he turned adversity into accomplishment."
Brady was left permanently disabled after being shot in the head on March 30, 1981, by John Hinckley, Jr., outside the Washington Hilton Hotel.
He afterward undertook a personal crusade for gun control, and lobbied for stricter handgun and assault-weapon laws.  A federal law requiring a background check on handgun buyers bears Brady's name, and The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is named in his honor.
"Since 1993, the law that bears Jim's name has kept guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals. An untold number of people are alive today who otherwise wouldn't be, thanks to Jim," President Obama said in a statement on Monday.
Although Brady returned to the White House only briefly, he was allowed to keep the title of presidential press secretary and his White House salary until Reagan left office in January 1989.
Brady, who spent much of the rest of his life in a wheelchair, died at a retirement community in Alexandria, Va., where he lived with his wife, Sarah.
"Jim was the personification of courage and perseverance. He and Sarah never gave up, and never stopped caring about the causes in which they believed," former first lady Nancy Reagan said in a statement.
Current White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, who was asked about Brady's legacy during Monday's briefing as reports of his death first crossed, said Brady "really revolutionized the job." He said even after he was wounded, he "showed his patriotism and commitment to the country" by being outspoken on an issue important to him.
The White House briefing room is also named after Brady.
Brady "leaves the kind of legacy ... that certainly this press secretary and all future press secretaries will aspire to live up to," Earnest said.
Of the four people stuck by gunfire on March 30, 1981, Brady was the most seriously wounded. A news clip of the shooting, replayed often on television, showed Brady sprawled on the ground as Secret Service agents hustled the wounded president into his limousine. Reagan was shot in one lung while a policeman and a Secret Service agent suffered lesser wounds.
Brady never regained full health. The shooting caused brain damage, partial paralysis, short-term memory impairment, slurred speech and constant pain.
The TV replays of the shooting did take a toll on Brady, however. He told The Associated Press years later that he relived the moment each time he saw it: "I want to take every bit of (that) film ... and put them in a cement incinerator, slosh them with gasoline and throw a lighted cigarette in." With remarkable courage, he endured a series of brain operations in the years after the shooting.
On Nov. 28, 1995, while he was in an oral surgeon's office, Brady's heart stopped beating and he was taken to a hospital. His wife, Sarah, credited the oral surgeon and his staff with saving Brady's life.
Brady was a strong Republican from an early age -- as a boy of 12 in Centralia, Ill., where he was born on Aug. 29, 1940, he distributed election literature for Dwight D. Eisenhower. In a long string of political jobs, Brady worked for some well-known bosses: Sen. Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, Sen. William V. Roth Jr. of Delaware, and John Connally, the former Texas governor who was running for president in 1979. When Connally dropped out, Brady joined Reagan's campaign as director of public affairs and research. He later joined the Reagan White House.
Previously, he had worked in the administrations of presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford: as special assistant to the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, as special assistant to the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and as an assistant to the defense secretary.
He was divorced from the former Sue Beh when, in 1973, he courted Sarah Jane Kemp, the daughter of an FBI agent who was working with him in a congressional office. Sarah Brady became involved in gun-control efforts in 1985, and later chaired Handgun Control Inc., but Brady took a few more years to join her, and Reagan did not endorse their efforts until 10 years after he was shot. Reagan's surprise endorsement -- he was a longtime National Rifle Association member and opponent of gun control laws -- began to turn the tide in Congress.
"They're not going to accuse him of being some bed-wetting liberal, no way can they do that," said Brady, who had become an active lobbyist for the bill.
The Brady law required a five-day wait and background check before a handgun could be sold. In November 1993, as President Bill Clinton signed the bill into law, Brady said: "Every once in a while you need to wake up and smell the propane. I needed to be hit in the head before I started hitting the bricks."
Clinton awarded Brady the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996. In 2000, the press briefing room at the White House was renamed in Brady's honor. The following year, Handgun Control Inc., was renamed the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence as a tribute to Brady and his wife.
Survivors include his wife, Sarah; a son, Scott; and a daughter, Melissa.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Police in the southern Spanish city of Seville have arrested three men who not only mistook a woman for the person they were meant to kidnap; they then decided to abduct and rob her anyway.

The woman was driving through Seville when the three suspects got into her vehicle and put a balaclava over her head.
Moments after, she heard one of them cry out: “You’ve got the wrong registration plate, this isn’t the girl.”
Rather than flee the scene, the kidnappers forced the woman to drive them to her home.
There they stole two of her mobile phones and €250 ($335) in cash before escaping in the woman’s car.
The victim immediately contacted Spain’s National Police force, who deployed a unit specializing in kidnappings and extortions to find the three men.
Officers were able to locate the suspects, recover the stolen belongings and break up the drug ring they were operating, Spanish daily 20 minutos reported.
The men are now facing several criminal charges.