Storm hits Washington DC area, thousands without power

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Powerful storms struck the mid-Atlantic states with hurricane-force gusts on Friday, knocking out power to more than one million people in the region and prompting the West Virginia governor to declare a statewide emergency.

The U.S. National Weather Service posted a severe thunderstorm watch for portions of the District of Columbia, eastern Kentucky, western Maryland, southwestern Pennsylvania, much of Virginia and parts of West Virginia.

The advisory, which warned of wind gusts up to 80 miles per hour (129 km per hour) and large hail, was to remain in effect until early Saturday morning.

Governor Ray Tomblin declared a state of emergency for all of West Virginia following storms that he said left an estimated 500,000 people without electricity in at least 27 counties.

The declaration allows "government resources to be devoted immediately to helping those in need and restoring power as soon as possible," he said in a statement.

Wind gusts clocked at speeds of up to 79 mph were reported in and around the U.S. capital, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes in the Washington, D.C., area.

WJLA Television reported one fatality in suburban Fairfax County, Virginia, after a tree fell on a car.

Bands of rain lashed the District of Columbia, and winds littered the streets with tree limbs as the fast-moving storms, which started in the Midwest after a day of severe heat, reached Washington and its suburbs late in the evening.

WTOP radio said more than 800,000 people in the Washington area were without power. Outages hit several Washington Metro stations, the Washington Post reported.

A flash-flood warning was issued in Fredrick County, Maryland, until 1:15 a.m. on Saturday.

WUSA television in Washington said "thousands of trees" and tree branches were likely downed by the storm.

Temperature records for the month of June were broken on Friday in Washington, Atlanta and Louisville, Kentucky. In all three cities, the temperature hit at least 104 F (40 C), according to the National Weather Service.

(Reporting by Mohammad Zargham, Eric Walsh, Additional reporting and writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Diana Abdallah)

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Jose Hernandez worked in farm fields with his Mexican-immigrant parents before becoming an astronaut. Iraq War veteran Julius Melendez is the third generation of his Puerto Rican family to serve in the military. And Tony Cardenas, the youngest of 11 children of immigrant farmers from Jalisco, Mexico, has served in the California Assembly and on the Los Angeles City Council.

Next year, all of them could be coming to Congress.

The 2012 election is shaping up as a big one in the House for Hispanics. There are currently 29 in the House ? including a Pacific islands delegate and Puerto Rico's resident commissioner ? according to the Congressional Research Service. That number is virtually guaranteed to increase by at least three or four seats because of once-a-decade redistricting that's created new Hispanic-majority districts in California and Texas. On top of that, Hispanics could win more seats in New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Florida.

"It's a watershed election for the Latino community," said Rep. Raul Grivalja, D-Ariz. "Our ability to influence decisions is evident and present and our ability to motivate voters is critical."

Hispanics are the fastest-growing group in the United States, increasing in population by more than 15 million between 2000 and 2010, according to U.S. Census data. They make up more than 16 percent of the U.S. population, far more than their share of roughly 5 percent of the seats in the House.

In comparison, there are 44 blacks in the House, including two delegates, according to the CRS, a record number. Blacks comprise roughly 10 percent of the House, compared to about 12 percent of the U.S. population. There are 10 Asian-Americans in the House, according to the CRS, including two delegates, roughly 2 percent of the chamber compared to roughly 5 percent of the U.S. population.

Both parties say Hispanic candidates are pivotal in this year's race for control of the House.

Democrats, who need a net gain of 25 seats to take a majority, say Hispanic candidates could make up a fifth or more of that margin. Republicans, challenging in fewer districts because of their large current majority, have recruited strong Hispanic candidates for a handful of districts seen as opportunities to snatch Democratic seats.

The competition for Hispanic votes in congressional races ? whatever the backgrounds of the candidates they're voting for ? mirrors the presidential contest. While Hispanics as a group have historically favored Democrats, Republican Mitt Romney has indicated he will compete vigorously with President Barack Obama for their support.

Democrats say maximizing Hispanic turnout is a key to electoral success. Republicans, in turn, say chipping away at Democrats' margins with the group is crucial.

Obama injected fresh energy into the competition when he announced he was easing enforcement of immigration laws for hundreds of thousands of younger illegal immigrants and offering them a chance to stay in the U.S. and work. That is expected to motivate more Hispanic voters to turn out for Democrats in November.

California is expected to be the center of Hispanic increases in Congress. Democrats are running two Hispanic candidates likely to win in the fall: Cardenas, a Los Angeles City councilman, and Juan Vargas, a state senator and son of Mexican immigrants. Republican David Valadao, a state assemblyman and son of Portuguese immigrants, is likely to win a GOP-leaning district.

In competitive seats in California, both parties are running Hispanic candidates against incumbents who are not.

Hernandez, the former astronaut, is a Democrat challenging first-term GOP Rep. Jeff Dunham in the newly drawn 10th Congressional District. As a child Hernandez helped his parents in the field and went on to study engineering in college. He makes his roots a big part of his appeal to voters, telling the story of how he watched the Apollo 17 launch on TV and his father laid out how he could become an astronaut himself.

"I was able to rise from the fields of California and touch the sky on the space shuttle Discovery as an astronaut," he said when he announced his campaign last October.

Democrats also have high hopes for Raul Ruiz, a medical doctor who grew up in a trailer with his Mexican farmworker parents and has received three graduate degrees from Harvard. Ruiz is running against GOP Rep. Mary Bono Mack, who has been in Congress since 1998. Democrats say the seat will be competitive this fall.

For the GOP, a prominent Hispanic candidate, Abel Maldonado, California's former lieutenant governor, is one of its best chances to pick off an incumbent. Maldonado is running against endangered Democratic Rep. Lois Capps, who has seen her district turn more conservative with redistricting. Maldonado's campaign ads highlight his background ? his parents are Mexican immigrant farmers who eventually built their own farming business ? and show him standing in a strawberry field and talking about what he learned from his father.

In one ad, as the camera pans over California farmland, Maldonado says: "It's time to teach Washington the lessons we've learned growing up."

Hispanic candidates are figuring prominently in other states where the Hispanic population has grown quickly.

In New Mexico, Michelle Lujan Grisham is favored to take the state's 1st Congressional District, after Rep. Martin Heinrich decided to run for the Senate. In Nevada, State Assembly Speaker John Oceguera is taking on GOP Rep. Joe Heck in one of the Democrats' top targeted races. If she wins a crowded primary for Arizona's new 9th Congressional District, Leah Campos Schandlbauer, a former CIA agent, could give Republicans a prominent Hispanic on the ballot in what's likely to be a fiercely contested race.

In Florida, which has an August primary, Democrats have two Hispanic candidates ? businesswoman Gloria Romero Roses, who was born in Colombia, and lawyer Joe Garcia, a Cuban-American ? in the race to take on Republican Rep. David Rivera, a Cuban-American whom Democrats see as vulnerable. Republicans have two prominent Puerto Rican candidates vying to take on former Rep. Alan Grayson in Florida's Orlando-area 9th Congressional District: John "Q'' Quinones, a county commissioner and former state representative, and Melendez, the Iraq War veteran and a member of the local school board. Both are appealing to the district's sizable Hispanic population.

There has been one big disappointment for Hispanic growth in the House in 2012: Texas. It was poised to have the most new Hispanic members, with the state adding four new seats in 2012 thanks to large Hispanic growth. But at most two of the new seats will be represented by Hispanic lawmakers. The state is also losing two long-time Hispanic lawmakers, Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, who is retiring, and Rep. Silvestre Reyes, who lost a primary to a non-Hispanic opponent, though Gonzalez is likely to be replaced by Joaquin Castro, a state lawmaker, Harvard Law graduate and second-generation Mexican-American.

Gonzalez, the chairman of the House Hispanic Caucus, said he still believes Hispanic influence is on the rise in the House, and he noted more Hispanic candidates running in competitive districts in 2012.

"Our power will only increase as time goes on," said Gonzalez. "Because of demographics, as goes the future of the Latino family, so goes the future of the United States."

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Community Invited to Free Screening of Film: Where Soldiers Come From

Jun 18, 2012

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology will show a? free screening of the documentary film, Where Soldiers Come From, for the community on Tuesday, September 18^th.

Scheduled for 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the University?s Auditorium, the free event will include a discussion with Heather Courtney, the filmmaker and driving force behind the movie.

From a snowy small town in Northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan and back, Where Soldiers Come From follows the four-year journey of childhood friends, forever changed by a faraway war.

A film about growing up, Where Soldiers Come From is an intimate look at the young men who fight the nation?s wars and the families and the Northern Michigan town they come from. Returning to her hometown, Director Heather Courtney gains extraordinary access following these young men as they grow and change from reckless teenagers, to soldiers looking for roadside bombs in Afghanistan, to 23-year-old veterans dealing with the silent war wounds of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and PTSD.

Where Soldiers Come From looks beyond the guns and policies of an ongoing war to tell a human story about family, friendship, and community and how they all change when young people go off to fight. The documentary won the 2012 Independent Spirit Truer Than Fiction Award, and is a co-production of Quincy Hill Films and ITVS, in association with American Documentary | POV. The film had its national broadcast premiere in Fall 2011 on PBS?s award-winning documentary series POV, and has been chosen as an encore broadcast in September 2012. To watch the trailer or order DVDs, please go to www.wheresoldierscomefrom.com."

The evening will begin with a networking reception from 5:30 to 6 p.m., followed by a screening of the movie beginning at 6 p.m. and then a Q&A with the filmmaker upon the conclusion of the film.

Seating is limited to 100 and an RSVP is required via Http://www.HarrisburgU.edu/RSVP For additional information on the event or to become a sponsor, email CONNECT@HarrisburgU.edu or call 717.901.5146.

Harrisburg University is located at 326 Market Street in Harrisburg. Free parking is available on the street. Additional parking is available in the Harrisburg Parking Authority operated garage accessible via Fourth Street. Cost for parking in the garage is $5.00 for 0-2 hours. Kiosk for parking accepts cash only. More information on parking rates and directions to the University are found online at http://www.harrisburgu.net/campuslife/directions.php#parking

You can literally take planes, trains and automobiles to the event. The University's location at 326 Market Street in downtown Harrisburg is near Interstates 83 and 81 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike, making it an easy drive to the University from any of Pennsylvania?s major cities. And it's only a two-hour drive from the University to Baltimore, Washington, DC or Philadelphia. The Amtrak Passenger Train Station and Greyhound Bus Station are one block from our location. And the Harrisburg International Airport is only nine miles from the University. http://www.harrisburgu.edu/campuslife/directions.php

Founded in 2001 to address Central Pennsylvania's need for increased opportunities leading to careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, Harrisburg University offers 24 undergraduate and 35 graduate programs. As a private University serving the public good, Harrisburg University remains the only STEM-focused comprehensive university located between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.For more information on the University's demand-driven undergraduate, graduate and certificate programs in applied science and technology fields, call 717.901.5146 or email, connect@HarrisburgU.edu

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Photos of the endangered Amur, or Siberian tiger, have been taken for the first time by a camera trap in a nature reserve in northeast China, suggesting that the cats are expanding their range south from Russia where they are more plentiful.

The two photos were taken in April in the Wangqing Nature Reserve in northeast China's Changbai Mountains. The tiger likely came from Hunchun, close to the Russian border, where multiple images of Siberian tigers were taken in March. Several Amur leopards, which are even more endangered, were also spotted at that time in the Hunchun reserve.

Although footprints of the Amur tiger have been discovered many times in the Wangqing area since 2008, this is the first time that a camera trap set up in the reserve has captured photos of the rare species. Experts will try to identify the individual tiger photographed by comparing it with the Hunchun photos, according to a statement from the conservation organization WWF, which helped set up the cameras.

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The WWF and other groups are working together to set up automatic infrared cameras to build the monitoring platform to cover areas of Amur tiger habitat elsewhere in the Changbai and nearby Wanda mountains.

"Data collected through this technology will help greatly in monitoring the Amur tiger population and its distribution," said Jiang Jinsong, Jilin Forestry Department's tiger and leopard program officer. "It would also help us determine whether there are settled individuals or breeding families, and therefore support conservation measures."

Amur tigers were once widespread in northeast China, but have declined due to habitat degradation and fragmentation, poaching and a small prey base. Estimates put the current wild Amur tiger population in northeast China, mostly confined to the Changbai Mountains in Jilin province and the Wanda mountains in Heilongjian province, at about 18 to 24 individuals. About 430 to 500 live in the forests to the north in Russia.

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Mayor insists proposal won?t decriminalize pot as aldermen raise concerns

BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com June 19, 2012 11:54AM

Chicago City Council Aldermen James Balcer (11th), chairman of the Committee on Public Safety, has expressed reservations about Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. He was non-commital on the proposal Tuesday, June 19, two days before a planned committee hearing. | Brian Jackson~Sun-Times

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Under fire from aldermen, a former police superintendent and a former federal drug czar, Mayor Rahm Emanuel insisted Tuesday that he?s not trying to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, just ?dealing with it in a different way? that frees police officers to fight more important crimes.

?It?s not decriminalization. It?s dealing with it in a different way. Different penalty. Very different? than decriminalization, the mayor said of the hot-button ordinance that will be considered by a City Council committee Thursday.

?I want to make sure our children get a clear and unambiguous message as it relates to drug use. It is wrong, and it is dangerous.?

To appease squeamish aldermen, Emanuel said he plans to earmark revenue from his proposal to educate school children on the dangers of drug and tobacco use. The money would come from the $100-to-$500 tickets issued to people caught using 15 grams or less or marijuana.

Peter Bensinger, former head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) under former Presidents Jerry Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, was not appeased, either by the mayor?s financial gesture or his game of semantics.

Asked if the mayor?s plan to issue pot tickets was the very definition of decriminalization, Bensinger said, ?It sounds like it. You?re getting a traffic ticket, and that?s all you get. How many tickets can you get ? three or five? And what?s gonna prevent the person from getting behind the wheel of an automobile when we know marijuana use doubles the risk of a crash.?

Bensinger said what?s wrong with the mayor?s plan is that it lacks a disincentive.

?There?s a value in not having thousands of arrests and no conviction. But, I would still have an arrest made that could be expunged if they stay clean for six months,? he said.

?I want them drug-tested. If you just issue tickets and it?s nothing more, the person has no disincentive to discontinue using.?

Other legal experts contacted by the Sun-Times universally said that the mayor was wrong ? his plan would be decriminalizing? pot, but they all thought it was a good idea.

Former Criminal Court Judge Michael Bolan said he used to have to waste too much time and resources on cases involving small amounts of drugs, which were often tossed.

?This is an absolute waste of our taxpayers? money: you criminalize a whole segment of our society unnecessarily, same as at the turn of the century for alcohol,? Bolan said. ?It goes in the category of parking tickets. It?s quasi-criminal. This is not even a petty offense. He doesn?t want that word [de-criminalize] attached to it. He?s looking to save money and make money.?

Former Chicago Police Supt. Phil Cline questioned how police officers will execute the ticketing plan.

?What do you do with the marijuana? The officer still has to come off the street to inventory it. Does the officer keep it until their tour is over, then go into the station?? Cline said.

?Are they gonna test the marijuana before you go to the hearing to make sure it really is marijuana? If they don?t test it, the person is gonna say it was oregano and get off. All those questions have to be answered. It?s not as easy as writing tickets.?

The mayor?s plan has put the City Council on the hot seat ? and Ald. Edward M. Burke (14th)?who raised questions Monday ? isn?t the only one squirming.

?There?s good arguments with the issue of releasing more policemen with the fine. But, it?s been a slippery slope, too,? said Public Safety Committee Chairman Jim Balcer (11th), whose committee will hold a hearing on the mayor?s ordinance at 10 a.m. Thursday.

?Could this lead to legalizing [marijuana]? Could it lead to more problems than we have with it ? health issues, too? Let?s be honest. Smoking isn?t good for your health. Pot may be worse.?

Former Police Committee Chairman Anthony Beale (9th), said he, too, has questions about enforcement.

?How do you determine the amount [of pot]? If there?s a violation or ticket, how?s it gonna be collected? Is it just gonna be a ticket and people just walk away? It?s like jaywalking. How do you enforce jaywalking?? Beale said.

With blacks and Hispanics bearing the brunt of marijuana arrests over the last decade, Ald. Lona Lane (18th) said she likes the idea of issuing tickets instead of creating a criminal record that could hurt a young person?s ability to get a job or rent an apartment.

But, she said, ?What if they don?t pay the tickets? Then what? I?ll feel like we?re not doing our job. They do need to be held accountable. And who?s to say someone who gets a fine has a job? A lot of these teenagers [who] get caught up in a lot of mess, they don?t even work. So, how do we get the money? Does it fall back on parents or deaf ears??

Ald. Tim Cullerton (38th) said he is not comfortable with the idea of issuing $100-to-$500 tickets to those caught with 15 grams or less of marijuana.

?I?d like to see the people who smoke grass go out and cut the grass at vacant buildings. Do some physical community service work that?s meaningful, instead of just getting off with a minor fine,? Cullerton said.

?Make ?em think. Make ?em work and do some good for the community. ... These vacant properties need to be cleaned up.?

Emanuel said he expects aldermen to ask tough questions because he did, too.

?I got comfortable with this because I think this is the right thing to do for a number of reasons. It does not undermine what we?re trying to do on fighting crime,? the mayor said.

?In fact, it more focuses us on the hard-core elements that are affecting neighborhoods in a way that I don?t think is right and makes it intolerable for our children and families. And I want police officers fighting the crimes that need to be fought.?

The Chicago Sun-Times reported last year that nine out of ten low-level marijuana cases end up being dismissed.

?That uses court time, police time, resources ? all the time that you lose [when you] could be ? fighting the big drug dealers and the gang-bangers. It?s lost opportunity as much as where your resources go,? the mayor said.

Contributing: Abdon M. Pallasch

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Omaha ready for 38,000 sports fans

An upwards of 24,000 baseball fans are filling up downtown Omaha this week for the College World Series. Starting Monday, an estimated 14,000 additional fans will pour into the area for the start of the 2012 Olympic Swim Trials.

"We are not really anticipating a major issue, but we are preparing for it," Chief Operating Officer for the 2012 Olympic Swim Trials Harold Cliff said.

On Monday, TD Ameritrade will host the second championship game of the College World Series. Over at the CenturyLink Center, it's the first night of the Olympic Swim Trials. That means an estimated 38,000 people in downtown Omaha.

"We have a plan in place that has worked in the past and we feel prepared to handle that volume," Omaha Police Officer Todd Schmaderer said.

That plan includes extra law enforcement as well as alternative parking options. Both Mutual of Omaha and Midtown Crossing will offer parking and shuttle services for fans attending the Swim Trials.

Mutual of Omaha employee parking lots on Dodge Street between 36th Street to 38th Street will open for Swim Trials parking. Fans with a Swim Trials ticket can park and ride a shuttle bus to CenturyLink Center for free. Six shuttles will run continuously from Mutual of Omaha to the arena from 5 to 7 p.m., and return to Mutual from 8 to 10 p.m.

Midtown Crossing shuttle service information is available online.

Metro offers 12 routes that provide service within walking distance of TD Ameritrade Park and CenturyLink Center Omaha. More information can be found at OMetro.com.

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95% Moonrise Kingdom

Wes Anderson is back. He is once again collecting many of his usual suspects, most prominently Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman, but also welcomes huge names new to his ensemble: It's a pleasure to see Ed Norton, Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Harvey Keitel on the same screen. Here, they are all in minor roles while the focus is on two teenage runaways, a boy scout and a depressed girl. The two adorable newcomers are not far behind the big names' performances. The hunt for the kids all across a tiny New England island shows all the trademarks director Anderson is loved for: perfectly arranged frames, doll house camera angles, theater plays with much love for detail, interactive maps, read-out letters and of course plenty of quirky characters. Like in his former films, the adults all have issues, but Anderson keeps a certain innocence and nostalgia for his younger characters amidst all the chaos, almost making this an Astrid Lindgren adventure (just including dead dogs, sea storms and Noah's ark). It may not be Anderson's funniest film, some of his tricks have been used to often by now to be entirely surprising. But it most certainly is his sweetest and most positive movie to date. Fans will once again be pleased, people who never got the hype still won't.

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'Madagascar 3' stays on top of box office

This film image released by DreamWorks Animation shows, Gloria the Hippo, voiced by Jada Pinkett Smith, from left, Alex the Lion, voiced by Ben Stiller, Melman the Giraffe, voiced by David Schwimmer, and Marty the Zebra, voiced by Chris Rock in a scene from "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted." (AP Photo/DreamWorks Animation - Paramount Pictures)

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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Wisecracking zoo animals held off '80s rockers and overgrown adolescents to maintain the top spot at the box office this past weekend.

The animated family comedy "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted" from Paramount and DreamWorks Animation made just more than $34 million in its second weekend in theaters for a total of $119 million, according to final studio figures Monday. It topped newcomers "Rock of Ages," the Warner Bros. musical which debuted with $14.4 million, and "That's My Boy," an Adam Sandler comedy from Columbia Pictures, which opened with $13.5 million.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:

1. "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted," Paramount/DreamWorks Animation, $34,055,474, 4263 locations, $7,989 average, $119,006,006, two weeks.

2. "Prometheus," Fox, $20,712,174, 3442 locations, $6,017 average, $89,370,301, two weeks.

3. "Rock of Ages," Warner Bros., $14,437,269, 3470 locations, $4,161 average, $14,437,269, one week.

4. "That's My Boy," Sony, $13,453,714, 3030 locations, $4,440 average, $13,453,714, one week.

5. "Snow White & the Huntsman," Universal, $13,265,635, 3701 locations, $3,584 average, $122,062,670, three weeks.

6. "Men in Black 3," Sony, $10,047,575, 3135 locations, $3,205 average, $152,726,558, four weeks.

7. "The Avengers," Disney, $8,905,467, 2582 locations, $3,449 average, $586,794,371, seven weeks.

8. "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," Fox Searchlight, $2,283,218, 1184 locations, $1,928 average, $35,216,713, seven weeks.

9. "Moonrise Kingdom," Focus Features, $2,237,726, 178 locations, $12,571 average, $6,839,462, four weeks.

10. "Battleship," Universal, $1,284,150, 942 locations, $1,363 average, $62,151,820, five weeks.

11. "What to Expect When You're Expecting," Lionsgate, $1,203,381, 1216 locations, $990 average, $38,639,382.

12. "The Dictator," Paramount, $1,109,454, 1119 locations, $991 average, $57,677,717, five weeks.

13. "The Hunger Games," Lionsgate, $852,832, 593 locations, $1,438 average, $401,766,452, 13 weeks.

14. "Dark Shadows," Warner Bros., $623,388, 680 locations, $917 average, $75,156,016, six weeks.

15. "Bernie," Millennium Entertainment, $618,746, 300 locations, $2,062 average, $5,870,616, eight weeks.

16. "For Greater Glory," ARC Entertainment, $545,121, 380 locations, $1,435 average, $4,542,559, three weeks.

17. "The Intouchables," Weinstein Co., $357,028, 77 locations, $4,637 average, $1,552,645, four weeks.

18. "Safety Not Guaranteed," FilmDistrict, $296,494, 47 locations, $6,308 average, $439,999, two weeks.

19. "Hysteria," Sony Pictures Classics, $284,377, 218 locations, $1,304 average, $1,059,488, five weeks.

20. "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax," Universal, $260,380, 277 locations, $940 average, $212,490,250, 16 weeks.

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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.

Associated Press

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Suu Kyi meets up with U2's 'star-struck' Bono

Irish singer and activist Bono and Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, pose for the media after attending a conference of the Oslo Forum at the Losby Gods resort, about 13 kilometers (8 miles) east of Oslo, Monday, June 18, 2012. The Oslo Forum is an international network of armed conflict mediation practitioners. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Irish singer and activist Bono and Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, pose for the media after attending a conference of the Oslo Forum at the Losby Gods resort, about 13 kilometers (8 miles) east of Oslo, Monday, June 18, 2012. The Oslo Forum is an international network of armed conflict mediation practitioners. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

From left, Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Irish singer and activist Bono pose for the media after they attending a conference of the Oslo Forum at the Losby Gods resort, about 13 kilometers (8 miles) east of Oslo, Monday, June 18, 2012. The Oslo Forum is a n international network of armed conflict mediation practitioners. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, speaks during a news conference alongside Irish singer and activist Bono after attending a conference of the Oslo Forum at the Losby Gods resort, about 13 kilometers (8 miles) east of Oslo, Monday, June 18, 2012. The Oslo Forum is an international network of armed conflict mediation practitioners. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

DUBLIN (AP) ? Aung San Suu Kyi and Bono joined forces Monday as the Myanmar democracy activist's European tour moved from the home of the Nobel Peace Prize to the land of U2.

The pair spent more than an hour answering questions at an Oslo conference of peace mediators at the end of Suu Kyi's four-day visit to Norway. Then they jetted together to the Irish capital, Dublin, for an evening concert in her honor.

Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore and a trio of children, two of them Burmese nationals, offered Suu Kyi flowers as she arrived at Dublin Airport. Several thousands excited well-wishers, ranging from Irish glitterati to virtually Ireland's entire Burmese community, awaited her arrival at a dockside Dublin theater.

Gilmore called the Dublin celebrations, involving actress Vanessa Redgrave and the Riverdance troupe, "a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate the warmth and affection in which this remarkable and courageous woman is rightly held by the Irish people."

"I hope that the recent positive developments in Burma, including Ms. Suu Kyi's election, herald the real beginning of a new era of peace, democracy and human rights," Gilmore said.

Bono, who wrote the 2000 hit "Walk On" in praise of Suu Kyi's long exile from her family and dedicated U2's 2009 world tour to her, had never met her before. He admitted he found her a wee bit intimidating.

"I'm star-struck ... but I'm managing to get over it," said the 52-year-old Bono, who donned his trademark yellow-tinted wraparound glasses and high-heeled boots.

Suu Kyi, in turn, said Bono had hit the right note with "Walk On," which was written from the point of view of her husband Michael Aris. Myanmar's military rulers refused to let him see his wife from 1995 to his death from cancer in 1999.

"I like that song, because it's very close to how I feel, that it's up to you to carry on," said Suu Kyi, who turns 67 on Tuesday. "It's good if you have supporters, it's good if you have people who are sympathetic and understanding. But in the end, it's your own two legs that have to carry you on."

In Norway, Suu Kyi gave two acceptance speeches for awards she received long ago ? the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 and the Rafto Prize in 1990 ? and was to embrace more time-delayed honors in Dublin.

At the Dublin concert, called "Electric Burma," Bono is scheduled to unveil Amnesty International's top prize, the Ambassador of Conscience, an award for Suu Kyi that the singer announced at a Dublin U2 concert in 2009. Suu Kyi was finally released from house arrest the following year.

Also at the Dublin concert, Suu Kyi is to receive an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin. Afterward at an outdoor ceremony, she's to sign the roll of honor proclaiming her a Freewoman of the City of Dublin, an honorific title bestowed in her absence in 1999.

Amnesty officials also plan to give her a birthday cake and lead the crowd in a chorus of "Harry Birthday."

Bono said Suu Kyi was exceptionally philosophical and spiritual for a politician. And he expressed admiration over how she had stuck to a position of nonviolence throughout her 15 years in detention.

"It's really her nonviolent position that I find so impressive, because perhaps I find it hard to fathom," he said, adding: "I think she will be remembered for that kind of spiritual insight really, as much as the sort of nitty-gritty of her politics, because she's a tough customer, too."

Suu Kyi spent much of her final hours in Oslo focused on that nitty-gritty: the challenge of coaxing Myanmar's military-controlled government toward democracy without alienating militants from warring ethnic groups who demand immediate change.

Her party, the National League for Democracy, won elections in 1990 only to see the result annulled. It boycotted the next elections in 2010, and today has just entered Myanmar's legislature as a small opposition force, with Suu Kyi having won a seat in Parliament.

Changing the country's laws of government requires more than 75 percent support in the legislature ? and army members represent a blocking 25 percent of votes.

"We will need at least one army representative to vote for amendments. So we have to work with the army. ... We don't want to be in conflict with them, we want to achieve a consensus," Suu Kyi said in response to a question from The Associated Press.

Earlier, she told the audience of international conflict mediators that building unity among Myanmar's many warring ethnic groups meant she must remain open to talking with those still committed to violence.

Suu Kyi said she wouldn't "disinherit or disown" militant groups based along Myanmar's borders in Thailand and Bangladesh "because we share the same goals" of creating a proper democracy that respects minority rights in Myanmar. Nor, she said, could she promise them that such goals could be achieved without violent rebellion ? but they had both a moral and practical obligation to try.

She said her National League for Democracy could "not let go of our conviction that change could be brought about through peaceful means, and in the long run that would be better.

"The wounds that are opened up by violent conflict take a long time to heal," she said. "And while the peaceful way might take longer, in the end there are fewer wounds to be healed."

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Associated Press writer David MacDougall in Oslo, Norway, contributed to this report.

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Associated Press

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