he
remained in the United States and gained legal residency in 1967
-- by lying about when he came to the country, saying it was 1965. In
other words, an illegal aliens -- in Antonin Scalia's words "a virtual bank robber."

These facts are at variance with what Rubio long has claimed as his
background -- though he himself, obviously, is an American citizen (I
won't even demand the long-form certificate), he embellished his
family's history -- even more than usual -- and made it a political tool for his ascension.

But the most telling aspect of this is how Marco Rubio's story would
play out were his family not historically from Cuba, but Mexico. You
know, like Mitt Romney's family.

Rupert Murdoch has apparently lost a great deal of his power of memory, but nature has compensated bycongressman....

But perhaps the most influential person on the list is here, Sara Blakely. The inventor of the Spanx. Give it up.

No one, no one has done more to control women's bodies, except maybe Cardinal Dolan.
Cardinal, congratulations, sir, you are afeminist icon.

Scruffy Rubin and Snickers Carter had a wedding many couples dream of, featuring 100 guests, a wedding cake, open bar, receptionist and even security. But while the newlyweds are reportedly happy together, that are not actually human.
The Desert Sun reports that actual humans Ernie Rubin and Ann Carter got together to throw Scruffy and Snickers a $5,000 wedding at the Palm Desert Resort Country Club in Palm Desert, Calif., on Sunday.

Ariane Friedrich, a German high jumper expected to contend for a medal at the upcoming Summer Olympics, posted


a
fundraiser for an anti-illegal immigration group in Texas. He ridicules
politicians who sought the probe and displayed contempt toward federal
authorities who were — and are still — investigating him on two fronts...

In the September 2009 speech in Houston, Arpaio boasted that he arrested hundreds of illegal immigrants
after politicians and federal investigators started to pick apart his
patrols. He said he wouldn't cooperate with the inquiry, but said he
would tone down the patrols — if he was proven wrong.

"But
I'm not. After they went after me, we arrested 500 more just for
spite," the self-proclaimed "America's toughest sheriff" said, pausing
for laughter and applause.

It will be a sweet day when this two-bit charlatan and petty dictator is indicted.

Last week President Obama made a speech which included a political line that had the rare qualitydespair on course to make Nicolas Sarkozy the first president to lose a fight for re-election in more than 30 years.

In a contest driven
as much by a dislike of Sarkozy's showy style and his failure to bring
down unemployment as by policy differences, Sarkozy and his Socialist
rival Francois Hollande are pegged to beat eight other candidates to go through to a May 6 runoff, where polls give Hollande a double-digit lead.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

And yet it's Obama the right is always calling presumptuous (as in, how dare he be black):

Former Governor Mitt Romney is already offering top donors access to a
special "Presidential Inaugural retreat," planned on the assumption
that he will be elected president this November.

The offer, in a
fundraising email circulated by a top Georgia supporter to fellow
Republicans and obtained


by BuzzFeed, is one of several goodies offered
to those who contribute more than $50,000 to the joint fundraising
committee known as "Romney Victory," a program whose outlines were first reported by POLITICO.

Those
donors will be named "Founding Members" of Romney Victory and invited
to a California retreat with Romney and offered "yet to be determined
access at the Republican National Convention in Tampa in August."

Souless Robots have an easier time selling themselves than mere humans.

Funny how that always seems to happen and it seems not to register with our overlords who are determined to crush us:

...turns out that Wisconsin was the only state in the entire country to lose
jobs in 2011, while Illinois had better than average growth. The
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia also predicted strong economic
growth in Illinois, while placing Wisconsinother
"trouble" at the time but nobody knows exactly what it was. What's new
is the dirty cover up in Texas political circles going back years. There
are obviously people who know the truth. Certainly George W Bush does.
But they're not telling. Yet.

Yet more evidence of the moral authority the Vatican (and its especially conservative Opus Die order) has in having hissy-fits about ladies having some control over lady-parts:

Why a known-mobster like De Pedis is buried on the grounds of a Vatican
church has been the object of much speculation since 1997, when a
church maid revealed the tomb’s existence to an inquisitive journalist.
The Vatican was always cagey about why the mobster was buried in one of
its churches, and ultimately, the church’s silence spurred countless
conspiracy theories. Now, thanks to shocking Vatican letters leaked


the idea that gay people can be converted to heterosexuality
has funded interns for an estimated 20 MPs, including some who are now
ministers in the coalition government.

The Christian Action Research and Education charity (Care) has
provided staff to the parliamentary offices of Caroline Spelman,
Alistair Burt and Steve Webb. In 2009 it sponsored a London conference
about homosexuality and Christianity which included sessions on
"mentoring the sexually broken".

Looks like Michele and Marcus Bachmann have a reason to inspect the Crown Jewels this Summer.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

A few months ago I stated that Mitt Romney's strategy was to lie so much and so often that by the time the general election started he will be perceived as such a soulless empty suit that all the lying ends up allowing people to think he's almostWorld phone-hacking scandal, is poised to bring the battle for legal redress across the Atlantic and to the doorstep of Rupert Murdoch's media empire...

Details remain sketchy about precisely what Lewis intends to do in
the US, but the Guardian has learned that he will be having legal
discussions that could lead to several lawsuits being lodged with the
New York courts. The direct involvement of the US judicial system in
allegations of illegal activity by News Corp employees would bring the
scandal dramatically closer to Murdoch's adopted home.

Looks like Rupert and Roger are going to have a rough weekend. Thank goodness James Murdoch has some free time now so he'll be available for stress abuse. Hope he likes gimp-suits.

Newt Gingrich is trying to position himself as the challenger to Mitt Romney — or


general public.

Wow, no sexism there.

Oh, and there's men and there's "other people". So ladies at least you are technically people to Herman Cain...aka potential love interests.

Mississippi has the highest teen birthrate in the nation while New Hampshire has the lowest, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday, following up on a report that found the incidence of pregnancy among U.S. teens was falling.
Mississippi reported 55 births per 1,000 teens aged 15 to 19 in 2010, more than 60 percent above the U.S. average, according to state data released on Tuesday. New Hampshire's rate was less half the national average at 15.7 births for the same age group.
Teen birth rates were higher in the South and Southwest and lower in the Northeast and Upper Midwest, theduring the spinning process and thus release individual fibers from the sliver due to the high-speed rotation of the opening roller. The acceleration of the single fibers occurs hereby by means of the friction forces generated by the combing means, which in time results in wear of the combing means.
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German published patent application DE 41 01 680 a non-generic combing ring is known, to which two coatings are applied, one after the other, which are both wear-resistant. The first coating consists preferably of tungsten carbide. The second coating consists preferably of chrome or titanium nitride, which is particularly applied in the PVD process and has a thickness of between 5 and 35 μm. PVD is the abbreviation for the commonly known expression Physical Vapour Deposition, a process which is, for example applied in the form of ion coating. The bottom coating is somewhat rougher, comprising microscopic valleys and peaks. The top coating is applied in such a way that it only thinly covers the peaks of the lower coating, while filling out the valleys to a greatand we've seen three different quarterbacks—and two starters—from the "Cradle of Quarterbacks" this season. When senior QB Rob Henry wasn't performing to expectations, Hazell wasn't afraid to change things up with freshman Danny Etling.

Unfortunately, neither of these quarterbacks have as many touchdown passes as they do interceptions (five touchdowns and six interceptions for Etling, four TDs and six picks for Henry), but Hazell gets credit for his effort.

Grade: D+

Brady Hoke

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Michigan's Brady Hoke has committed the cardinal sin of head coaching—failing to live up to expectations.

There is no greater enemy a coach faces than the expectations the fanbase, the pundits and the specter of history places on him. At a program like Michigan, with its rabid fans, critical local and national media and storied 134-year


a few Big Ten titles and BCS games over the years.

But what has he done for us lately? Not much.

With the exception of a tie for second in 2009, Ferentz hasn't led Iowa to a Big Ten finish higher than fourth since 2005. Those few Big Ten titles we mentioned were a pair of shared titles back in 2002 and 2004. Ferentz also has an average loss total of 5.3 games per season while at Iowa—a number he may match again this season.

A perfectly unsurprising and average performance from Ferentz in 2013 deserves a perfectly unsurprising and average grade.

Grade: C

Kevin Wilson

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Kevin Wilson is in his third season as Indiana's head coach, and we dare say we're starting to see some movement from the Hoosiersgives up a whopping 534.8 yards of offense per game, a number so bad only New Mexico State is worse nationally.

If Wilson can fix the defense, Indiana might have a pretty solid team, but he hasn't done that yet, so we have to grade him on what he's accomplished.

Grade: C

Bo Pelini

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Nebraska's Bo Pelini has probably had the most turbulent season of any Big Ten coach in 2013. First came the epic collapse against UCLA. That was immediately followed by the release of a rant of Pelini's, secretly recorded several years ago but only released when it seemed as if it would do the most damage.

Through all of that, Pelini managed to keep his head—a remarkable feat, given Pelini's demeanor—and guide the Cornhuskers to seven


wins in 10 games.

The loss to Michigan State all but ended Nebraska's Big Ten title hopes, and the Cornhuskers are still facing the prospect of losing at least four games again this season. What's so bad about four losses in a season? Nothing, except for the fact that Nebraska has never done any better with Bo Pelini as head coach.

Sooner or later, Pelini is going to have to prove he can do better than 9-4 or 10-4 each and every year. Four losses won't win you many Coach of the Year awards, and your team won't be winning many championships along the way, either. In essence, Pelini is another coach who guided his team to a middling performance.

Pelini does, however, get a few bonus points for managing tomaintained a level of poise and pride once thought impossible, and O'Brien deserves much of the credit.

Grade: B-

Gary Andersen

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Gary Andersen has quietly been guiding one of the nation's true stealth teams this season. What has kept Wisconsin under the radar screen of pollsters, pundits and the BCS? The early loss to Ohio State and the phantom loss to Arizona State.

Wisconsin had the misfortune to play Ohio State—in what we all knew was essentially the Leaders Division's championship game—way back on September 28. This came two weeks after a Pac-12 officiating crew badly botched the end of the Wisconsin-Arizona State game in such a manner that it clearly cost Wisconsin a chance for a short, chip-shot field goal to win.

Wisconsin has won every other game


this season, most by a very wide margin and all by at least two scores.

Andersen, in his first season as Wisconsin's head coach, has his program right where it needs to be—maybe not in terms of winning a conference or national title in 2013, but the Badgers will definitely be in the conversation come 2014 and beyond.

Grade: B

Jerry Kill

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Minnesota, not really viewed as a Big Ten contender, is starting to change a few minds around the conference. And who else but the indefatigable Jerry Kill could do it?

Kill, while battling epileptic seizures that have kept him off the sidelines at times, has been slowly building his Gophers to compete with the very best the conference has to offer. While Minnesota isn't quite there yet,happier. It probably has something to do with their single-mindedness when it comes to Michigan or the perceived snub by the BCS rankings this season, but either way, the Buckeyes fans' cup never seems to runneth over.

Still, 22 straight wins is something pretty special, and Urban Meyer deserves the lion's share of the credit. He's restored some sense of honor to a program left sullied by the slimy hands of Jim Tressel. He's returned Ohio State to the ranks of the nation's elite after a 6-7 record in 2011. He has, essentially, made Buckeye nation whole again.

If only he could find a way to get his team into the BCS National Championship picture on its own merits...

Unfortunately, that won't happen this season. Ohio State just hasn't been dominant


personal treachery or shame can be concealed. But when the world and everything in it becomes as transparent as glass and there are no more secrets, people find new ways to gain vengeance and commit crime, and Hiram Patterson finds new ways to keep his Machiavellian schemes secret."
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Vettel on Sunday claimed his third win this year and the 29th of his career as well as his first for Red Bull in Canada with the biggest margin of the season, opening up as he opened up a yawning 36-point lead in the drivers’ championship.

Horner had nothing but praise for the way he has shrugged off tyre frustrations this year and said that all he was seeing was an improvement in form.

There was evidence, too, that Vettel may be willing to sacrifice some of his youthful exuberance, like chasing the fastest lap in the closing stages, for overall success, he added.

“Some things don’t surprise us, like


maximum out of ourselves and the drivers at each individual event,” he said.

“While the points look healthy at the moment, Fernando (Alonso) put in another strong race and you cannot afford for any complacency. The margins can rapidly be eroded.”

Two-time champion Spaniard Alonso of Ferrari finished second in the race ahead of battling Briton Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes.

After the race, it was announced that a marshal had died following an accident at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

The marshal was helping to retrieve Mexican Esteban Gutierrez’s crashed Sauber car following the race when he tripped while trying to retrieve a dropped radio and fell under the wheels of a mobile crane.

After being taken to the circuit’s medical centre he was transferred by helicopter to the Sacre-Coeur hospital in Montreal but“Two Berkeley landmarks — the Varsity Candy Shop and the Pacific States building at Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue, soon will disappear, wiped out by the ruthless hand of time” the Gazette reported 75 years ago, July 16, 1942. “In their stead will appear modern shops.

“The City Building Department has sought for more than a year to bring about demolition of the landmarks and their replacement with modern structures meeting fire and earthquake requirements. The building housing the Varsity and a hotel was built more than 50 years ago and the Pacific States building, now owned by the State of California, was run up about 1900.”

Black Masons

On July 18, 1942 more than 500 African-Americans from throughout California arrived in Berkeley to gather at Willard Junior High School and


First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley for a meeting of the State Grand Lodge of Negro Masons and affiliated groups.

Berkeley had a long-established community of African-American Masons, who had formed their own organizations since they were excluded from white Masonic lodges and temples. Some of the lodges were in South Berkeley where Adeline Street met Grove Street, now Martin Luther King Jr. Way.

In 1923 some of Berkeley’s African-American masons had sought to build a new lodge hall at Jefferson and University, but were blocked by protests from white neighbors there who did not want black businesses or residents in central Berkeley.

Driver dies

Michael Branner Driver, the second elected mayor of Berkeley under the city manager form of government, died July 18, 1942 at age 73. For 10 years, until age70, he had been the elected sheriff of Alameda County. He had come to Berkeley from Colorado in 1905, and served five years on the City Council before becoming mayor. At the time of his death he had been living with his family in Piedmont.

Rent registration

As I’ve noted before, our present day rent control is nothing new in Berkeley. Bay Area housing rent control went into effect July 1, 1942, and the first day of required registration was July 15. Anyone who rented an apartment, house, or room had to register and list the rents.

“No landlord may now charge a rent higher than that prevailing on March 1, 1942”, the Gazette noted on July 15. “Any tenant who for personal reasons, privately agrees to pay more than the


plan

Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser made an interesting suggestion on July 20, 1942.

He advocated for converting nine major shipyards, including the three his company operated in Richmond, to the construction of 70-ton cargo airplanes.

He said that all of the shipyards could collectively turn out 5,000 planes a year. A single plane could carry up to 100 soldiers, or tons of food and supplies, and fly high above enemy submarines.Williams did not apply to student aid decisions.

They pointed out that three times between 1982 and 1989 the department upheld race-based scholarships and rejected or ignored the Supreme Court cases cited by Williams.

His announcement initially came as a surprise to senior White House officials, who had not cleared the decision beforehand, and touched off a heated debate within the administration. White House counsel C. Boyden Gray led the new policy's supporters, who argued it conformed with the "colorblind" approach that conservative Republicans have advocated.

Opponents included Health and Human Services Secretary Louis W. Sullivan, the only black Cabinet member, and other administration officials who argued that Williams's ruling would damage political relations with minorities.

The department yesterday completely reversed itself on the specific issue that spurred the controversy, the plan


and now "it seems like Mr. Williams tried to cover that embarrassment with a confusing statement. It's almost purposefully confusing."

Robert H. Atwell, president of the American Council on Education, an umbrella organization of higher education groups, said: "If that was a retraction, it was no retraction. Nice try, but it didn't work. It confused the situation even further."

Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director of the NAACP, said: "We are not totally satisfied with all of the points enunciated by Mr. Williams and take the position that this matter cannot be considered resolved until the status quo is restored."

Conservative activists, who favored the initial ruling, accused the administration of bending under political pressure.

"We think the original policy statement was a correct statement of law, and is a correct statement oflaw," said John Scully, counsel to the Washington Legal Foundation, which has filed complaints about minority scholarships at the University of Florida and Florida Atlantic University and is considering a suit over yesterday's decision.

"The current press release is a substitution of bad politics for good law," Scully said.

Williams started his news conference with a slip of the tongue, saying: "I'm here today to announce what is a new political, a new, um, position of the Department of Education."

He denied being pushed by the White House to revise his ruling. "I was not ordered by anyone to overrule anything, and neither was the department," he said. "This decision was reached in a consultative process" that was "a very agreeable, cordial process."

And Williams, who is black, denied being "a lackey"


for the white establishment. "I'd like to suggest to you, I haven't been a lackey for anyone. The position I took . . . was a position I took because I thought it was right," he said.

Williams indicated he was surprised by the resulting uproar, saying the department had advised against race-based scholarships on four occasions since 1986. "It didn't seem that this was anything out of the ordinary," he said.

Pressed about how he could be unaware of the extent of race-based scholarships, Williams smiled, tilted his head and replied: "I have a better idea of the extent now."Southern IPM blog posts

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There’s no mystery about how the mosquitoes got into Shawanda Holmes’ former home. They flew through a gaping hole in the wall.

One of the wooden boards on the side of the house is partly missing, covered only by a loose, blue plastic tarp that flows down the outside wall and crumples in a heap on the grass. Rainwater pools in its folds, providing an ideal site for mosquitoes to breed. Trash fills the backyard.

Holmes’ home had no air conditioning, and she was


afraid to plug in a fan, for fear that water had leaked into the electrical outlet. Mosquitoes repeatedly bit her children, ages 4, 6 and 14.

“The mosquitoes were tearing us up, no matter what I did,” said Holmes, 32, who lives in New Orleans’ Center City neighborhood.

If Zika spreads in the United States, Americans who live in substandard housing and neglected neighborhoods could face the greatest danger, particularly along the Gulf Coast – where steamy summers, high poverty rates and a dizzying array of mosquitoes could allow the virus to take hold, said Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine.

About 45 million Americans live in poverty, including 8 million along the Gulf Coast.Medical Ottawa: The Ottawa Maternity Hospital

While the biological process of birth is largely static, childbirth is a socially mitigated event, which is shaped by trends in different cultures at various times. The social investment in childbirth is evident in the recent news coverage of Princess Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and the birth of her second child, Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, included speculation about her use of pain relief, scrutiny of her appearance, and criticism of her swift departure from the hospital. Discussions, and critiques, of women’s choices in childbirth are hardly limited to royal-watching: in the popular news media, the question of how, when, and where Canadian women give birth are touchstones for debate, if articles in the national news media about home birth and unassisted births are


any indication.

The history of one largely forgotten institution in Ottawa – The Ottawa Maternity Hospital – speaks to the historical circumstances surrounding the early movement of birth from the home to the hospital in Canada.[1] The Ottawa Maternity Hospital stood at the corner of Rideau Street and Wurtemburg Street, less than 250 metres west of the Rideau River, and opened its doors in 1894 at 635 Rideau Street. Affiliated with the Lady Stanley Institute for Trained Nurses, the Ottawa Maternity Hospital opened with beds for 23 women and operated independently until 1924.

The Ottawa Maternity Hospital was a lying-in hospital. As many hospitals refused pregnant women, lying-in hospitals provided poor women with a place to give birth. British lying-in hospitals, inspired by accommodations for labouring women in Paris atthe Hôtel Dieu, began in the mid-eighteenth century, first in London, then in Dublin and Edinburgh. In the nineteenth century, cities in North America set up their own lying-in hospitals.[2] Upper and middle-class philanthropists designed lying-in hospitals as charitable institutions. Canadian lying-in hospitals were first established in Montreal and Toronto in the 1840s and 1850s; Ottawa lagged several decades behind.

For their benefactors, funding lying-in hospitals was a social good.[3] The role of philanthropy in charitable works is clear in the origins of the hospital. On 31 May 1893, The Globe and Mail reported a brief announcement, in its “Notes from the Capital,” that “at a meeting at which Sheriff Sweetland presided, it was resolved to establish a maternity hospital in this city.”[4] In January, the column reported that


a group of individuals “waited upon Lady Aberdeen to solicit her patronage on behalf of the proposed Maternity Hospital.” Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, was the wife of John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, Governor General of Canada (1893-1898).

Caption: William James Topley’s photograph of Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, c. 1900. Link to source.

Lady Aberdeen was a noted social reformer with a strong interest in charities supporting women: she was the first president of the International Council of Women, organized the National Council of Women of Canada, sponsored the Women’s Art Association of Canada, and assisted in the establishment of the Victorian Order of Nurses. The columnist reported that “Lady Aberdeen expressed some surprise that Ottawa should have been so long without an institution of that kind,Adrian Wilson, The Making of Man-Midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660-1770 (Harvard: Harvard University Press, published by arrangement with UCL Press, 1995), 145.

[12] Cheryl Lynn Krasnick Warsh, Prescribed Norms: Women and Health in Canada and the United States Since 1800 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 86. For more on the history of “scientific motherhood” in Ontario, see Cynthia Comacchio, Nations are Built of Babies: Saving Ontario’s Mothers and Children, 1900-1940 (MQUP, 1993).

[18] In Ontario, the majority of deliveries took place in the home until 1938. See Jo Oppenheimer, “Children in Ontario: The Transition from home to Hospital in the Early Twentieth Century,” Ontario History 75 (1983): 36-60.


the opening and extending through the slot for sliding movement therein; and a spring interconnecting the section and the sleeve for biasing the sleeve toward the uppermost end of its path of travel. Yet another patent teaches a lift chair with a base, a seat, and an extensible and retractable power-actuated ram connected between the lift base and seat to selectively raise and lower the seat. What is needed, however, is a chair actuated by a spring to raise and lower the chair seat via a coil spring leg assembly which minimizes stress as a person sits down or raises from the chair without the use of external power or the need to manually adjust any moving parts for operation.the orchestra are young music students who are also enrolled in the different colleges and conservatories of music in the Metro Manila area. Many of these have been winners in the National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA) and have represented the Philippines in international music festivals and workshops.

Notable members
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References

External links
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China delineates its South China Sea claims with a roughly drawn sea border known as the "nine-dash line" that runs along the west coast of the Philippines. However, it hasn't explicitly said whether it considers those waters as sovereign territory, and says it doesn't disrupt the passage of other nations' shipping through the area. The U.S. doesn't take a position on sovereignty claims, but insists on freedom of navigation, including the right of its naval vessels to conduct training and other operations in the sea.the CO’s inquiry, submitting an affidavit
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Tom Cruise was presented with an Irish heritage certificate yesterday at an official Government ceremony to celebrate his ancestry.

Eneclann, part of Trinity College, found that his great-great-great grandfather was a landlord called Patrick Russell Cruise, who helped evicted families reclaim their homes before the famine. The actor was born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV in Syracuse New York in 1962.

“I am very proud to be Irish,” Cruise said at the ceremony.

“That is why I wanted to make ‘Far and Away'.

“There is a pride in America being Irish.”

The 50-year-old Hollywood star was in Ireland for the premiere of his latest movie, ‘Oblivion,' which premiered at Dublin’s Savoy Cinema on Wednesday night.

The award winning actor received his "Certificate of Irish Ancestry" at a breakfast reception hosted by Deputy Prime Minister EamonGilmore at at Iveagh House on Stephen's Green on Wednesday.

Dressed in a navy jacket, the star told reporters on his way into the event it was “great to be Irish” and added that it was “a lovely day in Dublin."

Cruise spent a full hour at the venue where he was briefed by genealogists on his ancestors who date back 800 years.

Cruise also visited the Guinness Storehouse where he pulled a pint of stout and took the time to observe the panoramic views of Dublin City from the Gravity Bar.

Also accompanying Cruise on his visit are Oblivion director Joseph Kosinki and leading lady Olga Kurylenko.

Irish genealogy company Eneclann discovered that Cruise's ancestors date back to came to Ireland in the 12th century and a Cruise was one of the


knights who came to Ireland with the infamous Strongbow, whose invasion lead to the English conquest of Ireland.

The actor's paternal great-great-grandmother was Mary Pauline Russell-Cruise. She married Dillon Henry Mapother whose family were from Kilteevan, Co Roscommon. Dillon Henry Mapother moved to Louisville, Kentucky.

"To learn about the history of my family – it was incredible,” he said of the discovery of his extensive and illustrious Irish roots, “I knew I was Irish but I had no idea where it went and the depth of it. It goes all the way back to the 12th century.”

Cruise spent some time in Ireland filming “Far and Away” in the early 1990s. His Irish accent has been remembered in various worse accents in film lists.

Plans by Co. Roscommon officials to honor theA photograph of Luis Muñoz Marín, governor of Puerto Rico from 1949 to 1965, speaking at the Governors Conference in San Juan, 1959.

A photograph of Luis Muñoz Marín, governor of Puerto Rico from 1949 to 1965, speaking at the Governors Conference in San Juan, 1959.

At this 1959 meeting of state governors in San Juan, Marín said, “Just as Western Europe is developing a closer economic and a closer political interdependence, based on freedom, so do I believe in the eventual realization of a closer, pragmatic partnership between all the peoples of the Americas.” Marín worked with US authorities to implement Operation Bootstrap policies to encourage American investment and industrialization in Puerto Rico during the 1950s and 1960s.


moment. For Lenin and Trotsky, the term dual power is used as a descriptive category rather than a strategy; looking back on the revolution in Petrograd in 1905, in which the first soviet (council) came into existence spontaneously, Trotsky formulated the term to describe the situation. For Leninists, dual power is the ultimate revolutionary conflict, when the state must fight to survive: overt challenges to its ability to govern are made by councils that, as well as commanding the loyalty of a majority of the population, have the ability to execute and enforce their decisions.

The two main factors leading to a divergent loyalty to each government in Russia in 1917 were domestic and foreign policy. Domestically, the Provisional Government had a difficult time solving the conflicts between workersand owners and between peasants and landlords; being bourgeois, its members wanted the resolution to be based on legal and peaceful compromise. The more radical members of the soviets, factory committees, and peasant committees were interested in worker control and expropriation of property — hence some tension. Externally, the Provisional Government was committed to continuing Russian military involvement in the First World War, while the Bolsheviks were split between those who wanted to conclude a separate peace (Lenin) and those who wanted to widen the war into a general European revolutionary class war (Trotsky). This was the second, and arguably the more crucial, tension that existed between the Provisional Government and the growing power of the Bolshevik-dominated soviets. Incidentally, the decision-making process was not one of the causes


the realm of normative anarchism to accept. Anyone with even a basic grasp of radical history will be able to recognize this. It is a borrowed term with a borrowed history; that history cannot be separated from the term.

Love & Rage and the influence and legacy of Leninism

The Love & Rage project began in the late 1980s when the desire for a mass anarchist federation coincided with the supposed defection to anarchism of all members of the New York-based Trotskyist Revolutionary Socialist League. The RSL had been flirting with anarchists as early as ’83, when they began having comradely relations with the New York chapter of the Workers’ Solidarity Alliance, an anarcho-syndicalist group. L&R took over all the resources of the RSL, including their newspaper (The Torch). ThisThere had been similar speculation from the very beginning. At the conference where the name of the project and their newspaper was decided, some participants had the feeling that the decisions had been made prior to the actual conference, that the conference was used as a public rubberstamp to create a false democratic face for the organization. The strong influence of Bolshevism is clear. One participant at the founding conference even went so far as to suggest that they name the paper The Torch.

Hooked into the opportunist politics of anti-imperialism, members of L&R were expected to be supportive of the national liberation movements of oppressed peoples in their struggles to create new states. This generates its own contradictions; but in one of the later incarnations of the Statement,


the organization came out in favor of “weaker states” in their struggles against “stronger states.” Especially galling at that time (of Operation Desert Shield followed by the Gulf Massacre of 1990–91) was that this was clearly a reference to Iraq — this even after the revelations of the previous mass gassings of Kurds, among other atrocities perpetrated by this “weaker state.” Such was their commitment to anti-statism, the cornerstone of anarchism.

Having learned nothing from the previous attempts to create national or continental anarchist federations, L&R — immediately after it formed — began to lose members through attrition, and the group split not once, but twice; the final split fractured the membership in three directions. Like most similar organizations, at a certain point the tension between ideological flexibility andof a highly structured organization with written bylaws and other formal disciplinary measures to be a positive development for anarchists. The Platform was written by several veterans and supporters of the Makhnovist insurgent army of the Ukraine, which was active from 1918–1921. Having successfully beaten the Whites (counter-revolutionaries fighting for the restoration of the monarchy and private capitalism), the Ukrainian anarchists had to face Trotsky’s Red Army. The Makhnovists were finally defeated. Makhno and several of his general staff eventually escaped to Paris, where, after a number of years of recovering and establishing contacts with other anarchist exiles from the Soviet Union, they began a project that culminated in the publication and circulation of the Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists. In this document, they attempted to explain


and understand the reasons for their loss in particular, and the more general loss of an antiauthoritarian people’s revolution to the Bolsheviks. They decided that among the main causes were that the anarchists were not disciplined and dedicated (and ruthless?) enough. As a result, they attempted to emulate the political formation of the victorious Bolsheviks (democratic centralism, an untouchable central committee) without using the terminology of the Bolsheviks. They wanted to out-Bolshevize the Bolsheviks, in the hopes of winning the next round of the struggle. It was for these reasons that the Platform was publicly condemned by ex-Makhnovists (including Voline), anarcho-communists (like Malatesta), and others as being a sectarian attempt to create an anarchist program with a Bolshevik organizational structure. The Platform project was unsuccessful.

There is a naggingquestion in this organizational discussion: why have the promoters of formally structured membership organizations taken an example from a historically unimportant document, an example of unrivalled ineffectiveness? Why have they not used as a model the most “successful” anarchist mass organization — the FAI (Iberian Anarchist Federation)? From the time of its official founding in 1927, the FAI was feared by government agents, and cheered by a majority of Spanish anarchists. In the decade of their revolutionary activity the members of the FAI made many mistakes, most notably the entry of some of its members into the Catalan and Spanish governments in 1936. Despite that extremely serious lapse in judgment, the fact remains that the FAI was a real and functioning anarchist federation, and commanded a lot of


respect both inside and outside the Spanish anarchist movement. A practical issue that makes the FAI a better example of anarchist organization is that it was based on real affinity groups, developed as an extension of members’ familiarity and solidarity with each other. This is in stark contrast to the Platform model, which proposes a pre-existing structure that collectives are supposed to join; it puts the cart before the horse, creating a federative project where there may be no need and no interest in creating a federation in the first place. Members of the FAI had known and been active with each other for many years before they decided to create the Federation, mostly as a response to legal repression against the broader anarchist movement during the 1920s.Growler What?

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rigorous journalism.

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The New Yorker, meanwhile, represents a gold standard of in-depth journalism. It is known for its thorough reporting, literary excellence, and fact-checking rigor. Whereas some legacy brands read like an entirely different publication online, original content on newyorker.com is reminiscent of the weekly print product.

Because The New Yorker brand hinges on high-quality journalism, the magazine has been shielded from “many of the money-generating schemes that other outlets have, whether enthusiastically or reluctantly, embraced,” The New York Observer noted earlier this year. The New Yorker recently expanded to video and podcasting, a bold bet on the durability of its brand. It also adjusted its social media strategy and bolstered its copy desk in an attempt to broaden its digital reach without compromising quality.

There’s an auraThe Shelters are releasing their self-titled debut LP June 10th on Warner Bros. Records. Having released an EP at the end of last year, their full-length is also a blast of Southern Californian rock and roll from a four-piece like the old days when rock and roll was king. Co-produced by Tom Petty, this album comes at you from behind, nothing you were expecting.

The Shelters had just banded together when Petty heard them and got a gut feeling about what they could be. He gave The Shelters the keys to his home studio and showed them a few things. They picked it up from there and took off full steam ahead.

People are going to reference some of the great rock and roll bands of yesterday and today. But


the Compact, the executive order and the declaration of Gary Qualset, the Deputy Director of the Compliance Division of the Commission, to establish they were entitled to judgment as a matter of law.
Qualset's declaration stated that the auditing of payments made to the Fund is discretionary under the Compact and from April 2003 to the present, the Commission commenced audits of nine of the 28 tribes and completed one audit. The completed audit revealed an underpayment, which was corrected, and the Commission has made no "formal determination of delinquency" as to Fund payments generally. The Commission also has a procedure for accounting for all Fund contributions and as part of that procedure, the Commission's audit staff performs "desk reviews" of all quarterly Fund contribution reports submitted by theDylan Sadowy-development camp.jpg

The Red Wings acquired prospect Dylan Sadowy in a trade with the San Jose Sharks.

(Brendan Savage | MLive.com)

There's no telling where Dylan Sadowy would have been drafted in 2014 had NHL teams knew then what they know now.

But it's a probably a pretty good bet the Detroit Red Wings prospect might have gone higher than 81st overall.

Sadowy was coming off a 27-goal season for the OHL's Saginaw Spirit when the San Jose Sharks selected him the third round of the 2014 draft. He followed that output by scoring 42 goals in 2014-15 and 45 last season, when he split the year between the Spirit and Barrie Colts.

The 45 goals tied him for fifth in the OHL with undrafted Aaron Berisha of Memorial Cup champion London and


Sault Ste. Marie's Zachary Senyshyn, a first-round pick (15

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overall) by Boston in 2015.

Whether Sadowy can continue that type of prolific goal scoring when he begins his pro career this fall remains to be seen. But early indications are the Red Wings might have gotten a bargain when they traded a 2017 third-round draft choice to San Jose for Sadowy.

The Red Wings liked what they saw from Sadowy the first time he suited up in one of their jerseys during a game situation.

He registered a hat trick in the first development camp scrimmage while also scoring during a shootout. In the second and final scrimmage, he had a goal and assist.

"It's just going to the net hard," said Sadowy, who will almost certainly start this season with the AHL'sforwards heading to the training camp.

But at the same time, if the 6-foot-1, 195-pound Sadowy can produce in Grand Rapids, there's no telling what could happen given the way the Red Wings struggled to score goals for much of last season.

Todd Nelson, who conducted the on-ice portion of the development camp and is the head coach in Grand Rapids, liked what he saw from the 20-year-old left winger.

"Besides the goals, I liked the way that he played," Nelson said. "He plays hard. He's quicker than I thought he'd be. He's got good speed and he has a good finish around the net."

Last season, Sadowy had 20 goals and 14 assists in 36 games for Saginaw before getting 25 goals and 11 assists in 28 games for Barrie. He


me, I ended up having a strong finish to the year and now I'm back here in Detroit."

Although he averaged .58 goals per game during his final three OHL seasons, Sadowy doesn't want to be known as a one-dimensional player as a pro.

"In Saginaw, I was just looked at (as) just putting up the points because we were such a young team," he said. "I was one of the older leaders on the team. But yeah, I can put up numbers.

"But I want to be a two-way forward, block shots, get in dirty areas and just make the guys around me better."

Even though the Sharks made the Stanley Cup Finals this season, Sadowy didn't see himself as being a good fit in San Jose. When the Sharks weren'tLitohoř

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The municipality covers an area of , and has a population of 579 (as at 25 February 2008).

Litohoř lies approximately  south-west of Třebíč,  south of Jihlava, and  south-east of Prague.

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Changing pattern of antibiotic resistance of Helicobacter pylori in children during 20 years in Jinju, South Korea.
The antimicrobial resistance capability of Helicobacter pylori is one of the critical factors in the failure to treat this pathogen. The purpose of this study was to investigate the changing pattern of primary antibiotic resistance rates in children in the southern central part of South Korea from 1990 to 2009. H. pylori strains were isolated from children who had undergone upper endoscopy at Gyeongsang National University Hospital, including 58 children from 1990-1994 and 33 children from 2005-2009. The susceptibility of H. pylori strains to erythromycin, clarithromycin, azithromycin, amoxicillin, tetracycline, metronidazole, furazolidone, levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, moxifloxacin, and rifabutin was tested using the serial twofold agar dilution method. The resistance rate to erythromycin increased significantlyMonday, September 14, 2009

Three men convicted of plotting to blow up seven transatlantic passenger jets were sentenced and sent to jail on Monday.

The trio's ringleader, Abdulla Ahmed Al, 28, received a minimum of 40 years in prison. Assad Sarwar, 29, received a sentence of at least 36 years and Tanvir Hussain, 28, at least 32 years. All three are suspected to have had links with al-Qaeda.

Map by the US Transportation Security Administration showing the flights that were targeted the bombing plot.

The three men had been accused of plotting to destroy several transatlantic passengers jets headed for North America by smuggling liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks onto the plane. The targeted planes were all departing from the Heathrow Airport in London, bound for locations such as Chicago, Illinois,


New York, New York, Toronto, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec.

The plot was said to have been only a few days from being executed when it was discovered by the authorities.

"I'm very pleased the jury gave a sentence that was proportionate to this potential crime," said the UK Home Secretary, Alan Johnson. "Our police and our national security service is a national asset, they've proven that again today."

Johnson said the sentencing "reflected the severity of this horrendous plot to kill and maim thousands of people".

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being able to see
the generational differences, and there's been so much progress since I first
realized I was different!

Interestingly, my mother went through a questioning period (long before there
was any language for it) and came to a conclusion much like yours. So when I
first came out to her as a young kid, she thought my questioning was normal,
that I would outgrow it, and that it meant she needed to fight even more for
women's rights (because she thought that was the root of it for me). In many
respects, she was my strongest ally but also the most painful thorn in my
side. Several years after I transitioned, there was an incident in which her
language actually put my well-being in severe jeopardy. It took that incident
before she realized her experience is not


income-tax teams were present at around 15 premises spread across the states of Karnataka and Goa. One of the hawala operators is also actively involved in converting old notes and was accumulating bullion using old currency," it added.During the search operations, a secret chamber in the bathroom of the residence of a hawala operator was traced. "28 kg of bullion, about 4 kg of gold and jewellery, Rs 5.7 crore of Rs 2,000 currency notes and Rs 90 lakh in old Rs 100 and Rs 20 notes were seized. Various incriminating documents have also been recovered and income tax teams are further analyzing and investigating the same. Notably the major haul of new denomination currency is from a relatively small town Challakere in Chitradurga district. This small townyou change the prayer.

The Problem of Clarity

Clarity and intelligibility were principles of liturgical renewal specifically named by the fathers of the Second Vatican Council in the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy. Until 2001, those who translated liturgical texts into English placed a high priority on the council’s mandate for clarity and intelligibility. Those were essential guiding principles of liturgical reform, not secondary considerations.

Since the publication of the new Vatican instruction on translation Liturgiam authenticam in 2001, however, other principles are deemed more important. They include: the exact rendering of each word and expression of the Latin, the use of sacral vocabulary remote from ordinary speech, and reproduction of the syntax of the Latin original whenever possible. When a choice must be made, those principles trump the principles of


Spirit,

you gathered them again to yourself,

that a people, formed as one by the unity of the Trinity,

made the Body of Christ and the temple of the Holy Spirit,

might, to the praise of your manifold wisdom,

be manifest as the Church.

What is the main point? It is hard to tell. We are wandering in a dense forest of theological and biblical allusions here. There are traps for the unwary, too. If the speaker is not careful to separate the first line from the second and join the second with the third, separating them from the first, he ends up suggesting that the Blood of Christ and the power of the Spirit are instrumental in scattering God’s children. Even read well, this prayer will likely lose all but its best-educated andposture for the Eucharistic Prayer is standing, even though some individual bishops conferences have decreed otherwise.) The English now reads “be in your presence.”

Other changes introduced by Vox Clara lack evident rhyme or reason. For example, the Latin word profusis, which appears at the conclusion of every preface of the Easter Season, is translated as “overcome.” Profusis means “overflowing.” When the world is described as overflowing with paschal joys, as the 2008 translation had it, one imagines graceful scenes from Botticelli. When reference is made to being overcome, one imagines smelling salts. This is one of an estimated ten thousand changes Rome made in the Missal after the bishops approved the translation in 2008.

The Problem of Length

The current translation is not without problems. At times it is simple


She or he will hear this prayer once a year at most. An individual word or phrase may ring a bell. But the essential meaning of the prayer will be lost. As an act of oral communication, a text such as this cannot but fail for the vast majority of Catholics. Like so many of the newly translated prayers, it will come across as theo-babble, holy nonsense.

There are already formidable challenges to oral comprehension built into the pastoral situations in which the liturgy is celebrated. International priests make up 22 percent of the active diocesan priesthood in the United States today. Accented English can make even our current translation difficult to understand. Many parish communities include a significant number of people whose first language is not English. TheyThe following script is from "Saving the Children" which aired on April 27, 2014. Bob Simon is the correspondent. Harry Radliffe and Vanessa Fica, producers.

Now, an extraordinary story from the Second World War -- a humanitarian story that didn't come to light for decades. It concerns a young Londoner named Nicholas Winton who went to Prague, and ended up saving the lives of 669 children, mostly Jews, from almost certain death. His story begins at the end of 1938, with Europe on the brink of war. In Germany, violence against Jews was escalating and the infamous Munich Agreement paved the way for Hitler's armies to march unopposed into Czechoslovakia.

In London, Nicholas Winton had been following events and knew that refugees fleeing the Nazis were in dire straits. He


went to Czechoslovakia to see if there was anything he could do to help. What's strange is that for almost 50 years, he hardly told anyone about what he had accomplished and for 50 years, the children knew nothing about who had saved them or how.

We begin on October 1st, 1938. Nazi troops marched into the Sudetenland, the German-speaking region of Czechoslovakia. Prague, the Czech capital was flooded with desperate people, trying to escape. A fortunate few were able to send their children abroad. These parents, mostly Czech Jews, sensed war was coming and wanted to get their children out. By chance, a cameraman filmed a man holding a boy, a 29-year-old Londoner. His name: Nicholas Winton.

Nicholas Winton: All I knew was that the people that I metcouldn't get out. And they were looking of ways of at least getting their children out.

Nicholas Winton is one of the few people who can bear witness to those days because he's 104 years old. He told us he went to Prague to see if he might be able to save some people.

Bob Simon: What made you think you could do it?

Nicholas Winton: I work on the motto that if something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it.

Back in London, Winton was a successful stockbroker -- living the good life, with a passion for sports. But he was deeply concerned about news reports from Czechoslovakia, of "German persecution."

Nicholas Winton: I went out into the camps where the people who had been displaced were put. And


it was winter. And it was cold.

Emigration wasn't an option. The world's doors were closed to refugees. Conditions in the camps were brutal for the 150,000 people trapped there, especially for the children. And no one focused on them until Nicholas Winton.

"I work on the motto that if something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it."

But what did he do? We went to Jerusalem, to Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, and asked Dr. David Silberklang, a senior historian there.

David Silberklang: Winton went set up shop in a hotel in the center of the old city in Prague, and began looking into, "How can I organize getting some of these refugees, particularly the children, out of here?"

Bob Simon: What kind ofexperience did he have to qualify him for this immense bureaucratic task?

David Silberklang: None!

Winton set up a small organization with one aim: to get as many kids out, as fast as possible.

David Silberklang: People started coming to him in increasing numbers. He didn't have time in the day to meet them all. He'd work till 2:00 in the morning; get up early in the morning to meet the next people as more and more were coming saying, "Take my child. Take my child."

By the time he returned to London, he had a list of hundreds of children and set out to convince British authorities to take him seriously. He did it by taking stationary from an established refugee organization, adding "Children's Section," and making himself chairman.

Nicholas Winton: So


that eventually they had to adopt me.

Bob Simon: So, in fact, you managed to do what you did through a little deception, a little smoke and mirrors?

Nicholas Winton: Yes, to a certain extent, yes.

Bob Simon: It required quite a bit of ingenuity.

Nicholas Winton: No, it just required a printing press to get the notepaper printed.

The "Children's Section" operated from a tiny office in central London. Winton's mother was in charge. The staff were all volunteers. During the day, Winton worked as a stockbroker. Evenings, he wrestled with the British bureaucracy.

Bob Simon: Did you approach any other countries to take some of the children?

Nicholas Winton: The Americans. But the Americans wouldn't take any, which was a pity. We could've got a lot more out.

Winton had written President Roosevelt, askingseven trains carried over 600 children through the heart of Nazi Germany to Holland, where they took a ferry to the English coast. From there, they caught a train to London.

An eighth train -- carrying 250 more -- was scheduled to leave Prague on September 1st. But that's the day the war began.

Nicholas Winton: They were all at the station. Even on the train, waiting to go, and war was declared. So the train never left. Never heard really what happened to all those children.

Bob Simon: But there's reason to suspect that not many of them survived?

Nicholas Winton: I think that's true. Yes.

Two years after that last train, the Nazis began implementing the "Final Solution" their plan to slaughter all the Jews of Europe. Czech Jews were rounded


up and shipped to Theresienstadt, an old military garrison town about an hour north of Prague --- their first stop on the road to annihilation.

These tracks were the exit from Theresienstadt. The only exit. The tracks led east. The trains were called Polish Transports. Destination: Auschwitz. Some 90,000 people took that one-way ride. Among them almost all the children Sir Nicholas wasn't able to get out in time, their parents and the parents of the children already in England.

Bob Simon: After the war you went back to Czechoslovakia... Was there one instant where you accepted the fact that your parents were dead?

Hugo Meisl: For three years we used to visit when trains came from Siberia, especially when the Communists moved in in 1948, a lot of people startedcoming back from Siberia. So I would go to a station-- hoping. And films were being shown of people walking in concentration camps, Auschwitz and so forth, there were so many shots being taken by the Germans and-- and so forth-- never stopped looking.

The name of every Czech Jew murdered in the Holocaust is painted on the walls of Prague's Pinkas Synagogue. Over 77,300 names, including Arnoshtka and Pavel Meisl -- Hugo's parents.

And Nicholas Winton? During the war he volunteered for an ambulance unit for the Red Cross, then trained pilots for the Royal Air Force. He got married, raised a family, earned a comfortable living. For 50 years, he told hardly anyone what he had done.

Bob Simon: A question which I know intrigues everyone who hears your


for 50 years?

Lady Milena: I think it's in his nature. He really felt that he'd done all he could, and having got those children settled he felt, "Been there, done that, my job's done I've got other things to do."

"Other things." For the last 50 years, Winton's been helping mentally handicapped people and building homes for the elderly.

Nicholas Winton: We've just opened our second old people's home, and it's full. And it's doing very well. And there are plenty of old people like me to go in.

Bob Simon: Yes, but you're not there. You're at home.

Nicholas Winton: Oh, I'd hate to go into one of my own homes. Don't print that.

In 2003, Winton was knighted - and became Sir Nicholas Winton. In the Czech Republic, he's become anational hero. And he was celebrated in a documentary called "Nicky's Family," but he isn't really comfortable with all the adulation.

Nicholas Winton: I'm not interested in the past. I think there's too much emphasis nowadays on the past and what has happened. And nobody is concentrated on the present and the future.

In 1939, Nicholas Winton used a two week vacation to go to Prague and ended up saving the lives of 669 children. In the decades since, of course, the children had children, who then had children and so on...and the numbers multiplied.

Bob Simon: If you wanna summarize it in one sentence: Guy takes a two week vacation...

Lady Milena: -- and ends up with 15,000 children?

Bob Simon: It's a pretty good story.

Lady Milena: It's a great story.

Nicholas Winton:


trademark is the ironic juxtaposition of bloody terrorist attacks carried out by smiling, friendly-looking terrorists.

The first cartoon shows one of his trademark, kefiyyeh-wearing terrorists grinning while holding a knife dripping with blood and joyously celebrating the number of victims in the morning attack (at the time only 10 people were reported injured; that number was later raised to at least 12.)

Less than two hours after the attack, this cartoon was posted online Screenshot

In the background, a bus with a Star of David emblem is seen surrounded by a pool of blood, an arm hanging limply from the door. The sign behind him reads "Occupied Tel Arabia".

The second cartoon produced by Yaseen shows a smiling, bloodied dagger posing in front of a blood-stained Israeli flag, with the caption "GoodConforming Ourselves To The Will of God

We can tell a lot about a person from his non-verbals – how he carries himself, his gestures, the tone of his voice and facial expressions. From the beginning one of the most encouraging things about this pope was his profound bow as 200,000 people in St. Peter’s square and around the world prayed in silence for him before he gave the papal blessing to all. He will be leading all bishops and priests by this example of humility. This is not to say that previous popes in my lifetime were not humble. I cherished the humility of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. Humility means that one can be easily led by the Holy Spirit, is a good listener,


Washington franchisor under FIPA's bill of rights. For the reasons explained in this opinion, we conclude that an out-of-state franchisee may assert such a claim against an in-state franchisor.

I. Background
Mike Karimi has worked in the hotel industry since the 1980s. He owns a hotel management company, MAK, LLC, and operates several hotels through MAK.
In 2004, the Khatri brothers, friends of Karimi's, asked him to take over the operation of a hotel they owned in Modesto, California. Karimi was concerned about doing so because the hotel was in poor conditiononly 40 out of 186 guest rooms were usableand needed significant renovations. Nonetheless, Karimi assumed the former operator's 99-year lease on December 1, 2004. Shortly thereafter, Karimi negotiated a franchise agreement with West Coast Hotels. For convenience, we will referearly 2005, Red Lion began a concerted effort to improve the quality of its hotels. A central part of the effort was the creation of new "brand standards," which were to apply to all hotels in the chain. The new brand standards were based on AAA's rating system, which awards hotels between one and five diamonds. Red Lion's standards were based on AAA's three-diamond standard. The new standards were announced to franchise owners at a meeting in January 2007. Franchise owners were told that they would receive a Property Improvement Plan, or PIP, that contained individualized lists of required improvements for each hotel.
Karimi was unable to attend the January 2007 meeting because he was hospitalized, but he was told in a February 20, 2007 letter from Red Lion


that he would be given a PIP that would have to be completed by December 31, 2007. At some point in early 2007, Michael Castro, then the Director of Brand Services at Red Lion, met with Karimi at the Red Lion Modesto to prepare the PIP for the hotel. Castro sent the completed PIP to Karimi on May 15, 2007. The PIP contained more than 100 required improvements. Karimi refused to sign the PIP because of one requirement. He had installed pedestal sinks as part of his improvements to the hotel; the PIP required, instead, granite vanities with undermounted sinks. Karimi testified at trial that he had discussed the sink issue with Castro, and that Castro had granted him a waiver for pedestal sinks. Castro testified that heOn October 10, 2007, a third-party contractor conducted an annual inspection of Karimi's franchise, as specified in Red Lion's brand standards manual. Karimi received a grade of eighty-five percent, one point less than the passing grade of eighty-six percent. In late November 2007, Todd Cooley, who had succeeded Mike Castro as the director of brand services, inspected the Red Lion Modesto. He testified at trial that the hotel looked "old and tired," and that the renovations were "substantially incomplete."
From November 2007 until June 2008, there was no contact between Karimi and Red Lion about either the PIP or the December 31, 2007 deadline. In early June 2008, Mark Fielding, an accountant at Red Lion, stayed in the Modesto hotel while attending a wedding. Cooley had given Fielding a


[weren't] accurate." Cooley took several photographs *1086 during his inspection. At trial, the parties vigorously disputed whether the photographs were actually from July 2008 rather than from Cooley's November 2007 visit. Lori Knoll, the Red Lion Modesto's manager, and Michel Cockrum, who did hotel maintenance, testified that the photographs could not have been taken in July 2008, because they depicted features of the hotel that had been changed by July 2008. However, Gurdial Dhatt, Red Lion's director of Information Technology, testified that metadata in the electronic files showed that the pictures were indeed taken on July 9, 2008, and Karimi's expert agreed that the metadata on those pictures did not appear to have been altered.
After Cooley's July 2008 inspection, Red Lion decided that Karimi's letter was "not anLion because "the overall statutory scheme evinces the legislature's intent to confine FIPA's reach to franchises operating `in this state' [i.e., Washington]." Because Karimi's CPA claim was predicated on his FIPA claim, the court also granted summary judgment on the CPA claim.
After a bench trial on the remaining claims, the district court found that Karimi had not complied with Red Lion's brand standards or the PIP, and that he had not been granted waivers that would excuse his noncompliance. The district court credited Taffin, Cooley, and Castro's testimony, and found that Cooley's photographs had been taken during his July 2008 hotel inspection. The court further found that Karimi's June 19, 2008 letter had misrepresented the state of the improvements to the hotel. The court held that Karimi had


or artifice to defraud.").
In 1991, the Washington legislature amended FIPA to provide a definition of the phrase "in this state" contained in the statute. The legislature did so largely based on a law review article written some years earlier by Professor Donald Chisum of the University of Washington Law School, who had pointed out that the meaning of "in this state" was unclear. See Donald S. Chisum, State Regulation of Franchising: The Washington Experience, 48 WASH. L. REV. 291, 337-38 (1973). Professor Chisum recommended that Washington adopt a definition comparable to the definition contained in California's Franchise Investment Law. Id. The Washington legislature amended FIPA to include a definition similar to that which Professor Chisum had recommended. 1991 Wash. Legis. Serv. Ch. 226 (West).
By its terms, the definitionprompted by Professor Chisum's recommendation, "evince[] the legislature's intent to confine FIPA's reach to franchises operating `in this state.'" In support of its conclusion, the district court cited the provisions of FIPA that do contain territorial limitations. We disagree with the court's conclusion.
In recommending that a definition of the phrase "in this state" be added to § 19.100.020, Professor Chisum did not suggest that all of FIPA was territorially limited. On the contrary, he distinguished between the sale-related provisions of FIPA, which were modeled after a California law, and the franchisee bill of rights, which he called "unique" to Washington. Chisum, 48 WASH. L. REV. at 370. As to the latter, he wrote that "The Act does not indicate the territorial coverage of [the franchisee bill of rights]."


hotel in his June 19 letter. The district court specifically credited the Red Lion managers' testimony and found that the pictures Cooley took in July 2008 accurately depicted the state of the hotel. The court found that Karimi's description of his progress in the June 19 letter was "not accurate," "that Mr. Cooley was correct in his assertions that [the PIP items] were not carried out, that there were misrepresentations and that, indeed, the Red Lion was justified in terminating the franchise." Karimi has not challenged those factual findings. Thus, Karimi was not "free from fault" in the transaction. See Rhoades, 63 P.3d at 151. On the contrary, according to Red Lion managers' credible testimony, Karimi's misrepresentations led directly to the decision to terminate the franchise agreement. KarimiUnion shall be under no further financial obligations or requirements of any kind to the Union. It shall also be a condition of employment that all employees covered by this Agreement shall on the 30th day following the beginning of such employment or the effective date of this agreement, whichever is later, pay established initial and monthly service fees as shown above."
The union and the employer jointly posted a notice to employees, immediately after execution of the collective agreement, explaining the new contract with particular reference to the agency shop clause:
"The Agency Shop recognizes that union membership in the State of Florida is a voluntary act of the employee. On the other hand, under an Agency Shop Agreement, those Employees who do not become members of the Union


Critical social thought

Critical social thought is an interdisciplinary academic major offered at several liberal arts colleges. It addresses the fundamental questions about social life and embraces the contours of modern experience and the historical forces that have helped to shape that experience. It examines the prevailing and oppositional currents of thought; cultural representations as well as the technologies of their production and dissemination; the tensions between power and freedom, individuality and society, truth and uncertainty, creativity and order. Examples of topical concentrations include: Architecture and the social organization of space, disenchantment, peace and conflict, racial and ethnic identities, the Western canon and its critics.

The program treats common sense and conventional beliefs as points of departure rather than as predetermined points of arrival. It also supports questioning the taken-for-grantedGetty Images

Marvin Bracy has gotten looks for NFL teams because of his ability to run very, very fast so it’s fitting that it didn’t take the Seahawks long to make up their mind about his chances of making the team.

Bracy, who was part of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team as a 100 meter sprinter, signed with the Seahawks as a wide receiver on July 28 and the team announced that he was placed on waivers Wednesday. Bracy got a longer run with the Colts last summer, but he wound up getting cut in early September.

The Seahawks will fill his roster spot with undrafted rookie running back Gerald Holmes. Holmes ran 295 times for 1,302 yards and 14 touchdowns over 36 games at Michigan State.

He joins a running back


only sense for one to have a VIP.

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What? It's not relevant to me personally, but isn't one of the selling points for VIP membership 'unshared requests'?_________________"Welcome to the paranoia club; cheapest fees in the universe and membership lasts forever."
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i thought so too?!

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I don't understand what you mean by "unshared requests".

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it means that if you have one vip in an ip adress, it means that the times of anyrunoff election apparently looked past warnings that the brash former army captain would erode democracy and embraced a chance for radical change after years of turmoil. Bolsonaro went into the election the clear front-runner after getting 46 percent of the votes to Haddad’s 29 percent in the first round of the election Oct. 7. After opinion polls in recent weeks had Bolsonaro leading by as much as 18 percentage points, the race had tightened in recent days. But Haddad was unable to make up the difference. (read more)

The video embedded within the tweet below shows the assassination attack when Bolsonaro was stabbed in the liver. Horrific.

With 86% of the votes in the first round of the #BrazilianPresidentialElection counted, Jair #Bolsonaro (known as the Donald #Trump of #Brazil), leads


WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- White House spokesman Josh Earnest on Thursday said House Republicans were "out of step with the vast majority of Americans" in their support of the placement of Confederate flags at federal cemeteries. House Speaker John Boehner pulled a spending bill off the floor after Southern Republicans pushed for a vote to allow the flag to be displayed and sold at federal sites and gift shops. Boehner said he didn't support the measure. On Wednesday, Republicans in the chamber allowed Democrats to add language to a spending bill that would have removed the flag. Boehner said he wants to set up a bipartisan working group on the issue. Earnest also noted that Republicans have declined to criticize the "race-baiting rhetoric of a leading Republican presidential candidate."Donald Trump Jr. released a stunning chain of emails Tuesday detailing the setup of a controversial campaign meeting with a Russian lawyer who offered compromising information on Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonJeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Momentum growing among Republicans for Supreme Court vote before Election Day Warning signs flash for Lindsey Graham in South Carolina MORE.

Trump Jr.’s release came at almost exactly the same time as a New York Times report detailing the content of the emails, which show that he was told beforehand that the lawyer promising dirt on Clinton was part of a Russian government effort to help his father’s presidential campaign.

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The emails are between Trump's eldest son and Rob Goldstone, a music producer who represents


a Russian pop star named Emin Agalarov. Goldstone has connections to both Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump Donald John TrumpUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Jeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Trump supporters chant 'Fill that seat' at North Carolina rally MORE— Agalarov's father, Aras, was Trump's partner in bringing the Miss Universe pageant to Russia in 2013.

The messages — exchanged under the subject line "Russia - Clinton - private and confidential" — also mention then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, who both attended the meeting with Trump Jr.

Read the statement Trump Jr. tweeted out Tuesday and the email chain below:

To everyone, in order to be totally transparent, I am releasing the chainof my emails with Rob Goldstone about the meeting on June 9, 2016. The first email on June 3, 2016 was from Rob, who was relating a request from Emin, a person I know from the 2013 Ms. Universe Pageant near Moscow. Emin and his father have a very highly respected company in Moscow. The information they suggested they had about Hillary Clinton I thought was Political Opposition Research. I first wanted to just have a phone call but when that didn’t work out, they said the woman would be in New York and asked if I would meet. I decided to take the meeting. The woman, as she has said publicly, was not a government official. And, as we have said, she had no information to provide


and wanted to talk about adoption policy and the Magnitsky Act. To put this in context, this occurred before the current Russian fever was in vogue. As Rob Goldstone said just today in the press, the entire meeting was “the most inane nonsense I ever heard. And I was actually agitated by it.”

June 3, 2016, 10:36 a.m.

From Rob Goldstone to Donald Trump Jr.

Good morning

Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting.

The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.

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then he could advance the timetable on full autonomy by half a decade. Big leaps in automotive technology are held back by hardware. In essence, cars are about as good as they can get, having been steadily improved over a century. Future progress on the hardware side will be incremental, even for Tesla.

That leaves the software side for game-changing innovations.

Musk knows this. That's why he isn't wasting any time, and I wouldn't bet against him. He's used software to alter the banking system (PayPal), drastically improve the automobile (Tesla), and provide a cheaper way to get rockets into space.

That's an impressive track record. A month ago, electric cars didn't naturally lead to autonomous driving, but now they do. Get ready to experience Tesla's vision of the future —Tami Ahronovitch, Jerusalem

To the Editor:

I am puzzled by the perception that the refugee crisis is an exclusively European or German problem. To be sure, the refugees are primarily stranded in Europe because of its geographic proximity, and they seek to come to Germany because of its economic prosperity. But that tells us nothing about political responsibilities and the proper institution to handle the problem. It is a shame that neither the United States nor the United Nations plays an active role in the resolution of the crisis.

Horst Eidenmüller, New York

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Sometime in 1642, a single woman and her 6-year-old daughter — my ninth and eighth great-grandmothers, respectively — began walking from Brandenburg in northern Germany. Ahead of them lay a trek of over 300 miles and the


knowledge that where they were going to might not accept them. But behind them lay a smoking battleground where the child’s father had died in another of the pointless wars of religion that would devastate Europe for 30 years. So the woman took her daughter and they made their way through a landscape of ruin, savagery, dangers by night and day that we cannot begin to imagine.

Weeks, perhaps months, later they appeared on the doorstep of the family to which the child’s late father had belonged, a family of country gentry in a village where strangers were typically cause for suspicion and particularly so in time of war. The ailing mother and her daughter were taken in by this family, and though the mother died, the little girlAshraf Na’alwa, Saleh Barghouthi, Majd Mteir (l-r). Graphic: Quds News

On 13 December 2018, Israeli occupation forces shot down four Palestinians, including several resistance fighters who had evaded their pursuit for months. Ashraf Na’alwa, 23, was killed by occupation forces who attacked the home where he was staying in Askar refugee camp near Nablus. He had been pursued by occupation forces since he carried out an armed resistance operation on 7 October in the illegal colonial settlement of Barkan in the northern West Bank of occupied Palestine in which two settlers were killed.

Na’alwa, a Palestinian worker at a factory in the colonial settlement, evaded occupation forces for months. During that time, his entire family was repeatedly harassed and attacked by occupation forces. His mother, sister, brother and father were


all repeatedly detained and interrogated, while his home village of Shweika near Tulkarem was subjected to ongoing attacks, raids and intensive surveillance. Many of his family members remain behind bars as we remember him today. Occupation forces ordered his family home demolished, a tactic of collective punishment that the Israeli occupation continued from the former British colonial mandate over Palestine.

Israeli sources reported that Na’alwa’s location was finally revealed under “harsh interrogation,” usually a euphemism for torture under interrogation. The occupation forces deliberately aimed to kill Na’alwa, who resisted until the last moment; indeed, Israeli headlines bragged about “eliminating” the “terrorist.” Occupation forces reportedly chased Na’alwa through the camp for hours before surrounding him in the building. Around the bloody scene, occupation forces seized more Palestinians, accusing them of“providing aid” to the “wanted” resistance fighter.

The extrajudicial execution of Ashraf Na’alwa did not come alone today. Saleh Omar Barghouthi, 29, the son of former Palestinian prisoner Omar Barghouthi, who served 25 years in Israeli prisons, was shot dead near the village of Sarda near Ramallah. Barghouthi, from Kobar village, carried out an armed resistance action at Ofra illegal colonial settlement on Sunday, 9 December, wounding seven settlers. Occupation forces attacked the his taxi he drove, seized him and shot him dead, according to Palestinian witnesses at the scene.

Barghouthi is also the nephew of Nael Barghouthi, one of the longest serving Palestinian prisoners, with 39 years in Israeli prison. Saleh’s brother, Asem, has spent 10 years in Israeli occupation prisons, while another uncle, Jacir, was deported to Gaza


when released from Israeli prison.

Also on Thursday morning, Israeli occupation forces in Jerusalem shot Majd Mteir, 26, a Palestinian refugee from Qalandiya camp, ten to twelve times in a row. Witnesses said that Mteir was left lying on the ground bleeding for 40 minutes before his death. Occupation forces accused him of attempting to stab Israeli armed “border police” in Jerusalem.

These killings were carried out in a coordinated fashion, alongside the arrest of dozens of Palestinians on the same night. Clearly, these were intended to be a deadly blow not only against these strugglers, but also the Palestinian resistance as a whole.

Nevertheless, ensuing events made clear that the military power of the occupation and its extrajudicial executions would only inflame Palestinian resistance further. Three Israeli soldiers at theto the world. Despite decades of assassinations and killings, the Palestinian resistance has not been crushed. Instead, it has continued to adapt, survive and grow, resisting a brutal, colonial occupation and its imperialist sponsors despite vast disparities in wealth and resources.

Photo: Hamdan Arda. Credit: Raya News

Israeli occupation forces have imposed a harsh siege on Ramallah and the surrounding villages. They shot dead 60-year-old Hamdan Arda, originally from the village of Arraba near Jenin, in his vehicle near el-Bireh, accusing him of attempting to run over soldiers. Arda was returning home from his aluminum factory when he was shot. As he lay inside his car, the soldiers refused to allow the Red Crescent ambulance to reach him and provide treatment. The killing of Arda came alongside attacks by soldiers


and settlers on Palestinian cities and villages. Six Palestinians were wounded in el-Bireh, shot by live ammunition and rubber-coated metal bullets. Illegal colonial settlers attacked Palestinians and their vehicles in cities and towns throughout the West Bank of occupied Palestine, while Palestinians took to the streets in protest.

Palestinian political parties, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and even Fateh called for mobilization inside and outside Palestine to confront the escalating occupation attacks. Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority President Abu Mazen attempted to distance himself from “violence,” while leaving the PA’s security coordination with the Israeli occupation intact.

These events come only a week after the latest effort by Israel and the United States at the United Nationspeople.”

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network highlights the importance of global solidarity with the Palestinian people, their liberation movement and their resistance. We remember and honor Ashraf Na’alwa, Saleh Barghouthi, Majd Mteir and Hasan Arda, as we remember the over 200 martyrs of today’s intifada, the Great March of Return in Gaza.

As we look back on 31 years of the First Intifada and see its spirit reflected today throughout occupied Palestine, we urge people of conscience around the world to organize protests and actions to stand with Palestinians confronting occupation, colonization and imperialism. We also urge communities, municipalities, university groups and trade unions to escalate the boycott of Israel, including economic, academic and cultural boycott – and especially a military embargo of the occupation state.

The lives of these strugglers


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¶ 2 The essential facts are not in dispute. In September 2004, a group of limited partners[1] who owned partnership units in Century Income Properties Fund I Limited Partnership sued the general partner, Century Capital Group; Century Capital Group's general partners, J. Peter Jungbacker and Wayne C. Chaney; and affiliated companies Century Capital Group, Century Capital Group, Ltd., Capital Management Group, Inc. and CCG Development Ltd. (collectively, Century Capital). In 2002, Century Capital successfully solicited the limited partners' vote to approve a sale of the partnership's main asset, a shopping center, for $250 per unit of interest. The limited partners agreed to the sale so as to liquidate the partnership and the parties ultimately agreed to a payment of $281 per unit of interest. CenturyEarlier this year FEAR FOREVER covered Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival. We however missed the debut of Michael Peterson’s KNUCKLEBALL, which ended up winning the audience choice award. We are no longer in the dark, as we bring you a review of this festival crowd pleaser. The film had a release in Canadian cinemas before becoming available digitally earlier this month. Filmed in Alberta, Canada; KNUCKLEBALL is a great example of the awesome horror films that constantly come out of the country.

When visiting his tough and mysterious grandfather on an isolated farm, 12 year old Henry has nothing to do once his phone dies but farm chores. The time away from technology starts off as a good thing as he and his grandfather bond over ways to pitch a


always appreciate when a movie villain provokes these feelings. It is easy to be likeable, it is much harder to be truly menacing.

Chambers is joined by his TURBOKID co-star and Canadian film legend Michael Ironside (SCANNERS, TOTAL RECALL). Ironside brings some credibility to this indie gem and his talent is not at all wasted as the rest of the film is as good as his performance. Newcomer Luca Villacis -who gave a pretty great performance in CHANNEL ZERO: CANDLE COVE-again knocks it out of the park as Henry.

KNUCKLEBALL takes full advantage of its location which is beautiful, eerie and most importantly to the film: vast and isolating. The film does nothing to change my foreigner impression that Canada is just one giant snow globe.

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Hamburg, Germany (CNN) Protesters at the G20 summit in Germany set a series of bonfires in the streets, looted shops, and stacked up blocks of pavement to use as projectiles as tension between demonstrators and police ratcheted up Friday night.

At first police stayed back while the protesters took a hit-and-run approach, groups of them running up the road, throwing rocks and bottles, and quickly retreating.

But about 30 minutes before midnight, police moved forward, firing teargas, water cannons and setting off flash-bang grenades.

Protesters hurled bottles of looted champagne into the fires, Hamburg police said, causing popping noises that sounded like fireworks. At one store, residents of the area tried to stop people from stealing from the shop windows.

From where a CNN crew was positioned, the mass of protesters appearedstaged sit-ins across the city.

Fire on the streets in Hamburg's Sternschanze area now pic.twitter.com/sgtvEeHVFw — Kara Fox (@karadaniellefox) July 7, 2017

At one of the sit-ins, a little more than a mile from the summit security zone, water cannons were deployed against protesters who came armed with umbrellas and rain gear. Protest organizers had told CNN they would try to storm police barricades around restricted areas.

JUST WATCHED Police deploy water cannons on G20 protesters Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Police deploy water cannons on G20 protesters 01:20

Members of the "Color the Red Zone" protest said they were trying to make it difficult for G20 participants to travel to the talks.

"We are living in a democracy, and the red zone is not a democracy," said Karl S, a student


7, 2017

Melania Trump's schedule affected

Some small groups of people were pushed back as they tried to march down streets to be used by G20 delegates. They said their objective was not to get close to the summit but to block the delegates' routes to it.

Police have fired pepper spray, w at least one demonstrator w a head injury at demo against g20 this am pic.twitter.com/4qdjvFrB2A — Kara Fox (@karadaniellefox) July 7, 2017

Volunteers could be seen treating people with saline solution, possibly due to tear gas or pepper spray, and tending to others injured. One woman could be seen bleeding from her neck or head. Police told demonstrators they were in a forbidden area.

Protesters appeared to disrupt some G20 visitors' movements around the city.

Melania Trump's spokeswoman told reporters theUS first lady was unable to take part in scheduled events with other G20 spouses because of the protests.

"Hamburg police couldn't provide clearance for us to leave," Stephanie Grisham said.

The spouses were due to take a river cruise and tour a climate change center, according to media reports.

Police say protesters have set vehicles and other objects on fire in Hamburg.

Hamburg police tweeted Friday afternoon that some officers were attacked with iron bars in the Reeperbahn, the city's famous entertainment district.

Other officers were attacked with fire bombs in Holstenstrasse, farther north, police said, and barricades were set afire.

Festive atmosphere

A big crowd, including leftist groups from elsewhere in Europe, gathered Friday afternoon amid a more festive atmosphere in Millerntorplatz, a square off the Reeperbahn. Many held banners or flags aloft


as they listened to music.

As the world's bosses meet only a few kilometres away, thousands have gathered at Hamburg'sMillerntorplatz to say #NoG20 pic.twitter.com/DE7pdPGz0P — Kara Fox (@karadaniellefox) July 7, 2017

But fresh confrontations soon broke out nearby as protesters throwing stones and water bottles clashed with police near the waterfront.

Violence also flared earlier in the Altona district, a couple of miles to the west of the summit security zone.

Past G20 protests Some G20 summits have been marked by violence. More than 100 people were arrested during demonstrations at the G20 summit in London in April 2009. Tensions flared as police kept protesters "kettled" in the streets for hours. There were more than 80 arrests at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh later that year. Hundreds of protesters were arrested atnear the Hamburg-Altona railway station, where authorities said people had set vehicles on fire and thrown Molotov cocktails. Smoke could be seen across the skyline from fires said to have been lit by protesters.

The latest round of demonstrations, though unruly, are smaller and more dispersed than Thursday night's violence, during which at least 111 police officers were hurt, according to police. Water cannons were deployed to disperse protesters, and 29 arrests were made. Police did not give the reasons for the arrests.

Security is tight in the city of 1.8 million as leaders from around the world convene for the G20 summit.

The Group of 20, which includes 19 countries and the European Union, accounts for about 80% of the global gross domestic product. Around two-thirds of the world's population