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Rainbow nation explodes in joy as Boks are cheered homeSouth Africa exploded last night, the final whistle in the World Cup bringing the rainbow nation on to the streets in the time it takes to lift the Webb Ellis trophy.
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Jewish schools to get aid for better securityJewish schools will be told tomorrow that they can spend government money securing their grounds because of fears of antisemitic attacks.
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i installed the 100.14.03 beta driver and the first thing i got is a
lockup when i ran glxgears :(
well i rebooted and started e.g. world of warcraft and i found out
that the framerate dropped significantly. also the grafical glitches
i get only with my 8800gts are present too.
dont get confused fromt he nvidia-bug-report.log
i installed the beta driver via my distribution package so it isnt listed there
i added also a glxinfo to show that the driver is installed properly
i disabled vertex and pixleshaders in wine (for d3d-mode) due stefan doesingers recommendation
then the glitches were gone but the performance is really crappy
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I have an 8800GTS and don't get any lockups while running glxgears.
Tomorrow I'll tell you if I see any performance drops in WoW, but I use OpenGL while I understand you use D3D.
Re: bugs in 100.14.03
I just tried to install 100.14.03 beta using the install script from NVIDIA (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.03-pkg2.run), but when the X server tries to start, it says the driver version is 100.14.03 but that the kernel module doesn't match the version and refuses to start. i tried reinstalling 4 times, all appeared successful but all turned out with the same failure to load X. I reverted to driver 1.0-9755 and everything works again.
Running Kubuntu 7.04 x86_64 (kernel 2.6.20-15-generic), EVGA GeForce 8800GTS w/640MB, Core 2 Duo E6600, 2GM SDRAM.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Re: bugs in 100.14.03
If you want to change the driver version without rebooting, you have to do "rmmod nvidia" first.
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Re: bugs in 100.14.03
Well, I got brave. I rebooted, went to "telinit 3" as the installer requested, unloaded nvidia, stopped X and kdm. In the end, same result. Reinstalling 9755 worked fine, as I have several updated previously. Through all the previous updates, I haven't encountered this issue before. Seems that there's a problem with NVIDIA's script, perhaps it doesn't work with the new kernel for ubuntu 7.04 (feisty).
EDIT: I just looked in the Appendix to the README file and noticed that the 8800 cards are not listed as supported! Don't know if that's an oversight or there's some other issue there.
Re: bugs in 100.14.03
As a follow up from the previous discussion regarding reduced frame rates in World Of Warcraft - and probably everywhere but I don't play other games - I can confirm that there is significant reduction of about 10fps with this beta driver compared to 9755, also glxgears from about 21000 drops to 16000.
When possible it would be nice a NVidia rep to comment on this.
My system configuration is Core 2 Duo 2.13GHz + 8800GTS 320MB .
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Hey. I'm getting corruption with these new drivers as well in glxgears.
Framerates aren't really affected much, but it alternates between working, having rendering artifacts and failing to draw completely (ie, resulting in a black window)
I haven't rebooted yet, so it could just be that the driver didn't handle the upgrade too well.
Re: bugs in 100.14.03
False alarm. reboot seems to have cleared it up.
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@Tanker Bob: please see http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490; if the Ubuntu specific suggestions in this thread don't help, please generate/attach an nvidia-bug-report.log file (see http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678).
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I greatly appreciate your time. Looks like I have some work to do to resolve this on my end.
BTW, I bought the 8800GTS card for my new PC build two weeks ago because of NVIDIA's great support to Linux users. Thank you for continuing to support the Linux community. I realize that there are some FOSS purists who hound your company and others, but the bulk of the Linux community I see on the various forums greatly appreciate your support and understand/honor your intellectual property rights. Please keep up your great work and pass this post on to your fellows and leadership there at NVIDIA. The 8800GTS is an awesome achievement, and it runs great under Linux!
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well this problem appears in ogl and d3d mode of world of warcraft since the first
working 8800 driver (97.55). I tested it also with a 6800gt (my old card)
and there the problem is not existent and also the performance is much better.
so there has to be a driver bug.
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Big enough for Tapley (knee) and teammate DeShawn Stephens (hip) to will themselves on the court after sitting out part or all of Sunday's 66-60 win at USC with injuries and missing most of the week of practice. Both practiced Friday, Tapley more than Stephens, and Fisher listed both as "probable" with a final decision coming shortly before the 7 p.m. tipoff before an expected Honda Center sellout.
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Tonight's game is part of the John R. Wooden Classic, an annual event at Honda Center to honor the Bruins coaching legend that regularly involves the Bruins. Two years ago the arena took full control of the event, with greater leverage in choosing teams.
SDSU has been part of the Wooden Classic twice before but as the undercard to the main event – losing to Saint Mary's in both 2007 and 2008. But the Aztecs and their suddenly loyal fans against the Bruins in a one-off game on a neutral court on a Saturday night?
Fisher had asked several times since arriving at SDSU in 1999, first to UCLA coach Steve Lavin and more recently Ben Howland. The answer was always no.
Part of it was that Fisher made a philosophical decision to build his program by not succumbing to road "guarantee" games, where teams get a five-figure check to play in another team's arena with friendly officials. And if you're not named Notre Dame or a basketball blueblood, UCLA rarely agrees to nonconference home-and-home series.
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GALLIPOLIS — One of 11 young women will be chosen queen of the 58th annual Gallia County Junior Fair during the Miss Gallia County pageant on the fair's opening night, Monday, July 30 at 9:30 p.m. on the Main Stage.
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During high school, Lehanna has been involved in National Honor Society, Regional Scholars, Who's Who Among American High School Students, STAMP, varsity cheerleading, Key Club, Madrigals, Show Choir, Summer Scholars, Energy Team and Student Council.
She graduated in the top 10 percent of her class.
Lehanna's community involvement extends to Junior Fair Youth Board, president of the Raccoon Rowdies 4-H Club, 10-year 4-H member, Relay For Life, Toys for Tots, Pennies for Patients, Operation Christmas Child, nursing home and senior care center volunteer, Santa's Little Helpers, and volunteering in the Prime Time after-school program. She attends Fellowship of Faith Church.
She plans to attend the University of Rio Grande/Rio Grande Community College and major in secondary education.
In high school, Adriane was active in National Honor Society, Regional Scholars and winner of a Superior rating in the Solo and Ensemble Competition. She was active in varsity cheerleading, secretary of the Student Council, recipient of the National Student Council Award, Model United Nations and graduated in the top 10 percent of her class.
She is a past member of the state and national All Star Cheer and Dance Squad, listed in Who's Who Among American High School Students, a Stay Tobacco Free (STAMP) athletic mentor, and also received an Award of Merit and an Honors diploma.
In the community, Adriane has been active in the Gallia County Junior Fair Youth Board, president of the Triangle 4-H Club, a counselor at Camp Invention, a participant in the Energy Team, a piano student of Allen Strait, a Senior Ambassador for The Image Gallery, an active youth member of the First Church of God, campaigned for new schools and new fairgrounds, and participated in the Shoe Box Ministry.
Adriane will be attending Marshall University and majoring in chemistry or biology, in hopes of becoming a physician.
During high school, Kayla was involved in cheerleading for three years, track for four years, choir for four years, National History Day, class secretary for three years, and worked on such class community projects as Special Olympics, Operation Christmas Child, food pantry, clothing drive and collecting books for a school in the Philippines.
In the community, she has been involved with Triangle 4-H Club for 10 years and its yearly community service projects, choir and yourh group at Salem Baptist Church, church cleanup days and helping with Bible School, collecting unused church materials for missions, and helping neighboring senior citizens with yard work.
Kayla plans to attend Hocking College to study equine health and complementary therapies.
While in high school, Kristen was involved with varsity basketball, varsity cheerleading, varsity softball, FFA, Beta Club, newspaper staff, choir, National Honor Society, PRIDE, SCORES, class officer, Who's Who Among American High School Students, Gallia County Junior Fair Youth Board, and the Pairs & Spares 4-H Club.
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Kristen will attend Ohio State University and major in animal science and veterinary medicine.
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In the community, she has been involved in 4-H, Girl Scouts, Gallia County Junior Fair Youth Board, Junior Leaders, the University of Rio Grande Swim Team, Gallia County Carteens and the water polo team.
Brea plans to attend the National K-9 Training Center to become a professional dog trainer.
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She has received many awards, including honor roll and Who"s Who Among American High School Students. She also plays both varsity volleyball and softball.
In her community, Kari has been involved with several activities, including Red Cross blood drives, community trash pickup, ice cream socials and soup dinners. She has organized community service projects such as "Make a Change With Your Change" for Hurricane Katrina victims, and a "River Valley's Got Talent" to raise money for the American Cancer Society. She also attends Cheshire Baptist Church, where she plays the piano and the organ for the Sunday morning service.
Kari plans to attend Ohio University and major in speech and music therapy.
In high school, Elizabeth was active in varsity cheerleading, PRIDE, Beta, FCCLA, National Honor Society, SCORES, Academic Festival, choir, newspaper staff, serving as editor, class president for four years, 4-H (13 years), Who's Who Among American High School Students and Senior Salute.
She was among the top 10 percent of her graduating class.
In the community, Elizabeth has been involved with the "Toasty Toes" shoe drive, "Say Boo to Drugs," Red Cross blood drives, March of Dimes, Boo Boo Buddies, St. Jude Miracle Walk, Operation Christmas and Secret Santa, Giving Tree, Bible school, a music teacher, volunteer cheer coach and Toys for Tots.
Elizabeth will attend the University of Rio Grande/Rio Grande Community College and major in communications and marketing.
During high school, Leslie was with the National Honor Society for two years, on the varsity softball team for four years, three years of volleyball, and was a member of the Prom Decorating Committee.
Within the community, Leslie has been an eight-year member of the Gallia Guys & Gals 4-H Club, active in 4-H Junior Leaders for two years, organized, created and donated a basket for the 4-H basket raffle to raise funds for a fellow 4-H member battling cancer, Relay For Life and America in Bloom.
She plans to attend the Ohio State University Newark Branch to study chemistry and pre-dentistry in hope of becoming a dentist.
During high school, she has been involved in National Honor Society, Student Council for four years, currently serving as president, and is a recipient of the USAA National Student Council Award. She has been on the Blue Angels volleyball team for five years with varsity letter and All Academic SEOAL, Regional Scholars Leadership Conference representative for GAHS, has taken advanced placement courses in al subject areas, has a 4.0 grade point average and is in the top 10 percent of her class.
She is a STAMP mentor, listed in Who's Who in American High School Students and is a member of the International Society of Poets, with three published poems to her credit. Lauren is a four-year Southern Ohio Volleyball Club (SEOVC) member.
In the community, Lauren is active in the Vinton Baptist Small Group Bible Study, a church nursery attendant, and eight-year member of the Raccoon Rowdies 4-H Club, currently serving as vice president and the club's past treasurer. She was the 2000 Junior Livestock Princess.
Lauren is also a Junior Fair Youth Board member, a two-year volunteer for Relay For Life, and has participated in the Pennies for Patients children with leukemia fund-raiser, Keep Gallia Beautiful, and GIRLS (Getting Into Real Life Situations) Night Out.
Lauren plans to attend Ohio State University to study biological sciences as part of her pre-medical studies.
In high school, Kayla has been involved with Key Club, Beta Club, National Honor Society, PSO, Art Club, varsity volleyball, varsity basketball and varsity softball.
Within the community, she has been active in 4-H, is a member of Gallia Cornerstone Church, is a Sunday School teacher, and a participant in Junior Leaders, the Junior Fair Board and the Good Times 4-H Club.
Kayla plans to attend Ohio State University and major in biology.
In school, Sarah was active in FFA, serving as secretary in her senior year, Key Club and the Prom Committee.
Within the community, she has been active in Relay For Life, Junior Fair Board, youth group, Thivener Pioneers 4-H Club, the "Cuddly Coat" drive, Operation Christmas Child toy drive, Thanksgiving and Christmas food drive, made regular visits to nursing homes and participated in Christmas Family sponsorship.
Sarah will attend the University of Rio Grande/Rio Grande Community College and major in nursing.


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Cornerstone University is challenging its students to live out their faith through the theme of "Shalom" in chapel this spring.
Speakers Noel Castellanos, executive director of the Christian Community Development Association; Michelle Loyd-Paige, dean of multi-cultural affairs at Calvin College; and Christopher Yuan, author and national speaker about homosexuality will be part of the line-up.
Other speakers include Joel Hamernick of Sunshine Gospel Ministries, Robbie Castleman, Neal Plantinga, Lina AbuJamra and various faculty and staff.
Based on a definition from Nicholas Wolterstorff, Gerald Longjohn, vice president of student development, explained shalom as "finding the light in rightly ordered relationships."
"It's not a circumstantial peace," he said. "It's holistic. We find delight in rightly ordered relationships."
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Traveling is my passion!
I love traveling, meeting people around the world, making friends, learning other cultures, seeing different things, and stuff. I had so much fun and I always want more!
The saddest thing of traveling is to end the journey itself :-(
I love my country! I can find anything here - well, except the snow. The mountains, the beaches, the country side, the friendly people, the good weather, the spicy food...there's nothing better than my country.
But being an Indonesian (having Indonesian passport and working with Indonesian salary) is not that good! Pls read the chapters below so u'll understand
Well, anything you would like to know about my country, please let me know.
I'm blessed that I live in a tropical country. I can just lay down on my back looking up the trees like this view...The best thing is u can see like this every day, and it's always green :-)
Indonesian citizen always need visa to go abroad (except to 11 certain countries). On average, we need to apply with hell of documents to submit, 3-20 days to proceed, pay for quite expensive money and sometimes need to be interviewed to get accepted. But those still can't guarantee!
Pheww, I wish I could go anywhere with only my passport on my hand...
Sorry for "the tourist visa charging" to all travelers who'd like to come to Indonesia.
I know we might get fewer tourists since the new visa regulation (plus the impact of Bali Bombing and SARS issue), but as an Indonesian…I totally agree!
FYI, the decree was based on the principle of reciprocity, as most countries do not grant visa-free entry to Indonesians (i.e. Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Brunei, Hong Kong, Macau, Peru, Chile and Morocco). I think it's FAIR, isn't it?
So if u wanna get visa-free to Indonesia, please ask your country to give visa-free entry to us as well
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We only have 12 days annual leave (even less 'cause our government forces us to deduct few days for national holidays)!! It's our labor law and applied in every company here.
School holiday is better, we have a month holiday (means, we go to school for 11 months)
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Thanks to technology that now we have digital camera! But too bad for pics I have taken before the invention of dig cam (or before I could afford to buy it), I haven't had time to scan and upload em in my VT page...
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The Faith & Politics Institute is a Washington, D.C. non-profit organization that serves members of Congress and congressional staff by offering experiential pilgrimages, reflection groups, retreats and public forums."[1] Through its bipartisan and interfaith dialogues and programs, the group "works to bridge racial, religious, and political divisions among elected officials, while promoting reflective and ethical leadership.[2] Since 1991, hundreds of members of Congress, Congressional staff, and their constituents have taken part in efforts "that encourage collaborative and visionary leadership practices and foster healing, civility, and respect."[2]
The organization was headed by the Rev. Doug Tanner for the first 15 years of its existence, with Fr. Cletus Kiley taking over as president in 2006,[3] succeeded in 2011 by the Rev. Mark J. Farr.[4] In July 2012 Elizabeth McCloskey became the current CEO and president of The Faith & Politics Institute. While many Democratic and Republican Congressional Representatives work with the organization, including those on its Congressional Advisory Board, Representative John Lewis, a former leader of the Civil rights movement in America, has played a special role in its programs, including its annual Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Alabama.[5]
The Institute was founded in 1991 to "provide bipartisan, bridge-building opportunities for political leaders to experience the spiritual power of conscience, courage, and compassion."[6]
Plans for the group resulted from an early "reflection group" that included Rep. Glenn Poshard, Ms. Anne Bartley, Rev. Joe Eldridge, and Rev. Doug Tanner. Convinced of the importance of such opportunities for reflection, Tanner founded the Institute in 1991 "with the hope of providing opportunities for meaningful interactions and experiences among those who lead and serve our nation."[7] Some of the Institute's earliest efforts were linked to the "Common Ground" program, providing opportunities for staffers and members to help rebuild churches burned by arsonists in the mid-1990s.[7]
In 1997, the organization expanded its programs when then-President Rev. Doug Tanner persuaded Representative Amo Houghton and Representative John Lewis (D-GA) to serve as the co-chairmen of the group's Board of Directors.[7] Their involvement brought in many additional members and leaders of Congress interested in dialogue across party, religious, racial, and ideological lines, creating a "spiritual community of men and women who seek a better way to do the people's business."[7]
The Faith and Politics Institute operates as an interfaith and non-partisan organization with the mission to advance "reflective leadership among members of Congress and congressional staff to bridge the divides that arise in a thriving democracy."[8]
The organization's website includes the following statement on its values:
The Faith & Politics Institute embraces values that are essential for a thriving democracy. Among those it holds most important are: Conscience, Courage, Compassion, Diversity, Integrity, Trust, Spiritual Engagement, Personal Reflection, Interfaith Understanding, Forgiveness, Civility, and Community.[9]
Programs and activities[edit]
The Institute's programs encompass three general areas of leadership, including:
- Leading from Within: Reflective leadership is effective leadership—opportunities for members and staffers to strengthen their "inner dimension of leadership";
- Leading Across the Divides: Race, religion and partisanship—efforts to "foster a spirit of reconciliation across lines of race, religion and political party";
- Leading in service: Engaging the public—programs that bring together leaders and their constituents.[10]
Activities within these three broad areas include reflection groups, retreats, pilgrimages, and public forums. The weekly reflection groups and occasional retreats are important opportunities seek to provide opportunities for men and women who work in the "fast-paced and charged atmosphere of Washington, D.C., to "connect their role with their greater calling as human beings." The public forums include lectures by well-known speakers "whose lives reflect moral courage in the political arena." The pilgrimages allow men and women from both houses of congress, along with staff members and special guests, to take part in trips that provide information, inspiration, and opportunities for reflection on the lessons to be learned from past struggles, such as the civil rights movement. The annual pilgrimage to Montgomery and Selma Alabama that includes a walk over the famous Edmund Pettus Bridge is an event led by Representative John Lewis, an early civil rights leader.[11] Other special activities include:
- The Lewis-Houghton Leadership Awards: recognizing leaders "who have exhibited qualities of conscience, courage and compassion in their roles as public servants."
- United States-South Africa Faith and Politics Initiative: In May 2003, The Faith & Politics Institute provided program conceptualization, planning, and coordination for the Congressional visit (CODEL) to South Africa, led by Reps. Houghton and Lewis. This visit provided an opportunity to compare lessons learned from America's civil rights movement and South Africa's fight against apartheid, and established links for future dialogue.
- Saint Joseph's Day Breakfast: an annual breakfast program, including a speaker and awards ceremony, on Saint Joseph's Day. Because Saint Joseph is recognized by many as the patron saint of the worker, the Institute's St. Joseph's Day breakfast was founded "to raise awareness of the spiritual and moral issues that affect economic life in America." [12]
- The Congressional Reception: Every other year, this reception acknowledges both those who have supported the Institute's efforts and those who have been inspired by its programs.[10]
The Faith & Politics Institute just concluded it's annual Congressional Pilgrimage to Alabama to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of "Bloody Sunday". The Institute brought together an unprecedented number of Senators and Members of Congress in a bipartisan fashion to reflect on the Civil Rights struggle of the past. There were over 100 lawmakers in attendance during the 3 day weekend including addresses and appearances by former President George W. Bush and President Obama in Selma, Alabama.
Through partnership efforts with other organizations, the Institute extends its reach by co-sponsoring special events that its basic missions. Some groups, like the Fetzer Institute, partner with the Institute to support a wide variety of its programs,[13] while others focus on specific events, including:
- Congressional Conversations on Race: co-sponsored with Search for Common Ground, and founded on a belief in the need for the nation's leaders to recognize the spiritual nature of our nation's historic racial wounds, and work together toward healing.[14]
- Civil Rights Heroes: Buried but not forgotten: in partnership with Sewall-Belmont House, the District of Columbia, GLAAD, and the National Park Service, honored women and men buried in the Congressional Cemetery, who played key roles in advancing justice and equality for all. One of the men honored was Leonard Matlovich a Vietnam war veteran Tech Sergeant, who had spoken out against discrimination against gay and lesbian service personnel.[15][16]
- Muslims in America: The Faith & Politics Institute, along with the Newseum's Religious Freedom Education Project and Wesley Theological Seminary, hosted evening of storytelling and honest dialogue what it means to be Muslim-American in our contemporary context.[17]
The Reverend Doug Tanner was founder and first president of the organization. In 2006, Fr Cletus Kiley, a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago, at that time executive director of the Office of Priestly Life and Ministry of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), took over as president, with Tanner continuing to work as the group's "Senior Advisor."[3] The current president is the Rev. Mark J. Farr, previously the Senior Faith Director of the Points of Light Institute.[18] Farr was selected for the position in January 2011 and officially began work as president on February 28, 2011.[4] Rob Liberatore, is the current Interim President and CEO while a national search is conducted for a new President.
- ^ FaithAndPolitics.org, retrieved April 29, 2011.
- ^ a b www.mott.org, retrieved April 30, 2011.
- ^ a b www.usccb.org, retrieved April 29, 2011.
- ^ a b Archive.constantcontact.com, retrieved April 30, 2011.
- ^ thecommongroundblog.com, retrieved April 30, 2011.
- ^ www.nndb.com, retrieved April 29, 2011.
- ^ a b c d FaithAndPolitics.org/history, retrieved April 29, 2011.
- ^ www.FaithAndPolitics.org/mission, retrieved April 29, 2011.
- ^ www.faithandpolitics.org/values_commitments, retrieved April 30, 2011.
- ^ a b www.FaithAndPolitics.org/programs_activities, retrieved April 29, 2011.
- ^ 11th Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage, retrieved April 30, 2011.
- ^ Events.constantcontact.com, retrieved April 30, 2011.
- ^ www.fetzer.org, retrieved April 30, 2011.
- ^ www.congresionalconversations.com, retrieved April 29, 2011.
- ^ cagaychamber.com, retrieved April 21, 2011.
- ^ [1] retrieved July 12, 2011.
- ^ [2], retrieved July 12, 2011.
- ^ www.faithandpolitics.org/staff_and_board, retrieved April 30, 2011.
External links[edit]
- Video: closing of F&P presentation by Fr. Cletus Kiley
- Remarks by Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi at a F&P institute reception honoring Representative John Lewis
- Video: 2010 Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Montgomery and Selma Alabama, led by Representative John Lewis of Georgia


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The Third Man ('49)
An American writer of pulp westerns, Holly Martins, arrives by train in the war-torn, divided city of Vienna. He has been promised a job there by his boyhood friend, Harry Lime. Martins arrives just in time to attend his friend's funeral; he is informed that Lime has just been killed in a traffic accident. Martins seems determined to investigate Lime's death, in spite of being told repeatedly that he should leave the country and go home - both by Major Calloway, the British officer who was pursuing Lime for black marketeering, and by Lime's former lover Anna, with whom Martins is falling in love. Eventually, Martins learns much more about Lime than he ever wanted to know while grappling with questions of morality far more complex than those introduced in his western novels.
Producer/Director: Carol Reed
Executive Producers: Alexander Korda, David O. Selznick
Associate Producer: Hugh Perceval
Screenplay: Graham Greene
Cinematography: Robert Krasker
Film Editor: Oswald Hafenrichter
Assistant Director: Guy Hamilton
Music: Anton Karas
Makeup: George Frost
Sound Editor: Jack Drake
Set Designers: Joseph Bato, John Hawkesworth, Vincent Korda
Cast: Joseph Cotten (Holly Martins), Alida Valli (Anna Schmidt), Orson Welles (Harry Lime), Trevor Howard (Major Calloway), Bernard Lee (Sgt. Paine), Paul Hoerbiger (Porter), Ernst Deutsch ('Baron' Kurtz), Siegfried Breuer (Popescu), Erich Ponto (Dr. Winkel), Wilfrid Hyde-White (Crabbin), Hedwig Bleibtreu (landlady)
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Film Noir is typically thought of as a purely American style or genre, but in 1949 two Englishmen - novelist Graham Greene and director Carol Reed - collaborated to flesh out an idea by producer Alexander Korda for a film set in the divided war-torn city of Vienna. The resulting movie,
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, was an overnight worldwide hit and is often listed as the greatest British film of all time. An American influence came from producer David O. Selznick and the stars Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles, but there is no mistaking the European flavor of the movie. Shot largely on location, it captures the darkness and decay of the formerly grand city that is now littered with rubble, just as it captures the corruption and decadence in the soul of people warped by World War.
The Third Man
works on many more levels than merely the "entertainment" that Greene termed it to be. It wonderfully captures a time and a place unique in history; it is an early example of a cold-war intrigue that, while not depicting a single spy, can be seen as a prototype for spy thrillers to come. It also works as a study of post-WWII morality with Harry Lime viewing his victims not as human but as far-removed dots that stop moving. It is also a character study featuring a hopeless love triangle.
The Third Man
won an Oscar® for cinematography at the 1951 Academy Awards (it also received nominations for directing and editing). Robert Krasker shot the night scenes of the film, which present a brilliantly stylized world filled with wet streets, shining cobblestones, shafts of brilliant light illuminating running shadows - angled shots with stark contrasts and deep-focus baroque detail. The flashy photography was not merely for show. It truly reflected the mindset of a city divided. The story, too, is served by the theatrics, and the corruption and decay of the city is also reflective of the corrupted morals to be found within. In a movie filled with wonderful performances, Orson Welles is truly unforgettable as Harry Lime. One of the great, complex villains of the cinema, Lime sets himself up in the Russian sector after being "killed" in an accident, and maneuvers about the city using the underground sewer system.
Aside from the intrigue that occurs in the city on this horizontal plane, it is interesting to note the parallel that the moral ambiguities of the movie have to the vertical plane, i.e., it is atop one of the highest points in the city that Lime rationalizes his crimes, while it is in the underground sewers that he conducts most of his business and is finally served justice.
Graham Greene and Carol Reed also present a fascinating character study and a most unorthodox love triangle. Our nominal hero is ineffectual and naïve. He arrives in Vienna as a know-nothing but never seems to learn his lesson. He falls in love with a woman that he hasn't got a chance with, because she loves a dead man.
Carol Reed directs with assurance in this, his greatest film. There were ups and downs in his career (he finally won an Oscar® in 1968 for his energetic but uncharacteristic work on the musical
), but he brought together every disparate element with aplomb in
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. He had a sense of what would work in the film, even when at first it appeared to be a square peg in a round hole. The most rewarding example of this is the music score. Reed avoided using the expected Viennese waltzes, and instead scored the film entirely with the plinking jangle of zither music. At the time, it was considered an odd choice, but the result is quite unique and now it seems just
The Third Man
rewards repeated viewings because it goes far beyond being a witty and exciting mystery-thriller. It flips all expectations on their heads by featuring an attractive embodiment of villainy and ineffective heroism; an enjoyable sense of cynicism and a bleak view of romance; a calming sense of chaos and a nostalgic vision of decadence. And when you meet Harry Lime, prepare yourself for a smiling justification for everyday corporate evil in the post-war modern world.
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Shakey's V-League: Unbeaten Ateneo, NU clash
UNBEATEN Ateneo and National University clash today in what could be a preview of the finals of the Shakey's V-League Season 10 First Conference at Filoil Flying V Arena in San Juan.
The match is set at 4 p.m. with the Lady Eagles, who are gunning for a third straight crown this year, seeking a sixth consecutive victory. A win by the Lady Bulldogs, unscathed in four games, will complete the semifinal cast in Group I.
"It's not the finals but we're very prepared for NU," said Ateneo coach Roger Gorayeb, whose squad has all but assured its entry to the last four after beating Arellano in straight sets last Thursday.
Adamson also hopes to formalize its entry to the semifinals when it battles University of Santo Tomas at 2 p.m.
With a 2-0 slate in Group II, the Lady Falcons are hoping to avoid complications in barging to the Final Four.
A win by the Tigresses will complete the semifinal cast in Group II.
The spotlight though will be on the NU-Ateneo clash which will feature the league's best attacking teams.
Alyssa Valdez, Rachel Daquis and Fille Cainglet have been relentless for the Lady Eagles, who breezed past the Lady Chiefs, 25-18, 25-17, 25-23 at the start of the quarterfinals.
The Lady Bulldogs are formidable with the power-hitting Santiago sisters Dindin and Jaja, and Myla Pablo and Aiko Urdas at the helm.
"We just need to sort out our service receptions and lessen our unforced errors to stand a chance against Ateneo," said NU coach Edjet Mabbayad.
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It's one of the most anticipated sequels of the year, and "Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials" is ramping up the buzz with a brand new trailer.
The forthcoming film stars Dylan O'Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Katherine McNamara, Kaya Scodelario and Ki Hong Lee and is slated to hit theaters on September 18th.
Continuing her crusade against animal cruelty, Pamela Anderson stars in a new throwback ad campaign for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals organization.
This time around, the 47-year-old "Baywatch" babe goes retro in an Alfred Hitchcock-style pose from the iconic flick "Psycho," along with the tagline, "Meat and dairy farms drain half the country's water. Making a splash for the environment doesn't just mean shorter showers. Try vegan."
Never one to take herself too seriously, Sofia Vergara looks to be having a blast in her cover story for the June 2015 issue of Redbook magazine.
Ever the complicated artist, Rihanna shows off her feminine intensity in the latest Secret Garden video for the new Dior campaign.
The "We Found Love" singer worked under the direction of Steven Klein as she runs around the Palace of Versailles while her new song "If Only For a Night" plays in the background.
Stepping out for an evening of cinema, Robert Pattinson showed up at the Celeste Bartos Theater at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City last night (May 18).
The handsome "Remember Me" star charmed the paparazzi as he headed inside for the premiere of the new flick "Heaven Knows What" without his rumored fiancée FKA Twigs.
Following a long and patient season of waiting, fans are getting a first glimpse of the forthcoming flick "We Are Your Friends."
Today (May 19) Warner Bros dropped a preview trailer featuring Zac Efron, Emily Ratajkowski, Wes Bentley and Jonny Weston, ahead of the August 28th theatrical release date.
He loves bringing celebrities together for silly games and last night (May 18) Jimmy Fallon invited Hugh Jackman, Susan Sarandon and Nick Offerman to "The Tonight Show" for a blazing round of Password!
Kicking off the week with a swanky soiree, Calvin Klein hosted their Celebrate Women in Film event at the 68th Cannes Film Festival on Monday night (May 18).
Always gorgeous, Emily Blunt posed up a storm on the red carpet as she arrived at the affair, sporting a graceful halter-style yellow gown.
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April 27, 2011
CARY, N.C. - The Kay Yow Cancer Fund announced the winners of the 2011 WBCA Pink Zone Contest presented by Jostens and the National Champion Texas A&M women's basketball team was victorious, raising the most money of all participating teams in all divisions.
The contest is an effort to reward participating teams in the WBCA Pink Zone who are also raising money for the Fund, in partnership with The V Foundation and WBCA.
The Aggies raised over $61,000 in this year's BTHO Breast Cancer game, sponsored by the College Station Medical Center and held Saturday, Feb. 12 against Kansas. A&M nearly doubled its contribution from each of the previous three seasons.
"With the National Championship, what slipped under the radar was us receiving the award for the WBCA Pink Zone Contest," said A&M head coach Gary Blair. "It was very meaningful for everyone who was involved from us at A&M to all the fans and supporters. It's remarkable how when you do good things for other people, good things happen back to you.
"In 1998 Kay and I made our first Final Four and if I could win it for anyone else in the game itself, I'd like to say we helped win it for Kay Yow this year. We were just very thankful to help the Fund and next year we hope to do bigger and better things for it and for Aggie basketball."
Jostens, long-time WBCA sponsor, gave a complimentary piece of jewelry from the Jostens Kay Yow Cancer Fund Jewelry Collection to the team at each division (NCAA Division I, II, III, NAIA, JC/CC and High School/AAU) that raised the most funding during its WBCA Pink Zone game for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund. They also presented a plaque to the winning team at each division at the Kay Yow Cancer Fund Appreciation Reception.
"We appreciate the extraordinary efforts that each of these teams put forth in raising funds for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund," said Marsha Sharp, Kay Yow Cancer Fund Executive Director. "The entire women's basketball community is so supportive of the WBCA Pink Zone initiative and we are so thankful for their efforts in the fight against cancer."
Founded in December 2007, the Kay Yow Cancer Fund is a 501 c(3) charitable organization committed to being a part of finding an answer in the fight against women's cancers through raising money for scientific research, assisting the underserved and unifying people for a common cause.
The late Kay Yow, the Fund's namesake and former North Carolina State University head women's basketball coach, was a past president and founding member of the WBCA, and a galvanizing voice for the Association. Yow was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987, and passed away on January 24, 2009, after facing her third bout with the disease.
"Breast cancer, as well as the many other kinds of cancer, has touched a lot of us," commented Bill Byrne, Director of Athletics at Texas A&M. "It is a tribute to Kay Yow, other cancer survivors, and the Aggie family to learn Texas A&M raised the most money this year to support her Fund. Those proceeds will make a difference in the lives of many."


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"Sexual violence plays a special role as a form of violence and as a form of terror and torture," said Alison Brysk, a Wilson Center fellow and Mellichamp chair of global governance at the University of California Santa Barbara. Yet the connections between gender-based violence and urbanization – observed in Kenya, India, and countries around the world – are not widely recognized.
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The End of an Era: Why Mexican Immigrants are Returning to Mexico
January 14, 2014 // 9:00am — 10:30am
Mexico Institute
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December 17, 2013 // 9:15am — 11:00am
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November 13, 2013 // 8:55am — 11:00am
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Arab regimes are restoring abandoned Jewish historical sites, a subtle acknowledgement of where power now resides in the Middle East
"Where's the synagogue?" I ask a young solider in a beret. A member of the large security detail guarding the Lebanese prime minister's residence, he is leaning against a jeep and cradling an automatic weapon in one hand. He pulls on a cigarette and regards me warily. I am a foreigner asking directions to a place of Jewish worship from a soldier too young to know Jews as anything but warlike neighbors to the south. He jabs his thumb to the left of Prime Minister Saad Hariri's new mansion, Beit al-Wasat, which was built on land worth tens of millions of dollars, right beside the Maghen Abraham synagogue, the center of a Jewish community that no longer exists.
It's strange seeing the synagogue's Hebrew letters in the middle of Beirut. Hezbollah billboards near the Southern border sometimes bear propaganda translated into Hebrew, and there are Hebrew letters on the tombstones of Beirut's Jewish cemetery. But Maghen Abraham is a different story, a Jewish house of worship being rebuilt in an exclusive Beirut neighborhood with the blessing of the Lebanese government. It would be a symbol of rebirth, if not for the fact that no one is likely to worship there, certainly none of Lebanon's five and a half million Jewish neighbors in Israel, with which the Beirut government is officially at war.
"It's a vanished community in what was a vanished neighborhood," says Nada Abdelsamad, author of an Arabic-language novel, Wadi Abu Jamil: Stories of the Jews of Lebanon, named after this onetime Jewish district. The book's first printing sold out quickly. "People were interested to know something about the subject," Abdelsamad explains. "Some people didn't know we used to have an active Jewish community."
Aside from Israel, Lebanon was the only Middle Eastern country in which the number of Jews increased after 1948. It wasn't until the civil war that started in 1975 that Jews began to leave the country in large numbers. The chief rabbi of Lebanon left in 1978. "The Jews left in silence," Abdelsamad says. "They didn't try to contact their old friends. So the Lebanese still don't know what happened."
A more pertinent question might be, what's happened to make the Lebanese, and other Arabs, so interested in Jewish cultural remains like Maghen Abraham? In Cairo, the Egyptians are restoring a synagogue in a neighborhood called the Alley of the Jews. In Baghdad, officials are demanding the return of the books, manuscripts, and records of the Iraqi Jewish Archive, which American forces retrieved in the early days of the invasion from a building belonging to the Iraqi intelligence agency, the Mukhabarat.
"Iraqis must know that we are a diverse people, with different traditions, different religions, and we need to accept this diversity," the director of the Iraq National Library and Archive, Saad Eskander, told the Associated Press. "To show it to our people that Baghdad was always multiethnic." Or, as Zahi Hawass, general secretary of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said in a New York Times interview, "What we are doing now is not for the Jews. It is for us, for our heritage."
These restoration projects, as Arab officials like Eskander and Hawass have attested, are not meant to revive the Jewish communities of the Middle East. They are meant to convince the world of Arab tolerance. The Cairo synagogue renovation coincided with Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosny's bid to head UNESCO, a post he failed to win in part because of his apparent sympathy with Holocaust deniers and his anti-Israeli remarks. Tolerance of Jewish cultural remains can be exchanged for Western goodwill and aid without necessitating any messy engagement with actual Israelis. The mufti of Syria explained to a visiting delegation of American academics that the conflict with Israel was a war not against Jews but against Zionists.
And yet if you listen closely there is a deeper and more important subtext to the Arabs' strange and sudden fascination with the remains of the vanished Jewish communities of the Middle East. These restorations of Hebraic antiquity are not simply a safe way of acknowledging the longevity, and thus legitimacy, of the Middle East's oldest surviving religious community. They are also the means by which Arab governments have begun to recognize that community's influence and power over their fates. For it is Jewish warplanes, not Jewish remains, that have Arab princes and presidents captivated. Nowhere has this been made more explicit than in the recent valentine to Mossad chief Meir Dagan published in Egypt's semi-official daily newspaper Al-Ahram, calling him "the Superman of the Jewish state." Dagan is worthy of Cairo's love insofar as he "has dealt painful blows to the Iranian nuclear program." Thus the only question Egyptians ask a visitor from Washington: When will the Israelis finally bomb the Iranian nuclear program?
Egypt and its Arab allies believe that Obama's engagement with the Iranians will fail, that the Russians and Chinese will not join a sanctions regime, and that the Americans will eventually move to a policy of cold war-style containment and nuclear deterrence. The American president and his Middle East adviser, Dennis Ross, intimated that the Israelis might take dramatic action against Iran's nuclear program, confirmation for many Arab observers that the United States has taken its own military options off the table. This is not the case, these same observers believe, for the Israelis, who have acted against Iran's eastern Mediterranean allies—Hezbollah and Hamas—and will, with luck, take action against Iran itself.
Israeli strength and Arab weakness are therefore seen as part of a common pattern that will yet bring about the defeat of a common enemy: Iran. Here in Beirut there's talk that Prime Minister Hariri's recent trip to Syria, where he was coerced into humbling himself before the regime that allegedly assassinated his father, was merely a maneuver in a holding pattern until the Israelis strike. Sources close to Hariri explained to me that Saudi Arabia, the young prime minister's patron, believes an attack is imminent and that there is still time to wrest Syria away from the Iranians. Hariri's visit was seen as a down payment on an expected Syrian realignment.
The Arab fascination with Israeli might is nothing new, explains Lokman Slim, a Lebanese Shiite and founder of a Beirut-based, pro-democracy NGO called Hayyabina. "It's partly in the realm of fantasy," says Slim. "It's a sexual dream about the military libido—it's a dream the Arabs and Israelis share, but that the Israelis also enjoy in reality."
We're sitting in a bar in a Sunni quarter of Beirut. Everyone at the table is Shiite but anti-Hezbollah—which means that they are more worried than even the Sunnis that Iran might acquire the bomb. An Iranian nuclear capability would represent a victory for the ideology and culture of resistance, and would condemn Lebanon's Shiite community to another generation of wandering in a wilderness of ignorance, violence, and oppression.
When I explain to Lebanese Shiites that the big foreign policy debate in Washington right now is not about Iran but about Afghanistan, they are speechless. "What vital interest does Washington have in Afghanistan?" they ask. "Rocks? Where is the oil? You are afraid of looking weak because Osama Bin Laden says you are?"
The Sunni Arab states are no longer capable of shaping the region or even their own destiny, and so they wait to be rescued by Israeli Jews. The vast, opulent halls of Arab authority are vacant shells, while the crumbled synagogues of Beirut and Cairo are reminders of a power that once dwelled among the Arabs but has since migrated elsewhere.
Regional power has shifted away from Washington's familiar Arab partners and toward non-Arab states. The fate of the Middle East no longer depends on the desires of Cairo and Riyadh. The choices that shape the lives of Arabs are now made in Tehran, Tel Aviv, and perhaps a newly ascendant Ankara.
An Israeli strike on Iran may or may not be a mirage, but it is the only possible salvation for Arab states too weak to control their own destiny. Though Washington is still the pre-eminent power in the region, its confused and changing priorities appear to have blinded it to the Middle East's new configuration, and it is unlikely that America's continuing political and financial crises will make our vision any clearer.
One reason that the White House's Middle East peace process has, in Obama's words, "not moved forward," is that old Clinton hands like Dennis Ross, George Mitchell, and Rahm Emmanuel believed the Egyptians and the Saudis still had great influence. When events proved them wrong, they appeared simply to throw up their hands and blame the stubbornness of the locals. But something much more profound has changed.
When we wake up to that change we will find that one distinguishing characteristic of the shift in regional power to Iran, Turkey, and Israel is that all three countries are less dependent on the United States than they were five or ten years ago. Iran has troubles at home but is also a rising nuclear power that has been freed from the threat of an American military strike. Turkey was jilted by the European Union and no longer looks to America and the West. Israel has little interest in continuing to spend political capital to help Barack Obama.
The days when Prince Bandar, the longtime Saudi ambassador to Washington, smoked cigars on the Truman balcony have begun to look good when compared to an era in which the significant regional powers are neither Arab nor American, and do not feel the same urgency about returning Washington's calls. What such a region will look like is anyone's guess. It may not be very pleasant to live in. But it will surely be interesting to watch.
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