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Juventus president Giovanni Cobolli Gigli admits coach Claudio Ranieri's work this season has surprised him.
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BTM's Artistic Director Dianna Cuatto talks to former BTM Trainee Laura Pimpo about beginning a new dance career with the Texas Ballet Theater
Meagan Stukel (better known to her BTM Family as Meagan Helman), former Ballet Mistress and Principal Dancer, danced with Ballet Theatre of Maryland for 11 years. It would be impossible to overstate the contribution to she brought to the company during her tenure. As a dancer she brought richness and artistry to so many memorable performances and as Ballet Mistress she served whole-heartedly, pouring so much of herself into the company. She retired from the stage in 2014 and in the Spring of 2015 she married her husband Mike. The two of them now live in Flordia, where Meagan has been pursuing her Masters Degree as well as working on Faculty at the Tallahassee Ballet. During Meagan's tenure with BTM, in addition to dancing she would also stage her own choreography. This year for our final performance of the Season: "Innovations 2017" she is returning to the company to create a new choreography. In between the rehearsals for setting her piece, she was able to answer some of our questions.
Ballet Theatre of Maryland's Excalibur: The Sword in the Stone traces the legend of King Arthur, from his early separation from Morgan, his half-sister and future priestess, to his rise as King of Camelot and his formation of the Knights of the Roundtable, to his ultimate death. Meet some of the main players in this rich tapestry of wizardry, sword fights, the power of good versus the power of evil, romance, and betrayal.
Ballet Theatre of Maryland's Nicole Kelsch on Transforming from Teenage Mermaid to Medieval Warrior
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We are honored to welcome Mr. Steve Pimpo as the Ballet Theatre of Maryland's New Board Chairman for the 2016-2017 season.
As a long-time patron and supporter of the Ballet Theatre of Maryland, Steve comes to the position with energy and enthusiasm and a vision that welcomes all new patrons to become part of the Ballet Theatre of Maryland family.
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Close to noon on a cold and damp March 24th 2015, Ballet Theatre of Maryland dancers danced outside on Lawyers' Mall, near the State Capitol to draw attention to National Arts Advocacy Day. The following "Ten Reasons to Support the Arts" from Americans for the Arts sums up why the arts and arts funding are essential to our nation, our state, and our communities.
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A VIEWER may not come away from "The Indian Fighter" with any strikingly new data on the Old West. But this frontier saga, which arrived at the Mayfair yesterday, and which marks Kirk Douglas' debut as a movie producer, is not sedentary. Mr. Douglas, who doubles as the tough individualist of the title, has seen to it that the Indians do not stay peaceful for long, that the cavalry uses its rifles, that some rough-hewn romance is evident and that a couple of the pioneers trekking across the Red Man's domain in 1870 are grasping, black-hearted poltroons. "Indian Fighter," in short, is not setting fresh standards for Westerns, but this energetic troupe has managed to whip up a lively adventure.However, our hero's actions are perplexing. One can't blame Walter Abel, the captain commanding the Wyoming Territory outpost, for criticizing him by exclaiming, "I'm beginning to wonder what side you're on." First, our Mr. Douglas saves one of the villains from being dispatched by the incensed Sioux because he has been plying a couple of impressionable braves with whisky to wrest the secret location of the Indians' gold diggings. Later, our enterprising scout captures that low dastard and offers him as a hostage for the chief's brother, whom he has killed. Thus, the vengeful warriors desist from burning the fort and the settlers in it.Then again, Mr. Douglas, a free soul, thinks nothing of detouring a wagon train he is leading towards Oregon in order to keep a nocturnal tryst with the chief's comely daughter; and only one reel before he nearly had succumbed to the blandishments of an equally beauteous widow!It must be noted of course, that the script by Ben Hecht and Frank Davis has a fair sense of humor, and that the forests and mountains of Oregon, where this fiction was filmed, are sweeping and picturesque in color and Cinema-Scope. In the brunette Elsa Martinelli, who plays the Indian lass with a minimum of words and a maximum of feline grace. Mr. Douglas has come up with a pretty photogenic newcomer. Eduard Franz as Chief Red Cloud, Walter Matthau and Lon Chaney as the bad men of this escapade, Diana Douglas as the marriage-minded widow and Mr. Abel do not contribute spectacular performances. But Mr. Douglas' characterization is properly muscular. As a hard, though not faultless gent, he sits a horse well, looks great in buckskins and sometimes gives the impression that he could take over a pioneer's chores. Mr. Douglas has not blazed a cinema trail with "The Indian Fighter," but he has come up with a sturdy entertainment that should please the action fans.
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Only on my last day in this hilly, river-spliced city, with such beguiling old world charm and art nouveau elegance that unless you're Kafka a strenuous effort is required to maintain fury or gloom, did I understand why Czechs who disagree with American foreign policy are in sympathy with some of its goals and can muster sadness but not Western European indignation over the war in Iraq.
It was a gray morning as I walked around the city beneath the spires, steeples, cupolas and turrets, walked through history, really, with intermittent rain and fog as conduits to the past. Prague is a lesson. My attention turned from the great kings and queens, courtiers and ladies-in-waiting decked in their finery, and from the suffering, patient peasantry that supported them for so long, to the sieges, wars, brutality, boiling in oil, quartering–the manifold violence that Prague has endured.
Czechs shake their heads, not their fists, at us. "You don't understand the progression," a 65-year-old teacher named Benes said to me. "Iraq had a monster in Saddam, and you removed him. Liberators. The trouble is, what then? We had our monster in Hitler. I remember the Russians entering Prague in '45. Liberators. I cheered their tanks. But liberators who stay become oppressors. The next time Russian tanks came, in '68, I did not cheer."
Far longer ago than the British, Czechs had their wars of conquest as well as internecine affairs when Catholics and Protestants slaughtered each other. But they have only a folk, not a familial, memory of all this. It is going on 700 years since Charles IV of Prague was King of Bohemia and later Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Tempers have cooled a bit.
The Czech Republic has a small contingent of troops in Iraq, but on the eve of the war all of them were told they could go home if they wished, and a dozen or so did. A poll taken at that time found only 12 percent of Czechs in favor of a war without the backing of the UN Security Council. The first Czech to die in Iraq, a petrochemical specialist, was killed in an accident this spring.
Along Golden Lane, a diminutive street named for its trade in precious metals, Franz Kafka lived and wrote for a while. Upstairs, the second floors of a number of these small houses–including Kafka's–have been connected to form a long, narrow corridor featuring a display of early Bohemian and Czech weaponry. I stopped after counting 200 variations of swords, spears, pikes, battle-axes, daggers, dirks, halberds and other devices used to kill in the name of faith and ideology, with simple greed always lurking in the background. Some of the rapiers had primitive pistols mounted on their hilts, as if a knight might ask someone he was about to finish off, "OK, which way do you want to go?" I was shown some of Prague's sights by an educated young man named Slavek, who in the spirit of the times hopes to go either into the foreign ministry or the tourist business. Like other Czechs who have living memories of struggling under tyranny, Slavek genuinely sympathizes with a war to remove a dictator. "Absolutely, Saddam Hussein had to be overthrown, and the Iraqis couldn't do it by themselves," he said. "But the plans were bad. You went to war in too much haste and should have included Muslim countries. But if you pull out now the civil war to come will be much worse than life under Saddam. At least he had stability."


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KEY WEST, Fla.—La Concha Key West has opened a new restaurant in its grand lobby called 430 Duval that offers island-inspired small plates and fresh local seafood accented with bold Caribbean spices. Executive Chef Andrew Nguyen leads the culinary vision ...Read More »
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The festive season is upon us. Catch up with the latest series to welcome the holidays in style.
The show is centered around Claire, a troubled ballet dancer who moves to New York City to join a new ballet company. The show gives insight on the cutthroat competition in the world of professional ballet. This series gives us Black SwanVibes with its edgy and mysterious feel.
An action medieval-themed show, The Last Kingdon was released in October 2015. Out now, the show still has not received due credit for its interesting plotlines and complex characters. Lead character Uhtred is an illegitimate child of Saxon King Alfred, who is under attack from the Danes . The conflict between the Danes and Saxons has the warring parties waging war. Uhtred, gets kidnapped by the Danes, living like a Dane, amongst the Danes. In his quest to help the kingdom, Uhtred encounters many obstacles. Will he unite the Danes and the Saxons in the Wessex kingdom? The show is perfect for those who enjoy some ancient medieval battles and the complexities of life lived in that time period.
A show that takes a closer look at the hacker community and the life of a man played by Rami Malek who's social anxiety brings him to hacking as a coping mechanism. Mr. Robot highlights the conflict between classes, the disparity between the haves and the have-nots and the bigger issue of governments information screening. The Gloden Globe nominated show was released in late 2015, but is still worth watching, thrilling audiences with its intense and relatable plot. The conspiracy show is now in its third season.
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Mystery Spatula Theater 11, or MST11 for short, is our own fan version of the popular television show Mystery Science Theater 3000. Although more fromage than homage, as well as lacking an original premise with which to base the movie-riffing on, the MST11 crew still have fun doing what the "big boys" do. While not exactly the world's most original concept, it's all in good fun and there is no profit to be made from the whole exercise. Check the disclaimer as well.


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Rioters in an immigrant suburb in Stockholm responded to an arrest by throwing rocks at police, setting fires, looting, and beating up people.
No sooner has the media spent a news cycle treating Donald Trump as a fake news propagandist about migrants in Sweden, than we get this AP story about a predominately immigrant suburb in Stockholm:
Swedish police on Tuesday were investigating a riot that broke out overnight in a predominantly immigrant suburb in Stockholm after officers arrested a suspect on drug charges.
The clashes started late Monday when a police car arrested a suspect and people started throwing stones at them in Rinkeby, north of Stockholm. Unidentified people, including some wearing masks, also set cars on fire and looted shops.take our poll - story continues belowCompleting this poll grants you access to The Constitution updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to this site's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
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One officer was slightly injured when a rock hit his arm and one person was arrested for throwing rocks, police spokesman Lars Bystrom said Tuesday. Some civilians who tried to stop the looters were also assaulted, he added.
Another officer fired his gun, not as a warning shot but because he was "in a situation that demanded he used his firearm," Bystrom said, adding "no one was hit."
Here's some raw footage from RT's YouTube channel:
Does that look like a scene created by people who appreciate their community and are invested in its future?
I'll answer my own question: No, it looks like the result of a population that is seething with hatred for the wider community.
At Infowars.com, they used Google to translate this article that provides more details including that "shopkeepers are beaten."
At the same time, the information that the stores in Rinkeby looted and that a shopkeeper was beaten when he tried to intervene against looters.
The owner of one of the affected stores had direct alarm to his home. When he goes to the store, he is beaten, says Bystrom.
A total of at least two people have been assaulted. The battered shop owner cared for now in hospital for their injuries.
Meanwhile, Liberals continue to do everything they can to create "plausible deniability" about what is obviously going on in Sweden.
Below, Tucker Carlson interviews two people about Sweden. They both do everything they can to deny there is a problem or deny that we have any evidence of a problem. But if you listen to the second guest at 11:36 and following, she implicitly admits all:
According to her, Sweden has admitted so many refugees, in proportion to its native population, that America would have to take in six to seven million immigrants in the same time period.
Her point is that Sweden has nothing to do with American immigration.
But how does that follow from her argument?
She's just admitted that Swedish politicians acted against the interests of the people and imported a huge population that they could not possibly accommodate.
Are we supposed to believe that Liberals would not do the same here? We have no reason to think our Liberal politicians are smarter or wiser or more well-intentioned (or less evil) than Swedish ones.
After all, our government bullies European countries to get them to open up to more migrants.
The only rational time to panic is before it's too late. And the reply is always: "It's not time to panic yet." That's what Liberals are saying to us about immigration while we watch the results of their goals for us bring European nations down.


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Historic Area Work Permit (HAWP) applications must be submitted to The Department of Permitting Services (DPS). DPS will send your HAWP application form to our Preservation Planners for review, comment and forwarding to the HPC for consideration. Some historic districts have Local Advisory Panels (groups of volunteer citizens) that assist the HPC by reviewing HAWP applications and forwarding comments for the public record.
Once your application has been scheduled for review by the HPC at a public meeting, you will be notified by mail of the scheduled meeting date, time, and location. Typically, HPC public meetings are held on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. You are expected to attend on the evening that your application is under consideration. Meetings are held in the first floor Auditorium at the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission building at 8787 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Identifying stability, topological significance, and redundancies in water resource networks using parallel coordinate plotting
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The size and complexity of water resources networks typically require a large number of computationally intensive simulations to test effects of changes in network structure or management. Current tools can only visualize the effects of a few changes. Here, we introduce a new method and tool that uses parallel coordinate plotting to simultaneously visualize large water resources networks plus identify and rank nodes that are (1) stable (their connectivity does not depends on the existence of particular nodes), (2) topologically significant (when removed or added to the network, they cause other nodes to be unstable), and (3) redundant (a node pair that has similar connections). The tool works by calculating node centrality, creating a parallel coordinate plot, calculating pairwise differences between the elements comprising each plot trace, and calculating each node's stability, topological significance, and redundancy. We apply the tool to the 56-node lower Bear River water system that stretches from southern Idaho to the Great Salt Lake, Utah. Nodes that are connected to only one other node are the least stable, including Great Salt Lake, Malad River, and Evaporation from Hyrum Reservoir. The three most topologically significant nodes are Cutler and the two junctions connecting the South Cache Valley and the Weber branches to the rest of the network. There are five highly redundant node pairs with over 96% of the same connections including the Cache Valley Irrigation and Cache Valley New Municipal and Industrial service areas. These results suggest that the redundant Cache Valley Irrigation service area is a promising source to transfer water from agriculture to urban use. The New Box Elder County Irrigation and South Cache Irrigation service areas have very low topological significance ranks and suggest that these irrigation areas may also be promising sources of water transfers. Results also identify candidate locations to (i) remove dams (reservoirs with low topological significance or high redundancy), (ii) implement conservation measures, develop new alternative supplies, or monitor flows (unstable nodes), and (iii) protect environmental and ecological services (nodes with high topological significance). Future work should incorporate flow direction and magnitude. The tool scales to very large networks and identifies the most promising nodes to subsequently focus computationally-intensive simulation and sensitivity analysis efforts.


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Ochsner's Standardized Risk Stratification, Care Coordination Protocols Boost Outcomes across Continuum
Ochsner Health System's scaling of a successful transitional care model across one region not only reduced duplication of calls to recently discharged patients but also quadrupled its connect rate — from about 20 percent to nearly 98 percent of discharged patients — and decreased rehospitalizations by about 15 percent.
All while remaining salary-neutral.
To achieve these results and others like them, Ochsner uniformly applied scripts, templates and protocols to processes across its care continuum, even assuming clinical oversight for some providers in external facilities to ensure standardization, explained Mark Green, assistant VP of transition management at Ochsner, during Moving the Metrics: Financial and Quality Returns from System-wide Care Coordination and Risk Stratification, an October 2014 webinar now available for replay.
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To replicate these achievements, the nine-hospital system looks up and down its continuum for opportunities to collaborate in care coordination and has elevated its approach to risk stratification. This culture shift is a prerequisite for success in today's value-based climate, Green estimates.
"A really critical step to understand is managing not only your 'rising risk' but also your 'falling risk' patient population," he said, categorizing 'falling risk' as those whose conditions are under control and who can be handed off to a lower risk medical home or chronic disease management environment.
Healthcare doesn't currently do a good job of moving 'falling risk' patients down the stratification model, he said, which leaves little room for newly diagnosed 'rising risk' — an out of control CHF patient, for example.
Risk stratification is scalable, Green emphasized, from single providers without an electronic medical record to a large health system or accountable care organization. As a nine-hospital system, Ochsner's risk segmentation approach relies heavily on automation and data analytics. For example, every Ochsner hospital patient is assigned a severity of illness (SOI) level that helps to guide individuals to the appropriate level of care. For example, all level 3 patients are automatically referred to complex case management.
During the webinar, Green shared several of Ochsner's collaborations in risk stratification and care coordination, including an automated post-discharge telephonic follow-up for emergency department patients that replaced its siloed approach and has reduced avoidable ER use in the range of 13 to 15 percent depending on the payor and the location.
"We are very cognizant of and careful that we're not driving too much business away from our emergency room if it's appropriate. We're just letting [staff] manage a higher risk population within their emergency room and giving them time to spend more of it with the patients."
You can "attend" this program right in your office and learn: how to manage multiple patient groups; levels of risk stratification programs and capabilities; models for post hospital and emergency department discharge; managing the continuum of care across post discharge programs; disease management by acuity; resource management of healthcare segmentation programs; and the future of risk segmentation.
It's so convenient! Invite your staff members to watch the conference. We will send you a DVD or CD-ROM of the conference proceedings or a link to our web site with a username and password. You can log in and view the program right from your computer — any time of the day or night, whenever convenient for you and your colleagues — and benefit from the archived recording of the conference, including the Q&A period.
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The following crimes are from the week of June 1 to June 7, 2014.
June 2. 7700 block Germantown Avenue. Supervisor for store states she saw offender put items in his bag and flee from store. Taken were four Dove Body Wash and two Pantene Body Wash. Offender was observed across the street in the park with bags and was stopped by police. Black male, Joseph Middleton, DOB 2/1/71, residing in unit block of E. Mt. Pleasant Ave.
June 2. 8500 block Germantown Avenue. Bank teller states that offender came into bank and handed teller a demand note stating that this was a robbery.
June 2. 8700 block Germantown Avenue. Complainant states she placed her pocketbook down and when she came back to get her purse she discovered her red wallet was taken from her purse containing an American Express Card, US Air Visa Card, Schwab Visa Card and money.
June 2. 8700 block Germantown Avenue. Complainant states he parked his gray K-2 mountain bike and when he returned bike was gone.
June 3. 7700 block Germantown Avenue. Complainant states the offender entered store and put four bottles of Body Wash into her bag and fled store going northbound on Germantown Ave.
June 4. 7 Valley Green Road. Listed offender black female, Kisha, and husband Daniel Duncan and black female Aja Whetstone were arrested in reference to attempted theft from auto that was witnessed by police.
June 7. 8700 block Germantown Ave. Complainant went to Chestnut Hill Hospital and parked vehicle in emergency lot. Window was open and someone took two $100 bills and 104 pills of Percocet 30 mg.
Summary – Seven crimes for week: one robbery, one theft, two retail thefts, two thefts from vehicles and one stolen bicycle.
Town Watch.
If you have been the victim of a crime and would like information, service or support, call Northwest Victim Services, 6301 Germantown Ave., Second Floor, Suite One, 215-438-4410. The service is free.


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Highlighting an asset
In rapidly urbanizing Central Florida, Seminole County's Black Hammock is a precious environmental asset: a 14-square mile enclave of woods, wetlands, farms and pastures at the southeast edge of Lake Jesup. It's also the gateway to the largely rural eastern third of the county. For those reasons, we have long opposed efforts to develop any part of the area.


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"I learned it from you, Dad!"
Area Father Alan O'Malley was shocked to catch his 14-year-old son looking at food porn, earlier this week. O'Malley first suspected his son, Bobby, of this habit when his wife began losing her copies of Bon Appetit and Food and Wine magazine at an alarming rate.
"At first, I thought I was starting to come down with dementia at a young age," Mrs. O'Malley joked before her demeanor turned serious, "and then we found it. Under his bed he had cut out what he wanted from my magazines. I don't even want to know what he was doing with them. I found a picture of braised lamb with a balsamic reduction stuck to a recipe for authentic Paella Valenciana accompanied by a medley of wild prawns."
After that incident Alan O'Malley started monitoring his son's internet history. He discovered Bobby was googling well known food network personalities, but none of the hot ones.
"If he was searching Giada De Laurentiis, or even Rachel Ray, I'd understand — boys will be boys after all. But he was searching for the Barefoot Contessa!" An exasperated O'Malley told reporters.
"I was holding out hope that I was wrong about him being a foodie until I walked in on him reading obscure food blogs. I couldn't believe my little boy was learning about duck confit! At his age I had no idea what that was. I was considered adventurous for having sweet potato fries back then!"
Mrs. O'Malley was just as taken aback by her son's behavior. "My husband showed me one of the videos Bobby was watching. People were doing things to corn I had never even imagined."
And, while she does not agree with his lifestyle choices, the matriarch of the O'Malley family admitted she would support her son unconditionally.
"I should have known he was headed down this path when he started asking where I 'sourced' my dinner ingredients from. When I told him I got them from Safeway, he just rolled his eyes at me. I never considered the possibility that I would be raising an annoying foodie, but I guess I have to accept my son for what he is."
The same could not be said for Mr. O'Malley, who was having a harder time accepting his son's culinary orientation.
"I love my son, but I just — At our family barbecue last weekend, I handed him some mayonnaise for his burger and he scoffed at me and asked if there was any roasted garlic aioli. He asked for aioli!" O'Malley paused to wipe tears from his eyes "He embarrassed me in front of my whole family. I mean, where did he learn this kind of snooty behavior?"
At this point, our interview was interrupted by Bobby O'Malley who, overhearing his father, burst into the room to shout "I learned it from you dad!"
When asked to clarify what he meant, the younger O'Malley explained "My father thinks I don't know that he's sneaking off to that new gastropub downtown every night. Oh sure, he stops at McDonald's and scarfs down a quarter pounder to throw me off the scent, but I can smell the mango cardamom turkey meatballs on his breath. I didn't ask to be like this. You did it to me dad!" the teen explained to his now completely sobbing father.
He continued, "Even when I was younger, I remember him disappearing on food adventures. He would come home reeking of foie gras and come up with a lame excuse like 'I was working late' or 'I'm having an affair,' but I knew what was really going on."
At press time, it appears the O'Malleys were on the path to reconciliation. After a stunned Alan apologized to his son, the pair sat down and bonded over their favorite movie, "Debbie Does Dallas."
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia yesterday installed as its new president a former dissident who was imprisoned and then exiled for opposing former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, a new landmark in the country's post-revolutionary transition to democracy.
Members of the constitutional assembly, Tunisia's interim parliament, voted to elect Moncef Marzouki as president, the second most powerful role after the prime minister.
Marzouki, 66, is respected by many Tunisians for his implacable opposition to the autocratic Ben Ali. As president, he will be a secularist counterweight to the moderate Islamist party which is now Tunisia's dominant political force.
Tunisia became the birth-place of the "Arab Spring" uprisings in January when protests forced Ben Ali, in power for more than 23 years, to flee to Saudi Arabia.
That inspired revolutions in Egypt and Libya, as well as unrest in other Middle Eastern states.
"I promise the Tunisian people that I will work for the country with all my strength," Marzouki said after the vote. "I represent a country, a people, a revolution. Long live Tunisia."
"I say to those members who gave me their votes, thank your for your trust, and for those who did not vote for me, your message has been received .. I know that you are going to hold me to account," Marzouki said.
Marzouki, who was elected with 153 of the 202 votes cast, will serve for a year until the constitution is re-written and new elections are held.
About 40 opposition members of the assembly cast blank ballots in protest at a vote they said was a charade to mask the fact that real power was now held by the Islamists.
"This was a piece of theatre," said Najib Chebbi, head of the PDP party. "We are disappointed in Mr Marzouki that he has accepted a presidency which is just democratic window-dressing without any real functions."
Secularist politicians say the Islamists will undermine Tunisia's liberal values and impose a strict moral code. Ennahda denies it has any such intentions, saying instead it will follow the moderate example of the Islamists who rule Turkey.
A doctor and human rights campaigner, Marzouki was jailed in 1994 after challenging Ben Ali in a presidential election.


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Current cast (from 3rd September 2013)
Tasha Chapple - Matilda (Principal)
Cara Jenkins - Matilda (Principal)
Lollie McKenzie - Matilda (Principal)
Lottie Sicilia - Matilda (Principal)
Alex Gaumond - Miss Trunchbull (Principal)
James Clyde - Mr Wormwood (Principal)
Hayley Flaherty - Miss Honey (Principal)
Kay Murphy - Mrs Wormwood (Principal)
Lisa Davina Phillip - Mrs Phelps (Principal)
Joshua Wyatt - Michael Wormwood (Principal)
Fabian Aloise - Swing (Ensemble)
Verity Bentham - Cook (Ensemble)
Joseph Davenport - Swing (Ensemble)
Mike Denman - Henchman (Ensemble)
Lara Denning - The Acrobat (Ensemble)
Juliet Gough - Henchwoman (Ensemble)
Anthony Lawrence - The Escapologist (Ensemble)
Joshua Lay - Rudolpho (Ensemble)
Katie Lee - Swing (Ensemble)
Antonio Magro - Children's Entertainer (Ensemble)
Antonio Magro - Sergei (Ensemble)
Gary Murphy - Swing (Ensemble)
David Rudin - Henchman (Ensemble)
Tommy Sherlock - Doctor (Ensemble)
Holly Taylor - Swing (Ensemble)
Amy Thornton - Swing (Ensemble)
Eithne Cox - Alice (Child role)
Ilana Blu Kneafsey - Alice (Child role)
Tallulah Treadaway - Alice (Child role)
Ellie Botterill - Amanda (Child role)
Kira Caple - Amanda (Child role)
Ruby McNamara - Amanda (Child role)
George King - Bruce (Child role)
Oliver Loades - Bruce (Child role)
William Price - Bruce (Child role)
Arthur Yamaguchi - Bruce (Child role)
Thomas Berry - Eric (Child role)
Colby Mulgrew - Eric (Child role)
Ashton Henry Reid - Eric (Child role)
Claudia-Rose Carlier - Hortensia (Child role)
Georgia Farrow - Hortensia (Child role)
Lauren Marler - Hortensia (Child role)
Jaime Adler - Lavender (Child role)
Psalms Nissi Myers-Reid - Lavender (Child role)
Evie Sneath - Lavender (Child role)
Rory Fraser - Nigel (Child role)
Sam Varley - Nigel (Child role)
Gabriel Werb - Nigel (Child role)
Sebastian Croft - Tommy (Child role)
Samuel Small - Tommy (Child role)
Harry Tunningley - Tommy (Child role)
Related links:
Matilda - Official website
Please could you put new cast understudies (Written by "theatrelad22 (Guest)", 25th Dec 2013)
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Site Status for Matilda:
30th Mar 2014: Updated current cast list. New children started in March.
16th Sep 2013: New cast from 3rd September.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary1. (n.) The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage.
2. (n.) The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes.
3. (n.) So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes.
4. (n.) The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of occurrence, exhibition, or action.
5. (n.) An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a spectacle; a show; an exhibition; a view.
6. (n.) A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
7. (n.) An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others; often, an artificial or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display.
8. (v. t.) To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
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5241. huperentugchano -- to intercede, to make petition for
3640. oligopistos -- little faith
1954. epiloipos -- still left
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1093. ge -- the earth, land
5051. teleiotes -- a completer, finisher
3453. mueo -- to initiate into the mysteries, hence to instruct
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This is the Great Scene of his Eternal Wisdom and Omnipotence...
A Scene of Mourning.
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Tabor (12 Occurrences)
Kidron (11 Occurrences)
Vale (20 Occurrences)
Jezreel (37 Occurrences)
Prayers (99 Occurrences)
Gideon (45 Occurrences)
Sanctuary (250 Occurrences)
ConcordanceScene (3 Occurrences)
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Mark 9:25
Hebrews 12:21
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Cougar Softball Comes Up Short at Cal State-San Marcos
SAN MARCOS, CA -- The Columbia softball team dropped a pair of hard-fought games against California State-San Marcos (CSSM), falling 2-1 in the first game of the day and 3-2 in eight innings in game two. With the two losses, the Cougars fall to 5-8 on the year.
Game one featured a pitcher's duel as the CSSM Cougars broke through with a run in the bottom of the fifth inning to take a 1-0 lead. Columbia waited until their final out in the seventh to tie the score when Chelsie Crain doubled home Whitni Howell with two outs. CSSM received back-to-back singles to start the bottom of the frame and was able to push the winning run across following a sacrifice and fielding error by the Cougars.
Freshman Amber Boehme took the hard-luck loss for Columbia in the circle, giving up two runs (one earned) on nine hits. The Cougars finished with five hits in the contest, led by Crain and Howell with two apiece.
Columbia was able to bounce back and grab a 1-0 lead in the third inning of game two after Jamie Holmes led off with a walk and came around to score on an RBI single by Marli Hayes. The Cougars of CSSM were able to pick up two runs in the bottom of the fifth to take a 2-1 advantage against starter Taylor Richter and reliever Tiffany Urwiler. After a single by Karina Veit to lead off the seventh inning, Columbia was down to their last out once again when Hayes delivered a game-tying single to score Veit and tie score at 2-2. Urwiler was then able to work around a leadoff hit by CSSM in the bottom of the seventh to force extra innings. The Cougars were held scoreless in the top of the eighth and CSSM put runners on first and third to begin the bottom of the frame, leading to a walk-off single by Patricia Banda.
Urwiler took the loss after giving up a run on four hits in 2.2 innings of relief. Hayes, Veit, Crain, and Taylor Atwood each had two of Columbia's eight hits in the game.
The Cougars will be off Thursday before returning to action on Friday, March 29th to take on top-ranked Concordia (Calif.) University. First pitch of the doubleheader is scheduled for 4:00 p.m.


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Microsoft Applications and Support Desk
Associate in Applied Science Degree
This program provides students with the technical skills required for Microsoft application certification exams and end user support.
Upon completion of this program, graduates will be able to:
• Use various types of software programs efficiently and effectively to fulfilling business objectives
• Troubleshoot applications and software
• Assist in the design, delivery and improvement of in-house software applications
• Install, diagnose, repair, maintain and upgrade PC hardware
• Support the organization in the delivery of training to end users in the organization
Graduates of this program can expect to obtain employment in positions such as computer support specialists, help desk technician, application support analyst, software application trainer, desktop technician and use Microsoft applications in support of business management.
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This issue is Green Shield Continuity #12. It also features the "Faces of Evil" promotion of villains on the cover for March 2009 titles.
Story continued from Supergirl (DC, 2005 series) #37, and continues in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #874.
The Origins and Omens stories coming up in February are discussed. Ad for Action Comics #874. Appears on page 34 in this issue.
House ads for: DC Universe Reader Survey, Batman: R.I.P. hardcover, Watchmen collections, All-Star Superman #2 hardcover, Origins & Omens promotion, Supergirl, Superman: World of New Krypton, and Justice League of America action figures series 3. Appear in various places in this issue.
Total of 4 one-page ads for: Push (movie, Summit Entertainment), Fight Evil! Superman Batman Heroes United (mobile phone game, Verizon Wireless), New York Comic Con No. 4 (comic convention, Reed Exhibitions), and abovetheinfluence (Partnership for a Drug-Free America). Appear in various places in this issue.


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The mystery of who gave Amb. Susan Rice her talking points has finally been solved. The Director of National Intelligence reportedly removed references to al Qaeda from talking points produced by the CIA.
In the latest twist in the ongoing story of what went wrong in Benghazi, we now know that someone in the office of DNI head James Clapper made changes to public talking points about who was responsible for the 9/11 attack. The changes removed specific references to al Qaeda and "terrorism" which were already part of classified assessments and briefings. Clapper is an Obama appointee.
Sources tell CBS that the changes were made because the al Qaeda connection was "tenuous." This was not the assessment made by CIA director Petraeus, who testified to Congress last week that he knew the attack was terrorism almost immediately. Petraeus signed off on leaving the al Qaeda reference in the public talking points.
Ambassador Rice would have had access to the classified assessment which identified al Qaeda by name but could not discuss what she knew on television once those bits of information were removed by the DNI.
In addition to the edits made by the DNI, the FBI also made changesbefore the talking points were given to Ambassador Rice for her WhiteHouse-approved appearance on five Sunday talk shows.
Unnamed US and "White House" officials have been speaking to CNN and NBC as well in the past 24 hours. All tell essentially the same story — that it was the intelligence community, not the White House, which altered the talking points presented by Rice after Hillary Clinton declined to appear on television to discuss the situation.


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I got my room box drying at the moment. Didn't think to take pictures because my phone was close to dead…. By tomorrow i will be able to wallpaper and out the floor in! Not sure if I should do stairs or leave a hole in the floor or what…..maybe just paper over the seem?
I want a big kitchen somewhat and with the spiral stairs that would take up some room that i don't want to give up….
I want to do a beautiful stain glass piece for the window upstairs.. Not sure how to go about that. Maybe plastic from a doll box or electronic box and then use some of my stain glass paint and then glue it in place? Thats the only way i believe that it would look like stained…. That and i still need to remember that my upstairs is creepy along with a little of the downstairs but not to the point were i can't even look at it without being creeped out!
THis image on google reminds me of the kitchen similar to what i want to do with my first floor on the room box….. I hope the fridge I have fits inside the house… I really like putting little goodies in my dollhouse and its not really a kitchen without a fridge is it?
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To inherit an uncompleted building, requiring unattainable sums of money to finish it in the original style, would seem like one of the worst of fates. If this building should be a cathedral, and if the means of carrying out the first plan should be technologically as well as financially in doubt, the bishop in charge might be thought near to distraction.
It is so with the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, crowning with its immense hulk the lordliest elevation of Manhattan Island. But Bishop Paul Moore is not at all dismayed, and his lieutenant, Dean James Morton, is downright cheerful. Indeed, after visiting the site recently I thought to myself it was beautiful to come into possession of a vast structure waiting for the touch of the modern age. How dead and unchallenging in comparison is the object completed once and for all, beyond the possibility of change or of a new approach!
The walls of Dean Morton's expansive study, once a sitting room or library in the house built by J. P. Morgan for Episcopal bishops (there was no reason, he is reported to have said, why bishops should not live as well as the rest of us) , are covered with architectural studies of the most imaginative and sometimes of the most fanciful sort. No idea seems too far-fetched for consideration. Perhaps a huge bubble should float above the ecclesiastical structure, allowing worshipers to sit on the ground where unbuilt sections of the cathedral were intended to be. Perhaps a kind of crystal palace, a large greenhouse, should enclose trees and greenery and provide solar heat to warm the congregations.
About one point, however, there is no questioning. The two western towers at the facade of the cathedral, now reaching only to the level of the roof, are to be built to a soaring height, as conceived by the architech, Ralph Adams Cram. When this project was announced, one could almost hear the groans of churchmen and philanthropists. But it turned out that there was to be no ordinary scheme of "bricks and mortar." This building program was to be a thing of life and the spirit, with money only one, and relatively minor, element in the plan.
The miracle is being wrought upon Morningside Heights through the enlistment of young people, mostly from the run-down area surrounding the cathedral, making them apprentices in the ancient art of stonecutting. I saw these cathedral builders the other day, a score of young men and women, working at their incredibility demanding job under the eye of a master stonecutter from Wells, England. They were hacking away at the obdurate material, shaping each piece with relentless exactitude. Sometimes it was a simple rectangular form they were carving out; sometimes a stone of complex curves.Yet even the plainest one had its exact position assigned to it, somewhere in the towers, whose dimensions still waited to be made visible.
Eight thousand of these varied forms and sizes will be shaped meticulously by the stonecutters' mallet, and one of these days, perhaps not too far off, the first of them will be set in place, there to remain as long as the history of Western man continues to be told. What other work could be so imbued with a sense of the ideal? What other young man or woman could gaze with so much inner satisfaction at the destined fulfillment of his efforts?
Rudyard Kipling, a much greater poet than the present generation sometimes concedes, wrote one of his finest poems upon the craftsman, taking as his symbol the hewn stone, or ashlar, shaped laboriously by those who built temples and cathedrals in ages past. My new-cut ashlar takes the light Where crimson-blank the windows flare: By my own work before the night, Great Overseer, I make my prayerm . . .
It did not seem to me an exaggeration, turning away from the stonecutter's yard to see those apprentices as the latest in an unending procession of blessed craftsmen and builders. Dean Morton, who had been exuberant during our tour of the site, now fell silent, and for a moment in that great city only the receding blows of the stonecutters' mallets sounded in my ears.


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March 28, 1982In Defense of an Offensive War
By JAMES FALLOWS
By Norman Podhoretz.
t the end of a chapter describing the final withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam, just before Saigon was overrun by Communist troops, Norman Podhoretz says: ''In abandoning these people at the end, the United States demonstrated that saving South Vietnam from Communism was not only beyond its reasonable military, political, and intellectual capabilities but that it was ultimately beyond its moral capabilities as well.''
In this sentence is much of the argument of Mr. Podhoretz's book. In no traditional military sense, he says repeatedly, could we have ''won'' in Vietnam. Our bombing was ineffective, and our understanding of the culture crude. It would have made no difference had we gone in ''fast and big instead of 'slow and small.' ... The only way the United States could have avoided defeat in Vietnam was by staying out of the war altogether.''
Nonetheless, Mr. Podhoretz says, the United States was morally right to have been involved in the war, and the effort to end that involvement will bear history's moral censure - and his own, rendered in this book.
In part of his argument about morality, Mr. Podhoretz makes a reasonable case. The decisions by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson that first took the nation into Vietnam may now look unwise or tragic, but it is hard to call them ''immoral.'' Mr. Podhoretz argues that they proceeded from the desire to contain the expansion of the ''Sino-Soviet bloc'' and to protect a pro-Western country from armed totalitarian attack. Such values had been part of the broad consensus of postwar foreign policy, Mr. Podhoretz says; the surprise would have been if Presidents formed by the experiences of Munich and Korea had responded in any different way.
As Mr. Podhoretz rightly points out, the contention that the United States went to war to defend its economic empire suffers when exposed to fact. What markets or raw materials were at stake that could possibly justify such a war's cost? It is also true that one of the two great failings of the antiwar movement was a willingness to overstate America's original sin in Vietnam. (The other was a reluctance, which I shared, to recognize that protest from the privileged sanctuary of college shifted the war's costs to the poor.) Mr. Podhoretz, who is the editor of Commentary, a magazine that has long emphasized the evils of an ''adversary culture'' (and that has viewed my own writing with disfavor), claims that rather than having been generated by the war, anti-American feelings were in the air, and people were looking for an excuse to voice them. There he exaggerates, in my opinion, but he is closer to being right about the intentions behind the American involvement in the war than were those who spoke of raw materials for the American empire.
But Mr. Podhoretz seems to think that this closes the question: If American Presidents meant well at the beginning, the ensuing chain of consequences is legitimized by their good intent. He seems to recognize no difference between morality of intention and morality of effect. He will not grant that certain courses of action, appropriate at one level of effort, may at other levels demand sacrifices far out of proportion to what can possibly be gained, and can become ''immoral'' in that sense. Nor does he seem to recognize that it was such a calculation - less a re-examination of the motives than a revulsion at the consequences - that turned mainstream American political opinion against the war by the late 1960's.
Mr. Podhoretz is reluctant to admit this because he has recast recent history as a black-and-white struggle between those with the courage to contain Communist expansionism and those who lack the backbone for that effort. Thus he attributes President Eisenhower's decision not to aid the French against the Communists to the moral taint of French colonialism, rather than to the sense that certain evils might lie beyond our reasonable power to control. (He does, however, quote the entry from Eisenhower's diary in 1951: ''I'm convinced that no military victory is possible in that kind of theater.'') And thus he has no tolerance for the idea of inadvertence or ''quagmire'' in Vietnam - that the escalation which took place between 1965 and 1967 might have been more than President Kennedy, in sending American advisers, originally foresaw. He says that Kennedy should have seen precisely where those first steps would lead; he implies that the difference between dispatching advisers and committing American troops to combat was not a fundamental one. Mr. Podhoretz does not even mention Kennedy's comments, reported by Mike Mansfield and Kenneth O'Donnell, that he intended to remove the troops after the 1964 election. In disregard of the record of Congressional debate, Mr. Podhoretz says that many of the Senators who voted for the Tonkin Gulf resolution did so with full knowledge that it would ''empower the President to involve the United States in a major land war in Asia.''
This simplified view of history is a consequence not only of Mr. Podhoretz's ideology but also of his evidence, which consists exclusively of quotations from other books and magazine articles.Time and again the footnote for a crucial argument directs the reader to Guenter Lewy's ''America in Vietnam,'' a book whose historical objectivity, to put it mildly, is not accepted by all sides. Mr. Podhoretz's primary sources for the Nixon years are the published memoirs of President Nixon and Henry Kissinger; Mr. Podhoretz finds completely persuasive their denials of the charge that the Administration had been working merely for a ''decent interval'' between American withdrawal and the fall of the regime in Saigon. But a comparable assertion from, say, Arthur Schlesinger about President Kennedy's intentions carries no such automatic plausibility.
After arguing that the United States as a whole is free from ''moral'' guilt in Vietnam, Mr. Podhoretz proceeds to the second stage of his moral argument, which is to reassign that guilt to certain groups of Americans.
''Everyone on all sides of the argument turned out to be wrong'' about the war, Mr. Podhoretz says. The military men were wrong in thinking the war winnable; three Presidents were wrong in trying to fight it on the cheap. But most wrong of all, because they were wrong in the moral sense, were those who opposed the war.
Mr. Podhoretz sprinkles his ideological criticism with personal digs. He speaks of John Kenneth Galbraith and George Ball as ''Kennedy's 'doves' (including those who when the going got rough in the late sixties would convert to dovishness or claim a dovish past for themselves).'' He says that it is almost impossible to ''forgive'' such writers as Anthony Lewis, Sydney Schanberg and Stanley Hoffman for saying that the devastation of war might be worse for the people of Indochina than any postwar regime. Virtually the only people who are spared such digs are Sir Robert Thompson, the British expert on guerrilla warfare who advised Richard Nixon, and Doan Van Toai, a former Vietcong sympathizer who has since denounced the Communists. But Mr. Podhoretz's real complaint against ''doves'' of any complexion is that they are to blame for what has happened in Cambodia and Vietnam since our forces left:
''The truth is that the antiwar movement bears a certain measure of responsibility for the horrors that have overtaken the people of Vietnam; ... in making a contribution to the conquest of South Vietnam by the Communists of the North, they were siding with an evil system against something much better from every political and moral point of view.''
Mr. Podhoretz is right in saying that such writers as Mary McCarthy and Susan Sontag wildly romanticized life in North Vietnam. (Others, including myself, have made the same point.) He is right that certain fringes of the antiwar movement marched with Vietcong flags - though not as early as 1965, as he contends. But, as infamous as conditions now are in Indochina, one wonders how responsibility can be assigned to a nation that lacked, to use Mr. Podhoretz's words, the ''reasonable military, political, and intellectual capabilities'' to prevent the Communist victory. Moreover, there are grounds other than logic on which to find Mr. Podhoretz's judgment devoid of grace.
ON every page of this book, the reader feels the heat of Mr. Podhoretz's scorn for those who failed the test of moral courage during the war years. Nowhere does the author give a hint that he himself might ever have fallen short of the high moral standard he now sets. To read passages like the one about those who sided ''with an evil system'' is to assume that if there were any voice of courage to be heard above the babble, it would have been that of Mr. Podhoretz in his magazine. But to have read Commentary at the time was to have quite a different impression.
In May 1971, when - according to this book - President Nixon was receiving so little support for his efforts to withdraw from Vietnam in a dignified, ''moral'' way, the principal article in Commentary was Nathan Glazer's ''Vietnam: The Case for Immediate Withdrawal.'' In it he said that the Government must be persuaded ''to desist from a disastrous policy which can only be carried out, whatever the intentions of those at the top, by cruel and inhuman methods.'' Mr. Glazer mentioned the fear of official spokesmen that ''the rest of Southeast Asia would fall to Communism or come under Chinese Communist influence. One is hard put to understand the weight of this fear.''
Five months later, in ''America After Vietnam,'' Edmund Stillman said in Commentary that ''the killing in Vietnam is a tragedy, and may very well be, with respect to America's involvement, a crime.''
From the middle 60's until the early 70's, during the very era in which, by Mr. Podhoretz's current standards, politicians and thinkers failed America by refusing to make the moral case for the war, such a case simply was not made in the pages of Commentary.
WHEN Commentary's editor spoke in his own name about the war, in the same issue that carried Nathan Glazer's article, he said that he had delivered a speech in 1969, ''on the day of the great Moratorium,'' urging an immediate American withdrawal from the war. In 1982, Mr. Podhoretz sees yet another moral failing in the War Powers Act and other efforts that kept President Nixon from using American air power to enforce indefinitely the peace agreement in Vietnam. He says that America's unwillingness to stand behind President Thieu is another illustration that we lacked the ''moral capabilities'' to win the war. But in 1971, he had other thoughts:
''As one who has never believed that anything good would ever come for us or for the world from an unambiguous American defeat, I now find myself -and here is the main source of my own embarrassment in writing about Vietnam - unhappily moving to the side of those who would prefer just such an American defeat to a 'Vietnamization' of the war which calls for the indefinite and unlimited bombardment by American pilots in American planes of every country in that already devastated region.''
Editors cannot always be held responsible for every word in their publications; but it is far from generous of them to criticize, with no humility, articles they chose to publish themselves. Mr. Podhoretz does this at one point with Mr. Glazer's piece.
Editors are entitled to change their views, perhaps even to regret, as many of us have cause to do, things said and thought in those troubled years. They are not entitled to self-righteousness and venom.
James Fallows, Washington editor of The Atlantic, is the author of ''National Defense.''
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Peace Garden,
September 2006
A school peace garden has been officially opened by Gee Walker, the mother of murdered Merseyside teenager Anthony Walker. Mrs Walker released doves symbolising peace to mark the opening of the site at Upton Hall School in Upton, Wirral.
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Earlier in September, Mrs Walker was named on The Independent's list of the top 50 "good" people in the UK. It recognises those "driven by an urge to make the world a better place".