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ann burnett
Writer of Many Things
It's Festival Time Again!
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The sun is out, the schools are on holiday and the festivals are in full swing.
The Fringe by the Sea Festival is held every year in August in the seaside town of North Berwick. Stalls and marquees are set up by the harbour, just below the Seabird Centre and a packed programme of speakers, workshops, personal development therapies, music and kids' activities is filled with visitors from all airts and pairts, as we say hereabouts.
Parking in such a small, popular spot is difficult, so to ease the congestion, and do our bit towards saving the planet, we left the car at home and took the bus there. It was a leisurely deedle-dawdle through pretty little villages, their roadside stone cottages filled with kaleidoscopic flowers, and past fields of barley and brassicas, with stunning views towards the Firth of Forth and the Bass Rock. It took twice as long as driving but who cares? We weren't in a hurry.
We settled ourselves into the Spiegeltent ready for our first speaker, Doug Allan. He is a film cameraman who has worked extensively with David Attenborough on series such as Blue Planet and who specialises in filming in the Arctic and Antarctic. He had many stills and film clips which had us gasping in amazement at the beauty of the Poles and appalled at the damage we are inflicting on it. Doug spoke strongly about the need to act now, not just as individuals but to force governments to do far more now otherwise, as he called it, we face climate breakdown. He gave the audience much food for thought.
Ian Rankin is one of Scotland's most successful crime writers and his character, Inspector Rebus, now retired, refuses to do just that. Ian has recently donated 50 boxes of his manuscripts and correspondence to the National Library of Scotland, and his interviewer had picked out some of the items that were in the boxes. Rejection letters, letters from the likes of Ian Crichton Smith and Alexander McCall Smith, a certificate for reciting Burns' verse aged 8 or 9 – all brought back memories of his early life in Cardenden, his first attempts at writing a novel and his later successes, and the problems of introducing a pet in his books. The body count can rise exponentially but whatever, happens, don't harm the dog – or forget to mention it. Readers apparently get very upset by that. And all spoken about in his trademark casual, friendly manner.
The following week, the Edinburgh Book Festival opened in Charlotte Square. It has now grown so large and successful that it has spilled out into George Street as well. What better occupation than to wander round a tent filled with books, books and more books! I know of no greater pleasure than to spend time in among books, browsing and reading snippets of them before choosing some to buy. So much, much more satisfying than clicking on Amazon's website and waiting for the purchase to be delivered. And as for downloading on to a kindle…. a featureless, bland experience. And after buying them (as usual, far more than I meant to) carrying them home in the special Book Festival bag, cradling them carefully on the bus until, at home, I can settle down to reading them. Bliss!
But before that, speakers Kaite Welsh and Caroline Lea spoke about their historical thrillers set in Edinburgh and Iceland. Kaite's book, The Unquiet Heart, was triggered by the Edinburgh 7, the first women to become medical students at the University, and who suffered many trials and tribulations in their attempts to become doctors. Kaite's main protagonist finds herself defending her fiancé from a charge of murder while trying to study medicine.
Caroline spoke about her love and knowledge of the old Icelandic sagas and the belief in the supernatural, still apparent today, among some Icelanders. Her book, The Glass Woman, begins with a hand apparently waving from the sea ice and the attempts by some men to bring it back on shore despite one of them, in particular, not wishing to do so.
Then to something completely different – afternoon tea with food writer and broadcaster, Ghillie Basan. While munching our way up the plate stand and sipping at the whisky supplied, we listened to Ghillie talk about her life experiences which had developed her love of spices and flavours and how to match whisky to various foods. Despite living as she described it, in 'the back of the back of beyond' in the Scottish Highlands and frequently being snowed up in winter, she still manages to produce interesting and flavourful meals, helped by her kitchen drawers packed full of spices which she obtains from her spice merchant in Istanbul. Her latest book is Spirit and Spice, where she talks of her life with food and includes many mouth-watering recipes.
Plenty of food for thought in all of that!
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It's here! I feel as if I'm announcing a birth, which it is in a way, but Festival Fireworks is now available as a paperback!
Publication Days
January 6, 2020 January 6, 2020 / annburnett	/ 3 Comments
Publication days come like buses – nothing for ages then two come at once.
Not only is this publication day of Festival Fireworks in ebook format – paperback following soon!
– but, as I discovered when the post arrived this morning, my article on the Traprain Law silver is also published in the latest edition of the Highlander magazine.
The hoard of Roman silver was found locally and can now be seen in the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
A double whammy for the city as my novel is also set in Edinburgh!
Festival Fireworks – New Edition
December 8, 2019 December 8, 2019 / annburnett	/ 3 Comments
Those of you who follow my author page on Facebook will have read that I am re-issuing my contemporary Scottish romance, Festival Fireworks, under my own imprint, Ladybug Publications.
It will not only be published as an ebook but also a paperback with a new cover. The story is mainly set in Edinburgh with a trip to Australia as well, as Jill and Andrew try to keep their romantic fireworks from blowing up in their faces, helped or hindered by agony auntie Linda.
So save your Christmas Book tokens for the New Year and watch this space for when it becomes available.
In the meantime, enjoy the festive season however you choose to spend it and may your stocking be filled with lots of books to read!
November 19, 2019 / annburnett	/ 4 Comments
For almost two years now, we've had nothing but change in our lives and it will continue. Some changes are good and invigorating, others less so and difficult to get our heads round. But we persevere and take the good with the not so great. One result is that blog pieces and posts have diminished somewhat as time and energy have been taken up by other responsibilities.
Another result is that my writing has changed too. At the moment, I'm publishing short pieces, articles on the history which our new area is steeped in, and which are being published in a variety of magazines and online.
The American magazine, The Highlander, popped through my door and I was delighted to find I had two articles in it. One, Orkney's Ancient Palaces, was the very first piece I sent several years ago and which gave me a fillip when it was accepted, and the other, on Christian Maclagan, was a more recent one that I wrote. Christian who? I hear you say. Scotland's first female archaeologist, no less, and a redoubtable woman to boot. Like many other intelligent and learned Victorian women, she was ignored and her researches and findings were disregarded. She was also denied full membership of the Society of Antiquaries, a situation she was extremely angry about.
Recently, Scottish Field magazine published a piece about Susan Ferrier, another clever Victorian lady writer, now almost unheard of, and online, a piece on the Cadell family of Cockenzie House, a few miles away from where we now live.
What's in a name – the history of the Cadell family
The men of the family were an interesting lot, entrepreneurs, artists, publishers and actors, and of course the inevitable black sheep who made a name for himself in Australia and who came to a sticky end.
The unknown women of the Cadell family (c) Cockenzie House
But what of the women of the family? More Victorian women who live on only in the photographs left behind and in a slim volume of writing penned by one of them? It is hoped that funding will be available to allow research into their hidden lives, through hopefully, diaries, household accounts and letters.
On another front, I have bought back my rights to my two ebooks and will republish them myself at a later date with revisions and new covers. Watch this space!
And a new tack – I have written a song! A singing group we attend is run by a very talented musician who has composed a piece just for our group and who asked if I would write the words. It will be premiered at the Gathering, a getting together of the many groups around East Lothian supporting those with dementia at which we will be singing. I hope they like Morning, Mrs Magpie!
Morning Mrs Magpie,
Here comes the day!
You bring a fresh start to life and living again
Good times are on their way.
Laughter and sunshine
Embracing me.
Voices uniting in music,
Friendship and harmony.
Gathering in the Harvest
September 8, 2019 / annburnett	/ 5 Comments
The field outside my house has been shorn of its golden rapeseed and the harvest sent to the local rapeseed oil producing plant. Soon we'll be able to buy a bottle of it to use for cooking. I've watched the crop grow and change from green to startling yellow and then to bronze and now reduced to a field of stubble. I wonder what the farmer will grow there next.
As for my own writing harvest, articles written over the long winter days are now surfacing. The Highlander magazine in the USA, taking articles on all things historical and Scottish, has just published The First Nursery School in the World, which Robert Owen set up in New Lanark in the early years of the nineteenth century. The ideas he put into practice about the education of young children are now standard but were revolutionary in his day.
And my writing buddy, Sheila Grant, also has an article in the magazine, a powerful piece on The Killing Times, the struggle the Covenanters in Ayrshire had to worship in the way they wished.
September's Scottish Field carries my piece on Susan Ferrier, Scotland's Own Austen, and her best-selling books published in the first half of the nineteenth century. She was a great friend of Sir Walter Scott, and although she was, in her time, more successful than him, she only has a small blue plaque on the outside of her Edinburgh home whereas the Scott Monument dominates Princes Street.
But the most successful harvest of all must be my potatoes. Regular readers of my blog will have followed their progress from seed potatoes chitting on my window ledge through to their breaking through the soil of their beds and burgeoning in the sun. I am almost tempted to say that I have too many. Certainly friends, family and neighbours have all been presented with some and we have been manfully eating our way through them. Fortunately, YouTube enlightened me on the method of freezing them so I have bags of frozen chips and roasties ready to see us through the winter.
At the moment, writing articles suits me best. It gets us out and about and meeting people as I research my latest topic. This afternoon, I hope to meet up with some metal detectorists and amateur archaeologists who have been excavating the lost palace of the Setons, burned down in 1715 after the first Jacobite Rebellion. Who knows what I shall harvest from the meeting!
Progress – or Not?
June 23, 2019 June 23, 2019 / annburnett	/ 5 Comments
What do the Traprain Law Treasure, Susan Ferrier, Vaclav Jicha, the first Nursery School in the world and Christian Maclagan have in common?
No idea? I'm not surprised as this random collection of topics are all subjects I've written articles about recently and which have all been accepted for publication in a variety of magazines here and overseas.
The Traprain Law Treasure is the largest hoard of Roman silver ever found in Europe and which was uncovered 100 years ago in East Lothian. At present, some of it is on display in Haddington. It is quite stunning and hard to believe that it spent almost 1500 years buried on a hillside.
Traprain Law Treasure
Susan Ferrier was a best-selling author in her day (the 19th century) and a good friend of Sir Walter Scott while the first nursery school in the world was set up at New Lanark, near Glasgow, by Robert Owen in the 1800s.
Susan Ferrier's bestselling novel
Vaclav Jicha was a World War II flying ace killed in a plane crash near Haddington in 1945. Jicha Street is named in his honour in the town where he is buried. Many years after the war, his Czech fianceé discovered where he was laid and visited his grave every year till her death in 2010.
Fl Lt Vaclav Jicha DFC AFC
And Christian Maclagan was the first Scottish female archaeologist and a feisty woman to boot! She was unable to read her papers on her research to the Society of Antiquaries or be recognised for her work on Scottish prehistory because she was a woman.
One of Maclagan's drawings of a broch
Circumstances mean that at the moment articles are what I am writing rather than longer pieces. I can't commit to the long-term tunnel vision I require to write novels but I don't want my writing muscle to atrophy so article writing suits me fine. It also means we can have days out to research and visit places associated with my topics; these so far have included the National Museum in Edinburgh, a graveyard in Haddington and a lay-by on the A1!
I have also met and corresponded with some lovely people who have helped me in a variety of ways with photos and insights and pointed me in the right direction when I wandered off topic.
But I have realised that there are many more advantages to the type of writing I'm doing at present. I send the articles to the editors of the various magazines I'm contributing to and I receive a yes or a no and that's all I have to do. No hassling people for reviews, no checking Amazon rankings to see where I appear, no constant feeding of social media to keep me in the spotlight, no blanket flooding of Facebook and Instagram and Twitter in the hope of a few sales. All that time I would normally have to spend on such activities I can spend WRITING!
Recently when I was totting up my earnings versus expenses from my writing, I realised that I had spent more on advertising my ebooks than I had actually earned from them. I know I only have two published and that I'm not the most dedicated of self-promoters but I would need to have many more ebooks out there to make it worthwhile. For articles, I sit back and wait for the cheque to arrive when the magazine publishes my piece. Simples!
There has been a change however. Perhaps the pendulum is swinging back again; apparently ebooks are losing their popularity compared with 'real' books and independent bookshops are making a comeback though they will never be as cheap as Amazon. However there is nothing more pleasant than browsing in a good bookshop, especially if there's coffee to be had too, and there's always the serendipitous chance of coming across a book that speaks to you, that you've never heard of, would never have thought of buying but which touches something in you. Until Amazon can give the browser an experience similar to that, then bookshops it is.
Maybe magazines are also due to rise phoenix-like from the ashes of their purported demise. There are still many out there which seem to defy all the odds and continue selling, if not as many copies as before, then enough to keep them viable. And the good old People's Friend has just celebrated its 150th birthday and takes around 1000 feature articles each year.
I certainly hope magazines start to flourish again. I much prefer to read from a magazine or book rather than from a screen. A hard copy is there when you need it, you can flick backwards and forwards at will, and it won't interfere with your reading pleasure by changing font size or page when you inadvertently stick a finger in the wrong place. And the batteries in a book or magazine never run out.
Sometimes, progress needs to take a step back now and again when we realise that the new ways are not as good as what we had before.
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In our fast-paced London lifestyles, it can be all too easy to live in our heads. Our thoughts can run at a thousand miles per minute, pulling us between the past and the future as we lend our mental energy to things that have already happened and things that have not yet come to pass. Whilst our mind's capacity for time travel can be a wonderful thing, it has a tendency to distract us from what is happening in the here and now - a space that is often rich with the potential for peace, joy and stillness if we allow ourselves to surrender to it.
The body cannot exist anywhere but in the present. It is by honouring our embodied experience as living, feeling beings existing between Earth and sky that we can find our way back into the Now. Join Mollie (UnMind) and Omotayo (Sacred Shapes) for an afternoon of yoga, embodiment practices and intuitive dance as we facilitate a space that invites you to be where your feet are. To find your roots and allow the wisdom of the body to ground us back in the moment as we give ourselves space to explore what we find there.
The workshop will be one of gentle inquiry, inviting us to slowly sink into the safety and support of a space that is free of judgement where everyone is empowered to tune into their own authentic experience. We will begin the session with a sharing circle to come together as a group, before being guided by Mollie through a 5 elements yoga flow and meditation. Omotayo will then lead us through some embodiment practices, offering a variety of ways in which we can tap into 'intuitive movement' - movement that is led by the body rather than by the mind. From this place of playful exploration, we will slowly transition into intuitive dance. This is a space in which there are no steps to follow, no choreography to learn, no way to do it wrong. It's a chance to connect with yourself and with the changing rhythms of music, finding a way into whatever movement feels right for you in the moment. To finish we shall come together in a deeply grounding yoga nidra.
Through moving, breathing and dancing ourselves into presence, we shall leave together feeling grounded, supported and open to what lessons and blessings our present experience holds for us.


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Piper Aircraft Services – Manufacturing has received a contract for approximately $90,000 in machined parts from Triton Submarines LLC, also of Vero Beach. The contract calls for complex multi-axis machined parts destined for Triton's submersibles.
Triton CEO L. Bruce Jones said, "As a fixed wing, helicopter and ultra light pilot, I know that Piper has an excellent reputation throughout the industry for manufacturing quality and safe products. This partnership seems like a natural fit in that both of our products are manufactured to high safety standards and are relied upon in harsh environments. We are looking forward to partnering on additional work beyond this first contract." Jones is a former U.S. National Skydiving champion.
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Title: Who Becomes An Anti-Authoritarian?
Author: Bruce E. Levine
Topics: anti-authoritarianism, psychology
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Who Becomes An Anti-Authoritarian?
Lyndon Johnson famously proclaimed his requirements for an appointee: "I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses." Johnson and his ass-kissers were authoritarians.
Authoritarian is routinely defined as "favoring blind submission to authority." Authoritarians with power demand unquestioning obedience from those with lower rank, and authoritarian subordinates comply with all demands of authorities.
In contrast, anti-authoritarians reject—for themselves and for others—an unquestioning obedience to authority, and they challenge and resist illegitimate authorities. Anti-authoritarians—including some well-known anarchists—don't necessarily reject all authority.
Anti-authoritarian anarchist Noam Chomsky offers this example of a justified authority: an adult who stops a five-year old from running out in a street and getting hit by a car. However, Chomsky adds that authorities often have no moral justification but are "just there in order to preserve certain structures of power and domination"—and are illegitimate authorities to be resisted.
There is a continuum from extreme authoritarianism to extreme anti-authoritarianism, and at different points in people's lives and under different circumstances, people may be at different points on this continuum. Some anti-authoritarians evidence rebelliousness early in life, while others only later in life begin to resist illegitimate authority. Anti-authoritarians exist in all walks of life and come in all kinds of temperaments. To illustrate this diversity, I profile twenty famous U.S. anti-authoritarians in Resisting Illegitimate Authority.
From my study of famous anti-authoritarians as well as from my experience with many more non-famous anti-authoritarians, I see limited value in reductionist explanations for authoritarianism and anti-authoritarianism. So, for example, while some people comply with oppressive families and become authoritarians, other rebel against them and become anti-authoritarians.
The anarchist Emma Goldman is one example of just such rebellion from an oppressive family. Her father would regularly beat his children for disobeying him, and the rebellious Emma would get beaten the most. Her interest in boys provoked rage in her father, as she recounted, "He pounded me with his fists, shouted that he would not tolerate a loose daughter," but she disobeyed her father.
Finally, a teenage Emma Goldman threatened to commit suicide if her father would not allow her immigrate to the United States, and her strategy worked. Ultimately, in addition her father, Goldman would challenge a lengthy list of authorities whom she assessed to be illegitimate: her teachers, her first anarchist mentor, police, the U.S. government, and later, the Bolsheviks; and her list of enemies ranged from J. Edgar Hoover to Vladimir Lenin.
While some anti-authoritarians such as Goldman are rebellious in childhood, many famous and non-famous anti-authoritarians begin to challenge and resist illegitimate authority only later in life after they are radicalized by their experiences—one example being Edward Snowden, whose path to resisting illegitimate authority could not have been more different than Goldman's.
Snowden grew up as a patriotic American in a patriotic household. In 2004, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, recounting later, "I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression." He began working for the Central Intelligence Agency in 2007, but he became alarmed by the George W. Bush administration's violations of Americans' constitutional rights.
In his mid-twenties, Snowden later recounted, "I began to understand that what my government really does in the world is very different from what I'd always been taught." After working for defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton so as to gather data on the NSA, in 2013, he leaked to the press evidence of the U.S. government's violation of the Fourth Amendment by its mass warrantless surveillance on U.S. citizens. And at age 30, Snowden was charged by the U.S. government with violating the Espionage Act.
The arc of the Malcolm X's anti-authoritarianism was quite different from both Goldman's and Snowden's. As a child, he was rocked by trauma in the extreme, which included his father's murder by white supremacists (the police claimed it was an accident and the insurance company called it suicide). His father's death resulted in severe financial stress for his family, a major variable leading to his mother's psychiatric hospitalization.
Prior to his family being ripped apart, a young Malcolm had been an excellent student. Then, as a teenager and young man, he became selfish, predatory, engaged in theft, and was incarcerated in prison. Then, after his religious conversion, he was for a time dutifully authoritarian within an authoritarian organization.
However, after Malcolm X gained knowledge of the predatory behaviors of the leader of the Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad, he had another transformation. Recognizing that his actions would likely result in his assassination, Malcolm X challenged the legitimacy of the authority of Elijah Muhammad and rejected his decree against political participation. Before his death, Malcolm X came to adopt a revolutionary anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist political program.
Anti-authoritarians are ideologically diverse: Emma Goldman was an anarchist; Edward Snowden initially a libertarian; Malcolm X became increasingly socialist; and some anti-authoritarians who I profile, such as George Carlin and Jane Jacobs, prided themselves on not identifying with any dogma.
The temperaments and personalities of anti-authoritarians are also diverse, from the playful Lenny Bruce to the serous Scott Nearing. Whether any temperament becomes an anti-authoritarian is determined by an array of many variables which include luck and choice.
Owing to the subjective and unmeasurable nature of the multiple variables that determine whether one become an anti-authoritarian, scientific prediction is not possible. This is good news for anti-authoritarians. If powerful authoritarians could scientifically predict anti-authoritarians through personality typing or genetic testing, they would most certainly try to eliminate them.

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Well maintained, lovely and clean move -in-ready home. Nice size kitchen with updated alder wood cabinets, granite counter tops, tile floors, and dining area that leads to a peaceful private back yard. Water heater approximately a year old. Rumor has it there's original oak flooring under the carpeting! Come see, come buy!


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I know for a fact, about two years ago I used to rage my searches for how to draw anime female bodies on the internet. The tutorials I found didn't really help me. I tried my best to make mine a little better than the others. Learning how to draw anime girls is pretty hard. When I got my hands on the aspect I had so much confidence. As soon as I had serious trouble with the drawings, my how to draw a wind vane Through the use of games and activities, you can easily educate your three-year-old on the basic parts that make up the human body. After learning these simple lessons, your youngster will be more familiar with her body and ready to face more serious academic challenges.
Anime drawing is a favourite among young and the old. In this post we are going to see how to draw anime characters from the comfort of your homes. If you are beginner trying to learn anime drawing, start with squares, circles and rectangles.
Through the use of games and activities, you can easily educate your three-year-old on the basic parts that make up the human body. After learning these simple lessons, your youngster will be more familiar with her body and ready to face more serious academic challenges.


The founders of Sea Green Organics know that many people like a healthy lawn, but are increasingly wary of using chemicals to get there. For a natural alternative, they've taken to the sea. The company, based off a project that started during their college years, makes fertilizer out of seaweed. The nontoxic product is sustainable, natural and, they hope, profitable.
"We see substantial growth in our future," said Paul Melancon, one of two founders. "With marketing now a priority, we'll have the ability to educate people about our product. We've seen a very positive response so far." Melancon, originally from Trumbull, CT started the company as an undergraduate at the University of Connecticut in Stamford while assigned to a project studying seaweed growth in Long Island Sound.
The UConn project turned into a business. With the university's blessing, Melancon formed Sea Green Organics. The company's process turns seaweed into fertilizer and can cut water usage by up to 30 percent, Melancon said. "Especially with so much of the country in a drought right now, that could make a huge difference on water bills," he said.
The company has been entirely self-funded to date. Though the idea started with a study of Long Island Sound, regulatory issues have kept the company from growing the seaweed locally. Instead, it imports from overseas. "I looked into growing a couple of different types in Long Island Sound, but it was cost prohibitive," Melancon said.
Experts say it works in a number of ways. "Scientists have found in seaweeds a veritable soup of plant-growth stimulants, vitamins … trace minerals, enzymes and amino acids, all of which influence the growth of plants in different ways," according to the National Gardening Association, a nonprofit based in Vermont.


Institutions do not exist and excel simply because they "are." They must be nurtured by dedicated individuals that find the right combination of stewardship and intellectual curiosity to ensure they continue to carry out their mission and leave a more viable entity for those who follow.
It must be informed by the past, though not shackled to it. It must be true to its nature, but not ossified in its operation. It must be ready for the future, but clearheaded on how to get there.
For the maritime professional in the United States, there is a rather unique institution that really has no counterpart here or in other nations; the United States Naval Institute. Our guest for the first half of the hour will be USNI's CEO, Vice Admiral Peter Daly, USN (Ret). He will be with us to discuss USNI's place in the maritime security arena and how ideas and concepts today inform and influence the direction of our Navy.
For the second half of the hour, we will shift focus back with Ensign Chris O'Keefe, USN who is the producer of the United States Naval Academy podcast series, "A History of the Navy in 100 Objects", that uses objects from the Naval Academy's museum to help tell the story of our Navy and the nation it serves.
Join live or listen later by clicking here or pick the show up later from our iTunes page here.


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import org.kuali.rice.core.api.util.type.KualiPercent;
import org.kuali.rice.krad.bo.PersistableBusinessObjectBase;

import javax.persistence.CascadeType;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.FetchType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.JoinColumn;
import javax.persistence.ManyToOne;
import javax.persistence.Table;
import java.util.Date;

@Entity
@Table(name="TRV_ACCT")
public class TravelAccount extends PersistableBusinessObjectBase {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = -7739303391609093875L;

	@Id
	@Column(name="acct_num")
	private String number;

	private String subAccount;

	@Column(name="acct_name")
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	private String subAccountName;

	private KualiPercent subsidizedPercent;

	private Date createDate;

	public Date getCreateDate() {
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	private FiscalOfficer fiscalOfficer;

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    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getNumber() {
        return number;
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    public void setNumber(String number) {
        this.number = number;
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        return fiscalOfficer;
    }

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        this.fiscalOfficer = fiscalOfficer;
    }

    public String getFoId() {
        return foId;
    }

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        this.foId = foId;
    }

    public String getSubAccount() {
        return this.subAccount;
    }

    public void setSubAccount(String subAccount) {
        this.subAccount = subAccount;
    }

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        return this.subAccountName;
    }

    public void setSubAccountName(String subAccountName) {
        this.subAccountName = subAccountName;
    }

    public KualiPercent getSubsidizedPercent() {
        return this.subsidizedPercent;
    }

    public void setSubsidizedPercent(KualiPercent subsidizedPercent) {
        this.subsidizedPercent = subsidizedPercent;
    }

    public void setCreateDate(Date createDate) {
        this.createDate = createDate;
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}

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Baltinglass GAA
Newtown Saunders, Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow
Committee Infomation
Club Officers and Contact
You can contact the club on Facebook or Twitter through the above links.
Our PRO, Deirdre Norton, can be contacted at 087 6724399 or by email at baltinglass.wicklow@gaa.ie
President: Seán O'Toole
Vice-Presidents: Seamus Kelly, Johnny Kenny, Jim O'Keeffe, Jim Whelan, Tom Whelan, Ken Browne, Billy Timmins
Patrons: Liam Quinn, Billy Timmins
Chairperson: Raymond Danne
Vice-Chairpersons: Ciaran Fleming, Robert Mc Hugh
Secretary: John Timmins
Assistant-Secretary: Paula Doyle
Ladies' Chairperson: Joanne Daly
Ladies' Secretary: Mary Hanlon
Juvenile Secretary: Mary Farrell
Treasurer: Con Murphy
Assistant-Treasurer: Anne Whelan
Fixtures Secretary: Ciaran Fleming
PRO: Deirdre Norton and Alison Reardon
Registrar: Paula Doyle
School Liaison: Patsy Barrett
Scór Officer and Cultural and Language Officer: Paudie Swinburne
Healthy Club Officer: Alison Reardon
Player's Rep: Tommy Murphy Jnr
Children's Officer: Catherine Fleming
Ladies' Children's Officer: Lena Byrne
Coaching and Games Officer: Robert Mc Hugh
Designated Person: Catherine Fleming
Since the foundation of the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1884, football has been played in Baltinglass. The club originally played under the name Maurice Davins. In 1913, now known as Baltinglass Shamrocks, the club won their first Junior title. This was the delayed 1912 Junior final which was played in Croke Park. The next achievement for the club came in 1927, where Baltinglass won the Wicklow Senior Hurling title. A club meeting was held in 1934, which saw the foundation of the thriving club we have today.
Baltinglass won a minor title in 1940. Following this team's success, Baltinglass secured the 1943 Junior title and gained promotion to the Intermediate ranks. Efforts were put into the club's Juvenile section in the early fifties. As a result of this hard work, the minor team flourished, winning four titles in a row from 1952-1955. Fundraising efforts for a playing pitch bore fruit in 1957. The present playing pitch was bought at this time.
With the abolishment of the Intermediate grade in 1954, Wicklow County Board promoted Baltinglass to the Senior grade. The club reached their first Senior final just two years later. Despite coming out on the wrong end of the result in this match, a new era was beginning.
A huge milestone was achieved in 1958 when Baltinglass won their first Wicklow Senior title. The club experienced much success throughout the following four decades, with the Miley cup regularly coming to Baltinglass in this time. Four county titles-including three in a row- were achieved in the sixties, four titles were captured in the seventies, six in the eighties and five in the nineties. Baltinglass footballers' most impressive run saw eight Senior titles in a row earned from 1987 to 1994. Baltinglass were victorious in the Leinster club championship in 1989. The club's greatest achievement followed on St. Patrick's Day in 1990 when Baltinglass won the much sought-after Andy Merigan cup and were crowned All-Ireland club champions. Baltinglass won the 1993 Intermediate final and the Senior title again in 2007 and most recently in 2016.
In the past decade, the Ladies section of our club has gone from strength to strength. Beginning with success in 2009, which saw Baltinglass girls win the U12, U14 and U16 championships. After winning the Junior County Final in 2010, Baltinglass Ladies became a Senior team. Further efforts came to fruition in 2014 when Baltinglass won their first Senior ladies title. Today, the Ladies section of the club have a Senior and a Junior team, as well as juvenile teams from U8 to minor. The improvement in the number of young girls playing is thanks to a successful Gaelic4Girls initiative which introduced girls to the game in a fun and safe way.
In the men's part of the club, we currently have one Senior team and two Junior teams. We also have underage boys' teams from U7 to minor and an U6 academy squad for boys and girls aged four and over. Baltinglass GAA maintains strong links with the local primary and secondary schools to promote enjoyment and participation for young people in the community.
Today Baltinglass GAA's facilities for players, members and supporters are second to none. These include two training pitches in addition to our main playing pitch, dressing rooms, weight rooms, a kit room, a kitchen and a committee room. Other major developments that have occurred in recent years have involved floodlights being installed and the building of the Godfrey Timmins stand which officially opened in 2009. The Club's biggest and most successful fundraising event took place in October 2016, where a small team of committee members organised Baltinglass GAA Broadway Challenge.
This recent podcast Balto: An Irish Underdog Story was broadcast on Newstalk, telling the story of how Baltinglass won the All Ireland Club Championship in 1990. Click the following link to listen: https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/Documentary_and_Drama_on_Newstalk/Newstalk_Documentaries/226023/Balto_An_Irish_Underdog_Story_Documentary_On_Newstalk
Our club shop is run by Alison who can be contacted on 087 6320850 to order or purchase any item.
Items for sale in the club shop include: club jerseys, club shorts, club socks, football gloves, hats, hoodies, half zips, jackets. All items come in adult and child sizes.
The shop opens in the clubhouse, at various times each year, especially before big games or tournaments.
The shop is also open before big events such as St. Patrick's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day and at Christmas time.
Times and days on which the shop will be open is always advertised on our Club Facebook and Twitter Pages in advance.
Patsy Barrett is our Schools Liaison Officer
The club has strong links with schools in the local area.
We promote GAA through weekly coaching sessions given by Patsy and other Wicklow GAA coaches in local primary schools.
5th and 6th Class pupils in Scoil Naomh Íosaf NS, Baltinglass participate in the annual Tom Hannafin Cup, which takes place over a number of weeks every January and February in our local secondary school, Scoil Chonglais. This tournament is always enjoyed by children, teachers, parents and club officials alike.
Both girls and boys from our local primary schools participate in the Cumann na mBunscol inter-schools and skills competitions.
Girls and boys in Scoil Chonglais take part in the Wicklow Post Primary Schools competitions.
Baltinglass GAA 1990 All Ireland Club Winning Team
Baltinglass GAA main pitch
Baltinglass GAA Clubhouse
Baltinglass GAA Main Pitch with Floodlights
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The Centre maintains a collection of more than 10,000 books, 600 videos and DVD's, and approximately 1500 vertical files as well as cassette tapes, cds, flannel graph, posters newspapers and magazines.
We also have books on theology, church history, spirituality, patristics, the lives and faith of the saints, and a wide selection of books, cds, videos and dvds for personal growth, understanding and interest.
This library is used by clergy, lay readers, The James Settee College, parish teams involved with training events, children's ministry, bible studies, prayer groups and Christian teaching. As well individuals and families both native and non-native across Saskatchewan's north come to browse and borrow resource material. It is used as well by other denominations and open to the general public.
The Resource Centre established as the vision of Orra Sheldon in 1970. Mrs. Sheldon began to organize Christian Education resources that were left behind from the days of the "Van Girls" as well as libraries that had been donated to the Diocese by retired clergy. With a small acquisitions budge she began to add to the collection new Christian Education resources. This work is carried on by the Christian Education Director Noreen Hareuther who continues to add new acquisitions to the collection, assists individuals in finding the resources they are looking for, and teaching them how to put these tools together and use them for teaching and instruction.


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Summer 2020 Final Rankings
Finally, Summer 2020 is over. Good. This is easily one of the most underwhelming anime seasons in recent memory. That admittedly can't be helped. With the COVID-19, it simply had no chance to impress. I'm just glad that stuff aired at all and with no delays even (which is one thing this season has over Spring 2020). Nevertheless, underwhelming is underwhelming and I hope for Fall 2020 to be a better season than this (it already looks that way by default).
Anyway, let's take a look at Summer 2020.
#1. The Millionaire Detective Balance: Balance
This is admittedly at the top by simply being the only show I'd confidently score an 8/10 though that obviously still means I quite enjoy it. The show just embraces its goofy nature by delivering some over the top set pieces and a lot of funny banter from the characters. Plus, to its credit, it does deliver a surprisingly compelling and exciting mystery (albeit with some clumsy details) that takes up the latter half of the series. A surprise favorite this season and even this entire year (though given this year, that's not hard to do).
#2. Lapis Re:LIGHTs
Still my favorite of the Summer premieres. Believe me, Lapis Re:LiGHTs is far from perfect. The cast is too big and the story is severely unfocused during the first half. Despite all that, I honestly had a lot of fun watching this show. Lapis embraces its wackiness to the point that I can't help but admire and enjoy it. The story does pick up at the halfway mark. The main five characters, especially Tiara, are really charming and other such as Yue and Eliza fulfill their roles pretty well. Some of the music performances are also fun and catchy. If this show ever gets a second season, I'd be down to watch it.
#3. Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater
I wrestled with this score as I tend to gravitate towards these outdoors-themed CGDCT anime and the cast in this show is pretty likable (Hinata especially). At the same time, I must admit that I started to get bored as I reached the end. The fishing tutorials gets really droning and the plot is extremely repetitive. I enjoyed Diary overall but it's hardly up there with, say, Laid-Back Camp.
#4. Umayon
Pretty much an anthology of vignettes starring the characters of Umamusume: Pretty Derby (a lot of which I struggled to remember if they were actually in the original show). It's really only for diehard fans but it's also short and consistently funny. With a second season now in production, a appetizer such as this is fine by me.
#5. Rent-a-Girlfriend
Part of me kind of wishes I dropped coverage for Kanokari alongside Deca-Dence. The main cast of characters, even the most unlikable ones, are pretty interesting, hence why I stuck with it. Aside from that though, I didn't find the show all that funny and the story got horribly sidetracked halfway through which made me lose interest. I can see myself continuing into Season 2 but only for a few episodes at least.
#6. Deca-Dence
Easily the most disappointing anime for me this season and maybe the whole year (though harldy the worst to be fair). Perhaps it's on me for expecting a lot out of Deca-Dence but you'd think with the people behind this production, it wouldn't be so underwhelming. The story is pedestrian and not particularly clever and the characters are largely forgettable. It's at least paced very well and the art is quirky and distinctive (certainly for anime) but that barely means much to me if the story is weak.
#7. Monster Girl Doctor
I stuck with Monster Girl Doctor as it does have a couple of likable characters (Skadi is the highlight for me). It is however a very aimless show, especially in the romance department where all the love interests are well aware of their stalemate for Glenn's heart…and yet don't do anything meaningful about it. What really holds the show back is the art. Aside from some character designs, this show is pretty ugly with a diluted color palate and CGI. Also for an ecchi series, this show hasn't been terribly sexy, either being too weird or too tame.
#1. Healin' Good Pretty Cure
Episodes Seen: 26
I quite like Asumi/Cure Earth but this show has been pushing her character an awful lot. Seriously, the 25th episode is the first one in a while where it wasn't squarely about her. It especially hampers the action which has frankly gotten really boring because Cure Earth is so overpowered. Still an otherwise fun and charming series though I hope for the next cour to change course.
Appare-Ranman! (Ep. 5)
Digimon Adventure: (Ep. 15)
Gibiate (Ep. 2)
The God of High School (Ep. 6)
The Misfit of Demon King Academy (Ep. 5)
Mr. Love: Queen's Choice (Ep. 3)
Ninja Collection (Ep. 1)
Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time (Ep. 1)
SUPER HXEROS (Ep. 4)
Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! (Ep. 2)
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Versatile design with adjustable shelf height
Enhances clarity across the frequency range
Delivers wider and deeper soundstages
Improves bass definition
Reduced muddiness and time smear
Makes transients clearer
The Townshend Audio Seismic Isolation Stand is an equipment support system designed to fully isolate all hi-fi, audio and video components from ground borne vibration. The concept for the Stand is derived from the original multi award winning Seismic Sink Stand introduced in 1997.
This radical product re-wrote the rules on equipment support, rules which had always insisted on rigid coupling to the floor to 'drain away unwanted energy'.
The performance of the soft suspended Seismic Vibration Isolation Stand compared with all rigid designs showed the hi-fi world how absolutely vital it is to thoroughly isolate all source and amplifier components from ground-borne vibration.
The Seismic Sink Stand sets a new level of performance, style and practicality. Minimalist in design it has height adjustable smoked glass shelves held on support poles and mounted on a platform that includes eight Seismic Load Cells™ in-between two rigid steel plates. This arrangement, in conjunction with the mass of the stand and equipment, forms a stable suspended low-pass filter with an attenuation of about 20dB per decade above 2Hz. This ensures that deleterious ground borne vibrations from 4Hz and above are virtually eliminated.
Isolating audio and video components from vibration increases fidelity and imparts an openness and clarity to the sound, with gains in focus and solidity of image.
A result that non-suspended stands simply cannot approach. 100% maintenance-free, the stand is manufactured to a high standard in order to last a lifetime.
Standard shelves are made of polished and toughened safety glass that looks great and provide durability. The four point mounting clamps have vibration absorbing pads which form a constrained layer damped assembly with virtually no resonance once the equipment is in place.
Rubber or felt feet on the supported equipment completely eliminate any possibility of ringing. The stand rests on soft plastic feet that will not harm wood or carpet floors and are easily adjustable for precise leveling.
The Seismic Isolation Stands are manufactured in the standard following sizes:
•	Size 1 equipment width up to 45cm (18")
•	Size 2 equipment width up to 50cm (19.5")
•	Size 3 equipment width up to 53cm (20.75")
•	Wide equipment width up to 100cm (39")
The Seismic Isolation stand can be levelled with the supplied spanner when fully loaded. The Load Cells™ come in a range of strengths to suit the weight of the equipment suspended. In the standard range the maximum equipment weight is between 150kg and 200kg (330 & 440lb) depending upon the number of shelves.
The final product is custom built to suit your needs, to make this possible we need to know the following:
•	Weight for each piece of equipment starting from the bottom shelf.
•	Width, depth and height for each piece of equipment starting from the bottom shelf.
The length of the support poles is relative to the number of the shelves and the height of the gaps between them.
Link to the page: " The importance of vibration isolation "
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It is possible to have a stand with the top shelf rigid to the ground and the lower shelves isolated.
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Seismic Waves
What is it that distinguishes the sound of a great hi-fi system from a merely good one? Is it how loud it will go? Does it depend on the amount of bass energy it can pump into your listening room? Is it something to do with pace, rhythm and timing or what hi-fi reviewers sometimes refer to as the sound being 'fast'? These are a few audible characteristics among many. Some can be emphasised or attenuated to alter the sound, and there any number of cable and 'accessory' manufacturers out there that will help you achieve such an 'effect', some arguably desirable, some less so. Either way, and however beneficial the changes might seem, they are most likely benign distortions, and minimising distortion, in all its forms, is a principal goal of hi-fi. Only then will a true sense of realism be won.
So here's the sobering fact. Every hi-fi system, from humble to high-end, has its performance ceiling set not by the cost and quality of its individual components but by how completely those components – the source, the amplification, the loudspeakers – are isolated from the world around them. And when we say 'world' we mean that literally, as we'll explain in a moment.
Vibration.
Without it, we wouldn't hear a thing. Yet, as interference, it can destroy the realism – critically realised in the finest, low-level detail – of the music we love. The aim, therefore, is to preserve the good vibrations (something worth signing about as the Beach Boys would no doubt agree) by preventing contamination from the bad ones.
This used to be thought of as a singularly circular problem. That is, it was all the fault of the loudspeaker, as it was both the means for converting electrical signals into the vibrations we perceive as music and (because it was physically coupled to the room in which it was being played), also the culprit for resonant interference – not only to the detriment of its own performance but also everything else in the playback chain.
Nothing much has changed in this respect. If unchecked these unwelcome resonances are a fundamental cause of under-achieving sound quality, and well recognised as such – to the extent that, over the years, the burgeoning 'isolation' business has spawned myriad 'solutions' to the problem, ranging from the widely favoured spiked speaker stands and equipment racks to simple, cushioning elastomers and, more recently, exotic, expensively-encased ceramic balls with mysterious 'energy-draining' properties. We wouldn't dispute that they all do something to change the sound – maybe enough, in some cases, to persuade the listener that unwanted vibrations have been vanquished and all is well with the world. It isn't.
Microtremors.
Any group of components brought together with the aim of accurately reproducing music or a film soundtrack is at the mercy of our planet, and the consequences truly are seismic. Every moment of the day and night, global activity is occurring, mostly manifested as a phenomenon known as microtremors. These ground-borne seismic vibrations are always present, everywhere, all the time. They are Mother Earth's never-ending backing track, the residual noise recorded on seismographs between earthquakes. Unless filtered out, the microtremors join in and wash away crucial fine detail.
So how come we can't feel them? Their amplitude is very low, measuring between force -1 and force 2 on The Richter Scale, as shown (fig. 1) from the US Geological Survey. No, you can't feel them and the only way you can see them is as a graphic trace. But you can hear their degrading influence. The presence of low-level seismic activity 24/7 is responsible for undermining your hi-fi's potential to give true musical satisfaction and ultimately compromises your financial investment in whatever hardware you own or choose to own.
The solution.
Townshend Audio is the world's only manufacturer of isolation systems that protect hi-fi and AV equipment from seismic microtremors. The first line of defence is the Seismic Podium. Designed as a range to accommodate any size and weight of speaker – standmount plus stand, floorstander or subwoofer – the Seismic Podium breaks the acoustic connection between the floor and the speaker, preventing the passage of deleterious vibrations both to and from the speaker cabinets. For a detailed explanation of why this is an absolute necessity before any speaker can perform to its true potential, read 'Earthquakes on hi-fi', http://goo.gl/sv3GsX.
Floated on Seismic Isolation Podiums, speakers are freed from the ever-present seismic activity and room/floor interactions that seriously degrade sound quality. The result is simply magical, allowing listeners to hear into their favourite music in a way they were never able to previously. When under your speakers, they will give you immediate improvements in overall sound by preventing speaker generated vibration from entering the floor and sound from entering your speakers. By eliminating the resonance between the speaker-cabinet mass and the floor, the sound will be noticeably clearer, much more tuneful, controlled and natural. Bass boom is significantly reduced and there will be a far larger, much deeper and wider sound stage. The sound becomes natural and more enjoyable.
As many have already witnessed, the improvements are a revelation and a true pleasure – not least because severing the acoustic link between the speaker and the floor allows playback at more realistic volume levels without annoying the neighbours!
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The Changing Image of Zionism.
As a source of surprise and paradox, Zionism seems to stand without parallel in world history. Its very name evokes an end-of-days messianism, a culmination to centuries of exile and struggle, yet its key promulgators were antireligious hotheads who cut themselves off emotionally and historically from their forebears. They co-opted the ''chosenness'' of religious Jews -- the idea that God had selected his people to serve as a ''light unto nations'' by giving them the Torah -- and recast it, saying that they would serve as a model of an enlightened, collectivist society. This would be accomplished by replacing the pale, black-coated ghetto dweller with a sinewy, earthy, half-naked soldier-farmer. In other words, the new Jew would achieve his uniqueness by aping the gentile. The historian Arthur Hertzberg pointed out more than 40 years ago in his classic essay ''The Zionist Idea'' that all other 19th-century nationalisms based their efforts on an already existing national land or language, usually both. Zionism had neither. As David Ben-Gurion said, while most revolts are uprisings against a system, Zionism was really a revolt against destiny.
The surprises only get more interesting once Israel is founded. While Zion is a biblical term for Jerusalem, the holy city was not the movement's focus. The true expression of Zionism was thought to lie in the creation of Tel Aviv, the first Hebrew city, with its Bauhaus functionalism and historical blank slate. In fact, when the war broke out in 1967 and it became clear that Israel could seize Jordanian-held East Jerusalem with its Western Wall and other holy sites, many in the government, including the two religious ministers, spoke out firmly against doing so. Yet today, Jerusalem is unambiguously at the heart of Zionism, particularly of religious Zionism.
Amnon Rubinstein, a moderate member of the Israeli Parliament for the past quarter-century, a former government minister and dean of the Tel Aviv University Law School, and one of the more intelligent and decent public figures in Israel, has written a book that reflects on some of these surprises. ''From Herzl to Rabin'' has vigor and depth. But it is a manifestation of Rubinstein's double role. While the book is, in part, a sober account of the movement in which he has played a vital role, it is also a Savonarola-like screed against those he fears are hijacking Zionism -- the religious right and the post-Zionist left. Both his scholarship and his argument are interesting. But they are not of equal quality.
Rubinstein is at his best when examining the fascinating byways of Zionist history. The book's most original and thoughtful chapter, ''No More Sabras,'' focuses on the role the sabra, a native-born Israeli, has played in Zionist consciousness. The term is taken from the local cactus fruit, a prickly pear that, if you manage to cut through the thorns, has a sweet heart. Drawing on poems, novels and essays of the day, Rubinstein captures the ''Lord of the Flies'' atmosphere of the early settlers, their rejection of parents and family, their eternal adolescence.
Rubinstein has been a key advocate for human rights in Israel and is leading an effort to write the country's first constitution. He therefore has nothing but disdain for those who claim that their access to a higher law -- the religious right -- gives them the right to violate the laws of the state. His attack on the extremist rabbis who, he says, created the conditions that led to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination by a Jewish law student is not particularly original, but it is powerful and well argued.
Where Rubinstein does become original -- but, in my view, less persuasive -- is in the link he sees between these religious extremists and post-Zionist leftists teaching at Israeli universities. He goes so far as to call this a ''partnership'' and argues that both seek to libel and destroy the humane Zionism to which he has devoted his life. He spends nearly 100 pages caricaturing the new historians of Israel as a bunch of postmodernists who believe there are no objective facts, who want to destroy the Jewish nature of Israel and who care not a whit for truth or evidence that runs counter to their political agenda.
This is a pity. There are certainly leftist Israeli academics who fit this description. But others have clearly added to our understanding of the nation's history through the careful use of previously classified documents. Rubinstein says the critics ''make the mistake of considering Zionism a monolithic movement lacking any internal heterogeneity.'' But that is precisely the mistake he makes in attacking the revisionist scholars. This makes for a strange disconnect. Rubinstein not only accepts but thoughtfully promotes the idea that the Zionists and their cause were noble but flawed. But when others point to the dark side -- when, for example, they unearth what appear to have been rough Zionist tactics inside the displaced person camps of postwar Europe -- he is offended. He wants to frame the discussion in his own terms. When he quotes a new historian on Zionist shortcomings, he quickly dismisses the evidence by saying that national movements usually involve cruelty and tunnel vision. This is true. But revisionist historians usually overstate their case. Why be forgiving of one and harsh with the second?
Rubinstein ends this book with the hope that the ''authentic'' Zionism of Israel's founders can be recaptured. It is, he says, the only movement that can properly lead the Jewish people and attain peace with its neighbors. Perhaps. But his own unwillingness to discern shadings among those with whom he disagrees suggests that ''authentic'' Zionism lies in the eye of the beholder.


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Andrew Moloney: 'I have always been confident that I would beat Kal Yafai'
On Saturday, Kal Yafai successfully retained his WBA junior bantamweight title with a 12-round unanimous decision over Israel Gonzalez in the exotic setting of Monte Carlo.
Yafai, who is rated No. 2 by The Ring at 115 pounds, labored at times during his fourth defense and was extremely disappointed with his performance. Meanwhile, some 10,000 miles away in Australia, mandatory challenger Andrew Moloney was licking lips at the prospect of facing the Englishman.
"I have always been confident that I would beat Yafai, that is why I have talked about wanting this fight for so long," Moloney (18-0, 11 knockouts) told The Ring on Monday. "But after watching Yafai's performance, I'm more confident than ever that I have what it takes to win that world title.
"I thought Yafai was one-dimensional and he was very lucky to be given the decision. I personally scored the fight 117-112 to Gonzalez."
But before any world title fight, the 27-year-old Moloney has to take care of Filipino southpaw Cris Paulino on Dec. 14.
"I am looking forward to finishing the year off with another victory and moving to 19-0," said Moloney. "I hope that I can get Yafai early next year. I am happy to fight him anywhere, but it would be amazing to fight him on the Anthony Joshua card at Wembley Stadium (scheduled for April 13) in front of 100,000 people."
Moloney's manager, Tony Tolj, has taken both Andrew and his twin brother Jason to America for training camps in the past year for prospective world title fights.
Last month, Jason fought IBF bantamweight titleholder Emmanuel Rodriguez to a standstill in their World Boxing Super Series quarter-final meeting. Despite losing a narrow split decision, he came out of the fight with a lot of credit.
"You can't teach heart, and Jason showed a massive amount of testicular fortitude in that fight," said Tolj. "It's always difficult to win in someone's backyard but Jason adapted, overcame, improvised and dominated the last portion of his fight. He was very unlucky to not come away with the belt.
"Andrew's last fight (Luis Concepcion TKO 10) was impressive, he just goes up another level every time. Team Moloney do not want easy fights, we want to make statements and fight the best. I believe Andrew will rise to another level facing Yafai, and the junior bantamweight division best beware, there is a monster on the loose and he's hungry for some gold."
Questions and/or comments can be sent to Anson at elraincoat@live.co.uk and you can follow him on Twitter @AnsonWainwright
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The Center participated in a week of events in Guatamala and Costa Rica, closing with a regional conference in Panama.
Associate Directors Gary Doxey and David Moore and Senior Fellows Denise and Neil Lindberg took part in a week long religious freedom conference that included events and meetings in Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Panama. The event, co- sponsored by the International Center for Law and Religion Studies, culminated in the signing of an agreement between ICLRS, The Saint Maria La Antigua Catholic University and the Latin American Consortium for Religious Freedom to work together to promote and protect religious freedom.
Events included meetings with various religious leaders, academics, and Supreme Court justices, among others. The delegation spoke at the National Assembly in Costa Rica. Gary Doxey and David Moore were also interviewed on radio and television.
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A delegation from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints joined interfaith and government leaders, as well as academics, in Central America in late October to make history. The group signed an agreement to work more diligently together to promote and protect religious freedom.
Denise Lindberg, senior judge of the U.S. District Court in Utah, and David Moore, associate director of BYU's International Center for Law and Religion Studies, traveled with Doxey to the conference. At a devotional broadcast, the trio also spoke to Church members across the region. They were joined by Elder Alan R. Walker of the Central America Area Presidency, who encouraged civility while defending religious freedom.
"When you see storm clouds on the horizon, you know that a storm is on the way, and you need to prepare to protect yourself," said conference participant Gary Doxey, associate director for the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University (BYU).
"With rising militant secularism and a decrease in religion generally, there is a critical need to put in place — working together — rules and statutes that protect the freedom of religion and belief space for believer and the non-believer alike," Doxey continued.
The weeklong religious freedom conference included a series of events and meetings in Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama.
"In recent times, 71% of the government[s] of Latin American countries have increased restriction on religious freedom," added Doxey.
The conference attracted former heads of state, members of congress, Catholic archbishops and other clergy, human rights directors, heads of universities, chief justices and pro-family associations to learn and discuss next steps in preserving religious freedom.
During the nationally televised conference, presentations were made to a packed Costa Rica parliament. The conference concluded with the signing of an agreement among the BYU J. Reuben Clark Law School, the Saint Maria La Antigua Catholic University and the Latin American Consortium for Religious Freedom to work together in the future.
"Be respectful of the law, be kind citizens and follow the teachings of Jesus Christ — always being firm in your beliefs," Walker said. "But be loving of all others and respect freedom of religion and belief."
Title of Liberty Raised in Three-Country Tour of Central America: Latter-day Saints participate in historic religious freedom conference


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Venus flytraps are by far the most commonly recognized and cultivated carnivorous plant. They are sold as houseplants and are often found at florists, hardware stores and supermarkets. Since around 2012, large numbers of cultivars (cultivated varieties) have come into the market through tissue culture of selected genetic mutations. It is through tissue culture that great quantities of plants are raised for commercial markets.

The registered cultivars include (name of registrant in braces):

 Dionaea muscipula 'Akai Ryu' {Ron Gagliardo}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Alien' {Guillaume Bily}
 Dionaea muscipula 'B52' {Barry Meyers-Rice}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Blanche Hermine' {Guillaume Bily}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Bohemian Garnet' {Miroslav Srba}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Clayton's Red Sunset' {Colin Clayton}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Coquillage' {Guillaume Bily}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Cupped Trap' {Steven Stewart}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Dentate Traps' {Barry Meyers-Rice}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Fondue' {Guillaume Bily}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Fused Tooth' {Peter D'Amato & Thomas Carow}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Green Dragon' {Marcus Erbacher & M. Stoeckl}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Holland Red' {Marcus Erbacher & M. Stoeckl}
 Dionaea muscipula 'JA1' {Julio Alberto González Domínguez}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Jaws' {Leo Song, Jr.}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Justina Davis' {Barry Meyers-Rice}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Korean Melody Shark' {Jang Gi-Won & Wook Hyon (Max) Yoon}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Korrigans' {Guillaume Bily}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Louchapates' {Romuald Anfraix}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Microdent' {Gayl Quenon} [originally published as Dionaea muscipula 'Microdents']
 Dionaea muscipula 'Mirror' {Dieter Blancquaert}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Orange Neat Trap' {Jae-Hwan Lee}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Petite Dragon' {Robert Ziemer}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Red Burgundy' {Marcus Erbacher & M. Stoeckl}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Red Neat Trap' {Jae-Hwan Lee}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Red Piranha' {Edward Read}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Royal Red' {Geoffrey Mansell}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Sawtooth' {Barry Meyers-Rice}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Scarlatine' {Lucien Blacher}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Scarlet Bristle' {Real Keehn Concepts}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Small Fast' {Jae-Hwan Lee}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Viper Trap' {Jae-Hwan Lee}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Wacky Traps' {Barry Meyers-Rice}

The names in the list above are all documented, registered and accepted by the International Carnivorous Plant Society, the International Cultivar Registration Authority for carnivorous plant cultivars.

Published but unregistered cultivar names include (name of nominant in braces):

 Dionaea muscipula 'Big Mouth' {Tony Camilleri}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Clumping Cultivar' {Peter D'Amato}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Dentate' {Peter D'Amato} [established as Dionaea muscipula 'Dentate Traps']
 Dionaea muscipula 'Dente' {Peter D'Amato} [established as Dionaea muscipula 'Dentate Traps']
 Dionaea muscipula 'Kinchyaku' {Katsuhiko Kondo}
 Dionaea muscipula 'Red Rosetted' {Peter D'Amato}

References

Lists of cultivars

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