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Among its many appealing features County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland has pleasing landscapes, a rich history and talented local artisans. Six gems have been selected to feature in this collection of articles: a natural wonder, enduring or innovative institutions and a gifted craftsman. Some are well-known, others might be called hidden gems; each deserves to be allowed to shine.
Each article is a snapshot of a Fermanagh place, institution or person at a significant moment in its existence. We will visit Marble Arch Caves on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of its show cave, Belleek Pottery on its 150th anniversary, the Graan monastery during its centenary year, Headhunters Railway Museum at the end of its first decade and Frankie McPhillips, a craftsman who has carried on the Irish fly-tying tradition for the past thirty-five years.
Each of these articles was originally published individually in Ireland's Own magazine.
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If you're still looking for a way to revamp your discount window treatments, furnishings and wall decor before spring arrives, there are a few interior design trends that have been emerging in the new year. Homeowners interested in bringing a fresh take to their living spaces can benefit from familiarizing themselves with these styles. Here are some upgrades and ideas you might want to consider for your own rooms.
Play with blended color combinations
Thinking of dressing up your wood blinds with drapes this season? Do you want to bring an area rug into your bedroom? The Huffington Post recommends considering blended color schemes to create an eye-catching look in your living spaces. Gone are the days when strange contrasting colors were brought together to add visual interest. Now, professional interior designers are all about finding hues that work harmoniously together.
Get innovative
It seems that 2013 is the year of innovation, and more homeowners are incorporating pieces into their spaces that make life easier, according to the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel. For example, hands-free faucets are all the rage in kitchens. Open shelving continues to grow in popularity because it not only makes items more accessible, but gives individuals the opportunity to showcase their most prized belongings.
Don't be afraid to go retro
Blogger Kelly Hoppen told the Huffington Post that retro modern furniture is going to stick around in 2013. This is good news for homeowners who love contemporary styles and want to add a fresh look to their rooms. Minimalism and curvy furniture continues to be all the rage, and mixed finishes are also trending. This means that you shouldn't be surprised to see leather combined with wood in furnishings.
Show off architectural details
The Journal Sentinel states that this year is also going to be big for small architectural details such as crown molding and high ceilings. Rather than trying to hide the structure of your home, it's going to be important to pull back your cellular shades and allow natural light to shine on these beautiful features.
Whether you've been meaning to revamp the interior of your home for weeks or you simply want a new look before spring arrives, these trends can give you a starting point. Even though styles are bound to change, familiarizing yourself with what's fresh can help you keep your household looking fabulous.

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In the trade magazine business, not generally known for early adoption of new-media developments, Paul Conley is something of an anomaly. He is, as he puts it, "hypersensitive to how new technology opens up opportunities in old worlds." He was among the first in the trade press to recognize the significance of social media. And though he is now beginning to question its potential, he was an early advocate for content marketing as a promising new career path for journalists.
As early as 1996, not long after the birth of the World Wide Web, he founded a business-to-business internet news service. Though that effort failed, it provided the foundation for a subsequent career in new media, beginning with CNN's web unit, CNNfn, and then key roles with Primedia, Bloomberg, and About.com. Conley is best known, however, for his subsequent work, starting in 2004, as a consultant and blogger. Throughout the last decade, his blog was required reading for anyone concerned about the future of trade publishing, and has made him, as he puts it, "weirdly famous in some cool media niches."
In 2008, Conley's focus began to shift from traditional trade journalism to content marketing, which at one point he described as "the most exciting part of the B2B world today." By last year, he said, his working life was "consumed" by content marketing.
In a recent interview, however, Conley told me that he has begun to worry about the viability of content marketing. While "the biggest opportunities in B2B media are clearly in content marketing," challenges to its potential as a new outlet for journalism are growing rapidly:
Much of my business in the past few years has involved helping non-publishers enter content marketing. And my experience has been that the overwhelming majority of these companies don't have a culture that is open to journalism. These companies don't have the stomach for news and the confrontations it can promote. They panic when someone complains. They're afraid of controversy.
Journalists by the hundreds—both newcomers and legacy—are being recruited for these jobs. But once they get there, they find that their skills and their mindset are not appreciated.
Though he once hoped that content marketing "could be a new form of journalism," and that it would both employ journalists and serve readers well, he's less sanguine now. With a few exceptions, such as CMO.com, he says, "content marketing has turned out to be nothing more than a slightly cooler, slightly hipper form of marcomm and advertising."
It doesn't help, Conley adds, that traditional publishers are also entering into content marketing.
What they're selling in the market is the ability to co-opt their journalists! Legacy publishers are telling advertisers that journalists will create content marketing for them. And the journalists who balk at this find themselves facing an enormous amount of hostility from their bosses.
This situation is rapidly turning into a nightmare in B2B. Marketers claim to be journalists. Journalists are hired as marketers. Publishers sell the use of their editorial staff to the same companies that buy advertising. Readers can't tell if they reading editorial content or vendor content or vendor content that's written by editors and then published by a magazine brand or editorial content written by editors but published by vendors or vendor content written by vendors but edited by editors and then published by a magazine brand as a column. There are some verticals in B2B now that are completely polluted by this crap.
Conley does not seem to have given up all hope for content marketing as a robust alternative to traditional journalism. But, he says, "finding a way to navigate this new world will be the biggest challenge for B2B journalists and readers for the foreseeable future."
Paul Conley is one of eight new-media thought leaders profiled in the forthcoming e-book, the New-Media Survival Guide. More of my interview with him, in which he describes the ethical challenges facing B2B publishing, will be has been published soon on the ASBPE National Blog.


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The big story is that of a couple of ticket-less kids who, having failed to gain entry to the Falls, wandered off and found themselves lost in the bush for a couple of days. (They were later found, unharmed and mostly unshaken.) Reading, this isn't.
The Falls Festival – now in its 16th year, and boasting a capped attendance of 16,000 – is set a few kilometres inland from Victoria (Australia)'s premier tourist attraction, the Great Ocean Road. Imagine mile after mile of impossibly beautiful forest-land, dotted with inlets and waterfalls and rock formations so startling they named them after biblical characters (the 12 Apostles – there's actually only 11 right now, after one crumbled into the sea), and sunsets and boy racers to liven stuff up, and you begin wondering just why you're attending a music festival in the first place, especially one at the mercy of Victoria's notoriously unstable weather (four seasons in an afternoon). The threatened storm never quite bursts, however: even if hand-painted signs along the track warn of temperatures dropping unseasonably cold at night, and advising all and sundry to 'rug up'.
A severe tailback along the Great Ocean Road on the opening day (koala-spotting sure beats counting number-plates on the M25) means we fail to arrive onsite till the Tuesday – as Tourism VIC have decided to station us halfway up a mountain, 75 minutes (on a clear day) drive away. It's partially a shame, because not only are the touted Aus rock band Augie March playing – folk storytelling mixed in with skewed riffage – but so are the excessively hyped Fleet Foxes. Now, I've been quoted by no less an august source as the Seattle P-I as dismissing the soporific beard-toting combo as "suburban hippies" – and man, that whole post-Animal Collective, 'let's pretend we all love sitting out on the porch listening to Beach Boys' Smile', shtik doesn't half get tired fast, and I never did like siding with the mainstream critics anyway – but we sure would've liked to have caught them live, if only to confirm my prejudices. Maybe we would've had our ice-cold hearts melted. Sadly, it wasn't to be, as at 4.15pm we were humming idly in our rental car 10 kilometres out of Lorne: and at 6.15pm (when Fleet Foxes were due to finish) we were still tapping the steering wheel reflectively, 2 kilometres past Lorne.
Other acts we wish we'd seen: Santogold (it's damn hard sticking around for the headline acts with a 3-year-old in tow, even an excessively cute 3-year-old who has squadrons of budding femme fatales making goo-goo eyes at him whenever he dons his Snoopy earmuffs and ventures down front of stage), Mystery Jets (everyone said they 'rocked', but as that adjective could be applied to anything from a toy kangaroo to Gene Simmons, we'd like to reserve judgment), Franz Ferdinand (who were counting down the New Year with the Aussies on the Wednesday – we'd have like to have seen them, if only so we could've sung along with the Misty's Big Adventure song poking fun at the whole new wave of New Wave breed), The Hives(because they're reputedly unfailingly polite and we like our snappy-dressed, stripped-bare rock'n'roll bands polite) and Cut Off Your Hands (just kidding: we'd rather cut our own throats than witness one more fucking generic indie rock band imitating their US and UK counterparts from the southern hemisphere).
We did catch The Drones, however. We wouldn't have missed that. The trouble, right now, with Aus rock (and criticism) is that it basically isn't Aus – in the main – but a warmed-up UK/US copy. The Drones are the Aus band that buck the trend: writhing, railing, wreathing, virile, vitriolic, venomous and all those other great words that end with 'ous': drawing wantonly on a tradition that takes in Charlie Parker, The Saints and Kim Salmon (and if you don't know those names, then sure: check 'em out). One song is like 'The Mercy Seat' given a whole new half-life – but that's where the Bad Seeds comparisons begin and end. The band I'm most reminded of is The Triffids: and, man, that's fighting talk. The fact there were buxom bottle-blondes seated on top of shoulders, singing lustily along with every word, only increased the pleasure.
And we did catch both Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings and Eli 'Paperboy' Reed & The True Loves (who played Joe Tex to Sharon's searing Irma Thomas), however: the latter while going round and round and round in a makeshift Ferris Wheel (Isaac, our 3-year-old's highlight of the festival). Maybe it's a sign of my aging, but I sure enjoy that tautly-played, sharp as, sweet soul music: revivalist and too in thrall to the past or not. Anyway, hey! What the fuck are The Kooks and Wolf And Cub and Rocket Science – who also all played – doing if not lifting from the past and not adding anything new? At least Sharon and Eli are being honest about it: and their tunes, horn sections and suits are way sharper.
Annoyingly, we caught just two minutes of Soko ("I'll killlllllll her") because we'd totally failed to place her name to her music – and we really did want to see if she was as cute and/or irritating as that YouTube clip makes out. But we did watch astounded as Lykke Li ran her crowd through their paces. On record, she seems all alienated and dislocated sadness: railing gently to herself at the heart of a cold Teutonic disco. Live, she was pretty much the exact opposite: slinky and swelteringly sassy, basking in the adulation of a thousand star-struck Australian indie kids.
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The purpose of UNIDO's technical cooperation function is to build the capacity of Member States to initiate and carry out their own programmes in the field of industrial development.
Tailored assistance is provided to developing countries, with special attention being paid to least developed countries.
Technical cooperation activities represent a significant element in achieving UNIDO's mission to help reduce poverty through sustainable and inclusive industrial development, giving every country the opportunity to grow a flourishing productive sector, increase their participation in international trade and safeguard their environment.
The Organization's technical cooperation activities are informed by its own detailed research and analysis and are tailor-made to meet the needs and requirements of developing countries across UNIDO's three thematic priorities of poverty reduction through productive activities, trade capacity-building, and environment and energy.
In carrying out the core requirements of its mandate and mission, UNIDO has more than doubled its delivery of technical cooperation activities over the past ten years. Together with the substantial increase of voluntary contributions to the financial resources of the Organization, this trend testifies the growing international recognition of UNIDO as an effective provider of inclusive and sustainable industrial development services.
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Nicolás Guillén
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- In full:
- Nicolás Guillén Batista
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- July 16, 1989, Havana (aged 87)
- Political Affiliation:
- Cuban Communist Party
- Notable Works:
- "Cantos para soldados y sones para turistas"
- "España"
- "Motivos de son"
Nicolás Guillén, (born July 10, 1902, Camagüey, Cuba—died July 16, 1989, Havana), Cuban poet of social protest and a leader of the Afro-Cuban movement in the late 1920s and '30s. His commitment to social justice and membership in the Communist Party made him the national poet of revolutionary Cuba.
Guillén read widely during his youth and abandoned law studies at the University of Havana in 1921 to concentrate on writing poetry. Of mixed African and Spanish descent, he combined a knowledge of traditional literary form with firsthand experience of the speech, legends, songs, and sones (popular dances) of the Afro-Cubans in his first volume of poetry, Motivos de son (1930; "Motifs of Son"), which was soon hailed as a masterpiece and widely imitated.
During the following years Guillén became more outspoken politically. No longer satisfied with mere picturesque portrayal of the daily life of the poor, he began to decry their oppression in the volumes Sóngoro cosongo (1931) and West Indies Ltd. (1934). The poems of Cantos para soldados y sones para turistas (1937; "Songs for Soldiers and Sones for Tourists") reflect his growing commitment; that year Guillén went to Spain to fight with the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. From this experience came the poems collected in España (1937; "Spain").
Guillén returned to Cuba after the defeat of the Spanish Republic, joined the Communist Party, and continued to speak out for social and political reform. He became recognized by many critics as the most influential of those Latin American poets who dealt with African themes and re-created African song and dance rhythms in literary form. He was arrested several times and was exiled from Cuba during the regime of Fulgencio Batista in the 1950s, and he was an ardent supporter of Fidel Castro's revolution in 1959. Guillén subsequently served as the longtime director of Cuba's Union of Writers and Artists and was a member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party. He continued to treat themes of revolution and social protest in such later volumes of poetry as La paloma de vuelo popular: Elegías (1958; "The Dove of Popular Flight: Elegies") and Tengo (1964; "I Have"). A bilingual edition of his selected poems, Man-making Words: Selected Poems of Nicolas Guillén, was published in 1975. In 1994 another bilingual edition appeared: Nueva poesia de amor: En algun sitio de la primavera, or New Love Poetry: In Some Springtime Place.


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Chilewich Basketweave Round Placemat, 15"
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Featuring one of the world's oldest weaving techniques, Chilewich's four-over-four Basketweave is the foundation of their collection. The simplicity of the design showcases the quality of the exclusive TerraStrand yarn and allows color to take center stage—from deep earth tones to sophisticated neutrals. Suitable for indoor and outdoor use, Basketweave is available in a variety of colors.
- From the studio of award-winning textile designer Sandy Chilewich
- Suitable for indoor and outdoor use
- Easy to care for—just wipe clean with a damp cloth
- Made with TerraStrand, which replaces petroleum-based plasticizers with phthalate-free, renewable vegetable compounds
- Woven TerraStrand is durable enough to last through countless meals
- Contains Microban antimicrobial protection, which works continuously to inhibit the growth of stain- and odor-causing bacteria, mold and mildew
- Manufacturer: Chilewich
- Material: TerraStrand, a phthalate-free renewable vegetable compound
- Dimensions: 15" diameter
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A: If there is any round shape bangle that fits you properly, just take that bangle, use a scale/ruler/ and measure the diameter of the circle in inches as shown in the picture above. The standard bangle size is 2-4/16 inches (2.25 inches). Bangle sizes are usually in the range of 2.0 inches - 3.0 inches. Please do NOT use a measuring tape as they are not accurate enough.
Before you take the measurement using a scale/ruler, please take a moment to look at the scale/ruler and see how many divisions are there on the scale/ruler. You can do this by counting the number of lines or divisions between any one inch. Some scales/rulers will have 8 or 10 or 16 lines (divisions/markings). If the scales/rulers has 8 or 10 lines (divisions/markings) between any one inch, it is NOT very accurate and its not recommended to use this. Try to find a scale/ruler that has 16 lines (divisions/markings) between any one inch, this is the most accurate one.
When you take the measurement, say for example it comes to 2 inches and 4 lines or divisions, then the bangle size would be 2-4/10 inches (if the ruler has 10 lines or divisions between any one inch) which will make the bangle size 2.40 inches (do NOT confuse this with INDIA bangle size of 2-4 or 2-4 anna, that is a completely different size, please read the question below this for information on that) or if the scale/ruler has 16 lines or divisions, and when you measure it comes to 2 inches and 4 lines, then the bangle size will be 2-4/16 or 2.25 inches - this is the same as India bangle size 2-4 or 2-4 anna
Lastly, if you have any confusion in figuring out the bangle size, please take a bangle that fits you properly, keep a pen or a pencil and a sheet of paper along with a scale/ruler and call us, we can be over the phone with you to instruct you and help you figure out the correct and exact bangle size.
Q: Is the bangle size when measured using the instructions above the same as the bangle size as specified or used in India?
A: Answer is Yes and NO. In India, bangle sizes are measured in 1/16th of an inch, so if you measure the diameter of the bangle using the instructions above and if that size come to say for example 2.25 inches, then that size is called size 2-4 or 2-4/16 or 2-4 anna in India. Size 2-4/16 is the same as size 2.25 inches, please do not confuse India bangle size of 2-2 or 2-2 anna or 2-2/16 with size 2.25 inches, these are two completely different bangle sizes
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MINNEAPOLIS – The Minnesota Twins have declined their $9.25 million option on right-hander Scott Baker's contract for next season, making him eligible for free agency.
The team announced the decision on Monday. Baker didn't pitch this year because of an elbow injury that required elbow-ligament replacement surgery. The Twins have expressed interest in bringing him back for 2013, but not at that price.
The 31-year-old Baker was a second-round draft pick by the Twins in 2003. He is 63-48 with a 4.15 ERA since his debut in 2005, spanning 163 appearances and 159 starts.
The Twins also agreed to terms with right-hander P.J. Walters on a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training. Walters went 2-5 with a 5.69 ERA in 12 starts last season.


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Detail of High Flow used in the Fine Line Applicator |
Same as above, but a different piece. Then layered with paint |
3'x3' canvas, in which I used the High Flow right out of the bottle as well as in the Fine Line Applicator. |
I am offering a giveaway of a High Flow Set with Markers plus a Fine Line Applicator, so you can find out for yourself how cool these materials and tools are for expressive mark making.
This is the Fine Line Applicator you get in the giveaway. |
The High Flow set with markers in the giveaway. |
All you have to do to to qualify for the giveaway is comment on this post and say you are interested. PLUS, you have to be in the US or Canada. Overseas shipping is to much. If you are in Newfoundland or Nova Scotia you get better odds.
I will post a winner on Wednesday, April 23, and it will be the winner's responsibility to check the blog, and then e-mail me with a shipping address.


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Companies that turn off their local servers for e-mail, productivity and collaboration applications and switch to the cloud-hosted Google Apps suite can save significant amounts of money in energy costs, Google said on Monday.
The savings typically range between 65 per cent and 85 percent, and involve reductions in consumption of energy for powering and cooling the local servers, Google said, citing results of an internal study.
Google offered as an example the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), which signed up for Google Apps for Government this year and moved about 17,000 employees to it from on-premise systems. The GSA cut energy consumption by servers related to email and collaboration applications by almost 90 percent, which will allow it to save about $285,000 per year on energy costs in that area, a reduction of 93 per cent, according to Google.
When it takes on customers' workloads, Google spends much less energy than they do because servers in its data center make more efficient use of their computing and storage capacities, and its maintenance and administration costs are less, Google said.
"A typical organization has a lot more servers than it needs–for backup, failures and spikes in demand for computing. Cloud-based service providers like Google aggregate demand across thousands of people, substantially increasing how much servers are utilized. And our data centers use equipment and software specially designed to minimize energy use. The cloud can do the same work much more efficiently than locally hosted servers," wrote Urs Hoelzle, Google's Senior Vice President for Technical Infrastructure, in the blog post.
Google has been promoting the benefits of using Google Apps and cloud-hosted software for years, as acceptance of this model has been steadily increasing. Google and other cloud computing proponents constantly highlight that by using cloud-hosted applications, companies can save on hardware sales and software maintenance, while improving and simplifying the way users can collaborate on server-based documents.
However, the benefits of cloud-based software still have to be weighed against potential pitfalls, like application outages and latency, lack of compliance with data protection regulations in certain industries and countries, and software subscription models that may be economically inconvenient for certain companies and in certain scenarios.


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Core Set 2020 Planeswalker Deck: Vivien
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Planeswalker Decks familiarize players who are interested in Magic with basic strategy, plus the game's setting, characters, and mechanics of the latest set. Each deck comes with a foil Planeswalker card not found anywhere else. Contents: 1 ready-to-play 60-card deck featuring a foil Planeswalker card 1 Core Set 2020 booster pack 1 strategy insert 1 Magic reference guide 1 MTG Arena code card*


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STP Ideal Fermi Gas Integral Program Documents
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STP Ideal Fermi Gas Integral Program
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Harvey Gould, Jan Tobochnik, Wolfgang Christian, and Anne Cox
The STP IdealFermiGasIntegral program numerically determines the value of the chemical potential of an ideal Fermi gas for a given temperature and density.
STP IdealFermiGasIntegral is part of a suite of Open Source Physics programs that model aspects of Statistical and Thermal Physics (STP). The program is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double clicking the stp_IdealFermiGasIntegral.jar file will run the program if Java is installed on your computer. Additional programs can be found by searching ComPADRE for Open Source Physics, STP, or Statistical and Thermal Physics.
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STP IdealFermiGasIntegral Documentation
A pdf document that briefly describes the STP IdealFermiGasIntegral program. It describes how to use the stp_IdealFermiGasIntegral.jar file and contains short tutorial exercises for use with the jar file.
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The materials distributed in this zip file are in support of the STP IdealFermiGasIntegral program. This distribution contains the program, documentation, and exercises.
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
Hudson Hall, Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center
Described as "a charismatic soloist of expressive generosity and technical élan," violinist Bayla Keyes is an ardent champion for a wide range of classical and contemporary repertoire.
A seasoned performer on the international touring circuit, having played over one thousand concerts as a founding member of the Naumburg and Evian Award-winning Muir String Quartet, Ms. Keyes currently concertizes internationally as recitalist, as soloist with orchestras, and as a member of the contemporary music ensemble Boston Musica Viva and the acclaimed piano trio, Triple Helix.
Recent highlights include premieres at the BBC and Kings Place in London, concerts in Beijing and Shanghai, frequent appearances on major chamber music series in Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C., numerous radio broadcasts, solo recitals in Pittsburgh, Boston, and Vermont, the complete Mozart Violin Sonatas and works of Bartók in Serkin Center, and performances with orchestra of concertos by Stravinsky, Chausson, Bartók, Dvorâk, Sibelius, Beethoven, Martinu, Piazzolla, Brahms and Mozart.
While earning degrees from Curtis Institute and Yale University and attending the Marlboro Music Festival, Ms. Keyes studied with major teachers such as Ivan Galamian, Oscar Shumsky, Jascha Brodsky, Felix Galimir, Karen Tuttle, Paul Kling, and Alexander Schneider, and she is committed to passing on their inspirational knowledge; she is Associate Professor of Violin at Boston University and also on the violin faculty at New England Conservatory. Former founding director of the String Quartet Institute at Tanglewood, and former director of the Interlochen Adult Chamber Music Conference, Bayla now teaches in the summer at ARIA International Music Academy and the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival.
Her piano trio, Triple Helix, was in residence at Wellesley College from 1999-2012, where their series of Beethoven concerts garnered them the accolade of "Musicians of the Year" from the Boston Globe; the trio is presently Artist Ensemble in Residence at the Rivers School. Their CD "A Sense of Place" was cited as "Best of North America" by Gramophone Magazine.
Ms. Keyes has recorded for Video Artists International, Ecoclassics, CRI, Musical Heritage, EMI-France, Sony, Koch, Bridge, MRS and New World Records. She plays a Gennarius Gagliano made in 1740. Ms. Keyes served as a board member of Chamber Music America from 2003-2009 and has adjudicated at the Singapore, Stulberg, and Fischoff International Competitions.
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- Boston Musica Viva
Jean-David Coen, piano
Pianist Jean-David Coen holds degrees from the Paris Conservatory, Juilliard and Yale; finishing with his doctorate from the University of Southern California. He has studied with significant masters representing each of the three essential pianistic traditions; German, Russian and French. These great artists included Adele Marcus, Jeanne-Marie Darre, Sascha Gorodnitzki, Claude Frank and John Perry. His most significant mentors in chamber music and collaborative artistry were Szymon Goldberg and Joseph Silverstein.
Jean-David began concertizing with orchestra when he was 9, and by 17 had performed both Tchaikovsky and Brahms first piano concerti. He has played with orchestras and at festivals around the country including: the Los Angeles Philharmonic, in Tanglewood, with Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival and the Aspen Music Festival and School of Music, where for 24 years he was assistant to John Perry and member of the piano and chamber music faculty. For three consecutive terms he was elected to the festival's Musicians Committee and the Board of Trustees. His 2008 performance of the Diabelli variations concluded the festival's presentation of the entire cycle of Beethoven's piano works.
His collaborations have included performances with conductors such as David Zinman and Helmuth Rilling; violinists Peter Zazofsky and Robert McDuffie, singers Vinson Cole and William Sharp and frequent work with cellist Yehudah Hanani. He has toured and given master classes in both China and Japan as part of Trio Oregon. Both solo and ensemble performances have played on NPR's "Performance Today," KUSC and WQXR in New York. He has been a visiting professor of piano at the Sheppard School of Music at USC and is currently professor of piano at Willamette University in Salem, Ore.
In addition to having coached winners of the Gilmore prize and Leeds competition, his students have performed in Carnegie Hall, won international piano competitions, performed on NPR's "From the Top" and hold faculty positions in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
He has recently served on the faculty of the Colburn Summer Academy, the Duxbury Summer Festival of Music, and the Beverly Hills International Festival of Music.


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Porteño, Surry Hills
Meat. And fire. The metal frames look more like torture instruments, but to a hot-blooded carnivore, the Argentinian asado barbecue pit offers a reverential appreciation for all things meat.
It's the promise of flesh that brings fervent diners to Porteño. Fifteen minutes before the doors open for dinner, the queue outside is consistently twenty people deep. Inside, the asado takes centre stage, an open charcoal pit that slowly roasts whole beasts for six hours or more. Each day, they cook two whole lambs and two whole pigs. The unmistakeable smell of animal fat dripping over hissing coals weaves its way into every corner.
Porteno dining room
Arrive early and you'll score one of the moody nooks and crannies littered around the central exposed courtyard. Skylights overhead drench the courtyard in natural light, but its noticeably louder too, with an echo that builds with each diner.
Charcoal grill
The open kitchen means it's worth taking a wander, if only to see your dinner before it's plated. There are flames licking wood in the parilla grill, beasts splayed flat above the asado pit and more tattoos in the kitchen than a season 6 episode of Top Chef.
Beef cuts
Lamb ready for carving
The menu is larger than you'd expect, with plenty of dishes to keep any waylaid vegetarians satisfied too, including broccoli and ricotta empanadas ($6.50), barbecued eggplant with peppers, cauliflower and tahini ($24) and roast beetroot with witlof and housemade feta ($24).
Lengua en escabeche $8
Pickled veal tongue
We start with the pickled veal tongue, wafer thin and enviably tender, elegantly draped in a pool of refreshing vinaigrette. Sure you can see the tastebuds, but for me, that's half the fun.
Tira de asado $38
Pasture-fed Angus beef short ribs
Pastured-fed Angus beef short ribs are simply done, cooked over charcoal to a caramelised crust. It's not a large portion, with each rib costing close to $10, but the meat is rich and fatty, with an intensity of flavour that comes from pasture-fed beef.
A little pot of chimichurri sauce - parsley, garlic, olive oil, oregano and vinegar - provides an acidic lift. All that's left on our plates are little bones, licked clean.
Cordero a la cruz $46
8 hour wood-fired lamb
The wood-fired lamb and pork don't come cheap either, but when you consider the eight hours of tending required - the animals are rotated and moved constantly around the firepit - it doesn't seem worth quibbling.
Chanchito a la cruz $46
8 hour wood-fired pig
Both the lamb and pig are succulent, hunks of flesh ribboned liberally with creamy fat. All the good bits are here too, like the crispy treats of lamb skin and shards of pork crackling that shatter with a resounding crunch.
Repollito de brusela frito $14
Crispy fried brussel sprouts with lentils and mint
The crispy fried brussel sprouts are a house specialty too, known to convert even the most ardent brussel sprout hater. They're a little on the oily side tonight, but the combination of nutty fried brussel sprouts with lentils and fresh mint leaves is both nourishing and refreshing.
Pulpo asado con chorizo, papas y alioli $26
BBQ octopus, chorizo, potato hash and alioli
We also find room for one more dish, tender barbecued octopus tentacles curled around dabs of intense garlicky alioli on a plank of chorizo. Golden towers of potato hash are a highlight.
Postre chaja $16
South American style pavlova
The postre chaja, described as a South American style pavlova, ticks the meringue and cream boxes. It even has a trail of passionfruit syrup. What it also brings is a turret of fluffy sponge cake, sandwiched with fresh mango, crushed nuts and a sticky puddle of dulce de leche caramel in the middle.
Leche quemada $16
Burnt milk custard with cherry and chocolate ice cream
But the knockout dessert is the leche quemada. The huddle of flan may look unassuming, but its silkiness will make your toes curl, a burnt milk custard that's slightly bitter, incredibly creamy and crowned with a thin veneer of blow-torched caramel.
Cap off your night with a glass of thirty-year-old Pedro Ximenez sherry ($19.50). It's like drinking raisins drenched in honey and golden syrup with a toffee chaser - guaranteed to end your evening on a sweet note.
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text: Other | 02. March 2010 @DLR_de: Interactions on Twitter during German Aerospace Day 2009 The DLR Web Portal is indeed the most important tool in our online communication arsenal. Nevertheless, here at DLR Communication, over the last few years we have realised that we are not able to reach all potential communication partners on this platform. Therefore, we decided to go where those people were, for example, to the social media portals. We are also fully aware of the fact that communication is not a one-way street. We want to be contactable, to open a channel for feedback and to respond to what we are told. Twitter is an ideal medium for that purpose. This is why I launched our German-language Twitter channel @DLR_de. at the end of August 2008. The most astonishing experience on this channel occurred on 20 September 2009. (The links and statistics in this blog refer to the German-language Twitter channel and Web Portal. There is also a DLR English-language Twitter channel @DLR_en and an English-language Web Portal.) The German Aerospace Day brought 100,000 visitors to the DLR site in Cologne. We were also overwhelmed by the number of people expressing an interest via our DLR Web Portal. The special page for Aerospace Day, especially the photo galleries, broke the record in click statistics for 2009. In the blog post about click statistics, I also announced that I still wanted to blog a little about tweeting on our Aerospace Day – and that's what I am doing here. On 20 September 2009 we recorded about 250 tweets, almost more than on any other day. Many visitors who were tweeting on location using their mobile phones engaged in a dialogue with us. While my colleagues at the Aerospace Day were working their way through the dense crowds of visitors, waiting in the autumn sun, I was sitting here in the office building photo galleries with a colleague, tweeting away. You can still read about this in the favourites on our channel. Since that was some time ago, I have produced a graphic to commemorate the event (pdf) and would like to describe a few of the details it contains. To read this pdf in chronological order, you need to work from the bottom left to the top right – and the adjacent graphic runs from bottom to top. In the days leading up to the event, we sounded the proverbial jungle drums on Twitter too. On the morning of 20 September 2009, we invited you to visit DLR once again, proposed #TdLR as the hashtag, provided details of how to find us on Getwitpic and linked the event flyer in PDF format so it could be printed out. Even before the gates opened at 10 am, the volume of #TdLR Tweets grew markedly as visitors finished their Sunday breakfasts and headed to DLR, tweeting as they did so. With 100,000 visitors on our research campus in a single day, it is scarcely surprising that some points were congested and that a few visitors, despite plentiful parking space, had difficulty finding a parking space. We passed this feedback from a few individual Twitter users straight to our associated 'followers'. The recommendation was: come by public transport and use the shuttle buses provided from the S-Bahn. In this way, some of our visitors were spared from the traffic congestion. The star of the show was the Airbus A380, located at the Zulu stand, a site that belongs to Cologne-Bonn Airport, adjacent to the DLR site. For security reasons, only a limited number of visitors were allowed onto the Zulu stand, which meant that a large number of visitors had to stand and wait their turn. We were able to track their mood on Twitter. It emerged that our followers took appropriate action in response to my explanations of the situation as it developed. When the live video stream from the stage programme was not running smoothly, we used Twitter to let everyone know promptly and effectively that we were working on a solution. Responses to this were all favourable. There were particularly fruitful interactions with visitors that afternoon when the A380 was started up in preparation for leaving Cologne. I had asked our followers for photos and videos. We then forwarded these by tweeting them and/or uploaded them to our YouTube channel. Getting on towards the afternoon, there was a lot of positive feedback on Twitter about which we were very pleased indeed. I thoroughly enjoyed tuning in to the tweeting, and my own interactions with our visitors on 20 September 2009. It was an instructive event from which we learned a great deal. Although the number of Twitter interactions taken as a proportion of the total number of visitors was statistically negligible, all latest online studies indicate that social media and mobile web surfing are both going to experience ever greater visitor numbers.


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VIENNA (AP) - Austrian police and firefighters have taken on the role of urban cowboys in a two-day round-up of a herd of cows that broke out of a fenced-off pasture and decided to go into town.
A police statement says the 43 animals defied attempts by police and volunteer firefighters to recapture them after wandering off on Thursday and heading toward the Upper Austrian town of Freistadt.
After being chased away from the railway station, they endangered motorists by stampeding onto a two-lane highway before running into a town suburb.
Two firefighters who tried to stop them were injured and needed hospital treatment.
The statement says 18 of the animals remain on the loose on Friday. The rest have been corralled or tranquilised.


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On of the notions in my grand theory of everything is that the Liberal advance in Western Society has come about because
I've just finished reading Keith Stanovich's Rationality and the Reflective Mind and in my considered opinion it deserves to be one of the foundational texts of the intellectual Right. Stanovich's book, which is really a synthesis of the latest research into the psychology of rationality and the empirical findings should serve as fuel for future Right wing thinkers in their evaluation of the human capacity for dispassionate reason (with all the social, political and propagada implications). It needs to be understood that this is not a "Right Wing" book. Stanovich does not present that data with a political agenda. It is quite simply a summary of the state of the art of Rationality research. The power of this book lays in its evidence which undermines our concepts of rationality, assumptions which have been disastrous to the Right and have provided fuel for the Left's advance.
The right may have some skepticism with regard to the intelligence of the average man but ultimately believes he is rational. Our notions of human rationality underpin many of the social structures and conventions that have evolved over time. Our jury system is premised on the notion that the jurors can rationally weight evidence. Our democratic system is premised on the notion that our voters can rationally evaluate opposing political views and come to the right choice. Contract law presupposes rational participants and consumer warnings presuppose a rational ability to evaluate the data. The justification for radical equality is many ways premised on the notion that all men are rational beings, able to find happiness in their own way through sober reflection and deep thought. Even the idea of public debate presupposes the notion of rational debaters who are able to be swayed by compelling evidence and logic. And yet, the data would suggest that this is not the case. Stanovich lays it out;
Humans are cognitive misers because their basic tendency is to default to Type 1 processing mechanisms of low computational expense. Using less computational capacity for one task means there is more left over for another task if they both must be completed simultaneously. This would seem to be adaptive. Nevertheless, this strong bias to default to the simplest cognitive mechanism—to be a cognitive miser—means that humans are often less than rational. Increasingly in the modern world, we are presented with decisions and problems that require more accurate responses than those generated by heuristic processing. Type I processes often provide a quick solution that is a first approximation to an optimal response. But modern life often requires more precise thought than this. Modern technological societies are in fact hostile environments for people reliant on only the most easily computed automatic response. Think of the multimillion-dollar advertising industry that has been designed to exploit just this tendency. Modern society keeps proliferating such situations where shallow processing is not sufficient for maximizing personal happiness—precisely because many structures of market-based societies have been designed explicitly to exploit such tendencies.Stanovich begins his book with a discussion on the subject or rationality, separating the weak notions of it which begin with Aristotle--(and have thus been hugely influential in the formation of Western Culture)--and modern, more rigorous definitions. The weak notion of rationality equates rationality with the capacity to think. Harder notions of rationality imply the notion that thinking is not enough; getting the correct answer is important.* This blog subscribes to this latter view.
Stanovich approaches the subject of human rationality from his background in heuristic and biases research which demonstrates that for majority of humans, thinking is a "least effort" exercise, resulting in predictable errors and faulty logic. Stanovich places himself in the Meliorist camp, in that he believes by understanding the errors of human reasoning people can be taught to think better and avoid the mistakes. I'm more pessimistic than Stanovich is in this regard and I feel that humans have always had a compelling interest in getting things right and the fact that they don't learn means that group stupidity is part and parcel of the human condition. I suppose I'm a pessimistic Meliorist.
The opportunities for human improvement are minimal.
Opposing the Meliorist camp are the Panglossians. This latter group tends to come from the Evo-psyche crowd who argue that there is no correct answer, rather the most common answer is the evolutionary right one.
The difference between the Panglossian and the Meliorist was captured colloquially in an article in The Economist magazine where a subheading asked, "Economists Make Sense of the World by Assuming that People Know What they Want. Advertisers Assume that They Do Not. Who Is Right?" The Meliorist thinks that the advertisers are right—people often do not know what they want and can be influenced so as to maximize the advertiser's profits rather than their own personal utility. A Panglossian view of perfect rationality in the market place would need to defend the view that people take only from advertising what optimizes their consumption utility. In contrast, the Meliorist does not assume that consumers will process the advertiser's information in a way that optimizes things for the consumer (as opposed to the advertiser). Thus, Meliorists are much more sympathetic to government attempts to regulate advertising because, in the Meliorist view, such regulation can act to increase the utility of the total population. This is just one example of how the Great Rationality Debate has profound political implications.and;
The contrasting positions of the Panglossians and Meliorists define the differing poles in what has been termed the Great Rationality Debate in cognitive science—the debate about how much irrationality to attribute to human cognition. Tetlock and Mellers have noted that "the debate over human rationality is a high-stakes controversy that mixes primordial political and psychological prejudices in combustible combinations." The great debate about human rationality is a "high-stakes controversy" because it involves nothing less than the models of human nature that underlie economics, moral philosophy, and the personal theories (folk theories) we use to understand the behavior of other humans. For example, a very influential part of the Panglossian camp is represented by the mainstream of the discipline of economics that is notable for using strong rationality assumptions as fundamental tools.Panglossians tend to "explain away" defects in reasoning, attributing fault to the experimenter or the experiment construction. Stanovich explains at length how this view is wrong.
Stanovich's book, exhaustively referenced, lists multiple type of cognitive errors such as problems in probability estimates, bias toward emotionally favoured responses, poor logic, "framing effects", etc but what comes across quite forcefully in this book is...
...just how little correlation IQ has with rationality.One of the most baleful influences that HBD crowd has bought to the modern "Dark Enlightenment" is the notion that IQ is be all explanation for individual and cultural success.
Firstly Stanovich subscribes to the notion of Spearman's g and the Cattell-Horn extrapolation of it. He is not an IQ denialist and anyone expecting a defence of "creative" and "emotional" intelligence best look elsewhere. He fully recognises the importance of IQ in the ability to abstractly think and makes oblique references to the genetic component of it, it's just that high IQ people can make surprisingly dumb mistakes especially when they're not aware that they are making them. Stanovich recognises that the concept of IQ is incomplete when it comes to the concept of rationality. Furthermore, Stanovich fully understands the sociological implications of the misplaced veneration of IQ.
The ability or inability to think rationally profoundly affects people's lives. Yet we fail to teach the tools of rational thinking in schools and refuse to focus our attention on them as a society. Instead, we keep using intelligence proxies as selection devices in a range of educational institutions from exclusive preschools to graduate schools. Corporations and the military are likewise excessively focused on IQ measures. Consider the example of lvy League universities in the United States.These institutions are selecting society's future elite. What societal goals are served by the selection mechanisms (e.g., SAT tests) that they use? Social critics have argued that the tests serve only to maintain an economic elite. But the social critics seem to have missed a golden opportunity to critique current selection mechanisms by failing to ask the question "Why select for intelligence only and ignore rationality completely?"
In short, we have been valuing only the algorithmic mind and not the reflective mind. This is in part the result of historical accident. We had measures of algorithmic-level processing efllciency long before we had measures of rational thought and the operation of the reflective mind. The dominance and ubiquitousness of early IQ tests served to divert attention firom any aspect of cognition except algorithmic-level efliciency. And then, because of this historical accident, we have been trying to back out of this mistake (overvaluing the algorithmic part of the mind) ever since.
The lavish attention devoted to intelligence (raising it, praising it, worrying when it is low, etc. seems wastefiil in light of the fact that we choose to virtually ignore another set of mental skills with just as much social consequence—rational thinking mindware and procedures. Popular books tell parents how to raise more intelligent children, educational psychology textbooks discuss the raising of students' intelligence, and we feel reassured when hearing that a particular disability does not impair intelligence. There is no corresponding concem on the part of parents that their children grow into rational beings, no corresponding concern on the part of schools that their students reason judiciously, and no corresponding recognition that intelligence is useless to a child unable to adapt to the world.l simply do not think that society has weighed the consequences of its failure to focus on irrationality as a real social problem. Because of inadequately developed rational thinking abilities—because of the processing biases and mindware problems discussed in this book—physicians choose less effective medical treatments; people fail to accurately assess risks in their environment; information is misused in legal proceedings; millions of dollars are spent on unneeded projects by government and private industry; parents fail to vaccinate their children; unnecessary surgery is performed; animals are hunted to extinction;billions of dollars are wasted on fraudulent medical remedies; and costly financial misjudgments are made. Distorted processes of belief formation are alsoand;
implicated in various forms of ethnocentric, racist, sexist, and homophobic hatred.
The poor performance of the college students in the experiments in the literature on reasoning and decision making is not in the least paradoxical.The college students who fail laboratory tests of decision making and probabilistic reasoning are indeed the future jurists who, despite decent cognitive capacities, will reason badly. These students have never been specifically screened for rationality before entering the laboratory. And they will not be so assessed at any other time. If they are at elite state universities or elite private schools, they will continue up the academic, corporate, political, and economic ladders by passing SATs, GREs, placement tests, and performance simulations that primarily assess the algorithmic mind. Rationality assessment will never take place.Interestingly, Stanovich recognises that certain forms of cognitive error require a certain degree of intelligence to seriously entertain them.
But What if it did? It is an interestingly open question, for example, whether race and social class differences on measures of rationality would be found to be as large as those displayed on intelligence tests. Suggestively, Sternberg (2004) finds that race and class differences on measures of practical intelligence (the aspect of his broad view of intelligence that is closest to rationality) are less than they are on IQ tests. The framework that I have outlined in this volume would at least predict that rankings of individuals on assessments of rational thinking would be different from rankings on intelligence. The reason is that rationality involves thinking dispositions of the reflective mind not assessed on intelligence tests.
High IQ is no protection against stupid if your conception of how the world works is wrong, of if you have faulty understandings of cause and effect and are
Regarding the sixth category in Figure 8-1—contaminated mind ware-—we would of course expect more intelligent individuals to acquire more mindware of all types based on their superior learning abilities. This would result in them acquiring more mindware that fosters rational thought. However, this superior learning ability would not preclude more intelligent individuals from acquiring contaminated mindware—that is, mindware that literally causes irrationality. Many parasitic belief systems are conceptually somewhat complex. Examples of complex parasitic mindware would be Holocaust denial (Lipstadt, 1994; Shermer, 1997) and many financial get-rich-quick schemes as well as bogus tax evasion schemes. Such complex mindware might even require a certain level of intelligence to be enticing to the host. George Orwell conjectured in this vein when discussing political attitudes in the World War II era: "There is no limit to the follies that can be swallowed if one is under the influence of feelings of this kind. . .. One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool" (1968, p. 379).
This conjecture is supported by the results of a study commissioned by the National Association of Securities Dealers (Consumer Fraud Research Group, 20o6).The study found that the investment fraud victims had significantly more education than a comparison group—68.6% of the investment fraud victims group had at least a BA degree compared to just 37.2% in the control group. Finally, surveys show that pseudoscientific beliefs have a quite high prevalence among those of high intelligence (Chatillon, 1989). Also suggestive is a study reported by Zagorsky (2007) in which a regression analysis showed a positive beta weight for intelligence as a predictor of income but a negative beta weight for intelligence as a predictor of wealth and financial distress (debt problems, bankruptcy, etc.). Income is more dependent on IQ-type selection devices used by selective schools, corporations, and the military (SAT, GRE, LSAT, GM.AT,ASVAB, etc.). In contrast, Wealth management and personal financial decision making involve much more the rational thinking skills that go largely unassessed by conventional IQ tests and intelligence test proxies such as the SAT.[ED]romanticimpulsive. Furthermore, the failure to error check and test your theories seems to make one prone to irrationality. Indeed, one of the big factors with seems to be strongly correlated with rationality is thinking styles or personality. People who are conscientious, deliberative and committed to the truth seem better at thinking rationally than those who are not. What's interesting to speculate upon here is the relationship betweenvaluesculture and intelligence. High IQ is of little protection when you ditch a commitment to the Truth or embrace ideologies (Marxism) which negatively affect rational thought.The cultural revolution in the 60's may have had repercussions which extended beyond the sexual revolution and may have interfered with the rational capacity of Western populations. Stanovich proposes the following taxonomy with regard to some rational errors and their solution.
If I had to fault this book it is in the fact that Stanovich does not go into the subject of thinking styles enough. The whole point of a book on irrationality by implication is how to avoid it, and if thinking style are causatively linked to rationality some further exposition on the subject was warranted. However, given the quality of the rest of the book this is a small nitpicking.
Stanovich may have set out to write a book on rationality but I feel he has unintentionally given us a foundational text for the intelligent Right. It's a must have.
*This philosophically assumes that there is a truth. Red Pill.


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As the Senate prepares to leave town for the holidays, 21 judicial nominees are still waiting for confirmation votes from the full Senate. Nineteen of these
are consensus nominees who were approved by the Judiciary Committee with overwhelming bipartisan support. Eleven have been pending for more than two
months. Nine have been nominated to fill seats designated as judicial emergencies. Fourteen are women or people of color.
Marge Baker of People For the American
issued the following statement:
"The Senate has absolutely no excuse to leave town without confirming these 21 highly qualified nominees. Courts across the country are stretching
their resources to provide access to justice for all Americans – by confirming these nominees, the Senate would help ease that crisis. In fact, the
courts to which these men and women have been nominated serve over 160 million Americans.
"The only reason that the Senate would ignore its duty to confirm these judges is partisan politics. Nearly all of them passed through committee with
overwhelming bipartisan support. From President Reagan's third year in office through the end of George W. Bush's presidency, the Senate only once left
a pending consensus nominee on the calendar at the end of a year. The Senate should start its next session having confirmed all pending consensus
nominees, just as it did at this point in the administrations of Presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush. Today's Senate GOP is unprecedented in its
willingness to put partisan gridlock above the good of the country. This weekend, they should embrace the spirit of the season and give Americans the
gift of doing their job."


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Families of Navajo war veterans who were honored at the White House say they were dumbfounded that President Donald Trump used the event to take a political jab at a Massachusetts senator, demeaning their work with an unbreakable code that helped the U.S. win World War II.
Trump turned to a nickname he often deployed for Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren during the 2016 presidential campaign: Pocahontas. He then told the three Navajo Code Talkers on stage Monday that he had affection for them that he doesn't have for Warren.
"It was uncalled for," said Marty Thompson, whose great-uncle was a Navajo Code Talker. "He can say what he wants when he's out doing his presidential business among his people, but when it comes to honoring veterans or any kind of people, he needs to grow up and quit saying things like that."
Pocahontas is a well-known historical figure who bridged her own Pamunkey Tribe in present-day Virginia with the British in the 1600s. But the National Congress of American Indians says Trump wrongly has flipped the name into a derogatory term, and the comment drew swift criticism from American Indians and politicians.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders, asked about criticism of Trump's remarks, said a racial slur "was certainly not the president's intent."
Trump made the comment as he stood near a portrait of President Andrew Jackson, which he hung in the Oval Office in January. Trump admires Jackson's populism. But Jackson is an unpopular figure in Indian Country because he oversaw the forced removal of American Indians from their southern homelands.
The Navajo Nation suggested Trump's remark was an example of "cultural insensitivity," and they resolved to stay out of the "ongoing feud between the senator and President Trump."
"All tribal nations still battle insensitive references to our people. The prejudice that Native American people face is an unfortunate historical legacy," Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye said in a statement.
Still, Begaye and relatives of Navajo Code Talkers said they're honored the story of the men recruited from the vast Southwest reservation to become Marines could be told on a national stage. Peter MacDonald, a former Navajo chairman and trained Code Talker, who stood beside Trump, also took the opportunity to ask for support for a Navajo Code Talker museum. Trump obliged.
MacDonald didn't return messages left Monday by The Associated Press. He didn't visibly react to Trump's "Pocahontas" comment and later told the president he was certain he would succeed, crediting military generals.
Michael Smith, a Marine whose father was a Code Talker, said most of the Code Talkers would be skeptical about going to the White House because it could be construed to mean they support a political cause.
"So, why did they go? Why were they there? He's putting them in the Oval Office to say `You did a good job, and say hi to Pocahontas?"' Smith said. "They should be taken care of as heroes, not as pawns."
Michael Nez, whose father helped develop the code based on the Navajo language, said his father would have been upset to hear Trump's Pocahontas comment. But, as other Code Talker relatives said, his father was taught to respect the president as the commander in chief.
"It's too bad he does put his foot in his mouth," Nez said. "Why he does it? I don't know."
Helena Begaii said her 94-year-old Navajo Code Talker father, Samuel T. Holiday, declined an invitation to the White House on Monday. She said he would have a better feel for what happened once he reads the newspaper.
"I feel really sad that they didn't get treated with respect," she said.
Trump's Pocahontas comment is the latest in a long list of remarks Trump has made about people from specific ethnic and racial groups. In announcing a run for the presidency in 2015, Trump said many Mexican immigrants are rapists. He's sought to ban immigrants from certain Muslim-majority nations. He's come under fire for what some said was a too-slow federal response to hurricane damage in Puerto Rico.
The president has long feuded with Warren, an outspoken Wall Street critic who leveled blistering attacks on Trump during the campaign. Trump seized on questions about Warren's heritage, which surfaced during her 2012 Senate race challenging incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Brown.
Warren said in an interview on MSNBC that, unfortunately, Trump cannot make it through a ceremony honoring heroes "without having to throw out a racial slur."
Democratic New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall, vice chairman of the Indian Affairs committee, added: "Donald Trump's latest racist joke -- during Native American Heritage Month, no less -- demeaned the contributions that the Code Talkers and countless other Native American patriots and citizens have made to our great country."