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  • The Brompton Cocktail

    Brompton Design District is celebrating its tenth birthday in style this year with bespoke designer-made cocktails. Inspired by the controversial ’Brompton cocktail’ (a heady mix of alcoholic spirits, morphine and cocaine), a star-studded list of designers – including Max Lamb, Peter Marigold, Tomás Alonso and Faye Toogood – have been invited to realise conceptual or real beverages. From tipples for foragers to placebo drinks for the mind, the creative mix will be presented in an installation by food designers Arabeschi di Latte, and will be accompanied by a recipe book.

    17–25 September; The Garage, 1 North Terrace, London, SW3 2BA;

    Pictured: ’Pretty Hanky Panky’, by Arabeschi Di Latte, that includes Italian vermouth and dry gin

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  • Electro Craft

    Tord Boontje is bringing together a supercharged group of designers at his London studio for an exhibition that celebrates ’the craft of electronics and electronics made as craft.’ The heavy-hitting line-up includes the likes of Industrial Facility, Bethan Laura Wood, Simon Hasan, Studio Drift, Front, Paul Cocksedge, Raw-Edges and more.

    16 September – 15 October; Studio Tord Boontje, 23 Charlotte Road, EC2A 3PB;

    Pictured left: ’Dandelight’, by Studio Drift; Pictured right: ’Electro’ light, by Lina Patsiou

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  • Bankside Design District

    Following its debut last year, the Bankside Design District is taking a typographic turn for its second edition with plenty of exhibitions, interactive installations and workshops for type lovers to explore between Borough Market and Oxo Tower Wharf. Delve into the personality of fonts through a wine tasting, or take in an installation of ’living’ letters by florists All for Love. Elsewhere, graphic artist Camille Walala transforms a pedestrian crossing in her bold, signature style, while Contemporary Applied Arts hosts a ceramics exhibit.

    1 – 25 September;

    Pictured: ’Triparte Green and Blue’, by Matthew Chambers, at Contemporary Applied Arts

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  • Blend by Raw Color

    The Eindhoven-based interdisciplinary design studio Raw Color is staging a Technicolor takeover of Aram Gallery. Supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL, ’Blend’ pays homage to Vincent van Gogh by way of paper-shredders, and also includes a choreographed troupe of fans to show how colour can be blended by motion.

    19 September – 29 October; The Aram Gallery, 110 Drury Lane, WC2B 5SG;

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  • The Sign Machine at The Bulgari Hotel

    Up to three people will fit onto Studio Myerscough’s kinetic swing installation at once, but that won’t be the only reason the graphic display will catch the eye of passers-by as they transverse the tranquil lobby of The Bulgari Hotel. Combining product with motion, and creating powerful statements in the process, the swing will also act as a prelude to ’Designer Maker User’, a new permanent exhibition created for London’s forthcoming Design Museum which will open its doors in late November.

    17 – 25 September; 171 Knightsbridge, SW7 1DW;

    Pictured: Render of The Sign Machine

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  • Barbican x Bocci

    Omer Arbel has been commissioned by the Barbican Centre to create a site-specific installation for the Foyer’s Lightwell. Named ’44’, the chandelier is made of 300 free-poured aluminium forms, which were created with a specialised technique and suspended through a network of thin cables.

    14 September 2016 – 18 April 2017; Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS;;

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  • Design Undefined at Clerkenwell London

    Hot on the heels of its successful Clerkenwell Design Week debut, design superstore Clerkenwell London returns with a bigger, better and ever more innovative edition of ’Design Undefined’. Questioning the way we think about design in practice, the names taking over dedicated exhibition spaces include Turner Prize winners Assemble and their Granby Workshop project, upcycler Yinka Ilori and queen of colour and pattern Camille Walala among others.

    17–24 September; 155 Farringdon Road, EC1 3AD;

    Pictured (from left): Granby Workshop products by Assemble; and furniture by Yinka Ilori

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  • This is India at London Design Fair

    Marking their tenth edition, Tent London and Super Brands London will this year come under the umbrella brand of the London Design Fair. As the first guest country, India will present ten designers and brands from the subcontinent, spanning product, textile, furniture design and beyond. Curated by Spandana Gopal of Tiipoi with exhibition design by Kangan Arora, expect bright colours, jagged geometries and delightful abstraction.

    22 – 25 August; Old Truman Brewery, 26 Hanbury Street, E1 6QR;

    Pictured: Observers, by Claymen

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  • Swarovski x Fredrikson Stallard

    Adding their intrinsic sparkle to proceedings, Swarovski’s crystals take shape under the experimental yet rigorous eye of design duo Fredrikson Stallard. New chandeliers will light up the Austrian brand’s gallery space using bespoke crystal components. Making their UK debut will also be the Glaciarium pieces for Atelier Swarovski Home.

    22 September; 10a Warner Street, EC1R 5HA;;

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  • Trentino Collaborations at London Design Fair

    Manufacturers from the northern Italian location of Trentino are getting a moment in the limelight at London Design Fair. In a new project they have teamed up with British designers Max Lamb, Sebastian Cox, Lucy Kurrein and Giles Miller to produce innovative pieces that use the local materials and techniques.

    22 – 25 September; 26 Hanbury Street, E1 6QR;

    Pictured: A sketch of granite works by Max Lamb and Pedretti Graniti

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  • Opticality by Lee Broom

    Crowds will enter into the British designer’s hypnotic vision this year with an optical illusion showcase at the East London studio. The enveloping installation celebrates the launch of Broom’s graphic ’Optical’ lighting collection that is inspired by the postmodern op art style and will feature alongside floor to ceiling mirrors and an abstract monochrome floor.

    20 – 25 September; 93 Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY;

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  • Ready Made Go 2 at Ace Hotel

    The Shoreditch hub is gearing up for its second collection of design hotel essentials. Curated by Laura Houseley, this year’s project invites six new products to be injected around the hotel’s interior. Highlights include cocktail tumblers by Jochen Holz, and bar cladding and ceramics by Turner Prize winner Assemble.

    17 – 25 September; 100 Shoreditch High Street, E1 6JQ;

    Pictured: last year’s stools by Philippe Malouin in new colourways

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  • 100% Norway

    Norway’s annual celebration of modern design returns to the Truman Brewery with a host of 17 designers. Curated by Max Fraser, products include self-watering stoneware by Ann Kristin Einarsen (pictured), architectural lights by new brand Høgh, and wicker stools by Vera & Kyte.

    22 – 25 September; Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, E1 6QL;

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  • Sculpting Scent by Zuza Mengham

    Artist Zuza Mengham imagines what scent looks like, working with Laboratory Perfumes to create a series of sculptures inspired by smells. The artist created five pieces each inspired by a different scent from Laboratory Perfumes, using resin to portray the sensorial qualities through striking visual effects.

    15 – 25 September; 55 Marylebone High Street, W1U 5RB;

    Photography: Ilka Franz

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  • King’s Cross creative quarter

    The latest design district to join London’s creative map, King’s Cross will host designjunction, with installations around Granary Square and a series of commercial and creative projects around the different buildings and spaces of the area’s new developments.

    22 – 25 September; 1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA;;

    Pictured: Super façade structure, by Satellite Architects for designjunction, King’s Cross. © Satellite Architects

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  • Pilotis by Doshi Levien and Kvadrat

    The London-based designers present a new collection of curtains for the Danish textile giant, with an imaginative installation at their showroom to celebrate the launch. The pair have combined textured and perforated fabrics to create a play of light and shapes, colours and shadows.

    17 – 25 September; Kvadrat, 10-12 Shepherdess Walk, N1 7LB;

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  • The Smile by Alison Brooks and AHEC

    The aptly titled installation by London architect Alison Brooks takes the form of a minimal smile, produced in collaboration with American Hardwood Export Council and Arup. With her cross-laminated wood installation, the walkable structure will offer visitors a new perspective on the city.

    16 September – 12 October; Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art and Design, 16 John Islip Street, SW1P 4JU;;

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  • Piet Hein Eek Forever

    SCP founder Sheridan Coakley collaborated with Piet Hein Eek on the Dutch designer’s first retrospective. The exhibition features new works from 2016 and a selection of pieces from the designer’s archive, with a special focus on porcelain objects. The display is constructed around the theme of ’past and future icons,’ with Eek exploring the concept of design icons in a broader context.

    17 – 25 September; 135-139 Curtain Road, EC2A 3BX;;

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  • L’Eden by Perrier-Jouët

    A creative hub in the heart of the city, L’Eden features the work of French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, who created a suspended installation of glass, perspex and brass inspired by the Champagne house. In the space, Bompas & Parr will also offer their take on a bio-responsive garden, where plants will react to visitors’ movements.

    16 – 25 September; 147-149 Wardour Street, W1F 8WD;

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  • Victoria and Albert Museum

    This year’s landmark installations include ’The Green Room’ (pictured) by artistic duo Studio Glithero, a sculpture made of colourful strings, which will redefine a stairwell in the museum creating an optical effect. Other projects featured in the museum will be ’Foil’ by Benjamin Hubert’s studio Layer, a 20m long, undulated metal ribbon which will cast shadows and lights in one of the galleries, and French designer Mathieu Lehanneur’s ’Liquid Marble’ installation.

    17 – 25 September; V&A, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL;

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King’s Cross creative quarter

The latest design district to join London’s creative map, King’s Cross will host designjunction, with installations around Granary Square and a series of commercial and creative projects around the different buildings and spaces of the area’s new developments.

22 – 25 September; 1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA;;

Pictured: Super façade structure, by Satellite Architects for designjunction, King’s Cross. © Satellite Architects


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Barriers to Families Choosing Public Schools — And Using “Equity Enablers” to Help Them Do Better

December 5, 2017
To sustain and expand public school choice, more cities must adopt best practices

The Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has released a fascinating report entitled Stepping Up . It’s chock-full of provocative information on how 18 cities* are implementing and delivering on the promise of public school choice.

There’s good and bad news:

  • In 36% of the cities, schools made statistically significant proficiency rate gains in both reading and math.
  • In a majority of the cities, low-scoring schools typically moved out of that status over the course of three or four consecutive years.
  • But access to educational opportunities is still not equitable, and most cities have not yet sufficiently addressed the needs of low-income families.

The analysis includes a 2017 survey of eight1 of the 18 cities that are “high choice” environments, offering a range of school options to families that include charter schools, district magnet schools, charter-district partnership schools and other forms of inter-district choice.

Families were queried about the choice application process in these cities and seven potential barriers they might encounter in choosing a school. The following graphic from the report overviews the findings, illustrated by three income levels.

Two items top the list of barriers: finding a school with strong academics and finding a school that is a good fit with a child’s needs. Closely related is a third barrier: finding sufficient information about schools to make a good choice. Administrative issues involving paperwork and too many applications to complete are at the bottom of the list.

One income-related point is striking. Across all barriers, those with a household income of less than $35,000 report more difficulty on all these issues than those with higher incomes. This raises the issue of how equitable access is to school choice and ultimately educational opportunity.

The report identifies three issues on which city leaders with new or growing public school choice programs need to do additional thinking and development, working with local stakeholders, if school choice is to advance more equitable access.

  • Information and support: How to best apprise and sustain parents with accurate, understandable, and timely school information.
  • Matching: How to ensure that younger children most in need are matched with quality schools that are more easily accessible to where they live.
  • Responsiveness: How to safeguard that a school system is more responsive to local community leaders.

Promising approaches to resolving these challenges were evident in some cities, but not all. To sustain and expand public school choice, more cities must adopt best practices. Here are 10 examples of what I call “equity enablers.”

  1. Consolidated school guides with comprehensive information on all types of schools, including shared definitions of school quality across different types of schools, making allowances for special school themes or emphases.
  2. Timely, understandable information on important elements of school quality that go beyond achievement data, e.g., school culture, safety, family services, special education and English language learner services, etc.
  3. Transportation that allows easy access to better schools.
  4. Unified enrollment systems so that parents only need to complete one application to apply to multiple schools.
  5. Different communications and outreach engagement strategies for families through the choice process as “one size fits all” approaches don’t work with today’s diverse family structures.
  6. Enlisting a variety of community organizations in these outreach and communications efforts.
  7. Dealing with facility challenges through co-location of different types of schools.
  8. Placing new schools in high needs neighborhoods.
  9. Using “high touch” support during school improvement and closure processes.
  10. Building partnerships with trusted community leaders to advance all these activities.

These actions will foster better and more equitable access to good schools. Implementing these “equity enablers” will not be a one-time effort, but become the foundation for a continuous improvement process that will reduce the barriers to equitable school choice for all families.

*Atlanta, Boston, Camden, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Memphis, New Orleans, New York City, Oakland, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Tulsa and Washington, D.C. CRPE analyzes publicly available state and federal data on five outcome measures like test scores and graduation rates and 23 system reform indicators, including human capital, program and school model diversity, and community engagement and acceptance of choice.

1Cleveland, Denver, Detroit (added for survey only), Indianapolis, Oakland, Memphis, New Orleans and Washington, D.C.

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Your husband was just passed over for a promotion, and he's depressed. Your friend's breast cancer has returned. As a supportive spouse and friend, you feel their pain. Growing research suggests there's a cost to all that caring.

Empathy — the ability to tune into and share another person's emotion from their perspective — plays a crucial role in bringing people together. It's the joy you feel at a friend's wedding or the pain you experience when you see someone suffering.

It's an essential ingredient for building intimacy in relationships, says Robin Stern, associate director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. "When someone feels seen and heard by you," she says, "they begin to trust you."

But this seemly positive emotion can also have a downside, particularly if someone gets so consumed by another's feelings that they neglect their own feelings and needs. Stern says those who regularly prioritize others' emotions over their own are more susceptible to experiencing anxiety or low-level depression.

"When we think of empathy fatigue, we usually think about those in helping professions, like nurses, doctors, social workers — but all of us are often in the role of helpers or caretakers, whether it's caring for a sick parent, a child or a friend during a difficult time," says Jamil Zaki, an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford University. "Being supportive of those we care about is among our most cherished and important roles," Zaki says, "but it's also one that's fraught: We want to be there for someone but not lose ourselves."

In a study published last year in the journal Health Psychology, researchers looked at the effects of parental empathy on 247 pairs of parents and adolescents. Through blood tests, questionnaire responses and daily diary entries, researchers found that parental empathy was highly correlated with better psychological and physiological well-being in adolescents. The parents in the study benefited, too, with highly empathic parents reporting greater self-esteem and a deeper sense of purpose in their lives than those who reported lower levels of empathy.

But it wasn't all good news. The more empathic the parent, the researchers found, the more likely that person was to be experiencing chronic low-grade inflammation. The researchers speculate, "Parents who readily engage with the struggles and perspectives of others may leave themselves vulnerable to additional burdens, expending physiological resources in order to better help others."

Is there a healthier way to empathize?

Psychologists describe empathy in three ways: You can think it, feel it or be moved by it,Zaki says.

With cognitive empathy, you understand what someone else is thinking and feeling, as when you relate to a character in a novel or take someone's perspective during a business negotiation.

With emotional empathy, you actually put yourself in someone else's shoes and feel their emotion. This is the type of response that, left unchecked, can lead to caretaker burnout, says Zaki.

And then there's compassionate empathy, where you feel concern about another's suffering, but from more of a distance and with a desire to help the person in need.

Which perspective we take when responding to someone else's suffering can affect our own health and well-being. In an upcoming study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, researchers assigned more than 200 college students to act as a helper to what they were told was a fellow student going through personal crisis. Each participant was asked to read a personal essay detailing the supposed student's financial struggles and stress upon becoming the primary caregiver for a younger sibling after the death of their mother.

While reading the text, a third of the volunteers were asked to think about how that person must be feeling (compassionate empathy) and a third were asked to imagine how they would feel if they were that person (emotional empathy). A control group was asked to stay detached and remain objective.

Researchers then measured the participants for various physiological markers, including hormone stress levels, heart rates and blood pressure. They found that those who put themselves in the other person's shoes had significantly higher "fight-or-flight" responses, as though they, too, were going through a stressful experience.

"Over time," lead researcher Anneke Buffone notes, "the chronic activation of the stress hormone cortisol could lead to a variety of serious health issues like cardiovascular problems, a finding that is particularly meaningful for health professionals who are confronted with others' pain and suffering daily."

But the researchers also discovered that those who were asked to react to the essay with compassion — who thought about how the other person might be feeling but didn't share the emotion — had a positive, invigorating arousal response, as if they were confronting a challenge that was achievable or offering advice that might help improve the student's situation.

"People assume that any kind of empathy is associated with positive health benefits and behaviors, but for the first time we have physical evidence that not all empathy is alike, that its positive or negative effects depend on the perspective you take," Buffone says.

"Neuroscientific research on empathy shows that if you're empathizing with a person who is in pain, anxious or depressed, your brain will show activation of very similar circuits as the brain of the person with whom you're empathizing," notes Richard Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Compassion, on the other hand, activates a different part of the brain, areas associated with motivation and reward. So, where emotional empathy can cause pain and burnout, compassion drives you to want to help.

While it's possible to feel all three types of empathy at once, emotional empathy is often the gateway to feeling compassion, Davidson says. This doesn't mean there can't be a mix of emotions, he says, but feeling another person's pain and suffering is often a prerequisite to feeling compassion.

Psychologists say that we can learn to regulate our empathy, as we do other emotions, and even transform excessive emotional empathy into less stressful compassion. "You want to 'feel' with another person, but you don't need to stay there," Stern says.

One way to keep empathy in check is through compassionate meditation, Davidson says.

"Start by envisioning someone you know who may be in pain or may have gone through a stressful event," he says, "and then envision them being relieved of that suffering." He says it may be helpful to repeat a phrase silently in your mind, such as: May you be happy and be free of suffering.

"Encouraging the focus on the person's well-being and happiness, instead of their distress, actually shifts our brain's pathways from experiencing painful empathy to the more rewarding areas of compassion," Davidson says. "It's this process that helps us to detach from their suffering."

"Research shows that these simple exercises actually affect your actions in the real world, making you more likely to be pro-social and helpful," he says.

Transforming initial emotional empathy into compassion doesn't mean you care less about the person, Davidson says. After all, "mirroring the emotional state of another person who is suffering is not all that helpful — what kind of assistance can you provide if you're now suffering, too?"

He adds: "For the most part, people don't actually want you to feel their pain. What they want is your help and compassion."


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Former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker speaks about a plan to repeal and replace the Clean Power Plan at the National Press Club in Washington February 8, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (KEVIN LAMARQUE)

This story has been updated.

Representatives from a coalition of veteran Republican officials — including five who have either served as treasury secretary or as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers — met Wednesday with White House officials to discuss the idea of imposing a national carbon tax, rather than using federal regulations, to address climate change.

The newly formed Climate Leadership Council — which includes James A. Baker, Henry Paulson, George P. Shultz, Marty Feldstein and Greg Mankiw — is proposing elimination of nearly all of the Obama administration’s climate policies in exchange for a rising carbon tax that starts at $40 per ton, and is returned in the form of a quarterly check from the Social Security Administration to every American.

“I really don’t know the extent to which it is man-made, and I don’t think anybody can tell you with certainty that it’s all man-made,” Baker said in an interview with The Washington Post. However, he also said, “the risk is sufficiently strong that we need an insurance policy and this is a damn good insurance policy.”

Despite the group’s impeccable Republican credentials — Baker, Paulson and Schultz served as treasury secretaries and Feldstein and Mankiw served as CEA chairs under GOP presidents — the proposal faces long odds. Many congressional Republicans are adamantly against a tax increase of any kind, and President Trump repeatedly emphasized that he is far more interested in promoting the extraction of fossil fuels in the United States than curbing the nation’s carbon emissions.

A proposed carbon tax also failed recently in a ballot initiative in Washington state, in part because it divided the left — with some liberals wanting to use any revenue to invest in clean energy and other social causes rather than to return it to the public.

Baker and his colleagues met Wednesday with Gary Cohn, head of Trump’s National Economic Council, and spoke more briefly with White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway.

Asked about the proposal and Wednesday’s meeting, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said, “We have nothing to announce on that.”

Another White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations, said that it would be premature to conclude that the administration was embracing the idea of a carbon tax. “Secretary Baker is obviously a distinguished public servant with a wealth of experience,” the official said. “This morning is one of many listening meetings the administration is having with experts on a variety of issues and does not represent any eventual policy decision one way or the other.”

Vice President Pence’s spokesman, Marc Lotter, said that Baker had requested the meeting over the weekend when he and Pence ran into each other at the Super Bowl on Sunday. “The Secretary mentioned going to the White House, and the vice president asked him to pop by his office while he is here,” Lotter said. (The two ultimately did not meet due to a “scheduling conflict,” Lotter said.)

As for how the idea would be received politically, Baker told The Post: “I have no idea, but it is a good proposal, it’s simple, it’s conservative, it’s free market, it’s limited government.”

Supporters of the group’s proposal include Ted Halstead, who founded the Climate Leadership Council and the New America Foundation; Rob Walton, former chairman of the board of Walmart; and Thomas Stevenson, a U.S. ambassador to Portugal under George W. Bush.

The revenue-neutral “carbon fee and dividend” tax, as it is sometimes called, has been popular among economists for years. It has also been strongly embraced by some leading climate scientists, such as former NASA researcher James Hansen, and such advocacy groups as Citizens’ Climate Lobby. But never before have major Republican statesmen from past administrations aligned behind it as publicly as they’re doing now.

Baker and his colleagues estimate that the average family of four would receive $2,000 annually in dividends from the fee if it starts at $40 per ton, and as the tax rises, so would their dividends. This would naturally create a constituency for ever-tougher climate change action. They also assert that the proposal would be fundamentally progressive because everyone would receive the same amount of revenue from the tax regardless of their income level, meaning the new source of income would make a bigger difference for poorer people than for wealthier ones.

Finally, they suggest it’s a needed compromise. “We have a regulatory left and a deregulatory right that are far, far apart,” said Mankiw. “Both should acknowledge they’re not going to have control forever.”

As soon as the plan was hatched, it got a tweet endorsement from Mitt Romney:

Trump Secretary of State Rex Tillerson also supports a carbon tax, which he championed when he was chief executive of ExxonMobil.

In general, however, Trump’s Cabinet appointees have been largely noncommittal about the issue of climate change and its human causation. And at agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Department, Trump transition teams have brimmed with conservative think tank personas who have a history of questioning the science of climate change and standing up for fossil fuels.

There are also questions about how a carbon tax would affect the carbon-intensive coal industry, which Trump voiced support for during his campaign. Halstead acknowledged that coal would fare poorly under the plan, although he noted that as the carbon tax rises over time it would eventually benefit the economics of carbon capture and storage technology.

A carbon tax is quintessentially conservative, Baker’s group argues, because it would not increase the size of government but would reduce it by canceling out President Barack Obama’s climate regulatory moves. Revenue from the carbon tax would go directly to taxpayers instead of toward new government programs.

“This ticks every one of their boxes,” said Halstead. “It is pro growth, pro competition, pro jobs, deregulatory, and it will help the working-class voters that Trump promised to help.”

But the prospect of dismantling the Obama administration’s climate rules did not sit well with the Natural Resources Defense Council, a leading environmental group. The council said Wednesday that it would not support a regulatory rollback in exchange for a carbon tax, underscoring the difficult politics behind the idea.

“Putting a price on carbon could be an important part of a comprehensive program,” Rhea Suh, the group’s president, said in a statement. “It can’t do the job alone, though, and is not a replacement for carbon limits under our current laws.”

There’s also the question of whether the current White House is up for big, wonky crossover ideas — especially when recent polling suggests that only a small fraction of Trump voters even believe in human-caused climate change.

Still, Baker said, the idea “gives Republicans a seat at the table on an important issue and does so in keeping with Republican principles.”

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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said Thursday that the administration’s proposed budget “supports the EPA’s highest priorities.” (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

President Trump once vowed to get rid of the Environmental Protection Agency “in almost every form,” leaving behind only “tidbits.” On Thursday, the man he appointed to lead the EPA went to Capitol Hill to defend a budget proposal that would begin that promised dismantling.

“I believe we can fulfill the mission of our agency with a trimmed budget, with proper leadership and management,” EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt told members of a House Appropriations subcommittee, adding in his prepared remarks that the Trump administration’s proposal “supports EPA’s highest priorities” while aiming “to reduce redundancies and inefficiencies.”

The “trimmed” budget he referenced would amount to a cut of more than 31 percent, or $2.4 billion annually — a larger percentage than at any other federal agency. The administration wants to rid the EPA of thousands of employees and sharply reduce or eliminate a variety of national and regional programs.

Pruitt encountered swift resistance Thursday from members of both parties, who described the EPA’s work in their districts as both vital to environmental protection and an economic engine in many areas.

“I’ll get straight to it. The fiscal year 2018 budget request for EPA is a disaster,” said Rep. Nita M. Lowey (D-N.Y.), adding that it would “surely impact EPA’s ability to fulfill its critical mission of protecting the air we breathe and the water we drink.”

The subcommittee’s chairman, Rep. Ken Calvert (Calif.), and several other Republicans also were quick to distance themselves from many of the administration’s proposals, saying Congress is unlikely to go along with such deep — and deeply unpopular — cuts to environmental programs around the country.

“You have a tough job here today,” Calvert said. “This budget proposes to significantly reduce or terminate programs that are vitally important to each member on this subcommittee. … This is perhaps not how you personally would craft EPA’s budget, but it’s a budget you have to defend here today.”

The White House has proposed nearly halving grants that support state and local efforts to address everything from pesticide exposure to air and water quality. It would slash nearly one-third of funding for the Superfund cleanup program, which helps restore some of the nation’s most polluted sites. Dozens of other programs would be zeroed out entirely, including funding for radon detection, lead-risk reduction, environmental justice and projects along the U.S.-Mexico border. Also slated for elimination are efforts aimed at restoring the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound.

The agency also would have fewer funds for prosecuting environmental crimes or researching climate change and other issues.

At times, even Pruitt himself seemed not to strongly defend pieces of the Trump administration’s proposals.

When Lowey asked how the administration could justify eliminating a program aimed at investigating the link between chemicals and possible endocrine system problems in humans and animals, Pruitt did not try to do that. “You raise a very, very, important question,” he replied, noting that the 20-year-old program has had a “significant impact” and asking for the lawmaker’s input on how it could be “restored and/or addressed in a different way.”

Rep. David Joyce (R-Ohio) said the EPA’s program aimed at cleaning up the Great Lakes region, which Trump would defund entirely, had helped communities revitalize waterfront areas and created jobs. “Cleaning up the lakes isn’t about correcting mistakes from the past, but creating new opportunities and a brighter future for our shoreline communities,” he said, adding that the proposed budget “would cripple our collective efforts, halt the progress we’re making and undermine investments we have made.”

“You’ve said it well,” Pruitt responded. “We recognize the importance of the Great Lakes. We recognize the importance to the citizens in that region. And we’re going to work with Congress to ensure that those objectives are obtained.”

Pruitt did make clear Thursday that he plans to continue to shrink the EPA’s 15,000-employee workforce, though he said reductions probably can be accomplished through attrition, buyouts and an ongoing hiring freeze, rather than layoffs.

“About 20 percent of the agency is eligible for retirement today, and that’s going to increase over the next several years,” Pruitt told lawmakers. “That’s how we’re going to address the proposed cuts to personnel.”

The Trump administration’s efforts to take a sledgehammer to the EPA budget have drawn widespread criticism from environmental groups and from a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill, including even some Republicans who said they think the agency overstepped its regulatory authority under President Barack Obama.

This week, former EPA scientists, lawyers, economists and policy experts who have banded together as the Environmental Protection Network called the pending budget proposal an unprecedented attack on the agency. The group detailed how Trump’s sharp cuts, if enacted, could undermine virtually every core function of the agency.

“We’re people who worked at EPA over years and decades. We’ve seen lots of different policy approaches, lots of different policy viewpoints,” said George Wyeth, a former EPA lawyer who left the agency in January after nearly three decades. “[But] when you look at a budget proposal of this kind, it raises serious concerns about the agency’s capacity and integrity.”

He said the rationales given by Pruitt and the administration — that the proposed cuts will merely refocus EPA’s attention on its core duties of safeguarding clean air and water — “are inconsistent with what you see in the budget yourself.”

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VOLCANO, Hawaii — Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted explosively early Thursday, tossing boulders hundreds of feet and sending a plume of ash about 30,000 feet into the predawn sky.

A webcam at the Hawaii Volcano Observatory caught the aftermath of the short-lived eruption: an onslaught of wet, dusty ash raining on a darkened landscape. From the summit of Mauna Loa volcano, 20 miles away, cameras photographed an anvil-shaped plume billowing on the horizon.

In a news conference, scientist Michelle Coombs of the U.S. Geological Survey said the activity could become explosive again.

“It's a real dynamic situation up there,” she said of the summit.

Scientists had warned for days about a major eruption as the lava lake that once filled the crater at Kilauea's summit began draining back into the ground.

Their concern was that the sinking molten rock would create steam as it interacted with the water table and that the steam would then jet upward, hurling heavy rocks and ash into the sky in a phenomenon known as a phreatic eruption.

This is the sort of explosive activity that was anticipated,” said USGS geophysicist Mike Poland, who was based at Kilauea from 2005 to 2015. “It's not going to be the only one. Very likely there will be additional events.”

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park officials said the caldera — the depression at the center of the volcano — dropped more than three feet overnight, triggering frequent earthquakes that have cracked highways in the area. As the caldera sinks further, it may set off additional steam-driven explosions, they said.

An image of the early-morning eruption at Kilauea taken by a webcam at Mauna Loa volcano. (U.S. Geological Survey)

Though dramatic, Thursday's eruption at 4:15 a.m. local time did not pose an immediate threat to people in the vicinity, Poland said. Observatory staff had left their Kilauea station Wednesday, for a facility at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, after concluding that wind could carry ashfall their way.

According to Poland, the greatest impact was to an area within a few hundred yards of the summit's eruptive vent. That's where the explosion would have sent hot gas and 1,000-pound rocks soaring. For this reason, the national park has been closed since last week.

Wind is already carrying the plume from the eruption northeast, raining ash into nearby communities. Broadcasting on local radio stations, Hawaii Civil Defense officials warned that ash poses the main health threat from the eruption. Residents were instructed to shelter in place if they found themselves in the path of the plume.

Visual story | Before and after: Kilauea’s wrath on Hawaii’s Big Island

Depending on weather conditions, the USGS said, ash might fall as far as Hilo, 30 miles to the northeast.

The observatory also warned that vog — a noxious smog formed when sulfur dioxide from eruptive vents interacts with water vapor and oxygen in the air — has been reported in the community of Pahala, southwest of the volcano.

Meanwhile, stormy weather caused the ash to mix with rain, creating a dark paste that coated rooftops and car windshields. In the village of Volcano, barely three miles from the summit, lifelong resident Lance Benevides went through the familiar protocol to cope with an eruption, including detaching his roof gutters from his water tank to keep ash out of the catchment system that serves as his water supply.

Then he headed to the Volcano Store, a local gathering spot, where he sat with friends and sipped coffee Thursday morning — a ritual not even Kilauea could disturb. “We all live in a circle around this volcano,” said Benevides, 55. “So we know what to do.”

Though disruptive, even painful for people living near Kilauea — especially those who have already lost their homes — the eruption will not significantly affect life on the rest of the Big Island, Poland said. “And it is not likely to turn into some catastrophic event,” he added.

Kilauea, a massive shield volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, is the site of the world's longest ongoing eruption, one that has oozed lava since 1983. But in recent weeks the volcano has become particularly restless. About 20 fissures opened in communities along the volcano's eastern slopes, prompting evacuations of nearly 2,000 residents and engulfing dozens of homes in lava.

In another news conference Thursday, the deputy scientist in charge of the Hawaii Volcano Observatory, Steve Brantley, said the lava flows in the east rift zone have slowed in recent days. But observatory instruments have recorded “extreme deformation” of the ground in that area. One GPS instrument moved half a foot in 24 hours, a sign of the turmoil in the earth below.

“It's an indication the rift zone is being forced apart,” Brantley said.

All that activity along the east rift zone caused a dramatic depressurization of the magma column below Kilauea's summit, slowly draining the lava lake in the summit crater. In recent days, smaller eruptions there sent ash surging into the sky.

But those events were “not the big one” caused by interactions between hot rock and ground water, Coombs said Tuesday.

Thursday's event was, if not the big one, then certainly big one, researchers said. As the molten rock dropped below the level of the water table, it's likely that water in the surrounding rock began pouring into the vacated chamber — much the way water rushes to fill a recently dug well, said Charlotte Rowe, a geophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The water would then flash into steam, “and steam as we know is a very powerful source of energy, a very powerful propellant,” Rowe said.

Kilauea has erupted in this manner before. In May 1924, the Hawaii Volcano Observatory reported more than 50 explosive events over the course of two-and-a-half weeks at the volcano's summit. The lava lake had drained from the summit crater several months earlier — the scenario now being repeated. The eventual eruptions generated ash clouds more than five miles high and threw blocks weighing as much as 28,000 pounds out of the crater. One person was killed by falling debris from the largest eruption.

Coincidentally, Thursday's explosive event comes one day before the 94th anniversary of that death and on the 38th anniversary of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state.

What is happening at Kilauea is fundamentally different from that 1980 eruption, experts said. Shield volcanoes like Kilauea produce a runny, basaltic lava that does not tend to erupt as dramatically as steep stratovolcanos like Mount St. Helens. Whereas St. Helens sits along the geologically active boundary of the Pacific Plate, Kilauea and the other Hawaiian volcanoes are powered by a hot spot deep within Earth's mantle.

But phreatic eruptions can still pose a deadly threat to anyone near the eruptive vent — and they are extremely difficult to forecast, Poland said. Eruptions involving magma offer warning signs for a potential evacuation, including inflation of the surrounding ground, seismic activity caused as rocks break and changes in the gases being vented.

Phreatic eruptions are “much more random,” Poland said. More than 30 people were killed when a 2014 phreatic eruption at Japan's Mount Ontake caught them unaware near the summit.

In addition to monitoring the volcano's current activity, researchers are scouring data from Kilauea's extensive monitoring network — of tiltmeters, seismometers, and ground and aerial gas detectors — in search of any changes that preceded Thursday's event. Their hope is to pinpoint warning signs that could be used to predict phreatic eruptions in Hawaii and elsewhere.

Kaplan reported from Washington.

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Donald Trump chose to keep his family more involved in his campaign and presidency than basically any American in modern times. That's looking like a very bad call — though not really for the reasons we expected.

Before he became president and as he flirted with the idea of installing his children into senior White House roles and to run his business, there were worries about nepotism and the potential conflicts of interest it would create. Those concerns are still very real and crop up from time to time.

But it's the actions of Trump's family in relation to the Russia investigation that are now giving him his biggest problems. The biggest reported leads in that probe are now pointing squarely at Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. And their problems are compounding the president's own, as he faces an obstruction of justice investigation.

Trump Jr. now faces the most heat of all, after he released emails Tuesday showing he set up a meeting during the 2016 campaign with a Russian lawyer promising compromising information on Hillary Clinton, supposedly courtesy of the Russian government. Those emails also show Trump Jr. was informed that the Russian government was trying to aid his father's candidacy, and they represent arguably the first smoking gun in the investigation into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Trump Jr. has only compounded these problems by offering an ever-shifting and contradictory set of comments about Russian meddling in the election and his own actions. He denied ever meeting with Russians about the campaign, he denied they were helping his father, and he said the meeting was about adoption.

Before Trump Jr. found himself on the hot seat, it was Kushner, the senior White House adviser and husband of Ivanka Trump. In late May, The Washington Post broke the news that he was a focal point of the Russia investigation — making him the first person currently inside the White House facing scrutiny. (The news about Trump's obstruction probe would follow later.) At issue were Kushner's meetings in December with Russia's ambassador to the United States and a banker with ties to the Kremlin. Investigators were reportedly looking at possible financial crimes in addition to collusion. Kushner has for months been seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in financing for an apparently troubled real estate project at 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, though it's not clear whether that is the focus of investigators.

The Post has also reported that Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak told Moscow that Kushner floated the idea of a secret communications channel — or back channel — with the Kremlin, the appropriateness of which would be highly questionable, considering that Trump was still only the president-elect at the time.

Neither Trump Jr. nor Kushner has been charged with any crimes, but they have emerged as arguably President Trump's chief liabilities in the Russia investigation.

Part of the reason for that is because others who posed problems have been cast aside. The White House effectively fired Michael Flynn as national security adviser and disowned other former aides who also had suspect dealings with Russians — including former campaign head Paul Manafort, longtime informal Trump adviser Roger Stone and foreign policy adviser Carter Page. The White House has gone on to minimize their roles in ways that strain credulity, even claiming Manafort “played a very limited role for a very limited period of time” on the campaign.

But disowning or minimizing his own family isn't really an option for Trump, and that's where the family problem comes in. Even if Trump weren't as loyal as he is to his relatives — and it seems that he gave Kushner and Trump Jr. plenty of berth to do what they pleased — the optics of firing Kushner or distancing the White House from Trump Jr.'s problems would be hugely damaging by themselves. They would be tacit admissions of wrongdoing. In other words, the fact that they are family may have been a problem on the front end, and it's definitely a problem on the back end.

It's also not terribly surprising, in one way. It's a setup that has proven a problem for many governments over the course of human history. Leaders installing family members has a way of leading to corruption, hence anti-nepotism laws. Here's what I wrote about that in May:

As any expert on corrupt authoritarian regimes throughout history will tell you, those regimes' wrongdoing will often run through family members with official titles. …

“You’ve seen it in countries all over the world where they’ve appointed family members, whether it’s their son, daughter, in-laws — it provides for tremendous opportunities for corruption,” Shruti Shah, an international corruption expert at Coalition for Integrity, told HuffPost last month. “People who want to curry favor find their way to provide favors to family members as a way to get closer to the person in power.”

Added Gerald Feierstein, a former top State Department official and ambassador to Yemen in the Obama administration: “For many countries and governments, certainly in the Gulf, in the Middle East, they would recognize this pattern immediately. … I think that they would find it completely normal that leaders mix personal business interests with government affairs and would use family members in various official responsibilities.”

Again, we don't know if Kushner or Trump Jr. has actually done something wrong or illegal, but this sure seems to be following a familiar arc. And the fact that they have found themselves front and center in the Russia investigation is a big, stubborn problem for a president who has his own big, stubborn problems.


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"Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver asked viewers to submit comments to the FCC on net neutrality rules. (Eric Liebowitz)

Update: FCC spokesman Mark Wigfield said late Monday that the Federal Communications Commission has updated its systems to a cloud service that should be more resilient against attacks. He affirmed that there had been a cyberattack on the agency's site Sunday, and said that the agency also suffered an attack in 2014 after Oliver's previous segment.

Original post: The Federal Communications Commission said Monday that its website was the target of an attack designed to overwhelm it with traffic and keep people from commenting on its proposals. The attack prevented the FCC from responding to people attempting to submit comments since Sunday night, the agency said.

Before the FCC revealed the cyberattack, some had linked comedian John Oliver to the agency's website problems, which appeared to begin after the “Last Week Tonight” host asked viewers to submit online comments to the FCC to save its current net neutrality rules. Since Oliver's show aired on Sunday, the commenting site has had intermittent connectivity problems.

The FCC said in a statement, however, that its investigation shows the site's problems were caused by a cyberattack, not by an influx of people trying to file comments.

“These actors were not attempting to file comments themselves; rather they made it difficult for legitimate commenters to access and file with the FCC,” said David Bray, the agency's chief information officer.

But the agency's statement has raised skepticism from consumer advocacy group Fight for the Future. The group said in a statement that it finds the timing of the attack too coincidental. The group raised questions about whether the FCC was diagnosing the slowdown correctly, or whether an outside attack could have been launched specifically to keep Oliver's viewers from commenting.

“The FCC should immediately release its logs to an independent security analyst or major news outlet to verify exactly what happened last night,” said the group's campaign director, Evan Greer.

On Sunday, Oliver criticized FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's draft proposal to undo Obama-era rules that forced Internet providers to behave more like traditional telephone companies — and made it illegal for them to block or slow websites. The TV host asked people to visit gofccyourself.com, which offers a link to the FCC's comments section. Oliver also poked quite a bit of fun at the chairman himself (including a gag making fun of Pai's well-documented affinity for an oversize mug featuring the logo of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups).

Pai has argued that there is no indication that Internet service providers planned to make the Web less open or free. He characterizes the current net neutrality rules, which he voted against as an FCC commissioner, as governmental overreach.

This weekend's episode is a repeat effort in support of net neutrality regulations on Oliver's part. The TV host asked his viewers in 2014 to comment on the FCC's website about net neutrality as the agency mulled its options. The site crashed shortly thereafter, apparently from the influx of commenters reaching out to then-Chairman Tom Wheeler asking him to protect the principle of a free and open Internet.

That episode has been called a turning point for the net neutrality movement. Advocates hope that Sunday's segment will do the same.

“In 2014, John Oliver’s net neutrality segment was one of many inflection points in the public campaign to secure strong rules,” said David Segal, executive director of the advocacy group Demand Progress. “In his segment last night, Oliver exposed the hypocrisies and spin of Chairman Pai and the large ISPs, who continue to make Orwellian claims that they support the open Internet while doing all they can to dismantle the legal foundation necessary for strong net neutrality rules.”

The FCC site has received tens of thousands of comments since Sunday's episode aired.

Pai has moved quickly to enact a more limited, conservative approach to the agency's actions in his first 100 days as chairman. He has introduced a proposal to roll back Wheeler's rules. The FCC is scheduled to vote on that proposal May 18.


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Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. (American Enterprise Institute)

The Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to make it easier for doctors, patients and researchers to get access to clinical trial data amassed during the process of approving new drugs, Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Tuesday.

Gottlieb announced the actions just before a speech on FDA transparency at a Washington forum. The meeting, attended by researchers and academics, focused on 18 recommendations for making the agency's decision-making less opaque. The suggestions were part of a report called Blueprint for Transparency.

The FDA has long said it is sharply limited in what information it can release because it often is dealing with drug companies' proprietary material.

Gottlieb, in his statement and in remarks to the forum, said the agency is starting a pilot program this month to release portions of clinical study reports for recently approved drugs. These summaries, which are generated by drug-company sponsors of the treatments, spell out the methods and results of clinical trials. The data don't include patient-identifiable information.

The pilot is expected to ultimately include nine drugs volunteered by their sponsors for the effort, Gottlieb told Joshua Sharfstein, a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health professor, in a question-and-answer session at the forum.

The release of the study reports, which can run hundreds of pages, will allow researchers and others “to do more analysis around our decision-making,” especially on the safety and efficacy of new drugs, Gottlieb said. Some of the information is already released by the agency but in a format that is difficult for lay audiences to use, he said.

The commissioner also said the agency will make it easier to track clinical-research information by adding a study's identifier number from ClinicalTrials.gov to all FDA materials for a specific product. ClinicalTrials.gov is the database of studies maintained by the National Institutes of Health.

On another issue, Gottlieb said the agency is exploring whether there is a “subset” of information from its “complete response letters” to companies that can be publicly released. Such letters detail why a drug was not approved. Before becoming commissioner, Gottlieb expressed support for releasing the letters after redaction of confidential commercial information. He now says it would be “administratively burdensome” to release all such letters, with the agency instead exploring releasing parts related to patient safety.

Peter Lurie, a former FDA official and current president of the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, said Gottlieb's position is a tentative but encouraging step. While a top FDA official, Lurie led a 2015 study that showed pharmaceutical companies don't disclose the vast majority of information in the letters.

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A small chip in this white tile can be seen in the area circled in red. It can be repaired in less than an hour. (Andrew Vous)

I have a gorgeous white tile floor in my home. It’s a long story, but I dropped something and chipped a tile. I tried to hide it with a throw rug, but my wife caught me. To get out of the doghouse, I need to repair the tile. Do I have to take out the old tile and replace it with a new one? I would think matching the grout would be very hard to do. Is there another way to repair the chipped tile that will work and get me back into the good graces of my better half? Andrew V., Perth, Australia

I’m reminded of the time 40 years ago when I ruined some brand new ceramic tile in the kitchen of my second home. It was one-of-a-kind hand-painted backsplash tile near a sink that I sprayed with molten copper and steel. I need not go into the details about how that happened, but suffice it to say my better half was standing next to me just before the foolish accident and had asked me if I knew what I was doing. The sparks, smoke and molten splatter told her all she needed to know.

Here’s the good news. You’re going to be able to repair the chipped ceramic tile in less than a day. You do have options with respect to how to accomplish the task. I recommend you also buy a box of fine chocolates to supplement your peace offering.

Let’s discuss the option of replacing the chipped tile. Sometimes you have to do that because the chip is so big that you may not have the skill set to repair it using the second method I’ll describe.

If you decide to remove a ceramic floor tile, first make sure you have an exact match of the tile. Most people don’t keep leftover tile at their homes. I feel that builders and remodelers should always leave behind spare tile, in the boxes it came in. Homeowners should keep the tile and hand it off to future owners when they sell the home.

In addition to saving the spare tile, it would be great if you had some of the original sanded grout. It’s harder to preserve sanded grout because the Portland cement in the product wants to harden as it’s exposed to humid air. To preserve it, you need to place it in a tightly sealed container and freeze it. The air inside most freezers is exceptionally dry.

If you don’t have any spare grout, then you have to match it. If you don’t get a perfect match, the new grout line surrounding the replaced tile will look worse than the current chip! If you do decide to replace the tile, then you need to deep clean the tile and grout first and allow the grout to dry so you can see its true color. I recommend using certified organic oxygen bleach to clean tile grout.

The photograph you sent me is excellent. The chip appears to be the size of a green pea or pencil eraser. I’ve repaired many chips like this in less than four hours. You’re going to do the same.

First, make sure the chipped area is clean and free of all dirt, dust, oil, etc. Once it’s clean, you’re going to mix up some rapid-set clear or white epoxy. The epoxy I use sets up in about five minutes after it’s mixed.

I’ve had great success with a product that’s the consistency of honey when it’s mixed. It’s self-leveling and works great in the field area of a tile. You add just enough epoxy so it flows and is the same level as the surrounding glazed finish.

In your case, you’re going to have to work a little harder because your chip is on the edge adjacent to the sanded grout. This area of the tile often has a slightly rounded profile, and you don’t want the epoxy to run down onto the grout. You’ll have to add the epoxy in at least two applications and build up layers over a period of 30 minutes.

Once you get the epoxy placed and the chip is filled to the right height and profile, you paint the epoxy with a matching paint. You’ll use a fine artist brush so you don’t get any paint on the adjacent tile or grout. Put on at least two coats. Once the paint is cured — this could take several days — then you coat the paint with three coats of water-based clear urethane.

I want you to refine your repair skills first using some scrap tile you have around the house or that you buy. Chip a piece and do all I say until you’re an expert at the method. Do not try the techniques I described for the first time on the tile in your kitchen. You only get one chance to repair it correctly, and you need to have great skills. You’ll attain those rapidly with a few practice sessions out in your garage.

Let me know the instant you’re out of the doghouse and how the chocolates were received. I’d also like to see an after photo taken of the tile once you repair the chip.

Need an answer? All of Tim’s past columns are archived for free at www.AsktheBuilder.com. You can also watch hundreds of videos, download Quick Start Guides and more.


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Insurers in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces earned an average of nearly $300 per member in the first quarter of 2017, more than double what they earned in a similar period in the marketplaces’ previous three years, according to new analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

That figure puts insurers on track to make a profit in the marketplaces after years of losses, according to Cynthia Cox, a researcher at the Kaiser Family Foundation who worked on the analysis.

Total profits in 2017 will probably be lower than the first-quarter numbers suggest. First-quarter earnings are typically higher than subsequent quarters, since many people are still paying off their deductibles. Additionally, the gross earnings measure does not include administrative costs, which further eat away at profit margins. Still, the bountiful first quarter suggests the marketplaces are becoming a more profitable environment for the private companies selling insurance plans on the public exchanges.

Insurers' newfound profitability seems to stem from increased premiums and steady costs, a suggestion the markets are stabilizing, according to Cox.

The premium hikes were “necessary as a one-time market correction to adjust for a sicker-than-expected” group of people buying insurance, the report said. In other words, the premium increases have come because insurance companies misjudged how expensive it would be to cover people in the marketplace, not because costs are spiraling out of control or the marketplaces are “exploding.” Many insurance companies referenced this in their 2017 rate filings.

Even more importantly for the stability of the market, costs have been relatively stable over the past few years. Spiking costs would indicate that these premium increases drove healthy people out of the market, which would in turn make costs even higher — the beginning of the “death spiral” that ends with extremely expensive premiums and only the sickest people still in the market.

In short, insurers have been able to set premiums high enough for them to make a profit but not so high that healthier customers are pushed out of the market — the recipe for market stability.

How insurers fare in Obamacare's marketplaces is critical to the law's efforts to providing coverage. The law depends on insurance companies selling on the marketplaces, which they're far less likely to do if it isn't profitable.

There's also a political significance. In their bid to repeal the law, Republicans have claimed the ACA is collapsing, noting that many of the marketplaces have only a single insurer. Insurers are also facing uncertainty as Republicans consider scrapping the law entirely and the Trump administration has given few guarantees that it will continue to provide the federal funds marketplace insurers count on for support.

But just because the insurance market is stable now doesn’t mean it’s bulletproof. With the rapidly changing political situation — Congress weighing a marketplace overhaul as part of their health-care bill and the Trump administration giving no indication that it will continue to pay cost-sharing subsidies — insurers are increasing premiums or dropping out of the marketplace entirely to compensate for that uncertainty.

At present, 26,000 people across three states live in counties at risk of having zero insurers in their marketplaces in 2018. Getting companies to join in future years, however, is far more likely if current participants see ongoing profits.


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WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 28: A man reaches out to a large rainbow flag placed in front of the Supreme Court, on April 28, 2015. (ASTRID RIECKEN/For The Washington Post)

“Today,” said Ted Cruz when the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision came down, “is some of the darkest 24 hours in our nation’s history.” Which is quite a claim, as that history includes the Battle of Antietam. Some evangelical leaders pronounced it “the downfall of America” (Tony Perkins) and a “nose dive off of the moral diving board into the cesspool of humanity” (Franklin Graham) — a mental image I wish I could unthink.

Suffice it to say that conservative Christians have been lately pondering their relationship to American culture. And not just those who are hysterical for a living. When the court rejected traditional sexual ethics as a permissible basis for laws defining marriage, many conservative believers felt a cultural milestone had been reached.

It had once been plausible — though not necessarily accurate — for conservative Christians to regard themselves as part of a “moral majority” in which traditional Judeo-Christian views were broadly shared. That is no longer minimally credible on issues of the family and sexual ethics. And the change in self-perception among some believers has been jarring.

In an essay in Christianity Today, “The Power of Our Weakness,” my co-author, Peter Wehner, and I explore this altered landscape. The manner in which conservative Christians navigate their journey away from outdated notions of a “Christian America” will have much to say about the quality of our public life in the actual America.

The cultural, legal and theological arguments of the essay might be summarized as: Snap out of it. There is, as legal scholar John Inazu told us, “an insecurity caused by a rapidly lost social position,” leading some to a “growing bitterness and despair.” But this reaction is not particularly constructive or religiously serious.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) held a hearing in July to discuss possible solutions to what he calls Supreme Court "activism," citing recent decisions made on Obamacare and same-sex marriage. (U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary)

There are valid concerns about what the Supreme Court ruling portends for institutions — particularly Catholic and evangelical institutions that serve the poor and educate the young — that touch upon the public order but do not share its values. Religious liberty means little if it does not extend to institutions as well as individuals.

But this set of legal challenges does not translate into social apocalypse. By many (though not nearly all) indicators, American culture is getting better. Divorce rates and abortion rates have declined in recent decades. Rates of violent crime and homicide are down dramatically from historical highs. Many religious conservatives mistake alarming legal trends for across-the-board cultural decay.

This new circumstance does, however, require a dose of realism. While we do not assume that every religious conservative holds to the traditional view of marriage, most (by the polling) do. But reversing the Supreme Court decision on marriage — which is rooted in long-term cultural changes that emerged in the context of heterosexual relationships — is not a realistic political goal. This means that religious conservatives must learn to operate in a same-sex marriage world.

At a practical level, traditionally minded people will need to take up social projects alongside people who support gay marriage (a group, by the way, that includes more than 40 percent of white evangelical millennials). In some cases, they will need to work cooperatively alongside people in gay marriages. This is not moral compromise; it is the normal practice of democracy. Beyond issues of sexuality, there is a broad agenda for which the building of coalitions is essential: the global fight against HIV/AIDS and sexual trafficking, the reform of foster care and the criminal justice system, the building of safe, healthy, child-friendly communities.

Pulling back from the practical, religious conservatives will need to recover some perspective. For most of the past 2,000 years, Christians have lived in societies that did not reflect their sexual ethics. And sexual ethics is not the sum total of Christian ethics, which, at its best, affirms the priority of the person and the defense of human rights, well-being and dignity.

For religious conservatives, this might even be an opportunity to recall the true nature of power. Periods of vulnerability and political weakness have often been times of expanding Christian influence. The early centuries of the Christian church, which included periodic persecution, were also a period of explosive growth, due (in part) to the communal compassion that distinguished believers: their care for widows and orphans; their welcoming of strangers and concern for the outcast. This spirit was alive among Christians in Charleston, S.C., following a racist rampage — believers who modeled the offer of grace.

Politics, in its own way, is important. But there is a type of influence not counted in votes, which no court can overturn.

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A Personal Protection Order, or PPO, is an order issued by the Circuit Court. It may protect you from being hit, threatened, harassed, or stalked by another person. The PPO may also stop someone from coming into your home or bothering you at work. It can stop them from buying a firearm or finding your address through school records. It can also stop them from taking your minor children unless required by the court.

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breguet reine de naples 8908

The new, majestic and elegant Reine de Naples watch was first presented a few months ago. It features all the femininity of the Breguet collections with an oval body and a mother-of-pearl dial delicately enhanced by two rows of diamonds.

In 1808, Caroline Murat, nee Bonaparte (1782-1839), the younger sister of the Emperor Napoleon (1769-1821), became Queen of Naples (Reine de Naples in French). Two years later, she commissioned her official watchmaker, Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823), to make one of the world’s first wrist watches. The timepiece was paid for in 1811 and delivered to the queen in 1812, according to the carefully preserved archives at the Breguet Museum in Paris. It was oblong in shape and included a strap plaited with golden threads. Although the watch itself disappeared sometime in the 19th century, a description of it inspired the brand based in L’Abbaye, Switzerland, to create a collection in 2002. The Reine de Naples 8908 has been added to the collection this year.

breguet reine de naples 8908 closeupThe new model, like its illustrious predecessor, has an oval silhouette made of rose gold and measures 36.50 by 28.45mm. As in many Breguet models, the watch case is lined with fine fluting. A winder crowned with a cabochon ruby could be found at 4 o’clock. Two rows of diamonds, with a total of 129 gems, cover the bezel and chapter ring. This is the precious for the calibre 537DRL2, an automatic movement providing 45 hours of power reserve and partially visible through the sapphire crystal.

The watch dial is also oval in shape and covered in Tahiti mother-of-pearl, beautifully reflecting the rows of sparkling diamonds. A golden guilloché disc takes up a large part of the dial and includes hour markers featuring black Roman numerals and a couple of Breguet blued steel “moon” tip hands. Near 6.30 is a small seconds sub-dial, decorated like a nautilus shell. The upper part of the dial opens onto a fan-shaped moon-phase counter, along with a power reserve indicator with a fine blue hand.

Price: 35,200 CHF

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Maurice Lacroix exhibits Masterpiece Skeleton collections for first time in the UK

Maurice Lacroix is making its only UK exhibition appearance in November when it presents its Masterpiece Skeleton and Masterpiece Chronograph Skeleton at Salon QP.

The exhibition, which is open to trade professionals and watch collectors, runs from November 3-5 at London’s Saachi Gallery.

Skeletonised dials are a major push for Maurice Lacroix this year. The objective of the design team, according to the company, is to remove surplus material from the watch without compromising its strength and reliability.

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With the 43mm Masterpiece Skeleton the face is effectively the main bridge arranged in several spoke-like elements. The large spaces in between each double spoke allow the Maurice Lacroix Manufacture movement ML134 parts, including the mainspring, the balance and the winding stem, to be seen.

The larger 45mm Masterpiece Skeleton Chronograph is offered in three options: steel case with silver toned dial, black PVD case with matching dial and, lastly, a luxurious steel cased option pairing a silver dial with a 4N solid gold bezel.

It houses the first chronograph movement produced exclusively for Maurice Lacroix. This movement features high-end finishing, including Côtes de Genève motif on the bridges and oscillating mass.

The hour and minute hands are diamond-cut, lined with luminescent coating, delivering a green emission in restricted light. At 3 o’clock, a 30-minute chronograph is presented, whilst opposite, at 9 o’clock, a small second’s display resides. At the heart of the small seconds display a revolving ‘M’ logo rotates with absolute precision, providing a fitting signature for this latest Masterpiece from Maurice Lacroix.

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At this moment, there are 2 options for voice direction.
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WASHINGTON - A major survey finds Americans' confidence in all three branches of government is at or near record lows.

The 2014 General Social Survey finds only 23 percent of Americans have a great deal of confidence in the Supreme Court, 11 percent in the executive branch and 5 percent in Congress.

By contrast, half have a great deal of confidence in the military.

The survey has measured public attitudes on these questions for 40 years.

The 11 percent who they're confident in the presidency approaches a record low measured by the same survey in 1996, when just 10 percent said they had a great deal of confidence in the executive branch. The 44 percent who now say they have hardly any confidence at all is at a record high.

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West Coast DHB B4 School Checks - Westport

he B4 School Check is free for every 4 year old child in New Zealand, and is the last Well Child check. It’s a good idea for your child to have their B4 School Check soon after their 4th birthday.

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Toro 60" MyRIDE® TimeCutter® HD (75213)

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The new TimeCutter® HD zero-turn mower does more than cut grass to perfection. It can also cut your mowing time almost in half*. But when you're bouncing around on rough terrain, speed won't do you any good without superior comfort to match. The smooth MyRIDE® Suspension System** features a suspended operator platform that cushions you from bumps and vibrations, so you can be more productive and stay comfortable. And the heavy-duty GRADE 50 high-strength steel deck is nearly 50% stronger than other decks***, so you can power through tough grass. You'll not only enjoy mowing - you'll enjoy more free time. * Time savings are from 2008-2012 survey results for Toro residential zero-turn mowers, as reported by owners. **Available on select models. ***Compared to regular 11-guage steel decks.

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  • Smart Speed® Control - Trim, Tow, Mow: Toro's Smart Speed® control system lets you choose from three ground speed ranges for optimal performance. Use low TRIM range to trim closer for maximum time savings, choose medium TOW range for towing attachments, or select high MOW range to mow large open areas and finish quickly.
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  • 12V Accessory Port: Need portable power for your smartphone, MP3 player or personal fan? Just plug it into the 12V Accessory Port accessory port.
  • Engine: 24.5 hp Toro® V-Twin
  • Fuel Capacity: 5 gallons (18.9 L)
  • Cutting Width: 60" (152 cm)
  • Anti-Scalp Wheels: 3 Standard
  • Armrests: Standard
  • Blade Tip Speed: 18,880+ ft/min
  • Cup Holder: Standard
  • Deck Design: 60" (152 cm) Fabricated - Grade 50 High Strength 10 ga.
  • Foot Operated Height of Cut: Standard
  • Ground Speed: 8.5 mph (13.68 kph)
  • Height: 48" (121.92 cm)
  • Height of Cut: 1.5" (3.8 cm) - 4.5" (11.4 cm) 13 position
  • Hour Meter: Standard
  • Length: 79.5" (201.93 cm) without hitch / 82" (208.28 cm) with hitch
  • ROPS: Optional (Foldable for storage)
  • Comfort Platform: MyRIDE® Suspension System
  • Platform Travel: 3"
  • Shocks: 1 Front / 2 Rear
  • Seat: 18" (45.7 cm) Thickly Padded Premium
  • Adjustability: 4 point adjustment on rear shocks
  • Steering Controls: Pro-Controlled Dampers
  • Tires: 13 in (33 cm) x 6.5 in (16.5 cm) Front 22 in (55.9 cm) x 10 in (25.4 cm) Rear
  • Transmission: HG-ZT3100
  • Washout Port: 2- Standard
  • Warranty: 3 year / 300 hour**
  • Width: 64" / 162.56 cm Deflector Up - 75.5" / 191.77 cm Deflector Down
Specifications subject to change without notice and without incurring obligation. Products depicted are for demonstration purposes only. Actual products offered for sale may vary in design, required attachments and safety features.

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Engine Type
24.5 hp Toro® V-Twin

Wheel Size
Front: 13 in. (33 cm) x 6.5 in. (16.5 cm); Rear: 22 in. (55.9 cm) x 10 in. (25.4 cm)
Fuel Capacity
5 gal. (18.9 L)

Deck Size
60 in. (152 cm)

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