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What Do We Mean When We Praise Grit and Resilience?
Grit. Mettle. Backbone. Spirit. Resilience. Pluck. Nerve. Tenacity. Fortitude. Toughness. Resolve.
Grit. It's a quality I've been told that I have repeatedly in my lifetime. It was a quality that was praised in me as a child trying to climb out of a background of poverty and an abusive home. It was a quality peers noted in me as a first-generation college student, as someone who became labeled as tough, strong, and able to roll with the punches. It was meant as a compliment, and most of the time that's how I took it, but every once in a while, when said by just the right person, it felt more like a slight. And every once in a while, even when it was a compliment, it came with a little sting, a sense that something wasn't quite right, a sense that beneath the recognition of my grit came a more immediate but unsaid observation: I was damaged, broken, somehow flawed in my current environment.
Grit is a buzzword in education these days. It's a byproduct of an individualistic society trying to grapple with the reality of a collective existence marred by inequality. Grit is the answer to the problem. When someone needs to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, it is their individual grit we call upon, which--yes--gives them the credit when they succeed but also (and perhaps more importantly) gives us a pass when they fail.
And fail they do. We often talk about building grit in students who come from underrepresented backgrounds of class and race, students who do not have a culture of educational attainment surrounding them at home and do not have a built-in support system for attaining it. And those students are struggling. Even when money is taken out of the equation through financial support programs, first-generation college students struggle to succeed in college environments. The reasons (as this Washington Post article explores) range from students feeling guilt over leaving their families behind to not wanting to go to office hours because they see it as a mark of academic failure to ask for help. What's left is a success gap that isn't closing. Underrepresented student populations continue to flounder, and we continue to blame them for it.
There has been some pushback against grit. Parul Sehgal's essay "The Profound Emptiness of 'Resilence'" explores some issues with the concept:
But where ''resilience'' can suggest new avenues for civic infrastructure — admitting that disaster can't always be diverted and shifting the focus to survival strategies — it is indistinguishable from classic American bootstrap logic when it is applied to individuals, placing all the burden of success and failure on a person's character. ''It's pretty much the same message that's drummed into us by Aesop's fables, Benjamin Franklin's aphorisms, Christian denunciations of sloth and the 19th-century chant invented to make children do their homework: 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try again,' '' the social scientist Alfie Kohn argued in an op-ed article in The Washington Post. ''The more we focus on whether people have or lack persistence (or self-discipline more generally), the less likely we'll be to question larger policies.''
Aisha Sultan tackles "The Limitations of 'Grit' in the Classroom" by similarly taking on the prevalence of individual solutions to structural problems:
I was reminded of this conversation during a recent presentation by Tyrone C. Howard on how student culture affects learning. Howard, the associate dean for equity and inclusion at UCLA provided a reality check to the heavy investment in skills such as grit that might help more students succeed.
"We are asking students to change a belief system without changing the situation around them," he said. It can be irresponsible and unfair to talk about grit without talking about structural challenges, he said, referring to the recent interest in interventions tied to the concepts of grit and perseverance.
Sehgal's piece has a powerful, painful example of just how awry notions of "grit" can become. He cites complaints about a too-coddled generation of college students who are whining about "safe spaces" and "minor" racial slights on campus. These people instead hold up images of individuals like James Meredith, the first black student to attend the University of Mississippi--a feat he had to accomplish under the protection of federal marshals. Sehgal points out that some have held up Meredith's bravery and tenacity in the face of hatred as a comparison point for today's "whiny" college students who don't know how to withstand emails about racist Halloween costumes.
Of course (and as Sehgal also points out) Meredith tells a slightly different story. Here are his comments from a 2012 Esquire interview:
My statue at Ole Miss is a false idol. And it wasn't put there for my benefit. It was put there for Ole Miss and Mississippi.
Ole Miss kicked my butt and they're still celebrating. Because every black that's gone there since me has been insulted, humiliated, and they can't even tell their story. Everybody has to tell James Meredith's story — which is a lie. The powers that be in Mississippi understand this very clearly. See, I've been telling them for fifty years how insulting it is to me to suggest that I had to be courageous to confront some ignorant white folks. And recently, they told me they really understand, but they're gonna keep doing it. I can't figure a way to make 'em stop. They're gonna keep on doin' it because it makes it impossible for the blacks there now to say anything about what's happened to them. Because the comparison is with the idol.
And even if Meredith could look back on his experiences with respect and praise, is that an acceptable standard for us as educators? I hope not. I think here of Ruby Bridges, the first black student to attend a New Orleans school and the subject of the iconic Norman Rockwell painting about desegregation.
This is a six-year-old. Six. Years. Old. She is a baby. And she was greeted with a mob of white people threatening to kill her on a daily basis. Sure, she had grit, but as an educator, a policy maker, hell, as a human being, that shouldn't be the focus of our story. The focus of our story should be that we were wrong. We were very, very wrong, and no child should have to test their "resilience" against such a backdrop. We hide our own shame behind grit, and that should shame us even more. We create a society in which a baby is threatened to death for wanting to go to school, and then we want to wash that truth away behind a feel-good story about facing down fear. Shame on us. Shame.
There are beacons of light within this dark narrative of resilience that pierce it, though. Ruby Bridges remembers one friendly white face that stood apart from the mob, a teacher who risked her own life to stand up for what was right, Barbara Henry. And what does Barbara say about teaching in this environment? She says this:
Many kids write letters to me expressing their appreciation for my kindness for Ruby. That's so powerful for teachers to realize — how quickly children absorb the attitude of their teacher: the caring, sensitivity, and sense of worth and respect. The ripples are endless.
"How quickly children absorb the attitude of their teacher: the caring, sensitivity, and sense of worth and respect." That's a positive spin, but of course the opposite is also true. Students (children or not) are quick to absorb the attitude of their teachers, and that cuts both ways. If the attitude is one of caring, sensitivity, worth, and respect, that's excellent. But if the attitude is one of sneering condescension and disrespect, well, that gets absorbed, too. And sometimes messages of "grit" are much more likely to come with a cold, hard side dish of apathy or, worse, disdain.
This is important because we're not just operating as individual teachers teaching individual students. We're operating within systems that expand well beyond those neat little boundaries of single people. When we consider the fact that the class gap in how parenting is handled continues to expand as people continue to move into more and more economically segregated environments and what powerful, all-encompassing ramifications that has on the education systems, we can't pretend it's just a matter of individual interactions. Further complicating that narrative is the fact that habits of poverty and the impact of oppression stick with us even if we manage to get rid of the actual conditions, apparently even having the potential to change our biological responses.
Some educators understand this and are attempting to address it. Take, for instance, this school in Jennings, a suburb of my St. Louis home and a neighbor to now-famous Ferguson, MO. The superintendent there has taken a radical step to try to improve her students' outcomes by providing something beyond messages of grit and personal responsibility. She has, instead, tried to change the conditions of their lives in very tangible ways. As this Washington Post article outlines, Superintendent Tiffany Anderson restored previously cut extracurriculars and opened a shelter for homeless students as well as a food bank. She took seriously the conditions in which her students were operating and didn't leave it all on their shoulders to turn that reality around.
It is with all of this in mind that I recently read Charlotte Kent's article about closing the skills gap in the Chronicle of Higher Education (link is temporarily available, but will likely be paywalled soon). Here, Kent does not use the word "grit," but she's clearly calling upon the same ethos when she brags about her classroom of "draconian-seeming rules that students often don't believe and even many colleagues question." These include a strict policy on not accepting late work, not offering bonus opportunities, and otherwise creating a strict environment that teaches her students, in her view, responsibility. She justifies these actions:
We do our students a disservice when we provide them with extensions, lax lateness policies, and extra-credit opportunities. They could learn those values at home, in community service, or other groups, but colleges really do most closely replicate some of the demands of a life at work.
So, no, "grit" didn't make it into the printed article, but you can definitely feel its presence in the air, and it's no mistake that this is aimed at a gap in "soft skills" that is often most readily identified among that same population of students we've been discussing: poor students, minority students, students who are coming from environments where educational attainment was not sewn into the fabric.
I've seen these kinds of policies first-hand. Students have come to me literally crying because they were five minutes late and got locked out of their classroom by a teacher with a strict tardiness policy. I've seen students fail online quizzes for the first month before getting the courage to ask how to navigate the computer system well enough to start doing the work they have to do. I know students who have simply not turned in assignments because they were worried about the kind of comments they would get on what they considered inadequate work. The zero was easier to swallow than the expected insult.
Some of this is, of course, on the students. Of course they should come to class on time. Of course they should ask questions if they don't know how to navigate the online system. Of course they should learn to take constructive criticism without perceiving it as a personal attack.
But we don't get the students we think we should have; we get the students we have. And the truth of the matter is that, for whatever reason and for whoever is to blame, many of our students do not have these habits and perspectives. And I don't believe that locking the door and making them retake classes they have the skills to take because it took them a few extra weeks to learn the rules is doing anything to change that.
Kent believes otherwise, and maybe her experience is different from mine. She writes that "Most students today have been raised in an environment of endless second chances, so my policies surprise them — and many don't like me for it." And she believes (probably sincerely, for what it's worth) that a failing grade on an early assignment because of these missteps is enough to put a student on the right track.
That's not my experience. My experience tells me that most of my students have not had second chances built into their situations. And most of my students will not take that first "F" as a sign to work harder. Most (not all, but most) will take it as a sign that they don't belong in college. They will take it as a sign that their internal monologue (or, sometimes, the external dialogue with unsupportive friends and family) was right all along. This isn't for them. They should quit. They should give up.
I know that I represent a problematic system of authority as an educator, especially as a white educator in predominantly black classrooms. I am aware of the system in which I operate, and I can't wish it away with messages about grit and resilience. The realities are more complicated than that, and as comforting as that narrative can be, it just isn't complete.
I want to talk more about how I try to walk the line between having firm standards that prepare my developmental students for stricter college classrooms while still building in flexibility and the room for early mistakes and missteps, but I'm going to save that for another day.
Instead, I want to end here by momentarily switching gears to what has made all of this crystalize for me recently.
I'm not just an educator, and I'm not just someone who has been labeled as resilient for overcoming some obstacles in my own background to reach educational attainment. I'm also a parent, and I think it is here that the message of grit has come to a screeching halt for me.
I have a very sensitive, tough, spirited, fragile little girl. Those terms seem at odds with one another, but they aren't odd at all in her lived enactment of them. She's gifted, a twice exceptional child whose strengths and weaknesses are often starkly present in moments of seeming paradox. After years of trying to figure out how to best parent with these contradicting sets of qualities, I have found that the best success has come not from instilling grit, but from empathy. A meltdown is only prolonged and intensified by attempts to discipline her into better behavior, but recognition and respect can bring her back to the center. Discussions about how to address her behavior have become discussions about how to quell anxiety, and those tactics are rooted in patience, flexibility, and understanding more than they are rigidity and rules.
It's hard. I mess up. I try to fix it. Sometimes I mess up again. It's an ongoing dance that has woven its way into steps I didn't know I could take.
But it's had a profound impact on my teaching. So many of my students' behaviors that once angered me now give me pause. Could the same motivations be at work? Could this be a test to see how I will react, to find out if I am a trustworthy ally in their attempts at education? What if I respond with understanding instead of discipline? What if I don't let them use me as an excuse to quit?
It's hard. I mess up. I try to fix it.
In the end, though, I'm more and more convinced that the story of grit is not the one I should be telling myself. The story of grit makes it much too easy for me to erase myself and all I represent from the equation, and that's an unforgivable erasure. I am there. I should own my responsibility to act.
As Barbara Henry said, the ripples are endless, so which way are we going to send them?
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Musings on the Room of My Own
When we first moved into this house, it was billed as a three bedroom. It is not. That was a lie.
It is, more accurately, a two bedroom with a "bonus room" or (perhaps most accurately of all) a two bedroom with a large storage space that happens to have a window.
We were only into the second year of our marriage when we bought the house. We were still a year away from becoming parents. Our previous living arrangements, which we'd been sharing for the past six years, had included at various times roommates, single bedroom apartments with kitchens too tiny to fit us both, and living rooms used for sleeping. The house seemed infinite.
"It can be an office," we said. He still had a year left of law school, and I was embarking on the very beginning of my PhD program. Writing, reading, books. These were our habits and our tools. A space dedicated to the craft seemed like a dream. We put a desk in it.
Then we put boxes in it. The basement of the century-old house proved inadequate for the safekeeping of anything that might mold or dampen. Off-season clothes, crates of old syllabi, these took over the tiny space that we'd envisioned would be our "office." They grew, as boxes do, until the room became not just a glorified closet, but one we could envision as nothing else.
Then came the baby. Clothes that were too big, clothes that were too small, toys that were too loud, board books that could be cycled in and out of rotation. These joined the boxes. The room became so packed that we could only just open the door and precariously perch something new atop the stack.
Sure, we cleaned it. There were annual purges and piles of donations, but somehow the room inhaled deeply and sucked most of the stuff back to where it had been. You could no longer even see the desk.
We wrote at the kitchen table. We set a card table in front of the couch in the middle of the night. We transformed communal spaces into private ones for brief intervals. He graduated. I graduated. We got by.
"We'll move," we said. We'll get a place with a real office. We'll have bookshelves lining the walls and a desk for each of us. It will be beautiful.
Soon there will be another baby.
The room called to us again, but this time with more urgency. We unpacked it all. We Marie-Kondo'ed the books and took down the sagging bookshelves with their busted walls. We dismantled the desk. We consolidated the boxes and crammed them into corners elsewhere.
We filled the room with toys. With games. With a space where my older daughter can escape the tyranny of a newborn.
And now there is a trampoline in my living room. There is a plastic playhouse in my dining room that takes up as much room as the table. There is a bin of toys in the front hallway. There are stuffed animals in my bed and plastic boats in my bathtub.
The only room that has avoided an invasion, the only space in my entire house I can enter as my own, is the kitchen.
And it strikes me as quite funny.
After all, the kitchen is the symbol of oppression. It's where the women stand, barefoot and pregnant (as I was earlier this evening), trapped in their domesticity, chained to the demands of gender roles.
And I don't even like baking. It does not calm me or please me. And while cooking can be gratifying, most days it is another chore, another to-do to cross off a list a mile long. And no writing gets done between those walls, and it is not, it is most definitely not, the room of my own that I thought I would have by now, by 30, by career, by doctorate, by now.
But it is mine. And there is something calming about saying "no toys in the kitchen" and meaning it. There is something peaceful about stacking the dishes in the cabinets and being able to close them. About clearing off the counter and seeing it shine. About putting on a podcast and sweeping the floor. About existing in a space for a moment that feels centered, roughly organized, gently guarded.
I can hear my 22-year-old self scoffing. I can see her roll her eyes and call me a sell out, but she doesn't understand the compromises that led to claiming this space or just how many things can go a little off the list of plans or just how fast those little changes add up to a different set of rules entirely.
And maybe in eight more years, my 30-year-old self will be the one who couldn't see what it would all be like. Maybe I will sit down in my private, well-stocked, brightly-lit upstairs office and laugh about the time I thought lighting a candle while listening to neo-soul as I did the dishes was the pinnacle of claiming my space. But maybe not. And I think it will be okay.
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Meet Mohawk
A Decade in Design
As we approach a new decade in design, themes of renewal underscore a resurgence of enthusiasm for responsible design practices.
At Mohawk Group, our rich, woven heritage serves to guide us as we look to the future. Our 2020 Design Vision CEU, Return to Humanity, is both a movement forward in a digital era and a vision culminated by a company ethos that has spent the past decade and more investing in people.
As an industry leader, we are committed to the cultivation of a company culture that leaves positive handprints in the communities where we live, work, and play. It's more than a strategy, it's a blueprint for upcoming generations – leaving a beneficial impact from which to glean.
"Handprinting has broadened our view, taking us out of the manufacturing facility and into the community to establish partnerships with social and environmental entities. It has focused us on wellness—the wellness of the families who use our products, the wellness of the employees who make our products, and the wellness of the communities where our products are made."
Mohawk CSO George Bandy Jr.
Pioneering A Net-Positive Product Portfolio
We are immensely proud to be the pioneer for what has become an ever-growing portfolio of net-positive products – like our acclaimed Lichen collection.
Lichen, Mohawk Group's first Living Product
Designed by Jason F. McLennan in collaboration with Mohawk Group, Lichen continues on its path to give more resources back to the environment than it uses during its entire life cycle – just as lichens play a regenerative role in their natural ecosystem. The development of Lichen also made us the first flooring manufacturer to introduce a floorcovering that achieved Living Product Challenge Petal Certification.
Most recently, we collaborated with renowned Fractals Research and 13&9 to develop a flooring system using a stress-reductive approach to design. Our Relaxing Floors collection continues to collect awards in innovation for its truly unique concept.
The collection is the culmination of art, science and human-centered design based on fractal patterns. Fractals, the building block of many of nature's patterns, have been scientifically proven to reduce stress – and so provide benefits to physical health. Utilizing fractals in flooring design gives our eyes a break from the digital world and delivers the essence of nature to the contract built environment.
Relaxing Floors collaborators, left to right: Richard Taylor, Fractals Research; Jackie Dettmar, Mohawk Group; Anastasija and Martin Lesjak, 13&9
Cultivating Sustainable Workplace Communities
When it came time to create a new home for our talented design team, we restored a mid-century modern building with the help of students from Savannah College of Art and Design – a process dedicated to salvaging and repurposing original building materials. Fun fact: the majority of wood in the space came from tufting creels used in another Mohawk facility.
Panoramic views from our Light Lab Design Center
Our Light Lab Design Center was the first Living Building Challenge Petal Certified project in the state of Georgia and the first restoration project of its kind in the entire Southeastern U.S. Bonus: it now hosts a community garden to promote employee wellness.
Mohawk Group community garden at our Light Lab Design Center
Following in the sustainable footsteps of our Light Lab Design Center, our flagship NYC showroom officially met the requirements for WELL Building Standard Platinum and LEED v4 Gold certification. Designed by Gensler, the 13,000-square-foot Chelsea retail space is one of the few projects in the world to be certified under both programs.
Mohawk Group's Flagship NYC Showroom
Leaving A Legacy of Positive Handprints
It's been said that where we've been informs where we're going – and it's why we believe design can inspire and motivate positive change.
Our partnership with Groundswell is installing smartflower solar technology energy systems to produce clean, renewable energy for schools in underserved communities.
Students watch as a newly installed smartflower opens to harness solar energy
Our Glasgow, VA manufacturing facility was dedicated as a National Wildlife Federation Certified Wildlife Habitat as we expand efforts surrounding the protection and proliferation of pollinators.
Beehives at our Glasgow, VA "Living Site"
We've had the wonderful opportunity to provide the flooring for countless spaces designed to create a positive impact on the people who dwell in them – from children's hospitals to camps for underserved communities.
We even had a few celebrity encounters – like when our Structure Revival Definity broadloom was specified for multiplatinum-selling global superstar Carrie Underwood's exclusive album listening event. Post event, smaller bound area rugs were made from the large carpets and auctioned off at a special event to raise funds for the Lifecycle Building Center in Atlanta.
photo c/o Chris Hollo and UMG Nashville
And in the past 10 years we've contributed toward a total of 6.1 million dollars to Susan G. Komen as we support their efforts to bring awareness to and fund research to find a cure for breast cancer.
Our design director shares her personal journey with breast cancer and why our Specify for a Cure program holds a special meaning for her.
It's a legacy that we're proud to reflect on.
It has been an honor to forge a path forward over the past decade, creating a positive handprint as an industry leader.
2020 does not mark the end of an era for us, but a continued commitment to human-centered design that contributes to an ecologically restorative future.
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A man who police believe is responsible for 17 commercial armed robberies dating back to July 31 has been arrested.
Neil David Ernest Cheyne, 38, was picked up Sunday after two failed armed robberies at a hotel on Marion Street and another hotel on Westwood Drive.
Police say in both cases, Cheyne allegedly pointed a handgun at an employee and demanded cash while wearing a hood pulled up, a neck warmer and dark glasses. He left empty handed. There were no reported injuries in either robbery attempt.
The tactical support team was searching the area near Roblin Boulevard and Dale Boulevard when they came across the suspect.


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NY Iman Pleads in Zazi Case, Will Be Deported
By Jeralyn, Section Terror Trials
Posted on Thu Mar 04, 2010 at 09:04:45 PM EST
Tags: Najibullah Zazi (all tags)
New York Imam, Ahmad Wais Afzali, who told Najibullah Zazi's father the police had inquired about his son, pleaded guilty today to making a false statement to the FBI. There is no terror component to the charge. He faces up to six months, but the Government is not requesting incarceration. He will be deported.
Outside the courtroom, Mr. Afzali appeared distraught about leaving the country he has called home since he left Afghanistan as a young boy. His wife and two children from a previous marriage all hold United States citizenship. He said he did not know where he would go.
"My whole tribe is here," Mr. Afzali said. To return to Afghanistan, he offered, would be to "sign my death sentence."
Considering that Afzali also told the elder Zazi he would set up a meeting between Najibullah and his friend and the cops, I think this is too harsh. [More...]
Mr. Afzali said he had a phone conversation with Mr. Zazi in which he told the younger man that law enforcement officials had inquired about him, and he offered to set up a meeting with the police and urged him: "Don't get involved in Afghanistan garbage."
He says he didn't know the seriousness of what Zazi was being investigated for. He'd provided assistance to the police for years. I wonder what the NY cops and FBI threatened him with that made him afraid to tell them he spoke with Zazi's father.
They should have offered him a misdemeanor.
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NY Iman Pleads in Zazi Case, Will Be Deported | 2 comments (2 topical)
Sounds like an honest mistake .. (none / 0) (#1)
by nyrias on Fri Mar 05, 2010 at 01:45:46 PM EST
although on the bright side ....
"Under the agreement reached with prosecutors, Mr. Afzali pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the F.B.I., but the reduced charge did not specify that the lie occurred in the course of a terrorism investigation.
As a result, Mr. Afzali faces up to six months in prison rather than up to eight years when he is sentenced in April. The government has agreed not to request any time in jail, said Ronald L. Kuby, a lawyer for Mr. Afzali."
If they throw the book at him, he could go to jail for a long long time.
Agree -- too harsh. (none / 0) (#2)
by jawbone on Fri Mar 05, 2010 at 05:37:55 PM EST
I figured he would plead even if not guilty of anything, since going to trial really not safe for persons with brown skin, foreign birth, and also Muslim.
I feel really sorry for this guy and his family. He was working with NYPD, fer cryin' out loud!


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1 of my projects seems to be missing from my Projects List. I tried creating a new one with the new name but an error saying that the project already exists.
I also tried the filtering options of whether the show all the projects in my network or only show my projects.


Attractive villa, built in 1982 of a brick construction on a semi-basement.
The accommodation is spacious in a large enclosed garden of 2300 m² with lawn, trees and an orchard. Also a good size patio, walled, paved and fitted with lighting and an electric point for alfresco meals in the garden. With electric gates.
With a flight of steps to a raised ground floor and a spacious entrance hall and two hallways, one hallway with a cupboard, leading to a large living-dining room of 40 m² with an attractive fireplace and doorways to balconies at the front and the back of the property.
A fully equipped kitchen with door to the rear balcony and garden. Two bedrooms with fitted cupboards and one with a shower room. A library/bureau (or 5th bedroom), also a bathroom and a separate toilet.
An internal staircase leads to two hallways in the semi-basement leading to bedrooms, three and four, and an office (or 6th bedroom).
Plus a generous sized utility room and a shower room with WC. A door leads to the garage in which you can easily park four cars. The garage has a rear door and a folding door at the front. Another door in the garage leads to the cellar.


Mar, 28th 2019 in "Events"
After its initial launch on Feb 21, orbiting at just over 23,000 miles away, Space IL's "Beresheet" snapped a snazzy selfie on March 3, 2019. Space IL's spacecraft is looking crisp and primed for moon orbit! Everybody here at Ruda Cardinal Inc is thrilled to have been a part of Beresheet's visual journey. Beresheet is scheduled to make its moon landing on April 11. We will be buzzing with anticipation!
SpaceIL's Beresheet recently snapped two fantastic images from the far side of the moon!


Two influential economists yesterday told federal lawmakers that the widespread implementation of e-prescribing tools and electronic health records may only have a marginal effect on savings — and could conversely result in increased costs.
Robert Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute, and Eugene Steuerle, a senior fellow also from the institute, both challenged industry estimates that adoption of health information technology could trim billions of dollars from ever-rocketing healthcare costs.
Reischauer and Steuerle's views run counter to the widely held belief that adoption of EHRs and other high-tech gear would produce almost immediate savings across hospitals and physician offices alike.
Malpractice insurers stand to be among the biggest winners in the move to digital health records. Some of the greatest sources of liability risk for physicians — messy documentation, inconsistent collection of family histories, poor tracking of patients — are addressable by EHRs and HIEs, as long as they're implemented correctly and properly used.
Of course, there could be some increases in risk as we move to modern electronic systems. Breaches of confidentiality, and increased errors while physicians and medical staff become familiar with the new systems come immediately to mind. However, we can work on reducing these types of risks; for example, the [CT Medical Insurance Co.] program will require that physicians demonstrate long-term commitment to the EHR and to effective risk management. Implementing EHRs and HIEs within a program framework, such as MAeHC's, dramatically increases the odds of effective implementations and significant net risk reduction. Of course, risk reduction means fewer medical errors, so patients will be the biggest beneficiaries at the end of the day.
Cognitive dissonance? Not necessarily. Reischauer and Steurle are looking at the health care system and opining that EHRs will not reduce the amount of money spent within the health care system. Tripathi is looking at individual physician practice costs and telling us that malpractice insurers have signed on to the notion that EHRs can improve physician performance (from a quality perspective), thus lowering physician's risk profiles, and thus qualifying for malpractice premium credits. If Reischauer and Steurle are right, then EHR implementation may just be the latest high-tech boondoggle from a cost perspective: good for patients, good for physicians (if they can recoup some of the cost through premium credits), but adding another layer of cost to an already-burdened system.
Will EHR systems add costs or bring savings to the health care economy overall?


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Tommy Maguire: October 16th, 1939 - July 3rd, 2015
Sat, Aug 8, 2015, 01:00
Tommy Maguire, who has died aged 75, was a Tyrone man who contributed a new genre to film. As Italian director Sergio Leone invented the Spaghetti Western, Maguire was the originator of the Spud Western.
He made Gunhawks and Return of the Gunhawks around his native Castlederg, with local casts, the community being part of the projects. For Return of the Gunhawks he had planned a funeral scene with about 20 mourners. Almost 60 turned up wishing to take part – and they did.
He made Gunhawks in 1974, using a cine camera. Return of the Gunhawks came nearly 40 years later and was the subject of a TG4 documentary, An Cowboy Deireannach.
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Maguire also raised large sums for charity, for which he was awarded an MBE. During the Troubles, Castlederg was one of the North's most divided towns but Maguire transcended this division and was accepted across the community. In a citation accompanying an award he received it was said he had "a magical touch which allows him to reach out and touch the hearts of all people, regardless of class, creed or religion".
Tommy Maguire was born a few miles outside Castlederg, the youngest of five children of Tommy Maguire, a mill-worker, and Sarah (née McCarron). He attended Drumnabey Primary School, then Strabane Technical College. Later he worked in a woollen mill and then as a cinema manager.
He was a colourful character. He once headed out in his car to Killeter Fair in full drag. Police stopped him and told him they had received a report that "a strange woman had broken into Tommy Maguire's car".
He is survived by his widow, Eileen, daughters Glenda and Aileen, sister Molly and grandchildren.
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We have put aside large areas of land known as 'explosives reserves' for the safe storage, distribution and disposal of explosives.
To arrange to use a government explosives reserve, contact the manager of the reserve.
Anyone intending to store explosives at a government magazine is required to lodge a request using the Request to store explosives at a government magazine form.
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A security access card is issued to the employee of a licence holder. Information about the use of the access card can be provided to the licence holder. The access card remains the property of the reserve and can be revoked at any time.
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Welcome to the 379th episode of Our Hen House!
Our Hen House went around the world for this episode! Jasmin welcomes Katrina Fox, award-winning Australian journalist, author, PR consultant, media trainer, editor of vegan business blog, host of the Vegan Business Talk podcast, and author of Vegan Ventures: Start and Grow an Ethical Business, the first global book providing success strategies for aspiring and existing vegan business owners. Katrina shares her insights into embracing cooperation and intersectionality in the vegan business world.
Mariann interviews Belgian blogger Tobias Leenaert, currently co-director (with Melanie Joy) of The Center for Effective Vegan Advocacy. Tobias is also a founding member of ProVeg, a new international pro-vegan organization working to decrease global consumption of animals by 50% by the year 2040. He lives in Ghent with his partner, two dogs, and six cats.


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package gui;

import common.Question;
import common.Survey;
import common.Util;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.event.KeyListener;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder;
import net.miginfocom.swing.MigLayout;

public class SurveyPanel extends JPanel implements KeyListener {
    private static Logger logger;
    private JButton btnBackToMenu;
    private JButton btnNext;
    private JButton btnPrevious;
    private JButton btnSubmitAnswers;
    private Question displayedQuestion;
    private MainFrame parent;
    private HashMap<Question, ChoicePanel> questions;
    private Survey survey;
    private JTextArea textArea;

    class 1 implements ActionListener {
        private final /* synthetic */ SurveyPanel val$cur;

        1(SurveyPanel surveyPanel) {
            this.val$cur = surveyPanel;
        }

        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            SurveyPanel.this.parent.removeContent(this.val$cur);
            SurveyPanel.this.dispose();
        }
    }

    class 2 implements ActionListener {
        private final /* synthetic */ SurveyPanel val$cur;

        2(SurveyPanel surveyPanel) {
            this.val$cur = surveyPanel;
        }

        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            Question q = SurveyPanel.this.survey.getNextQuestion();
            if (q != null) {
                this.val$cur.setContent(q);
            } else {
                Util.showError("Already at the last question!");
            }
        }
    }

    class 3 implements ActionListener {
        private final /* synthetic */ SurveyPanel val$cur;

        3(SurveyPanel surveyPanel) {
            this.val$cur = surveyPanel;
        }

        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            Question q = SurveyPanel.this.survey.getPrevQuestion();
            if (q != null) {
                this.val$cur.setContent(q);
            } else {
                Util.showError("Already at the first question!");
            }
        }
    }

    class 4 implements ActionListener {
        private final /* synthetic */ SurveyPanel val$cur;

        4(SurveyPanel surveyPanel) {
            this.val$cur = surveyPanel;
        }

        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            int i;
            ArrayList<Question> questions = SurveyPanel.this.survey.getQuestionArray();
            LinkedList<Integer> missedQuestions = new LinkedList();
            for (i = 0; i < questions.size(); i++) {
                ChoicePanel c = (ChoicePanel) SurveyPanel.this.questions.get(questions.get(i));
                if (c == null) {
                    missedQuestions.add(Integer.valueOf(i + 1));
                } else if (c.getSelectedChoce() == null) {
                    missedQuestions.add(Integer.valueOf(i + 1));
                }
            }
            if (missedQuestions.isEmpty()) {
                for (i = 0; i < questions.size(); i++) {
                    SurveyPanel.this.survey.choose(((ChoicePanel) SurveyPanel.this.questions.get(questions.get(i))).getSelectedChoce());
                }
                SurveyPanel.this.parent.addContent(new ResultPanel(SurveyPanel.this.parent, SurveyPanel.this.survey));
                SurveyPanel.this.parent.removeKeyListener(this.val$cur);
                SurveyPanel.this.parent.removeContent(this.val$cur);
                this.val$cur.dispose();
                return;
            }
            Util.showError("You have missed question(s):\n " + missedQuestions);
        }
    }

    static {
        logger = Logger.getLogger(SurveyPanel.class.getName());
    }

    public SurveyPanel(MainFrame parent, Survey survey) {
        if (survey == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid survey!");
        }
        this.parent = parent;
        this.survey = survey;
        this.questions = new HashMap();
        this.displayedQuestion = null;
        initialize();
        setVisible(true);
    }

    private void initialize() {
        setSize(800, 600);
        setMinimumSize(new Dimension(600, 400));
        setBorder(new EmptyBorder(20, 20, 20, 20));
        setLayout(new MigLayout("", "[][grow][][::500px,fill][][][][][grow][][][][]", "[][][26.00][][][73.00][][-19.00][][181.00,grow,baseline][center][center][grow,center][grow,baseline]"));
        this.textArea = new JTextArea();
        this.textArea.setFont(Util.QUESTION_FONT);
        this.textArea.setWrapStyleWord(true);
        this.textArea.setLineWrap(true);
        this.textArea.setToolTipText("This is the question you are supposed to answer.\r\n");
        this.textArea.setEditable(false);
        this.textArea.setBackground(getBackground());
        this.textArea.addKeyListener(this);
        add(this.textArea, "cell 0 1 7 2,width 60%");
        this.btnNext = new JButton("Next");
        this.btnNext.setToolTipText("Go to the next question");
        this.btnNext.addKeyListener(this);
        add(this.btnNext, "flowy,cell 11 12,growx");
        this.btnPrevious = new JButton("Previous");
        this.btnPrevious.setToolTipText("Go to the previous question");
        this.btnPrevious.addKeyListener(this);
        add(this.btnPrevious, "cell 11 12,growx");
        this.btnSubmitAnswers = new JButton("Submit Answers");
        this.btnSubmitAnswers.setToolTipText("Submit your answers");
        this.btnSubmitAnswers.addKeyListener(this);
        add(this.btnSubmitAnswers, "cell 11 12");
        this.btnBackToMenu = new JButton("Back to Menu");
        this.btnBackToMenu.setToolTipText("Go back to the menu");
        this.btnBackToMenu.addKeyListener(this);
        add(this.btnBackToMenu, "cell 11 12,growx");
        setContent(this.survey.getQuestion());
        addActions();
        this.parent.addKeyListener(this);
        addKeyListener(this);
    }

    private void addActions() {
        this.btnBackToMenu.addActionListener(new 1(this));
        this.btnNext.addActionListener(new 2(this));
        this.btnPrevious.addActionListener(new 3(this));
        this.btnSubmitAnswers.addActionListener(new 4(this));
    }

    private void setContent(Question q) {
        if (q != null) {
            this.textArea.setText(new StringBuilder(String.valueOf(String.format("%d/%d: ", new Object[]{Integer.valueOf(this.survey.getIndex() + 1), Integer.valueOf(this.survey.getQuestionSize())}))).append(q.getText()).toString());
            if (this.displayedQuestion != null) {
                remove((Component) this.questions.get(this.displayedQuestion));
                ((ChoicePanel) this.questions.get(this.displayedQuestion)).setVisible(false);
                logger.log(Level.INFO, "Removed panel " + this.questions.get(this.displayedQuestion));
            }
            ChoicePanel curPanel = (ChoicePanel) this.questions.get(q);
            if (curPanel == null) {
                curPanel = new ChoicePanel(this.survey, q);
                this.questions.put(q, curPanel);
            }
            add(curPanel, "cell 0 4 7 5");
            curPanel.setVisible(true);
            curPanel.repaint();
            curPanel.addKeyListener(this);
            revalidate();
            this.parent.setMinimumSize(getPreferredSize());
            this.displayedQuestion = q;
        }
    }

    public void dispose() {
        removeAll();
        this.questions.clear();
        this.displayedQuestion = null;
        this.survey = null;
        this.parent = null;
        setVisible(false);
        setEnabled(false);
    }

    public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) {
        if (e.getKeyChar() > '0' && e.getKeyChar() < '9') {
            int choice = e.getKeyChar() - 48;
            if (choice == 0) {
                choice += 10;
            }
            if (choice <= this.displayedQuestion.getChoices().size()) {
                ((ChoicePanel) this.questions.get(this.displayedQuestion)).select(choice - 1);
            }
        } else if (e.getKeyChar() == '\n') {
            this.btnSubmitAnswers.doClick();
        }
    }

    public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
        if (e.getKeyCode() == 39) {
            this.btnNext.doClick();
        } else if (e.getKeyCode() == 37) {
            this.btnPrevious.doClick();
        } else if (e.getKeyCode() == 10) {
            this.btnSubmitAnswers.doClick();
        }
    }

    public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) {
    }
}


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Yes, You Can Be Orthodox & Be Friends With Gay People
By Renee Septimus	 Aug 8, 2014
When my generation, the Baby Boomers, was fighting for civil rights, for "women's liberation" and to end the war in Viet Nam, it would have occurred to almost no one that the next frontier would be gay rights.
Who even knew what "homosexual" meant? Who could imagine that the "fag tag" on the back of our shirts contained what would one day be considered a pejorative? Who thought twice about using "gay" as a rhyme for a word ending in "ay" in poems and songs in our Modern Orthodox schools and camps? Who gave a thought to the "sexual orientation" of the two somewhat nebbishy guys in our group of friends?
The whole thing was just not on our radar at all. It was totally irrelevant to me and to anyone I knew.
But at some point, although I have no recollection of when, where, or under what circumstances, I did learn what homosexuality was. And along the way, we students in yeshiva high school were given the impression that it was "sinful" (although we always skipped the pertinent texts in Leviticus).
Since I didn't think I knew anyone who was gay, the whole issue was a non-issue.
As I got older, and the LGBT movement gained incredibly fast traction, religiously observant people had to come to grips with the differing messages offered by the gay and faith communities, in much the same way that they had had to deal with the women's movement decades earlier.
One woman I met at a conference became a dear, close friend to my husband, me, and our kids. At the beginning of our relationship, she called and told me that she wanted me to know that she was a lesbian. I quietly said that if she didn't ask me what went on in my bedroom, I wouldn't ask her what went on in hers. Much later I asked her why she made that call; did she do that with everyone? She replied that she knew I was Orthodox and wanted me to know in case I didn't want to be her friend. I was horrified and hurt for her–that she would have to consider such rejection before starting a new friendship.
It's true, I was raised in a religiously observant household, but we were socially and politically liberal and always taught to accept people for who they were. Because of this, resolving the conflict between my community's religious position and the issue of gay rights was probably easier for me than for many others. To paraphrase Hugh Jackman at the Tony Awards, there were people who seemed very upset by homosexuality and then there were people who just minded their own business. I remember my grandmother, daughter of the shtetl, well into her 90s saying, "Well, they can't help it."
So we raised our kids the way I had been raised–respectful of others, of differences in religion, ethnicity, race, socio-economic status, and sexual preference.
I didn't have any (openly) gay friends until my children were in their teenage years. Several of them became regular guests at our Shabbos meals, often with their partners. It was a non-issue to my kids–not because, like me, they didn't know anyone gay, but, to the contrary, because they did.
But not everybody felt the same way. On a particular Shabbos about 12 years ago, I invited a group of people from our Modern Orthodox shul for lunch, and included a gay friend who was staying over. A close friend of mine declined the invitation, admitting her homophobia.
Some months ago, this previously homophobic friend called to tell me something in confidence. Her son, she said, had come out to her. I asked her how she was doing. "I sat down and collected myself. Then I told him that he was my son and I just wanted him to be happy." She is now hoping that he marries and gives her grandchildren.
When my younger son was in yeshiva in Israel for his gap year between high school and college, we spoke at least weekly. One Sunday we had a lengthy conversation about an issue he was trying to work through: the conflict he felt between how he grew up and the religious texts and rabbis' teachings he was studying in the yeshiva about homosexuality.
Some weeks later, I asked him if he had come to any conclusions. I will never forget what he said and I have rarely been prouder of him. He responded, "I decided that I would let God judge, and I will continue to love."
Good words to live by.
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Technically, change is one of my super powers. Literacy is probably my favorite. As far as universal survival traits, though, the ability to adapt is highly desirable. Entropy is coming for us. We can't make it stop, so we might as well get ready for it.
A common reaction to the concept of self-improvement is that it's narcissistic. Another is that it's only for losers. I guess everyone hatches from the egg with a pre-formed set of skills and characteristics, and only the lucky people get the good ones. The way I see it, there is always room for improvement somewhere. Look around any parking lot and you'll quickly see evidence of this; many people could spare some time to learn to park between the lines. It's like a coloring book, only much bigger, and you actually don't want to "paint transfer" with your four-wheeled crayon. The thing is, we never realize that our little foibles impact other people just as much as theirs impact us.
Any attempt at self-improvement that deals with our annoying tendencies is a gift to humanity. One of my biggest flaws is my tendency to interrupt people. It's a filthy habit. After years of effort, I've probably cut down to an amount that another person would consider a good starting point. I can't puff up my ego about this self-improvement project, even if I ever manage to stop interrupting completely, because I never should have been doing it in the first place. Other examples of Remedial Self-Improvement are having a bad temper, being late, sticking chewed gum everywhere, and a thousand others that appear in any public discussion of pet peeves. Every human being is doing at least one annoying thing on a regular basis. If we collectively decide to spend 1% of our complaining time on correcting our own behaviors, we'll change the world!
(The argument could be made that we're already changing the world, since complaining about someone's sloppy parking job is a vast improvement over our ancestors' habit of challenging people to duels. Future post forthcoming).
Okay, I'm sure we can agree that at least some self-improvement is pragmatic, reality-based, and generally consistent with common sense. Let's see how far we can take it from here.
Learning new skills is self-improvement. Whenever someone tells me, "Oh, I don't cook," I am totally baffled. Why would anyone not want to know how to cook? You can make all your favorite stuff exactly the way you like it. Naturally, the same people who "don't cook" often tend to be the fussiest eaters, and the most critical as well. Meals cooked for them by others are never quite good enough. There is an easy solution to this. Suffer through a brief period of eating your own failures, and soon you'll be somewhat competent, then good, then even better. That's a metaphor. We don't like eating our failures, as a rule, so we hold back from making any attempt at all, at anything. Having the attitude of continual self-improvement in all areas helps with this. We're always beginners, at least at something. There's no shame in it. Nobody was born an award-winning figure skater, because think of the skates. Yikes. Everything fabulous that we have ever enjoyed, from music to books to movies to the great view from a park, happened because someone else worked hard at developing a skill and putting it out into the world.
The most practical area of self-improvement is to get organized and build a solid foundation of effectiveness. It's very hard work for a chronically disorganized person, such as myself, to learn to think like an organized person. But it ripples out forever. Nobody will ever know just how much you can contribute to the world – including you yourself – until you nail down how to manage your time, your stuff, your health, and your mental focus. The process of getting organized always benefits others, too.
Changing my mental outlook has been the most important for me. I've learned that my attitude of resistance to something is a very good sign that I need it. The more instinctual repugnance and rejection I feel, the stronger my emotional reaction, the more I have to pay attention. I have a long track record of unreasonable opinions, knee-jerk bad judgments, stubborn refusals to listen to advice, and blind foolishness. When I look back, I often want to grab my own shoulders and shake myself. Are those traits part of my personality, part of who I am? I'd like to think not, but any neutral outside observer might say yes. If they aren't part of my personality, it should be no problem to bring awareness to them and try to change. If they are part of my personality, I then have the option of deciding that a personality is malleable, flexible, and designed for upgrades.
Life is part fate, part destiny. Fate is full of natural disasters, layoffs, politics, economics, wild animals, collisions, and the ramifications of other people's behavior. Destiny is the part we create ourselves, and it's built from both our actions and our inaction, both positive and negative. We can build a destiny out of addiction or denial or resistance or self-sabotage or anxiety or analysis paralysis or inertia. We can build a different sort of destiny out of focus and action and receptivity to new information. We have to change when confronted by the force of fate; stasis is not an option. Since we know we'll have to change anyway, why not take the initiative and choose some positive changes?


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Se denomina estrategia de precios a todos aquellos recursos de marketing que una empresa puede desarrollar consistentes en la modificación de los precios de sus productos. La empresa proyecta y comunica una imagen perceptible y clara para que sea percibida a medio y largo plazo.

Puede ser, por ejemplo, una estrategia orientada a ofrecer precios inferiores, superiores o iguales a los precios medios del mercado.

Las empresas pueden optar por una estrategia de:
 Penetración: cuando ofrecen siempre precios inferiores a los de la categoría y los compradores dan al producto un valor superior al precio que tiene.
 Alineamiento: cuando el precio corresponde con el valor medio del mercado y con el que los compradores le atribuyen.
 Selección: cuando el precio corresponde con el valor que los compradores dan al producto pero es muy superior al valor medio de mercado.

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The Asclepieion at Epidaurus was the most celebrated healing center of the Classical world, the place where ill people went in the hope of being cured. Found in the sanctuary, there was a guest house of 160 guestrooms. There are also mineral springs in the vicinity which may have been used in healing. The sanctuary of Asklepios and is an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The prosperity brought by the Asklepieion enabled Epidaurus to construct civic monuments too: the huge theatre that delighted Pausanias for its symmetry and beauty, which is used once again for dramatic performances, the ceremonial Hestiatoreion baths and a palaestra.
The theatre is marveled for its exceptional acoustics, which permits almost perfect intelligibility of unamplified spoken word from the proscenium to all 15,000 spectators, regardless of their seating. The theater still used today for performances in ancient Greek dramas or comedies from Greek Festival during July and August.
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WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - The US Supreme Court on Monday left intact the 2012 insider trading conviction of former Goldman Sachs Group Inc director Rajat Gupta.
Gupta is the highest-ranking corporate official to be convicted in the US government's multi-year probe of insider trading in the hedge fund industry. The high court rejected Gupta's appeal of a March 2014 ruling by the New York-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals that had upheld his conviction.
The government used wiretap evidence to show that Gupta leaked news about Goldman's finances, including a crucial investment by prominent investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc, by phone to Galleon Group hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam.
Gupta, 66, is serving a two-year prison sentence stemming from his conviction. He was also ordered to make US$6 million (S$8 million) in restitution to Goldman and pay a US$5 million fine. Gupta is scheduled to be released from prison in March 2016.
A jury convicted Gupta in June 2012 of passing to Rajaratnam confidential information he learned from Goldman board meetings, including a crucial investment by Buffett.
Rajaratnam is serving an 11-year prison sentence. The Supreme Court rejected his appeal in June 2014.
In January, the Supreme Court rejected Gupta's separate challenge to a permanent ban from acting as a public company officer.
The court then left intact a June 2014 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding the sanctions. In addition to the officer ban, Gupta was prohibited from further violating securities law and associating with brokers, dealers or investment advisors.
While Gupta's appeals at the Supreme Court have failed, he launched a new challenge last month to his conviction at the lower court level before US District Judge Jed Rakoff, citing a recent federal appellate court ruling that has limited authorities' abilities to pursue insider trading cases.


This week we shared recipes for making a more primal dinner , but we know that Thanksgiving is about more than the menu. (Reader emergefit, you beat us to the punch . We couldn't agree with you more.) The Primal Blueprint  is ultimately about living the best life possible. It's about maximizing your workout with minimal duration to allow more time with family, friends and fulfilling personal pursuits. It's about eating healthily enough that – in the short term – we maintain the immune systems that keep us going when others are down for the count with the latest bug and – in the long term – we put real life in our years and don't have to sacrifice time, finances, grief, and life opportunities to the burdens of avoidable disease and decline. The Blueprint is about reducing the impact of stress by taking advantage of the best relaxation practices and by taking real inventory of our lives to see what matters and what doesn't. Where is our life energy going? Is this where we want it to go? What do we want more of in our lives? You could say that the holiday tomorrow is an apt reminder of that suggestion.


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Mounting of reflectors, clearance lamps, identification lamps, and side marker lamps.
(1) Reflectors when required by RCW 46.37.090 shall be mounted at a height not less than twenty-four inches and not higher than sixty inches above the ground on which the vehicle stands, except that if the highest part of the permanent structure of the vehicle is less than twenty-four inches the reflector at such point shall be mounted as high as that part of the permanent structure will permit.
Any required red reflector on the rear of a vehicle may be incorporated with the tail lamp, but such reflector shall meet all the other reflector requirements of this chapter.
(2) Clearance lamps shall be mounted on the permanent structure of the vehicle in such a manner as to indicate the extreme height and width of the vehicle. When rear identification lamps are required and are mounted as high as is practicable, rear clearance lamps may be mounted at optional height, and when the mounting of front clearance lamps results in such lamps failing to indicate the extreme width of the trailer, such lamps may be mounted at optional height but must indicate, as near as practicable, the extreme width of the trailer. Clearance lamps on truck tractors shall be located so as to indicate the extreme width of the truck tractor cab. Clearance lamps and side marker lamps may be mounted in combination provided illumination is given as required herein with reference to both: PROVIDED, That no rear clearance lamp may be combined in any shell or housing with any tail lamp or identification lamp.


This article is about data pack tags. For other uses, see Tag (disambiguation).
Tags in data packs allow players to group items, blocks or functions together using JSON files.
To utilize block, item, or function tags the JSON files must be placed in a data pack inside the data/(namespace)/tags/blocks, data/(namespace)/tags/items or data/(namespace)/tags/functions folder respectively.
The game itself also uses tags. Vanilla block tags are used for various block properties. Vanilla item tags are used for various item properties, vanilla advancement files and vanilla recipe files. There are no vanilla function tags since there are no vanilla functions, but the game reads from certain function tags under the minecraft namespace.
Block tags can be called when testing for block arguments in commands with #(namespace):(tag), which will succeed if the block matches any of the blocks specified in the tag.
Item tags can be called when testing for item arguments in commands with #(namespace):(tag) or in recipes and advancements using "tag": "(namespace):(tag)", which will succeed if the item matches any of the items specified in the tag.
Function tags can be called in the /function command with #(namespace):(tag), which will run all the functions specified in the tag in a random order.
Moreover, functions tagged in the minecraft:tick tag will run every tick at the start of the tick and functions tagged in minecraft:load will run once at the start of the tick after a server (re)load.
replace: Whether or not this tag should completely replace tags from different lower priority data packs with the same namespace and name. When false the tag will append instead. Defaults to false.
values: A list of mix and match of object names and tag names. For tags, circular reference is not possible.
: An object name in the form (namespace):(name).
: Another tag of the same type in the form #(namespace):(name).
Used to determine which blocks should open the anvil GUI. Will not work for any other blocks than the default ones, but removing any of the default blocks from the tag will stop the GUI from appearing.
Used to determine the damage source for entities being damaged by a falling block, which is used by the death messages.
Used to determine if a block has a chance to get "damaged" or break upon landing. Adding blocks to this tag that can naturally fall will not make them have a chance to break upon landing when they fall naturally. For example adding sand will not make falling sand blocks that are created naturally have a chance to break, but falling sand blocks summoned with a command will have a chance to break.
Used in reading NBT from falling block entities to set the internal HurtEntities boolean to true if the entity did not have HurtEntities set.
Used to determine if the block should have a chance to take damage from using the anvil GUI.
Used by maps upon clicking a block, to see if it should place a marker.
Used to be determined what blocks Ender dragon can't destroy.
Used to determine what blocks enderman can pick up.
Blocks in this tag will not let fluids drip through.
Used for one of the requirements for settling on a block position for the parrot wandering AI.
If a block in this tag is around a leaves block, the leaves block will set its distance block state to the distance the closest tagged block is.
Trees can grow into blocks in this tag.
If blocks in the default village structures match blocks inside this tag, they will be replaced by either sandstone, spruce logs or acacia logs (depending on the biome).
Checks progress for the punch_tree tutorial step.
If blocks in the default village structures match blocks inside this tag, they will be replaced by either smooth sandstone, spruce planks or acacia planks (depending on the biome).
Blocks in this tag will replace water source blocks (within 5 horizontal and 2 vertical blocks) when bone meal is used under water in warm ocean biomes.
If the blocks in this tag are customized, the behavior will be applied to water source blocks in any biome. These blocks won't be waterlogged by default.
Used to determine if a location is a valid spawn position for the player.
Used to be determined what blocks Wither can't destroy.
Used in the 'buttons.json' block tag file.
Used in the 'doors.json' block tag file.
Blocks in this tag can be broken quickly by shears and will also increase the usage stat of shears.
Placing blocks in this tag under a note block will set the instrument used to guitar.
Determines which entities get the glowing effect when ringing a bell.
Used in the 'adventure/voluntary_exile.json' advancement file.
Sugar Cane checks if this fluid, or a frosted ice block, is present next to the block below its base.
The drip particle internally uses this to determine its color.
Indicates a WATER pathfinder node. Certain mobs will pathfind towards this.
Items and experience orbs float in this.
Used in the 'acacia_planks.json' advancement and recipe files, and the 'logs.json' item tag file.
Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 300.
Used in the 'birch_planks.json' advancement and recipe files, and the 'logs.json' item tag file.
Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 200.
Used to check whether or not an item can go in the decoration slot of a llama, but items other than carpets will not change the llama visually.
Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 67.
Used in the 'dark_oak_planks.json' advancement and recipe files, and the 'logs.json' item tag file.
Used by dolphins to pick a player to swim to. The item can be both in the main and offhand.
Feeding a dolphin one of these items will increase their 'trust' in you.
Used by the fish_caught statistic to determine how many fish you've caught.
Used in the 'jungle_planks.json' advancement and recipe files, and the 'logs.json' item tag file.
Used in various checks to either skip or progress with the "punch_tree" tutorial step.
Used in the 'charcoal.json' advancement and recipe files.
Used in the 'oak_planks.json' advancement and recipe files, and the 'logs.json' item tag file.
Used as a check for the repair item of wooden tools.
Used as a check for the repair item of shields.
Used in various checks to either skip or progress with the "craft_planks" tutorial step.
Used in these 3 advancement files and these 32 recipe files.
Used in the 'glass.json' advancement and recipe files.
Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 100.
Used in the 'spruce_planks.json' advancement and recipe files, and the 'logs.json' item tag file.
Used in these 3 advancement files and these 2 recipe files.
Used in the 'buttons.json' item tag file.
Used in the 'doors.json' item tag file.
Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 150.
Used in the 'daylight_detector.json' recipe file.
Used in the 'painting.json' advancement and recipe files.
Added tags for blocks and items.
Added the vanilla block and item tags minecraft:planks and minecraft:wool.
Function can now be tagged.
Functions tagged in minecraft:tick now run every tick in the beginning of the tick.
Added the vanilla block tag minecraft:flower_pots.
Added the vanilla block and item tags minecraft:buttons, minecraft:carpets, minecraft:doors, minecraft:logs, minecraft:saplings and minecraft:stone_bricks.
Added the vanilla block and item tags minecraft:wooden_buttons and minecraft:wooden_doors.
Updated the vanilla block and item tags minecraft:buttons and minecraft:doors to include minecraft:stone_button and minecraft:iron_door respectively.
Added the vanilla block tag minecraft:anvil.
Added the vanilla block tag minecraft:enderman_holdable.
Added the vanilla block and item tags minecraft:banners, minecraft:wooden_pressure_plates, minecraft:wooden_slabs, and minecraft:wooden_stairs.
Added the vanilla item tag minecraft:boats.
Added the vanilla block tags minecraft:slabs, minecraft:stairs and minecraft:water_hacked.
Added the block and item tags minecraft:rails and minecraft:sand.
Added vanilla block and item tag minecraft:coral.
The minecraft:water_hacked tag now includes chests.
Removed the block tags water_hacked and waterlogged.
Added the block tag leaves, the fluid tags water and lava, and the item tags fishes and leaves.
Added the block tag wall_corals and impermeable.
Added the block tag underwater_bonemeals.
Added the block tags minecraft:bamboo_plantable_on, minecraft:dirt_like, minecraft:signs, minecraft:small_flowers, minecraft:standing_signs, minecraft:wall_signs, minecraft:walls.
Added the entity type tag minecraft:skeletons.
Added the item tags minecraft:music_discs,minecraft:signs,minecraft:small_flowers,minecraft:walls.
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Leviev, Milcho
Claire Levy
(b Plovdiv, 19 Dec 1937). Bulgarian composer, pianist, conductor, arranger, and bandleader. He was internationally acknowledged for his innovative ideas, cross-cultural experiments, and contribution to the concept of fusion and free improvisation. Classically trained at the Bulgarian State Conservatory (1955–60) under Pancho Vladigerov (composition) and Andrey Stoyanov (piano), he is the author of numerous compositions in styles and genres including jazz, pop, symphony, chamber, film, and theatrical music. He conducted the Radio and Television Big Band in Sofia (1962–6) and led his own avant-garde quartet, Jazz Focus'65 (1965–8), which won the Critic's Prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1967. In 1970 he left Bulgaria for political reasons and moved to the USA where he joined the Don Ellis Orchestra (1971–8), and later collaborated with the classical/jazz quartet Free Flight. He also played with outstanding jazz musicians including Art Pepper, Billy Cobham, and Dave Holland, among many others....
Epoque Quartet
Ian Mikyska
Czech string quartet, founded 1999. Its line-up has remained constant since its foundation: David Pokorný and Vladimír Klánský on violins, Vladimír Kroupa on viola, and Vít Petrášek on cello. Although classical repertoire remains central to their professional lives, the Epoque Quartet is remarkable for the breadth and professionalism of its 'crossover' work. The quartet has performed with the leading artists of Czech popular music, arranged world music from various traditions (most recently with the clarinettist Irvin Venyš for their CD Irvin_Epoque), and given the premières of over 80 pieces, the style of which ranges from rock- and jazz-influenced music to contemporary art music, mostly by Czech composers including Jan Kučera, Petr Wajsar, Jan Dušek, Gabriela Vermelho, and others.
Their open-mindedness and long-standing interest in various musical fields allows them to perform stylistically in a way classically-trained ensembles often find problematic, particularly in terms of rhythm, feeling, and energy when performing jazz- and rock-influenced repertoire....
Echofluxx
An annual festival of contemporary music, multimedia art, experimental film, installation, sound art, and related areas, which takes place in Prague each May. It was started in 2011 by Dan Senn, an American composer and the organizer and co-founder of Roulette Intermedium.
The first four editions took place in the post-industrial Trafačka Aréna; in 2014, the festival moved to the much more cosmopolitan Paralelní Polis. The festival aims to disrupt the usual division of artists into cliques, and to provoke interaction between artists from different backgrounds. The organizers' outsider position allows them to do so non-institutionally, without an established position on the scene, but still employing collaborations with various other institutions: the Center for Audiovisual Studies at FAMU (the Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague), the Agosto Foundation, the 4+4 Days in Motion Festival, and others.
The programming is a mixture of Czech and international performers. International guests have included Jaap Blonk, Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya, Bob Ostertag, Yves Degoyan, and Joanna Hoffman. Over the years, the festival has gradually mapped several art scenes in the Czech Republic: contemporary composed music (Lucie Vítková, Michal Rataj, David Danel, and the Fama Quartet); sound art (Marek Hlaváč and Michal Cáb); contemporary art (Michal Cimala and Martin Janíček); and experimental video (Martin Blažíček and Michal Kindernay). In addition, the festival organizes open calls for fixed-media and live works from aspiring artists....
Kotková, Hana
(b Olomouc, 3 May 1967). Czech violinist. Raised in a musical family, she studied at the People's School of Art in Opava with Marcela Kuvíková, then at the Ostrava Conservatory with Vítězslav Kuzník and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (AMU) with the professors Jiří Vlach, Jiří Novák, and Ivan Štraus. She also took part in master classes with Josef Gingold in Greensboro, NC and with Wolfgang Marschner in Weimar. In 1990 she received a scholarship to the International Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad, Switzerland, where she studied with Alberto Lysy.
In 1997, she became a laureate of the Prague Spring International Violin Competition. She has also received the Gideon Klein Prize, the Bärenreiter Prize, the Supraphon Prize, the Prize of the City of Prague, and the Prague Spring Foundation Prize. In 2005 she represented the Czech Republic at the World Exhibition in Aichi, Japan, together with the Prague Philharmonic....
Ostrava Days Festival
A biannual festival of new and experimental music held in Ostrava, Czech Republic, since 2001, founded by petr kotík and Renata Spisarová.
The performers include guest ensembles and soloists, as well as a core of both international and Czech soloists specializing in contemporary music, who coalesce into the resident ensemble, Ostravská banda. Since its conception, the festival has established strong relations with other local arts organizations, including Bludný Kámen, the National Moravian-Silesian Theater, the Janáček Philharmonic, the Canticum Ostrava choir, and, more recently, the PLATO art gallery and the multi-arts space Provoz Hlubina. The festival also features dance and opera, as well as performance, multimedia, and installation work.
The 9-day festival at the end of August is the finale of a three-week-long 'Institute' for aspiring composers from around the world. Some ten established composers are invited as instructors for master classes, lectures, workshops, and one-to-one lessons at the Institute. The festival then features music by the invited composers, as well as one piece by each of the 35 composer-students....
Školská 28 Communication Space
Concert venue and gallery, focusing at first on visual art, but soon becoming one of the key locations in the Czech Republic for contemporary and improvised music, sound art, and intermedia work.
Housed in the courtyard of an 1888 neo-Renaissance building in the centre of Prague, the former galvanizing workshop was reconstructed in 1999 by the Linhart Foundation and opened to the public in 2000.
The gallery has offered a regular programme of two monthly concerts, always featuring a local act opening for a foreign guest. Performers have included Thomas Lehn, Franz Hautzinger, Dieb13, and Jim Denley, as well as most musicians on the Czech improvised music scene, and many composer-performers, including Peter Graham, Lucie Vítková, and Miro Tóth[1]. Artists working with sound at the gallery in an installation context have included Jacob Kirkegaard, Phill Niblock, Peter Cusack, and John Grzinich.
Apart from regular exhibitions and concerts, the gallery has also organized long-term residencies for artists, artistic workshops, and discussions. Since ...
Katherine K. Preston and Michael Mauskapf
[music management]
This article addresses the history of individuals and organizations devoted to the management of musical artists and their careers in the United States.
Musicians who toured the United States during the first half of the 19th century relied on individuals to manage their tours. Some of the most important early impresarios included William Brough, max Maretzek , bernard Ullman , and maurice Strakosch . These men travelled the musicians' routes, sometimes with the performers and sometimes a week or two ahead, and were responsible for renting a performance venue, arranging publicity, and engaging supporting musicians and needed instruments. Managers also made travel arrangements, secured lodging, and negotiated terms with the managers of local theaters or halls. Some of these managers were themselves performers; the pianist Strakosch frequently toured with singers, and Maretzek was the conductor for his opera companies. This style of management essentially replicated the modus operandi of itinerant theatrical stars. (...
Cell Phone Orchestra
Anne Beetem Acker
[Mobile]
Ensemble of performers using programmable mobile (cellular) phones. MoPhoO, the Mobile Phone Orchestra of CCRMA at Stanford University, formed in 2007 with 16 phones and players under the supervision of Ge Wang, Georg Essl, and Henri Penttinen, claims to be the first repertoire- and ensemble-based mobile phone performance group. Notably it uses only the phone's onboard speakers. Since MoPhoO's founding, other cell phone ensembles have been founded at the University of Michigan, Berlin (both founded by Georg Essl), and in Helsinki (directors Henri Penttinen and Antti Jylhä). The Michigan ensemble uses custom-made wearable speaker systems. Repertoire consists of scored compositions, sonic sculpture, and structured improvisation. For each piece, the phones run customised programmes that direct how they respond sonically to inputs that can come from the keypad or touchpad, the accelerometer positions, the built-in camera, or the microphone. For example, the keypad numbers can be mapped to different pitches in different modes, or to any sort of sound or sequence of sounds. While cell phones have considerable computing capability, they have limited acoustic bandwidth, but partial selection can suggest bass frequencies that are below the cell phone's actual capability....
Disklavier
Line of MIDI-based reproducing player pianos introduced by Yamaha Corporation in 1982 (1986 in North America). The Disklavier system combines an acoustic piano with an electromechanical player-piano system. As in other such systems, fibre-optic sensors register the movement of keys, hammers, and pedals during performance, while the digital controller operates a bank of solenoids installed under the piano's key bed; one solenoid is positioned under the tail of each key, with additional solenoids connected to the pedal rods. Performance information is stored digitally on CD-ROM, floppy discs (still used for many accompaniments for instructional piano material), or a hard drive. Disklavier systems can be connected to sequencers, tone modules, and computers via MIDI and Ethernet. A built-in speaker system attached to the case under the soundboard is used to play back optional digital piano sound and especially for playback of accompanying orchestral or vocal tracks.
Unlike other electronic player systems, the Disklavier is only installed in new Yamaha pianos and only at the factory. It cannot be installed in older Yamahas or other brands of pianos. Compared with other systems, the Disklavier's recording capability is generally regarded to be of the highest quality and sophistication. Of the Disklavier models available in ...
EMS (ii)
Hugh Davies
revised by Anne Beetem Acker
[Elektronmusikstudion] (Swed.: 'electronic music studio')
The Swedish national centre for electronic music and sound art, in Stockholm. It was preceded by a smaller studio run by the Worker's Society of Education from 1960. EMS was established by Swedish Radio in 1964 under music director and composer Karl Birger Blomdahl (1916–68), who hired the composer and performer Knut Wiggen (b 1927) to take charge of creating the studios. In 1965 an old radio theatre studio called the klangverstan ('sound workshop') opened for composers. Construction of a new facility was begun, but after Blomdahl's death EMS became independent, funded only in small part by Swedish Radio, and otherwise by Fylkingen (a society for experimental music and arts) and the Swedish Royal Academy of Music.
Wiggen envisioned EMS as both a place to produce electro-acoustic music and a research institution that would give the composer 'the possibility of describing sounds in psychological terms'. The studio was equipped accordingly. The sound sculpture ...


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If you own your home, you've probably thought about renting out a spare bedroom to increase your monthly income and pay down your mortgage. And renting to friends or relatives is better than finding a "random" roommate through word-of-mouth or Craigslist, right?
At least, that's what I thought. I purchased my first home in July 2013, and my younger brother moved in shortly after. He cuts the grass, cooks dinner and pays rent. I also rent the third bedroom to a childhood friend, and as such, pay virtually none of my $850 a month mortgage, although I do cover all of the utilities on my own.
While renting to friends and family you "know" may seem like a good idea, it can actually be more difficult than you realize — and if you're not careful, can do lasting damage to your relationships. Here's what I learned while serving as a landlord to my friends and family.
Communicating with friends and family is definitely more difficult than with communicating with someone you don't have a personal relationship with. I know this seems counterintuitive, but even the best personal relationships may feel strained when mixed with money and living situations.
For starters, if there's tension, you not only have to worry about clearing the air, but making sure you say what needs to be said in an appropriate way and at just the right time. While you may feel comfortable telling a random roommate "I need the check by the 5th of the month," you may not be so forward if your roommate is your baby sister or best friend. I have an especially hard time with this as I hate nagging and feeling like I'm "demanding" money from people.
Here's how I got over this hurdle: I've found it's best to set aside time to talk specifically about the issues, rather than just adding them onto the end of an otherwise friendly conversation. If you really don't want to talk face-to-face, an email can often get the point across in a pleasant, non-confrontational way. Consider what strategy your loved one will best respond to; some people may view an email as a "cop out," while others may prefer to react on their own time.
If you're still struggling to address issues directly, repeat to yourself, "It's just business, it's just business." Sure, it can be tough to have direct conversations with close relatives and friends, but you have to look out for your finances as well.
For example, if you're related to your tenant and want to kick them out, you're often legally allowed to simply throw their belongings out on the lawn. If you wanted to do the same to a friend, you'd need to initiate eviction proceedings because they have basic "tenant rights." This can be advantageous if you rent to a family member, then things get ugly and you want to kick them out of the house without the hassle of eviction proceedings — especially if they leave without notice or damage the house. You can't sue them, but you don't owe them anything either.
Paying rent and being a friend of family member doesn't mean your tenant gets to do whatever they want. Rules differ when renting a separate home versus renting out a room in your own living space, but consider what's non-negotiable for you and communicate these rules before anyone moves in.
For example, I have a general rule about not having friends over after 10 p.m. on weeknights, and I also have a rule about parking in the driveway. If I rented out a separate single-family home, I wouldn't need those rules, because they wouldn't directly affect my comfort.
Both you and your tenant should sign a written rental agreement. Having a written contract, even an informal one, is a great way to shore things up between the two of you and make sure you're on the same page regarding rent payment, shared responsibilities, move-out dates and house rules.
Once you've signed a rental agreement, stick to it, even when it gets tough. You've communicated directly, researched your rights as a landlord, and agreed on house rules. Your home is your asset and you have the right to feel comfortable with what goes on there.
These tips aren't meant to scare you. Living with close friends and family can be wonderful, since you know them well. You don't have any hidden crazy neuroses to worry about, and they can provide a wonderful support system you wouldn't otherwise have access to. When my ex and I split up, my brother was right there for me, helping me through the worst of the breakup. Renting to loved ones can also make a house feel more like a home, and be a great way to keep up with one another. Just make sure you know about the challenges before diving into an arrangement like this.
Your Turn: Have you rented to (or from) a family member or friend?
Lauren Bowling is the blogger behind popular personal finance site, L Bee and the Money Tree, a diary of her financial triumphs and mishaps. As a writer, Lauren's work has been featured on The Huffington Post, Yahoo! Finance, and Credit.com. She lives in Atlanta with her dog, Murray, and spends her free time renovating her first home and eating frozen yogurt.