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Calif. female lawmakers condemn Oscar host Seth MacFarlane
They objected to the comedian's focus on the physical appearance of several actresses and quips about nude scenes.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Two female California state lawmakers have condemned Oscar host Seth MacFarlane's comments during Sunday's awards presentation as degrading toward women and asked the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to use better judgment in the future.
Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal and Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, both Democrats who lead the Legislature's women's caucus, sent a letter to Academy President Hawk Koch on Tuesday, requesting that the organization disavow MacFarlane's behavior.
They objected to the comedian's focus on the physical appearance of several actresses and quips about nude scenes.
"Furthermore, there was a disturbing theme about violence against women being acceptable and funny," the lawmakers wrote. "From topical jabs about domestic violence to singing about 'boobs' during a film's rape scene, Seth MacFarlane crossed the line from humor to misogyny."
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MacFarlane's performance has drawn multiple critics since Sunday's show. Blogs compiled highlights of his punch lines, which included a song that referenced leading ladies who have bared their breasts on film that were accompanied by reaction shots from those actresses.
He also made light of a domestic violence incident between rapper Chris Brown and singer Rihanna, and joked about the heavy accents of several Latina actresses.
"On Oscar night, when Hollywood seeks to honor its best, Seth MacFarlane's monologue reduced our finest female actresses to caricatures and stereotypes, degrading women as a whole and the filmmaking industry itself," the letter stated.
Lowenthal and Jackson, both Democrats, asked Koch to respond. Academy spokeswoman Toni Thompson had no immediate comment.
In their letter, the lawmakers noted the Violence Against Women Act currently under debate in Congress and a resolution that the Legislature passed supporting the act's reauthorization. Better judgment is needed in the academy's future decisions regarding its awards show hosts and their material, they said.
"This should be a celebration of artists in the filmmaking industry, not an offensive display of disrespect toward women that sets the fight for gender equality, dignity, and respect back decades," they wrote.
A repeat hosting performance by MacFarlane doesn't look likely. Asked Tuesday on Twitter if he would host the Oscars again, he replied, "No way. Lotta fun to have done it, though."


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Cervical cancer is a disease in which cancer cells grow in the cervix. The cervix is the lower, narrow part of the uterus. It connects the uterus with the vagina.
Cancer occurs when cells in the body divide without control or order. Normally, cells divide in a regulated manner. If cells keep dividing uncontrollably when new cells are not needed, a mass of tissue forms, called a growth or tumor. The term cancer refers to malignant growths. These growths can invade nearby tissues. Cancer that has invaded nearby tissues can then spread to other parts of the body.
Research suggests that some sexually transmitted infections such as human papillomavirus (HPV), can cause cervical cells to begin the changes that can lead to cancer.
It is not clear exactly what causes changes in the cells, but is probably a combination of genetics and environment.
Cervical cancer is more common in women over 25 years old. Other factors that may increase your chances of cervical cancer:
Symptoms usually do not appear until the abnormal cells become cancerous. Then, they invade nearby tissue. When this happens, the most common symptom is abnormal bleeding, which may include:
There may also be pelvic discomfort or a backache.
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. This will include an examination of the vagina and cervix.
Tests may include:
Imaging tests may include:
The physical exam combined with all of your test results, will help to determine the stage of cancer you have. Staging is used to guide your treatment plan. Like other cancers, cervical cancer is staged from 1-4. Stage 1 is a very localized cancer, while stage 4 indicates a spread to other parts of the body.
Treatment depends on the stage of the cancer and may include:
The cancerous tumor, nearby tissue, and possibly nearby lymph nodes may be removed. The doctor may remove only the tumor and nearby normal tissue if the tumor is contained within the cervix. In some cases, a hysterectomy is necessary.
If the cancer is at a later stage, more tissue must be removed. This may include the ovaries and fallopian tubes.
Radiation therapy is the use of radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Radiation may be given in two ways:
Chemotherapy is the use of toxic drugs to kill cancer cells. It may be given in many forms, including: pill, injection, or through an IV. The drugs enter the bloodstream and travel through the body. It kills mostly cancer cells, but also some healthy cells. Chemotherapy alone rarely cures cervical cancer. It may be used with surgery and/or radiation.
This therapy may also be used to help control pain and bleeding when a cure is no longer possible.
Finding and treating precancerous tissue in the cervix is the best way to prevent cervical cancer. Talk to your doctor about when you should have Pap tests done. Another good approach is to reduce your risk of exposure to the HPV virus. There are currently 2 methods to do this:
The Pap test is used to screen for cervical cancer. It is also used to detect cervical dysplasia. A sample of cells is collected from the cervix to be tested. HPV can also be screened by testing the same sample of cells.
If you are a healthy woman, many professional health organizations offer these recommendations for screening:
Note: You will need to have Pap tests done more often if you have abnormal results or certain conditions, like a weak immune system or a history of cervical dysplasia or cervical cancer. Talk to your doctor about the right screening schedule for you.
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General information about cervical cancer. National Cancer Institute website. Available at: https://www.cancer.gov/types/cervical/patient/cervical-treatment-pdq. Updated October 13, 2017. Accessed January 29, 2018.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines. National Cancer Institute website. Available at: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/infectious-agents/hpv-vaccine-fact-sheet. Updated November 22, 2016. Accessed January 29, 2018.
Immunization schedules. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/index.html. Updated February 6, 2017. Accessed January 29, 2018.
Practice Bulletin No. 183 summary: postpartum hemorrhage. Obstet Gynecol. 2017;130(4):923-925.
Saslow D, Soloman D, Lawson HW, et al. American Cancer Society, American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, and American Society for Clinical Pathology screening guidelines for the prevention and early detection of cervical cancer. CA Cancer J Clin. 2012;62(3):147-172.
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Last reviewed December 2017 by EBSCO Medical Review Board Mohei Abouzied, MD, FACP
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

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Recently Ashley Judd spoke to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand about possibly running for Senate in 2014. Alternatively, she might wait until 2016 to go up against Kentucky Republican and spawn of Ron Paul, Rand Paul. State Democratic senator Rep. John Yarmuth says that Judd's beyond your average pompous Hollywood liberal: "[Judd] is doing all the things that a serious candidate exploring a race should do... I think there are a lot of people, and I was one of them, who wanted to let her know that her candidacy would be an exciting prospect for us... A lot of the labor unions, they were telling me that too." So, hey, Bluegrass State, the lady from Heat might be your competent future senator. (She did write a kickass feminist essay earlier this year!) [Politico]
Judd recently spoke at an Indiana Planned Parenthood event. When asked how to approach Indiana's Republican Gov.-elect Mike Pence, a vehement anti-choicer, she replied: "With a hazmat suit." [Indy Star]
Nick Lachey choked a guy at a San Diego Chargers v. Cincinnati Bengals game and called the guy's girlfriend a "fucking bitch." See, the guy was wearing a specific Chargers player's jersey, and when Lachey said something negative about that particular player, the guy's girlfriend said "Well, he lasted longer than your boy band." SPORTS!
I guess the cast of Les Miserables, still theater kids at heart, blow off steam via cabaret and karaoke: Hugh Jackman gave Amanda Seyfried a birthday lapdance while Anna Wintour watched "with a smile on her face" (shudder). And before filming, Russell Crowe arranged a karaoke night for all of them. As Anne Hathaway describes it: "You have not lived until you see something as adorable as Amanda [Seyfried] wearing a green Kermit suit rapping to Eminem's 'Lose Yourself.'" So none of us have ever lived and eventually we will all die. [Page Six, Female First]
Sarah Hyland, who plays troubled tween star Ariel Winter's big sister on Modern Family, is concerned for her well-being: "Ariel is like a little sister to me. I love her to death and try to talk to her every week at least [or] I try to text her because we haven't been working right now. I just want the best for her... I'm just trying to watch out for her. [E!]
Back in the '70s, Marlon Brando tried to fuck Barbra Streisand. "He wanted to go to the desert to see the wildflowers... He wanted to stay overnight. I said, 'No, I don't know you well enough.'" [Page Six]
- Daniel Radcliffe does not like when he has breaks between movies. [Firstpost]
- Someone threw a bra at Harry Styles onstage. [Daily Mail]
- We're calling him and Taylor Swift "Haylor" now. Sigh. [TMZ]
- Tails was also honored at the Kennedy Center by her ex Conor Kennedy's family. [Hollywood Life]
- Princess K8 Middletonia is having really bad morning sickness. [NYDN]
- Hey, and they want Snooki's advice about how to be pregnant, right? THOT SO. [MTV]
- Angelina Jolie says she's going to give up acting to spend more time with her kids. [Daily Mail]
- Ke$ha. Just like, mostly Ke$ha. [Daily Mail]
- Dustin Hoffman is a staunch Hillary Clinton supporter. [TMZ]
- Shakira's being sued by an ex boyfriend for $100 million. [E!]
- Kylie Minogue: surprisingly concerned with aging. [Daily Mail]
- Want a picture of Bey's circa-Blue Ivy baby bump? Well, you are in luck. [Daily Mail]
- Rose McGowan went blonde and kind of looks like Joan Allen in The Ice Storm now. [People]
- Model Marisa Miller posed nude and very pregnant-ly. [People]
- This would be Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs. [Us Weekly]
- Cameron Diaz and Leonardo DiCaprio are not players, they just fuck a lot, etc. [Page Six]
- Leo has also been out and about with Orlando Bloom's wife, model Miranda Kerr. [NYDN]
- Henry Cavill wears handcuffs in the first poster for Zack Snyder's Man of Steel. [Deadline]


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It is our goal to keep your mouth healthy, your teeth fully functional, and your smile bright — and we are proud of all the services we offer to do exactly that. At the same time, we want you to understand all that modern dentistry in general has to offer you. To that end, we have assembled a first-rate dental library in which you can find a wealth of information on various dental topics, including:
From a thorough professional cleaning to a full smile makeover, there is an amazing array of services that cosmetic and general dentists offer to make sure your teeth stay healthy, function well and look great. If your smile is not all you want it to be, this is the place to start. Read more about Cosmetic & General Dentistry.
When you have a dental emergency — whether it's caused by a sudden accident or chronic disease — your teeth and/or the tissues of the mouth that surround them need to receive proper care right away. It's also important to be aware, before you're actually in the situation, of what you can do to ensure the best outcome. Read more about Emergency Dental Care.
This is the branch of dentistry that focuses on the inside of the tooth — specifically the root canals and sensitive, inner pulp (nerve) tissue. When this tissue becomes inflamed or infected, a root canal procedure may become necessary. But contrary to the popular myth, a root canal doesn't cause pain, it relives it. Read more about Endodontics.
If you are missing one or more teeth, dental implants offer the comfort and security of a permanent replacement that looks and functions just like your natural teeth. Dental implants also help preserve the tooth-supporting bone in your jaw that naturally deteriorates when even one tooth is lost. Read more about Implant Dentistry.
Oral health is an essential component of general health and well-being. Good oral health means a mouth that's free of disease; a bite that functions well enough for you to eat without pain and get ample nutrition; and a smile that lets you express your happiest emotions with confidence. Read more about Oral Health.
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Bulls beat Bucks 102-90, win fourth straight
CHICAGO (AP) — Jimmy Butler and Kirk Hinrich had 17 points apiece to lead seven players in double figures, and the Chicago Bulls, despite some occasional lapses in the fourth quarter, cruised to a 102-90 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Friday night.
Carlos Boozer and D.J. Augustin scored 14 points apiece. Taj Gibson added 13, Mike Dunleavy 12 and Joakim Noah had 11 points and 13 rebounds.
The Bulls have won four straight and six of seven, and remained tied with the Toronto Raptors for third in the Eastern Conference. The Bulls (44-32) face Washington, a possible first-round opponent, on Saturday.
Brandon Knight had 22 points before fouling out with just over two minutes left for Milwaukee. Jeff Adrien added 21 points for the Bucks, who have dropped four straight overall and 12 straight on the road.
Milwaukee entered the game with just eight healthy players because of injuries and coach Larry Drew decided to play just seven of those.
Playing short-handed is always a concern against any team, but it was a special concern for Drew because the Bulls' frontline has been dominant in the series.
"They're always a matchup problem for us, even when we're healthy, because they're big and physical," Drew said before the game. "We'll just have to play the hand that's dealt to us. We'll have to do some things to compensate for some bodies being missed. We have to try to protect our bigs as much as we can because we don't many."
Really, this one was never much of a contest even though the score was tight on a few occasions. The Bulls jumped out to a 13-4 lead six minutes into the game. The lead reached double digits a little more than a minute later.
While the Bulls played well, it appeared they were on cruise control much of the way and could have stretched their advantage whenever they felt like it.
The lead was 27-15 after the first quarter and 51-35 at halftime. Interestingly, no Bulls player had double-figure points in the first half, but seven players had at least five points.
The Bucks rallied at the start of the second half and pulled within 63-53 midway through the third quarter. But they weren't able to trim the deficit to single digits and the Bulls built their advantage back up to 82-62 entering the fourth quarter.
The game appeared over, but the Bulls created some suspense by managing to score just three points in the first six minutes of the period to let Milwaukee pull within 85-77. Hinrich finally broke the drought when he hit a 3-pointer with 5:59 left to make it 88-77.


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A New York Times bestseller describes the mistreatment of black maids at the dawn of the civil rights era
The Help: A Novel. By Kathryn Stockett. Putnam's/Amy Einhorn Books, 464 pp., $24.95.
By Janice Harayda
Forty-five literary agents rejected The Help, and although that's not an alpine number in today's market, it's easy to imagine why they did. A white University of Alabama graduate has written much of her first novel in the alternating voices of two black maids in Jackson, Mississippi, in the early 1960s – as though Margaret Mitchell weren't still taking heat, 60 years after her death, for her portrayal of Mammy in Gone With the Wind.
For anybody who isn't put off by the transracial ventriloquism, The Help may hold surprises. Kathryn Stockett tells the story of a white Ole Miss graduate who returns to her well-off parents' cotton farm, cringes when she sees how her friends treat their "help," and vows with the secret cooperation of the maids to write a book that exposes the abuses. There's a lot to expose.
Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan has rejoined a world in which maids work for less the minimum wage and must wear uniforms if they attend the weddings of children they helped raise. They must use dishes and bathrooms their employers don't. And if they protest these and many other indignities, they may be fired and blackballed by women who can keep them from working again in their towns. In their off hours, they face all the other injustices of segregation, including that can't use white hotels, restaurants and libraries.
The Help falls into the category that publishers call "mainstream women's fiction" and has many of its hallmarks, such as a subplot involving Skeeter's romance with the callow son of a politician. And yet it has something rarely found in novels that have as much pink on their covers as this one does: sustained social commentary. Stockett describes the results of a silent auction at the Junior League Annual Ball and Benefit in Jackson:
"As names are read, items are received with the excitement of someone winning a real contest, as if the booty were free and not paid for at three, four, or five times the store value. Tablecloths and nightgowns with the lace tatted by hand bring in high bids. Odd sterling servers are popular, for spooning out deviled eggs, removing pimentos from olives, cracking quail legs."
That is sharper and more interesting writing than you will find in many novels with more literary pretensions, and it makes you wonder what Stockett could do if she gave a free rein to her satirical instincts. In some ways The Help resembles The Nanny Diaries, though the plot is more far-fetched and the writing less polished. Justice comes for the household employees, to the degree that it arrives at all, at scalper's prices. Students of the abuses of the Jim Crow era may find much of The Help unsurprising, but the collective memory of those abuses is fading. This novel would be welcome if only because it will help to keep the hidden cruelties alive both for those who have never known of them and for those who would prefer to forget.
Best line: The belles of The Help know that before you marry, you can never give too much thought to choosing a silverware pattern. One woman says: "Skeeter, you're so lucky to come from a Francis the First family pattern."
Worst line: The black maids often say things like: "Law, my phone was disconnected cause I's short this month." And Stockett makes phonetic substitutions in their speech but not usually in their employers'. Given that her black characters say things like "terrified a" instead of "terrified of," shouldn't some of her whites be saying "Ah can't" instead of "I can't"? Ah may be a Yankee, but ah think they might could, because ah know how often writers done been tryin' to show how white people talk in New Jersey.
Editor: Amy Einhorn
Published: February 2009
About the author: Stockett grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, and lives in Atlanta.
Mini reading group guide to The Help: 3 Discussion questions for book clubs: 1) So, did y'all think Stockett was brave or insane for writing in the voices of Aibileen and Minny?
2) Janet Maslin wrote of The Help in her New York Times review: "It's a story that purports to value the maids' lives while subordinating them to Skeeter and her writing ambitions. And it celebrates noblesse oblige so readily that Skeeter's act of daring earns her a gift from a local black church congregation." How much truth does this comment contain?
3) Erin Aubry Kaplan wrote in her review in Ms.: "As an African American, I accept black idioms as an aesthetic choice, but they nonetheless grated. Why must blacks speak dialect to be authentic? Why are Stockett's white characters free of the linguistic quirks that white Southerners certainly have? There's also the narrative rut of downtrodden but world-wise blacks showing white people their own souls, leading them out of a spiritual wilderness to their better selves. The Help has much more on its mind than that, but it doesn't avoid going down a road too well traveled." Do you agree or disagree?
Furthermore: The Help is #30 on the most recent New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Seller list.
© 2009 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.
www.janiceharayda.com and www.twitter.com/janiceharayda


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Home Performance with Energy Star - Looking Back to See the Future
United States Department of Energy, in conjunction with the United States Environmental Protection Agency administers the Home Performance with Energy Star program, a voluntary program designed to improve the energy efficiency and overall performance of homes across the country. As this program celebrates its tenth anniversary, we take a look back to see how the past might help to inform the future.
In the mid-1990s, the U.S. energy industry was undergoing significant change. Spurred in part by the Energy Policy Act of 1992 and by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Order 888 of 1996, independent power producers were granted access to larger utilities' transmission lines, and electric utilities faced the prospect of a deregulated supply market. In the energy efficiency world, demand side management (DSM) programs funded and operated by utilities were the norm, and the potential impact of electric restructuring caused concern among those interested in home energy efficiency. Without rate-based funding, what would happen to energy efficiency programs? Did deregulation signal the swan song for our industry?
The significance of this situation is highlighted in the 1996 Affordable Comfort Conference agenda. The national conference dedicated an entire track to this topic: Utility Programs—Life, Death, and Rebirth, featuring sessions covering the impacts of utility restructuring and Life after DSM. Out of adversity comes opportunity, as Benjamin Franklin once said, and such was the case for residential energy efficiency, thanks to the determination and leadership of a series of visionaries who took the opportunity to create an entirely new archetype. An industry called home performance was born.
The concept of home performance was introduced in October 1995, when then-president of ACI Greg Thomas announced the formation of the short-lived Affordable Comfort Housing Performance Association (ACHPA). This organization was conceived to "create a long-term, consumer-driven market" for home performance services, and its primary role would be to "educate the general public and policy makers on housing performance issues and to provide housing performance contractors with marketing information and support" ("Conference Christens Home Performance Industry," HE Jan/Feb '96, p. 9). "It was about helping contractors sell jobs that customers want for a pile of reasons, not just energy," remembers Thomas.
Over the next seven years, regional initiatives were launched that laid the foundation for Home Performance with Energy Star (HPwES), a program created by EPA in 2002 under EPA and DOE's shared Energy Star labeling program. HPwES strategically shifted the focus to driving consumer demand for energy upgrades. Rick Gerardi, principal at New Dawn, LLC, and former director of Residential Energy Affordability programs at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), explains that "the most important principle was to shift all of the residential rebates into incentives to meet the critical components of any successful market: Drive consumer demand using program funds for advertising; [create] access for consumers to reach a competent contractor network, which included incentives for training, certification, and start-up equipment; and [offer] robust quality assurance to maintain confidence in the marketplace." But before home performance could make an impact on the national scale, it had to be fostered at the local level.
New York and Wisconsin were among the first states to create centralized energy efficiency funds under a single statewide administrator, which made it possible to offer consistent programs statewide. This created an opportunity for innovation in program design, including the packaging of energy efficiency with nonenergy measures to address health and safety and fuel-blind program offers. Based on these ideas, NYSERDA and the Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation soon became pioneers in home performance.
Around the same time as local programs launched, BPI offered workforce certifications to the low-income weatherization industry, which were later adapted for the private market. In 2001, Building Performance Institute (BPI) introduced a Contractor Accreditation program coupled with a new set of contractor-based certifications designed for the home performance market. Early-adopter contracting firms found themselves in a position to access state-administered incentives that could be leveraged to drive consumer investment in energy efficiency.
"What set us on a path to significant revenue growth were the BPI standards that enabled us to train our salespeople in whole-house concepts, BPI certification and accreditation as a selling tool, and easy-to-access low-cost financing. While the financing availability wasn't the ultimate closing tool, it was the lubricant that enabled the homeowner to make the decision to buy easier," recalls Dick Kornbluth, then-owner of Syracuse-based Entherm, one of New York's most successful home performance businesses, now operating as part of the Green Homes America network.
Supporting the fledgling home performance industry, ACHPA evolved into the Building Performance Contractors Association (BPCA), formed in New York in 1999 and in California in 2001. Later, BPCA would be joined in representing the home performance trade by Efficiency First, the first nationally based industry trade association with a mission to provide public policy advocacy to further drive the growth of home performance.
While there have been many key influencers over the years, one group that deserves much credit for the underlying concept of home performance is DOE's low-income Weatherization Assistance program. Gerardi credits his experience as weatherization director for New York State as a first step in the evolution of HPwES. "As we got better as a [weatherization] network in understanding the benefits of whole-house approaches, we saw the comprehensive approach as fully appropriate in a non-low-income market."
Bob Knight of Bevilacqua-Knight, Incorporated, adds, "Whole-house energy retrofit programs in California and elsewhere have provided an essential initial step in moving from the traditional piecemeal energy efficiency measures to the introduction of more-integrated retrofit models with much higher energy savings potential." The higher energy savings potential and understanding of the whole-house approach energized and legitimized the home performance industry for the next decade.
More local programs increased the momentum and created a place in the market where contractors trained in building science could differentiate themselves from their untrained competitors. Diane Ferington of the Energy Trust of Oregon explains, "Home performance and BPI certification raised the overall bar of quality among our contractor base and allowed a way to differentiate the premium contractor from Bubba and his truck."
As we mark the ten-year anniversary of HPwES, the program has also reached an impressive milestone: Over 50 local HPwES sponsors supporting more than 1,800 contractors have improved more than 200,000 U.S. homes. These homes are more efficient, more affordable, and healthier to live in, because of home performance improvements.
Even with the proven benefits of energy improvements, the high up-front costs for whole-house improvements can deter customers from investments that will lead to long-term savings. "Today I realize that whole house all at once is ideal, but the reality is that [the typical homeowner] can't always afford to do everything all at once," says Ferington. And while this is a major challenge for home performance program administrators and contractors, the market opportunity is tremendous. A 2003 Harvard School of Public Health report estimated that there are 46 million existing homes in the United States that have inadequate insulation. Couple that with the Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies (JCHS) estimated 13 million energy-related residential improvements completed each year in the United States, and the need to create a scalable model for home performance becomes clear. While HPwES participation rates are rising on a steep curve (see Figure 1), there is still an enormous amount of work left to do.
Mike Rogers, vice president at ABM Energy, views this challenge as an opportunity. "HPwES should enter a period of exponential growth within the next couple of years," he says. "But this will only really happen if we learn to leverage existing transactions and motivations. The program can't change the fundamental reasons why homeowners call people out to their homes, or what drives their buying decisions. If we can tap into these core drivers, we'll succeed. If we ignore them, we'll fail." And with over $28.5 billion spent on energy-related home improvements annually (per JCHS), consumers are investing money in improving their homes in spite of a down economy. The key will be leveraging the opportunity presented by trades-based work that is already happening to create pathways that are manageable for homeowners to improve their homes over time as budgets and other constraints allow.
John Tooley of Advanced Energy describes one aspect of a successful home performance business. "I envision a day when customer success will be valued higher than what we think they need. A program that focuses on what customers want, and delivers that, will succeed in selling them what they need. Deliver what will make them high-five you when you leave. If I want tires for my car and you try to sell me a tune-up, you are sales focused and not customer focused. Excellent service and customer experience with the tires will keep me coming back."
As HPwES enters its second decade, the program looks forward to building upon the existing foundation (see "HPwES Historic Timeline"). "We are indebted to the determination and vision of those industry players who understood the opportunity for home performance and brought it to reality," says Ely Jacobsohn, DOE's program manager for HPwES. "As HPwES and the home performance industry continue to mature, we look forward to working with old and new partners alike to advance and expand HPwES with clarity, innovation, and quality."
Future success will largely depend on how industry leaders and local programs address the challenges of continuing operations without American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding, educating homeowners about the benefits of home performance, listening to the many voices and perspectives of home performance stakeholders, and creating an environment where competition among local participants can be transformed into collaboration. "There is a need for broader discussion and consensus in developing the advanced strategy and programs needed. Facing the limitations of reality, not every recommendation can be successfully achieved—but all must be considered and attempted," says Knight.
Rogers suggests another solution for long-term success. "If we truly want HPwES to scale, we must standardize the approach. We need software that can communicate across platforms… We need to get industrywide agreement on what an audit, quality installation, test-out, and quality inspection look like. And unless the price of energy increases, we need to accept the fact that most of the time, energy efficiency is the happy by-product of delivering things like comfort, improved aesthetics, and simpler home maintenance."
Offering another perspective on scalability, Gerardi predicts, "Advancing a true performance path by adopting an investment grade standard to monetize energy savings to an actuarial level will create the market-based underpinnings for the next iteration of HPwES."
Thomas believes that success will depend on the utilities' support of local programs. In his opinion, "utilities need to support and not hinder programs. We need more standardization so companies can invest and grow. We need longer-term program incentive stability, cost-effectiveness tests changed to work with whole-house programs, data flow made more efficient, and feedback mechanisms so we can improve savings performance."
2010's proposed Home Star legislation (HR 4230, S1914) would have created clearly defined federal incentives for home performance, stimulating rapid expansion of the market. Thanks to a mighty effort on the part of a wide and varied group of stakeholders, this proposed law left a lasting legacy in spite of failing to pass in the Republican-led House. The idea of home performance as a vehicle for both public and private market growth of residential energy efficiency is no longer a secret. From the halls of Congress to the White House, home performance made its way into the vernacular for our policy makers.
Fortunately, Congress and the utilities have not been the only ones talking about home performance. Movements are afoot in the retail, manufacturing, real estate, and financing sectors to formalize their participation in home performance. The promise of greater standardization and clarity sparked interest from these sectors because they saw home performance work as a potential source of revenue, and because the existing-homes market is ready to engage in home performance.
Meanwhile, market players from a variety of sectors established new resources and program opportunities to support the continued growth of the home performance industry. In response to the new-construction downturn, RESNET returned to its original existing-homes roots by establishing its own contractor-based credentialing program geared specifically to the retrofit market. Air Conditioning Contractors of America, whose HVAC-related standards have long been cited as a gauge of quality in residential retrofit programs, has established a firm commitment to home performance by joining forces with RESNET and introducing new standards based on a whole-house approach. In addition, the Laborers International Union of North America has thrown its support behind several home performance-based federal and state energy efficiency initiatives and now offers career path training for workers in the industry.
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As we look ahead, efforts are under way to develop tools and resources that will support greater consistency in assessments; data collection and transfer; quality assurance; workforce training and certification; and program administration. These efforts, combined with industry wide innovation, make one thing certain: As the home performance industry continues to evolve, if we remain true to the original vision we can change the way consumers think about their houses and make a lasting impact on the performance of our nation's homes.
This article is part of a series sponsored by Home Performance with Energy Star, jointly managed by the U.S. Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency. The opinions, views, and ideas expressed within this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any agency of the U.S. government.
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0036: Print "Bouquet de Reves Pour Neila" Joan MiroEst. $3,600-$3,700See Sold Price
0037: Willem De Kooning - UntitledEst. $100,000-$150,000See Sold Price
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0041: Wassily Kandinsky - Composition IIIEst. $50,000-$55,000See Sold Price
0042: Framed Lithograph Henri MatisseEst. $7,500-$8,000See Sold Price
0043: Oil Painting on Canvas Leonora CarringtonEst. $250,000-$275,000See Sold Price
0044: Giclee "Burano 2" Kris PetersonEst. $1,800-$2,000See Sold Price
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0046: Print "Album" Joan MiroEst. $3,500-$3,600See Sold Price
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0048: Giclee on Canvas Marc ChagallEst. $3,200-$3,400See Sold Price
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The Texas car chase started when a sheriff's deputy in Montague County, James Boyd, tried to pull over the Cadillac around 11 a.m. Thursday, authorities there said. They wouldn't say exactly why he was stopped, but called it routine.
The driver opened fire on Boyd, wounding him, Wise County Sheriff David Walker said at an afternoon news conference in Decatur. He then fled south before crashing into a semi as he tried to elude his pursuers.
After the crash, he got out of the vehicle, shooting at deputies and troopers who had joined the chase. He shot at Decatur Police Chief Rex Hoskins four times as the chief tried to set up a roadblock.
"He wasn't planning on being taken alive," Hoskins said.
Boyd, the deputy who was shot, was wearing a bulletproof vest and was at a Fort Worth hospital, authorities said. Officials had said he wasn't seriously injured but later said his condition was unknown.
The car is so far the main link authorities have given between the Colorado case and the Texas shootout. El Paso County sheriff's investigators have been looking for a dark, late-model car, possibly a Lincoln or a Cadillac, that a neighbor spotted near Clements' home around the time of the shooting.
"We don't know yet exactly whether this is the guy," Gov. John Hickenlooper told reporters Thursday afternoon. "There's some indication. I hope it is."
El Paso County sheriff's officials did not return repeated messages Thursday. In a statement, Lt. Jeff Kramer said investigators will inspect evidence in Texas and would need crime lab analysis before they're able to determine whether the suspect is linked to Clements' shooting.
"These efforts take time," Kramer said.
Other links between Ebel and the Colorado killings aren't clear. Legal records show he was convicted of several crimes in Colorado dating back to 2003, including assaulting a prison guard in 2008. He apparently was paroled, but Colorado Department of Corrections spokeswoman Alison Morgan said she could not release information on prisoners because of the ongoing investigation into Clements' death.
Scott Robinson, a criminal defense attorney and media legal analyst, represented Ebel in 2003 and 2004. He said Ebel had been sentenced to a halfway house for a robbery charge in 2003 before he was accused in two additional robbery cases the following year that garnered prison sentences of three and eight years.
"I thought he was a young man who was redeemable, otherwise I wouldn't have taken the case," Robinson said, saying he didn't recall the details of the case.
Robinson said he knew Ebel before he got in trouble. He said Ebel was raised by a single father and had a younger sister who died in a car accident years ago.
Clements came to Colorado in 2011 after working three decades in the Missouri prison system. Missouri Department of Corrections spokeswoman Mandi Steele said Thursday the department was ready to help in the probe if asked.
"Tom regularly commented that corrections is inherently a dangerous business, and that's all that I'll say," Morgan, who worked closely with Clements, said earlier.
Officials in positions like Clements' get a deluge of threats, according to people who monitor their safety. But it can be hard sorting out which ones could lead to violence. A U.S. Department of Justice study found that federal prosecutors and judges received 5,250 threats between 2003 and 2008, but there were only three attacks during that time period.
The last public official killed in Colorado in the past 10 years was Sean May, a prosecutor in suburban Denver. An assailant killed May as he arrived home from work. Investigators examined May's court cases, but the case remains unsolved.
Banda reported from Denver. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Nicholas Riccardi, Colleen Slevin and Ivan Moreno in Denver, and Jordan Shapiro in Jefferson City, Mo.


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The International Federation of Sport Climbing has announced that speed climbing and bouldering will now join lead climbing in the bid for the 2020 Olympic Games.
The International Federation of Sport Climbing has announced that speed climbing and bouldering will now be included in the bid for the 2020 Olympic Games. Originally, just lead climbing was considered for the 2020 Olympics, however, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) suggested that bouldering and speed climbing also be included in the bid after evaluating the 2012 Climbing World Championships in Paris where all three disciplines were featured. The announcement was made on March 9, at the IFSC Plenary Assembly in Shanghai. All three disciplines are now short listed for inclusion in the 2020 games along with baseball/softball, karate, roller sports, wrestling, squash, wakeboarding and wushu.
"Climbing represents one of the basic human motor skills yet to be represented in the Olympic Games," said IFSC President Marco Scolaris. "Climbing is not an add-on or a variant of an existing sport already in the program, and does not overlap with any other discipline. Climbing means opening the window to the great outdoors and rounding out the Olympic Games with something that is clearly missing."
The IFSC will present all three climbing disciplines to the IOC Executive Committee in St. Petersburg, Russia this May. The IOC will then decide which of the eight short-listed sports will make the cut.
"We are at a turning point in sport climbing history with sport climbing short-listed for the 2020 Olympic Games," said Scolaris. "Each one of us must work towards the success of our bid."
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Liberty Island remains closed after superstorm
NEW YORK (AP) — The Statue of Liberty survived superstorm Sandy with every crown spike in place, but its surrounding island was so badly damaged that the National Park Service doesn't know when the beloved tourist attraction will reopen or how much repairs will cost.
A tour of Liberty Island yesterday showed broken railings, torn-up paving stones, damaged equipment and flood-wrecked buildings.
The storm destroyed boilers, sewage pumps and electrical systems, said David Luchsinger, the superintendent of the Statue of Liberty and the neighboring Ellis Island.
"Our entire infrastructure on both islands, both Liberty Island and Ellis Island, was underwater," he said.
Luchsinger estimated that 75 percent of Liberty Island's 12 acres was flooded, with water as high as 8 feet. The water would have been chest-high on the plaza that visitors cross en route from the ferry to the statue itself, he said.
Days after the storm, there was a controlled detonation of explosives on Ellis Island.
Park Service spokesman Mike Litterst said the explosives were stored there to train bomb-sniffing dogs. They were compromised by the storm and had to be destroyed.
The Oct. 29 storm occurred one day after the Statue of Liberty's 126th birthday and the grand reopening of the crown — though the park was closed at the time in advance of the storm. The crown had been closed for a year for a $30 million upgrade to the monument's fire alarms, sprinkler systems and exit routes.
The rest of the statue was open during that year and had 3.7 million visitors last year, making it the 19th most-visited national park in the nation.
Luchsinger said Sandy did not damage any of the work completed during the renovation.
"I can tell you that if you walked in there today it would look like we just reopened it," he said. "Not one dime of it was lost."
Historical artifacts on Ellis Island also survived intact, Luchsinger said.
Luchsinger evacuated ahead of the storm and returned Oct. 30, when Liberty Island was covered with mud and debris. Hundreds of National Park Service workers from as far away as California and Alaska have spent the past month cleaning the island and assessing the damage.
Yesterday's tour showed there is much still to be done. The main passenger dock was splintered but usable yesterday, while an auxiliary dock in back of the island was in pieces. Generators are supplying most power on the island, though one working transformer lights the statue itself.
A water line several feet high marked the walls, and dried seaweed was still stuck in the chain-link fence.
Luchsinger, 62, has lived on Liberty Island with his wife during his 3½ years as superintendent. But no more. The storm blew the doors and windows out of the low-slung brick house, and the couple lost almost everything they owned.
"I had a digital grand piano in there," Luchsinger said. "I had a whole bunch of stuff. I had a couple of my mother's antique Tiffany lamps. ... The water was about 4½ to 5 feet."
The house and adjoining staff buildings behind the statue will probably be razed and not rebuilt, Luchsinger said.


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Secretary of state faints, sustains concussion
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WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who skipped an overseas trip this past week because of a stomach virus, sustained a concussion after fainting, the State Department said Saturday.
The 65-year-old Clinton, who's expected to leave her job soon, was recovering at home after the incident last week and is being monitored by doctors, according to a statement by aide Philippe Reines.
No further details were immediately available.
President Barack Obama telephoned his top diplomat Saturday to wish her well, a White House official said.
The State Department said Clinton was dehydrated because of the virus, fainted and sustained a concussion. She will continue to work from home in the week ahead and looks forward to returning to the office "soon," the statement said.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee said it won't hear from Clinton as planned at a Thursday hearing into the Sept. 11 attack against a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador. The House Foreign Affairs Committee also said Clinton would no longer give scheduled testimony at its hearing Thursday on Libya.
Senior State Department officials William Burns and Thomas Nides are to take Clinton's place at both hearings.
Clinton's aides on Saturday informed the Senate committee chairman, Sen. John Kerry, about her health, and the Massachusetts Democrat "insisted that given her condition, she could not and should not appear" as planned, said Kerry spokeswoman Jodi Seth. Obama is expected to nominate Kerry to succeed Clinton.
Clinton backed out of a trip to North Africa and the Persian Gulf on Monday because she was sick. She caught the virus during a recent visit to Europe.
The former first lady is known for her grueling travel schedule and is the most traveled secretary of state, having visited 112 countries while in the job.
Associated Press writer Jim Kuhnhenn contributed to this report.
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In the first two parts of this series, we explored the logic behind citing a publication and a webpage. You can read these articles here:
Derivative sources such as books and webpages, however, are among the easiest citations to get "right." Far more difficult are the original sources that make up the bulk of our research.
For this example, we will use a U. S. federal census record. After all, census records are often the most-used of all genealogical sources, as a general record group. So that you can all see what record I am citing, I have included a link to an image of the 1860 census page containing my 3 x great-grandfather, Calvin Hait: http://www.footnote.com/image/#87912598 If you do not have a paid subscription to Footnote.com, you can sign up for a free 7-day trial to view this image. The image is also available on Ancestry.com. The free index entry on FamilySearch.org (while not the image) is available using the following short link: http://bit.ly/muMV9U
In order to cite a record using the correct format, it is necessary to understand why the citation is organized in the manner in which it is organized.
If I am citing the 1860 census record for Calvin Hait, I must ask myself: what exactly am I citing?
- When citing a book, you are in actuality citing the book's author, as published in the book. This does not apply to a manuscript record, which has no author. What you are citing is the record itself.
- In order to cite the federal census, you would start with the title, in precisely the same way that you would cite a book with no author. Unlike a book, which is known by a specific title, this record set does not bear a specific title, so you would not use italics. The title is a descriptive name for the record group.
- The 1860 U. S. Census, as microfilmed by the National Archives and Records Administration (microfilm publication M653), contains 1,438 rolls. Obviously, we need to be more specific in our citation than this. The key is to understand how the census is organized. As you can see by referring to the descriptive pamphlet for M653, available online at the NARA website, the 1860 U. S. Census is organized by county. So the next element that needs to be included is the county and state.
- Within each state, the census is further organized by schedule. For each state, the population schedule for each county appears first, followed by the slave schedule for each county. This manner of organization dictates the specification of the schedule next.
- What we have recorded to this point are the specifics to the record subset that we are using. We now have to get more specific as to the entry. In keeping with the general form of citations, proceeding from the largest group (i.e. the author) to the smallest group (i.e. the specific book, then the page number), we will proceed from the largest unit to the smallest unit, increasing in specificity as the citation continues.
- When you look at the specific page on which your record appears, you see a field at the top that provides the name of the town or municipality. This would be the next element in the citation. Following this would be the name of the post office, provided on the last line of the header.
- The 1860 census also includes a field for a specific page number, so you would include this page number as well. Then on the page, each household is identified by both a dwelling number and a family number. All of these would be included in your citation.
- Finally, for clarity's sake, you will want to also specify the name(s) of the person or people that you are specifically examining. In most cases, this would be the entire household.
So, here is the first part of the citation for the 1860 census record for Calvin Hait:
1860 U. S. Census, Suffolk County, New York, population schedule, Town of Brookhaven, Patchogue post office, page 115, dwelling 877, family 920, Calvin Hait household …
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Retrofitting the White House?
We would like to think that Bill and Hillary Clinton read the Home Energy editorial advising them to retrofit the White House (see Dear Bill Clinton, Mar/Apr '93, p.2). In any event, the first step toward retrofits is underway. The Clinton Administration is proceeding in the most reasonable fashion. Already an energy audit of the White House has been completed.
There won't be an overnight conversion of the White House. First, the building really should be called the White Office because it is filled with computers, photocopy machines, and (of course) paper shredders. Most of the energy is probably consumed by these appliances and not the standard refrigerators, lights, and hot tubs. The retrofit will necessarily be complex and require an unusual range of talents. For those into UA calculations, try calculating the heat loss from an oval office. [Most auditors must strain to calculate U (thermal conduction) x
The White House is also a registered historical landmark. This means any change must conform to all those landmark rules and regulations. One item that will certainly be complicated are window improvements since these could alter the White House's exterior appearance.
Nevertheless, the White House probably has its share of modern era inefficient refrigerators, incandescent lights, and uninsulated walls just waiting to be replaced or retrofitted.
Everybody will want to get involved in this project, from government agencies to local utilities, not to mention private energy service companies. This is sure to create a logistical nightmare. Indeed, the audit was conducted by the White House Office on Environmental Policy with representatives from the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, the General Services Administration, and the Department of Interior. The American Institute of Architects is also participating. The audit team will report their findings and recommendations in October. Home Energy will report on progress of the audit and retrofits of the White House in a future issue.
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