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Home Energy Pros 2016-08-31T07:56:20Z Dave Conna http://homeenergypros.lbl.gov/profile/DaveConna http://api.ning.com:80/files/dy4Sl06caJWN*t2maIjRF36QAk2riAlM8fCPHKD2Faz0jrE7FlwPy8us73gmbjgDbIAsRcPkEiD*0T7f4hlwBHgiyywAjK6M/828161214.png?width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1&xj_user_default=1 http://homeenergypros.lbl.gov/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=0a1vowkwe6rp7&feed=yes&xn_auth=no Healthy Home Evaluator Pilot Exam Closes September 9, 2016 tag:homeenergypros.lbl.gov,2016-08-29:6069565:Topic:208084 2016-08-29T18:08:03.684Z Dave Conna http://homeenergypros.lbl.gov/profile/DaveConna
Malta, NY, August 29, 2016 - The Building Performance Institute, Inc. (BPI) will complete the Healthy Home Evaluator (HHE) pilot on Friday, September 9, 2016 at midnight EST.

 BPI Building Analysts (BA), Energy Auditors (EA) and Quality Control Inspectors (QCI) in good standing are eligible to sit for the HHE pilot exam. If you pass the exam during the pilot phase, you will be among the first in the country to be able to provide HHE assessments…

Malta, NY, August 29, 2016 - The Building Performance Institute, Inc. (BPI) will complete the Healthy Home Evaluator (HHE) pilot on Friday, September 9, 2016 at midnight EST.

 BPI Building Analysts (BA), Energy Auditors (EA) and Quality Control Inspectors (QCI) in good standing are eligible to sit for the HHE pilot exam. If you pass the exam during the pilot phase, you will be among the first in the country to be able to provide HHE assessments to customers.

Why should I get the HHE credential?
 The HHE credential is a critical building block and a core principal of building science based work for home performance contractors and Weatherization Assistance Programs (WAP) participating in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Weatherization Plus Health initiative. The HHE credential establishes a higher level of health and safety knowledge for BA, EA and QCI certified individuals.

To prepare for the exam
 The exam consists of 50 questions.

To view the HHE Pilot Certification Scheme Handbook, which lists the knowledge to be tested and, includes valuable references and resources, please go to www.bpi.org/hhe.

Take the HHE Exam

To take the pilot exam, please contact any BPI Test Center.
 If you have trouble locating a Test Center, contact BPI at firstname.lastname@example.com.

 Scores

Test scores for the HHE will be issued as soon as a pass score has been set, likely in late September 2016.

DOE Training and Technical Assistance Funds for HHE exam
 Weatherization and WAP individuals only
 Under the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) WPN 15-4, the HHE credential is an eligible Tier 2 training activity. Individuals working in weatherization, or with a WAP agency, can pay the certification exam fees using DOE Training and Technical Assistance funds.

Rollout
 BPI will roll out the HHE credential in October 2016.

About the Healthy Home Evaluator (HHE)
 BPI and the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) developed the HHE credential to verify the competencies required to conduct in-depth healthy home environmental risk assessments. The HHE assesses environmental, health and safety hazards in the home and provides a prioritized list of recommendations to address those hazards.

For any questions regarding the HHE credential, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.

About the Building Performance Institute

BPI is the nation's premier building performance credentialing, quality assurance and standards setting organization. BPI develops technical standards using an open, transparent, consensus-based process built on sound building science. BPI is approved by the American National Standards Institute, Inc. (ANSI) as an accredited developer of American National Standards and as a certifying body for personnel credentials.

About the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative

GHHI is a national nonprofit dedicated to breaking the link between unhealthy housing and unhealthy families. Formerly known as the Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning, GHHI replaces stand-alone housing intervention programs with an integrated, whole-house approach that produces sustainable green, healthy and safe homes. This project later became the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative directed by the Coalition that addresses the health and energy efficiency needs of a home through a holistic intervention model.

For more information on BPI, visit www.bpi.org/pros.

For more information on GHHI, visit www.greenandhealthyhomes.org.

 Building Performance Institute, Inc.

107 Hermes Road, Suite 210

Malta, NY 12020

Phone: (877) 274-1274

Fax: (866) 777-1274

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 BPI Accepting Applications for Multifamily Standards Technical Committees tag:homeenergypros.lbl.gov,2016-08-22:6069565:Topic:208304 2016-08-22T15:47:39.059Z Dave Conna http://homeenergypros.lbl.gov/profile/DaveConna
Malta, NY, August 22, 2016 - The Building Performance Institute, Inc. (BPI) continually reviews and updates technical standards used by the residential energy retrofit industry. BPI's Standards Technical Committees (STC) develop standards in an open and fair manner in accordance with American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved BPI standards development procedures. Currently, BPI is seeking applications from individuals interested in serving on the Multifamily STC.…

Malta, NY, August 22, 2016 - The Building Performance Institute, Inc. (BPI) continually reviews and updates technical standards used by the residential energy retrofit industry. BPI's Standards Technical Committees (STC) develop standards in an open and fair manner in accordance with American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved BPI standards development procedures. Currently, BPI is seeking applications from individuals interested in serving on the Multifamily STC. Interested parties should submit an application by September 22, 2016.

The STCs are appointed to review and take action on proposals and comments from the general public, with updates to the standards made on a regular basis. BPI is currently seeking to fill vacancies on the Multifamily STC, which is addressing ANSI/BSR BPI-1105-S-201x Standard Practice for Multifamily Energy Auditing. BPI seeks applications from stakeholders willing to invest the time and energy to develop the technical standards our industry needs. Prospective nominees' applications will be assessed to ensure a balance of interest categories and representation by technical expertise, geographic location, experience in the building sciences and willingness to serve. New members will be appointed to a term of up to three years.

If you would like to join BPI's Multifamily Standards Technical Committee and help craft the standards used by the residential energy retrofit community, please fill out the Application for Membership on Standards Technical Committee form and submit it electronically by September 22, 2016, in accordance with the instructions on the form.

For more information about how BPI Standards are developed, visit BPI's Standards Development Procedures webpage.

Visit Standards Technical Committee for details about the STC.
 What if more efficient homes were actually worth more? tag:homeenergypros.lbl.gov,2016-08-20:6069565:Topic:208216 2016-08-20T15:00:54.937Z Dave Conna http://homeenergypros.lbl.gov/profile/DaveConna
originally posted here

What if it was easy to find out how much energy a home uses and how much that energy costs? It could unlock a whole new market that doesn't exist today worth hundreds of billions.

According to an …

originally posted here

What if it was easy to find out how much energy a home uses and how much that energy costs? It could unlock a whole new market that doesn't exist today worth hundreds of billions.

According to an Elevate Energy study, Chicago homes that disclosed energy costs sold almost ⅓ faster (43 vs. 63 days) and had higher deal closing rates (63% vs. 53%).

Barry Haaser and Jeremy Roberts at the Green Button Alliance noted studies in Illinois and Washington DC that said simply disclosing energy costs raised average sale prices by $4000, regardless of energy use. Transparency is the likely reason for this - there is less uncertainty and friction in the transaction.

Putting a metric on energy use that is easily comparable between homes could begin to value efficient homes more in addition to this effect.

The question becomes what metric(s) is best for doing this? Rather than a laundry list, we need to focus on one or two that could fit in a 50x75 pixel box on MLS. If Zillow/Trulia added it to their listings, that could be the essential first step. I propose Energy Use Intensity, or EUI as kBTU/square foot/year. The rest of this article will show my reasoning.

Focusing down to one or two metrics forces us to think of them in multiple levels. The metric we should be looking for is top level, similar to combined city and highway mileage for a new car. That helps narrow the field of what vehicles to consider, once we narrow down, then we dig deeper into more metrics like what city and highway mileage are, horsepower, safety features, etc.

How This Might Actually Work

In the home buying process, this metric will be used at the stage right after prequalifying. For example a buyer qualifies for a $200,000 loan. What that really means is their income allows them to spend $950/mo at 4% for 30 years.

Enter an energy metric. The real cost to own this example home includes taxes ($200/mo), insurance ($100/mo), and utilities ($200/mo). So what you're really looking for is about $1450/month including all costs. This ignores maintenance costs for now.

What if one of the homes being compared is Net Zero after solar panels and a Home Performance upgrade? Now utilities are only $35/mo for meter fees. That frees up $165/mo out of the $1450.

$165/mo at 4% is $22,000 over 15 years or $34,000 over 30. That means a house with those energy bills vs. a comparable home is likely to be worth $20,000-$35,000 more than its comps. Possibly more because a home like that is likely to have fewer maintenance issues since efficient homes usually have lower air leakage rates and lower air leakage typically leads to fewer moisture problems. That's for the market to decide. Right now the market can't see energy costs, so it doesn't value them.

If we knew how much operating costs were for 5 comparable homes, and one home had double the operating cost, that would be an easy way to potentially cross one home off the list. That's what this metric needs to do.

Cost Alone Is Problematic

The trouble with cost alone is that it's very squishy. It's not a useful metric over long periods. Costs go up and down. The same house may cost $200/mo with lower energy costs, but 10 years ago when costs were higher it could have been $300/mo for the same usage. Different fuels experience different pricing ups and downs. Fuel costs aren't directly comparable either, an oil heat home generally costs a good deal more to heat than a comparable natural gas heated one.

In my opinion, the top level metric needs to be usage based, cost is a secondary metric, although a close second.

Benefits of a Good Energy Use Metric

Home Buying Comparisons - A good metric to compare homes, even of different sizes.

Home Values - Efficient homes will be valued more, less efficient homes will be devalued. It's easy to see a spread of $5,000-$15,000 coming from this.

Drive Home Performance Contracting - If inefficient homes are worth less, it will open up capital to improve them. The Home Performance industry is poised to help.

Rank Contractors - If contractors can make measureable and predictable reductions to energy use and operating costs, they can be ranked by these capabilities. Better contractors will be able to charge more because they will better be able to predict home value changes.

Reduce Lender Risk - If a lender knows a home is less expensive to operate, the odds of default will tend to be lower. Lower risk can lead to lower rates. There is some data to back this up. (I nearly lost my first home after utility costs skyrocketed, this is personal for me.)

Reduce Project Financing Costs for Home Performance Projects - If realization rates get better from HP projects, banks can better predict value changes. The lower the spread in realization rates, the lower the risk of the project. Interest rates should follow. PACE rates routinely run in the high single digits, we find interest rates this high eat up all of the energy savings. Rates nearing prime would really help make more projects happen. Rates wouldn't be lower out of altruism, the market would show there is lower risk.

If those are the benefits, there are a number of things this top level metric needs to do well.

Elements of a Good 'Top Level' Energy Metric

One or Two - The metrics need to fit on MLS listings, likely 50 x 75 pixels.

Free - No professional needs to be paid to obtain them

Actual Energy Use - No proxies, no ratings.

Difficult to Game

Bankable - In time, the metric would be considered by banks for mortgage qualification.

Layman Friendly - Quickly explainable and understandable

Raw - A raw number with no math required or transparency to backtrack to raw numbers

Granular - wide range of values, i.e. 94.2% vs. 1-10.

Adjustable - Adjusts automatically over time - the housing stock won't stay the same. HERS is locked on the 2006 IECC which limits its usefulness as a comparison. 90 may be good today, but what about in 20 years?

Comparable - Easy to compare homes of different sizes and fuels.

How does Energy Use Intensity Stack Up?

EUI (site) has all of these except the raw part. I feel it's worth the sacrifice for that one item, particularly because with only three numbers behind it - electric usage, heating fuel usage, and square footage, it's easy to figure out if any funny business was going on. Plus it has a unique benefit:

A Scale of 0-100

In kBTU/square foot/year the scale for EUI generally falls in a range between zero and one hundred. This is very similar to a HERS score, and like a HERS score, zero is net zero. A 0 EUI means either no energy usage or completely offset energy usage. EUI 100 is a bit piggish, but not awful. Explaining what 6.4 million BTUs per year means to a homeowner sounds like work. Explaining 0-100 sounds very simple.

Here is a chart of Energy Smart Home Performance's projects using EUI using the ResiSpeak tool:

The highlighted home with a 24.9 EUI is an all electric Deep Energy Retrofit for Hiram College called the TREE House. Is it possible that home might be worth more than the home at 100? (Ironically, that is my house.)

Already Common

Passive Houses aim at 4.75 kBTU/sf/yr for heating and cooling. 475 Supply is named after it. The Department of Energy has the Building Performance Database which uses EUI and has data on thousands of homes across the US. It's not something new we have to come up with. In fact, here are my projects overlaid on the Building Performance Database homes in Ohio:

Difficult to Game

EUI only needs fuel usage and square footage. Fuel usage usually comes from utility bills, so those are tough to game. We're down to gaming square footage. I propose we use county record square footages. County records have these attributes:

Publically available - Zillow, Trulia et al pull from them.

Difficult to game - They are what they are. Homeowners can't simply make up a number and put it in a calculator, although it would be good to give them such a calculator for what-if scenarios like Zillow does.

Possible to change - Homeowners can petition to have things changed. They have a disincentive to overstate square footage (which will reduce EUI) because they will pay higher taxes. Less gaming is likely to ensue.

Consistently inconsistent - While frequently incorrect, they are likely to be fairly consistently so. Plus they can be changed.

Conclusion

My argument is for two primary energy metrics: Energy Use Intensity (EUI in kBTU/square foot/year) and total annual energy cost. These are only 'top level' metrics. The raw data needs to be available so that deeper analysis can be made when narrowing to a few home choices.

These metrics can create total transparency around ownership costs of homes and influence home values, opening up a new market for Home Performance upgrades and lowering risks for lenders. Lower risks mean lower interest rates, which mean more projects make economic sense: a virtuous cycle.

This virtuous cycle can lead to numerous societal benefits: jobs that can't be exported, reduced pollution, reduced health consequences from that pollution, and an easier transition off of fossil fuels because more homes will be capable of going all electric. (We have four pre-1920 all electric homes under our belts now - one is getting solar panels this month.) There are many more benefits that could be argued for as well.

All because we started publishing a few numbers. Is this rosy? Of course, but it's probably not that far off. Chant with me: EUI! EUI!

It's not that hard to make it a reality, if Zillow and Trulia add it, or the National Association of Realtors pushes for it, it could happen very quickly. The Green Button program can be used with monthly data, making data access for easier. This isn't that hard of a lift. If you have any interest in helping, reach out!

Note on the inset picture:

This 1900 Cleveland home had a substantial energy retrofit. A 53% air leakage reduction, complete insulation package, and new forced air HVAC system including ductwork and fresh air was installed. It doesn't look any different than it used to, but it's much healthier and comfortable than it used to be. The EUI last winter was shockingly low: 10.9. That was unoccupied during a mild winter with a low set point, I look forward to seeing what it is this winter. Shouldn't this home be worth more because of these upgrades? You can read more about the project and it's "womb-like comfort" here.

Resources:

Building Science Corporation - Kohta Ueno - Review of building energy use metrics. A great overview of energy metrics. Ironically he argues against EUI, but Ueno's aim is understanding the deeper implications of energy use, not a top level metric for driving market value. Well worth a read.
 Home Performance is Failing - let's turn that around? tag:homeenergypros.lbl.gov,2016-08-20:6069565:Topic:208113 2016-08-20T14:54:30.107Z Dave Conna http://homeenergypros.lbl.gov/profile/DaveConna
Originally posted here

Home performance is failing, yet there is a large contingent unwilling to acknowledge it is failing.

It is failing to scale.

It is failing to serve consumers.

It is failing to serve contractors.

It fails to deliver on promise, and therefore fails to gain consumer trust, and thus fails to gain meaningful…

Originally posted here

Home performance is failing, yet there is a large contingent unwilling to acknowledge it is failing.

It is failing to scale.

It is failing to serve consumers.

It is failing to serve contractors.

It fails to deliver on promise, and therefore fails to gain consumer trust, and thus fails to gain meaningful market share.

David Margalit, COO of NYSERDA in a discussion about the NY HPwES program conveyed these numbers - At 6,000,000 homes, 6,000 projects a year* with essentially no growth means it takes 1,000 years to get through the inventory.

Please, can we just STOP doing this?...

Until we change the tone of the conversation from false cheer to honest criticism, we are stuck. This cowardly "fear" of addressing elephants in rooms is going to sink all of us. Things don't get fixed until there is consensus that they are broken. With that in mind, here are some links that support how Home Performance is broken:

$7 Billion Spent... Not Much to Show

34% Savings Realization in California

NY, Mass, Wisconsin all fail to deliver (p.3 under "Results")

Green Deal savings overstated

 NY Annual Project Graph; "projects dropped below 6000 (Figure 2-2)"

Want more? Feel free to browse my saved links here... http://bit.ly/TedKiddSavedLinks

HP Programs clearly don't know how to save energy, much less do it with the accuracy and precision that leads to high consumer satisfaction.

TRUST CAPITALISM - OFFER MONEY FOR OUTCOMES AND THE MARKET WILL DELIVER.

Consumer trust and satisfaction drive capitalistic markets. Unfortunately, these programs are basically communistic and administrators don't seem to understand or trust capitalism.

We need programs to stop dictating and paying for measures, and start simply paying for outcomes.

This will mean we must begin to actually measure outcomes...
 Dear DOE, PACE sucks - please fix or make it go away... tag:homeenergypros.lbl.gov,2016-08-20:6069565:Topic:208213 2016-08-20T14:50:14.840Z Dave Conna http://homeenergypros.lbl.gov/profile/DaveConna
Who thinks Energy Efficiency is having a hard enough time gaining traction due to lack of credibility and accountability for performance already, we don't need specious forms of financing further harming our efforts to build brand?

My comment to DOE on PACE - originally posted HERE:

Dear…

Who thinks Energy Efficiency is having a hard enough time gaining traction due to lack of credibility and accountability for performance already, we don't need specious forms of financing further harming our efforts to build brand?

My comment to DOE on PACE - originally posted HERE:

Dear DOE,

PACE financing is another opaque, complex, perverse financing mechanism that, like NINJA and Teaser Loans, creates short, medium and long term harm to the exact financially unsophisticated and vulnerable demographic that it was intended to help.

Pace allows people whose only asset might be their home, to tap into those assets to finance dubious investments that usually have little to no residual value. These assets are often labeled "energy improvements' although all evidence suggests energy savings associated with these improvements are usually geometrically overstated.

Pace in practice does nothing to help create meaningful wealth for the poor and middle class. Instead, by creating the appearance of credibility, it actually steals wealth from a class who can ill afford it. It is a wealth creation experiment that places at risk the wealth of those who can least afford the loss.

When compared to other secured financing, Pace interest rates are abusive. The cost of initiating financing is high and confusing, options for prepayment are complex. The only argument for this financing seems to be "look at all the sales this is creating!" This argument has no integrity. It is the same argument used to justify the bad loans that led to the housing crisis, the harms of which are still causing harm to the poor and the general economy nearly a decade later.

Here are links to two well written articles that express problems with PACE more eloquently than I can:

http://bit.ly/pacesucksMBA

http://bit.ly/PACEsucks

If we are to move Residential Energy Efficiency mainstream, there needs to be more cost and benefit transparency, not less. There needs to be on-going direct correlation between cost and savings.

On Bill Recovery Financing, securitized by the energy meter, possibly financed by Utilities as a capital asset (very low capital cost) is a much better solution. The cost and benefit are accounted for on the same bill, providing clarity of net benefits. These programs are having good success in many places (most NY utilities, Midwest Energy, etc...)

http://bit.ly/HowSmartMWE, http://bit.ly/obrNYloan

On Bill Recovery has numerous ancillary benefits beyond transparency, low cost, and accountability. On Bill Recovery allows strengthening of the relationship between utilities and their customers. This provides additional incentive for utilities to focus on more comprehensively serving the client instead of simply serving the meter. This alignment of interests and partner creation will help accelerate deployment of Energy Efficiency.

Pace financing should be relegated to the heap of "bad ideas implemented quickly during desperate times." It is a bad idea whose time has come and gone.

Sincerely,

Ted Kidd

Energy Efficiency Specialists

One Knob Consulting

 Shell Sealing Limits to Existing Homes tag:homeenergypros.lbl.gov,2016-08-05:6069565:Topic:207575 2016-08-05T17:45:13.848Z Dave Conna http://homeenergypros.lbl.gov/profile/DaveConna
What is the appropriate level to shell seal existing homes, in a cost-effective manner. Is it appropriate to target the sealing goal to current IECC or Energy Star standards for new homes or as DOE says in one publication to shoot for a 20 - 30% tightening (CFM50) level? Time and money are limitations, I could spend a week completely trying to seal an existing leaky bucket but the cost would be atrocious. So what is a good, reasonable, and cost-effective target?

What is the appropriate level to shell seal existing homes, in a cost-effective manner. Is it appropriate to target the sealing goal to current IECC or Energy Star standards for new homes or as DOE says in one publication to shoot for a 20 - 30% tightening (CFM50) level? Time and money are limitations, I could spend a week completely trying to seal an existing leaky bucket but the cost would be atrocious. So what is a good, reasonable, and cost-effective target?
 Do You Have New Windows? Please help NREL research lowering costs of window installations. tag:homeenergypros.lbl.gov,2016-08-03:6069565:Topic:207551 2016-08-03T16:55:49.970Z Dave Conna http://homeenergypros.lbl.gov/profile/DaveConna

Did you recently replace the windows in your home? If so, you can help advance research that could reduce the cost of replacement windows.

The Clean Energy Manufacturing Analysis Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory is studying the costs of installing energy-efficient windows in homes—from the cost of the windows themselves to costs for installation and labor— and…

Did you recently replace the windows in your home? If so, you can help advance research that could reduce the cost of replacement windows.

The Clean Energy Manufacturing Analysis Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory is studying the costs of installing energy-efficient windows in homes—from the cost of the windows themselves to costs for installation and labor— and we're collecting as much data as possible. We are searching for copies of actual invoices from energy-efficient window installations.

We are particularly interested in receiving invoices that break out the cost of the windows from the installation costs, but invoices that show total costs will also be helpful. Our team is only interested in cost information and wants to ensure your privacy is respected; please black out any personal information and submit your invoice to Catherine Burke. [email@example.com].

This research is being done as part of the U.S. Department of Energy Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative for the Building Technologies Office. More information about CEMAC can be found at http://www.manufacturingcleanenergy.org/

Please contact Maggie Mann [firstname.lastname@example.com] with any questions.
 IECC 2012 & 2015 Compliance & HRVs tag:homeenergypros.lbl.gov,2016-07-29:6069565:Topic:206365 2016-07-29T18:43:10.722Z Dave Conna http://homeenergypros.lbl.gov/profile/DaveConna
 I'm failing IECC 2012 with the HRVs we've been using – Honeywell . (See specs below that I entered into REM for another rating.) I'm getting error/fail messages that the fan efficacy isn't what's required.

(My REM inputs: sensible recovery efficiency 61%, 100 CFM, 24 hours/day, 106 fan watts).

I've been researching some HRVs that might, just might pass like the…

 I'm failing IECC 2012 with the HRVs we've been using – Honeywell . (See specs below that I entered into REM for another rating.) I'm getting error/fail messages that the fan efficacy isn't what's required.

(My REM inputs: sensible recovery efficiency 61%, 100 CFM, 24 hours/day, 106 fan watts).

I've been researching some HRVs that might, just might pass like the Zehnder 350. So I tried modeling THAT in this house. No go. I even tried modeling like a PERFECT HRV – 100% sensible recovery efficiency. STILL no go.

HELP! I've got projects that are snagged at permitting b/c of this. There is one thing I wonder about – these houses are BIG (5,000 s.f. or so), and my HVAC contractor says he has to use the Honeywell models to push enough air. Hmm …

Anyway, 'really need some guidance here as soon as you can render it.. Thanks!
 Foam insulation on attic floor tag:homeenergypros.lbl.gov,2016-07-29:6069565:Topic:206569 2016-07-29T14:46:01.611Z Dave Conna http://homeenergypros.lbl.gov/profile/DaveConna

 West Michigan Organizations Awarded LEED Homes Power Builders tag:homeenergypros.lbl.gov,2016-07-29:6069565:Topic:206444 2016-07-29T11:42:33.144Z Dave Conna http://homeenergypros.lbl.gov/profile/DaveConna
Recently two West Michigan Organizations were awarded the distinguishing "LEED Homes Power Builders Award by the USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council). Through this award and others, the USGBC recognizes projects, architects, developers and home builders who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and innovation in the residential green building…

Recently two West Michigan Organizations were awarded the distinguishing "LEED Homes Power Builders Award by the USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council). Through this award and others, the USGBC recognizes projects, architects, developers and home builders who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and innovation in the residential green building marketplace.

The "LEED Homes Power Builders," was developed by the USGBC to honor an elite group of developers and builders who have exhibited an outstanding commitment toLEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and the green building movement within the residential sector. In order to be considered as a Power Builder, developers and builders must have LEED-certified 90 percent of their homes/unit count built in 2015 at any LEED certification level.

One of the great benefits of the LEED certification process is that it can apply to very different projects types. As you will see with the two organizations recognized, LEED certification has important benefits to low-income houses in urban settings to higher end homes in remote settings. Both organizations benefit from using the LEED certification process to add validation to their building efforts and to ensure the homeowner is getting a quality built efficient home.

Cottage Home based of out Holland and Habitat for Humanity of Kent County were the two West Michigan recipients honored with the recognition of Power Builders. While they are in different segments of the development and remodeling of homes in West Michigan, both are setting the standard for sustainable building practices.

Habitat for Humanity of Kent County is on their way to completing 150 homes and counting in the Kent County/Grand Rapids area that has achieved some level of LEED Certification. Corri Sandwick Home Performance Coordinator for Habitat for Humanity of Kent County stated that the organization started seeking LEED Certifications in 2006 and by 2007 all new homes built were LEED Certified.

Recently, they have been one of the first builders committed to building according to the new and more stringent LEED v4 criteria even before it had been fully finalized. Sandwick said it started in partnership with Grand Rapids Community College Residential Construction Program in celebration of their 100th anniversary. The two organizations decided to try a v4 build. Once they accomplished that build, Habitat Kent decided to build all future homes to the same criteria knowing it would soon be the standard. To date, Habitat Kent has completed 10 LEED v4 certified homes.

Habitat Kent has aggressive goals in the future both related to LEED but also participates in programs such as Energy Star. Habitat Kent is also considering the benefits of getting involved in Zero Energy Ready and the EPA's Water Sense Program. Building homes that are sustainable just make sense for Habitat Kent. It sets homeowners up for success, keeps costs down for homeowners and aligns with Habitat Kent's partner organizations' principles. Habitat Kent states that by being wise about green building, they include only what will be most beneficial to families. This creates a healthful environment and drastically reduces energy and water use, saving Habitat Kent homeowners thousands of dollars. For a family of four living on $30,000 a year, reducing their utility bills to an average $105 a month goes a long way in helping them be successful in their home.

Cottage Home based out of Holland is the other recipient of this prestigious title. According to Jeremy Vaneyk construction manager, they started building based on LEED criteria in 2008 and to date have built 100 sustainable homes along the lakeshore. Vaneyk also said that 31 homes have achieved a LEED certification with 13 of those homes being Platinum certified. Building sustainably is very important to Cottage Home. Both Vaneyk along with Founder Brian Bosgraff both live in LEED Certified homes and can use their experience as builders and homeowners to help their clients. Cottage Home strongly believes it is their responsibility to build with the environment in mind. The LEED certification process provides their clients with a validation that their home is being built to some of the most stringent standards. LEED certification is one of the many tools they use to build focusing on air quality, energy efficiency and site preservation as a core foundation of the build. It is much more than a certification process to Cottage Home but more of a business philosophy.

Both Cottage Home and Habitat for Humanity of Kent County are equally passionate about green building and both use the LEED Certification process to set the bar for sustainable building in West Michigan. Their business while different in many regards is also very similar in others. They both show a strong desire to build with the environment in mind and factoring in their homeowners wants and needs.

LEED has become the world's most recognized rating system for green buildings. The LEED for Homes rating system was created as a way for single-family homes and multifamily buildings to achieve LEED certification. LEED for Homes projects undergo a technically rigorous process to become certified, including multiple on-site inspections and diagnostic tests. According to Green Home Builder, more than 230,000 single family and multifamily units are certified or registered. USGBC is working to make the LEED residential program even more accessible and utilized by builders, developers, and architects. LEED v4, the latest version, will be required for new projects certifying after October 2016. USGBC's recent Green Building Economic Impact Study found that the residential green construction market is expected to grow from $55 million in 2015 to $100.4 million in 2018, representing a year-over-year growth of 24.5 percent.

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Scholarships & Education
Edison Scholars & Other Scholarships
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Scholarships for Latino Students
Supporting Local UNCF Efforts
Encouraging Native American Students
Scholarships for Asian & Pacific Islander Students
Sustainability & Clean Energy Training & Education
Working with partners across the state, we're helping build a more energy-efficient and energy-aware California. From empowering young students as advocates for smarter energy management in their homes, schools, and communities, to preparing young adults for careers in energy efficiency, our education programs are designed to help meet California's cleaner-energy goals.
Developing Energy Efficiency Professionals (community college level)
Through education in energy efficiency and demand side reduction this training program helps prepare community-college students for clean-energy careers. Developing Energy Efficiency Professionals uses classroom learning, projects, and outreach within the campus community to promote the understanding of demand response, resource conservation, and carbon emission reduction. It's designed to help reduce operational costs at California Community Colleges, too.
Green Schools (K-12)
Starting with our area's youngest students, the Green Schools program uses integrative, hands-on learning activities to educate students about energy and its link to the environment. Activities promote energy-conservation, encourage green careers, and influence students, teachers, and school staff to become energy educators and efficiency advocates in their schools, homes, and communities. Ultimately it helps their school districts save on energy costs.
PEAK Energy Management (Grades 3-7)
The comprehensive, standards-based PEAK environmental educational program by the Energy Coalition is designed to empower elementary and middle school students with knowledge to manage energy use in their homes, schools, and communities. Through hands-on learning, students are inspired to take action to create a more sustainable world and to educate others about using energy wisely.
Living Wise (Grade 6)
This award-winning program helps build energy-efficiency skills and knowledge for California families by educating sixth graders. Eligible teachers are provided materials including take-home kit of efficiency measures and supplies for each student. A mix of classroom activities and homework assignments guide students to work with their families on home audit and retrofit activities. Living Wise is a collaboration among us, Southern California Gas Company, and water providers.

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OAKLAND -- The families of two of seven victims of last year's shooting rampage at Oikos University have filed wrongful-death suits against the school.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the suits were filed Thursday in Alameda County Superior Court on behalf of 23-year-old Grace Eunhea Kim of Union City and 21-year-old Lydia Sim of Hayward.
Defendant One Goh is charged with seven counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder in the April 2 attack at the Christian university. He has pleaded not guilty. Both suits name Oikos but not Goh, who a judge deemed was mentally incompetent to stand trial.
The suits say Oikos should have known that Goh "would pose a serious danger" due to disagreements university staff had with him. He had dropped out of the school's nursing program, citing problems with other students.


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Children's Health
Unsafe Toy List: Dora Guitar, Dora Backpack, More
Nov. 21, 2012 -- A too-loud Dora guitar and a lead-filled robot top the annual list of unsafe toys from the Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit consumer watchdog.
This year's PIRG "Trouble in Toyland" report focuses on the specific dangers: Noisy toys that damage hearing; toys' small parts that can choke; toys filled with toxic chemicals; and toys with powerful magnets that can kill a child who swallows them.
PIRG calls for more action from the government agency responsible for toy safety, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. In at least one case, CPSC is trying to get powerful magnets off the market, but so far has been stymied by manufacturer lawsuits.
The Toy Industry Association, the trade group that represents toy makers, says PIRG had to look awfully hard to find just a few unsafe toys.
"PIRG has issued another one of its needlessly frightening reports," Joan Lawrence, TIA's vice president for safety standards, said in a statement. "Most of the products on their list actually comply with the strict safety standards that are already in place in the U.S. After searching high and low they found what we already knew -- toys are safe."
The PIRG list does not include every possibly dangerous toy on the market. The list, PIRG says, only gives examples of possibly dangerous toys PIRG researchers found in U.S. stores.
Dangerously Noisy Toys
- Dora Guitar manufactured by Fisher-Price and sold at Target for $22.39. PIRG tests found the toy puts out more than 85 decibels (dB); noise over 80 dB may damage children's hearing.
- CAT Car Wheel/Horn, manufactured by Toy State, sold at Toys-"R"-Us for $18.49. PIRG tests found the toy put out more than 85 dB.
- FunKeys Car Keys, manufactured by Maison Joseph Battat Ltd. and sold at Target for $9.99. PIRG tested the toy at more than 80 dB. As the toy can be held close to the ear, PIRG says such toys can damage hearing at more than 65 dB.


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Package delivery will be on time and delivered with the most beautiful smile in heaven, now that the Lord has taken my honey to heaven. Jennifer was born in Oakland but lived in Dunsmuir as a little girl. Although she moved back to the city, Dunsmuir never left her heart. As soon as she graduated from high school, she immediately moved back to Siskiyou County. She lived in Yreka for 20 some years, but always wanted to move back home to Dunsmuir. After she retired she did just that, coming home last year. She will be missed greatly by all who knew her, because of the wonderful lady she is.
She is survived by her broken-hearted husband Jeff; her loving children Rachel and Andrew; her mom Joan; her brother Bo; her son-in-law Devin; Tina; her grandsons Dylan, Christian, Kellan and Landon; aunts Tressa and Rosalie; uncles Chuck and Jack; our sons in Yreka; and numerous friends and relatives.
A memorial will be held at the Dunsmuir Community Building in front of the City Park at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012.
"Please make any and all donations to the angels at hospice."
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What ToDo
What ToDo is a new task management application for MacOS X. Forget post-its stuck to the screen, no more ink scrawls on the palm of your hand â" with What ToDo you'll be organized, stay focused and get more done. While it is geared towards the popular work-life management system Getting Things Done, What ToDo is designed to be flexible enough to be used for your own personal to-do system if GTD isn't your thing.
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Have to agree with the other posters. $29 is way to expensive for this app. There are better freeware apps that do the same thing.
Actiontastic offers a much better deal and more effective model, IMO.
If this was donationware I would use it... but $29...
I'm putting all my tasks on iGTD. It's donationware, and it's growing fast... did I metion... it's donationware? ;-)
Attractive but pricey compared to other desktop and web apps, many of which are free. It does look and behave exactly the way I want a ToDo app to work, but unfortunately that doesn't make any price worth paying. The author has listed extensive use of open source code and frameworks, and that's what I choose to do as an end user as well. :-)
But do take a look. It's well done.


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The Department of Health report that one in ten children in the UK are obese. Obese children carry a higher risk than children of normal weight for: cardiovascular disease, bone and joint problems, sleep apnea, and low self-esteem. Obese children are also more likely to grow up to be overweight or obese adults, and therefore more likely to fall victim to heart disease, diabetes, stroke, cancer, and osteoarthritis.
The statistics are difficult to hear, but even more difficult to deal with if you're a parent concerned about your child's health. You want to help, but you're not sure how. You want to talk to your child about it, but you're afraid of saying the wrong thing. Your child's future, health, and wellbeing are in jeopardy--how do you turn it all around?
The Challenge for Parents
Studies show that parents of obese children four to five years old are often unaware that their child's weight is a problem. As children grow older, most parents feel a mixture of guilt, responsibility, and helplessness. They may feel attacked by other family members, neighbours, and acquaintances who seem to blame them, and they often feel the pain their children go through as victims of teasing and ridicule in school.
Most parents make efforts to help their children, but may give up when those efforts prove unsuccessful. The relationship between parents and children can become strained as the issue grows larger, particularly if parents try to restrict certain types of foods or implement other controlling methods in efforts to curb behavior. The whole issue seems likes a minefield where it's much too easy to take a wrong step. Fortunately, studies have found that reversing childhood obesity is possible--it's just a matter of making a few key lifestyle changes.
Diet, Exercise, and Positive Reinforcement
The most important elements in helping a child to attain a normal weight revolve around diet, activity, and emotional support. This isn't news to most parents. The challenge lies in figuring out just how to change lifestyle habits without getting into arguments and damaging a child's self esteem. Here are some tips from the experts:
- Accept your child just as he or she is. Psychologists say this is the most important thing you can do. Otherwise, he or she will feel direct or implied disapproval which could undermine all your other attempts.
- Try not to make his or her weight a big deal by engaging in lots of serious discussions or lectures. Instead, begin incorporating changes into your family's daily activities as naturally as possible.
- Realise you have more control than you think. Commit yourself to making small changes over time rather than large ones all at once.
Family Changes Mean Healthier Kids
Tackling childhood obesity is a family affair. Everyone will benefit from healthier habits, so rather than focus on just one member, get everyone involved. Here's how:
- Lead by example. Studies show one of the most important things you can do is to model healthy behaviour. If you want your child to eat more fruits and vegetables, you must eat more fruits and vegetables. If you want your child to exercise more, you must exercise more. Talk to your child about your new habits and invite him to join you.
- Turn off the television. Studies show inactivity is the most significant factor in childhood obesity. You may say that your child doesn't want to do anything but watch TV or play video games, but try inviting her to do something with you, like take a bike ride, a trip to the park, a walk around town, or a game of catch. Start small--30 minutes a day--then ask your kids for their ideas on how they'd like to get moving.
- Shop healthier. Help your child develop a better relationship with food by taking him or her grocery shopping. Let your child decide which fruits and vegetables will make the weekly menu.
- Make meals a priority. Children who eat breakfast are less likely to be overweight than those who don't. Similarly, families who eat a healthy dinner together are more likely to teach healthy eating habits. Keep meals at regular times to avoid unhealthy snacking.
- Get help. If after a few months you don't see your child making progress, you may want to consider getting help from a dietician, psychologist, or even a weight-control program. New ideas and trained experts may be just what your child needs to turn his or her health--and life--around.


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|Look at how cheap I got these chicken breasts! This is when I like to buy them, when they are on sale. I'll buy up a few packages and pop them in the freezer until I'm ready to use them.
Cut the chicken up into bite size chunks. In a medium bowl, mix together the mayonnaise, sour cream, celery, onion and salt & pepper. I usually add about 2 tsp. of salt and maybe a 1/2 teaspoon of pepper. Add in diced chicken and stir.
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VAIL - The Vail Valley Foundation's Vail International Dance Festival kick-off week has arrived, and in keeping with tradition, the festival will make its entrance this week with free community dance activities in preparation for the festival's opening night this Sunday.
Dancing in the Streets is an interactive evening of dance and movement free to the community. During these unique events, the artists make their visions come to life by creating a dance experience involving anyone who wants to participate - no dance experience necessary!
On Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., BreakEFX will give complimentary hip-hop dance instructions to Vail dance enthusiasts of all skill levels at the Arrabelle at Vail Square in Lionshead. Following this interactive tutorial, Lindy Roy and Vail Valley Dance Intensive will host an ever-popular ballet barre class, open to the public on Thursday at Solaris Plaza in Vail Village starting at 5:30 p.m.
"Whether you love to learn new dance moves, are trying it out for the first time or simply wish to come and watch, our Dancing in the Streets evenings are an exciting first glimpse at all that the Vail International Dance Festival has to offer," said Martha Brassel, the festival manager. "The festival is about bringing all types of dance and all levels of interest together to celebrate, and Dancing in the Streets truly captures that fun energy and collaborative feel."
BreakEFX, who also performed n Tuesday night at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater for the Hot Summer Nights of Dance 8150 Urban Dance Challenge, is Colorado's most sought after dance company for cutting edge urban dance performance. In addition to producing some of the state's leading professionals in performance, choreography and dance instruction, the crew is best known for their local outreach to K-12 schools throughout Colorado. Wednesday's instruction will provide Vail Valley residents and visitors top-of-class instruction appropriate for all ages and ability levels.
On Thursday, the ring encircling Solaris will be transformed into a giant ballet barre as Roy and Vail Dance Intensive teach audience members how to strengthen their muscles and develop their technique. This is sure to be a memorable evening, as one of the newest trends in exercise is transformed into a larger-than life outdoor adventure.
VVF's Vail International Dance Festival, which kicks off July 29 and ends Aug. 11, offers an unparalleled collection of ballet and modern dance, rivaling the top dance festivals across the globe. This year's lineup includes the return of New York City Ballet MOVES, the Vail debut of Martha Graham Dance Company, International Evenings of Dance, Dance for $20.12 and more. Schedule at a glance and tickets can be found at vaildance.org.
The Dance Festival's free public Dancing in the Streets events will continue throughout the two-week period, with line dancing with Lindy Roy and Chad Schiro on Aug. 1 and square dancing with Martha Graham Dance Company on Aug. 8, both at the Arrabelle.


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Visit our Titanic Centenary Commemoration section here
PHOTOS - photographs of some of the Irish on board
Profile taken from Senan Molony's book "The Irish Aboard the Titanic"
Ticket number 226593. Paid £12 7s.
Boarded at Queenstown. Second Class.
From: Gardenhill, Castleconnell, County Limerick.
Destination: 167 Paxton Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
A corset nearly got in the way of Nora Keane saving her own life. She was wasting so much time as she fumbled to put it on and lace it up that it became the object of a dispute with her traveling companion, Edwina Troutt. When Edwina returned to her cabin, one woman, Susie Webber, had already left. The other, Nora, was still dressing. Having replaced her dressing-gown with a warmer coat, Edwina dealt with the nervous Irishwoman. When Nora insisted on trying to put on a corset, Edwina grabbed it from her and sent it flying down the narrow passage leading to the porthole. Interestingly a similar confrontation over a corset is played out in the James Cameron movie Titanic. Edwina could not believe that Nora could put her life at risk over a foolish item of clothing at the height of a sinking.
The three women had been sharing compartment 101 on E deck aft. Edwina Celia Troutt (27) was from Bath, heading back to a sister in Massachusetts. Susie Webber (37) was from Devon, bound for Hartford, Connecticut. Both also survived. Edwina lived to be 100, dying in December 1984, while Susan Webber died in 1952 at the age of 77.
Edwina later recounted how their Irish companion, Nora Keane from Castleconnell, had undergone a sudden premonition that the Titanic would sink when boarding at Queenstown, speaking openly of her fears when the vessel was barely underway. It is one of a number of verified incidents of foreboding and one of the most chilling – Edwina later claimed that Nora told her she was so overcome with sudden dread as she tottered towards the towering Titanic that she dropped her Rosary and prayer book into the water as she was going up the gangway from a tender that had brought mainly Third-Class Irish passengers from Deepwater Quay.
Another member of the women's cabin had a story of foreboding to share: Nellie Hocking, a 21-year-old girl from Cornwall. Edwina later recounted how Nellie put the fear of God into Nora Keane by telling her how she had heard a cock-crow on the Titanic at dusk on the fateful Sunday. Hearing such a cry while traveling on a journey is viewed as an ill omen in Cornish custom. Nora told the unnerving story to Edwina, who laughed it off. But Nellie had not been imagining things – there was a live rooster and other poultry on the Titanic. First-Class passengers Marie Grice and Ella Holmes White were importing a clutch of French chickens to the United States.
Nora was on her way back to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where she and her brother ran the Union Hotel on Paxton Street.
She told her story to a local paper:
Miss Keane Home; Her Complete Story
Survivor of Wreck tells how Ship Sank as those in Boats looked on – Drifted Eight Hours in Darkness and Cold before Aid Came
Miss Nora Keane, the only resident of this city who was aboard the Titanic when it was wrecked off the Newfoundland banks, arrived home at 7.10 o'clock last evening. She was accompanied by her brothers and their wives who met her at the Cunard line pier where the Carpathia docked Thursday evening at 9.15. Last night she told to The Patriot all the details of her terrible experience, from the time the giant ship first struck the iceberg until she was gathered into the arms of her four big brothers on the New York dock.
'It was terrible that wreck … I felt a slight shock a little time before they came. I thought nothing of it. No person had any idea that the vessel was hurt. Even after we were told to get ready we didn't think there was any danger, for we had been told that the ship could not sink – that it was unsinkable. People had told me that it was an impossibility for it to go down. I went on deck with other persons. The officers had perfect control of everything. There was some excitement amongst some of the people but not what you would expect under the circumstances.
'Officers called out just who were to go in the boats. I was fortunate to get out in the fourth or fifth boat that left. The crew showed every courtesy in lowering the women and children into the boats. The men passengers stood back. Without doubt, they sacrificed their lives to give women and children the preference … There was a foreigner of some kind ran from some part of the ship and jumped into our boat. No one saw him go. When we got into the boat, we tramped over him for some time but didn't see him or even know we were stepping on a human form.


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Last Modified: Monday, January 28, 2013 at 10:52 a.m.
Lafourche Parish parents of students who will be in pre-K or kindergarten in the fall can register youngsters starting Feb. 4.
Registration runs from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the school your child will attend.
You should bring copies of the child's birth certificate, immunization records, Social Security card, Medicaid card, proof of family income, proof of residence/address and the parents' identification.
Parents are encouraged to register early; space is limited.
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Woke up early today to do my 65 mile loop through the Texas Hill Country just north of San Antonio, Texas. With our current heat wave here in Texas, I wanted to get out and get my ride in before it got too hot. Starting out at 8am, the temps were already close to 80 degrees. Headed north up to Edge Falls, then to Kendalia and the general store where I picked up a bacon and egg taco and some water. Then I headed north on Crabtree Rd. Here is a photo from the top of a ridge, just before the big drop into the Little Blanco river valley.
The Little Blanco River is running pretty well and there were quite a few wet river crossing.
This one was particularly long and deep but I made it across without incident. I finished up my ride just after 12 noon and the temperature was 98 when I stopped. Saturday was a hard fast ride of 45 miles and today was a 65 mile moderate pace ride. Tomorrow is a rest day. Do you enjoy long road rides?


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NAPA - The Sac-Joaquin Section Division I wrestling championships adopted a new format this year. Instead of having north and south champions, schools from both areas were integrated for Division I-A and I-AA championships, with the teams from the Tri-City Athletic League traveling north to Vintage High to compete in the I-AA championships and running into stiff competition. No TCAL wrestlers won a title.
Parise Martin of Stagg (138 pounds) and West's Amrit Singh (195) both advanced to the championship round Saturday but had to settle for second place. Martin faced Nevada Union's Jonny Callas in the championship match and battled Callas to a stalemate through most of the first period until Callas got a takedown with 20 seconds left in the opening period. That began an 8-1 run for Callas, who won 16-5.
"I came up and got high when he got that first takedown," Martin said. "And then he took his shots."
Singh was trailing Vacaville's Jeramy Sweany 4-1 late in the first round of the championship match when Sweany tied him up and got a pin in 1 minute, 42 seconds.
The top eight finishers advance to the two-day Masters tournament beginning Friday at Stockton Arena.
Jakob Schallberger of Tokay was leading Downey's Joe Camp 3-0 in the third period of the 170 third-place match when Camp was unable to continue, giving Schallberger third place and a 4-1 record in the tournament. Schallberger edged his way into the third-place match with a 5-4 win over Cody Hyatt of Modesto.
"I just tried to wrestle my hardest," Schallberger said. "And I was able to get third place."
West's Rogelio Bravo (152) battled from behind to tie Adrian Maldonado at 4-4 in the third period of the-third place match before losing 8-6 for a fourth-place finish.
"I came in here thinking I was going to be one of the smaller guys," Bravo said. "But as each match went on, I got more confidence and am gaining in confidence, win or lose."
Mitchell Selna (145) of West finished fifth, while Shan Sahota (106), Anthony Sorbera (160) and Austin Mitchell of Tokay, Edison's Philip Kilmer (126) and Daniel Chicchon (132) of St. Mary's finished sixth.
Securing that coveted eighth and final qualifying place for the Masters were Mario Mendieta (145) and Erik Stipe (195) of Tokay and Stagg's Eduardo Vargas (170).
Vacaville claimed the section banner by a wide margin, posting 302.5 points, while second-place Del Oro had 193.5. Tokay finished eighth with 73 points.
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirled Cheesecake (Happy 21st Molly!)
I didn't cry when she turned 18. One single solitary soaked pillowcase doesn't count... for crying out loud!
But today the floodgates open because the baby turns 21 at midnight. And tonight while I'm bawling my eyes out, I'll lay out her Barney underpants, her navy blue polka dotted Easter dress with matching bonnet, her white ruffled anklets and her First Communion shoes, and when she gets home from the bars, I'm going to dress her up and rock her to sleep.
She requested a chocolate peanut butter cheesecake for her 21st birthday and I made it under protest. For by making it for her, I'm acknowledging that she really, really is turning 21 and there is not a darn thing I can do to stop it.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Cheesecake
1-1/2 cups chocolate graham cracker crumbs (this was one package for me)
6 tablespoons sugar
6 tablespoons butter, melted
4 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, room temperature
1-3/4 cups sugar
1 cup heavy whipping cream, divided
4 eggs, lightly beaten
2 tsp vanilla
4 ounces semisweet chocolate
1/2 cup smooth peanut butter
4 TBSP light corn syrup
7 ounces semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
1 cup heavy cream
Reese's peanut butter cups, coarsely chopped.(I used 8 of the .55 ounce size)
1/4 cup peanuts, coarsely chopped
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
In a bowl, combine cracker crumbs, sugar and melted butter. Press onto the bottom of a greased 10" springform pan. Place pan on baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
In a microwave-safe bowl, place the 4 ounces of semisweet chocolate, peanut butter, and corn syrup. Microwave at 30 second intervals until the chocolate is melted. Stir until smooth. Add remaining 1/4 cup of heavy cream and stir well to combine
In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Gradually beat in 3/4 cup of the cream. Add eggs and vanilla; beat on low speed just until combined.
Pour half of filling mixture onto cooled crust. Dollop half of the chocolate/peanut butter mixture onto filling. Using small spatula or butter knife, gently swirl the chocolate and peanut butter into the filling. Add the remaining filling and dollop the remaining chocolate and peanut butter mixture onto filling. Repeat swirling.
Place cheesecake on baking sheet. Bake at 325° for 70-75 minutes or until center is almost set. (I baked mine for 75 minutes and I think it still could have used a few more minutes.)
Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Carefully run a knife around edge of pan to loosen; then let cheesecake cool completely before covering with plastic wrap and refrigerating overnight.
The following day, remove the springform pan and place cheesecake (with bottom pan) on serving platter or cake plate. Place chopped chocolate in a small bowl. In a small saucepan, bring cream to a boil. Pour over chocolate; whisk until smooth. Cool slightly; pour over cheesecake. Decorate top with chopped Reeses candy and peanuts. Return to refrigerator until topping is set. Store leftovers in the refrigerator
Edited 7/27: You thought I was kidding, didn't you.
34 comments:
- Julie said...
They grow up way too fast, don't they? What a delcious looking birthday treat! She's luck to have such an awesome cook and baker for a mom! Who I am guessing is an awesome mom, too!
- July 25, 2010 at 2:30 PM
- June said...
Happy BIRTHING day Mags my friend, and happy birthday to Molly! I agree that time goes way too fast and just think! Before you know it she'll be 30ish and you'll be 60 ish. Now you can kill me! LOL ps - we're home & I'm very, very sad!
- July 25, 2010 at 3:51 PM
- Alisa said...
What a wonderful post.I got a little teary-eyed just reading this post.You are a wonderful mom!I'm saving your recipe to make soon. Happy Belated Birthday to Molly :)
- July 25, 2010 at 3:59 PM
- Grumpy and HoneyB said...
LMBO, oh you got me with the McDonalds napkin....only because I have used one for the same purpose. lol. Oh, and the cheesecake? The 4 pounds I have lost would come back on in a heartbeat if that was near me. Good thing you are at least a good 12 hours away from me.
- July 25, 2010 at 5:07 PM
- Megan said...
Oh, Mags! It's stunning. Wish I could try a piece. Don't worry... I think 21 was the age when I finally started appreciating my parents and realizing all they had done for me over the years and why they had done things that at the time might have made me angry with them. I keep waiting for my siblings to hit that point. Even at 28, I still love spending time with my mom.
- July 25, 2010 at 7:32 PM
- Velva said...
Holy cow! I died and went to heaven when I saw the chocolate peanut butter cheesecake-your girl knows how to select her birthday dessert. Happy Birthday to her!!! I know it is a special day.
- July 25, 2010 at 8:48 PM
- Moogie said...
LMAO .... Mags. I'm a heartless bitch because I take plenty of drugs.
- July 25, 2010 at 9:11 PM
- Sue said...
You're too funny! :) Your daughter has great taste...this cheesecake looks phenomenal!
- July 25, 2010 at 10:57 PM
- Memória said...
Awww. I think this is why I don't have any children. I would cry over every little thing. I'm way too sensitive to be a parent hahaha.
This cheesecake looks ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!! I love the photos. They are so clear that I could almost touch it.
Happy birthday to your daughter!
- July 26, 2010 at 12:21 AM
- Barbara @ moderncomfortfood said...
Good lord, Mags, could anything be more tempting and scrumptious than this? Molly is such a lucky girl!
- July 26, 2010 at 6:59 AM
- Jennifer said...
Oh what a gorgeous cheesecake, you did a fabulous job Mags!!! Sometimes I wish my mother knew how to bake/cook/whip anything together, your daughter is one lucky girl!
- July 26, 2010 at 7:31 AM
- Carolyn said...
Looks so decadent! Mine are only 5, 3 and 9 months but I know I will surely feel the way you do when they turn 21.
- July 26, 2010 at 9:35 AM
- Mary said...
Do you think it's rich enough :-). This sounds fabulous and has gone on my must try list. You can't miss when you combine chocolate and peanut butter. I hope you are having a great day. Blessings...Mary
- July 26, 2010 at 11:11 AM
- stephchows said...
HAHAH the image of her coming home to find you with that outfit waiting is priceless!!! LOL!
And mags congrats on your first freezer jam!! That is awesome!!!
- July 26, 2010 at 12:19 PM
- michelle@TNS said...
i looked at the photo one too many times, i put on 10 pounds. decadence! this is officially On The List.
- July 26, 2010 at 12:19 PM
- steph said...
The cheesecake looks amazing!
- July 26, 2010 at 2:52 PM
That is food porn at its finest. Holy cow...
- July 26, 2010 at 3:56 PM
- Barbara Bakes said...
I don't think there are words good enough to describe this cheesecake. Just looking at it makes me want to cry. I hope it had the same effect on the birthday girl.
- July 26, 2010 at 8:46 PM
- Barbara said...
I know just how you feel, Mags. It's a shock, isn't it? One minute they're children and the next time you look? All grown up.
Happy Birthday to your Molly and she can't help but adore that delicious cheesecake!
- July 27, 2010 at 5:41 AM
- From the Kitchen said...
All I can say is "what time is the party and what is your address". Oh, and happy birthday to your Molly!
- July 27, 2010 at 7:05 AM
- Leslie said...
Aww! This cheesecake has everything I like and looks amazing!
- July 27, 2010 at 9:27 AM
- Megan said...
That is the funniest thing ever! And oh so true. What a good sport she was for letting you take the picture! (or was she just drunk?LOL)
They do grow up so fast. My daughter is 15 1/2 and we're looking into the eyeballs of a learner's permit. Soon it will be me snorting into a McDonald's napkin.
That cheesecake looks to die for. Seriously, it looks like the best of the best!!!
- July 27, 2010 at 12:18 PM
- Hari priya said...
Nice article writing skill...keep updating your blog...
- July 28, 2010 at 6:24 AM
- Sherry G said...
That is certainly one of the best treats you could have on your birthday! It looks soooo phenomenal.
- July 28, 2010 at 10:24 AM
- The Food Hunter said...
Looks delicious. Hope Molly had a nice birthday.
- July 28, 2010 at 2:14 PM
- Lindsey said...
I am definitely going to have to make this! Thanks for the great post!
- July 28, 2010 at 4:09 PM
- LimeCake said...
that is one awesome looking cheesecake! darn, now i have to wait for someone's birthday to make it
- July 28, 2010 at 11:55 PM
- Jen @ My Kitchen Addiction said...
That is one spectacular looking cheesecake! Your daughter's a good sport for posing for that picture, too... She must have liked the cheesecake quite a bit!
- July 29, 2010 at 2:36 PM
- YourTeaLife said...
Happy birthday to your beautiful daughter! The cheesecake looks wonderfully delicious!
- July 29, 2010 at 4:06 PM
- Sherylyn said...
The slice of cheesecake looks orgasmically delicious. How dare you post a chocolate-peanut butter creation so shortly after I made your peanut butter filled chocolate cake (well actually my mom made it for my birthday)...it was spectacularly decadent and I am already looking forward to having it again next year, and now look....now I have to make this one too. I think in heaven there are not clouds but rather big chocolate and peanut butter pillows of deliciousness.
- August 6, 2010 at 3:37 PM
- Alisa said...
Love the photo!
- August 7, 2010 at 6:11 AM
- Natasha Keith said...
This will be made for my boyfriends 21st it's all his favorites rolled into one.
Great photo btw! :)
- August 21, 2010 at 11:22 PM
- Best Hamburger Recipe said...
wow! what a delicious recipe! I just wanna take it taste! :)
- August 29, 2010 at 3:18 AM
- Cathy Compeau said...
Just popping in to let you know I have included your yummy recipe post in my peanut butter round up!
- March 26, 2014 at 10:09 PM


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Liverpool Message Board
Individual Errors Through 2/3rds
As I'm starting this thread, the topic applies to Spurs for that Downing goal on the error at the back..
BUT, irregardless of that, while (watch this corner go in for Vertognen again) there have been so many individual errors today that I've lost count..
Lucas has been nothing better than poor. He looks slow, not fit, late with his challenges, alot of fouls, and hasn't found a pass that could hit the side of a barn ..
Carra is a mess unfortunately. Could argue he was fouled on that 2nd goal, but he headed the ball into the ground, bungles it, hits Agger and in.. We're bad back there on these plays, and to be honest, whatever's going on with Skrtel and Rodgers, unless his form in training is truly that bad, should be put aside because Skrtel could have dealt with both goals better, being taller and a better athlete.
Sturridge largely non-existent or trying to play a one man show with too many fancy plays, and playing to make a highlight reel, rather than using the ball smart
Glen a bit sloppy, seems Glenda showed up today.
Not much from Downing until that goal, a gift.
Suarez, Coutinho, Gerrard easily the best, Enrique and Agger good, Jones not too bad. But overall, our defenders and midfield have been very sloppy for me.
After saying all that and not knowing the outcome, I think we can see improvement and the ability to play amongst the top (Spurs unbeaten in 14) just like City, but the difference is our lack of something more in the midfield, and a class CB. I really thought they way they were going last year, Skrtel and Agger looked perfect, but it's not to be, and while very slow, Vertognen and Dawson are tidy and a bit of class, especially when attacking on set pieces.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Havin_A_Red_Day_? Havin_A_Red_Day_? Mar 10, 2013 19:07 Flag
It looked to me like Gerrard and Lucas were comlpetely dominated in midfield but really I think it Tottenham playing well and making our players look ordinary/rubbish but hey we got the result and knocked them on their #$%$ which they really had coming since that 4-1 drumming at White Heart Lane last season which I was still really sore about.
Altogehter a fantastic result, great to see us win a game "dirty" finaly, could have done with a couple of wins like this last season for King Kenny but I will take it all the same.
Well done the men in red YNWA
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It is a sign of improvement when you can force a win when you aren't at the top of your game, I thought we were the better team for the opening 37 minutes then as soon as we scored they were all over us for half an hour or so. All season we have been playing well and not always getting the result, playing well and getting the result but never have we done anything but lose when we haven't turned up. Im glad, we played much better at WHL but got nothing so I think Spurs would have to agree they were probably lucky to take 3 points out of the 2 fixtures!


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Crooked Creek honoring Steve Summey with tournament
Steve Summey Memorial Tournament to be held April 6-7
Published: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 11:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 11:00 p.m.
On Aug. 19, 2012, Hendersonville's Steve Summey lost his courageous battle to cancer at the age of 60.
He was a longtime member of the Elks Lodge, American Legion Post 77 and also Crooked Creek Golf Club, where he and his brother and business partner, Jack, played several times a week.
Crooked Creek general manager Tommy Laughter is a longtime friend of the Summeys, and he wanted to honor Steve in a special way.
"We got to talking, and we figured the best way would be to hold a benefit golf tournament in his memory, so that's what we're planning to do," Laughter said.
The first annual Steve Summey Memorial Golf Tournament will be held April 6-7 at Crooked Creek. There will be a dinner after tournament play on April 6 at the American Legion, and the awards ceremony on April 7 will be at the Elks Lodge.
"We knew Tommy way before he became manager at Crooked Creek, and we're so happy he's doing this to honor my brother. Those two organizations (American Legion and Elks Lodge) were near and dear to Steve's heart," Jack Summey said.
Jack and Steve Summey opened Summey Plumbing & Heating in 1975 and stayed together up until Steve's death last year.
"We were together in business for 38 years. I miss him," Jack Summey said. "This means a lot not only to me but to the family that the community is going to honor my brother with this golf tournament."
Crooked Creek will be taking sponsorships through March 21. Proceeds will go to the Pardee Hospital Foundation. For more information contact Crooked Creek Golf Club at 692-2011.
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Defense Documents
David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial: Electronic Edition, by Richard J. EvansTable of Contents
|<< 2.2 Qualifications
|< 2.1 Publishing career
|2.4 Documents and sources >
|2.6 Conclusion >>
2.3 Professional historians and archival research
2.3.1 Historians reconstruct and interpret past events on the basis of a variety of sources. These include interviews with survivors, where the subject is very recent history; published collections of documents and texts of various kinds; memoirs and reminiscences of contemporaries; photographs, drawings, maps and plans, particularly where contemporaneous with the subject under investigation; and many other kinds of material. Most important of all are archival sources, that is, unpublished official and private, manuscript or typescript material stored in repositories designed for the purpose and administered by the state or by non-governmental institutions and organizations or in some cases by private individuals.
2.3.2 Irving tells anyone willing to listen that he is 'an expert historian on the 'Third Reich'; I have spent thirty years now working in the archives in London, in Washington, in Moscow - in short, around the world. (If I) express an opinion it's probably a reasonable (sic) accurate opinion which I have arrived at, over a period of years...'5 In researching Hitler, he claims to haveIrving argued in the Introduction to the 1991 edition of Hitler's War that other historians had been almost uniformly 'lazy' in their attitude to the sources and that therefore everyone else's work on Hitler was unreliable. 7
adopted strict criteria in selecting my source material. I have burrowed deep into the contemporary writings of his closest personal staff, seeking clues to the real truth in diaries and private letters written to wives and friends. For the few autobiographical works I have used I have preferred to rely on their original manuscripts rather than the printed texts, as in the early postwar years apprehensive publishers (especially the "licensed" ones in Germany) made drastic changes in them...But historians are quite incorrigible, and will quote any apparently primary source no matter how convincingly its pedigree is exposed.6
2.3.3 He listed a whole variety of diaries and other sources on which he claimed - without any references to back his assertion up, however, - previous historians had relied, and which he himself had exposed as falsifications. All these falsifications, he argued, were to the disadvantage of Hitler. Yet his 'idle predecessors' in writing about Hitler had failed to detect them.8 'Each successive biographer' of Hitler, he declared in 1977, 'has repeated or engrossed the legends created by his predecessors, or at best consulted only the most readily available works of reference themselves.'9 They had never bothered to visit the surviving relatives of leading Nazis to search for additional material. And they never troubled to consult the most basic documentation. In a debate held in 1978 in the German town of Aschaffenburg, Irving attacked establishment historians for allegedly simply copying out of each other's books, while he was the only Hitler specialist who actually consulted the original sources. 10
2.3.4 In June, 1989 Irving declared - without naming any examples or providing any evidence at all for his statement - that 'the German historians themselves are now beginning, rather shamefacedly, to admit that they have all just been quoting each other for the last forty five years...They have all just been quoting what each other historian has written.'11 His critics, he charged, had 'relied on weak and unprofessional evidence.'12 He himself had spent 'twenty years toiling in the archives'.13 'Who', asked Irving rhetorically in 1991, 'are those overemotional historians of the Jewish holocaust who have never troubled themselves even to open a readily available file of the SS Chief Heinrich Himmler's own handwritten telephone notes, or to read his memoranda for his secret meetings with Adolf Hitler?'14 Historians were inveterately lazy. 'A lot of us, when we see something in handwriting, well, we hurriedly flip to another folder where it's all neatly typed out...But I've trained myself to take the line of most resistance and I go for the handwriting.'15 Most historians, he averred, only quoted each other when it came to Hitler's alleged part in the extermination of the Jews. 'For thirty years our knowledge of Hitler's part in the atrocity had rested on inter-historian incest.'16 Thus Irving contemptuously almost never cites, discusses or uses the work of other historians in his own books, though he is happy enough to quote them, as this Report will show, when they write something favourable about his own researches in their reviews of his work.
2.3.5 Irving is particularly proud of his personal collection of thousands of documents and index cards on the history of the ''Third Reich''. He points out that he is 'well known for providing every assistance to and answering the queries of his colleagues, regardless of their attitude to his works', and that he has made his research materials generally available for historical study at the German Federal Archives and at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich. He has published some of his documentary discoveries, including the diaries of Hitler's personal physician, Dr. Morell, in 1983. All this adds up, in Irving's self-presentation to the court, as he says, referring to himself in the third person, 'to the scrupulous diligence for which he had already earned a justifiable reputation'.17
2.3.6 Yet Irving is misleading his readers when he gives the impression that he is the only historian of this subject with a thorough knowledge of the archives. He is certainly right to criticise those who have written biographies of Hitler. From the early (and for its time very creditable) biography by Alan Bullock through the stylish, but overblown and overpraised study by Joachim Fest, to the hopelessly inaccurate life by John Toland, biographies of Hitler have been more notable for their number than for their quality.18 Only with the new biography by Ian Kershaw do we have a study of Hitler's life that is both based on a thorough knowledge of the archival material and scrupulously careful and balanced in its judgments.19 But simply to concentrate on biographies of Hitler is to deliver a completely misleading account of the state of research on the field in which Irving works. There are hundreds of historians - German, British, American, Israeli, Swiss, French, Dutch, Canadian and so on - and thousands of books and learned articles which have treated in detail, and on the basis of the most painstaking archival investigations, the subjects with which Irving concerns himself. 20
2.3.7 The major documentary collections have been generally available to historians for decades. Already in the immediate aftermath of the war, Allied war crimes prosecutors sifted through tons of captured German documents to prepare their indictments in the Nuremberg Trials. Many of these were printed in the published record of the trials. The eventual return of the original documents, many times more voluminous than the printed selection, to the German Federal Archives provided the stimulus for a massive new research effort, spearheaded by the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History), described in the Acknowledgements to the 1977 edition of Irving's Hitler's War as 'exemplary'. Since then vast new masses of documents, both official and private in provenance, have become available. They are widely available to scholars in a variety of public state archives in Germany and other countries. This is not an area of history like, say, the fifth century, when historians have to make do with sparse and obscure source material to reconstruct what happened. Historians of the 'Third Reich' and the Second World War are more in danger of drowning in a sea of sources. There is no reason for historians of Nazi Germany to copy from each other, nor in fact does Irving anywhere present any solid evidence that they do so. This is in many ways one of the easiest areas of history to research. The British Government, for example, still keeps many documents of the 1930s and 1940s classified and bars access to them by researchers. This is not the case with German government records of the time, nor has it been for many years.
2.3.8 The training of a professional historian in Germany, Britain, the USA and elsewhere has for long been based on the Ph.D., which requires proof of mastery of all the necessary techniques of archival research and historical investigation based on original documents, and from the 1960s onwards, generations of PhD students from these countries and others have descended upon the German archives and the microfilmed editions of captured German documents available in the National Archives in Washington D.C., the Imperial War Museum and elsewhere, and produced a mass of published research into the history of Germany under Nazism and during the Second World War that is almost overwhelming. The techniques of documentary investigation in which Irving presents himself as the master are in fact a normal part of the stock-in-trade of every trainee professional historian. Of course, Irving has discovered new documents and obtained new evidence, for example, by interviewing surviving eyewitnesses of the time. But this is true of a vast number of other historians too. The difference is that normal professional historians do not make such a fetish of it. Moreover, new discoveries in this field are quite normal. Such is the vastness of the documentary legacy left by Nazi Germany - twelve years in the life of a major, modern industrial state - that much of the archival record still remains to be worked through, though the main outlines have long been known.
2.3.9 Nor is what Irving portrays as his own critical attitude to the documents in any way unusual. All historians are trained to adopt such an attitude. Of course, like everyone else, historians make mistakes. But it is quite misleading to give the impression that historians in general are incapable of properly evaluating historical documents, gullible about forgeries and falsifications, or content to accept each other's opinions on these matters. Irving is quite correct to say that it is necessary to inquire of every historical document whether it is authentic, why it came into being, and what was the vantage point of its author. To put it another way, historians need to know what were the motives behind a particular document coming into existence, so that they can control it for possible bias, tendentiousness, or downright intention to mislead. Obviously, however, every historical document must be subjected to the same critical scrutiny in this way. This is where it begins to become clear that Irving is no ordinary professional historian in this sense. Instead of observing them as scrupulously as he claims, Irving in fact abuses the professional conventions to which he pretends to subscribe. For, as this Report will demonstrate in detail, he does not apply the normal criteria of source-criticism in a consistent or professional way.
5. David Irving on Freedom of Speech. Speech at Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. October 28, 1992.Transcript on Irving's 'Focal Point' website.
6. Irving, Hitler's War (London, 1977), p. xii.
7. Ibid, p. 6; also in the preface to Hitler's War (London, 1991).
8. Irving, Hitler's War (London, 1977), pp. 6-7; also in the preface to the 1991 edition.
9. Hitler's War, 177 edn., p. xxii.
10. Gitta Sereny, 'Building up defences against the Hitlerwave', New Statesman, 7 July 1978.
11. lnterview with David Irving on Radio Ulster, 23 June 1989.
12. Ibid., p. 11 (also in the preface to the 1991 edition).
13. Ibid., p. 13 (also in the preface to the 1991 edition).
14. Ibid, p. 7 (also in the preface to the 1991 edition).
15. lrving, 'On Contemporary History', p. 273.
16. Ibid., p. 10 (also in the preface to the 1991 edition).
17. Reply to the Defence of the Second Defendant, p. 29.
18. John Toland, Adolf Hitler (London, 1976); Alan Bullock, Hitler. A Study in Tyranny (Harmondsworth, 2nd ed., 1962); Joachim C. Fest, Hitler. Eine Biographie (Frankfurt am Main, 1976)
19. Ian Kershaw. Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris (London, 1998; second volume forthcoming, 2001).
20. See for example Paul Madden, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Epoch:An Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Works on the Origins, Nature and Structure of the Nazi State (Lanham, Maryland, 1998), which runs to over 700 pages just on the literature in English.
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|2.4 Documents and sources >
|2.6 Conclusion >>


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Rhymes' eighth-inning homer lifts Tigers past Ole Miss
Published: Friday, May 17, 2013 at 11:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, May 17, 2013 at 11:52 p.m.
BATON ROUGE — A two-run eighth-inning homer by Raph Rhymes lifted No. 2 LSU to a thrilling 5-4 victory over No. 14 Ole Miss Friday night at Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field.
The Tigers (48-7 overall, 23-6 SEC) and Rebels (35-20, 14-15 SEC) meet in the series finale at noon today.
LSU's 48 regular-season victories are the most in school history, and its 23 league wins are the most in Fighting Tiger annals.
"This certainly wasn't one of the best games we played this season," LSU coach Paul Mainieri said (35-20, 14-15 SEC), "and it looked pretty grim when Ole Miss took the lead in the eighth inning, but our players continued to believe we bounce back. Mason Katz battled after being down two strikes in the count and came up with a big base hit, and then Raph followed with a blast to give us the lead. I knew as soon as it left his bat it was gone; I didn't even watch it to see exactly where it landed."
LSU fell behind early Friday after an RBI single from Andrew Mistone gave Ole Miss a 1-0 advantage.
The Tigers answered in the fourth inning with two runs on a sacrifice fly from Rhymes (1-for-3 with three RBIs) and a bases-loaded walk from Ty Ross.
Mark Laird led off the fifth inning with his first triple of the season. He then came home on an RBI groundout from Alex Bregman, giving the Tigers a 3-1 lead.
Ole Miss responded in the seventh, tying the game at 3 on a LSU throwing error and an RBI base hit from Austin Anderson. The Rebels later regained the lead in the eighth on an RBI groundout.
With one out in the bottom of the eighth, Katz (2-for-4) delivered a single to centerfield. Rhymes then connected for a go-ahead blast over the wall in left-center, giving the Tigers a 5-4 lead. It was his fourth home run of the season and his second in as many games.
In the ninth inning, Chris Cotton retired the three Rebel hitters he faced in order including a game-ending strikeout, marking his 12th save of the season.
Senior right-hander Kevin Berry (4-0) — the fifth of six LSU pitchers — earned the victory, allowing one hit and one walk in 2/3 of an inning.
Ole Miss reliever Aaron Greenwood (3-4) suffered the defeat, giving up three runs on three hits while striking out five in 4 2/3 innings of work.
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