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Take control of your asthma
Tap the benefits of education and an asthma action plan
By Nicholas J. Kenyon, M.D. and Samuel Louie, M.D.
Every asthma sufferer knows that spring and summer are the seasons to be wheezing.
Asthma and allergies strike one out of four Americans, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. Asthma incidence in both children and adults has increased over the past 25 years. The disease is particularly prevalent in California's Central Valley, where our warm air holds a high concentration of pollens and air pollutants, common triggers for asthma attacks. However, many asthma patients suffer from uncontrolled symptoms throughout the year.
Drs. Louie and Kenyon are pulmonologists with UC Davis Medical Group and co-directors of the UC Davis Asthma Network (UCAN).
Asthma develops in children and adults through several mechanisms, all of which cause the airways to work less effectively and make breathing difficult. The first mechanism is a spasm or contraction of the muscles surrounding the airways (bronchi) that bring air containing oxygen into the lungs. This "bronchospasm" causes the airway passages to narrow, making breathing hard work.
Secondly, the skin or lining of the bronchi and other air passages become inflamed, swollen and irritated, further limiting airflow in and out of the lungs. To add insult to injury, mucus clogs the already-narrowed airways to an even greater degree.
Asthma attacks
Try to stay calm: excitement will exacerbate an attack.
Go immediately to an emergency room or call 911 if the attack worsens despite the use of rescue albuterol, or if any of these signs and symptoms appear:
- Too exhausted to speak — a late and dangerous sign suggesting total exhaustion and lack of sleep
- Grunting sound during exhalations
- Any mental changes, including restlessness or confusion — a late and dangerous sign suggesting poor oxygen delivery to the brain
- Bluish skin, lips or fingernails — very late and dangerous signs
When asthma is not well controlled, it impairs patients from enjoying sleep and exercise. Living well stops and patients begin depending on their albuterol inhaler, a very short-acting bronchodilator. More importantly, they are at increased risk for a serious asthma attack.
An asthma attack makes a person feel a need to fight for each breath. Attacks almost always involve rapid and difficult breathing, wheezing (a breathy whistle or accordion-like noise), coughing without fever, chest tightness, and a relatively long expiration with each breath. This leads to "air-trapping" inside the lungs, a situation that we call "acute air constipation" to better explain to patients and their families what happens during an asthma attack. In turn, uncontrolled asthma can lead to chronic air constipation. A few asthmatics do not have the characteristic wheezing with asthma attacks, but instead have a persistent cough as their only symptom.
The good news is virtually all asthma symptoms can be better controlled with patient education and an asthma action plan.
'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' of asthma control
Asthma control is determined by the patient's impairment from having uncontrolled asthma, and the physician or health-care provider's assessment of risk for an asthma attack. Asthma control is a dynamic state of health and is either well-controlled or "good," not well-controlled/"bad," or very poorly controlled/"ugly" depending on many variables and factors, including responsiveness to medications.
Asthma is not well controlled if you experience:
- More than two days of asthma symptoms per week;
- Wake up at night more twice per month with asthma symptoms;
- More than two days per week needing albuterol for relief of symptoms; or
- Two or more acute asthma attacks per year requiring prednisone.
Asthma usually worsens for most asthma sufferers, at night. This is believed to be due to our body's natural circadian rhythm. Hormones we make that help asthma, such as cortisol and epinephrine, are low during sleeping hours, causing bronchial inflammation to increase.
Your provider must listen
Most asthma sufferers are aware of circumstances that bring on their attacks. This is why healthcare professionals must LISTEN to patients and their family members.
Most asthma sufferers are aware of circumstances that bring on their attacks. This is why healthcare professionals must LISTEN to patients and their family members. Children and adults can take a personalized written asthma control test to help recognize uncontrolled asthma.
Strenuous exercise or cold air, or triggers such as perfumes, aspirin, animals (especially cats and even dogs), or foods such as nuts or eggs can lead to an asthma attack. Environmental triggers such as dust mites and pollens or urban air pollution like smog may be so pervasive that they are difficult to avoid. The majority of people can control their asthma well until they get sick with something else, such as a cold or flu.
Asthma patients must actively participate in their asthma management. The best treatment for asthma attack is PREVENTION! Prevent asthma attacks with common sense and medications that work for your individual asthma.
Common sense is not common
For patients with severe asthma that does not always respond to medication, an option may be an outpatient treatment known as bronchial thermoplasty, which removes portions of tissue in the lungs that constrict during an asthma attack.
There is no cure for asthma. Medications for controlling asthma will not work if patients do not take them as directed and daily.
Albuterol is a rescue medication. When asthma is controlled, a single canister of albuterol should last over one year! Albuterol relieves asthma symptoms temporarily. Patient must recognize that albuterol cannot control asthma and continued use may delay proper treatment that can prevent an asthma attack, an emergency room visit, hospitalization and even death.
Treatment must be carefully tailored to each patient's needs. Asthma medications can be divided into "rescue" and "control" categories; some are best once symptoms have started and others are better for good overall symptom control and asthma attack prevention.
The most effective asthma control drugs remain inhaled corticosteroids, which are preferred by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for treating persistent asthma symptoms. The preferred add-on asthma control drugs to inhaled corticosteroids are called long-acting beta-2 agonists (LABA) according to the NIH, however, the Food and Drug Administration announced new safe use warnings for LABAs in February 2010. Specifically, LABAs should only be used in combination with an asthma controller drug, such as an inhaled corticosteroid; LABAs should not be used alone. These drugs remain highly effective when the individual patient responds with better asthma control, and safe when used properly. This is the reason for regular clinic visits every one to six months once the patient achieves asthma control.
Alternative controller drugs called leukotriene receptor antagonists act by blocking the action of certain mediators derived from lipids or fats — called leukotrienes — that promote the inflammatory response.
Demand better control of your symptoms
We encourage our asthma patients in our UC Davis Asthma Network or "UCAN" clinics to participate actively in their asthma care and to demand better control of their asthma symptoms.
Control of asthma is particularly important during pregnancy. Accompanying conditions such as gastroesophageal reflux, chronic rhinosinusitis, and vocal cord dysfunction in asthma patients can make asthma control difficult to achieve.
The key is balancing common sense with a healthy lifestyle, regular exercise and regular visits to the doctor to make certain the patient using the written asthma action plan controls asthma.
About the UC Davis Asthma Network
For more information or to take an asthma control test, contact UCAN Program Coordinators Claudia Vukovich, RRT, AE-C at 916-734-5676 or Celeste Kivler, RRT, AE-C at 916-734-8380, or ask your doctor or primary care provider.
Program coordinators can also provide information about UCAN Clinic appointments, asthma education, enrollment into asthma clinical trials at UC Davis, information regarding the UCAN Xolair® Clinic, the UCAN Quit Smoking Clinic and the UCAN Bronchial Thermoplasty Clinic for the most difficult-to-control asthma patients.


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The oceans are the source of all life on earth, and every day, they continue to nurture us. They provide half the oxygen we breathe. They regulate our climate and our rainfall. They give us a bounty of seafood; they revitalize us with their beauty and their splendor.
All around the world, our oceans are in crisis. Our appetite for fish is threatening to overwhelm the ocean's ecology, while the slaughter of whales and industrial fishing methods are destroying endangered species.
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In 2011, Greenpeace activists projected an animation which read "Ministry of Fisheries Be A Responsible Player" in Korean, showing the trail of Pacific tuna destruction onto the offices of Sajo Industries in Busan, South Korea. The animation highlighted the roles of Korean companies such as Sajo in the decline of Pacific tuna stocks and the indiscriminate killing of thousands of sharks, turtles and other marine life as unwanted by catch. Busan city is home to South Korea's distant water fishing fleet.
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Students should plan their course work carefully when they begin their Perkins degree program in order to complete the courses recommended in preparation for internship. Master of Divinity candidates who expect to do a full-time internship as the final piece of their degree program may wish to plan to complete all other academic requirements before the internship begins. Students doing the part-time model usually plan to take additional course work during the internship.
Learning on internship is a priority. All students should plan ahead so that courses, employment, and life situations allow space for this priority on internship. The Intern faculty can help Master of Divinity students decide whether the full-time or part-time internship model offers the best learning potential given their particular circumstances.
LONG-DISTANCE INTERNSHIPS: Students who hope to do internship outside the immediate five-state area (Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Oklahoma) should initiate an early conversation with an Intern Faculty member, preferably in their first year at Perkins, in order to allow time to arrange an optimal internship. If a placement in the desired area is not confirmed by the deadline of January 15 of the calendar year in which the internship will begin, the Intern Faculty will assist the student to explore other options.
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South American exploration … Crystal Cruises' Serenity. Jewel-class … the Norwegian Jade.
AS THE summer cruising season Down Under kicks off, many will be thinking about planning their next high-seas holiday. And for those with enough time and money to spare, a longer stint at sea is appealing.
World cruises and grand voyages lasting from 40 days to more than 100 days are a throwback to the age of the great ocean liners, when travel between continents involved many days at sea and unusual ports of call. Today more cruise lines, particularly at the luxury end, are adding them to their annual calendars.
On January 16, 2013, Crystal Cruises' Serenity will depart from Miami on a 74-day exploration of South America. The ship will travel through the Caribbean before calling at ports stretching from Colombia to Brazil, with highlights including a transit of the Panama Canal, cruising the Chilean fiords and Amazon River, and overnight port stays in Valparaiso, Ushuaia, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro.
If you have less time, and would like to end your cruise in Australia, Seabourn Cruises' Quest has a 40-day World Voyage departing from Fort Lauderdale on January 6. The luxury yacht will also cruise the Caribbean and travel the Panama Canal, before making a 10-day crossing to French Polynesia to explore a variety of South Pacific Islands through to Sydney.
Looking towards 2014, and P&O Cruises' newly launched world cruise program features no less than three ships. Aurora and Arcadia both embark on full-world circumnavigations from Southampton in January, while sister ship Adonia will explore the Mediterranean, Middle East and Asia in-depth on a round trip also from the famous British port city.
Finally, Cunard will be sending all three of its perennially popular Queens to Australia as part of world voyages in 2014. Between them, the famous liners will make 17 calls at Australian ports including Sydney and Brisbane; Queen Victoria will also take an extended trip around South America, featuring eight maiden calls to ports on the continent, while Queen Elizabeth will make a maiden visit to Japan.
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Cruiseabout is offering a special guided tour of Croatia combined with a European river cruise next year. Departing on August 19, you fly to Vienna for a 13-night tour of the Croatian countryside and Dalmatian coast. Next you travel to Budapest on September 1 to join Avalon Vista for a 14-night river cruise of the Danube and the Rhine Gorge to Amsterdam. Priced from $11,999 a person, twin share, the package includes return flights to Europe, the cruise and 13 nights touring on land. 1300 450 133, cruiseabout南京夜网.au.
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The cultural historian, author and performer Warren Fahey is one of several presenters featured on Seabourn Odyssey's cruise from Bali to Sydney departing on December 21. Among his many popular presentations is a lecture on the myths and traditions of Christmas and the New Year.
APT has added a free concert from the popular violinist Andre Rieu to one of its European Christmas river cruises. The 15-day cruise from Budapest, departing on December 21, includes complimentary tickets to a performance in Cologne on January 2.
If you fancy seeing the rare total solar eclipse next month, try it from a ship. P&O's Pacific Dawn will be cruising off the north-eastern corner of Australia for the event on November 14, with astronomy lecturer Peter Anderson on board and documentaries broadcasting on its newly installed outdoor big screen.
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LAUNCHED 2006 PASSENGERS 2402 REGULAR HAUNTS The Mediterranean BEST FOR Families THE DETAILS A 12-night cruise of the Holy Land and Mediterranean, a round trip from Rome departing on February 23, is priced from $3079 a person, twin share. 1300 369 848, ecruising.travel.
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1 The second of Norwegian Cruise Line's (NCL) four Jewel-class ships, Jade began its career as the Pride of Hawaii, the largest and most expensive US-flagged passenger ship built. It was withdrawn from the Hawaiian Islands in 2008.
2 Its design embraces NCL's Freestyle cruising concept, offering flexibility throughout from dining to activities. Since taking on her new identity, Jade is based in the Mediterranean year-round, cruising from Venice and Civitavecchia (Rome).
3 Accommodations range from compact inside staterooms to an over-the-top three-bedroom Garden Villa that sleeps eight, complete with a garden and hot tub. Families are well catered for with multiberth staterooms and villas, and the decor of striking colours varies significantly across the categories.
4 There's an impressive line-up of 12 dining venues including a main dining room, however they mostly all come with a fee. Options include the 24-hour Blue Lagoon Restaurant, the Jasmine Garden Asian and Cagney's Steakhouse.
5 A ship with something for everyone. Facilities range from basketball and tennis courts to four hot tubs, a jogging track, a gym and a Mandara Spa. Kids have clubs to suit various ages, and entertainment varies from Broadway shows to magicians.
Port watch: La Coruna, Spain
Need to know Situated on the rugged north Atlantic coast of Spain, La Coruna is not only a historic city but also an old fishing port and a modern-day commercial port. Ships dock in the heart of the city, just a five-minute walk from the main sights. The cruise terminal, new since 2011, has some shopping and tourist information.
Do not miss The city's sights include Maria Pita Square in the centre of the old town, plenty of shops and restaurants, and some pretty beaches along a three-kilometre stretch of coastline. Top of the list of excursions is the magnificent Santiago de Compostela, a cathedral dedicated to the apostle James, and whose relics are believed to have been discovered in the 9th century. Another nearby place worth visiting is Vigo, which has an impressive historic quarter and some beautiful plazas.
We're visiting Picton in New Zealand on a cruise and hear it has some good hiking trails. Do you know anything about them?- M. O'Dowd, Windsor.
Arguably the most popular trail in the area is the Queen Charlotte Track. It stretches for just over 70 kilometres, from Ship Cove to Anakiwa, but you can opt to walk part of it in a round trip that takes a few hours. If you go it alone, take bottled water and a mobile phone in case you get into any difficulties. To play it safe, you can also opt to go with a local tour operator. They offer guided walks of between one and five hours.
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The time had come for the gods to stop. It had been 35 years since the people were able to use magic. No one knows where the power came from. The gods used to hunt all those who used it. From those who remained, warlords rose up and banded together to form an alliance. They set sights on the great Holy City in the land of Vahaos. As they descended upon it, the great god Sol arrived in battle to protect the people of Vahaos. The battle was fierce and much precious blood was spent. In the end, the god Sol was cast out and the warlords prevailed. While the true story about what happened is disputed, the legends live on through those who experienced it. One thing is for certain: the great Sol has no longer been seen in the lands of Vahaos. As the years passed, dark things crept out from the hidden places of the world, and with it, the evil magic that ruled them. Fear entered the hearts of those who remained in Vahaos. It was time for the rightful emperor to return.
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Brian Waldner is covered in mud and oil while wrestling a pipe from a True Company oil drilling rig outside Watford, N.D., Oct. 20, 2012. Many people have moved to North Dakota to work in oil drilling.
While America's population growth remained flat, an oil boom drew hordes of job-seekers to North Dakota, making it the fastest-growing state over the past year, according to Census Bureau data released Thursday.
North Dakota's population climbed by 2.17 percent between July 1, 2011, and July 1, 2012 -- a pace nearly three times faster than that of the nation as a whole, the bureau said.
The Peace Garden State wound up with roughly 15,000 more people than it had the year before – largely because of people moving there from other states.
"We've all heard about the fracking and oil production and mining. There is a real influx for jobs," said Census Bureau demographer Katrina Wengert.
North Dakota Commerce Commissioner Al Anderson says the "fastest-growing" designation isn't surprising, given that the state has been steadily adding jobs over much of the past decade. The state has the lowest unemployment rate in the nation, at 3.1 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
And it's not just oil. Agriculture is big business in North Dakota, and advanced manufacturing, technology-based businesses and tourism also have grown, Anderson said.
"We currently have about 22,000 job openings in North Dakota today. Of those, only a third are in our 17 oil-and gas-producing counties," he said. "It's more than just oil, but it's oil that put us on map in the national press."
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Following North Dakota in terms of percent increase over the same period were the District of Columbia (2.15 percent), Texas (1.67 percent), Wyoming (1.60 percent), Utah (1.45 percent) and Nevada (1.43 percent). North Dakota ranked only 37th in growth between the 2000 and 2010 censuses and climbed to sixth between 2010 and 2011. Each of the 10 fastest-growing states were in the South or West with the exception of North Dakota and South Dakota.
The only two states to lose population between July 1, 2011, and July 1, 2012, were Rhode Island (-354 people or -0.03 percent) and Vermont (-581 or -0.09 percent).
Williston, North Dakota, a once sleepy prairie land, has turned into a place with thousands of available jobs. An oil boom has led to an influx in the town's population and jobs. Rock Center's Harry Smith reports.
According to the Census Bureau, America as a whole saw its population increase by 2.3 million from 2011 to 2012, to 313.9 million, for a growth rate of just 0.75 percent.
"The growth rate in the U.S. has picked up just a little bit from last year. Still, it's one of the lowest U.S. growth rates since the Great Depression," said William H. Frey, a demographer at Brookings Institution.
However, the numbers do suggest "a glimmer of comeback fever" for the Mountain West and Southeast, regions that have been struggling with the housing bust and high unemployment in recent years, Frey said.
"It's not like people are moving around a lot, but we do see the tip of the iceberg of the Sun Belt coming back."
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Lausanne, Switzerland, December 27, 2012 - As part of an end-of-year review series, the FIVB takes a look back at the success of beach volleyball at the London Olympic Games.
Even for the uninitiated it was clear that beach volleyball had stamped its mark at the 2012 Olympic Games.
The sport made headline news around the world and the top 10 of the best Olympic moments on the IOC website for all the right reasons: the quality of the players, the drama and surprise of the competition and the festive ambiance at the Horse Guards Parade. Not surprisingly nearly all the competitions were sold out and TV coverage of the beach volleyball matches had high ratings all through the Games.
USA's Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh took their third straight Olympic gold victory against compatriots Jen Kessy and April Ross showing us exactly why they are the undisputed queens of beach volleyball. It was an all-American final, which saw world champions and number 1 seeds Brazilians Larissa França and Juliana Felisberta having to settle for bronze after their defeat by Kessy/Ross.
Brazil's top-seeded men's pair, Emmanuel Rego and Alison Cerutti also failed to win gold after being beaten in the final by Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann. Brink/Reckermann became the first German pair to win gold in any volleyball event and the first Europeans of either gender to win beach volleyball gold. Bronze medallist Martins Plavins and Janis Smedins won Latvia's first medal at the 2012 Olympics.
As the dust begins to settle, the question that is no doubt on everyone's mind is, can the Games in Rio in 2016 top the action in London?
It's true that the landscape for beach volleyball, especially in the women's competition, will definitely be changed following Misty May-Treanor's and Larissa França's retirement this year. Although their partners Kerri Walsh and Juliana Felisberta will continue their careers, there is now some room for other rising stars to take centre stage.
Moreover with the current qualifying process, smaller nations now have the possibility to participate more actively at the Olympics. And we've already seen some burgeoning talent in the likes of Natacha Rigobert and her partner Elodie Li Yuk of Mauritius. The duo qualified for their first Olympic beach volleyball tournament through the Beach Volleyball Continental Cup.
A total of 142 countries from around the world took part in the qualification process for the Olympic Games in 2012, with the debut of the Continental Cup and the World Cup Olympic Qualification Tournament. Alongside Rigobert/Li Yuk from Mauritius, Argentina were also represented in the women's tournament for the first time in the shape of Maria Virginia Zonta and Ana Gallay thanks to the Continental Cup.
On the men's side Igor Hernandez and Jesus Villafane also made history by becoming the first Venezuelan team to qualify for an Olympic Games. Steven Grotowski and John Garcia-Thompson were Britain's first men's team to contest the event since its debut at the 1996 Atlanta games.
If the surprising gold and bronze medal success of Germany's Brink/Reckermann and Latvia's Plavins/Smedins is anything to go by, Rio 2016 will no doubt provide a platform for other beach volleyball pairs to show their mettle.
London 2012 set out to "Inspire a Generation" and it won many plaudits from the critics for creating a fun, festive atmosphere at the beach volleyball matches. If Britain, a country without a beach volleyball tradition could draw such spectacular crowds, the future bodes well for volleyball hungry Brazil.
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Redwood Commercial
Redwood Commercial is a commercial real estate company that manages and leases commercial real estate buildings in the Northern Virginia area. Our clients are Landlords who own office buildings and retail centers throughout Northern Virginia and ask our company to manage the property (make sure the property is in good working condition) and also lease the space.
I am not interested in a blog, but rather just a good Corporate website that gives the basic information of Redwood Commercial. I chose wordpress because of its ease of use and simplicity
Our main audience is perspective and current clients (these are Landlords that we manage their real estate for them).
We want them to be able to visit the website and gain an understanding of Redwood Commercial, what services we provide and our history.
I need a basic, professional website.
I'd like a good header that displays our logo (attached) and also a good footer.
I'd like dark font/print against a white (or whitish) background.
I'd also like to be able to rotate pictures of some of our properties on the home page.
This site will not be used as a blog. In fact the information that we put up on the site will remain (besides minor tweaking and wordsmithing).
I also need separate pages (can use same header/footer and layout) for:
1. Property Management
2. Leasing
3. About Us
Note about our logo: I want to stick to the basic logo and colors. However, if possible, minor tweaks and adjustments can be made to the logo in order to have it incorporate well into the website. I only have the .jpg image of the logo, not a layered version.
I'd also like the burgundy color (found in the logo) accented throughout the website.


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Physics strikes the right note with classical musicians
The combination of physics and music might usually prompt images of Brian Cox playing keyboards for D:Ream, but a new trio, consisting of a professor of physics, an internationally renowned composer and an award-winning violinist, are bringing particle physics to life through a series of classical compositions.
An insight into their work, aptly named Particle Partitas, is revealed in an exclusive video report on physicsworld.com, where the trio show the creative processes at work and tentatively attempt to play a few bars for the first time.
Jack Liebeck, a Classical BRIT award winner, and Brian Foster, a particle physicist at the University of Oxford, are no strangers to the fusion of physics and music: for the last six years they have been touring a self-created "musical lecture" that explores Einsteins legacy to physics.
Their newly recruited composer, Edward Cowie, is also aware of the crossover between the two disciplines, having originally studied physics at Imperial College London.
"The music is shaped by the activity of particle physics. In terms of the way subatomic particles are observable in their collisions, in their traces, in their impacts, music can do the same thing. You can make music that has a device into which it is forced to impact fragments fly off it and they have behaviours, which can parallel, explains Cowie in the video.
This new series of 20 short musical pieces, documenting the history of particle physics from the late 19th century through to the present day, will be accompanied by short lectures on the topic given by Foster. It will debut in the UK in June 2012 and Foster also hopes to take the show abroad to particle physicists at CERN.
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Architects must take the initative on post-occupancy evaluation or suffer the consequences, writes Laura Mark
More from: Architects 'liable for energy performance'
Industry figures are warning architects they will become liable for buildings that fail to meet energy performance targets.
Sarah Cary, British Land's sustainable development executive has said architects have their 'head in the sand' and must grasp the implications of energy performance on liability and include post-occupancy evaluation (POE) in their scope of work.
Speaking at the 'Mind the Gap' breakfast, part of Open City's Green Sky Thinking programme, where the AJ launched its 'Bridge the Gap' campaign, Cary added: 'Gone are the days when you are not responsible for the performance for the building two years after occupancy.'
Patrick Walls, from small practice SOUP Architects, added: 'The client will want to maintain liability to someone if the projected running costs differentiate significantly. Proving liability and its effect to building contracts will become inevitable with duty of care.'
But Simon Allford warned that concerns over liability could stall research into building performance. He said: 'Who is legally liable to whom, and for what, is a much more complex subject to debate. I hope the potential liabilities do not once again result in money for research and innovation being diverted into fending off unreasonable appointment documents and buildings designed and benchmarked to the lowest possible common denominator.'
Architectural technologist Kell Jones also warned about the dangers of introducing building performance into contracts. He said: 'By effectively underwriting the performance of the building post occupancy, architects are taking on risks which should be borne elsewhere. Attempts to make this risk contractual will open a can of worms.'
At the breakfast, hosted at the offices of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS), Cary also spoke of the 'gaping hole' in predicted and actual building performance. She added: 'If [closing the gap] was easy, architects would have done it already.'
Co-speaker Ian Taylor of FCBS also described how the performance gap was exacerbated by a lack of knowledge surrounding the topic. He said: 'The understanding of how energy is used is often missing', pointing to problems with metering and its effective use.
Allford agrees: 'Performance is most greatly affected by a lack of understanding of often overly complex buildings.'
According to Roderic Bunn, a building performance analyst, procurement methods and construction standards are to blame. He said: 'The performance gap is a consequence – a symptom of a deep malaise in modern construction procurement that seeks to obtain cost savings by fragmenting, via a proliferation of subcontracts, what used to be a relatively seamless process in traditional procurement.
'That fragmentation leads to credibility gaps between professional and contract packages, through which the initial good intentions plummet.'
Tom Dollard, head of sustainability at Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects agrees. He said: 'The performance gap will be addressed through re-structuring the procurement of buildings.'
Ian McChesney added: 'Most lapses in performance tend to be due to poor construction standards. Any tightening of standards must be good for architects who have been marginalised by Design and Build-style procurement processes. If standards are tightened, contractors will be forced to heed the advice of architects on issues of quality – so quality and architecture win out.'
EPR Architects' Dieter Gockman urged architects to drive forward the wider adoption of post-occupancy. He said: 'Architects need to take the lead on the sustainable agenda and wrest control back from service engineers and specialist consultants.
'There is a danger that architects are seen as part of the problem rather than part of the solution. If we are not careful, another facet of architectural service will be hived off to specialist consultants, further undermining our position and ability to lead the design team.'
Architype is one practice already leading the field in post-occupancy. 'Enlightened clients are already buying into it and are willing to pay for post occupancy monitoring and evaluation,' said the practice's Jon Ackroyd. 'Building User Surveys (BUS) cost about £1,000 and take about two days' work. A thermal imaging camera costs between £1,000 and £5,000. Our office owns one and it has proved a very useful tool in showing us where there might be issues in a building.'
He added: 'A reserve of about 1 per cent should be built into the project costs for this kind of monitoring. We add approximately 0.6 per cent to our fee for this service.'
Meanwhile a growing number of experts are calling for improved education in the area of post-occupancy and especially for more people able to interpret and understand the data.
Jones said: 'There is a shortfall in the number and quality of people who can interpret the data that is coming out of POEs. There is an emerging market for people who understand data and buildings.
'Companies which are serious about filling the performance gap need to start to looking to employ people who understand the science and have good data analysis skills.'
Aedas sustainability director Judit Kimpian said professional bodies needed to encourage awareness and education in post-occupancy evaluation: 'Professional bodies should recognise this way of working as a new standard.' And future head of Sheffield University Fionn Stevenson called for 'more joined-up thinking between CIBSE and RIBA' and that post-occupancy should be embedded in architectural education. 'The culture has to start at RIBA Part 1 and 2,' Stevenson said.
Alan Shingler, partner at Sheppard Robson and chair of Sustainable Futures at RIBA
Architects ignore at your peril the actual performance compared the design performance of buildings, but we must also appreciate the difficulties in linking designed energy performance which make certain assumptions regarding the building occupation & how the building is actually used by the tenant. Hence the fundamental difference between EPC's & DEC's. The architect is often not appointed or able to gain the necessary data from the end user client.
Few architects would decline an appointment that includes POE & monitoring but this work is rarely embraced by the client & often only undertaken if financed by the practice, through TSB funded work & academic research. I hope the RIBA's new plan of work will be the catalysts for change in architect's appointments. This includes 2 separately identified work stages for 'Handover' & 'In Use' therefore providing a platform for architects to undertake these services and once appointed we must ensure this knowledge is shared with the project team, closing the loop back into the briefing stage & shared with industry on web platforms like Carbon Buzz.
Judit Kimpian, director of sustainable architecture and research at Aedas
There is a growing evidence base that current legislation is not achieving the expected reductions in the actual energy use of buildings and, if anything, can have significant unintended consequences. Large portfolio holders in particular are becoming aware of the commercial risks associated with the Performance Gap as high EPC ratings have been shown to bear little relationship to operational energy use.
At the root of the problem is that to comply with building regulations designers only need to assess a building's energy consumption potential. This is done using calculations that are not rooted in statistical evidence but evaluate designs under idealised operating circumstances, without 'value engineering', rushed contractors, poorly trained building managers or unpredictable occupiers.
What makes matters worse is that the current legislative framework rewards complexity in both systems and controls even though these were shown to present a major risk to operational energy use decades ago already (Bordass, el al). In the on-going TSB BPE programme most building users struggle with Building Management Systems (BMS), which affect maintenance costs and in many cases occupant comfort and productivity. While technological solutions offer a great potential, smart buildings need smart clients, designers, contractors and even smarter end users.
The issue of the performance gap is so fundamental that the RIBA Sustainable Futures Group campaigns for the 'disclosure' of data and lessons learned via the RIBA|CIBSE crowdsourcing platform CarbonBuzz and the RIBA Awards have for the first time included energy consumption data as part of the evaluation criteria.
The SFG wants to go further – it aims to incorporate Soft Landings and the feedback from buildings in operation in the RIBA Plan of Works so that architects can verify that investment in energy efficiency measures have brought about the expected benefits. What a revelation that will be…
Savvier clients, whose business models are based on the whole life cost of their estate, are setting measured energy use targets instead of opting for BREEAM or other sustainability ratings, which still rely on compliance metrics to plan for low-energy operation.
Many architects, including Aedas, Feilden Clegg Bradley, Sheppard Robson, Architype and Bere architects view the focus on operational energy use as an opportunity – after all designs that take into account long term occupancy patterns and adaptability are bound to be more robust and resilient to changes in climate and demographics. These practices argue that in their traditional role of 'integrators' architects are perfectly placed to balance the long-term needs of occupants, investors and the broader urban context.
Can architects be sued if a building consumes a lot of energy in use? That seems unlikely for now. However new procurement models targeting operational energy use are emerging, which will reward those with a track record in achieving better value for their clients. With post occupancy evaluations soon to be incorporated into the procurement of all public projects the benefits of low energy and maintenance costs as well as happier occupants are going to become more pronounced, which is bound to make a compelling case for closing the performance gap.
Festus Moffat, director of John Robertson Architects
There is currently a misunderstanding with regard to EPCs being some sort of prediction tool for energy performance, whereas they are, in fact, largely a Part L compliance tool. Results vary wildly depending on the level of software used to calculate the EPC so it should be no surprise that this is not reflected in the actual performance or DEC. I think it unlikely however that the architecture and fabric performance are the main reasons for the discrepancy between the two measures.
Much better energy in use prediction tools are needed and British Land, for who we recently completed the refurbishment of 199 Bishopsgate, has again been leading the way in this by developing models that will explain to tenants before they enter into a lease the likely level of their energy bills.
Jerry Tate, principal of Jerry Tate Architects
If architects took ownership of building performance this would be a massive positive for the profession in the long term. The performance gap often comes from badly designed calculation methods (like SAP although it is improving) and poor on site workmanship, to counter this we really need better publicly available post-occupancy data for precedents. In the US they are putting together a national database of building performance which will be incredibly useful for that region.
Peter Morris of Peter Morris Architect
Part of the problem seems to be that the architectural profession considers such surveys are below them, so up springs new consultancy companies which adds costs to the client and lacks continuity. Predicted Energy Surveys should be consider at the start of the design process. Very often they are carried out at the end of the project and are very generic. Architects need to show they can do this work, rather than lose out to other consultants.
Another problem is we need more post occupation surveys carried out to build up a better understanding of the problems some buildings might encounter, unfortunately this is expensive and not considered a necessity by many clients. How does the Architectural Education system deal with such topics? They don't. Our universities should be leading the field in post occupancy surveys.
During a recession I would not encourage financial penalties, or more regulations, but I would prefer to see more encouragement, to make it a more desirable aspiration for society. Maybe a letter of 'well done' from Michael Gove. Or name and shaming in the national press - an energy performance league.
Ivan Redi of Ortlos
British Land is very commercial developer with lot of resources. For such companies the check of achieved performance after few years should be mandatory. But for smaller architectural studios it is not easy not only because of scope and scale of their work, but because the actual performance is dependable on many factors beyond the design – here are the building contractors and others involved in realization process more responsible then an architect. The suggestion would put unnecessary additional pressure on smaller studios which are already overwhelmed by too many requirements. This sounds like unfair PR by bigger companies increasing pressure on the smaller ones under cover of energy efficiency. So in my opinion the contractors and buildings companies are those who are liable in this case.
Alfred Munkenbeck of Munkenbeck+Partners Architects
There is no way to measure actual performance in residential buildings as long as you provide openable doors and windows. An open window loses far more heat than any insulated wall or roof… If people can open their windows, they will. The government should back off a bit on new homes and concern themselves with leaky existing ones.
Endlessly ramping up new building performance has gone beyond the point of diminishing returns in a mild climate such as the UK. Remember, it is so warm here that few people had central heating at all before the 1960's… a jumper was considered adequate.
Alan Crawford of Crawford Partnership
I attended a CPD seminar last night on CE Marking for construction products, which is another European standard that will regulate quality of materials specified in projects. The point being that as architects we make every endeavour to keep up to date with regulations and policies that govern both the design and construction of any project.
As architects we are always striving to attain the highest standards of design and construction, and these often need to be balanced against client budgetary aspirations, but not in the sacrifice of mandatory building regulations standards.
Energy performance gaps can only be monitored by comparative analysis between predictive energy performance and actual 'in use' data feedback, which is often not readily available, however, even on a domestic scale, energy monitoring systems are becoming much more readily available, as could be seen at the recent ECObuild Exhibition. The majority of architects already work with environmental design engineers to obtain design input to ensure highest standards of energy performance can be achieved, but this again comes at an additional price for the client in an already expensive pre construction process.
Not sure therefore why the 'buck' should stop with the architect in this debate!
Anna Surgenor of UK-GBC
As energy prices go up and tenants increasingly look to understand future costs associated with tenanted space, they will start to ask what the actual predicted energy is likely to be for that space.
Proactive landlords who are leading in sustainability are starting to communicate this information and this will raise the bar for future tenanted space as we start to make energy performance more visible for existing commercial buildings.
Architects are in a key position to influence building performance at the design stage and communicate the benefits to clients and future tenants.
The benefits of POE need to be communicated to clients and tenants – particularly those around energy and cost savings but also more generally about the benefits it will bring to reducing future void periods and lease-ability.
We need leading organisations to make their actual energy performance visible and clear so that customers can start to compare options. The rest of the industry will then follow. Future European legislation may also play its part.
Getting landlords and tenants to communicate it will help and, in turn, encouraging tenants to demand this from their landlords. We need to develop a robust DECs methodology which provides accurate benchmarks and get Government to regulate the display of actual performance of a building, not the predicted or partial performance of the building with no people using it. It's very important especially as buildings offer the biggest cost effective carbon abatement opportunity. There are huge energy savings to be had by very small investment.
Sarah Lewis of bere:architects
When it comes to bridging the performance gap we invest a lot of time with the contractors we work with to provide training in air tightness and cold bridging techniques and we work closely with the M&E sub-contractors to ensure the systems are all installed, insulated and commissioned correctly. In addition we feel it is very important to disseminate our monitoring and performance results and to this end we regularly participate in or hold events to share our findings and experiences.
As architects we feel that monitoring is an essential part of evaluating our completed projects and learning what elements are working well, where any issues are arising and how we can further improve our buildings in the future. Our monitoring is also part of our soft-landings approach which we adopt on all of our projects, in soft-landings you spend time post completion with the building occupants to help make sure they are getting the most out of the building and to help fine tune any areas which are not performing optimally. This process helps to prevent any small issues with the building escalating into major problems for the building occupants which, if left unchecked, could affect not only the buildings performance but its success at meeting the expectations and needs of the users. Finally, as Passive House architects we feel lucky to have the PHPP which is the tool Passive House designers use to design Passive House's and very accurately predict the final energy demand of the buildings. The PHPP has a proven track record for accuracy and has lived up to this reputation with all of our completed and monitored Passive House projects to date.
John Christophers, Associated Architects
There are a number of things we need to do to bridge the energy performance gap.
Of course there is a baseline to bring all building design and construction into line with best practice over issues like airtightness, thermal bridging, etc. After a few zero carbon buildings, we have found that tiny details like the cold bridging of a lock cylinder or the second line airtightness sealing at a window hinge really do make a difference – we need to get obsessive to get these things right. Fabric first: every stitch of it.
Then there is the issue that any predictive model of building occupation and environment can only be an approximation. So as we begin to understand more clearly their margin of error, the 'gap' should reduce.
Then there are controls. It would be great if we made buildings with environmental control as intuitive as riding a bicycle: it happens almost without you being aware of it. Part of this is about designers understanding the mindsets of different users at different times of day and year and simplifying a sometimes bewildering array of control options. The psychology of acceptable comfort levels varies hugely.
All these factors should add up to a more sophisticated understanding of how very low energy buildings - and how human beings - perform, and therefore reduce the gap.
Andrew Goodman of Good Architecture
Both designers and construction workforce need to increase their understanding of construction detailing to ensure construction achieves design performance. Building Regulations needs to ditch current carbon compliance methodologies and adopt energy modelling methodologies with proven, accurate prediction of building preformance, e.g PHPP. Make it a requirement of Building Regulations to verify/ demonstrate that construction work has been carried out in accordance with design.
Fran Bradshaw, Anne Thorne Architects:
Bridge the energy performance gap;- go for Passivhaus! Use PHPP, choose your design and construct team carefully, soft landings, work closely with building occupiers, commission correctly, monitor and adjust if necessary. Energy use;- remember people are all different, and don't preach. Make it easy to be economical (see above). Good building management reaching design team as well as the other way round!
Kirsten Henson, director of KLH Sustainability
How do we bridge the building energy performance gap?
- Design assumptions must reflect in-use performance of buildings.
- Include unregulated loads in modelling and compliance regulations.
- More accurate modelling of system controls
- To use Integrated building technologies with control strategies
- Use of smart metering to monitor energy usage
- Communicating the design intent on-site and during post occupancy (soft-landings)
- Better designer/client communication
- Better understanding of occupant behaviour
- Considering variations in occupancy hours.
What needs to be done to make sure actual energy usage of buildings lives up to design expectations?
- Regular monitoring and feedback – included within design teams initial design proposals and fees. As an expensive add-on it is never likely to be done, there must be a business interest for designers to commit to this level of understanding of building performance.
- Ensure conscious use of the building by occupants – SIMPLE building user guides, not sections of the Operational Manual reconfigured as a Building User Manual
- Education and training on the operation of the building for the occupants and facility management team. Ensure all new users and changes to FM teams are addressed
- Provide prospective occupiers with a clearer indication of the likely range of energy use, carbon dioxide emissions and costs of running their new building.
- Better control & management of services
- Comprehensive use of BIM to ensure future upgrades and refurbs do not impact building performance.
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As a lighting Design practice KSLD have been proactive in seeking Post Occupancy Evaluation specifically for lighting aspects and human performance and satisfaction rather than focussing on energy use alone. We have come up against brick walls with building owners just not prepared to have their new schemes assessed. There is also a massive reluctance for building owners or occupiers to pay for Post Occupancy Evaluation. Given the current state of the market and downward pressure on fees this is a significant piece of work if it is to be meaningful and cannot be funded by design practices out of their revenue.
In respect of our work we have several instances where our carefully considered designs and control schemes have been defeated by building occupants and facilities management organisations through laziness or demanding unnecessary lighting levels and times switched on. Once a building and its services are handed over it is unrealistic for the design team to bear full liability for performance, this has to be directed towards the operators.
Post Occupancy Evaluation is a vital part of the design process. This is the feedback that helps us improve and learn from design. Relying as we do now on anecdotal evidence for the most part is not really adequate. On energy issues we are forced to incorporate lots of separate energy monitoring and metering but there seems to be a major lack of incentive for the data available from these to be properly collected and analysed.
Kevan Shaw C.Eng, MILP
BPE is about improving DESIGN ittself (not just the design process) as well as performance - we must never forget that. Too often we focus on the outcomes rather than the underlying usability issues when we talk about BPE. The above dialogue rarely mentions the word design improvement in connection with performance illustrating the massive cognitive disconnect we still have in the industry, which begins with our initial training in schools of architecture. RIBA need to take a lead here and seriously investigate how we can bring teaching of BPE into RIBA validation criteria, so that it is not looked down as 'something that engineers do after we build the building'. Apologies to all those already converted, but there are a huge number out there who do not believe POE has serious benefits for design - really!
Spending money on Post Occupancy reviews of projects built under current building practices is like closing the door after the horse has bolted? Take a look at the DEC data for over 40,000 public buildings if you want to see just how badly our buildings are performing http://www.cse.org.uk/pages/
resources/opendata#display_energy_certificate_data . The problem with Building Regulation compliant buildings and any of the environmental assessments you care to choose is that they do not do much for the energy performance of the building. They are solely focused on CO2 and reward the use of renewables so that on paper you can offset poorly performing buildings by the use of bio-mass, PVs, etc. etc. It is not just about construction quality but also how we design, attention to thermal bridging, air quality, air tightness, orientation and form factor (i.e. building physics). The methodology is already out there it's called Passivhaus and using the PHPP delivers extermely accurate energy predictions.
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The original is still in the possession of a Greek Orthodox family living in Melbourne. It was a a family heirloom, passed down through the wife's family. She has since passed away and it is now in the possession of her husband.
The original is still in the possession of a Greek Orthodox family living in Melbourne. It was a a family heirloom, passed down through the wife's family. She has since passed away and it is now in the possession of her husband.
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Panagia Kamariani is commemorated by the church on September 8.
Monastery of Panagia Kamariani (Red Hill, Australia)
The holy monastery of Panagia Kamariani in Red Hill, Victoria, Australia, is under the omophorion of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. The site has an area of 6.3 hectares and is located on the south east corner of Red Hill Road and Prossors Lane in Red Hill, Victoria, Australia. The site has an approximate 144 metre frontage along Red Hill Road and a 306.8 metre long boundary along Prossors Lane. The main entrance into the property is via a double gate entrance on the corner splay. The entrance then leads into an informal car park.
Further in to the site, is the Church, a rectory and a historical dwelling and shedding. Existing vegetation include a strand of cypress trees which assist in providing a visual buffer between the Church and the adjoining properties. In 2008, construction of a hall for the public finished, 66 metres to the north of the Church with a size of 30 metres by 25 metres (378 sq. metre). The external facade is a traditional Byzantine stone white finish to match the Church building.
- Further history of the Australian Monastery
- There were many applications made by the Church to develop and use the property for religious and recreational activities. The first application to develop and use the land was in 1975. The request was to develop an amphitheatre, chapel, toilet facility, exhibition shlter, presbytery and kiosk (this proposal initially included a soccer field, basketball and tennis courts which were later abandoned). The Church claimed it was traditional to combine religious observance and social outings and over 100 objections were submitted to the Council and the application was refused by the Western Port Regional Planning Authority.
- The Tribunal, at the time, was prepared to permit the development of the church and presbytery but not the exhibition shelter. Two subsequent applications were lodged which also included parking for 187 cars, these were also refused and unsuccessfully appealed by the Church to the Planning Appeals Tribunal. Each application attracted over 200 objections.
- A fourth application was lodged in December 1981 for the development and use of the land for a parish church, a toilet block and formalised car parking for 112 cars. In essence, the difference between the fourth application and the previous being the exclusion of the recreational facilities. A Planning Permit was eventually issued on October 1982 and subject to nineteen conditions. The intent of these conditions aimed at restricting the use of the land and to ensure the potential intensity of the use would not become incompatible with the level of amenity enjoyed the the local residents at the time.
In Greece
There is a small monastery, situated 3km outside the village of Megalo Horio, on the island of Tilos (Greece), dedicated to the Panagia Kamariani. An annual feast takes places for Panagia Kamariania on the 23rd of August. During this celebration, the locals dance "the dance of the cup" gathering money for the restoration of the other churches on the island.
External link
- Holy Monastery of Panagia Kamariani in Australia
- Easter at Red Hill in Greek (Neos Kosmos)
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Stratford votes to name school after Soto
STRATFORD -- Victoria Soto's memory will live on here.
A month after the massacre that killed 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, the Town Council voted unanimously Monday night to name a new elementary school after Soto, the young teacher who shielded students with her own body Dec. 14.
The town will break ground on the new school this summer.
"I feel really happy tonight," said Soto's younger sister, Jillian, 24, as she was surrounded by media outside the council chambers following the vote. "My sister's name will stay alive. There will be a school named after her. She was my hero, my big sister, and it doesn't surprise me what she did."
Soto said her sister was a big part of their family and she still finds it hard to believe "Vicki" is gone.
"I still think she is going to come home, and I have to remind myself that's not going to happen," Soto said of her sibling, who was 27 years old. "But this is good, and we have a very supportive family."
The youngest of the adults killed, Soto referred to her first-grade class as her "16 angels." She is credited with shielding their bodies with her own.
Soto graduated from Stratford High School and Eastern Connecticut State University. She was pursuing a master's degree in special education at Southern Connecticut State University at the time of her death.
Although there have been calls nationally for memorials to honor the Sandy Hook victims, Stratford wanted to do something special to honor Soto, a lifelong resident of town.
But while the resolution to name a new school after Soto was considered a "no-brainer" by most in town, the gesture quickly became embroiled in controversy.
Shortly after the meeting began with a silent prayer for Soto and the other Sandy Hook victims, Councilwoman Stephanie Phillips tried to introduce a resolution demanding that U.S. leaders take action to reduce gun violence.
The last-minute resolution drew immediate criticism from the other council members, who accused Phillips of trying to foist her own agenda on Soto's memory.
After that debate settled, and Councilman Matthew Catalano read the resolution naming the school for Soto, the council became stuck on exactly what the school's name would be.
Some council members thought the word "academy" should be part of the name because the school will be on the property of the Stratford Academy schools.
Others thought "house" should be a part of the name, as in Victoria Soto School House.
The council appeared ready to call a recess to address the controversy when an obviously aggravated council president, Joseph Kubic, announced there would be no recess.
"I've talked to the Soto family and the Soto family favors the Victoria Soto School, and that's what we are going to name it," he proclaimed.
Vote taken and passed.
"Yeah, I'm a little disappointed with the way it went," Soto's cousin, Jim Wiltsie, said later. "I thought this night was supposed to be about Victoria, and then there were these other things."
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The Air Force said Tuesday it would offer help as Arlington County prosecutes a onetime sexual assault prevention officer who's been charged with sexual battery, a case that has drawn the national spotlight onto military sexual violence and even a condemnation from the president of the United States.
Air Force spokeswoman Lt. Col. Laurel Tingley told POLITICO the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations has offered to assist Arlington County officials pursuing their case against Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski, who until Monday had been chief of the Air Force's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response branch.
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Krusinski was arrested early Sunday after he allegedly groped a woman in Crystal City, police said. He was later released on a $5,000 bond.
The Air Force had asked Arlington County for jurisdiction over Krusinski, possibly so it could begin its own court-martial proceedings, but Commonwealth's Attorney Theo Stamos told POLITICO she'd told the service she would proceed with her own case against him.
If the Air Force wanted to try for a court-martial or other proceedings on its own, it could, or commanders could choose to administer "non-judicial punishment."
Meanwhile, the story — a military sexual assault prevention officer facing charges of allegedly groping a woman while drunk near a strip club a mile from the Pentagon — brought widespread condemnation, including from the White House.
"I have directly spoken to [Defense] Secretary [Chuck] Hagel already today, indicating to him that we're going to have to not just step up our game, we have to exponentially step up our game to go at this thing hard," President Barack Obama told reporters on Tuesday.
Obama said at a White House press conference that "we are not going to tolerate this stuff," that "there will be accountability," and that "if people are engaged in this behavior, they should be prosecuted. Stripped of their position. Court-martialed. Fired. Dishonorably discharged. Period. This is not acceptable."
Krusinski's arrest only increased the political pressure on the Pentagon to eliminate what critics have said is an epidemic of sexual violence in the ranks. The story broke as the Defense Department planned to roll out its annual report on sexual assaults on Tuesday, which found they are on the rise, according to an early copy obtained by POLITICO.
The arrest also was the latest black mark for an Air Force tarred by an ongoing scandal over sexual assault at its main training facility, Lackland AFB, Texas, and cases in which two senior commanders voided the convictions of lower-ranking officers who'd been court-martialed for sexual assault.
Even though service leaders in every branch of the military have insisted they are serious about cracking down, lawmakers and victims' advocates are furious over what they call a slow-moving, old-boys' network taking care of its own.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen Mark Welsh and Air Force Secretary Michael Donley — who appeared Tuesday at a Senate hearing scheduled before Krusinski's arrest — endured criticism from several members of the panel about the Krusinski case in particular and sexual assault generally.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin pressed Welsh and Donley to eliminate the "plague" of sexual assault in the service. Another committee Democrat, Sen. Claire McCaskill, asked for details about Krusinski's military background.
Welsh said that Krusinski was a personnel officer who was a force support squadron commander before going to work at the Pentagon.
"He's been around the business his entire career as a personnel officer," Welsh told McCaskill. "His record is very good."
Having looked at Krusinski's record of performance and talked with his current supervisor, Welsh said that there was no indication that he had any problems with sexual assault in the past.
Welsh also said that Krusinski had been selected by Brigadier Gen. Eden Murrie and Lt. Gen. Darrell Jones for his position as a sexual assault prevention officer, and that it was likely that both officials would have a hand in choosing his replacement.
"I will be watching very carefully who will replace Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski, because I think it is one of those times where you're going to be able to send a message," McCaskill told Welsh.
He told senators Tuesday that he was "appalled" by the allegations against Krusinski and that he and Donley were committed to cracking down on sexual assault.
"We will not quit working this problem," Welsh told the committee. "We'll continue to do everything in our power to care for airmen and their families."
Pentagon press secretary George Little said late Monday that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had spoken about Krusinski's case with Donley.
"Secretary Hagel expressed outrage and disgust over the troubling allegations and emphasized that this matter will be dealt with swiftly and decisively," Little said. "Secretary Hagel has been directing the department's leaders to elevate their focus on sexual assault prevention and response, and he will soon announce next steps in our ongoing efforts to combat this vile crime."
Stephanie Gaskell contributed to this report.
This article first appeared on POLITICO Pro at 4:24 p.m. on May 6, 2013.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this report incorrectly stated the name of Commonwealth's attorney. Her name is Theo Stamos.


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World leaders remain hesitant on whether or not to throw their full support behind the opposition in Syria. Khalid Saleh, media director for the Syrian Coalition, explains to the WSJ why concerns about heavy weaponry falling into the hands of extremist factions are overblown. Photo: AP
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NEW YORK — "Late Night" host Jimmy Fallon can expect some late nights at home as a proud new papa.
A representative says Fallon and his wife, Nancy Juvonen Fallon, welcomed a baby daughter Tuesday morning.
The publicist says the first-time parents are "overjoyed."
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Miley Cyrus stepped out with blue hair she calls platinum the other day after it was widely rumoured last week that fiancé Liam Hemsworth was cheating on her with January Jones. I'm not saying Liam isn't...
But that story wasn't sourced. That story originated because the paps were standing outside a party and shot them getting into a car together. That photo set was then sent to every tabloid. Needless to say, they Photo Assumptioned the rest. Which is totally not the same as, say, seeing Liam at a pre-Oscar party with all his attention focused on Emma Watson. For the entire night. If you had no idea, watching them together, watching him flirt with her, as his face would get closer and closer, and he seemed to find a reason to touch her somewhere -- shoulder, hand, knee -- as often as possible, you would never think there was a fiancée, and if there was, you wouldn't want to be in that position.
The problem is the accuracy rate of Star Magazine and the Radar Online family. Because they get so much sh-t wrong, and photo assumption their stories so often, and celebrities are so good at lying to themselves, they wave it off...
When, really, they really, really shouldn't.
It may or may not have gone down with January Jones but the way Liam was looking at Emma Watson, it's only a matter a time. God, could we have expected any other outcome? He's 23 to Miley's 20. In Hollywood. A rising star. It's almost endearingly naive, her social networking bravado about the resilience of love.
Britney was also 20 when she and Justin Timberlake ended their relationship.
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