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The International Energy Conservation Codes (IECC 2009 and 2012) require HVAC ducts to be tested to prove a minimum leakage of a rather easily obtained 12 CFM/100 square feet of conditioned floor area. While many states and localities will adopt this code outright, it is likely that many will also amend it to allow inspection and sealing alternatives. Many HVAC contractors are bound to breathe a sigh of relief at not having to face potential failure and the subsequent looking for the "leak in the trunk line" that will eat up their profit margins by the minute.
Except, is it really potential lost revenue? This type of thinking completely obscures one of the greatest opportunities that HVAC companies have had in decades. Isn't it really a lost opportunity?
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By and large, the differences between different types of HVAC hardware are small. Selling one gray metal box over another is difficult, and you often end up in a price war where the lowest bidder gets the job because none of the contractors succeeded in differentiating him- or herself from the others. So here is the new opportunity.
Over the years, EPA and many state agencies have upped the stakes, requiring restrictive installation procedures, such as using mastic on all joints; time-consuming duct leakage testing; and annoying inspections by code officials. State contractor organizations in Washington State have sued to, as they put it, "stop the insanity." In 2009, the Building Industry Association of Washington filed a federal courts lawsuit in an attempt to block the statewide green-building code; part of that code requires duct leakage testing. One complaint from builders was that the code would place budgetary constraints on both builder and buyer during the recession. Washington State is not alone. According to Kimberly Madrigal of GreenLandlady.com, a web site that offers green educational opportunities for multifamily, rental housing, coops, and condominium management, "An attempt to stop compulsory green-building codes was launched in 2008 by the Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI). A trade organization for manufacturers, it filed against the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to enjoin them from requiring higher efficiency HVAC systems." Many contractors offer discounts when the homeowner is willing to have new equipment installed without a permit. In some states, as few as 15% of new installations are code compliant.
At the same time and for the past 15 years, the top-selling, most profitable contractors nationwide have not only embraced these new measures but have taken them many steps farther. The ACCA contractors of the year offer a range of services, including blower door testing, duct testing, and air flow measurements with flow hoods (see "ACCA Contractors of the Year"). Many of these contractors have taken additional training on whole-house diagnostics from companies such as the Comfort Institute. This training has allowed them to give their customers superior system performance and greater comfort.
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According to EPA, a new HVAC duct system mounted in the attic or crawl space of a typical house will be leaky. In fact, in typical houses, about 20% of the air that moves through the duct system is lost due to leaks, holes, and poorly connected ducts. The result is higher utility bills and difficulty keeping the house comfortable, no matter how the thermostat is set. More energy is lost when ducts are insufficiently insulated. If your competitor could convince the homeowner that his company would guarantee to minimize those losses, what chance do you think you'd have of getting the job? No matter how low you bid?
Next, these leaking duct systems cause pressure imbalances in the house that can cause combustion appliances and fireplaces to backdraft. That backdrafting can pull in nasty stuff from the homeowner's garage or musty crawl space. When your competitor can demonstrate these problems to the homeowner because he has the instrumentation to measure them and the skills to prevent them—he gets the job. When your customers learn from the media that building codes were designed to solve these problems, and that their energy costs are higher, and their houses less comfortable and less safe than they would be if their systems had been retrofitted to code, how likely are those customers to give you a referral? Initially they were concerned about price, but now the tables are turned, and your reputation is on the line. You could have prevented this if you had explained the benefits of doing the job right in the first place. Once customers see a demonstration that identifies these problems, they ask, Can you fix this? Showing your customers that you do the job right is an easier sale than selling purely on price.
Well, that's what a few leaders are doing out there. Called performance contractors, these leaders are selling systems that outperform their competitors' systems in every way. Their customers get a better deal, and so do they. They sell a bigger job and get a more-satisfied customer, which turns into more referrals.
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2012: AirRite Air-Conditioning Company (Fort Worth, Texas)
2011: CroppMetcalfe Services (Fairfax, Virginia)
2010: Conditioned Air (Naples, Florida)
2009: Apollo Heating & Cooling (Cincinnati, Ohio)
2008: Hobaica Services (Phoenix, Arizona)
2007: Atlas Butler Heating & Cooling (Columbus, Ohio)
2006: Castellano's Air Conditioning & Heating (Tampa, Florida)
2005: Peaden Air Conditioning (Panama City, Florida)
2004: Air Assurance (Broken Arrow, Oklahoma)
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What about new-home installations where the low bid gets the job? In states that allow inspections without a duct leakage test, the inspection could take more time and cost more than it would if you had tested the ducts first yourself. It is actually faster to test the duct system after you install it than it is to have the building official inspect it carefully. That is exactly what code officials think when an inspection is requested; they say, "Just show me the test results, because I don't want to climb around the attic and inspect all the joints." And what about just using mastic without testing, as some states allow? Well, even if you do this, there is still a chance you'll miss some connections, and who needs a callback to fix that? You should be using mastic anyway, to prevent the duct system from leaking, and from starting to fall apart in five years. Once contractors get used to testing their ducts as they build the system, they will save time and money in the long run.
For existing-system changeouts, using a blower door on the sales call tells you right away how leaky the ductwork is, and lets you demonstrate the problem to the homeowner. When the house is pressurized, smoke is placed in front of the registers and shows clearly whether leaks are present. Using a duct tester to measure the exact amount of leakage is the ideal way to demonstrate compliance, but it's too slow and disruptive to use on a sales call. Instead of installing a larger system to compensate for leaky ducts, you can often install a much smaller system after the ductwork is sealed or replaced, and the smaller system will do a better job than the larger system, at a lower cost to your customers. Using a duct tester after installation will ensure that you did the job right and will pinpoint any areas you missed that would be hard to locate visually. Your liability will also be reduced if you use a duct tester after you install the new system because the new system is much less likely to cause pressure imbalances in the house, which will cause combustion appliances and fireplaces to backdraft. You can also stress to your customers the importance of duct insulation and combustion safety checks.
For new installations, your duct tester, and possibly a blower door with some artificial smoke, will let you quickly identify leaks in the ductwork, so you'll know when you've got the job done right. HVAC installers need to pressure-test the ducts in the same way a plumber pressure-tests the plumbing.
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For more on the benefits of duct sealing, go to the EPA Energy Star site.
How hard is it to meet the new duct leakage code requirements? Most contractors find they can get system leakage down to less than half of the requirement (as shown in Table 1). And after their second installation, they can do it in about the same amount of time they are taking now.
The new code requirements are coming anyway, so you might as well jump onto this new performance wave and sell higher-quality systems. It is much easier than selling the old way—on price alone.
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TBS has renewed Conan O'Brien's late night show Conan through November 2015, the network announced Monday.
"When we invited Conan O'Brien to come to TBS, we knew he would bring with him a passionately loyal following of young adults," TBS President Michael Wright said in a statement. "We are proud to extend our relationship with Conan as he continues to forge the future of late night. I just wish we didn't decide to tell him on April Fools' Day."
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—About 25 dead cats found in plastic bags hanging from trees in a New York suburb were apparently killed with blows to the head at various times over the past year, an investigator said Friday.
Ernest Lungaro, director of enforcement at the Westchester County SPCA, said necropsies on three of the cats revealed blunt trauma to their skulls.
"Pretty disturbing, smashing their heads in and displaying them like that," he said. "We have found, in the past, cases where cats were poisoned, but we've never seen anything where they're killing them this violently."
Lungaro said a baseball bat, two shovels and a metal pipe were found near the scene in a wooded area in Yonkers, about 2.5 kilometres north of the Bronx. He said investigators were not yet sure that those items had been used in the killings.
It also wasn't known if the killings were the work of one or more people, he said. Either way, they are disturbing because of studies that indicate a link between the killings of animals and violence against people, Lungaro said.
"The sheer number of cats that were killed with blunt trauma to the head, it's pretty violent," he said.
Some of the cats were just skeletons and some had been dead only three days, Lungaro said. The necropsies were done on the most recently killed animals.
The strange scene was discovered Thursday by a public works crew doing an annual cleanup. The SPCA was called in and counted 25 bodies, Lungaro said.
"We assume there were probably more than that because raccoons or whatever wildlife probably got to a couple of them," he said.
He said the necropsies suggest the cats were killed before they were put into bags.
Yonkers police and the SPCA are investigating. Lungaro said some people were being questioned but he would not say whether there was a suspect.
He said there are many feral cats in the area and there has been some tension over feeding stations that some residents have established.
"Some people get frustrated with the people who feed them," he said. He said it was possible the dead cats were put in the trees "to taunt the people that are feeding the cats."
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'Argo' on a roll with big win at SAG Awards
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A few weeks ago, the Oscar race looked wide open. The stately, historical "Lincoln" seemed like the safe and likely choice, with the provocative "Zero Dark Thirty" and the quirky and inspiring "Silver Linings Playbook" very much in the mix for the Academy Award for best picture.
But now, an "Argo" juggernaut — an "Argo"-naut, if you will — seems to be rolling along and gathering momentum as we head toward Hollywood's top prize.
The international thriller from director Ben Affleck, who also stars as a CIA operative orchestrating a daring rescue during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, received the top honor of best ensemble cast in a movie at Sunday night's Screen Actors Guild Awards, their equivalent of the best-picture Oscar. It's a decent indicator of eventual Academy Awards success, with the two matching up about half the time.
The film, which also stars John Goodman and Alan Arkin as Hollywood veterans who help stage a fake movie as a cover, has received nearly unanimous critical raves and has proven to be a box-office favorite, as well, grossing nearly $190 million worldwide.
But "Argo" also won the Producers Guild of America Award on Saturday night, which is an excellent Oscar predictor, and it earned best picture and director statues from the Golden Globes two weeks earlier. The Directors Guild of America Awards next Saturday will help crystallize the situation even further.
The one tricky thing at work here: Affleck surprisingly didn't receive an Academy Award nomination in the director category, which most often goes hand in hand with best picture. (There are nine best-picture nominees but only five slots for directors.) Only once in modern times has a film won best picture without a directing nomination: 1989's "Driving Miss Daisy." The other two times came in the show's early years, at the first Oscars in 1929 with "Wings" and for 1932's "Grand Hotel."
Asked backstage at the SAG Awards what might happen when the Oscar winners are announced Feb. 24, Affleck said: "I don't do handicapping or try to divine what's going to happen down the road with movies.
"I didn't get nominated as a director and I thought, 'OK, that's that.' Then I remembered that I was nominated as a producer," said Affleck, who already has an original screenplay Oscar for writing 1997's "Good Will Hunting" with longtime friend Matt Damon. "Nothing may happen but it's a wonderful opportunity to be on the ride and I'm really honored."
Many of the usual suspects throughout the lengthy awards season heard their names called again Sunday night, including Daniel Day-Lewis as best actor for his intense, deeply immersed portrayal of the 16th U.S. president in "Lincoln." Accepting the prize on stage, he gave thanks to several of his colleagues including "The Master" star Joaquin Phoenix (who did not receive a SAG nomination), Leonardo DiCaprio and Liam Neeson.
Backstage, Day-Lewis elaborated for reporters that DiCaprio urged him to stick with Steven Spielberg's project, which was in the works for many years.
"He said, 'Don't give up, he's the greatest man of the 19th century,'" Day-Lewis said. "So this is all Leo's fault."
His co-star, Tommy Lee Jones, also won again in the supporting-actor category for his lacerating portrayal of abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens in Spielberg's Civil War epic.
Anne Hathaway, the front-runner for best supporting actress at the Oscars and a winner already at the Golden Globes, won at the SAGs for her performance as the doomed prostitute Fantine in the gritty musical "Les Miserables."
"I'm just thrilled I have dental," Hathaway joked on stage.
But in the already-tight best actress race, Jennifer Lawrence made things a little more interesting in winning for the drama "Silver Linings Playbook." The 22-year-old plays a damaged young widow opposite Bradley Cooper, whose character is fresh out of a mental institution. Jessica Chastain, the winner at the Golden Globes, has been her main competition as a driven CIA operative searching for Osama bin Laden in "Zero Dark Thirty."
Lawrence said on stage that she got her SAG card at 14 — which was only eight short years ago — for a promo for the MTV reality series "My Super Sweet 16," which she said felt like the best day of her life.
"And now I have this naked statue which means that some of you even voted for me, and that is an indescribable feeling," she said.
On the television side, the popular PBS series "Downton Abbey" bested more established shows like "Mad Men" to win the TV drama cast award in just its first nomination. "Modern Family" won the comedy cast prize for the third straight year.
And Dick Van Dyke received the guild's life-achievement award, an honor he presented last year to his "The Dick Van Dyke Show" co-star, Mary Tyler Moore.
After receiving a lengthy standing ovation from the audience, he asked his fellow actors, "Aren't we lucky that we found a line of work that doesn't require growing up?"


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Lawmakers leave many Quinn priorities unresolved
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Legislature wrapped up its official 2013 calendar last week after voting to legalize gay marriage, but it made little progress on fixing the state's pension crisis, gun control, ethics reform and other parts of Gov. Pat Quinn's agenda.
Shortly after lawmakers sent Quinn a bill allowing Illinois to join 14 other states and hold same-sex weddings as early as next summer, they abruptly ended their fall veto session with much unfinished business as the 2014 primary elections begin to heat up.
The governor's spokeswoman, Brooke Anderson, argues that several of Quinn's top priorities were accomplished earlier in the year. Among them were an expansion of Medicaid in parallel with the Obama administration's health care overhaul, the adoption of online registration for voters, and the closing of loopholes in the private sale or transfer of firearms. She noted lawmakers upheld several of his vetoes — though they quickly overrode his rejection of the state's historic legislation allowing the concealed-carry of weapons.
"We got a lot done this session that the governor proposed," Anderson said.
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Lobbyists and lawmakers leaning against the Capitol rotunda's rails last week speculated about a special session by year's end to take up unfinished business. But legislative leaders may be cautious about taking up more controversial issues as rank-and-file lawmakers face voters.
Here's a closer look at the unfinished business Quinn laid out in his state of the state address last spring:
When lawmakers were sworn in on Jan. 9, House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton both told the newcomers that the biggest problem they would face was dealing with the pension crisis.
"This issue has lingered for generations and threatens to doom future generations if something isn't done," Cullerton said.
The systems' unfunded liability is higher than ever and close to $100 billion, the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability told The Associated Press last week.
Quinn has repeatedly blamed lawmakers for inaction on the pension crisis, and moved to halt their pay over the summer because of their inaction, a tactic that was later found unconstitutional by the courts. Meanwhile, a bipartisan committee has spent five months hammering out a deal.
Although legislative leaders have said they've made progress, no consensus plan has been announced.
Madigan says he's prepared to pass a "meaningful" pension reform bill and he hopes it will happen before the end of the year. He has declined to say whether a special session would be scheduled at a politically safer time — following the early December deadline for challengers to file petitions with the state board of elections.
"Nobody in Illinois should work 40 hours a week and live in poverty. That's a principle as old as the Bible," Quinn said in February.
He has repeatedly called for lawmakers to raise the minimum wage to at least $10 an hour — a proposal bound to resurface during the campaign. However, opponents have fought it hard, and a bill hasn't even gotten out of committee.
Republicans and business groups say raising the minimum wage kills jobs. Both the Illinois Retail Merchants Association and the Illinois Chamber of Commerce have announced their opposition.
Illinois last raised its minimum wage in 2010. Its $8.25 rate is the highest among Midwestern states, a dollar more than Iowa, Indiana and Wisconsin.
"We must prohibit the sale of assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines in Illinois," Quinn told lawmakers.
But the issue died quickly.
The firearms issue of the spring instead became a victory for gun-rights advocates when lawmakers ended Illinois' last-in-the-nation ban on the carrying of concealed weapons.
This fall, guns were a focus again, as Democratic Rep. Michael Zalewski of Riverside pushed a measure backed by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to impose stiffer penalties on ex-cons and known gangbangers caught with illegal guns.
In the end, black members of the House halted the measure through a procedural move. The members of the Legislative Black Caucus feared young men in black and Latino communities would be disproportionately impri-soned, without the possibility of rehabilitation or alternative sentencing.
Zalewski promises to push ahead while Quinn and black lawmakers asked for a "comprehensive" approach to state gun laws. And when concealed carry permits are issued beginning early next year, there could be even more debate on how the system is regulated and monitored.
Quinn has called on the Legislature to join the ranks of more than 30 other states that have banned conflict of interest voting, but the Legislature hasn't yet acted on his call.
Meanwhile, an investigation into Madigan's role in a Chicago-area transit agency scandal has renewed scrutiny of an ethics law deemed "toothless" by the Legislature's own ethics chief.
Madigan this summer asked the Legislative Ethics Commission to review whether he violated any rules when he asked the Metra rail agency for a pay hike for an associate who had raised campaign money for him, and a separate accusation that he sought a job for another associate. He says he is confident he did nothing wrong.
The eight-member commission has taken up the case. But it is working under a 1967 law that critics say is too vague on what constitutes a conflict of interest or other ethical violation, lacks sufficient penalties to enforce ethical.
Tom Homer, the state's legislative inspector general, is hoping the case brings more attention to his campaign to persuade lawmakers to strengthen the ethics law by publicizing investigations and allowing the censure and even suspension of lawmakers.


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A Colorado judge ruled Thursday that probable cause exists in the case of James Holmes, accused of killing 12 people and wounding scores more in last summer's shooting inside an Aurora movie theater, and ordered that he stand trial.Arapahoe County District Judge William Blair Sylvester, who ordered that Holmes be held without bail, converted a status hearing scheduled for Friday to an arraignment.
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The 25-year-old former doctoral student in neuroscience at the University of Colorado, Denver, faces 166 charges, including murder, attempted murder and weapons offenses, tied to the July 20 rampage during a screening of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises."
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The shootings killed 12 and wounded 58
Defense attorneys, who had been expected to call witnesses and argue a diminished capacity defense, changed their minds during the hearing, attorney Dan King said.
"We have had a change of position," he said. "This is neither the proper venue nor the time to put on a show or present some truncated defense."
After the hearing, some of the victims' relatives asserted that Holmes was too calculating to be afflicted with diminished capacity.
"He's not crazy one bit," Tom Teves told reporters Wednesday. His son Alex, 24, was among those killed.
"He's very, very cold. He's very, very calculated," Teves said of Holmes. "He has a brain set that no one here can understand, and we want to call him crazy because we want to make that feel better in our society.
"But we have to accept the fact there is evil people in our society that enjoy killing any type of living thing. That doesn't make him crazy," Teves said.
Added Jessica Watts, cousin of Jonathan Blunk, also killed in the theater: "It was complete planning. It was competency. It was everything on his part to make sure that this act was carried out from start to finish."
According to hearing testimony, here is what is known about his alleged preparations:
Getting ready
Holmes began buying guns in May, supervisory agent Steve Beggs of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives testified on Tuesday. Beggs said Holmes built an arsenal of two Glock handguns, an AR-15 rifle, a shotgun and 6,295 rounds of ammunition.
Among other purchases, Beggs said Holmes bought two 6-ounce tear gas grenades over the Internet on May 10 and he went to a gun store on May 22 to buy one of his Glocks.
A little more than a month later, on July 1, a video camera captured Holmes as he bought a scope, a mount and some inert ammunition at a Colorado gun store, Beggs said.
In the video, Beggs said, Holmes' hair is dyed bright orange.
A police detective testified that Holmes apparently visited the cinema and took photographs of hallways and doors several times before the shootings.
The photographs were recovered from Holmes' cell phone and go along with months of sales records and descriptions of meticulously prepared booby traps at his home. It all helps illustrate what would appear to be a well-planned attack.
On July 7, Holmes used an online ticketing service to buy a ticket for the midnight showing of the movie, according to Detective Craig Appel, the lead investigator in the case.
The apartment
Witnesses detailed preparations that prosecutors believe Holmes made before setting out for the theater to turn his sparsely decorated Aurora apartment into a deathtrap.
At least some of the preparations were well under way by July 16, based on a photograph from Holmes' phone shown by prosecutors. In it, jars, wires, firework shells and other bomb-making materials are laid out in his kitchen.
By the time Holmes left, the carpet in his apartment had been soaked in oil and gas, FBI bomb technician Garrett Gumbinner testified. A container of glycerin hung above a frying pan with a potassium mixture, attached to a trip wire that would tip the glycerin into the pan, Gumbinner testified.
Had it been triggered, Gumbinner said, it would have set off an explosion and fire, igniting jars of homemade napalm spiked with bullets and thermite -- a metallic substance that burns so hot it is nearly impossible to extinguish.
In a twist that seems ripped from the pages of a comic book, Holmes also rigged his computer and a boom box placed outside to begin playing loud music after he set out for the theater -- apparently in hopes that the noise would prompt someone to investigate and trigger the explosives, witnesses said.
Next to the boom box outside his apartment, Gumbinner testified, Holmes said he placed a toy car and a device that looked like it would control the car but would instead have set off the explosives.
Authorities said they recovered the boom box, which bore Holmes' fingerprints. The remote-control car device was never found, Appel testified.
A series of self-portraits displayed in court, apparently made before Holmes allegedly left for the theater, according to data retrieved from his phone, show him in eye-blackening contacts, his tongue stuck out in one, flashing a toothy grin and a handgun in another.
The shooting
Video from the theater shows a man they say is Holmes -- wearing dark pants, a light-colored shirt and a dark stocking cap covering his orange hair -- entering the multiplex before the movie begins.
The recordings show him going into Theater No. 9, a different theater from the one listed on his ticket.
Sources have said they believe he propped open the theater's back door and went to his car to put on body armor and arm himself. Authorities believe Holmes then re-entered the theater, tossing gas canisters before opening fire about 18 minutes into the movie, according to sources.
Witnesses who have spoken to CNN about the shooting have said the gunman roamed the theater, shooting randomly as people tried to scramble away or cowered between seats.
Among the 41 calls to 911, one stands out. In the 27-second call, at least 30 shots can be heard amid the chaos.
At some point, according to Pearson, one of Holmes' weapons jammed.
"Had the AR-15 not jammed, he would have killed more people," she said.
Investigators found 76 shell casings in the auditorium. Most of the spent rounds -- 65 -- were .223 caliber rifle rounds, six were shotgun shells and five were .40 caliber rounds from the Glocks, Appel said. Police also found one of the tear-gas canisters inside the theater, Appel said.
Also located was a large drum magazine for the rifle that appeared to have jammed, Sgt. Gerald Jonsgaard testified Monday.
Outside, the first officer to encounter Holmes -- who was dressed in body armor, a helmet and a gas mask as he stood near his car -- described him as unnaturally relaxed. In fact, from Holmes' appearance, Officer Jason Oviatt thought he was a fellow police officer.
A trail of blood led from the theater. The rifle that authorities say Holmes used in the attack lay on the ground near the building. Holmes was just standing there, Oviatt testified Monday.
"He seemed very detached from it all," Oviatt said.
Holmes, sweating and smelly, his pupils dilated, didn't struggle or even tense his muscles as he was dragged away to be searched, Oviatt said.
Police would cut off the body armor he wore and learn about the explosive booby-trap at his home.
The interrogation
Police described a strange scene in the interrogation room -- Holmes sitting in his underwear, T-shirt and white socks after police had cut away his body armor -- making puppets of the paper bags officers had placed over his hands to preserve gunpowder evidence, according to Appel.
Holmes played with his polystyrene drinking cup as if it were a piece in a game. Appel said. Then he removed a staple from the table and tried to stick it in an electrical outlet, the detective testified.
Asked by a defense attorney whether he had ordered a blood test for Holmes, Appel said he had not.
"There were no indications that he was under the influence of anything," he said.


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With charts and graphs and such, Andy Skuce makes an interesting argument HERE:
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2. Isn't there "warming in the pipeline" that will continue to heat up the planet no matter what we do?
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From Tori Spelling's Mommywood (Simon Spotlight), written with Hilary Liftin, in which Spelling writes of a day when her son had an accident at a pool:
"Either you know this already or it's too much information, but swim diapers aren't rigged quite the same way as normal diapers are. Swim diapers have a tough job. They have to keep in whatever comes out. Without them, babies would put the 'poo' in 'pool.' So they don't have convenient Velcro openings. You can't just untape, wipe, and be done with it. Instead they're like little pants. The load is kind of trapped in there. Good news for the other swimmers, but once I had Liam in my arms, I had no idea how to get that swim diaper off while adequately containing its contents. That is to say, I feared the poop. …
"I laid Liam down on his towel. I pulled off the swim diaper. Again, either you know this already or it's too much information, but when poo is exposed to that environment (pool water, a sopping swim diaper, a hyper child – the trifecta), it loses its structural integrity. There was no … cohesion. Just crumbles of poo everywhere. A horror show. I went in for the kill, but a few swipes later I was out of wipes and still facing an insurmountable mess. I swear, there was actually more there than when I started."
You're right, Tori: Way too much information.
Read the full review of Mommywood. Tori's mother, Candy Spelling, is also a 2010 Delete Key Awards finalist. This is the first time two members of a family have made the shortlist in the same year.
The Delete Key Awards are being named in random order, beginning with No. 10, but numbered for convenience. This is finalist No. 7B, which tied with No. 7A, Tori Spelling's Mommywood, for this spot. The winner and runners-up will be announced on March 15 on One-Minute Book Reviews and Janice Harayda's Twitter page (@janiceharayda) at www.twitter.com/janiceharayda.
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