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Lion News
November 2011
Posted on November 11, 2011 by Roseanne Bottone
"The instructor does a great job at presenting material in an approachable way. I have been able to save my company about $30,000 in the last year with what I have learned from Lion!"
Curtis Ahonen
EHS&S Manager
"These are the best classes I attend each year. I always take something away and implement improvements at my sites."
Kim Racine
EH&S Manager
"Lion is easily and consistently the best option for compliance training. I've learned new information from every instructor I've had."
Rachel Mathis
EHS Specialist
"Attending Lion Technology classes should be mandatory for every facility that ships or stores hazmat. "
Genell Drake
Outbound Lead
"I tried other environmental training providers, but they were all sub-standard compared to Lion. I will not stray from Lion again!"
Sara Sills
Environmental Specialist
"The instructor had knowledge of regulations and understanding of real-world situations. The presentation style was engaging and fostered a positive atmosphere for information sharing."
Linda Arlen
Safety & Environmental Compliance Officer
"As always, Lion never disappoints"
Paul Resley
Environmental Coordinator
"I have over 26 years of environmental compliance experience, and it has been some time since I have attended an environmental regulations workshop. I attended this course as preparation for EHS Audits for my six plants, and it was exactly what I was looking for."
Frank Sizemore
Director of Regulatory Affairs
"I was recently offered an opportunity to take my training through another company, but I politely declined. I only attend Lion Technology workshops."
Stephanie Gilliam
Material Production/Logistics Manager
"Excellent. I learned more in two days with Lion than at a 5-day program I took with another provider."
Francisco Gallardo
HES Technician
"The instructor was excellent. They knew all of the material without having to read from a notepad or computer. "
Gary Hartzell
Warehouse Supervisor
"I attended training from another provider and learned absolutely nothing. Lion is much better. Hands down."
Nicole Eby
"This training broke down the regulations in an easy-to-understand manner and made them less overwhelming. I now feel I have the knowledge to make more informed decisions."
Amanda Oswald
Shipping Professional
"This is the best RCRA training I've experienced! I will be visiting Lion training again."
Cynthia L. Logsdon
Principal Environmental Engineer
"I have attended other training providers, but Lion is best. Lion is king of the hazmat jungle!!!"
Henry Watkins
Hazardous Waste Technician
"I can't say enough how pleased I was with this course! Everything finally makes sense."
Kim Graham
Lab Manager
"The instructor was energetic and made learning fun compared to dry instructors from other training providers."
Andy D'Amato
International Trade Compliance Manager
"This course went above my expectations from the moment I walked in the door. The instructor led us through two days packed with useful compliance information."
Rachel Stewart
Environmental Manager
"I have been to other training companies, but Lion's material is much better and easier to understand."
Mark Abell
Regional Manager
"I love that the instructor emphasized the thought process behind the regs."
Rebecca Saxena
Corporate Product Stewardship Specialist
"More thorough than a class I attended last year through another company."
Troy Yonkers
HSES Representative
"Amazing instructor; real-life examples. Lion training gets better every year!"
Frank Papandrea
"The instructor clearly enjoys his job and transmits that enthusiasm. He made a dry subject very interesting and fun."
Teresa Arellanes
EHS Manager
"I can take what I learned in this workshop and apply it to everyday work and relate it to my activities."
Shane Hersh
Materials Handler
"The instructor was probably the best I ever had! He made the class enjoyable, was humorous at times, and very knowledgeable."
Mary Sue Michon
Environmental Administrator
"The instructor was great, explaining complex topics in terms that were easily understandable and answering questions clearly and thoroughly."
Brittany Holm
Lab Supervisor
"These are the best commercial course references I have seen (10+ years). Great job!"
Ed Grzybowski
EHS & Facility Engineer
"Excellent job. Made what is very dry material interesting. Thoroughly explained all topics in easy-to-understand terms."
David Hertvik
Vice President
"You blew the doors off the competition!"
Stephen Bieschke
Facilities Manager
"I like Lion's workshops the best because they really dig into the information you need to have when you leave the workshop."
Tom Bush, Jr.
"Best course instructor I've ever had. Funny, relatable, engaging; made it interesting and challenged us as the professionals we are."
Amanda Schwartz
Environmental Coordinator
"The instructor was very dedicated to providing a quality experience. She did her best to make sure students were really comprehending the information."
Stephanie Venn
Inventory Control Specialist
"Lion Technology workshops are amazing!! You always learn so much, and the instructors are fantastic."
Dorothy Rurak
"If I need thorough training or updating, I always use Lion. Lion is always the best in both instruction and materials."
Bryce Parker
"I appreciate the focus on what the regulations tell us to do, as well as what is subject to interpretation."
"The exercises in the DOT hazardous materials management course are especially helpful in evaluating your understanding of course information."
Morgan Bliss
Principal Industrial Hygienist
"Excellent course. Very interactive. Explanations are great whether you get the questions wrong or right."
Gregory Thompson
Environmental, Health & Safety Regional Manager
"I used the IT support number available and my issue was resolved within a few minutes. I don't see anything that could have made it better."
Danny Province
EHS Professional
"Content was comprehensive and seemed to really "dig in" to the material. I liked the option to review FAQs and re-review the quiz questions."
"The price was reasonable, the time to complete the course was manageable, and the flexibility the online training allowed made it easy to complete."
Felicia Rutledge
Hazmat Shipping Professional
"The course is well thought out and organized in a way that leads to a clearer understanding of the total training."
David Baily
"This is a very informative training compared to others. It covers everything I expect to learn and even a lot of new things. "
Quatama Jackson
Waste Management Professional
"The training was impressive. I am not a fan of online training but this was put together very well. I would recommend Lion to others."
Donnie James
Quality Manager
"My experience with Lion training, both online and in the classroom, is that they are far better organized and provide a better sequential explanation of the material."
Robert Roose
Manager, Dangerous Goods Transportation
"Very well structured, comprehensive, and comparable to live training seminars I've participated in previously. I will recommend the online course to other colleagues with training requirement needs."
Neil Luciano
"The course was very informative and presented in a way that was easily understood and remembered. I would recommend this course."
Jeffrey Tierno
Hazmat Shipping Professional
"Lion is at the top of the industry in compliance training. Course content and structure are updated frequently to make annual re-training enjoyable. I like that Lion has experts that I can contact for 1 year after the training."
Caroline Froning
Plant Chemist
"The course was very well structured and covered the material in a clear, concise manner."
Ian Martinez
"The online course was well thought out and organized, with good interaction between the student and the course."
Larry Ybarra
Material Release Agent
"My experience with Lion classes has always been good. Lion Technology always covers the EPA requirements I must follow."
Steven Erlandson
"I had a positive experience utilizing this educational program. It was very informative, convenient, and rewarding from a career perspective."
John Gratacos
Logistics Manager
"Lion does a great job summarizing and communicating complicated EH&S-related regulations."
Michele Irmen
Sr. Environmental Engineer
"Far superior in terms of detail and instructional/support materials. The depth of instructor knowledge is always beyond any other training I have participated in."
"The instructor was very knowledgeable and provided pertinent information above and beyond the questions that were asked. "
Johnny Barton
Logistics Coordinator
"I have returned to Lion's compliance training for several years and prefer to stay with a trusted source. The material and presentation are far superior than others I have taken."
"I chose Lion's online webinar because it is simple, effective, and easily accessible. "
Jeremy Bost
Environmental Health & Safety Technician
"Lion's information is very thorough and accurate. Presenter was very good."
Melissa Little
Regulatory Manager
"Lion courses always set the bar for content, reference, and practical application. Membership and access to the experts is an added bonus."
John Brown, CSP
Director of Safety & Env Affairs
"The instructor's energy, enthusiasm, and knowledge of the subject make the class a great learning experience!"
Brian Martinez
Warehouse Operator
"Excellent class, super instructor, very easy to follow. No rushing through material. Would like to take his class again."
Lawrence Patterson
EH&S Facility Maintenance & Security Manager
"I think LION does an excellent job of any training they do. Materials provided are very useful to my day-to-day work activities."
Pamela Embody
"Energetic/enthusiastic! Made training enjoyable, understandable and fun!"
Amanda Walsh
Hazardous Waste Professional
"Lion was very responsive to my initial questions and the website was user friendly."
Michael Britt
Supply Chain Director
"Convenient; I can train when I want, where I want."
Barry Cook
"Having the tutorial buttons for additional information was extremely beneficial."
Sharon Ziemek
"We have a very busy work schedule and using Lion enables us to take the course at our own time. It makes it easy for me to schedule my employees' training."
Timothy Mertes
"Lion's course was superior to others I have taken in the past. Very clear in the presentation and the examples helped to explain the content presented."
George Bersik
"Lion courses are the standard to which all other workshops should strive for!"
Brody Saleen
Registered Environmental Health Specialist
"Course instructor was better prepared and presented better than other trainers. Course manual and references were easier to use as well."
Marty Brownfield
"The instructor kept the class engaged and made learning fun. There was a lot of information to cover but time flew by. I will definitely use Lion in the future!"
Chelsea Minguela
"Our instructor was very dynamic and kept everyone's interest. Hazmat shipping can be a dry, complicated topic but I was engaged the entire time."
Kimberly Arnao
Senior Director of EH&S
"Lion's online training is more comprehensive, has better slides, and is a superior training experience than what I would get from other trainers."
Robert Brenner
District Environmental Manager
"I was able to present my scenario to the instructor and worked thru the regulations together. In the past, I attended another training firm's classes. Now, I have no intention of leaving Lion!"
Diana Joyner
Senior Environmental Engineer
"The workshop covered a lot of information without being too overwhelming. Lion is much better, more comprehensive than other training providers."
George Alva
Manufacturing Manager
"The instructor did an excellent job presenting a very dry subject; keeping everyone interested and making it enjoyable."
Marc Bugg
"Well designed and thorough program. Excellent summary of requirements with references. Inclusion of regulations in hard copy form, as well as full electronic with state pertinent regulations included is a great bonus!"
Oscar Fisher
"Very witty instructor, made the long times sitting bearable. One of the few training courses I can say I actually enjoyed."
John Hutchinson
Senior EHS Engineer
"The instructor made the class enjoyable. He presented in a very knowledgeable, personable manner. Best class I've ever attended. Will take one again."
John Nekoloff
Environmental Compliance Manager
"The instructor was very engaging and helped less experienced people understand the concepts."
Steve Gall
Safety Leader
"This was the 1st instructor that has made the topic actually enjoyable and easy to follow and understand. Far better than the "other" training providers our company has attended!"
Lori Hardy
Process & Resource Administrator
"I really enjoyed this training. Even after years on both sides of the comprehension coin, I find myself still learning! The quality of the delivery exceeded much of the training I have received in the past."
Neil Ozonur
Safety Officer
"The instructor created a great learning environment."
Avinash Thummadi
CAD & Environmental Manager
"Lion's training was by far the best online RCRA training I've ever taken. It was challenging and the layout was great!"
Paul Harbison
"The instructor took a rather drab set of topics and brought them to life with realistic real-life examples."
Tom Berndt
HSE Coordinator
"Given the choice, I would do all coursework this way. In-person courses go very fast without the opportunity to pause or repeat anything."
Ellen Pelton
Chemical Laboratory Manager
"I really enjoy your workshops. Thank you for such a great program and all the help Lion has provided me over the years!"
George Chatman
Hazardous Material Pharmacy Technician
"I like the consistency of Lion workshops. The materials are well put together and instructors are top notch!"
Kevin Pylka
Permitting, Compliance & Environmental Manager
"No comparison. Lion has the best RCRA training ever!!"
Matt Sabine
"Very good. I have always appreciated the way Lion Tech develops, presents and provides training and materials."
John Troy
"The instructor was very very informative, helpful, understandable and pleasant. This course answered many questions I had, being new to this industry."
Frances Mona
Shipping Manager
"I will never go anywhere, but to Lion Technology."
Dawn Swofford
EHS Technician
"Lion provided an excellent introduction to environmental regulations, making the transition to a new career as an EHS specialist less daunting of a task. Drinking from a fire hose when the flow of water is lessened, is much more enjoyable!"
Stephanie Weathers
SHE Specialist
"One of the best trainings I have ever received!"
Brandon Morfin
"Best instructor ever! I was going to take my DOT training w/a different provider, but based on this presentation, I will also be doing my DOT training w/Lion!"
Donna Moot
"Lion was very extensive. There was a lot of things that were covered that were actually pertaining to what I do and work with. Great Job. I will be coming back in three years!
Tony Petrik
"The instructor made the class very enjoyable and catered to the needs of our group."
Sarah Baker
"The instructor was very patient and engaging - willing to answer and help explain subject matter."
Misty Filipp
Material Control Superintendent
"Much better than my previous class with another company. The Lion instructor made sense, kept me awake and made me laugh!"
Marti Severs
Enterprise Safety Manager
"Lion is my preferred trainer for hazmat and DOT."
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This article was originally published in the July/August 1996 issue of Home Energy Magazine. Some formatting inconsistencies may be evident in older archive content.
| Back to Contents Page | Home Energy Index | About Home Energy |
Home Energy Magazine Online July/August 1996
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Preventing Urban Heat Catastrophes
The heat wave in Chicago last summer created a great deal of human discomfort and, by many estimates, caused over 500 deaths in three days. The overwhelming majority of these deaths occurred in buildings with indoor conditions that were reported as stifling. To prevent such urban heat catastrophes in the future, we need to understand how indoor conditions during such extreme weather conditions are exacerbated by poor thermal characteristics and improper operation of the buildings. By identifying vulnerable housing structures, we can develop strategies to keep such buildings from becoming dangerously hot during a heat wave.
Epidemiological studies of last year's heat wave deaths have revealed many cultural, social, and institutional factors. But the role of the conditions inside the buildings is attested by the fact that almost all those who died lived on the top floor and either did not have air conditioning or could not use it due to blackouts or insufficient building wiring.
Multifamily buildings in urban areas like Chicago, Philadelphia, and St. Louis are often the ones most likely to become excessively hot. The buildings' brick walls store heat over several days and radiate it into the apartments. Particularly vulnerable buildings can be identified by their construction materials, insulation, roof and wall colors, window orientation, apartment configuration, and lack of operable windows or mechanical ventilation.
The role of the radiant temperatures on thermal discomfort is much greater during extreme conditions. One particularly dangerous feature of many apartment buildings is an uninsulated, west-facing brick wall. This wall absorbs solar gain during the late afternoon and radiates the heat inward after the sun sets. This large radiating surface prolongs unhealthy thermal conditions even after the air temperature has peaked.
Researcher Joe Huang, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), investigated and modeled the physical conditions in prototypes of these buildings (see Figure 1). Huang's simulations demonstrate that mechanical ventilation is the most effective way to prevent heat buildup from day to day, and that light-colored roofing significantly lowers ceiling surface temperatures. Insulation helps to keep temperatures down on both the top and bottom floors.
Practical guidelines to reduce deaths from future urban heat waves can be implemented by cities either as a stand-alone retrofit activity or by incorporating them into a weatherization program. Obviously, these same strategies will greatly reduce thermal discomfort for many more people. Finally, many of the mitigation strategies will also reduce heating and cooling energy use enough to pay for their installation.
-Alan Meier
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Here's the whole slideshow — which is labeled "Sotomayor Bio."
An emailer calls this to my attention saying: "I don't think you should post about this, but why would they put in this photo where you can see all the way up her skirt??"
Well, I am posting about this, and I wouldn't say "you can see all the way up her skirt." You can see that Sonia Sotomayor wears a skirt and crosses her legs in a relaxed and casual way that lets you see some leg. The photo also has her smiling prettily, with her hair in relaxed ringlets, one of which falls gently into her eye. Her left hand is devoid of any relationship-manifesting rings, but she's wearing long dangling earrings, and the hand is unclenched and draping gracefully.
Get the message? She's a woman. A womanly woman, fully embodying womanhood — even as she is not married, she's wearing a professional suit, and she's at home with the law books.
IN THE COMMENTS: Palladian, who has expertise in art, writes:
Her knee looks like a giant grey Idaho potato hovering in the foreground. The arm of the chair repeats the shape on the right of the frame, making it look like her other knee, which in turn makes it look like her hand is dead center in her enormous crotch, pawing at her cooch. You avoid those things in portraiture. Also not good to crop her right arm off. It implies that she's an amputee.He is right, of course, but that isn't the answer to my question why the photograph was selected.
ALSO IN THE COMMENTS: Andrew Koenig said:
My first thought was of this famous picture of J.P. Morgan...
... in which the light reflecting from the arm of his chair makes him seem to be holding a dagger.The photo is by Edward Steichen. The effect was accidental, but in this case, we love it (as much as Morgan hated it). The important thing is to have an eye not just for what you are hoping to capture in a photograph — such as Sotomayor's femininity — but also for the accidental imagery that others may notice. See what can be seen and then decide if you want to use a photograph.


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Holmes: Romney campaign sputtering in the home stretch
Heading into the home stretch of the 2012 presidential race, Barack Obama is opening up a lead. This week, Mitt Romney hit the accelerator and just about ran his campaign off a cliff.
All polls are snapshots, and the ones we've seen this week don't reflect Romney's ill-considered attack on the president as the ambassador lay dead and the Libyan embassy still smoldered. They reflect what the campaigns did this summer.
Some of the numbers most disturbing to the Romney camp come from their friends at Fox News. The Fox poll found Romney trailing by 5 percent nationally among likely voters. Obama leads by 14 points with women, 18 points with people who make under $50,000, 25 points with voters under 30. He holds solid leads with voters who care about foreign policy, education, Medicare, health care and terrorism.
This is no runaway contest, at least not yet. The Fox poll has the candidates tied on two critical questions: "taking the country in the right direction" and "improving the economy." But the Democrats' enthusiasm gap has disappeared, opinions have hardened and there are very few undecided or persuadable voters out there. In the swing state polls, the news for Romney is even worse.
There's a reason these numbers have shifted. Take a step back and look at what the candidates needed to do in the phase of the campaign from the end of the primaries to Labor Day.
Obama had to fire up his base, so he endorsed gay marriage and enacted an executive order version of the Dream Act. By the time he got to his convention all was forgiven, with those two actions, along with the auto rescue, dominating the convention cheers in the pre-10 p.m. speeches.
Romney had to win the hearts of Tea Partiers and others who supported his opponents. He gave them Paul Ryan, which helped a little. Then he froze most of those who had dared challenge him in the primaries – Ron Paul, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain – out of the convention entirely. There was no rebellion in Tampa, but there was no love either.
Obama had to complete the job of defining Romney his primary opponents had begun. So his campaign went negative, hitting him hard on Bain and taxes. As he did, the election became more and more a choice, not a referendum.
Romney had to shore up his foreign policy credentials, but his stumbles on his trip to Europe and Jerusalem had the opposite effect.
Romney's to-do list also included making himself more likeable, so one of the main themes of the GOP convention was what a warm, terrific human being he was. But that message was lost in some unplanned convention messages – the preening of Chris Christie, the prevarications of Paul Ryan and Clint Eastwood's strange monolog.
Romney is still on thin ice with the loudest conservatives, some of whom spent the summer criticizing him for going too easy on Obama. Romney's campaign understands he needs to win over independents and disillusioned Obama voters, so he took a softer, more-in-pity-than-anger tone in his acceptance speech.
But Romney hasn't been able to bring out the Etch-A-Sketch when it came to policy, for fear of offending his right flank. He tried last weekend, saying on Meet The Press that he wanted to keep some elements of health care reform, including the requirement that insurers to cover pre-existing conditions. But within hours his campaign was in full retreat back to their "full repeal" position.
Meanwhile, Romney has been unwilling, unable or unprepared to answer the most obvious questions about his taxes, the abortion plank in the GOP platform and the details of his deficit-reduction plan. They wouldn't even have to be great, coherent answers, but with all the money and talent in his campaign, you'd think they would have figured out some responses last spring.
Romney made another unforced error by leaving foreign policy, the war in Afghanistan and American troops out of the Tampa convention. It was a mistake Democrats took full advantage of in Charlotte, stopping just short of parading around the hall with Osama bin Laden's head on a pike.
Romney doubled-down on that mistake this week, reinforcing the foreign policy shakiness he showed in Europe. With his over-eager, shoot-from-the-hip response to the attack in Libya, he made things immeasurably worse. He looks inexperienced and rash. Obama looks careful and cool.
The pundits this week were arguing whether Romney's eruption after the Libya attack would be seen as this campaign's "Lehman Brothers moment," referring to the time four years ago when Wall Street crashed and John McCain flailed, shutting down his campaign, calling for the debates to be postponed and otherwise losing it.
Obama declined to delay the debate, explaining that a president needed to be able to do more than one thing at once. When leaders of both parties gathered for a summit meeting at the White House that McCain had demanded, it was Obama who seemed in control, presenting the Democrats' position, leading the way to consensus, while McCain, according to news accounts, had nothing to say.
Whether or not this marks a comparable turning point, time will tell. But that is not the kind of question Team Romney would have hoped was on people's minds six weeks before the election.
Romney may regain his footing, but there's not much evidence in his past performance that he can elevate his game in Clintonian comeback-kid fashion. He won the GOP nomination mostly by having the most money to spend on negative TV ads, and he's got the warchest to try that again in the general election.
But time runs short, voters' minds are made up, and Republicans and conservative media types are already turning on the candidate they didn't like from the beginning. This week, it feels like things may be unraveling for Mitt Romney.
Rick Holmes, opinion editor for the Daily News, blogs at Holmes & Co. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Bailey Family Earns Bragging Rights
Our attempt to improve the energy efficiency of our home began in 2008, after the electrical portion of our utility bill soared over $400. We had long been resigned to a steep energy bill, in part because we have a 40-foot solar-heated swimming pool, which has to be filtered at least four or five hours per day even in winter. But this is still a lot of money! It was particularly galling that because of our high level of consumption, we were paying 39 per kilowatt-hour. But what could we do? Where was all the electricity going? There was no way to tell.
Two developments led the way to saving electricity — and cash. First, in 2008, electrical costs at the Berkeley Lab's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center were rising steeply. The lab was considering installing inexpensive electric power meters to get a handle on electricity use. I thought one of these meters might be useful to monitor my family's use of electricity. And second, at about the same time, our local utility, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) began to install SmartMeters. These meters allow customers to view hour-by-hour usage on the Internet, and thus identify potential trouble spots.
So in February 2009, we purchased a $22 Kill A Watt power meter from Amazon.com, and started measuring the amount of electricity used by our appliances and electronic devices. To our horror, we found that two computers in the den were using ridiculous amounts of electricity — my wife's PC was using 250 watts around the clock, even when no one was using it, and a Mac workstation I had at home was using 225 watts around the clock. So we soon replaced my wife's PC with a new energy-efficient laptop, and I shut off the Mac except when I really needed to use it. We found that this change alone saved us roughly $100 per month.
Another unpleasant surprise uncovered by our Kill A Watt meter was the refrigerator. We found that it was consuming about 2.4 kWh per day, which was costing us roughly $30 per month. As it turned out, in 2010 we had extensive water damage in our kitchen, when a rat ate the outlet hose of our dishwasher. So when we redid the kitchen, we replaced all the appliances. The new refrigerator, an LG Energy Star model, has an estimated utility cost of only $43 per year (it actually costs us roughly $5 per month, because our utility rate is higher than that assumed in the Energy Star estimate).
Better Viewing, Lower Energy Bills, and Less Pollution
More than 80% of U.S. homes subscribe to some form of pay-television service.
Transforming those signals into shows, movies, and sports on the screen currently depends on approximately 160 million set-top boxes, nearly all of which are owned and installed by the cable, satellite, phone, or other service provider. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), where I work, and Ecos Consulting partnered to better understand how much energy these devices use and how they might be used more efficiently. What we found was startling: In 2010, set-top boxes in the United States consumed approximately 27,000,000,000 kWh of electricity, which is equivalent to the annual output of nine average (500 MW) coal-fired power plants. The electricity required to operate all U.S. boxes is equal to the annual household electricity consumption of the entire state of Maryland, results in 16 million metric tons of CO2 emissions, and costs households more than $3 billion each year. Fortunately, there is great potential for improving the efficiency and reducing the cost of operating these electronics that so many viewers rely upon.
Here are the key findings of the NRDC and Ecos study:
There are approximately 160 million set-top boxes installed in U.S. homes. Almost all of these boxes are owned and installed by the service provider. Today's set-top boxes operate at near full power even when the consumer is neither watching nor recording a show. As a nation, we spend $2 billion each year to power these boxes when they are not being actively used.
Digital video recorders (DVRs) are growing in popularity and frequently replace set-top boxes without recording capability. DVRs typically use around 40% more energy per year than their non-DVR counterparts.
Better-designed pay-TV set-top boxes could reduce the energy use of the already-installed base of boxes by 30 - 50% by 2020. The big opportunities include: (a) shifting to whole-home solutions that include a main box connected to the primary TV with either TVs specially designed to access the video content stored on the main box or low-power thin client boxes that serve the same function, and (b) having the boxes automatically power down to much lower power levels when not in use (for example, in the middle of the night, or while users are at work).
— Noah Horowitz
Noah Horowitz is a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, and director of the Center for Energy Efficiency, San Francisco, California.
One more surprise uncovered by our Kill A Watt meter was our cable/digital video recorder (DVR) box. These devices consume a lot of electricity even when they are switched off (see "Better Viewing, Lower Energy Bills, and Less Pollution"). On or off, ours was consuming 28 watts around the clock. So we plugged all our video equipment, including our new LED flat-screen TV and the cable/DVR box, into a power strip and shut the power strip off when we weren't using the equipment. Now when we switch the equipment on, it takes 30 seconds or so before we can watch TV, but we are willing to make this onerous sacrifice for the sake of energy efficiency (wink).
We had long suspected that our swimming pool filter pump was costing us plenty, but we couldn't measure its usage with the Kill A Watt meter (which works only for items with a standard electrical plug). However, when PG&E installed a SmartMeter on our property, we were able to see how much power the pump was using each day, and concluded that it was costing us roughly $100 per month. So after consulting with our pool service company, we replaced it with a new ultraefficient, multispeed pump. This now costs us only about $25 per month.
One more change was to replace all 38 ceiling can lights in our house with LED can fixtures (manufactured by Cree, Incorporated, and now available at Home Depot). These are a nice true white color, are dimmable, and what's more, screw into standard can sockets. These were relatively expensive, but we should recoup the cost in five years.
The bottom line is that we have cut the electrical portion of our PG&E bill from about $400 per month three years ago to only about $50 per month today — plus or minus some blips here and there due to unusual events such as family get-togethers or remodel crews (see Figure 1).
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Here is the complete list, in chronological order, of the changes we made in our house:
- February 2, 2009. Purchased a Kill A Watt power meter; started measuring usage.
- February 10, 2009. Turned off the Mac workstation when not in use.
- May 9, 2009. Purchased a new PC laptop.
- March 31, 2010. Replaced the washer/dryer with new models.
- July 2, 2010. Replaced the pool pump with new multispeed model.
- December 13, 2010. Replaced kitchen ceiling lighting with LED cans, as part of kitchen remodel.
- December 15, 2010. Replaced TV with 40-inch LED backlit model; installed Comcast digital TV service.
- December 22, 2010. Installed power strip to turn off Comcast DVR box and other TV equipment when not in use.
- January 7, 2011. Replaced den ceiling lighting with LED cans.
- January 19, 2011. Replaced dishwasher, microwave, and stove/oven (the latter with an induction cooktop), as part of kitchen remodel.
- February 3, 2011. Replaced refrigerator, as part of kitchen remodel.
- April 23, 2011. Replaced ceiling lighting in remaining rooms with LED cans.
This short article was submitted to Home Energy by David H. Bailey, a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in response to Senior Executive Editor Alan Meier's recent editorial (July/Aug '11, p. 2), which featured the home of another building scientist and frequent Home Energy contributor, Danny Parker of the Florida Solar Energy Center. Come on, you readers out there, don't let the scientists hog all the spotlight! Write to firstname.lastname@example.com and brag about your energy-saving retrofit measures. Or be really brave and tell us about your failures. All data are good!
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The new coaching staff at Providence College didn't call Ross Mauermann in the spring of 2011 when they were scouring the prep school and junior ranks for players that could come in immediately and beef...
The new coaching staff at Providence College didn't call Ross Mauermann in the spring of 2011 when they were scouring the prep school and junior ranks for players that could come in immediately and beef up a roster that was short on both numbers and talent.
Instead, he called them.
At the time, not one of the other 58 Division I programs in the United States had a place for Mauermann, who had just finished his second season in the North American Hockey League and was too old for a third year.
"I knew I could play at the Division I level," Mauermann said. But unless he could drum up some late D-I interest — it was already April — he probably was headed to a D-III school in his native Wisconsin.
So Mauermann picked up the phone and dialed assistant coach Ben Barr, who had just moved to PC from Union College along with new head coach Nate Leaman.
"We had met when I was still at Union," said Barr. "I had talked to him, we recruited him a bit, but we didn't offer him a spot."
The second time around, with PC badly in need of bodies, Mauermann was offered a slot as a recruited walk-on. On a campus visit, he "fell in love with the place," he says.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
Literally from day one, Mauermann, 22, has been a terrific player, leading a rebuilding team in scoring as a freshman and a sophomore. Last season, the U.S. Hockey Report called him "possibly the top recruited walk-on in the country."
The 5-foot-9 center is held in such high regard by his coaches that when the Friars open the 2013-14 season on Friday night at the sparkling new Schneider Arena, Mauermann will wear an alternate captain's 'A' on his jersey, even though he's only a junior.
"It was an easy decision. Ross has all the traits that you want for your team," said Leaman. "He's a great competitor. His work ethic is second to none. He's not a loud person, but when I found out he was talking to some of the freshmen and helping them out . . . leading the guys in his own way, it was easy. You change the culture of a program with kids like Ross."
"He's a complete person. He's a good student. He's a good person off the ice. On the ice, he's a complete player. He can play offense, he can play defense, he's strong on the puck. He can log a lot of minutes. There's no weakness in his game. To me, Ross is a prototypical great player at our level. I feel comfortable playing him in any situation and I know he's going to succeed."
Says Barr: "If you look at what he means to our program and what he did for our program from the day he got here, it's hard to find a guy that means more to his team as a recruited walk-on."
The fact that Mauermann nearly fell through the cracks underscores the hit-or-miss nature of recruiting.
After a great high school career — he was a finalist for Wisconsin's "Mr. Hockey" award in 2008-09 — Mauermann decided to play junior for his hometown Janesville Jets of the Tier II NAHL. He was second on the team in scoring in his first year, and was the leader in the second.
While with the Jets, he tried out for and was cut by a couple of teams in the Tier I United States Hockey League. But he wasn't discouraged.
"Maybe going somewhere else I might have had more exposure, but it was fun to be able to stay home and play in my hometown. Looking back, maybe it worked out better that I didn't make those teams because I had an opportunity to play a lot of minutes in Janesville. Things happen the way they do for a reason," said Mauermann.
"He's not a flashy player. In those tryouts, sometimes it's easy to overlook kids like that," said Barr.
"He played on a team that wasn't great in the NA, which is a very hard league to recruit because it's spread out all over North America. If you just watched the stats on the Internet, you wouldn't appreciate what he did. I knew his coach at the time, Dave Litke. He kept calling me and calling me. He was a huge advocate for Ross. He kept telling me, this kid is really good."
Seeing was believing once practices started at PC in the fall of 2011.
"First day here, he was arguably the best player on the ice," said Barr. "So it wasn't just a fluke, all of a sudden. He was that good from day one. And it was because he worked so hard and cared about it so much, and was appreciative of the opportunity. The lucky part is that he's as good a kid as he is. That's what's lucky about it."
Asked to describe his game, Mauermann says, "I'm a hard worker. I try to be a two-way player, offense and defense. Try to use my speed to my advantage, and try to make plays."
Mauermann, who has been playing this week on a line with Stefan Demopoulos and Shane Luke, scored 24 points in 38 games for the low-scoring Friars as a freshman and 25 in 38 games as a sophomore. The goal this season, Leaman said, is to "take him to that next level and make him an elite player in the league offensively."
Considering all that he means to his team, it's no surprise that Mauermann has been a scholarship player since last season.
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During my time in grad school so far I haven't done much to escape Wikipedia; I've taught information literacy sessions that deliberately incorporated Wikipedia and helped organize a Wikipedia edit-a-thon in our University Archives. And though Wikipedia can be a contentious issue for some librarians, particularly those from a different generation, Wikipedia's GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) project is making new strides toward partnerships with cultural heritage institutions. The reason many disparage Wikipedia–it's not necessarily a credible information source, they say–is exactly the reason it needs librarians! The project started as a means to tap into the wisdom of those working at cultural institutions, people who are often subject experts on countless treasures. There is growing awareness that by acknowledging Wikipedia's existence and matching our teaching and outreach activities accordingly, we can stay relevant to our patrons and create new opportunities to share our incredible, often unique items and materials. Sure, the criticisms are there… but being real about what Wikipedia is and isn't and doing our part to make it better is vital.
If you're so inclined, here are some ways to get involved, from least time-intensive to most:
- Talk to peers and colleagues who are skeptical of Wikipedia. Maybe this recent OCLC webinar will change a negative opinion.
- Spread the word about the GLAM Project and encourage your library to participate.
- Start editing articles related to your institution's collections (be sure to adhere to the conflict of interest guidelines, though… and you may want to take a look at the National Archives' stance for additional guidance)
- Organize an edit-a-thon in your GLAM institution.
- Be a Wikipedian-in-Residence. If you have specialized knowledge in a particular subject area and Wikipedia editing skills, you'll be in demand. (If you're a beginner, you might not be selected for these positions in prominent institutions. However, suggesting this role for yourself at a local museum or archive is completely acceptable!)
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WASHINGTON – The Obama administration and its opponents are renewing the Supreme Court battle over President Obama's health care law in a case that pits the religious rights of employers against the rights of women to the birth control of their choice.
Two years after the entire law survived the justices' review by a single vote, the court is hearing arguments Tuesday in a religion-based challenge from family-owned companies that object to covering certain contraceptives in their health plans as part of the law's preventive care requirement.
Health plans must offer a range of services at no extra charge, including all forms of birth control for women that have been approved by federal regulators.
Some of the almost 50 businesses that have sued over covering contraceptives object to paying for all forms of birth control. But the companies involved in the high court case are willing to cover most methods of contraception, as long as they can exclude drugs or devices that the government says might work after an egg has been fertilized.
The largest company among them, Hobby Lobby Stores and the Green family that owns it, say their "religious beliefs prohibit them from providing health coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices that end human life after conception."
Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby has more than 15,000 full-time employees in more than 600 crafts stores in 41 states. The Greens are evangelical Christians who also own Mardel, a Christian bookstore chain.
The other company is Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. of East Earl, Pa., owned by a Mennonite family and employing 950 people in making wood cabinets.
The administration says a victory for the companies would prevent women who work for them from making decisions about birth control based on what's best for their health, not whether they can afford it. The government's supporters point to research showing that nearly one-third of women would change their contraceptive if cost were not an issue; a very effective means of birth control, the intrauterine device, can cost up to $1,000.
"Women already have an income gap. If these companies prevail, they'll have a health insurance gap, too," said Marcia Greenberger, co-president of the National Women's Law Center.
The contraceptives at issue before the court are the emergency contraceptives Plan B and ella, and two IUDs.
The government also argues that employers would be able to invoke religious objections under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act to opt out of other laws, including those governing immunizations, minimum wages and Social Security taxes. The Supreme Court previously has rejected some of these claims in cases decided before the law's enactment.
The issue is largely confined to family-controlled businesses with a small number of shareholders.
A survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found 85 percent of large American employers already had offered such coverage before the health care law required it. There are separate lawsuits challenging the contraception provision from religiously affiliated hospitals, colleges and charities.
The federal appeals court in Denver ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby. Conestoga Wood lost its case at the federal appeals court in Philadelphia
In many respects, Hobby Lobby is the sort of company Obama would be pointing to as he advocates for corporate responsibility and a higher minimum wage.
Hobby Lobby's base pay for full-time employees is almost twice the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. They are offered health insurance, dental coverage and a retirement savings plan. Hobby Lobby stores close most nights at 8 p.m., which the company says is aimed at allowing employees to spend more time with their families.
The Greens say they have no desire to make health care decisions for their employees, but neither do they want to contribute to services to which they object.
One key issue before the justices is whether profit-making corporations may assert religious beliefs under the 1993 religious freedom law or the First Amendment provision guaranteeing Americans the right to believe and worship as they choose. The court could skirt that issue by finding that the individuals who own the businesses have the right to object.


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By Michael Biesecker
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ATLANTA — The philanthropic arm of shipping giant UPS said it will no longer give money to the Boy Scouts of America as long as the group discriminates against gays, the second major corporation to recently strip funding from the scouts.
The UPS Foundation made the change Thursday after an online petition protesting its annual grants to the Boy Scouts attracted more than 80,000 signatures.
UPS, based in Atlanta, follows computer chip maker Intel in withdrawing corporate support for the Boy Scouts.
The UPS Foundation gave more than $85,000 to the Boy Scouts in 2011, according to its federal tax return.
Federal tax returns for 2011 for Intel, the world's largest chip maker, were not immediately available.
Some media reported the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company as giving hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years.
UPS spokeswoman Kristen Petrella said groups applying for the foundation grants will have to adhere to the same standards UPS does by not discriminating against anyone based on race, religion, disability or sexual orientation.
"We promote an environment of diversity and inclusion," Petrella said Monday. "UPS is a company that does the right things for the right reasons."
The UPS Foundation distributed $45.3 million in grants last year.
Petrella said she was not aware of any other current grant recipients who would be affected by the new policy.
Petrella said the company had been concerned about discrimination by the Boy Scouts before the petition drive.
The Boy Scouts said this summer it was sticking with the divisive, long-standing policy of excluding openly gay youth and adults as members and leaders.
Deron Smith, the director of public relations for the Irving, Texas-based Boy Scouts of America, said the group was disappointed about the decision from UPS.
"These types of contributions go directly to serving young people in local councils and this decision will negatively impact youth," Smith said. "Through 110,000 units, scouting represents millions of youth and adult members in diverse communities across the nation, each with a variety of beliefs on this topic."
UPS and Intel changed course after Zach Wahls, an Eagle Scout and founder of the group Scouts for Equality, began online petitions this fall at Change.org calling for corporations to end their financial support of the Boy Scouts. That call has been echoed by such groups as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, which has highlighted the case of an Ohio mother barred from volunteering with her son's Cub Scout pack because she is a lesbian.
"Corporate America gets it better than most: policies that discriminate aren't simply wrong, they're bad for business and they're hurting the scouting community," Wahls said Monday.
The policy of excluding gays has also come under increased scrutiny within the last month, as thousands of confidential files released as part of a lawsuit show top Boy Scout leaders for decades carefully tracked thousands of scoutmasters and volunteers who sexually abused boys in their care but routinely failed to report those individuals to law enforcement.


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Heisenberg's uncertainty principle turns up everywhere in quantum mechanics. The idea is that certain types of measurements like position and momentum are paired. By measuring one of the pair, we generate uncertainty in the other. This is also referred to as quantum back-action: the thing you are measuring pushes back on the measuring system, which generates uncertainty in some other property. This fundamental idea has some serious consequences when it comes to measuring very small stuff, like gravitational waves.
There is, however, an end run around Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. If you choose to measure things that aren't paired, the precision with which we measure these properties is limited only by how good our measuring stick is. It is important to realize that these measurements are not back-action free, but that the back-action is self-canceling. In the past, researchers have decided that these types of measurements, called quantum non-demolition (QND) measurements, are either trivial or useless. Now, a paper in Physical Review X uses a more general description of QND, along with examples, to show that it is useful and that it is being applied already.
Authors Mankei Tsang and Carlton Caves start by defining the idea of a quantum-mechanics-free sub-system. The idea is that, although you have a quantum system, you can describe a certain part of it by classical dynamics. Normally this would mean that there was sufficient noise and that the quantum behavior was washed out. But this is not what they mean. What they are referring to is that the way in which a quantum system changes is often continuous and precisely described by some mathematical representation, it is only the measurement of some property that has some uncertainty. So, if you can create a measurement that has no intrinsic uncertainty, then the mathematical description looks like a classical description where everything changes and is predicted by a set of equations.
That description appears to violate the very principles of quantum mechanics, but it cannot be dismissed out of hand, because Tsang and Caves are very precise in their wording. An entire quantum system cannot be described this way, only a part of it. The back-action that would create uncertainty does not vanish but instead turns up in some property that is not of interest. Everything that can be measured without uncertainty goes in the box labeled "quantum-mechanics-free," and everything else doesn't. This cannot be done arbitrarily, though. For instance, one cannot take a position and momentum pair, and measure them without uncertainty. Instead, one has to measure some combination of positions and momentums that jointly have no uncertainty.
It is perhaps easiest to describe this in terms of one of their concrete examples: a harmonic oscillator. A harmonic oscillator can be described by the position and momentum of the particle undergoing oscillations. Any measurement on the particle position destroys knowledge of the particle momentum and vise-versa. This is a quantum mechanical system.
The same system can also be described by two harmonic oscillators, one of which has a negative mass. Now, instead of measuring the position of one particle, we have four different possible measurements that form two pairs. One pair is given by the summed position of the two particles, and their average momentum. The second pair is the separation between the particles and the difference in their momentum. When we examine these, we find that we can measure the difference in momentum and position of the two oscillators as accurately as we like, because the back action affects the sum of the particle positions and their average momentum. This is the definition of a QND, and some think it is useless because you only get the difference in position for two oscillators, not the absolute position of either of the oscillators.
You might be thinking that a harmonic oscillator with a negative mass is entirely unrealistic, but nothing could be further from the truth. A concrete example is the mechanical vibration of a mirror that forms part of an optical cavity. The light in the optical cavity consists of a series of discrete colors: the light should travel an integer number of half wavelengths as it travels from one mirror around the cavity and returns to the starting mirror. These different colors or frequencies are referred to as the modes of the cavity. If the cavity mode spacing is chosen such that it is the same as the natural frequency of the mirror's mechanical vibrations, then something very cool can happen. The movement of the mirror doppler shifts the frequency of the light, and light starts to build up in the cavity at two colors, one at a slightly redder wavelength than the original and the other at a bluer wavelength.
Let's ignore the mirror and look instead at the light. In fact, let's jump right into the picture and ride along with the light at the center frequency. In this picture, that light vanishes because we can't see it oscillating anymore. Instead we see two oscillators, the red and blue shifted light fields associated with doppler-shifts from the mirror. In this picture, riding along with the center mode, the red shifted field has a negative frequency, and to increase its amplitude involves adding a unit of negative energy. In other words, it behaves exactly like an oscillator with a negative mass. The blue shifted light field still requires positive energy to increase its amplitude, so it is a positive mass oscillator.
As a result, measurements of the amplitude and phase of either one of these light fields—which would tell you the position and momentum of the mirror—are limited by the uncertainty principle. However, the amplitude difference and phase difference can be measured with no uncertainty whatsoever. From this, the force on the mirror can be derived without uncertainty (but not the absolute position or momentum). If we go back to gravitational wave sensing, this is exactly what you want to achieve.
As mentioned earlier, the feature example is gravitational wave sensing, where very tiny fluctuations in the very fabric of space are supposed to be sensed by the shifting of a mirror. Currently, these shifts are within the noise of the measurement system, and the systems are limited by the uncertainty principle. The idea of using squeezed light to improve these instruments is not new, and that idea fits right into this description of QND.
Those of you who know something about this will be thinking "there is nothing new here." In some respects, you are absolutely right; this paper doesn't present new results as such, and in fact the examples they use are all published. So what's special? Tsang and Caves have created a more general framework. They show how disparate examples, from electron spins in a magnetic field, to vibrating mirrors, to qubit implementations can all be described by the same mathematical ideas. Knowing this, it becomes possible to construct new experimental implementations that take advantage of these QND measurements.
Physical Review X, 2012, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.2.031016


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Experts: Oscar Pistorius violated basic firearms rules
- Pistorius has been charged with premeditated murder
- He says shooting was an accident after he believed an intruder had entered the house
- Experts say Pistorius should not have fired through a closed door
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Even if Oscar Pistorius is acquitted of murder, firearms and legal experts in South Africa believe that, by his own account, the star athlete violated basic gun-handling regulations and exposed himself to a homicide charge by shooting into a closed door without knowing who was behind it.
Particularly jarring for firearms instructors and legal experts is that Pistorius testified that he shot at a closed toilet door, fearing but not knowing for certain that a nighttime intruder was on the other side. Instead of an intruder, Pistorius' girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was in the toilet cubicle. Struck by three of four shots that Pistorius fired from a 9 mm pistol, she died within minutes. Prosecutors charged Pistorius with premeditated murder, saying the shooting followed an argument between the two. Pistorius said it was an accident.
South Africa has stringent laws regulating the use of lethal force for self-protection. In order to get a permit to own a firearm, applicants must not only know those rules but must demonstrate proficiency with the weapon and knowledge of its safe handling, making it far tougher to legally own a gun in South Africa than many other countries where a mere background check suffices.
Pistorius took such a competency test for his 9 mm pistol and passed it, according to the South African Police Service's National Firearms Center. Pistorius' license for the 9 mm pistol was issued in September 2010. The Olympic athlete and Paralympic medalist should have known that firing blindly, instead of at a clearly identified target, violates basic gun-handling rules, firearms and legal experts said.
"You can't shoot through a closed door," said Andre Pretorius, president of the Professional Firearm Trainers Council, a regulatory body for South African firearms instructors. "People who own guns and have been through the training, they know that shooting through a door is not going to go through South African law as an accident."
"There is no situation in South Africa that allows a person to shoot at a threat that is not identified," Pretorius added. "Firing multiple shots, it makes it that much worse. ...It could have been a minor — a 15-year-old kid, a 12-year-old kid — breaking in to get food."
The Pistorius family, through Arnold Pistorius, uncle of the runner, has said it is confident that the evidence will prove that Steenkamp's death in the predawn hours of Feb. 14 was "a terrible and tragic accident."
In an affidavit to the magistrate who last Friday freed him on bail, Pistorius said he believed an intruder or intruders had gotten into his US$560,000 (€430,000) two-story house, in a guarded and gated community with walls topped by electrified fencing east of the capital, Pretoria, and were inside the toilet cubicle in his bathroom. Believing he and Steenkamp "would be in grave danger" if they came out, "I fired shots at the toilet door" with the pistol that he slept with under his bed, he testified.
Criminal law experts said that even if the prosecution fails to prove premeditated murder, firing several shots through a closed door could bring a conviction for the lesser but still serious charge of culpable homicide, a South African equivalent of manslaughter covering unintentional deaths through negligence.
Johannesburg attorney Martin Hood, who specializes in firearm law, said South African legislation allows gun owners to use lethal force only if they believe they are facing an immediate, serious and direct attack or threat of attack that could either be deadly or cause grievous injury.
According to Pistorius' own sworn statement read in court, he "did not meet those criteria," said Hood, who is also the spokesman for the South African Gun Owners' Association.
"If he fired through a closed door, there was no threat to him. It's as simple as that," he added. "He can't prove an attack on his life ... In my opinion, at the very least, he is guilty of culpable homicide."
The Associated Press emailed a request for comment to Vuma, a South African reputation management firm hired by the Pistorius family to handle media questions about the shooting.
The firm replied: "Due to the legal sensitivities around the matter, we cannot at this stage answer any of your questions as it might have legal implications for a case that still has to be tried in a court of law." Vuma said on Monday it referred the AP's questions to Pistorius' legal team, which by Tuesday had not replied.
Culpable homicide covers unintentional deaths ranging from accidents with no negligence, like a motorist whose brakes fail, killing another road user, "to where it verges on murder or where it almost becomes intentional," said Hood. Sentences — ranging from fines to prison — are left to courts to determine and are not set by fixed guidelines.
The tough standards for legally acquiring a gun were instituted in part because of a wave of weapons purchases after the end of racist white rule in 1994, said Rick De Caris, a former legal director in the South African police. Under South Africa's white-minority apartheid regime, gun owners often learned how to handle firearms during military service. Many of the new gun owners had little or no firearms training, which brought tragic results, De Caris said.
"People were literally shooting themselves when cleaning a firearm," said De Caris, who helped draft the Firearms Control Act of 2000.
Prospective gun owners must now take written exams that include questions on the law, have to show they can safely handle and shoot a gun and are required to hit a target the size of a glossy magazine in 10 of 10 shots from seven meters (23 feet), said Pretorius of the Professional Firearm Trainers Council.
In his affidavit, Pistorius said he wasn't wearing his prosthetic limbs "and felt extremely vulnerable" after hearing noise from the toilet.
"I grabbed my 9 mm pistol from underneath my bed. On my way to the bathroom, I screamed words to the effect for him/them to get out of my house and for Reeva to phone the police. It was pitch-dark in the bedroom and I thought Reeva was in bed," he testified.
Legal experts said they are puzzled why Pistorius apparently didn't first fire a warning shot to show the supposed intruder he was armed. Also unanswered is why, after he heard noise in his bathroom that includes the toilet cubicle, Pistorius still went toward the bathroom — toward the perceived danger — rather than retreat back into his bedroom.
"He should have tried to get out of the situation," said Hood, the attorney.


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Chicago man filling potholes -- artfully
The perfect pothole might not exist for many people -- but for mosaic artist Jim Bachor, it's one with a nice oval shape. Bachor began filling those potholes a little more than a year ago, after one in front of his house became a hassle.
Bachor doesn't just fill them with cement, though. He's turned pothole-filling into a public art project -- one with a sense of humor. He fills them with mosaics.
"I just think it's fun to add that little bit of spark into (an) issue that people moan about," says the Chicago resident, whose work also hangs in galleries. He was first drawn to the ancient art form because of its ability to last.
With orange cones and vests displaying his last name, Bachor and his helpers look official enough to shut down a street section to work on filling a pothole.
Bachor uses the Chicago city flag design in his pothole art. Some versions hold phone numbers to local auto repair shops, while others simply read "POTHOLE." His most recent installment north of downtown Chicago -- "(hash)21914" -- pokes fun at the huge number of potholes that exist in the city.
While his mosaic art isn't a permanent solution to the city's pothole problem, it's at least a small fix, he says. The city hasn't shut down his project, and some community members have expressed gratitude.
After his first project, one neighbor stopped to thank him. "And then 15 minutes later, he came back with a coffee and a Danish for me," Bachor says, "and so I thought that was really cool."
Gerry Shaheen, a resident of Peoria, Illinois, recently stopped to ask Bachor about his work, as the artist installed a mosaic. He says Bachor and his crew are welcome anytime to fill potholes in his city, one of many hit with an especially large number of the annoying craters after a hard winter.
"I'll pave the way for them," Shaheen said with smirk. "No pun intended."


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Justin Bieber Banned from Vienna Nightclub Over Groped Fans
Justin Bieber already lost his pet monkey to German quarantine. Now the singer has been banned from a Vienna nightclub after his bodyguards reportedly mistreated fans, The Austrian Times reports.
Managers at the Passage club claim the Biebs' bodyguards smashed cameras, destroyed cell phones and even groped some of the young female fans who allegedly left the club in tears early Saturday morning.
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"Justin Bieber is no longer welcome here," club manager Joachim Bankel stated.
This is only the latest in a series of odd events the Biebs has been involved in recently. On March 1, he was asked to leave a club where he was set to celebrate his 19th birthday, prompting a Twitter meltdown days later. Then, concerns over his health were raised when he fainted during a London concert last month. More recently, he attacked a paparazzi outside his hotel, had his pet monkey Mally confiscated in a German airport last week and is now possibly facing prosecution for a spitting incident.
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