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Camp Pendleton Officer Killed In Afghanistan
Monday, April 30, 2012
Master Sgt. Scott E. Pruitt, 38, died April 28 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan, according to the Department of Defense.
He was assigned to I Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, based at Camp Pendleton.
Pruitt was from Gautier, Mississippi. According to Pruitt's Facebook page, he graduated from Pascagoula High School in 1992. Pruitt enlisted in the Marine Corps a year later. He earned a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice from American Military University in 2010.
During his service, the military awarded Pruitt several commendations, including three Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals and four Marine Corps Overseas Service Ribbons, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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As a product design student and a recent audiophile, I've been overcome with the desire to design a build my own set of IEMs. To keep the price of this whole adventure reasonable, I've decided to use the Monoprice 8320 (MEP 933) as the base. The hope is to take the driver out and completely redesign the shell. Maybe make a custom.
I've been reading up on cables, DIY customs, etc, but am finding myself overwhelmed with information. Ideally I want to have a replaceable cable, but I'm trouble finding a replacement IEM cable and socket for less than $30. The 8320s are only seven bucks, so it hardly makes sense to have a cable costing many times the price of the driver. I found a replacement IEM cable a while back for $20 with sockets for $6, but haven't been able to locate them since.
Additionally, I have some questions regarding the shape/bends of the soundtube/housing and how that affects the sound. I've read a bit on venting, but any information any of your have on any aspect of IEM design would be greatly appreciated. I've been making my way through the Home-Made IEMs thread, but most of that seems to deal with BA design and tuning rather than dynamic drivers.
I'll edit this with links to everything regarding the design and materials to keep things organized. I'm a big fan of open source and would love to have this become a collaborative project.
Driver from the MEP 933 from Monoprice. For the price, no other IEM comes close.
Cables salvaged from MEElectronics M2. Reviews give the cables high marks for only $8 salvaged they look like a good deal. Will have to order a pair in to see how the cable is.
Next on the agenda
Cable connectors
If the M2 cable turns out to be the cheapest option for the basis of the removable cable, then there is still the issue of finding a male and female connector that is small light and secure. Standard 2-pin would work, though anything else of equal quality is a possibility.
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This is a pathetic case of opportunistic fear-mongering. To the extent that there really is public concern about U.S. nuclear plants' ability to withstand extreme events, it centers around what MIGHT happen in fantastical scenarios. This week, here's what actually DID happen: The largest Atlantic storm ever recorded slammed into the New Jersey shore, creating record human and property devastation, yet every nuclear energy facility in this super-storm's path – including the oldest nuclear plant in operation – managed through it safely and expertly with no threat or damage. Every … single … one.For the latest information on how the nuclear industry has been applying lessons learned from Fukushima since the March 2011 accident, please visit SafetyFirst.nei.org.
Does this mean we should stop looking for safer ways to operate? Of course not, and we never will. At this very moment, the public has the opportunity to comment to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on draft guidance that nuclear energy facilities would use to perform flooding hazard assessments as part of the response activities under way to the Fukushima Daiichi accident. This is being done with an eye toward providing another layer of protection above and beyond those that already exist and that make nuclear energy facilities exceedingly capable of withstanding extreme events of all kinds.
The authors – who somehow seem to think that natural events can affect only nuclear facilities and nothing else around them – are simply are wrong in claiming that facilities on the Eastern seaboard have "minimal protection" against inundation. The Salem/Hope Creek plant, for example, is designed for a category 4 hurricane arriving during high tide and a full moon. During Hurricane Sandy, the plant saw river levels consistent with some of the highest levels in its past (between 97 and 98 feet). This was still below the facility's site grade and more than 20 feet below the water levels it is designed for.
As objective observers seek to better cope with devastating events like Hurricane Sandy, it's a pretty safe bet that they'll identify other priorities for action before they feel a need to better fortify the nuclear energy facilities that are our nation's largest source of low-carbon electricity.
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PoliceOne reader survey results: Off duty carry
Throughout December 2008, PoliceOne asked our readers (in the P1 homepage poll) a series of five questions about off duty carry. Here are the results.
We were very pleased to see that two thirds of the LEOs who responded to our first question indicated that they always (43 percent) or usually (26 percent) carry off duty. Fewer than five percent of our members choose to never carry off duty.
Most P1 members choose to carry at the belt line while off duty. Interestingly, the second question in our poll helps to also veryify the veracity of our initial results that about one in ten PoliceOne readers choose to rarely or never carry while off duty.
The overwhelming majority of PoliceOne readers responding to part three of our poll say they carry a pistol, with only 10 percent of readers going with a wheel gun.
A full 40 percent of readers choose to carry a .40 cal, and in addition to the calibers we listed in part four of our survey, we heard from readers that they carry: .38 +p, .38 special, 340, and .357.
As we had expected, there were dozens of emails on this question, "Who makes your off duty gun?" from members who carry something other than a gun made by the five firearms manufacturers we were able to list on the site.
Among the most popular models that our readers emailed about were:
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I haven't actually been checking emails for some time now. There is actually a great court monitoring program called WATCH, based in Minneapolis, MN/Hennepin County and they specifically focus on domestic violence. I know about them because they have been funded by the Ms. Foundation for Women and have become a model for other groups. I hope that you can reach them -- and good luck starting your own.
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Beginning in the 1950s, Marcel Breuer collaborated with the Benedictine monks of Collegeville to design 10 buildings, mostly of cast-in-place concrete. VJAA was charged with renovating two: the church and the monastic Chapter House. As part of the project, the firm designed the new Blessed Sacrament Chapel, a room for daily devotions that is lined in oak slats to emulate the texture of Breuer's millwork. A new two-level lobby addition adds modern amenities, such as wedding facilities.
Jury: "It respects and enhances the spirit and values of the Benedictine monks embodied in the original building, while responding to a new set of goals for the religious community and a variety of code- and system-related improvements."
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Investment in Broadband Infrastructure Under Local Deregulation: Evidence from the U.K. Broadband Market
This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of the wholesale broadband access market. Using a panel dataset covering all 5,598 exchange areas in the United Kingdom, we exploit regional differences in deregulation following a 2008 reform. Controlling for initial conditions, first-difference estimates show that local deregulation increases local investment in infrastructure by both the incumbent and competitors.
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Wow, congrats! That's awesome news, and hopefully it will help keep you busy!
At the Mount Carroll city council meeting to erect directional signs, three of them, through town to help people to find The Ravens Grin.
Once these are in place , the state of Illinois will erect two signs at the edge of town on rt. 64 and Mill St. to point people here.
This is sort of the back way to my house but the major intersection at 78 & 64 is too full and busy for such signage. I'll take what they want to provide for me.
I have to pay the state each year and buy my own signs to complete the route.
To qualify within their program guidelines I had to be located in a rural area , a town of only 1,800 is considerd "rural", and be open for tourist business a certain number of days of the year(I'm open almost every night of the entire year AND alot of Sat. & Sun. afternoons too!)
If the signs along 64 get destroyed or something the state will replace them at no cost to me, they said.
I'm still thinking that the shortness of the sign posts won't allow the directions and message be picked up by the UFO's though.
Wow, congrats! That's awesome news, and hopefully it will help keep you busy!
That is indeed some great news.
It's almost like being "state certified".
That is a little different than you being "certifiable"
Hmmm- I wonder what an offical Ravens Grin sigh would go for on Ebay ?????
Well if "Grannies Berrys" can have a sign like this and the miniture train display(basement located) and I've only been here open almost every night of the year for going on 20 years, maybe I can have a sign?
We always got a chuckle out of another rt 64 sign "Gobbler's Knob", more funny if you have a British knowledge of the terminology involved.
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Could you please explain to me how a retainer with finger springs can move a front tooth labially when it appears that the springs are moving my teeth along the retaining front arch wire.
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Finger springs in a retainer can move teeth given three criteria: constant force, time and someplace to move. From what you have said....the labial bow is possibly restricting the tooth's forward movement. Possibly, the tooth has completed the desired movement or the labial bow requires an adjustment to allow further movement. A quick check-up visit to the provider is needed.
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PHC Becomes Heart Attack Hospital
It was once the conventional wisdom that the time it took for a heart attack victim to get to the hospital was the one crucial element for his or her survival. Now, however, New York City is joining several other municipalities across the country that believe that a low body temperature is just as crucial as time in saving the lives of cardiac arrest victims.
For that reason, beginning this week, city EMS ambulances will transport heart attack victims directly to hospitals that utilize a new hypothermia therapy which, studies show, increases the patient's survival rate. For those on the Rockaway peninsula, that means Peninsula Hospital Center will become the hospital of choice for ambulances transporting heart patients rather than St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway, which has not yet moved towards the new treatment.
"We will be one of the receiving hospitals. We have the equipment already," said Liz Sulik, the facility's director of external affairs. "It's not that complicated. We have staff."
St. John's Episcopal Hospital is still involved in discussing whether or not to move to the new cooling therapy.
"We have already spoken to New York City EMS and are now meeting internally," said John Gupta, the chief executive officer of St. John's in a December 17 statement to The Wave. "We are committed to doing what is most appropriate for the patients in our community."
Cooling a patient's body tempera- ture to approximately eight degrees below normal, within six hours of the heart attack, is critical, as is keeping the body at that temperature for at least 24 hours. Studies show that those activities increase the survival rate. In addition, the new therapy prevents or limits loss of oxygen to the brain, which reduces the chance of brain damage.
According to the New York Times, the new treatment would be limited to patients who have regained "a pulse within 30 minutes of the start of resuscitation but remain neurologically compromised."
In December 2007, The Greater New York Hospital Association and United Hospital Fund hosted a conference called 'Project Hypothermia,' at which was discussed the cooling therapy and standardizing the training for it.
A summary of the conference appears on the GNYHA's website. It reads in part, "The outcomes for victims of cardiac arrest out of the hospital setting are poor. Brain injury claims the lives of over 85 percent of patients who have been successfully resuscitated after cardiac arrest in the field. Studies have found that cooling patients who suffer certain types of cardiac arrest can dramatically improve survival rates and the patient's functional outcome."
Long Island hospitals are also currently working on plans to offer the treatment. Earlier this month, St. Francis in Roslyn became the first hospital on the Island to offer hypothermia treatment. According to Newsday, Dr. Syed Hasan Naqvi, of North Shore Hospital, has become an unexpected backer of the new treatment since experiencing a heart attack in October. After he fell into a coma, his wife contacted Dr. Stephen Mayer, the chief of neurological intensive care for New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center. Mayer has been a leader in advocating for the use of the treatment.
"I was on a ventilator," Naqvi, who was originally taken to North Shore University Hospital, told Newsday.
Mayer advised that Naqvi be transported to New York-Presbyterian Hospital where he underwent the cooling therapy for 24 hours. Dr. Naqvi is now back to work at North Shore University Hospital just a month and a half after the heart attack that almost killed him.
According to the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, heart disease is the number one cause of death, regardless of race or ethnicity, for both men and women in New York City.
In the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's 2006 health profile, the death rate for those dying of heart disease in Rockaway was 85 percent higher than the rates in Queens and New York City overall. In the 2003 health profile, heart disease was the number one cause of death in the Rockaways.
New York joins Seattle, Boston and Miami in mandating the transport of cardiac victims directly to hospitals that offer therapeutic hypothermia. Overseas, Vienna and London also require these patients be sent to facilities with the cooling systems.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Al-Qaida has released a video of American hostage Warren Weinstein in which the 70-year-old humanitarian aid worker says he will be killed unless President Barack Obama agrees to the militant group's demands.
In the video, Weinstein appeals to Obama as a father, saying he hopes to resume spending time with his two daughters.
He encourages Obama to act quickly, saying any delay "will just make things more difficult."
After Weinstein was kidnapped in Pakistan last August, al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri said he would be released if the United States stopped airstrikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. He also demanded the release of all al-Qaida and Taliban suspects around the world.
The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors militant messages, says the video was posted on jihadist forums Sunday.
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After a 4 nights in England we left for Slovenia, departing London Stansted Airport [ICAO code: EGSS]. We travelled on an Easyjet Airbus A319 to Ljubljana Airport [ICAO: LJLJ]. Ljubljana is the capital city of Slovenia]. I have to say that the experience with Easyjet was nothing like the TV show Airport. There was no shouting, crying, begging, or film crews :-). I guess it pays to turn up with plenty of time!
It was obviously interesting being at a different airport and seeing some different airlines. I didn´t expect to see an old Russian built Antonov [see below] which was an additional bonus. As for photography - the windows were extremely dirty. They can have been washed on goodness knows how long, but I still managed to get some OK pictures.
What follows are the pictures I got at Stansted and soon after takeoff.
Easyjet Airbus A319/A320, G-EZIH, RyanAir Boeing B737
Jet2 Boeing B737, Easyjet Airbus A319?
Ryanair Boeing B737, EI-DPD
Air Italy Boeing B767, I-AIGH
UPS Boeing B767, N334UP
Aurigny Air Aerospatiale ATR72, G-BWDB
Antonov AN12BP, UR-CGW [no operator identified]
Easyjet Airbus A319
Airborne in the Easyjet Airbus A319 heading to Ljubljana
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky, Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
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I read an amazing post over on ars technica (link: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/03/the-software-brains-behind-the-particle-colliders.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss) abvout the LHC, or as they are also known, the "particle colliders". Beyond just the pure scientific geek awesomeness, these instruments have the potential to collect more data than you can (or possibly should) store.
Actually, this problem has a lot in common with a BI system. There's so much granular detail available in the source systems that a designer has to decide how, and how much, to roll up the data. Whenver you do that, you lose fidelity, but in many cases that's OK. Take, for example, your car's speedometer. You don't actually need to track each and every point of speed as it happens. You only need to know that you're hovering around the speed limit at a certain point in time.
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The Beheading of Esau
Isaac loved Esau, because [Esau] fed him from his game, and Rebecca loved Jacob. (Genesis 25:28)
In the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron (the burial place of the Patriarchs) . . . Esau's head lies in the bosom of Isaac. (Targum Yonatan, Genesis 50:13)
Jacob and Esau, the twin sons of Isaac and Rebecca, personified the perennial twinship of spirit and matter, idea and brute force, word and sword. Jacob was "a man of integrity, a dweller in the tents of study";1 Esau was a "skilled hunter, a man of the field."2 "The voice is the voice of Jacob, and the hands are the hands of Esau."3
Yet a most special relationship existed between the materialist Esau and his saintly father, Isaac. The Torah describes Isaac's delight in the delicacies Esau prepared from the harvest of his sword and bow; it was Esau whom Isaac summoned when he felt that his end was near, and whom he proposed to bless before his death. Obviously, there was more to Esau than the bandit, murderer and wife-snatcher we know.
Showdown at Hebron
Jacob and Esau not only shared a set of parents and a birthday; they were also buried on the same day.
The Midrash relates that when Jacob's funeral procession reached the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron, the burial place of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, they found Esau and his henchmen barring their path. Esau claimed that the sole remaining plot was his by inheritance, after Jacob had already taken his share when he buried his wife Leah in the cave. When Jacob's children maintained that their father had bought out his brother's share, Esau denied this. The transaction had been put in writing, but the deed was back in Egypt, and fleet-footed Naphtali was dispatched to retrieve it. Chushim, the deaf son of Dan, asked what the commotion was all about, and was incensed to learn that Esau had halted the funeral of his revered grandfather. With a mighty blow of his sword, Chushim severed Esau's head, which rolled into the Cave of Machpelah and came to rest in Isaac's lap, where it remains to this day. Thus it came to pass that "Esau's head lies in the bosom of Isaac."
Esau has a body and a head. Esau's "body" is the bulk and mass of his material life. But a material life is not necessarily a profane life. In essence, the physical reality is no less a creation of G‑d's, and no less holy and divine, than the loftiest spiritual existence; when properly harnessed and directed, the physical can be the greatest expression of the divine truth. Esau's "head" is the consciousness that imparts awareness, purpose and direction to brute matter.
The holy materialist is a "skilled hunter," proficient in the art of evasion, ambush and entrapment. The physical reality recognizes no master or authority, and it relates no function or purpose to itself other that its own perseverance and growth. So, to live a material life as a divine endeavor is an act of subterfuge. One eats, ostensibly to nourish one's physical body; one engages in business, ostensibly to increase one's wealth; one builds a career and a position in the community, ostensibly to amass prestige and power; yet this is but a connivance, a ruse by which to entrap the physical and exploit it toward a G‑dly end.
This was the hunter and gamesman Isaac loved. He loved his material son, who had learned to persevere and profit in the physical world. He loved Esau, who roamed the fields of material endeavor, never failing to bring home a tasty morsel for his spiritual father.
Jacob in Disguise
But material life is rife with pitfalls as great as its potentials, and Esau, the ultimate master of the material, was also its ultimate victim. His "head" ceased to lead his "body," and became its servant and tool; instead of exploiting his material self, his higher faculties were exploited by it. The great trapper was ensnared by his prey and descended into a life of hedonism and violence.
Isaac, craving the spiritual delights implicit in the material realm, still hoped to employ Esau's hunting prowess to extract them. But Rebecca understood that her elder son was too much a part of the material world to truly exploit it; she understood that only one who hails from a more spiritual place can hope to unearth the sublime potentials of the material while resisting its corrupting influence. So she dressed Jacob in Esau's clothes and sent him to receive Isaac's blessing for "the dew of heaven and the fat of the land."
Thus was set the stage for the lifelong contest between the brothers "over the two worlds" of matter and spirit. Wrathfully, Esau watched Jacob's encroachment on "his" realm, as the latter obtained the blessings by connivance and stealth; he watched the guileless scholar turn wily entrepreneur, matching the conniving Laban trick for trick and amassing great material wealth.
Esau still had his "head," only now his spiritual motor made his corporeality all the more virulent. A "headless" body—a physical life devoid of all ideal and direction—is a negative thing; but when a head is subverted by its body, when a person's spiritual sensitivity and vitality have been commandeered to serve his material drives, this is a materialism that is far more lethal, infiltrating the soul's innermost chambers and poisoning what is finest in man and his world.
On the day that Jacob was laid to rest, Esau's head was severed from his body. The body, divorced from its spiritual vitality, went on to spawn the soulless materialism that is the commonplace challenge to the voice of Jacob. The head, freed from its corporeal subversion, was reunited with its source and kindred spirit in the bosom of Isaac.
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- Yaakov did not want to go and dress up to receive the berachos. He refused until his mother ordered him to go, taking the responsibility upon yourself.
- The birthright came with specific obligations and responsibilities. It was these at Eisav did not want, (restrictions, spiritual duties, etc) gladly selling them to Yakov. In that regard, Yaakov was supposed to get the blessing. However, he did not want to use do it in this manner until his mother told him to do so...
Cary, nC
You will notice that the quote above referred to the Targum Yonatan on Genesis 50:13, not the text itself.
This story is mentioned in our oral tradition, part of the way we have studied the Torah through our history.
I also suggest reading our new series on how to understand a Midrash.
Cary, NC
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Once one has the recognition that G-D created the world – all aspects and events of reality then take one a dual form:
a) an absolute miracle being that its created constantly out of absolute nothingness
b) a very very complex beautiful model which we call "scientific rationality" being that G-D is infinitely deep and therefore everything has infinite layers of understanding
The Bible, and in general the life of the Jews, is G-D's way of showing the "a" aspect within the "b" aspect and hence the miraculous nature of things is emphasized.
The entire history of the Jews is replete with miracles that are hard (nay impossible) to understand …
… This fusion of "a" and "b" will culminate into the Messianic era – the beginnings of which we're experiencing at the moment.
G-D bless,
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Cape Cod shark safety flier sparks concerns
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- May 5, 2014 - 10:40 AM
BARNSTABLE, Mass. — A new brochure being distributed on Cape Cod warning people about the possibility of sharks has some people wondering if it might do more harm than good.
The 415,000 brochures were printed and distributed by consortium of harbormasters and other local officials in Massachusetts with $22,500 from a state program to raise awareness of sharks and educate the public about what to do if they see one.
There's some good information in the brochure, said Richard Delaney, president of the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, but he was concerned about the cover, which said reminded him of the movie "Jaws."
"The cover has an extra-mean, toothy picture of a shark," he said. "It's one more example of how we, as a society, have this general myth that these guys are big, nasty creatures."
Shark sightings have become more common in Cape waters recently, drawn by a booming seal population, and one man was even bitten two summers ago.
Wendy Northcross, chief executive of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, told the Cape Cod Times (http://bit.ly/1ihWV46 ) she had concerns.
"The reality is, we have sharks, and there has to be some public information campaign," she said. "On the flip side, there's concern that sharks will be sensationalized or people will want to go on shark hunts."
Delaney also said he would remove a sentence from the brochure that suggested that the only way to avoid sharks is to stay on land.
"It may have gone a little too far by saying don't go in the water," Delaney said.
Nathan Sears, natural resources manager for the town of Orleans, defended the pamphlet.
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Segway operator beats DWI arrest - again
MEDINA, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man arrested for drunken driving while operating a Segway stand-up scooter has beaten the charges again.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals agrees with Mark Greenman. His Segway doesn't meet the definition of a motor vehicle under the state's drunken driving laws. The 48-year-old attorney was charged with drunken driving last February after riding his Segway from a bar to his Medina home. A police officer spotted Greenman veering into the roadway. Greeman failed a field sobriety test.
The appeals court ruled that because the Segway operates under 12 mph, it falls under regulations pertaining to pedestrians, not motor vehicles.
Greenman was also arrested in 2010 for driving the Segway while drunk. A judge granted his motion to dismiss and the city didn't appeal. The Star Tribune (http://bit.ly/SAS7PU ) says a third DWI case against Greeman involving his Segway is still pending.
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Rockstar posted a new image on the Batman: Arkham City Facebook page teasing what appears to be new Harley Quinn DLC.
As you can see from the image, it contains Quinn's boots and her signature hammer.
This isn't the first we've heard of the upcoming DLC. Earlier this month, some leaked PS3 trophies suggested the next Arkham City DLC would center around a Harley Quinn themed mini-campaign that might let players take control of Robin. A name for a new challenge map, titled "Harley Quinn's Revenge" pretty much confirms this is what the DLC will be.
Will the clown queen be the next DLC to come to Arkham City? We should find out soon!


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Orders for transportation equipment are often sensitive to short-term and seasonal trends, and are therefore volatile. Excluding transportation, new orders for manufactured durable goods actually declined 0.1 percent on the month, missing expectations for an increase of 1 percent. This indicates that not only did transportation equipment orders drive the decline in July, but the headline increase in August, as well.
Consistent with strong car sales, orders for motor vehicles and car parts led the August increase in transportation equipment.


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What a fun and funny series this show is shaping out to be. Despite the many misunderstandings that threaten to drive a wedge between our budding not-a-relationship, there's also a warm, zippy tone that gives us adorable pairings formed with paper squares and frogs. Because how could you not fall in love with a mischievous kid who uses Daddy's phone to call in a playdate?
Good news: Prime Minister and I saw a nice leap in ratings for Episode 3, pulling in a 7.3%, putting it ahead of A Warm Word (6.8%), but behind Empress Ki (18.8%). Things are looking up. Yay!
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Da-jung wakes in the morning with a massive hangover, and laughs to herself at what she thinks is a ridiculous dream of asking the new prime minister to marry her. But that's when she finally gets her bearings and gasps to find herself at the prime minister's home. Eep.
Meanwhile Yul leads his three kids in morning kendo practice, which dude, super intense. He reminds them that they're to be model children since they're part of his image before getting ready for his first day.
There's a matter that needs attending to first, and Yul catches Da-jung trying to sneak out unnoticed. He raises an eyebrow to hear that she doesn't remember anything about last night's events, let alone her marriage proposal. Da-jung exclaims: "That wasn't a dream?!"
We then flashback to the previous night as Yul struggled to get Da-jung back home. She was a drunken crying mess, but his men were reluctant to help… and then she vomited on his face. Eww.
He's offended that she would ask why he brought her here when he went through so much trouble because of her last night. But he does ask why she drank so much and asked him to marry her, and though Da-jung thinks back to Dad's terminal prognosis, she casts it aside as drunken nonsense.
Hye-joo hears about the drunken proposal from one of the staff as she waits outside. When she insinuates to In-ho that Da-jung isn't as innocent as he thinks she is, he replies that he's still grateful to Da-jung and considers her a good person.
Da-jung is instructed to stay out of sight until the kids leave the house, and takes cover when the door suddenly opens. It's youngest son Man-se who hides behind the desk with her and quickly shushes her when the housekeeper rushes in.
He's skipping out on kindergarten again (news that earn him a stern stare from Da-jung), and he asks what ajumma is doing here. Da-jung quickly makes up an excuse before taking her leave… which is when the little boy sadly pouts over how lonely he is all the time.
That successfully tugs at her heartstrings and Man-se lets out a playful smirk. Ha, what a shrewd kid.
Yul contemplates over Da-jung's words in the car, wondering if there's some truth in her desire to get married. His thoughts are interrupted when he's told to prepare himself for a busy day of getting dragged around to endless meetings and appearances.
We see his fantasized self slowly breaking down from the brutal schedule until he finally cracks out due to exhaustion. Ha, these scenarios crack me up.
But Yul wears a confident smile, and surprises the department heads by cancelling all of his meetings, choosing to do a thorough assessment of the budget instead. He warns them to do a good job, or else it's their jobs.
Da-jung folds paper frogs with little Man-se in his father's bedroom and does a little digging of her own. She giggles when she opens the underwear drawer and discovers that Yul does wear briefs. Ha. Then she imagines him spending his time working or reading or getting ready in the bedroom, and blushes at the thought.
It's adorable how sweet Da-jung is with Man-se, who says that he's still hungry even after having eaten a big breakfast. He swears he's not lying when Da-jung gently tells him that what he's experiencing isn't physical hunger. Aw, are those emotional hunger pangs then? Poor kid.
She invites him to come close and wraps him in a hug, which aw. She says she felt hungry whenever she was bored too, but that's when her father would hug her like this and those feelings would go away.
Man-se says he's still hungry though, to which Da-jung jokes that that can't be and then tickles him to the bed. That's when the housekeeper walks in, astonished that Da-jung is still here.
So Da-jung takes her leave and Man-se has to be held back from running after her. She can still hear his cries outside, and when she heads back inside the study to collect her things, she briefly runs into a young man here to fix the light.
Yul is perturbed to hear that Da-jung spent time with Man-se. Though he's slightly relieved that she didn't run into his other children, he's upset that Da-jung was in his bedroom.
Da-jung is at home practicing how to reveal the truth to Dad when she gets a text from Yul telling her to come by the house tomorrow. Panicked, she lets her imagination run wild and dismisses the dramatized scenario of being arrested for trespassing.
Back in reality, Yul denies any recollection of contacting her at all. He belatedly remembers that his youngest was playing with his phone last night, and then we see Man-se waiting outside for Da-jung to show up. Aw.
We get a comedic break in the form of Hee-chul and the editor boss as they get denied access to the grounds. Nosy Reporter Byun just tsks at the third-rate tabloid and flashes his name at the guard. But he's told that it's a private event today and gets denied, too. Ha.
Yul clears up the text misunderstanding with Da-jung, who takes the hint to slip out before today's inauguration banquet. But when the housekeeper walks in with a repairman to fix the light, Da-jung notes that someone came by yesterday.
That same "repairman" from yesterday is a waiter for today's event. But our attention shifts to Joon-ki, who's here with his family. His wife, whom we'll call Madam Na, is a bit of a gossip, wondering if Yul's ladyfriend will show up today.
In-ho reports back that the premises is clean of bugs and cameras. Yul asks for Da-jung's help again to find the spy among the wait staff by accompanying him to the banquet today.
She agrees, but worries about her currently casual appearance. Yul tells her to do something about her hair, and has to pull back her hair himself to show her. But his sleeve gets caught in her hair in the process and she yelps in pain.
What's hilarious is that the pair of guards outside interprets the screams as cries of passion, and try to prevent Hye-joo from walking in, stuttering, "I-it's… hot right now." HA. But Hye-joo pushes past them to barge in just as they break apart, and Yul leaves Da-jung in his press secretary's capable hands.
Once the ladies are alone, Hye-joo asks how they should go about her break-up with the prime minister if she's continuing to create misunderstandings like this one or hanging around the house. She sighs at Da-jung's wardrobe, but something catches Da-jung's eye.
Meanwhile, Yul and Joon-ki exchange pleasantries with an undercurrent of bitterness (mostly on Joon-ki's part), and Yul tells his brother-in-law that if he's that curious about his personal life, he can come ask him about it directly. Ooh.
Just then, Da-jung walks in, all prettified in her sparkly black dress and heels. Yul is struck by her beauty and his heart beats a little quicker. So does In-ho's.
Joon-ki moseys over to Hye-joo to say that he would been more convinced by the dating scandal if she was the woman in question. He laughs when she thinks he's upset about losing the prime ministership, and says the battle has only just begun. But Hye-joo tells him to give up already—isn't he tired of fighting anymore?
Joon-ki turns the question back on her, pointing out that she's been pining at Yul for over twenty years now; she was a fifteen-year-old delinquent when Yul got her out of that mess. Well now.
He rubs salt to the wound, adding that she was known as Yul's bodyguard in college; he doesn't get why she still hasn't worked up the courage to confess her feelings, and remain as Yul's college hoobae and press secretary instead.
Hye-joo doesn't blink an eye and counters that she doesn't need to be understood by the likes of him, adding that as long as there are people like Joon-ki out there, Yul will need his bodyguard.
Yul mutters his complaints about the length of Da-jung's dress, to which she tells him it was the most modest one in the idol star's wardrobe. He recognizes the name as the singer his daughter loves the most and disapprovingly makes a note to keep a tighter rein on what his kids watch on TV.
Da-jung calls him petty for that, but Yul tells her to mind her own business and find the spy. Then he has her take her hands off his arms 'cause they're getting sweaty. Ha.
There's a tiny tap and Da-jung turns around to see little Man-se. Turns out he called her over to teach him how to fold ddakji (folded paper squares), and when she tells him not to use Daddy's phone to call her again, he pipes that he'll just use the house phone then. Cute.
They're joined by In-ho, who offers to teach Man-se himself, but the boy turns his nose up at the offer. Pffft.
In-ho compliments Da-jung, saying that she looks pretty today. He means it, and she's flattered. But that's when Da-jung sees the waiter in the kitchen and points him out to In-ho.
In-ho enlists the men to search for a man with a piercing that fits Da-jung's description, but we see that the mystery waiter is already one step ahead of them and removes his clip-on earring.
As Da-jung is introduced to the ladies, Madam Na is surprised that Da-jung recognizes her name. The mention of an old scandal involving her (and Kang Ho-dong, heh) some fifteen years ago leaves Madam Na fuming. HA, Da-jung's a walking celebrity gossip encyclopedia.
Eldest son Woo-ri and middle child Na-ra join the party. They bristle to hear from their cousin that their "new mom" aka Da-jung is also in attendance.
Da-jung apologizes for her foot-in-mouth moment, but when Madam Na's friends tsk that all men are the same when they see a pretty, young face, she offers to clear the air. She confirms that yes, the prime minister fell head over heels for her young, fresh charm.
They snigger that the prime minister must have been extremely lonely all those years, but Da-jung stands her ground with them: she gets that they must not like her, but she won't stand for them to talk about Yul that way.
Madam Na sneers that Da-jung sure acts like an actual girlfriend, and scoffs that they should soon be hearing a wedding announcement if they really are an item. She takes Da-jung's silence to mean that it's untrue then.
To that, Da-jung exclaims, "We are getting married!" …which is the very moment Yul walks over and sighs at the declaration.
Once they're outside, Yul asks if she's out of her mind to drop marriage rumors to the gossipy trio. It doesn't matter to him what they think of him—does Da-jung think that she's his actual girlfriend to feel the need to stand up for him?
It's only a matter of time until the news will spread, and he asks how she plans to handle it. Yul is informed later that evening that they've caught the mysterious electrician/waiter who was a reporter trying to get a scoop. Without any evidence, all they can do is let him go.
Da-jung still feels guilty about the day's events and is asked if she has any solutions. Yul half-jokes that they got out of their first scandal with a dating announcement, so maybe they should announce their wedding.
Then Da-jung surprises him by asking, "Can we? Can we announce that we're getting married for real?"
Yul asks if she's being sincere, and she answers that she is. She clarifies that it won't be a real marriage, but a contract marriage, just for six months. Yul mulls over the words, and asks if Da-jung really wants to marry him. She says yes, and he agrees to the deal.
In-ho says that they have Da-jung to thank for helping them again, to which Hye-joo asks if it ever occurred to him how Da-jung knew what their spy looked like in the first place.
She plainly tells him that Da-jung spent the night at the prime minister's house and even pleaded with him to marry him. She asks if In-ho still considers Da-jung a good person, and suffice it to say, he's floored by the news.
Da-jung is beyond grateful at Yul's agreement to marry her, but she's surprised when he tells her that he doesn't do contract marriages, finding them childish. Ha, thanks for subverting that trope on its head, drama.
He says it'll be a real marriage, which means they'll be using one bed… and she knows what comes next, right? Hahaha. He's backed her into the wall by this point, and at her flustered expression, he asks if she's acting coy about it.
His voice turns serious as he wonders why she wants to marry him—does getting married to a man with kids not matter as long as she gets to be the prime minister's wife? Then he spells it out for her: "I'm never going to get married. Even I'm crazy enough to do so, it won't ever be to someone like you. Understand?"
Da-jung is left speechless, blinking back tears. She runs into In-ho outside and asks after his gloomy expression. His eyes with tears, he replies that he heard a scary story of an opportunistic woman who wooed the prime minister and drunkenly begged him to marry her.
He interrupts before she can explain herself, saying that it's probably not all her fault. It was his mistake for thinking her kind, amusing, and cute, but this is as far as it will go, and he doesn't want to see her ever again.
But before he leaves, Da-jung says that he's free to his opinion of her, but her desire to marry the prime minister was sincere. She apologizes and takes her leave.
Joon-ki is given the bad news that his mysterious delivery wasn't successful. Hm, were you behind the spy, too? Or is this something else you're cooking up?
Da-jung walks along the streets thinking back to Yul and In-ho's words and wonders what she'll tell Dad now. But when she's about to spill the truth to him at her next visit, he tells her not to worry about him after she gets married. He's happy to live long enough to see grandkids, words that brings tears to her eyes.
Yul scolds his son for trying to call Da-jung again using his phone. He doesn't relent even though little Man-se cries and cries, and it's only when he walks out does he break a little, wondering what effect Da-jung has on his child.
He gets a call from Da-jung's father (who's using her phone) just then with a request to move up their wedding within the next six months.
Just then, he gets a call from Da-jung's father (using her phone) to ask that they move up the wedding within six months. Yul hangs on that specific request of six months, since it's the same thing Da-jung asked for as well.
Hye-joo walks in with Da-jung's father's medical records per his request. She's certain that Da-jung intentionally went after him, but Yul puts her worries to rest that he has no intention to marry Da-jung.
But after Yul reads about her father's illness, he wonders if that's the reason behind Da-jung's proposal and request for a contract marriage. He's interrupted by the housekeeper, who informs him in a worried voice that little Man-se hasn't eaten anything all day and cried himself to sleep.
Yul sits in his son's room and reads over his school journal entries about how he doesn't understand why his father always scolds him, and how he thinks that reporter ajumma is a good person.
It felt nice when she hugged him, he wrote, and he'd really, really like her to become his new mom. Aw, kid.
Da-jung swings by the orphanage to return the borrowed dress, but she jumps when she sees Madam Na and her gossipy friends turn up, too. She gets caught trying to sneak away, and Madam Na cuts to the chase and demands to know once and for all if Da-jung will marry the prime minister or not.
She says no, admitting that she only said so in the heat of the moment. But Madam Na isn't satisfied with her apology and asks if her parents know that she's going around selling her body like this.
Da-jung finds their words harsh, especially for such supposedly elegant politicians' wives. Telling Madam Na to worry about society at large, Da-jung will live her own life thankyouverymuch.
Enraged, Madam Na raises a hand, but that's when Yul waltzes in and scolds Da-jung: "Is this how a future prime minister's wife should behave?" Omo.
That shocks everyone, and Yul smiles that he's heard the politicians' wives are here to graciously volunteer their kimchi-making services, so he's donated 1000 more cabbages to applaud their hard work. HA.
He drags Da-jung away and she asks why Yul called her his wife-to-be back there. She knows he was just trying to help, but she doesn't need him to. Yul says that he was just telling the truth, which is when the pieces finally fall in place in Da-jung's head.
And Yul tells her: "That's right, I'm saying that I'm going to marry you. Nam Da-jung, you'll have to marry me."
It's nice to be able and sit back to enjoy another pleasant episode pass by, thanks to the show's fast pacing. Their mutual understanding between Yul and Da-jung and their noble intentions behind the contract marriage are easy to follow, rooted in one reason I can easily sympathize with: family. There's something so refreshing about the execution of this familiar setup that doesn't feel too hammy (aside from the actual imaginary scenarios, that is) and carries a heartwarming, feel-good aspect that I could really use right now.
I find myself being slowly pulled into the romance, which is nice considering the zippy storyline thus far. There are misunderstandings and distrust that exists between them in regards to the other's intentions, but I like that they're already seeing each other in a new light. Even though their mutual respect is masked by pride at this point, it's still there, especially in the moments where Da-jung won't stand to hear a principled man like Yul be insulted by others. Furthermore, I like that we got to witness the moment Yul is struck by Da-jung's beauty, a moment that I feel often gets passed over these days or handled clunkily in dramaland. It's a classic moment (since In-ho falls for her at that same moment as well), but it's all in the execution.
As for the contract marriage itself, I laughed when Yul turned that into its own meta joke, calling it both ridiculous and childish. But that sentiment is also in line with his principled nature and tragic past, of which we have yet to learn more of. So it's understandable that marriage is the furthest thing from his mind, but that Da-jung's sincerity is what comes through for him to accept the deal at the end, his declaration giving us a nice bookend to the drunken proposal in the previous episode. Plus, think of the cohabitation hijinks!
We've been spending a lot of time with youngest son Man-se so far, which I really can't complain about since he's so darned cute. He's the one who's never really known Mom, so I can see where he's starved for emotional need and attention. That's what he means when he says, "I'm hungry" or "I'm still hungry," because Daddy will scold him before anything else, and he's still too little to understand that Daddy doesn't know another parenting style besides discipline. What's equally sad is that Yul knows that he's not getting a World's Greatest Dad mug anytime soon, but he knows something's gotta give for that to change. And if that means bringing the nice reporter ajumma home, then so be it.


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Leaking Underground Storage Tanks:
EPA Should Take Steps to Better Ensure the Effective Use of Public Funding for Cleanups
GAO-07-152: Published: Feb 8, 2007. Publicly Released: Feb 22, 2007.
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Underground storage tanks that leak hazardous substances can contaminate nearby groundwater and soil. Under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), tank owners and operators are primarily responsible for paying to clean up releases from their tanks. They can demonstrate their financial responsibility by using, among other options, publicly funded state financial assurance funds. Such funds function like insurance and are intended to ensure timely cleanup. These funds also pay to clean up releases from tanks without a viable owner, as does the federal Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Trust Fund. GAO was asked to report on (1) states' estimates of the public costs to clean up known releases, (2) states' primary sources of cleanups funding and their viability, and (3) federal sources to address these releases. GAO surveyed all states and discussed key issues with EPA and selected state officials.
States estimated that fully cleaning up about 54,000 of the approximately 117,000 releases (leaks) known to them as of September 30, 2005, will cost about $12 billion in public funds. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that it costs an average of about $125,000 to fully clean up a release. State officials said that tank owners or operators will pay to clean up most of the remaining 63,000 releases. However, an unknown number of releases lack a viable owner, and the full extent of the cost to clean them up is unknown. A tank owner may not be viable because the owner fails to maintain adequate financial responsibility coverage, which is intended to provide some assurance that the owner has access to funds to pay for cleanups. While 16 states require annual proof of coverage, 25 states check owners' coverage less often or not at all. Furthermore, 43 states expect to confirm about 16,700 new releases in the next 5 years that will require at least some public funds for cleanup. States reported that they primarily use financial assurance funds to pay the costs of cleaning up leaks. States reported that they spent an estimated $1.032 billion from financial assurance funds to clean up tank releases in 2005. Overall, fund revenues totaled about $1.4 billion in 2005, of which about $1.3 billion came from state gasoline taxes. The assurance funds in the 39 states for which GAO has information held an estimated $1.3 billion as of September 30, 2005, according to state officials. However, many states also use these funds to clean up releases from sources other than underground tanks. Several state assurance funds may lack sufficient resources to ensure timely cleanups. While EPA monitors the status of state funds, its method of monitoring the soundness of these funds has limitations. Furthermore, there are concerns that, by paying the bulk of the cleanup costs, state financial assurance funds may provide disincentives for tank owners--who pay only a relatively small deductible--to prevent releases. In addition to their own funds, states employ resources from the LUST Trust Fund, the primary federal source of funds for cleaning up releases from underground storage tanks. As of September 30, 2005, the fund balance was about $2.5 billion. For fiscal year 2005, the Congress appropriated about $70 million from the fund to help EPA and the states clean up releases and to oversee cleanup activities. EPA distributed about $58 million of this amount to the states to investigate and clean up releases and conduct enforcement efforts, among other actions. To distribute LUST Trust Fund money among the states, EPA uses a formula that includes a base amount for each state and factors to recognize states' needs and past cleanup performance. However, although the LUST Trust Fund provides funds to states to assist in addressing releases from tanks without a viable owner, EPA has not incorporated this factor into its formula. Furthermore, EPA's information on states' performance comes from state reports; however, GAO found that some of the information in these reports is inaccurate and inconsistent.
Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: Late this summer(2011), the Office of Underground Storage Tanks (OUST) will complete its study of the nation's backlog of open, unaddressed releases from leaking underground storage tanks. The study has sought detailed information from 14 states to understand characteristics of open releases within these states and the pace of LUST cleanups. As part of this study, the Agency sought, where possible, to examine differences in the pace of cleanups comparing releases with different types of financial responsibility mechanisms. Unfortunately, detailed data exploring different financial mechanisms was not readily available, especially with respect to privately funded cleanups, although limited data identified differences in the age of release and stage of cleanup. In addition, EPA has recently released a draft study of private insurance. This study sought to understand how insurance policies address claims and where behaviors by either owner/operators or insurance companies might leave gaps in coverage and delay cleanups. The study concluded that for the insurance policies examined, they generally complied with regulatory requirements and given limited information, insurance carriers did not appear to be excessively or dismissively denying claims. This study also identified several opportunities for improvement.
Recommendation: The Administrator, EPA, should assess, in coordination with the states, the relative effectiveness of public and private options for financial responsibility coverage to ensure that they provide timely funding for the cleanup of releases.
Agency Affected: Environmental Protection Agency
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: In response to our recommendation, EPA developed its "Guidance for Regional Office Review of State Underground Storage Tank Financial Assurance Funds," which was finalized in January 2012. This guidance provides EPA regions with recommended procedures and factors to consider for monitoring the soundness of these funds. The guidance instructs EPA regions to perform an annual review of state funds to achieve the goal of helping to ensure the adequacy of state funds.
Recommendation: The Administrator, EPA, should improve the agency's oversight of the solvency of state assurance funds to ensure that they continue to provide reliable financial responsibility coverage for tank owners.
Agency Affected: Environmental Protection Agency
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: The Energy Policy Act of 2005 requires EPA or states, as appropriate, to conduct on-site inspections of USTs every three years to determine compliance with requirements imposed by Subtitle I of the Solid Waste Disposal Act. In April of 2007, EPA issued a grant guideline to states for implementing the inspection provisions of the EPAct. This guideline requires, as a condition of funding, that states conduct on-site inspections of all regulated underground storage tanks that have not been permanently closed at least once every three years. In addition, the guideline specifies the minimum criteria that states must use when conducting the on-site inspection. One of these criteria is to assess compliance with financial responsibility. By requiring this, EPA is ensuring that states are verifying, on a regular basis, that tank owners and operators are maintaining adequate financial responsibility.
Recommendation: The Administrator, EPA, should ensure that states verify, on a regular basis, that tank owners and operators are maintaining adequate financial responsibility coverage, as required by RCRA.
Agency Affected: Environmental Protection Agency
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: EPA continues to pursue quality control on the information it collects to support its distribution of program resources to States. While discussions with Regions and states to clarify definitions of reported measures have been on-going, the implementation of the Recovery Act and the adoption of certain existing measures for that purpose (i.e., cleanups initiated and cleanups completed) have led to an enhanced vigilance in the accuracy of such performance measures. Such oversight and improvements in quality control are reflected in the lessons learned memorandum issued over these past two years. In addition, EPA has implemented a new on-line tool to collect reports from states and EPA regions on performance measures. This new tool has streamlined the reporting process, enabling EPA regional and headquarters staff to focus more quickly and effectively on quality control issues associated with submitted data. Finally, as part of the Office of Underground Storage Tanks (OUST) backlog characterization study and associated conversations with states, EPA has emphasized the demarcation and reporting of the federally regulated underground storage tank universe and sought information on sites without a viable owner (i.e., orphaned or abandoned). The Agency has also emphasized the distinction between the federal regulated universe and other entities covered by state programs in its draft fund soundness guidance. With respect to information on abandoned sites, the Agency found that such information was often unavailable or the state indicated it was unreliable. The Agency notes that since state programs are delegated, states that report abandoned tanks have differing definitions of "abandoned" and differing processes for making this determination. This information is important to understand the ability of the state to address such cleanups and EPA continues to discuss this sub-universe of sites with states as part of its on-going programmatic oversight.
Recommendation: The Administrator, EPA, should better focus how EPA distributes program resources to states, including LUST Trust Fund money, by ensuring that states are reporting information in their semiannual activity reports that is consistent with EPA's definitions; encouraging states to review their databases to ensure that only data on the appropriate universe of underground storage tanks are being reported in their semiannual activity reports; and gathering available information from states on releases attributed to tanks without a viable owner and taking this information into account in distributing LUST Trust Fund money to states.
Agency Affected: Environmental Protection Agency
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Ask Chone Figgins which American League West team will pose the biggest challenge to the first-place Angels in the second half, and he pounces on the answer like a "Jeopardy!" contestant with an itchy buzzer finger.
"The Angels," he said.
True enough. Despite reaching the All-Star break with the most victories in baseball (53, tied with Boston) for the first time in franchise history, there are reasons for the Angels to see themselves as their own biggest worry. There is an offense that has seemed too good to be true, a starting rotation with two weak links (Bartolo Colon and Ervin Santana) and injuries to overcome (or yet to come).
In real terms, though, the Angels can look over their shoulder and see two threats that could ruin what has started out as one of the franchise's best seasons.
"Our division is one you can't take for granted," Colon said through an interpreter. "There are two teams you know are going to make a run, and that's Seattle and Oakland. … There's always that awareness that not one day can be taken for granted in our division."
The Mariners already have started to make their run. They won 14 of their final 18 games before the All-Star break, reaching a season-high 13 games over .500 (49-36) and closing to 2 1/2 games of the Angels — their smallest lead since May 16.
The A's, meanwhile, muddled along in the first half, reaching the break at .500, trailing a long line of injuries behind them — and trailing the Angels by nine games in the standings.
But the A's have made an annual tradition of second-half runs. They have had a winning record after the break each of the past eight seasons, including the best second-half record in the majors three of the past six years. They had the best record last season (48-26), when they were the ones holding off the charging Angels. Since 1999, the A's have gone 376-217 after the All-Star break — a .634 winning percentage that is the best in baseball.
"I know Oakland makes a push every year, and everyone talks about, 'Oh, Oakland always makes a run in the second half,' " Angels outfielder Gary Matthews Jr. said. "You know what? I don't care. We're going to have to beat Oakland. We're going to have to beat Seattle. We're going to have to beat Texas, too.
"I don't care about the 'Oakland push.' I don't care who ESPN says is the hot team. If we can get healthy and stay healthy, I anticipate we're going to be where we belong at the end."
If getting healthy and staying healthy are the measures, the Angels don't belong where they are now. They never had their full roster intact at any point in the first half. Every player in the projected everyday lineup except shortstop Orlando Cabrera and right fielder Vladimir Guerrero has missed at least a handful of games because of injury. Four — Garret Anderson, Howie Kendrick, Figgins and Mike Napoli — spent time on the disabled list. Three of the five starting pitchers — Jered Weaver, Colon and Kelvim Escobar — also visited the DL in the first half.
Yet the Angels won 53 games. Only once before in franchise history has an Angels team had more victories before the All-Star Game — 55 in 1979.
"It makes it a relief to me, honestly, that we've gotten through those key injuries," Matthews said. "If you had told us in spring training, we'd get by without Garret, without Figgy, without the other guys we've had go down — people would be skeptical.
"But Reggie (Willits) has stepped in as a Rookie of the Year candidate. (Maicer) Izturis had some big hits early in the year. Kotch (Casey Kotchman) and Howie have really come on at times. We've had so many key guys out with injuries and still found a way to survive — and not just survive but really thrive a little bit."
But Matthews indulges some skepticism of his own about continuing to do that in the second half.
"You can only expect to get away with not being healthy for so long," he said.
Angels GM Bill Stoneman agrees that his team was fortunate to absorb all of those injuries in the first half. But he still says health will be the determining factor in the second half.
"Everybody else is going to give you the same answer: Health has so much to do with success," Stoneman said. "And in our case, pitching health in particular. We're built around pitching so, shoot, as long as our pitchers — starters and relievers — are healthy and pitching up to expectations, we'll be fine."
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Utimaco releases software updates for SafeGuard CryptoServer LAN and SafeGuard SecurityServer
Hardware security modules (HSMs) are usually leveraged in data centers, which, for the most part, are equipped with standard servers. These standard servers are normally monitored completely through remote monitoring systems. However, the latest HSMs available on the market either do not support remote monitoring at all or very little. At the same time, the operator is faced with high personnel costs for administration, which is also prone to errors due to a lack of automation options.
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Likewise, operators of SafeGuard SecurityServer's new 3.01 software version can expect a lower TCO thanks to the easier and more secure use of the administration tool. "Ninety percent of our customers administer the SecurityServer using the graphics-based CAT administration tool, which was developed particularly for those users who do not administer HSMs on a daily basis. To make administration more intuitive and thus cost-effective, we have completely reworked the CAT user interface. The flow of individual steps is now more intuitive than ever and the interface has been slimmed down", explains Dieter Bong, Product Manager CryptoServer. The aim was to enable new and inexperienced users to be able to better handle the interface. The command-line interface csadm can also boast similar changes - the integrated help system has been reworked and expanded.
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"It has been an honor and a privilege to represent my constituents for the last five years," Kennemer said. "As such, I am asking the people of House District 39 to send me back to Salem for another term so I can continue working on the issues that are most important to them."
Prior to his election to the House in November 2008, Kennemer served as a Clackamas County commissioner and in the Oregon Senate from 1987 to 1996. He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and maintained a private practice in the Milwaukie area for more than 25 years.
Kennemer noted that with his history of public service he is able to provide constituent services to the people he represents, "and being a member with seniority, there's a bit more clout and opportunity to impact our efforts in Salem for serving constituents."
Top issues and priorities for Kennemer include enabling small, local businesses to create and maintain more jobs, sustaining a high quality of life for all Oregonians, investing in public and higher education and holding the line on taxes and spending.
Kennemer currently serves as co-vice chairman of the House Business and Labor Committee. He is also a member of the health care and rules committees.
"My committee assignments enable me to provide input on laws affecting our health care system, as well as those that deal with the critical issues that business owners face on a daily basis," Kennemer said. "I am eager to continue serving and representing the people of House District 39."
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Coronary CT angiograms are sometimes used instead of traditional coronary angiograms to check for coronary artery disease. A CT angiogram may be better than a traditional angiogram for people who have only a moderate risk of coronary artery disease.
Typically, when your doctor needs to check for blockages in your heart's arteries, he or she will perform a coronary angiogram. In a coronary angiogram, a catheter is inserted in an artery in your groin and threaded through your blood vessels to your heart. Dye that's visible on X-rays is then injected through the catheter, and X-ray images of your heart are taken.
Your doctor can see blockages and areas of narrowing in your heart's arteries on the images. Because the catheter is near your heart, if blockages are found, your doctor can perform a procedure called angioplasty to open your blockages after a traditional angiogram. However, many people who have coronary angiograms don't have any blockages.
In a CT angiogram, no catheter has to be placed in your groin, and the dye that's visible on the CT scan is injected through an intravenous (IV) line that's placed in your hand or arm. X-ray images are still taken of your heart. However, because no catheter is used, if you need treatment to improve blood flow to the heart, you'll need a separate procedure (a traditional coronary angiogram) to treat your condition.
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Philadelphia Eagles spirit watch features a round dial with team logo and ratcheting sport elasped time bezel. Case size: 33mm, Case thickness: 8mm, case lug size: 14mm. Supple silicon rubber strap with sports buckle. Strap length: 7in to 9in. Precision quartz movement. Includes free gift tin. Water and shock resistant to 3 ATM. Stainless steel caseback. Acrylic crystal lens and team color bezel. Silver time and fluorecent hands. Limited lifetime warranty.