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Ohio EPA's mission is to protect the environment and public health by ensuring compliance with environmental laws and demonstrating leadership in environmental stewardship. To accomplish that goal, it is important that we consistently regulate Ohio's environmental laws.
As ombudsman, Laurie Stevenson acts as a problem-solving liaison between the Agency and those affected by its rules and processes. For questions or concerns, please contact Laurie by email or phone at (614) 644-2798.
An ombudsman acts in a neutral way to help resolve disputes. The ombudsman evaluates all sides of an issue in an objective manner and can help identify options and strategies for resolution.
The ombudsman does not impose solutions and cannot make or reverse legal decisions to resolve a conflict. The ombudsman serves as a contact for issues such as:
The ombudsman can only handle complaints having to do with your interaction with Ohio EPA. The ombudsman cannot take up conflicts you have with private individuals, companies or organizations; federal, county or local governments; elected officials; the legislature or U.S. EPA.
The ombudsman does not have the power to change rules, regulations, policies or legal procedures. The ombudsman cannot assist you in resolving matters that are part of an ongoing enforcement action. If the ombudsman is unable to take up your case, you will be told why.
If you have a problem, first discuss it with the person or office involved. Many times they can further explain a regulation or policy and can correct the problem at that level. In fact, in many cases personnel in the appropriate division or office can solve problems more quickly and easily than by the ombudsman. The ombudsman is a last resort -- someone who will try to help when other approaches have failed.
This website is designed to help you identify the quickest and most effective route within the Agency to resolve your problem and, if appropriate, guide you in requesting the services of the ombudsman to help resolve your concerns. The following simple steps should help you get on the right path to resolving your concerns.
If you are having difficulty locating general resources or information from Ohio EPA, visit the FAQ section of our Customer Support Center to see if this helps you.
To help you identify the best person to speak with when trying to resolve various problems, we have developed a chart showing some common situations we encounter along with the appropriate first point of contact. Try to resolve the issue directly with the points of contact provided.
If you have followed the first two steps, but still have not been able to resolve your concern, it's time to contact the ombudsman.
Gather information about your situation that you want to convey to the ombudsman. Be ready to describe what your specific situation is, including what division, district or office you've been working with and what type of resolution you are seeking. Know your specific Ohio EPA contact's name and have copies of any related correspondence that you'd like to share with the ombudsman.
Fill out the ombudsman's request for assistance form. After receiving your request, we will contact you directly to discuss the next steps.
Ohio EPA's rules coordinator provides oversight of Agency rule review and processing and acts as the primary Agency contact with the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review. If you have any questions regarding Ohio EPA's rule-making process, please feel free to contact Mandi by email or phone at (614) 644-2782. For more information about Ohio's rules and regulations or to sign up to receive notification of rule changes, please visit our main Rules page.
Ohio EPA's mission is to protect the environment. However, we also recognize the challenges we face as a state in attracting and retaining businesses to maintain a strong economy for Ohio. To help meet both of these goals we strive for timely permit application reviews that meet business timeframes whenever possible, while continuing our main mission of protecting the environment.
Ohio EPA is looking for ways to continuously improve accessibility, flexibility, responsiveness and problem solving involved in our daily activities. As a result, we've made several changes to improve the efficiency of our permitting process and are currently reviewing our business practices for other areas of improvement.
Ohio EPA has developed a permitting assistance Web site to help organize and identify information that can help businesses navigate through the environmental permitting process. If after reviewing this information you still need help, please feel free to contact us by e-mail or phone at 1-800-329-7518.
In addition, Ohio EPA's Office of Compliance Assistance and Pollution Prevention (OCAPP) can provide your small businesses with resources and tools to help you understand and meet compliance responsibilities. We can also help you get and complete your permit application forms.
Ohio EPA knows we cannot achieve our mission and vision without input from Ohio citizens. The Agency places a high priority on public involvement and encourages citizens to become involved in our decision-making processes.
The Agency's public involvement efforts, coordinated through our Public Interest Center, are designed to enable Ohioans to be a part of environmental decisions that affect their lives. The Agency offers public hearings, informational meetings, media briefings, advisory board meetings, round table discussions and various publications to educate the public about environmental issues. Each area of the state is served by a public involvement coordinator. To find the coordinator for your area, click here.
Ohio EPA's spill hotline should be used to report release of any material that impacts public health or the environment, including chemicals and petroleum products.
For non-emergency calls, including complaints, questions or concerns about environmental issues, please use the toll-free numbers listed for the nearest district office or contact the public involvement coordinator for your region. The regulated community should use the main division number for routine business.
When reporting a spill, release or environmental crime through the spill hotline, be prepared with as much of the following information as possible:
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Phone: (614) 644-2782 ~ Fax: (614) 644-3184 ~ Contact Us
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1049, Columbus, OH 43216-1049
Street Address: 50 West Town Street, Suite 700, Columbus, OH 43215
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The Windows Phone 7.5 update finally let third party apps work in the background. Rdio, now in 3.0 and our favorite music player app on Windows Phone not named Zune, has taken full advantage: it can stream music in the background now. WOOHOO.
In other news, this post totally feels like it was written 2 years ago about another app on another device or something. [Windows Phone Marketplace via @FindEric]

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... that flares up every so often.
My good pal Mike Neumann abhors these discussions, however, he posted two most eloquent and well balanced blogs on the subject which are worth to be read by those who dive with sharks. I won't participate in these debates anymore as I don't consider myself qualified enough to utter an authoritative opinion on what is meant by "safe" diving, and adequate "protocols".
Subjectively speaking, my interacting with sharks is perfectly safe, as I also believe that I am good driver (I have never had a car accident since I got my license in May 1960, and still love sitting behind a wheel). That, of course, does not mean that I could be bitten by a shark on my next dive or that I could crash my car into a concrete bridge pillar tomorrow. But it means that the inherent risk of being alive will not deter me from touching sharks or driving my car - people who know me know how much I enjoy both pastimes.
I just hope this doesn't look like a potentially dangerous situation - it wasn't.
Photo: Isabel Muscat
Anyway, when I interact with sharks I do not use sticks to "protect" myself, and I would not put on a chain suit. I "hug" sharks the way others hug trees or their wives. I don't believe that sharks are being driven exclusively by food and sex which would really make them rather unpleasant fellow creatures to interact with ... Whether or not they have a 'soul' I don't know. Does a dog have a soul? I don't know. Do I have one? Not sure - to put it succinctly - and if I had one, where would it be?... :-) Whatever, I can happily tolerate being referred to as an idiot when it comes to my relationship with sharks.
Many shark operators would not allow me to free-dive with sharks for safety or protocol reasons. While I agree that protocols are important, and that conscientious shark operators need to manage the risk of accidents, I quite dislike to have someone lead me by my nose, and tell me how to behave in the presence of sharks.
Should an accident happen (I know of only one fatal accident for which the operator could not be blamed, even though other shark operators thought otherwise) - so bloody what?? Shit happens, life happens, death happens. No matter how much we want to play it, and have it, safe: It's a jungle out there, and it's one we cannot control - thank God.
OK, dear readers, I am outta this - and should I ever not be allowed to touch sharks on a dive boat anymore, well, then I will rent a 17 ft Boston whaler and do my own thing, all by myself, which is for me the quintessential way of diving anyway. No strangers, no buddies, just me, the silent blue world, and the sharks - this is how I dove for countless years until I got to know my favorite sharks: The awesome, gentle, intelligent and, yes, potentially dangerous but basically non-aggressive tiger sharks which I can only get to see, and swim with, regularly when diving with specialized dive operators. The very few ones I go with understand my deeply felt need to get up-close and personal with these incredible sharks. One of them is Captain Scott W. Smith of the Dolphin Dream.
Some think I have a special way to interact with sharks, others think I am an idiot. Either way, I don't care - I just do my thing... :-)
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- Shenzhen Zhihong Textile Co., Ltd.
- China Manufacturer with main products:High temperature resistant hook loop ,Flame Retardant hook and loop
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Weaved of special PPS fiber material,fire retardant and resistant to high temperature.This hook and loop tapes is the world's top high temperature resistant and permanent flame retardant.It conforms to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration specification FAR 25.853 A/B.
It is composed of two sides : the hook tape and the loop tape, resists to high temperature 260 degrees celsius, endurable material and high cycle life. This high quality hook and loop tapes can be cycled in excess of 10000 times.
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Width: 25mm/50mm,Length: 25 meter/roll 27.5 yard/roll.The high temperature resistant tape can be customized with different dimension, such as strip cutting, die cutting, sewing, ultrasonic.
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Microsoft Vista Bad – Texas Bans Vista For State Gov
LINK :: Microsoft Vista Bad – Texas Bans Vista For State Gov
The malignment of Windows Vista has reached a new height: A Texas lawmaker added a provision to the state budget that would effectively ban Vista from being purchased by any state government agency.
The rider says that any agency must get written approval from the Budget Board before buying any Vista products, and the guy who inserted it said its intent was to block them from buying the operating system. Hinojosa, Senate Finance Committee vice chairman, said, "We have a lot of problems with the Vista program. It had a lot of bugs. It takes up a lot of memory. It's not compatible with other equipment, and it's supposed to be an upgrade from the XP program that is being used by state agencies, and it's not."
I would agree, it's not an upgrade of any kind. Everyone says the problem is they changed the interface, only Apple did that with MacOS X and there has been almost 100% acceptance of that OS vs. the crap that is VISTA.
So me being as a person that uses facts to build an opinion I contacted 10 (round number and easy to work with) IT people I know at 10 different companies about this topic.
10 People 5 of which are in Medium Sized companies (over 3000) people, and 4 in small (under 1000) companies, then the last person is a consultant, which becasue he is all over the place shines the brightest light on this topic from all angles.
Before we get into the 10 people I talked too, my current employer is a Microsoft friendly company with 25,000 users and the only VISTA installed is for testing. It's not allowed in production.
Back to the 10 IT people. So three groups:
5+4+1 = 10
Just doing the math to throw you all off.
Of the LARGE group only one admitted to having more than 5 copies of VISTA inside their company. The other 4 said 2 -3 at best. It was because some senior level person had purchased a PC and not talked to IT and just got it with VISTA installed or in a few cases demanded that they get VISTA. In all 5 none of them have deployed VISTA. This is interesting in that I would have expected 2 of them, being large Microsoft shops, would have deployed more VISTA than they have. But it was not the case. I then asked WHY?
The answers we all about the same the only variance was the level of detail provided. Mostly Education of the new product, cost, compatibility, and performance.
The SMALL group had almost the same experience. In fact one of them admitted to having to remove VISTA on a large number of PCs that were purchased and replaced it with XP due to a compatibility issue with te hardware that came with the certified VISTA PC and some application they ran. It could crash VISTA no matter what they did and all Microsoft would do was blame the hardware vendor, which was certified to work with VISTA. Interesting. 2- 3 per company was the norm and for all the same reasons.
So out of the first 9 IT people there were no large VISTA installations, and not plans to move to VISTA in the next 2 years. So far it seems my opinion in short that VISTA SUCKS is pretty much spot on and IT people in the US are agreeing with me without even knowing they are.
The last hold out was the CONSULTANT. He sees everything and is very PRO-MICROSOFT! With that said I know on his PC he is using a Mac with VMWares app to run XP. He does not run VISTA anywhere except at the office and he has admitted that it only as a reference. That of course is very telling.
He has many many customers from 2 -3 users to over 100 in an office and the majority of them are on XP and one has moved from Microsoft Desktops and Servers to Mac Desktops and XServe Servers for everything. That was the most delicious part of his answer. Seeing companies do he "impossible" according to Microsoft. He also stated that the VISTA users he does have are split on their like or dislike of VISTA. He did say that most customers don't know they have a choice when buying a new PC and just take VISTA and that he has been un-installing VISTA and replacing XP about once or twice a week for the past 4 months. It's not a large number but it is important.
So what is the over all verdict?
All 10 I think were pretty honest. I don't think any of them knew were I was going with these questions of that I would use it to make an argument against VISTA. I think most of them thought I was trying to figure out if I should move to VISTA and were giving me hints that I might want to think twice. After getting this information I don't see VISTA being the HIT Microsoft planned for it to be. It's the new WindowsME.
That is al!
IBM takes back SUN offer – BAD IDEA SUN!
I think everyone at SUN is happy for now. I am not sure how good this is for them long term. I don't think SUN has what it takes to keep selling nothing. I don't know what SUN has to offer the IT world. Solaris is free, OpenSolaris is even more FREE and the hardware they are putting out is lack luster and not even as good as anything DELL or HP has. Sadly I think SUN should have taken the offer and called it day. Next thing they will be asking the government for a hand out.
LINK :: Linux Journal – IBM Lets Sun Set
SunGard Looks for Growth with New Reseller Program
I like what SunGard brings to the table. I like the idea that they are doing well right now too.
"SunGard's Availability Services business unit last week launched a new reseller partner program to augment its direct-sales approach and expand its offerings to small and mid size businesses. The new program covers all of the company's offerings–everything from traditional tape-based backup to hot site recovery and full high availability (HA) replication–and is aimed at generating referrals from resellers and "white box" versions of SunGard's services that partners can resell themselves.
SunGard has always sold its disaster recovery (DR) and HA services using a direct-sales model. Considering that a good percentage of SunGard's customers are big, Fortune 500-size companies, it's always made a lot of sense to develop and maintain a close relationship with this upscale clientele, instead of relying on partners to do it."
LINK :: ITJungle – SunGard Looks for Growth with New Reseller Program
LINK :: SunGard
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Open Ended Question – What are you going to do?
The owners of this site hate it when I put up open ended questions hoping for some feedback. And to make them happy I am going to keep doing it. It's just that I hope to get some answers and I do from time to time.
- How large an IBM i do you have now?
- Does your company or customer seem happy with the IBM i System?
- How many IBM i Systems do you have now?
- How many partitions?
- Do you run LInux on the POWER Platform?
- Do you run AiX on the POWER Platform?
- Do you run Windows on your POWER Platform?
- Are there plans to move away from the IBM i?
- If you are moving away from the IBM i what platform are you moving too?
- When your current lease is up do you plan on getting a new IBM i?
I know these are the kinds of questions IBM is looking at, but in order to keep the blog freash along with my writting it essential to know where the IBM i is going and what you use it for. You don't have to tell anyone where you work or what you use it for.
Novell strengthens commitment to Mono
LINK :: Novell strengthens commitment to Mono
Good news all around the Linux Community today.
"As part of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Ca. today, Novell announced the availability of MonoDevelop 2.0 and Mono 2.4. MonoDevelop 2.0 is an open source integrated development environment for programming with C# and other languages. Mono 2.4 is the latest release of the open source, cross-platform .NET application framework that powers the SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension."
IBM should really think about buying Novell. They are in bed with them right now and it would make the most sense.
The F1 Season starts tonight
Having nothing to do with System i or IBM, the F1 Series starts tonight in Australia. I will be up all night watching it. I know there is DVR, but I don't care. I want to watch it on TV in the middle of the night like any good US F1 fan does……
Some people live for Football, or Baseball, not me I can't wait for race season to start. I love F1, and I love LeMans racing too. Those are the things that make David tick. I don't know what it is about F1 but I love watching it. Sadly they will not be in North America this year, but maybe in 2010. It should be a great season, and I want to see more Jenson Button and Makajima san near the top. I know I am wanting a lot.
Good luck to all of them and stay safe!
Al Barsa Scholarship
I didn't know Al as well as others at COMMON, but in Nashville I was able to spend a few more moments with him than in the past. Always opinionated and always willing to share. Little did I know it would be the last time any of us would get to talk to him. 2008 was not a good year, it started with my Father-in-law passing away, the Al, then my to young to die Brother-in-Law in Utah. I guess we are all too young to die, but I digress.
Common has announced the Al Barsa Scholarship, which I think is a great idea. Hats off to them and I am sure somewhere along the way Al would have told them they were doing it al wrong, Anyway I think it's a super idea and he would have approved.
Where is the SUN buyout?
I really thought SUN was going to get purchased by IBM and then come to find out IBM may be laying off 5000 employees? Come on IBM, you know you didn't have to do that? Seems like the past 20 years of IT have been very up and down. I wish it would level out for just a bit.
Want List :: Lenovo releases new Linux Laptop
LINK :: Lenovo X41 Laptop with Linux
The X41 is small and light, weighing around 2.7 lbs with the 4-cell battery it came with. It uses a 1.50 GHz Pentium M processor with the Intel 915GM chipset. Other specs include: Intel PRO wifi chipset (fully supported by Linux out of the box), Intel graphics card, a 12.1″ XGA TFT screen, 512 MB RAM (Geeks sent us a 1 GB RAM upgrade too, reaching the overall RAM of 1.5 GB), fingerprint reader, a 1.8″ 60GB drive at 4200RPM. It features a modem port, an ethernet port, headphone/line-out, external microphone, infrared, expansion bus for IBM laptops, VGA-out, 1 PCMCIA slot, 1 SD slot, two generic USB 2.0 ports, and 1 IBM "USB" port (not compatible with most gadgets).