The commission's 13 key points focused on tests done to check the cement used in the well, decisions made by BP when plugging the well and the actions of those at the company in the hours before the disaster aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig.

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Students will realize substantial benefits from the bundle, which will add a physical keyboard to the device as well as a USB adapter that supports plugging in USB thumb drives as well as peripherals such USB mice.

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This involves plugging the well with densely packed mud to prevent any more oil from escaping.

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The effort, called a "top kill, " involved plugging the ruptured deep-sea well by pumping heavy drilling fluid into it from the surface, nearly a mile above.

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We are simply talking about plugging holes, sealing a porous system that isn't working as well as it should.

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Separately, CrackBerry has heard the same from its sources, along with word that more internal employees are becoming a part of the beta test group (already plugging away since May on alpha dev units like the one shown above) as well.

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With oil becoming a scarcer resource every day, and no chance of plugging that gap through unconventional plays, Hummel thinks investors should move into energy service companies as well.

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