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Every year, as the Atlantic hurricane season approaches many businesses have a nagging realization that they are at risk due to a catastrophic "Black Swan " event. Black Swan events are a constant source of risk in states like Florida where many communities are subject to disruption due to coastal storms. This risk is particularly acute for businesses that depend on the storage of on-line data if there is a chance their critical data could become lost or corrupted. But the threat from Black Swan events isn't limited to Florida, nor is it limited to large scale disruptive events like hurricanes.The black swan theory or theory of black swan events describes a disruptive event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight. The term is based on an ancient saying which presumed black swans did not exist, but the saying was rewritten after black swans were discovered in the wild. Consider the following scenario..
"We tend to think of disasters in terms of the attacks on the World Trade Center, Hurricane Katrina, or other mega events. Sometimes, however, less notable events occur that can have a catastrophic effect on a business.pos4d In February 1981, an electrical fire in the basement of the State Office Building in Binghamton, New York, spread throughout the basement of the building setting fire to a transformer containing over a thousand gallons of toxin-laden oil. Originally thought to be PCBs, the toxins were soon determined to contain dioxin and dibenzofuran, two of the most dangerous chemicals ever created. The fire was smoky and quickly filled the 18-story building with smoke. As the transformer burned, the soot entered the buildings ventilation shafts and quickly spread toxic soot throughout the building. The building was so badly contaminated that it took 13 years and over $47 million to clean before the building could be reentered or used. Because of the nature of the fire, the building and its contents, including all paper records, computers, and personal effects of the people who worked there, were not recoverable. This type of event would be irrecoverable for many businesses." – Operations Due Diligence, Published by McGraw Hill
What affect would a catastrophic hurricane that affected an entire region or a localized disruptive event like a fire have on the operation of your business? Could you survive that kind of interruption or loss? As the dependence on on-line data has grown in virtually every type of business, so has the risk that loss of their data could disrupt the operation of the business and even result in its complete failure. In response to these threats, there has been an evolution in the approaches used to mitigate these risks as the volume of on-line data has continued to grow. Originally, the concept of Disaster Recovery (DR) emerged as a mitigation strategy that focused on the recovery of critical data after a disruptive event by giving the business the ability to restore disrupted IT operations.


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Purple is a type of color between violet and magenta, purple shows spiritual, magic, and mystic sides of our home; those impressions of purple are very useful to attract people's attentions. The impressions of sensual, feminine, elegant, and warm will be felt every time you enter purple rooms. I have some purple color room ideas for you who love purple and want to use purple color for your rooms.
First purple color room idea is using purple color to decorate and beautify home office and library. Purple color is so matches to be applied in a room where you need high concentrations, such as home office, kids' study room, and home library; it is because purple is combination between blue and red. Blue touches make the room felt fresh and quiet, compatible nuance for home office and study room where we need quietness during working or studying. And touch of red color makes purple felt energetic and able to motivate us to work or study.
Purple color room idea for bedroom is better with light purple color schemes, such as lavender, thistle, plum, violet, and orchid. Those light purple color schemes are able to give us good quality of sleep. Blue has calm down and chilly effect that's good for good quality sleep, light purple color schemes have same calm down effect likes blue, but without chilly effect that will make our sleep be sound.
Purple color room idea for living room and family room is about purple color gradations. Purple in soft schemes is able to create a quiet, peace, and shade impressions. We can make a unique gradation from Indigo, Blue Violet, and Orchid. Three colors in a room will shape great appearance for our living room that's represent the glory, quietness, and feminineness all at once. You can also try to combine the other color schemes of purple accord with your desire. It is better if you can use a bit touch of white color.

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Manufacturers can produce any number of textures, shapes, sizes, flavors and colors.
Our goal is to provide flexible and scalable production tools to produce high-quality, tasty and nutritional Dog feed Extruder.
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Power Supply
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Customized according to your local power.
Machine details
1.Stainless steel,:201, 304, 316, on request
2. Electric parts can be ABB, Delta, Fuji, Omron, Siemens;
Famous brand as your demand.
Raw Material
Corn meal, flour, soy meal, peanut meal.
Bone /meat/fish/shrimp powder, etc.
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Fish feed: Granule, Pellet, stick, tablet
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a) With good self-cleaning ability, it's unnecessary to remove the barrel and screws for cleaning.
3. SIMENS (China) Motor
4. It adopts speed-adjusted converter on feeding system, extrusion system and cutting system.
a) Food grade stainless steel twin screw feeding device guarantees stable materials feeding in the whole food process.
5. Adopted the Delta inverters, ensure the extruder better running.
6. The gearbox has automatic lubrication function, which prolong service life of gears.
7. Cutting knife is fixed in the die head seat, rotary cutting driven by V-belt.
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Installed power
Real power
1-1.2 ton/h
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4.Production process of Dog feed Extruder
Flour raw material mixing-extruding and shaping-drying-flavoring-cooling-packing
Packaging & Shipping of Dog feed Extruder
Packing:Dog feed Extruder are always wrapped by film completely and safely and then packed in strong fumigation-free case or 20'/40' container for delivery.
We take good care of each machine for you
Delivery: 20-30 days after receiving advance payment.
Our Services
Company Information
Jinan ZhuoHeng Machinery Co., Ltd is an industry and trade integrated enterprise. The company is committed to R & D extrusion machinery and related ancillary equipments. It is covering mainly machinery and equipment for corn meal milling system, corn flakes/breakfast cereal system, baby food system, corn puff snacks system, pellets system, artificial rice system,soy protein system; as well as pet food/fish food system.
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Providing professional advisory services
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And offer the quotation
Providing on-site visit to our factory
Providing samples
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Manufacturing machines according to contract.
Trial running after production.
Packing machines and delivery on time
Providing relevant documents for Custom clearance
(If necessary)
After-sale service
Send engineers for installation, trial running and training workers.
Handling the problems occurred during use.
Supply spare and wearing parts on discount.
Help customers to solve any other problems
1. Are you a manufacturer or a trading company?
We are a professional manufacturer of food & feed extrusion machine
2. What's the price of your machines?
You can inquiry to us directly
3. What is your payment terms?
Recommend to use Alibaba's Trade Assurance.
T/T or L/C; by T/T 30% as down payment, 70% by T/T before delivery, L/C before shipment.
4. Can we provide the formula to you?
We can provide basic formula for producing the food etc.
And help customer to produce good quality food according customer's detailed formula.
5. What is the workshop size required?
The production line can be put in straight line and also can change the direction according to your factory size.
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What other advice would you give to a newbie TEFLer?
Vacationing in a foreign country is wonderful, but it isn't always fulfilling enough. You may visit a new place, completely fall in love with the land, the people, even the food, and want to experience those things on at least a semi-permanent basis. Teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) is one way to do that.
Unfortunately, many EFL teachers can find themselves victims of job scams, which can not only cause them to lose a lot of money, but can sour them on the entire overseas experience, causing them to speak out about their negative experiences. Complaints like this are especially frustrating because language instruction can be a wonderful experience, especially overseas. If you decide to pursue an overseas EFL teaching job, be on the lookout for these red flags.
Up Front Payment Required
It's very rare that you should have to pay any kind of fee for any kind of job, let alone an EFL job. You're the one applying to do the work in order to be paid. Why should you have to pay anything before you get there? Disreputable employers, or scammers posing as EFL employers, will tell you the payment is to cover your travel costs, or for an orientation you must attend before you can begin teaching.
Sadly, this very thing happens to many hopeful job seekers. One such story involved a woman who lost $2,500 when she wired money via Western Union for travel costs and rent fees with the promise she'd be reimbursed by the employer. When they received it and then asked her for more money, she became suspicious, and found out it was a scam.
Huffington Post columnist and author, Julie Gray, wrote an article about a very similar experience in which she described how even though she considers herself quite savvy, she still fell for a scam. It can happen to anyone. As the instances above illustrate, if you pay that money, you'll likely never see it again. And you'll still have to cover your travel. Be suspicious of any company that requires payment up front when you apply for a job with them.
It's Too Good To Be True
It's not difficult to find out the average pay for an EFL teacher in your country of interest. That information is available from multiple sites on the Internet, such as EFL businesses, and EFL support sites and forums. Just like most other teachers of any subject, EFL teachers don't go into that career field to become rich.
Part of the compensation is the opportunity to live in a foreign country, and to interact with the culture and people there. If an EFL company offers you what seems like an outrageous salary, or one that's much higher than what other companies are offering in the same area, it's probably a scam.
Questionable Web Sites
Just about anyone can build a Web site these days with just a little know-how and a Web host. In the cases of Internet scams, it's become the equivalent of a layperson hanging out a shingle that claims they're a physician. Fortunately, there are some things to look for that will help you identify EFL scam sites.
First, look at the URL. Does it end with an unusual extension you've never seen before? Not to say that all sites with those extensions are questionable, but it's definitely a something to examine a little more closely.
Also, is the site well designed? Are there a lot of spelling and grammar errors? Is the domain name unrelated to EFL? Any or all of these factors should tell you all you need to know about that supposed EFL employer.
Poor English
Think about it. You're applying to English schools to teach English. Doesn't it stand to reason that the people who work there would be very familiar with the language, and would have excellent English skills? One or two mistakes are probably nothing to be alarmed about. You can find errors on a lot of Web sites or advertisements written by people for whom English is their first language. But if the materials you're looking at are rife with errors, there's something wrong.
It may also help for you to be more familiar with the native language of the country you're attempting to teach in. For example, if you're talking with a school in Spain and are worried about the reputation of the program, send out some tweets to people in the area and check teaching groups on Facebook for more information. If you're rusty on the language of the country, audio-based programs help quite a bit. In this scenario, brushing up on Spanish will help you communicate, be more aware and maybe even help your instruction.
What other advice would you give to a newbie TEFLer?


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Is Coinstar Destined for Greatness?
Every investor can appreciate a stock that consistently beats the Street without getting ahead of its fundamentals and risking a meltdown. The best stocks offer sustainable market-beating gains, with improving financial metrics that support strong price growth. Let's take a look at what Coinstar's recent results tell us about its potential for future gains.
What the numbers tell you
The graphs you're about to see tell Coinstar's story, and we'll be grading the quality of that story in several ways.
Growth is important on both top and bottom lines, and an improving profit margin is a great sign that a company's become more efficient over time. Since profits may not always be reported at a steady rate, we'll also look at how much Coinstar's free cash flow has grown in comparison to its net income.
A company that generates more earnings per share over time, regardless of the number of shares outstanding, is heading in the right direction. If Coinstar's share price has kept pace with its earnings growth, that's another good sign that its stock can move higher.
Is Coinstar managing its resources well? A company's return on equity should be improving and its debt-to-equity ratio declining if it's to earn our approval.
By the numbers
Now, let's take a look at Coinstar's key statistics:
CSTR Total Return Price data by YCharts.
Passing Criteria
3-Year* Change
Revenue growth > 30%
Improving profit margin
Free cash flow growth > Net income growth
28,700% vs. 191.5%
Improving EPS
Stock growth (+ 15%) < EPS growth
42.2% vs. 173.2%
Source: YCharts. * Period begins at end of Q3 2009.
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Passing Criteria
3-Year* Change
Improving return on equity
Declining debt to equity
Source: YCharts. * Period begins at end of Q3 2009.
How we got here and where we're going
Coinstar earns all but one of the seven possible passing grades, and that one is likely to return to the right direction next time we examine it -- Coinstar ended 2009 with a steep one-time drop in quarterly profit, and has slowly been trending back up ever since. Will the company be able to maintain its momentum elsewhere to earn a rare perfect score when we look at it again in a year? Let's see what's in store.
The most compelling story in Coinstar's near future will be the rollout of Redbox Instant, a partnership with Verizon , although it may not be so near after all. Multiple delays look to keep the service in beta testing until spring, and the longer Coinstar waits to beef up its digital offerings, the less compelling it looks next to Amazon.com's Prime service or Netflix's industry-leading streaming selection. The problem is that streaming services appear to be losing their luster just as Coinstar's jumping in. Both Netflix and Coinstar suffered a drop in traffic in the fourth quarter of 2012. While that might be damaging, it could just be a byproduct of natural disasters cutting out Internet access for millions of East Coasters. The financial and subscriber numbers for both services continue to improve.
Coinstar is going to have to pony up to compete with either service on a streaming basis. Make that Clydesdale up -- Netflix is already spending $2 billion per year in streaming content acquisition costs, and Amazon has committed nearly $1 billion to its own efforts. Considering that $2 billion is as much revenue as Coinstar earned over the trailing 12 months, it will be a tall order to lure committed Netflix or Prime subscribers to Redbox Instant without destroying profitability. Coinstar's going to have to do this with a brand-new CEO, as the man who guided Redbox to a 10-fold increase in rentals over four years retired at the beginning of January.
Coinstar is currently very cheap -- both P/E and price-to-free cash flow ratios are in the single digits. But that's because the market expects the company's bread-and-butter DVD rentals to tank over the long term, and the statistics bear this out. To succeed, Coinstar will have to prove that it has another ace up its sleeve that's as valuable as DVD kiosks were years ago.
Putting the pieces together
Today, Coinstar has many of the qualities that make up a great stock, but no stock is truly perfect. Digging deeper can help you uncover the answers you need to make a great buy -- or to stay away from a stock that's going nowhere.
Internet video streaming may be all the rage, but customers still flock to the ubiquitous red boxes that spit out DVDs. How long can Coinstar, the company behind Redbox DVD rentals and its namesake loose-change coin machines, survive on this old-media medium? Longer than many may think, especially with its new expansion plans. The opportunity is ripe for Coinstar to grab market share, but is it the right time for investors to grab its stock? To answer this question, you're invited to check out The Motley Fool's new comprehensive research report on the opportunities, risks, and must-watch areas in Coinstar's future. Simply click here now to claim your copy today.
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Second Sunday in Advent
Epistle: Romans 15:4-13
Gospel: St Luke 21:25-33
Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope (ἵνα διὰ τῆς ὑπομονῆς καὶ διὰ τῆς παρακλήσεως).
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
It is particularly fitting at this time of year that in today's Epistle we are reminded of things 'written aforetime', for it is of course the season of Advent – a period when we frequently think back to the ancient prophecies of Christ's coming. Likewise, it is meet and right that we ask ourselves what is the 'patience and comfort of the Scriptures' of which St Paul speaks, and what is the 'hope' we have through them.
The answer to the first question is suggested by the very next verse – where St Paul refers to the 'God of patience and consolation' (θεὸς τῆς ὑπομονῆς καὶ τῆς παρακλήσεως). 'Consolation' here is the KJV translation of 'paraclesis': the same word that is used in verse 4 and there translated 'comfort'. Elsewhere, Christ refers to the Holy Spirit as 'the Paraclete', 'the Comforter' – in other words, God Himself is the comfort of the Scriptures. The 'God of patience and comfort' is also the 'patience and comfort of the Scriptures'.
This is further confirmed when we note the patristic teaching that before the Incarnation, Christ became 'incarnate' in Scripture. The 7th-c. Byzantine theologian, St Maximus the Confessor, for example, writes:
The Logos [or Word] of God is called flesh not only inasmuch as He became incarnate, but in another sense as well. . . . [W]hen he draws near to men who cannot with the naked mind come into contact with noetic realities in their naked state, He selects things which are familiar to them, combining together various stories, symbols, parables and dark sayings; and in this way He becomes flesh. Thus at the first encounter our mind comes into contact not with the naked Logos but with the incarnate Logos, that is, with [the] various sayings and stories [of Scripture]. [1]
So the 'patience and comfort of the Scriptures' gave to the righteous men of the Old Testament the hope that the Word of God incarnate in those Scriptures would one day become incarnate as a Man. This was the Advent which they so eagerly anticipated, as when the Psalmist says, 'O God of hosts, return again; and look down from heaven and behold, and visit this vineyard, and perfect that which Thy right hand hath planted' (79:15-16 LXX). Thus, it is appropriate that during the season of Advent we recall their longing.
But – having 'received the promise' – we are now able to receive the Second Advent: the coming of Christ into our hearts and souls. A mediaeval French Cistercian, Guerric D'Igny, writes:
Assuredly He comes to us [in our hearts] now to ensure that His first coming will not have been in vain, and to avoid having to meet us at the last [coming] in wrath. In this middle advent He is intent on reforming our spirit of pride and patterning us anew on the humility He showed forth at His first coming . . . This personal visitation, which imparts to us the grace of the first advent and holds promise of the glory of the last, should be the object of our heart's desire, the goal of all our striving. [2]
Thus, it is through the 'patience and comfort' of Christ dwelling in our hearts and of our continual prayer before Him there, that the great hope of His Third Advent is kindled within us. For Guerric's words also serve as an excellent reminder of today's Gospel. In this passage of Luke 21, Christ speaks of His third and final Advent, that is, His return to judge the quick and the dead. Incarnate in Scripture, Christ's voice is humble and quiet – we must read attentively if we are to recognise Him there. Similarly, incarnate as a Babe in the manger, as the Man of Many Sorrows, Christ is again humble and quiet – we must have Faith to recognise who He is and to understand God's revelation in His Son. But commenting on Christ's words, '[T]hen shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory', Bl Theophylact writes:
All shall see Him, both those who believe and those who do not believe. . . . [A]nd both He and His Cross will shine more brightly than the sun and will be recognized by all. [3]
Thus, of those who did not attend to the two Incarnations – in Scripture and in the flesh – St Gregory the Great writes, 'They are going to see in power and majesty Him Whom they chose not to hear in a state of humility.' And, as if thinking himself of the reference in today's Epistle to 'the patience and comfort of the Scriptures' and 'the God of patience and comfort', St Gregory writes, 'To the extent that they do not now submit their hearts to His patience, they will then experience His power more exactingly.' [4]
That this be not so with us, as Guerric of Igny says, let us welcome Him into our hearts today, and attend with eagerness to His words and example for us as we prepare to celebrate His wondrous Nativity according to the flesh. For, in Guerric's words, 'just as, at His Second Coming, we shall run towards Him with physical energy and joy, so do we hasten to Bethlehem with jubilant heart and spirit.' [5]
We are helped by the Church to do this on this day in particular, which on the Gregorian calendar is dedicated to the memory of St Nicholas the Wonderworker, Bishop of Myra, later known as 'Santa Claus'. Of St Nicholas, one modern Benedictine writer has noted:
At the outset of Advent, a season that speaks to us deeply of hope because 'the Lord is near', as the Liturgy announces, we celebrate the feast of St Nicholas. His feast is an important pause on our Advent journey, for his life is an example of Gospel living for Christians of all times and places. [6]
Perhaps the most famous illustration of this is the very first story ever told about St Nicholas giving gifts in secret at night. A once wealthy man had lost his fortune and was soon going to have to sell his three daughters as slaves so that they would be taken care of. Hearing of this, St Nicholas went through the dark streets of Myra, and secretly left a bag of gold inside the man's house. He did this two more times, and on the third occasion, the man waited up and found the compassionate Bishop hurrying away so he would not be seen. But this is only one instance among many of St Nicholas's devotion to Christ's words and example. As St Demetrius of Rostov says in his Menology:
For the character of the saint was as a child-loving father, and his countenance shone with Divine grace like an angel of God. From his face, as from the face of Moses, emanated a bright ray, and to him who only looked at him there was great benefit. For him who was burdened with some kind of passion or affliction of soul, it was enough to fix his gaze on the saint in order to receive consolation in his sorrow; and he who conversed with him already improved in good. [7]
Of course, in our day St Nicholas has been largely transformed into a cartoonish figure with little connection to the historical Bishop of Myra, much less to the Christian faith. But as Christians we must not forget that the great Wonderworker, as great a figure as he is, only desires to point us toward Christ, whose Incarnation he proclaims. May we prepare for the Feast with sobriety and celebrate it with joy.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
[1] St Maximus the Confessor, 'Second Century on Theology' [§60], The Philokalia: The Complete Text, Vol. 2, ed. St Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain & St Macarius of Corinth, tr. G.E.H. Palmer, et al. (London: Faber, 1990), p. 151.
[2] Guerric of Igny, 'The Second Sermon for Advent', The Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the 12th Century, tr. & ed. Pauline Matarasso (London: Penguin, 1993), p. 131.
[3] Bl Theophylact, The Explanation by Bl Theophylact of the Holy Gospel According to St Luke, tr. Fr Christopher Stade (House Springs, MO: Chrysostom, 1997), p. 274.
[4] I got these comments from the notes appended to this passage in Vol. 2 of The Orthodox New Testament published by Holy Apostles Convent. I shall add the exact reference when I return to school and have my copy of this book in front of me.
[5] Guerric, p. 130.
[6] Victor-Antoine d'Avila-Latourrette, OSB, A Monastic Year: Reflections from a Monastery (Dallas: Taylor, 1996), p. 12.
[7] Service, Akathist, Life & Miracles of St Nicholas the Wonderworker (Jordanville, NY: Holy Trinity Monastery, 1996), p. 83.


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Manley Enhanced Pulteq EQ MonoRegular price £1,940.00
The MANLEY ENHANCED PULTEC EQP-1A is our own interpretation of the historic Pultec Equalizer as originally produced by Pulse Techniques, Inc. We have been building these Manley Pultec EQs since 1990 after we bothered to hunt down Eugene Shenk in New Jersey to ask for his permission and blessings to produce our own version of his classic piece. These Manley Pultec units employ our own simple and clean all-tube make-up gain block to reamplify the signal after the passive EQ circuit. EQ may be set to 'flat' positions or BYPASSED entirely. All BOOST and CUT controls are continuously variable conductive plastic potentiometers for absolutely silent operation and long life. Our single rack unit monoblocks occupy one-third of the space of the 'antique Pultecs', an important consideration for allocation of outboard rack space. And if you notice, we've added a couple extra frequencies too. The rear mounted input switch selects 0 degrees or 180 degrees PHASE INVERT for the balanced gold pin XLR input or the transformerless unbalanced bridging input (1/4" jack) may be selected in that switch's middle position.
People often ask us if our Pultec EQ's sound like the old ones to which we reply, "Yes! But better!" The originals had three transformers in the signal path whereas ours can be used completely transformerless. Our Manley Enhanced Pultec has a vastly superior B+ power supply, with regulated and balanced heater supply. Our line amp is known to be killer-sounding. The components we use today just weren't available in the 1960's. So, if you want a project with crackling carbon pots, dirty open frame wafer switches, 5% and 10% tolerance noisy carbon resistors, exposed tubes sticking out the back of the 3U chassis, etc., go pay top dollar for an antique Pultec!
The MANLEY PULTEC EQP-1A, available in both single and 2-channel versions, uses 1 x 12AX7WA and 1 x 6414 (or 5965) in our ALL-TUBE single-ended line amplifier for the gain make-up and extra-beefy sound; gain is factory set for unity but additional gain is available by a rear mounted feedback adjustment trimpot. Like our 40dB Mic Preamps, the Manley Pultecs offer both transformer coupled balanced and direct capacitor coupled unbalanced outputs for easy interface and sonic variety. Kick drum? Bring on the Pultecs and all the iron you can muster! You'll soon discover the power and magic of having those individual Low Frequency BOOST and CUT controls in that LF shelf circuit. . . Need a little clarity or extension? Try that middle bell-shaped Boost dialing in the sharpness of the boost on the BANDWIDTH control. Something bugging you? Ease it off with the HF shelf cut. You'll see. There's no substitute for a what a Manley Pultec EQ can do!


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Ok, thanks.
I know this is a little old, but you can also use sudo to run the user manager and modify root's permissions and properties, as well as the password
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Текст "Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery"
Come and dance through my vanity's halls Welcome to my exhibition Ornaments fall The fate of my art, condemned And the creative seed That grows to the tune of the harvest song Embody my lifelong passion Intertwine with the structures of my art Those empty frames staring at me One lonely portrait covers the lovestarved canvas In honour of the birthless rebellion within me Every picture holds a tale Every shade tells of a thousand words The artistry of living chaos Is pictured in the poets tears Because everything burns The final concept Is all but a thought away Be gone, you foul enchantress of decay! My thoughts and words will come to right In my chamber where chaos conveys Kneel down to my desire Deep in the vaults of my carnal agony Emptiness! Orchestration through colours The gallery To never return to my guidance Burning my artОбновить текст


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"The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South"
By Alex Heard
Harper, 416 pages, $26.99
What begets a work like 'The Eyes of Willie McGee,' a book that should be must reading for serious students of 20th century U.S. history? For journalist Alex Heard the moment of conception began a few years ago while browsing in a used bookstore. Scanning a history of lynching, Heard stumbled upon a reference to a case in which the African American McGee had been convicted of raping a white woman named Willette Hawkins in Laurel, Mississippi, in 1945. Heard remembered hearing about the case while working on the student newspaper at Vanderbilt University in 1979. The publication's adviser had played an old tape he had recorded live from the scene of McGee's execution in 1951.
A native of Mississippi who was too young "to grasp what was going on" in his state when James Meredith attempted to enroll at Ole Miss or when Medgar Evers was gunned down, Heard explains that the book on lynching "made me want to know more, not only about McGee, but about the history of Mississippi and the South between the end of World War II and the mid-1950s. It was an important and violent period…and it is usually skipped in standard histories of the civil rights movement."
Reading that McGee had insisted he was innocent and claimed that the sex with Mrs. Hawkins was consensual further piqued Heard's curiosity. So, too, did the fact that as execution loomed McGee's plight had become a cause célèbre, with American icons like Albert Einstein, William Faulkner, and Josephine Baker pleading for clemency if not exoneration. Unable to find a full account of the case, Heard set out to pin down what he calls "the moving target" of McGee's guilt or innocence.
Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he is currently editorial director of Outside magazine, Heard commenced a journey that would take him back home and introduce him to a cast of characters, some dead, some still alive, some noble and some decidedly ignoble. Among those with whom he spent time and shared notes were the children and grandchildren of the two principals. Understandably McGee's descendants sought to clear his name, while Hawkins's relatives were committed to eradicating the belief that still lingers in some quarters that Willette and Willie had been having an affair and that she had cried rape to protect her reputation.
Some facts are not in dispute. On November 2, 1945, Mrs. Hawkins, a thirty-two-year-old housewife, told police that a man had broken into her house in Laurel while she was asleep with her sick eighteen-month-old daughter beside her. She said that the man crawled on top of her and threatened to kill her and her daughter if she talked. She acknowledged that she could not see his face, but she knew he was black by virtue of his hair's texture.
McGee was arrested the next day on unrelated charges that he was in unauthorized possession of a truck owned by his employer, the Laurel Wholesale Grocery Company. Police soon noted that he had not shown up for work and that friends stated he had been in the Hawkins' neighborhood around the time of the alleged rape. Soon after being taken into custody, McGee confessed. But had he done so voluntarily or had he been beaten as he later claimed?
The first order of business for the state was to keep McGee alive in order to stand trial. Lynch mobs frequently took the law into their own hands when a black person was accused of raping, murdering, or even stealing from a white person. Heard offers several examples in which locals took black prisoners from jailhouses and subjected them to horrific torture before killing them. Such action was so ingrained in the Southern way of life that even a progressive like Faulkner could pronounce, "But there is one curious things about mobs. Like our juries they have a way of being right."
One month after the alleged rape, McGee went to trial. Mrs. Hawkins testified about the assault, but did not identify him as her attacker. McGee's confession and his supposed presence in the neighborhood were the most damning pieces of evidence. By this time, McGee had become mute and appeared to be mentally unhinged—a turn of events his accusers believed was a sham. After a one-day trial, an all white jury deliberated for less than three minutes before finding him guilty. Although no whites in Mississippi convicted of raping blacks were sentenced to death, blacks were routinely given the death penalty when their victims were white. McGee was sentenced to be electrocuted on January 7, 1946.
McGee's court-appointed attorney filed an appeal, arguing among other things that the trial judge should have granted a change of venue from hostile Laurel. The Mississippi Supreme Court agreed and ordered a second trial. This time the jury took eleven minutes to convict McGee.
Again McGee's attorneys appealed and again a new trial was ordered—this time on the grounds that the exclusion of blacks from juries denied equal protection under the law. This inequity was resolved before the third trial when the names of three black men appeared on the grand jury roll under somewhat mysterious circumstances. Years later one of the prosecutors boasted that the State had amended the roll to include two black doctors whom it knew would not rock the boat.
During the first two trials, McGee had claimed he was not with Mrs. Hawkins on the night in question. Now, he said he had been; they were having an affair. He had not revealed their relationship earlier because he feared that such an allegation could have led to mob violence.
By this time McGee's plight had captured the attention of civil rights groups and organizations of American communists. Heard's chronicle of the tension between these bodies with different agendas is eye-opening. When the Civil Rights Congress, an arm of the Communist Party, undertook McGee's defense, the NAACP, President Harry Truman, and the usually outspoken Eleanor Roosevelt chose to sit on the sidelines rather than be tainted red.
Leading McGee's defense was a young lawyer from New York named Bella Abzug. Heard's portrait of the future congresswoman as well as other local and national figures infuses the book with life. Characters like the bigoted Mississippi senator Theodore Bilbo may be forgotten by the history books—but shouldn't be.
Bringing these characters to our attention is but one of Heard's many strengths. The book is painstakingly researched and fair. Does the author reach a conclusion about McGee's guilt or innocence or whether a consensual affair took place? No. Does he reach a conclusion about the fairness of the proceedings? Yes.
Not too long before McGee was executed, several hundred supporters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial. Among them was the novelist Howard Fast. Heard quotes Fast's description of the day. "(O)nly one person, a soldier, asked why all this fuss over one life? Then we walked together into the shrine where Lincoln sits and the boy seemed confused and regretful over what he had said. Another visitor answered the young soldier. 'Sometimes one life becomes a symbol of a million lives.'"
In Willie McGee, Heard has found such a symbol.
Steve Fiffer, co-author of
"A Season for Justice: The Life and Times of Civil Rights Lawyer Morris Dees."


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Primary immune deficiency:
Indications for: OCTAGAM
Primary humoral immunodeficiency (eg, congenital agammaglobulinemia, common variable immunodeficiency, X-linked agammaglobulinemia, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, severe combined immunodeficiencies).
Adults and Children:
Individualize. 300‒600mg/kg by IV infusion every 3‒4 weeks at infusion rate of 0.5mg/kg/min, if tolerated may increase at 30min intervals to 1mg/kg/min, then 2mg/kg/min, then up to max 3.33mg/kg/min. Risk of measles exposure and receives <400mg/kg every 3‒4 weeks, may increase to at least 400mg/kg; if exposed, give as soon as possible. Risk of renal dysfunction/failure or thrombosis: give at the minimum practicable infusion rate; max: <3.3mg/kg/min. See full labeling.
OCTAGAM Contraindications:
IgA deficiency with antibodies against IgA. Previous severe reaction to human immune globulin.
Boxed Warning:
Thrombosis. Renal dysfunction and acute renal failure.
OCTAGAM Warnings/Precautions:
Advanced age, prolonged immobilization, hypercoagulable conditions, history of venous or arterial thrombosis, use of estrogens, indwelling central vascular catheters, hyperviscosity, cardiovascular risk factors: increased risk of thrombosis. Monitor for signs/symptoms of thrombosis and assess blood viscosity in patients at risk for hyperviscosity. Ensure adequate hydration. Pre-existing renal insufficiency, diabetes, >65yrs, hypovolemia, sepsis, paraproteinemia: increased risk of renal dysfunction or acute renal failure. Correct volume depletion; assess renal function, BUN, serum creatinine, urine output before and during therapy; discontinue if renal function deteriorates. Corn allergy. Discontinue if hypersensitivity reactions occur; have epinephrine available. Monitor for aseptic meningitis, hemolysis and delayed hemolytic anemia; consider measuring baseline hemoglobin or hematocrit and approx. 36–96hrs post-infusion if patients are high risk. Monitor for pulmonary dysfunction; perform test for anti-neutrophil antibodies if transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) suspected. Antibody formation. Risk of transmission of blood-borne diseases. Elderly. Pregnancy (Cat.C). Nursing mothers.
OCTAGAM Classification:
Immune globulin.
OCTAGAM Interactions:
Avoid live viral vaccines for ≥3 months. Concomitant nephrotoxic drugs: increased risk of acute renal failure. Falsely elevated results with some blood glucose tests (eg, GDH-PQQ based or glucose-dye-oxidoreductase methods); use glucose-specific method only.
Adverse Reactions:
Headache, nausea; renal dysfunction (may be fatal), hyperproteinemia, increased serum viscosity, hyponatremia; rare: hemolytic anemia, aseptic meningitis syndrome (esp. with high doses or rapid infusion), TRALI, thrombosis.
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February 19, 2013
Last updated on 2/27/13.
The hottest new products in the tactical body armor systems category at SHOT Show 2013 were ultra-lightweight low-profile/low-visibility minimalist modular tactical armor plate carriers. These new carriers are made entirely out of DuPont Hypalon-type polymer/synthetic rubber laminate material with cutaway MOLLE (non-MOLLE Molle systems where material is cut out/removed to creat the attachment points) despite the fact that they're limited in terms of weight bearing and mission profile. One of these new systems is the Blue Force Gear (BFG) PLATEminus lo-pro/lo-vis minimalist plate carrier system, made from BFG ULTRAcomp lightweight hydrophobic material (Hypalon-type BFG-proprietary material) and utilizing BFG MOLLEminus cutaway MOLLE (non-MOLLE MOLLE) attachment system.
Blue Force Gear public relations rep Brittney DeVane showed DefenseReview (DR) the new PLATEminus plate carrier and BELTminus battle belt/chest rig/harness system, as well as the previously introduced "minus" product, the SPLITminus Chest Rig/harness system. Obviously, the PLATEminus carrier is much lighter and more minimalist than the BFG Lightweight Modular Armor Carrier (LMAC), although the former obviously gives up a significant amount of loadbearing capability and mission versatility versus the latter.
Everything's usually a tradeoff. Most of the time, if you want super-minimalism, you don't get a lot of mission versatility. Sorry, that's just the way it is. At just 11 ounces (11 oz.), you would think that the BFG PLATEminus system is just your basic run-of-the-mill mission-specific ultra-minimalist plate carrier designed for low-profile/clandestine missions, vehicle ops and short-duration missions where you don't need to carry a lot of tactical gear and/or more than three or four spare mags max on the carrier itself. However, Brittney DeVane, BFG's PR rep, told DR during a post-SHOT-Show phone conversation that it's her understanding that the PLATEminus carrier's UlTRAcomp material and MOLLEminus cutaway MOLLE system are strong enough to handle a full tactical load, just like larger, more conventional carriers.
This is important, since even Direct Action (DA) missions can require you to carry a signficant amount of gear on the carrier, including at least 5-6 loaded mags, side plates, tactical hydration, tactical medicine equipment, etc. All-Hypalon-type lo-pro/lo-vis carriers are normally designed specifically to carry a lighter load consisting of front and rear plates (hard armor plates), 3 to 4 (max) spare mags and not much else. The PLATEminus carrier may prove to be the exception to the rule, there.
But the proof is in the running, and Defense Review hasn't run it at the range, yet. We're particularly interested in how it stacks up against the latest Crye Precision ultra-minimalist plate carriers, specifically the Airlite EK01 and Airlite EK02, which DR will be covering soon. Even if the PLATEminus carrier is competing with the Airlite carriers, it still comes in MultiCam camo as an option, so Crye gets paid anyway.
Editor's Note: "Non-MOLLE MOLLE" is DR's term for cutaway MOLLE, not an official term.
Company Contact Info:
Blue Force Gear, Inc. (BFG)
P.O. Box 853
Pooler, GA 31322
Phone: 877-430-2583
Fax: 912-330-0179
Email Contact Page: http://www.blueforcegear.com/contact/
Website: http://www.blueforcegear.com
BFG Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/blueforcegearinc
Cage Code: 3X9S8
Duns Number: 152028291
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