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Pretty fitting huh? OK maybe not for some.
About a year ago, TRDM posted it's last article. Fittingly it was by an amazing hardworking author who had been keeping the site going just with his minor league updates. Gone were the amazing opinion pieces filled with rational thought and statistics that had made TRDM who it was. Gone were the comments of a loyal group of Mets fans that not only was I proud to share a blog with but who had become part of our lives.
When we started TRDM, actually it was TRS86 just a WordPress Blog like this one, there was a need. Metsblog had become a place where you no longer could come and discuss baseball, only fight trolls and defend the Mets you love. Cerrone had allowed the comment section, against our pleading, to become a detraction to his growing blog. So in the early morning hours of May 20th, 2009 I decided I couldn't take it anymore. I was finding myself rooting for the Mets because I loved them but just as much because I wanted to be able to have a peaceful day interacting and discussing baseball with my fellow Mets fans.
So the first article?
What to do with 1B
Look at the names, Tatis replacing Reed? My how times have changed… or have they?
So what is this all about? I am not sure. I don't have the time in my life to run a blog. My daughter was 3 when I started TRDM, she's 10 now. She still talks about my blog. We had a great run, it more than paid for itself. We had press credentials once Sandy arrived, one of our writers got to experience things that would have never been possible without the blog. I got into minor league games, was able to speak to players, it was really a dream come true. But life is hard. I don't enjoy writing articles very often, they are time consuming if you hold yourself to a high standard. I don't enjoy fixing web issues, making sure the header looks right, or that the links work.
What do I enjoy? Debating with fellow Mets fans in the comment section. Even when TRDM was barely hanging on, I went to Amazin Avenue or Metsmerized to feed that need. Ultimately that need and lack of desire to continue to search for great authors willing to work for free brought an end to the site we loved. I take full blame for that. Owning a blog with aspirations (we were top 5 in comments and views during our peak) was too time consuming for someone who had a full-time job, coaching job, and a family while also commenting. I do take pride in seeing many of our authors go on to bigger and better things. I maybe irrationally think that I helped a guy like Connor get his foot in the door and now he has became what I believe is the best Mets blogger in the business.
A rambling paragraph ago I asked, what was this all about? Even after two paragraphs, I still don't know. I feel a little like I did when we started TRDM, however, as a wiser man, I know I have no desire to try to build a site again up to a level of respectability. Also I respect the owners of AA and MMO tremendously and I have no desire to pull viewers away or compete with them in any way. So again, I asked what am I doing here? Maybe I just needed to look back at a better day? I miss my blog family and wish last year during the WS run they were there to celebrate with. I miss the debates over actual baseball topics. I miss the discussions that would make me a better baseball fan, more knowledgeable and accepting. I miss the personal connection that we had with each visitor.
So what's a man to do? Most of the regulars at TRDM were split between AA and MMO when the site took it's last breath. So I'll ask this question to them and send them this link. Not in hopes of getting viewers but a honest discussion of where we are as fans and what our desires are and then from there, we'll proceed or go off in our own directions.


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You and your children are invited to participate in a nature walk and story. Meet other families in your community and enjoy the outdoors during these fun-filled programs at Prairie Ridge Ecostation. Stories and activities are geared toward children six and younger, though everyone is welcome.
This program takes place at Prairie Ridge Ecostation at 1671 Gold Star Drive in Raleigh. You will walk on natural surface trails so a rugged stroller or carrier is recommended for younger children. Dress for the weather and wear closed-toed shoes for this program. You are invited to enjoy the Nature PlaySpace following the program.
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Well, the niños are back to school which means summer, and "Spanish Summer", is over. Does that mean I'm going to go back to speaking English with them? N'hombre! … If anything, now I need to make extra sure that I'm speaking Spanish with them here at home as most of their day will be in English with their friends and teachers. This is no longer a simple experiment or "jump start" for my children. We will now speak Spanish at home as much as possible, which is what we should have been doing from the start.
We all learned so much this summer, not just the niños, but me – and even my husband who is the only native speaker, (besides Suegra!) … One lazy Saturday morning I rolled over in bed and my husband kissed me good morning. Still half asleep I mumbled, "Now I'm hungry. I was dreaming about semita de higo."
My husband said, "Higo?" and laughed at me, thinking I had made up a word. Later in the day I looked it up on the internet and showed him that it meant "fig" in English, but not knowing what a "fig" is either, he remained skeptical until we asked Suegra. Her very Salvadoran response to her son, "Higo! No sabes qué es higo, vos?! Puchica, 'stas perdido, Tata."
So, we continue to speak Spanish, and when I forget, slipping back into the comfort of English like a pair of sweat pants I should have thrown out a long time ago, even the children remind me in their own way. Just this morning my 8 year old got ready for school and then plopped down beside me in bed.
"What do you want to do?" he asked.
"We could read 'Rats of NIMH'?" I said, referring to a chapter book we've been reading each night before bed.
"Nah," he responded, "That's only for noche."
Noche. It came out of his mouth so naturally, without even thinking, his accent changing just for that one word. My kids are now responding to me in Spanglish, and sometimes even in perfect Spanish, when I've mistakenly spoken English to them. The tables have turned! Earlier this year it was me who would stubbornly respond in Spanish to their English, all the while, wondering if I was wasting my time.
And so the lesson (and tip #2) – Keep at it. Stay strong. Be patient. Speak to your children in Spanish as much as possible. Even if it seems like they're ignoring you, annoyed with you, or not catching on, trust that the gears are turning and words are being filed away. Don't forget to keep it fun and find Spanish in unexpected places. Take a "field trip" to the Latino Market, or Lowe's Home Improvement center. That seems like a random thing to say, but check out the video and you'll see what I mean.
And just in case anyone is wondering, Lowe's didn't pay me to make this video in any way. (I think they were actually kind of annoyed with us running around their store.) … Of course, if they'd like to re-model my house to say 'thanks', they should feel free to E-mail me.


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Key technology milestone leads to breakthrough for fusion community
|(Nanowerk News) Fusion for Energy (F4E) with the support of the European Commission, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and ITER Organisation have successfully tested a prototype superconductor for the ITER Poloidal Field coils made of Niobium(Nb)-Titanium(Ti) reaching a stable operation at 52 kA in a magnetic field of 6.4 Tesla. Poloidal Field coils will be used to maintain the plasma equilibrium and shape inside the ITER Tokamak reactor.
|This is a breakthrough for the fusion community. We have successfully tested and demonstrated a key technology milestone which is integral to the success of ITER. Based on these achievements, Europe, Russia and China will proceed with the procurement of the ITER Poloidal Field conductor said Fusion for Energy Director, Didier Gambier.
|The test coil with an outer diameter of 1.5 m and weighing 6 tons was the product of an international collaboration between Russia, Europe and Japan.
|Russia produced the 0.73-mm diameter Nb-Ti superconducting strands and bundled them into a cable consisting of 1,440 strands. Europe assembled the cable into a steel jacket to make the final conductor and was also responsible for winding the conductor, insulating the turns and bonding them together to form a coil.
|Japan was in charge of testing the coil at the JAEA site in Naka because of its world class expertise with a team of experts from the ITER Organisation, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States. The results gave scientists complete confidence that this conductor would fulfill the extremely demanding performance required for ITER.
|ITER will be the world's largest experimental fusion facility to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion power. Fusion is the process which powers the sun and the stars. When light atomic nuclei fuse together to form heavier ones, a large amount of energy is released. Fusion research is aimed at developing a prototype fusion power plant that is safe, environmentally responsible and economically viable with abundant fuel resources.
|Europe will contribute almost half of the costs of its construction, while the other six Members to this joint international venture (China, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Russia and the United States), will contribute equally to the rest. The site of the ITER project is at Cadarache, France.
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Dear students,
It is with immense pleasure that I welcome you to the new academic session 2019-20.Guru Gobind Singh College for Women has, in recent years, been recognised for its relentless and uncompromising commitment to providing quality education to young women. And, as I take charge as the principal, I envision a journey that will take our college even further, to the very pinnacle of excellence. A wide variety of academic courses are offered by our college to help students achieve their educational and career aspirations. At this institution, girls are encouraged to participate in extra-curricular activities besides achieving good academic results, so that they can develop into well-rounded citizens who are skilled, informed, socially responsible and ethically upright individuals. We endeavour to provide our students with an environment which is nurturing, supportive, and wholesome, in order to facilitate their all-round development.
At Guru Gobind Singh College, we value your success to the utmost, and want to guide and help direct you to bloom into your full potential. I feel confident that under the excellent mentorship of our qualified, experienced and dedicated faculty, and with the help of innovative teaching methodology and modern facilities, your individual talents and abilities will shine to the highest degree. We hope to see each of you acquire confidence, build a strong character, and achieve excellence in diverse fields, and go on to make constructive contributions to the greater good of society.
Let me extend you a warm welcome to the campus and congratulate you for choosing this prestigious institution for embarking on your academic journey of higher education.
Wishing you a year filled with joy, success, and fulfilment.
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Nominations Open For UNCW Athletic Hall of Fame
Friday, July 12, 2013
The UNCW Athletic Hall of Fame honors former student-athletes, coaches and administrators, as well as longtime contributors, at the institution. Forty-one individuals have been honored since the elite group was established in 1998, including the inaugural inductee, former coach and department founder William J. Brooks.
Inductions are now held every two years. The Class of 2012 included women's athletics pioneer Sheila Boles, men's golf standout Derek Brown, gifted sprinter Xzavier Chisholm and longtime benefactor David Jones.
According to the Hall's criteria, candidates must have made outstanding contributions during their association with the university. If a student-athlete, the individual must have left the university in good academic standing. If a teacher-coach or administrator, the candidate must have held that position for at least five years. Special consideration will be given for significant contributions to society through community activities and performance in chosen fields that bring credit and distinction to the university.
Anyone may nominate a candidate to the Hall of Fame. Nomination forms are available on www.UNCWsports.com or may be obtained at the Athletic Communications Office in the Nixon Annex adjacent to Trask Coliseum.
Nominations must be submitted to Joe Browning, Chairman, UNCW Athletic Hall of Fame, UNCW, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, N.C. 28403, by Sept. 12, 2013. For more information, call 910.962.3236.
UNCW Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees
1998 - Gene Bogash, William J. Brooks, Janet Johnson, Sam O'Leary, Raiford G. Trask, Carl Willis
1999 - T. Eugene Dew, Amy Jackson, Estell Lee, David Miller, Dr. William P. Nixon, Jr.
2000 - Joel Gibson, Bill Haywood, Jay Neary, David Sandlin
2002 - Garry Cooper, Burak Erdem, Heather Fenton, Lou Howard
2004 - Jill Amos, Gene Borowski, George Diab, Terry Middleswarth, Dave Wolff
2006 - Eddie Booth, Mel Gibson, Amy Lewis Holland, Bill Mayew
2008 - Sandy Dew, Calvin Lane, Michael McDuffie, Christy Timbers Rife
2010 - Gwen Austin, Bruce Cavenaugh, Dan Gallagher, Bill Harris, George Rountree, III
2012 - Sheila Boles, Derek Brown, Xzavier Chisholm, David Jones


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To celebrate the publication of the first section of my second novel, "Run Chicken Run," at storySouth, here are some of the songs that inspired it: Link Wray's "Vendetta," "The Fuzz," "Pancho Villa" and Link's best vocal track, "Hidden Charms." Like so many things in my creative life, Link provided the drive and soundtrack to this project, which is still ongoing. Now that there's an excerpt published, though, I should probably get back to work on this novel; it can't be the forever forthcoming novel forever. Endless thanks to editors Terry L. Kennedy and Drew Perry for taking a chance on it and for their careful reading and edits. Time for some fuzz:
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Advisors continue to switch firms, despite the generally upbeat mood of investors and the markets, which can often act as a drag on recruiting and transitioning reps.
Morgan Stanley (MS), for instance, said Tuesday that it recruited a team from UBS (UBS) and a rep from Wells Fargo Advisors (WFC).
Arturo Castelo Lopez, Jennifer Sierra and Marion Tettke joined Morgan Stanley's office in Miami from UBS. The team now reports to complex manager Kevin McCarty. It has combined yearly fees and commissions of about $3.5 million and has managed client assets of $375 million.
Ricardo Kent joined Morgan Stanley's office in Plantation, Fla. (near Fort Lauderdale), from Wells Fargo, where he now reports to both branch manager Giovanni Renteria and complex manager Billy Van Scoyoc.
Kent's annual production level has been over $1 million, while his client assets recently have totaled $100 million.
Janney Hires
Two ex-Morgan Stanley financial advisors are forming the Old Dominion Group in Janney Montgomery Scott's Washington, D.C., office, the broker-dealer said Tuesday.
"Robert and Michael have built a strong, client-centric practice, which will be instrumental as we continue to look for growth opportunities in the DC-metro area," said Jerry Lombard, president of the Janney's Private Client Group, in a press release. "The Old Dominion Group was initially attracted to Janney because of our flexible and accessible environment, and I am pleased that they see working with the firm as an opportunity to further strengthen their practice."
Benson was an advisor with Morgan Stanley for the past four years. He worked with Citigroup from 2006 until 2009 and spent 21 years with Legg Mason before that post. The team has about $142 million in client assets under management and $700,000 in yearly fees and commissions.
"While Janney already has a well-established presence in this area, we've remained focused on expanding strategically within our existing footprint to provide our clients superior service in convenient locations," added Lombard.
Janney currently has 730 advisors and some $58 billion in client assets under management. Its Washington D.C. branch is led by branch manager Jeff Smith.
UBS, Baird Recruiting
On Wednesday, UBS said it recruited Stephen Fish, formerly of Hilliard Lyons, in Kenwood, Ohio, which is near Cincinnati. The veteran advisor, who's been in the industery for more than 25 years, has annual production of $3.4 million and client assets of $475 million.
Last week, Baird announced that veteran financial advisor Paul Donnelly moved to its Chicago Private Wealth Management office from William Blair & Co. Donnelly manages about $200 million in assets.
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Emerging markets: Corporates at risk
Emerging markets: Corporates at risk
Slowing growth and rising credit since the crisis raises questions over emerging market corporate credit. Beyond concerns about China, Turkish corporates also look highly risky.
Emerging market sovereigns are in a much healthier position today to withstand this year's looming Federal Reserve's interest rate hike. However, heavily-indebted corporate sectors are a concern.
The curious case of climbing corporate debt and deteriorating profits
Not only has corporate debt been climbing rapidly in emerging markets as a whole, some countries (including China and Turkey) have also seen sizeable increases in foreign currency debt, which poses additional risks.
Furthermore, corporate profits are deteriorating in those economies which have seen a considerable run-up in private sector debt, which raises concerns about their ability to service this debt.
Turkish corporates among the most exposed
We are particularly concerned about Turkish corporates at the moment, given their indebtedness, while China continues to generate fears about financial stability.
Other economies, particularly in Latin America, have also increased in riskiness since the crisis, but are, it seems, better off than Turkey.
Further, given the relatively low foreign currency reserves held by Turkey, authorities lack the policy space to respond to any downturn while China and even the Latin American countries look more resilient.
Consequently, not only do Turkish corporates look to be amongst the most exposed, but the economy itself is also most at risk in the event of a credit shock.
Added to the country's other balance sheet problems, the central bank faces a difficult task.
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Bollywood film festival at UH Hilo
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Date: Friday, April 1, 2011
Contact: Alyson Kakugawa-Leong, (808) 974-7642
For Immediate Release
The English Department and the students of English 469 at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo invite the public to a series of modern Indian films that showcase issues of gender, class, and national identity.
The festival kicks off April 13 with Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006), starring Sanjay Dutt and Vidya Balan. This film takes a comedic look at life in urban Mumbai, pitting the forces of development and capitalism against the morals and principles of Gandhi.
On April 20, Devdas (2002) features Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai. This is a modernized urban remake of Bismal Roy's 1955 film, which follows a man's descent into alcoholism and the two women who defined his life. The film is based on the novel by Bengal renaissance writer Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.
On April 27, Monsoon Wedding (2001) is an English-language film by Mira Nair that explores arranged marriage, women's sexuality and class/caste from the perspective of the overseas Indian diaspora.
On May 4, Water (2005) is a controversial look at the practice of child marriage and the exploitation of widows as sex workers in the era preceding independence. The final film in a trilogy by Deepa Metha, Water was shot in Sri Lanka due to protests from the Hindu community in Varanasi, where it was originally set.
Screenings are in UCB 114 on the UH Hilo campus from 5:30 to 9 p.m. A 15-minute introduction by students on the key issues of interest for the audience will precede each film.
Admission is free, but seating is limited to the first 50 people.
Disclaimer: The University of Hawaii at Hilo is not responsible for the contents, links and/or materials presented in any web site listed above that are not of the "hilo.hawaii.edu" or ".uhh.hawaii.edu" domains. All comments, complaints and grievances should be filed with the author, host and/or owner of said site.


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In the wake of their daughter's November 3, 2006 death, Steve and Heidi Swartz offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people involved in a hit and run on Taylorsville Road in Barboursville that killed their daughter, Justine Swartz Abshire. In May, with no arrest in the case, the Swartzes increased that reward to $50,000 and released this statement:
"We are confident the police will find out the truth about Justine's death. We are offering the $50,000 reward because we believe doing so will hasten the process. We believe there are people in the community who know something but have not yet shared it with the police, and others who have shared only a fraction of what they know. We also believe there are still others who are in a position to obtain information about Justine's death. Sooner or later, those who know the truth will be compelled to speak. The sooner they do so, the better off they and everyone else involved in this tragedy will be. The $50,000 reward is simply one more reason to do the right thing sooner rather than later."
Anyone with information about the death of Justine Swartz Abshire should call State Police Special Agent Mike Jones at 800-572-2260 or 540-829-7400.


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There are many ways to design a subwoofer enclosure. In our view, there is no one "correct" way to design a subwoofer. Rather, there are many design approaches, and some designs work better at certain price points. Each design can have a good or bad result, depending on how it is implemented.
All subwoofer design involves trade-offs, and so determining at the start what result we desire is key to building a good subwoofer. What do we want this subwoofer to be? Should it be inexpensive, and sound as good as possible for the price? Is it a "cost no object" exercise in great sound? Do we want a small subwoofer that performs like a larger one?
Several key tradeoffs are involved in designing a subwoofer, as follows:
1. Cabinet Size: The larger we make the subwoofer cabinet, the more air there is to work with, so the more efficient we can make the subwoofer. However, some consumers object to a larger cabinet. So, many subwoofers are designed specifically to take up very little space. Getting great bass from a small cabinet is not an easy task.
2. Cost: How much will the product sell for at retail? The more we invest in quality materials, the better we can make the subwoofer sound, and the better its deep bass performance can be. More amplifier power can produce louder volume levels, but a big amp will likely cost more than a less powerful one.
3. Efficiency: How loudly do we want the subwoofer to play, given a specific cabinet size? With one watt of amplifier input, how much sound pressure can we measure at a one meter distance? The larger the cabinet, the less amplifier power it takes to reach a given sound pressure level. But as we know, a large cabinet may or may not be an option for the space-conscious consumer.
4. Deep Bass Accuracy: What are the lowest frequencies we want this subwoofer to reproduce? Most subwoofers aren't able to reproduce the lowest notes in the musical spectrum (20 Hz) without significant distortion… or at all, in the case of the least expensive subwoofers. Do we want deep bass extension, and the ability to play low frequencies at high volume levels?
There are actually many ways to design a subwoofer system – band-pass enclosures, isobaric designs, compound enclosures, transmission line enclosures, etc. Four design approaches are among the most popular for consumer home electronics use. Not coincidentally, Velodyne builds subwoofers using each one of the four: sealed enclosure, ported bass reflex, slotted bass reflex, and passive radiator designs.
The following is a brief discussion of some the benefits and drawbacks of each design:
1. Sealed Cabinet: One of the most popular subwoofer designs, the sealed enclosure is relatively simple. There are no ports, radiators, or other cabinet openings. Instead, a driver is mounted in a sealed enclosure that must be air-tight in order to function properly. The enclosure is often filled with some type of insulating or damping material (acoustic foam, fiberglass, etc.), which can aid in producing bass notes with a tight, clean sound. Transient response is typically very good. Many listeners feel that sealed cabinet subwoofers have the best, most accurate sound quality, often described as "tight" vs. other designs. The low frequency extension, or deep bass performance, is usually very good when compared to vented designs. If sound quality is the highest priority, sealed cabinet design is often the choice.
There are some drawbacks to sealed cabinet designs, which generally are less efficient than ported designs. More amplifier power is needed to produce a given Sound Pressure Level (SPL), so more money must be invested in the amplifier. Alternatively, the box size can be increased in order to produce higher sound pressure levels. But a larger box may not be an option if cosmetic appearance is a high priority.
2. Ported Bass Reflex: Perhaps the most popular subwoofer design on the market, ported bass reflex designs, offer a good combination of efficiency and powerful, low distortion bass. An opening in the cabinet, often a round PVC tube of a specific length, is tuned to a particular reinforcing frequency – the frequency at which the woofer begins losing the ability to create deep bass. The woofer and the tuned port work together to give significant output at this frequency. The port effectively extends the subwoofer's ability to provide low, loud bass, beyond what the woofer can do on its own. This is a very efficient design, generally resulting in at least a 3dB gain in efficiency vs. a similarly sized sealed cabinet design. The box itself can provide some free amplification, as less amplifier power is required to reach a specific SPL.
One disadvantage is that the air inside the cabinet is no longer a fixed entity, so it exerts less control over the motion of the woofer cone. Careful tuning of the enclosure – a precise calculation of the length and width of the tube – is required in order to avoid a sound quality that is sluggish or "muddy". In other words, the transient response of the system is typically not as good as the sealed cabinet design. Also, the port must be fairly large in order to prevent whistling sounds from being audible during loud bass passages. The cabinet must be big enough to accommodate the port, and a large cabinet may or may not be acceptable. Still, the performance attainable for the cost involved makes this a popular way to get ample, powerful bass.
3. Slotted Bass Reflex: These are similar to ported bass reflex designs, but instead of a PVC tube or pipe, a slotted opening of specific length is cut into the cabinet. The slot acts as a reinforcing element at the frequency at which the woofer begins losing the ability to generate low frequency information. Many of the advantages and disadvantages of tube port designs apply here, making the slotted bass reflex design a popular choice for subwoofers.
4. Passive Radiator: Known variously as "bass radiator" or "drone cone" designs, passive radiators offer an interesting combination of the benefits and drawbacks of sealed and passive designs. A passive radiator takes the place of the port or slot in vented enclosures, and looks very similar to a standard subwoofer driver – minus the heavy and powerful magnet structure on the rear of a driver. The cone or diaphragm, surround, and basket each resemble a standard woofer. But the passive radiator is not being pushed by the electromotive force of the driver's magnet structure. Rather it is incited into resonance when the active driver creates the specific frequencies that the passive has been tuned to. Tuning a passive radiator to move its resonant frequency down can be easily done by adding mass to the passive radiator. Subtracting mass will move that frequency higher.
Like a tuned port design, the passive radiator is very efficient, meaning less amplifier power is needed for a specific SPL. A passive radiator offers greater control over the tuned frequency, often resulting in better transient response, and a tighter, more accurate sound than that from a ported system. Also, there is no risk of port noise, the whistling sound that can occur with a port. This design can work well with a smaller cabinet. A port of sufficient length to reinforce the desired low frequency simply won't fit into many small cabinets. The Velodyne Impact-Mini (with its 10″ x 10″ x 12″ deep cabinet) is a good example of a situation in which the passive radiator design works well. The result is a small cabinet, relatively inexpensive, efficient subwoofer, capable of playing quite loudly.
These advantages do come at a price. The passive radiator typically costs more than a tube port, and can be almost as expensive as a complete driver. This drives the price of the finished subwoofer up a bit, handing back some of the cost-effective advantages of a ported system.


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The Thingamajig Theatre Co. production of "The Last Five Years" is the final show in the summer series and showcases one of southwest Colorado's finest musical theatre performers, Rachel Saul Pollack, and Thingamajig's own Tim Moore.
Jason Robert Brown's presumably autobiographical tale of a writer hitting the big time as his marriage disintegrates has much in common with both Jonathan Larson's "tick tick … BOOM" and Stephen Sondheim's "Sunday in the Park with George."
This is a chamber musical featuring only two performers, who, between them, get through a tremendous amount of work during the 90 minutes of the play. Moore (Jamie) and Pollack (Cathy) sing their hearts through a fast-paced, uniquely devised contemporary musical.
The storyline is simple, but the storytelling can be described as original. Jamie tells the story from the beginning of their relationship, while Cathy is recalling it from its conclusion.
Jamie is a Jewish novelist on the way up, first seen at 23 with the world fast becoming his oyster as an agent signs him up and sells his book, much to the admiration of Cathy.
She is a wannabe musical actress whose career has not got beyond the disastrous auditions and waiting table stage. Initially, their love is touching, culminating in a scene in which his marriage proposal in Central Park suddenly transforms into their wedding.
Over five years of marriage, career-wise their lives follow the paths that have already been set, his going from strength to strength and hers barely taking off. The strain that this puts on their relationship leads to heart ache on both sides and, in the end, to a separation that is likely to become permanent.
The evening peaks early as Pollack shows off a richly melodious and powerful voice while lamenting the end of what had seemed the perfect match, and Jamie's first song "Shiksa Goddess" is a gem. It has pace, tremendous humor with every line funny, and pathos, as this Jewish boy yearns for a wife who will not be like all the Jewish girls that he has dated and been bored by.
Throughout, Cathy gets the downbeat reflective songs with bits of comedy coming in a witty auditions skit and reflections about Jamie during a book signing event, while Jamie gets the upbeat, rocky ballads and most of the best lines.
The music has been compared to Sondheim with good reason. Brown particularly concentrates on the piano, played at Thingamajig by a live ensemble — a mix of local and regional musicians – piano, cello, violin and guitar. This works well and complements the attractive voices of both performers.
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Software: Node.js (>= 0.8.0), npm (> 1.0.0)
Globally install the Mojito CLI package (mojito-cli) from the npm registry so that you can run Mojito commands. You may need to use sudo if you run into permission errors.
$ npm install mojito-cli -g
Confirm that Mojito has been installed by running the help command.
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To make the application return a string we want, replace the code in mojits/myMojit/controller.server.js with the following:
YUI.add('myMojit', function(Y, NAME) {
Y.namespace('mojito.controllers')[NAME] = {
index: function(ac) {
ac.done('Hello, world. I have created my first Mojito app at ' + (new Date()) + '.');
From the hello_world application directory, start Mojito:
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Go to http://localhost:8666/@myMojit/index to see your application.
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Other Post-Mortem Techniques: Windows Mini Dumps
Minidumps store the current state of a program in a binary file that can be loaded into Visual Studio or WinDbg. When loaded into a debugger, a minidump shows the full symbolized stack and all local variables just as it would during a debug session. That is, of course, more comfortable than symbolizing a logfile.
Minidumps can be created a number of ways:
- Using Dr.Watson to be called on a program fault.
- Calling it explicitly from within the program itself ; i.e., by a installed Structured Exception handler, as in the approach described in the first issue of this article
- Using a tool such as WinDbg or MiniDumpTool
The disadvantages of minidumps are that they are Windows specific and they cannot be batch processed (as possible using a utility such as MapAdrr.exe).
Other Post-Mortem Techniques: Windows Error Reporting
You probably have seen a dialog similar to Figure 2, which was introduced with Windows XP:
Figure 2
To tell the truth, I was surprised to learn that Microsoft will send error reports even for programs that I have written but never published. However, I realized that I could use this mechanism for my personal applications. Windows Error Reporting (WER) is a service offered by Microsoft basically for free. To sign up you need a VeriSign certificate. With the certificate you can sign up for WER and obtain the error reports that users have accepted to upload using the dialog box above. These reports are just minidumps as described above.
Some considerations about WER:
- Applications, that have installed a exception handler using
SetUnhandledExceptionFilter(as used in the first article) sometimes crash without calling the installed exception filter. In such cases, WER still can be used, thus giving a additional last chance to find bugs.
- WER does not offer the possibility to add any additional data or description by users. When using a own mechanism for error reporting (possibly a small separate utility), it may ask users to report information about how to reproduce the problem as well as sending additional data files to reproduce the bug. Such a utility also can be called when other problems occur that do not lead to a crash.
It seems best to use WER as an additional service to report problems. Note also that there has been a number of reports about problems signing up to WER, especially when using a certificate from a different provider than VeriSign.
Other Post-Mortem Techniques: Google Breakpad
According to Google, breakpad "is a library and tool suite that allows you to distribute an application to users with compiler-provided debugging information removed, record crashes in compact "minidump" files, send them back to your server, and produce C and C++ stack traces from these minidumps. Breakpad can also write minidumps on request for programs that have not crashed. Breakpad is currently in use by Google Chrome, Firefox, Google Picasa, Camino, Google Earth, and other projects as well."
This is basically the same mechanism as propagated by MapAddr in my first article, but of course google has enhanced the functionality:
- Breakpad works on multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac). The minidump format has been adapted on other platforms.
- It includes functions to transmit a crash report directly to your http server
- It can also handle other errors such as C++ pure virtual function calls or invalid parameter calls and it also can be triggered explicitly to create a crash report.
Breakpad seems to be well developed and can probably handle a number of conflicts that a simple utility like MapAddr cannot (i.e., loading DLLs to a different base address than the preferred one). Unfortunately its documentation is only fragmented. Even the documentation about installing and compiling is not correct. To compile breakpad for Windows, you first must install Python, then run the script:
src\tools\gyp\gyp.bat src\client\windows\breakpad_client.gyp
While the current directory is the root directory of breakpad. This will create Visual Studio Solution and project files; for other platforms, makefiles are provided.
There are a number of ways to capture stack dumps from program crashes and add symbol information to them. Such information is very helpful to resolve bugs and to improve the quality of a program. Post-mortem debugging saves time in finding bugs, as a stack dump often is sufficient to reproduce and solve a bug. The effort needed to acquire this information is minimal.
Stefan is founder of www.RED-SOFT-ADAIR.com, a company that rescues software development projects in a technical crisis. He can be contacted at [email protected]


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I just love this stuff… 🙂
Love how super moisturizing it is, love the honeysuckle and freesia scent it leaves on my skin, love the pattern on the tube.
MAC's Creations Hue fragrance in Naked Honey, also from the Naked Honey release, has almost the same scent, so I'll be able to get my fix for it there, but I don't find the fragrance anywhere near as satisfying as the cream.
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Outside Magazine sent Ryan O'Hanlon to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, to cover the United States Men's National Team's first World Cup qualifying match. He's writing a daily dispatch from Honduras, which we will be republishing here.
Some truths about countries: they have people, they have/say they have "a government," and if they have a mall, that mall is terrible. That's a redundancy, sure, because every mall is terrible. They're all too clean, too big, and either too loud or too quiet. There's a food court, too many nearly-identical clothing stores with vaguely-suggestive first-name names, and always a Cinnabon. Always a goddamn Cinnabon—even in San Pedro Sula.
This being, you know, The Murder Capital of the World, (Jay-Z was wrong, unless he secretly grew up here) we've been told to not leave the hotel so we don't get mugged and to then not resist said mugging if it happens because we will be assaulted with either a pistol or a knife and possibly murdered. The only place we can go safely, we're told, is the mall next door. (Note: one commenter called me a "candyass," and he/she is correct.) The one with the coned-off parking spot with a stork-holding-a-baby sign (I don't know, new-born-baby parking?) and the FOODCOURT and CARRION lettering on the outside walls. (I expected a warehouse filled with carcasses. What I got was a Honduran Sears.)
There was a coffee-and-donuts place called DK'D Donuts with suspiciously-similar-to-Dunkin-Donuts magenta and off-orange colors. An electronics store that looked like a bootleg Apple store—same silver, smooth-edges vibe—but claimed to be an "authorized Apple retailer." Donald's Barber Shop, which looked like a jewelry store but had taxi-cab and fire-truck seats for kids. The part-Nike-store-part-regular-athletic store that sold mostly FC Barcelona gear and had only two stands-worth of Honduras stuff. (One of the employees followed us around the entire store, keeping a constant three-foot buffer.) And the Ace "hardware" store that sold food, a bunch of children's toys, and had five (total) bottles of liquor for sale at the register.
Once we found the movie theater, hidden on the third floor and closed—but showing Duro de Matar, El Vuelto, and Lincoln when open—it was time to go. Our search for water and non-beef-jerky snacks was a failure. We walked out, while a guy wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a gun pushed an old man in a wheelchair through the door.
U.S. soccer held the day-before-the-game press conference at our hotel because all the journalists are here and because it's the least San Pedro Sula place in San Pedro Sula. All the rooms have flat screens, shower-baths, white comforters with those annoying half-blankets draped over the top, and all those other nice-hotel things you'd expect from some big American city. There's a pool, a patio with ceiling fans, a workout room, and three fancy-ish restaurants. The walls are pretty high, too. While here, we're in San Pedro Sula only in the widest, non-geographical sense.
The press conference was every press conference: journalists asking questions because they have to write stories and players/coaches answering questions because they have to answer questions. No one really wants to be there, but everyone's always been there, so it keeps happening. I don't know. Maybe not for the Honduran media, who outnumbered Americans with somewhere around 30 people and about nine television cameras. Their cameras clicked from beginning to end, and they asked most of their questions through a translator sitting next to coach Jurgen Klinsmann, who was flanked on the other side by midfielder Michael Bradley.
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Klinsmann and Bradley each have interesting stories. Klinsmann is a German, who lives in California and supposedly uses a helicopter as a means of transportation. He's one of the greatest German players of all time and was a member of their most recent World Cup-winning team from 1990. He then coached Germany to an unexpected third-place finish in the 2006 World Cup. After that, he coached Bayern Munich, the biggest and best club in Germany (sometimes referred to as FC Hollywood), for less than one season, as he was fired with five games left. And Germany has done even better without him and with his assistant from 2006 as the head coach. So, in general, people are unconvinced.
Bradley is the son of the man Klinsmann replaced, now-former U.S. coach Bob Bradley. While he's only 25, Bradley's played 72 games (that is a high number) for the U.S. At first, some troll-types said Bradley was only being selected because his dad was the coach—all this while he was playing and playing well in the Netherlands and Germany, for teams much better than the U.S. Bradley is now a starting center midfielder for Roma, which is in Rome, which is in Italy. They're one of the biggest and most historically-successful clubs in the country, and Bradley is widely considered (and just is) one of the two best American players, along with Clint Dempsey.
They're interesting stories, but only in the sense that it'll be interesting to see how their careers play out. Nothing gets added to them from a press conference—barring some table-flipping, cameraman-punching, or journalist-choking. The interesting thing about this, besides the idea of the U.S. playing an interesting sport and trying to qualify for maybe the most interesting sporting event in the world, is where they have to do it. Toward the end of the press conference, Bradley was asked about what it's like to have to play such an important game in an area surrounded by security concerns:
"It doesn't affect us at all."
Later, We're at the stadium: Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano. The only time we're encouraged to leave the hotel is when we're riding in a police motorcade, and that's how we got there: in a coach bus behind the team's coach bus, surrounded by police vans, police motorcycles, and blaring sirens. Being inconspicuous does not matter when it comes to being safe. It's about as close as we could get to just carrying the hotel to the stadium, it seems.
Everyone on the street turns and looks because that's what you do when you see two big buses surrounded by police, no matter where you are. One guy in a wifebeater, sitting on a motorcycle, gave the convoy a thumbs down, and a maybe-seven-year-old girl grabbed the bars of a fence, jumped up and down, and looked like she was yelling. Everyone else just turned their heads and went back to being wherever they were. We passed some stray dogs, a place called Power Chicken, and a bunch of school buses that were being refurbished with tinted windows and a Jesus-Christ-wearing-a-crown-of-thorns decal, and then we were there.
The team has one training session before Wednesday's game, and before that, there's something called a mixed zone, which is pretty much the soccer-press equivalent of a petting zoo. Basically, there's a 20-to-30-foot bit of fence up outside the locker room. Journalists, cameramen, camerawomen, and whoever else managed to get into the stadium on one side, players on the other. And it's then a 20-minute scramble to ask as many questions as you can, but players are outnumbered by media by about 20 to one, and there is no ratio for media to fence space because you can't divide by zero. There's no room. Cameramen are swinging their cameras freely, somehow not smacking anyone in the face.
Jozy Altidore, a striker who plays in the Netherlands, spoke about getting racially abused during a game last week, saying, "All you can really do is hope it doesn't happen again ... and move on from it." (His reaction to it has been amazingly restrained all along.) He respects the Honduran team and hopes to start Wednesday. Geoff Cameron, a central defender who plays in England and is the one sure starter for half of the two central-defense slots, talked about going out with the right attitude, communicating, and matching the intensity of his opponents. He also said, "You never know what's being thrown at you, and you have to adjust on the fly," which is maybe something that can be applied beyond the field here, but is not at all what he meant. The Honduran media flocked to the team's few Spanish-speaking players, and Clint Dempsey, the star of the team and the person everyone wants to talk to, talked to no one. We now know nothing we didn't know before.
For a good 20 seconds, I was sandwiched by two sweaty stomachs underneath the tucked-in polo shirts of two large Honduran men who wanted to hear from Altidore. It's a weird cattle-drive-type thing—just read back that last sentence—but I guess this seems like the only way to do it since no one's leaving the hotels, other than for the game. Just throw everyone in a tight space, put a fence in between them, and see what happens.
After that, training began and we—something like 50 Hondurans and 20 Americans—were allowed to watch from one of the end lines. The warm-up takes more time than that, so we didn't see much from the players, but the stadium was weirdly beautiful. Or at least the idea of it was. And not in that Fenway or Wrigley way—distinct, classic designs—but in the way that this place contrasts everything around it, yet still is very much of this place. It hasn't been renovated in a long time—if ever—and it's most definitely not "classic," just sort of old and rusty and old. If it were in the middle of the city, it'd look like everything else around it—kind of sad and aged, a sheen of dirt over everything—only sadder and older and dirtier. But the stadium's a little ways outside the city, just past two giant green fields where people were pulling horses that clearly didn't want to be pulled, some 25 minutes from our hotel.
The stadium itself is this over-colored (blues, reds, oranges, yellows, and greens) and over-advertised-on bowl (Claro is everywhere), but it's also this solid thing that's just sort of there, in the sun, with this bright green grass (surprisingly long and surprisingly plentiful), taller than everything around, other than the mountains a few miles away. Opposite the mountain-side, there's not much at all, and you can look through the openings in the stands on one end and see nothing but sky. The mountains were covered by some light clouds, but you could still see their outline and the sun shone through just enough to brighten things up without making everyone sweat. There was a small breeze. A bunch of kids played soccer on a field you could see through the entrance. Some good things were pretty obvious: almost-perfect weather, the crazy greenness of it all, the breadth of the mountains, kids doing an active thing and sounding like they're having fun, and this big structure, weathered from all the things and all the people that have been here and so big because more than enough people care about what's happening Wednesday afternoon. This is all non-Cinnabon stuff: good and relatable, everywhere only if you're looking.
Then the cops walked onto the field with their "Policia" hats and navy blue outfits and their shiny tuxedo shoes or their pants-tucked-into-boots. A few of them had rifles, and the others had guns in holsters. Our 15 minutes were up. They told us it was time to go, and I couldn't forget everything else we've been told about this place.
Previously: Soccer In The World's Most Violent City: A Postcard From Honduras
Photo by the author. Ryan O'Hanlon is an editor at Outside Magazine.


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Photographer's Note
If you are interested in an overview of my previous postings about Angola
Still after 25 years of Civil War, the place has few scarces. One can see few buildings in the background but the more striking to me was the foreground with its shanty towns everywhere as I could show you previously. In Angola, they are called Musseque after the red ground on which they are built.
Luanda was quite remote from the very fights of this Civil war apart from few days in 1992. But everywhere one can see the result of a depressed economy totally dedicated to the War. No means, no infrastructures, a city built for 400,000 by the portuguese but there are about 4 million inhabitants today, mostly refugees.
Taken five years ago when I was working there, in the pink building on the left actually. I can remember the people lying on the ground when I got to the office or left it in the evening, the small hamburger cars where I could buy the greatest sandwiches I never had for few Kwanza. The inflation was amazing, my 100 USD were translated into 400 Kwanzas when I arrived then into 950 one year later...
Sometimes, I could visit the appartments you can see in the background. It was quite frightening the first time, since there is no light starting from 6:00 PM but you get used to it. You across decayed stairs, steel doors since people with almost nothing need to protect them from people with nothing at all but a firegun, especially gangs of kids. Then, you discover that everybody is plugged on one line or pipe for everything (water, electricity, cable TV...).
So, little by little, you discover that people have quite a normal life in fact, having fun in family, taking care of their kids, working for their family. But, when you go down to the street, you come back to reality and understand why most Angolan do not live until 40 years old, why the mortality rate is one of the highest in the world... There is so much poverty everywhere...
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Cool-ice (5289) 2005-10-23 16:03
Le dramatisme apporté par la lumière est incontestablement l'élément qui m'a fait flasher sur cette image.
Il rend l'ambiance dure, parfaitement en adéquation avec le contenu de la photo.....c'est du tout bon !
phi75 (0) 2005-10-23 16:06
as cool ice said, the dramatical ambiance, due to sky gives to this photo a special look!!it's a very strong image!
well done.
sebautourdumond (3108) 2005-10-23 16:20
Bon, je ne vais rien inventé, mes 2 prédecesseurs ont déja tout dit. C'est clair que sans cette barre nuageuse, cette photo n'existerait pas!
Bien vu pour la compo et une note très intéressante
rbcy1974 (20758) 2005-10-23 16:53
Bonjour Steven,
Une superbe vue, des contrastes tres interesantes entre les beaux batiments et les batiments pauvres. Coleurs eclatants et un ciel superbe. Tu faisais qoi en Angola?
castellano (791) 2005-10-23 17:10
Hi Steven,
Very scary picture about what a war is able to destroy. Those dark clouds seem to be threatening the remaining buildings of the city.
Excellent job!
gary91 (15348) 2005-10-24 12:18
Bonsoir Steven,
Une atmosphere pesante qui se dégage de ce paysage. Cette lumière irréelle et ces couleurs pastels avec au fond, ce ciel menacant ne font que renforcer cette ambiance.
Amicalement. Christian
quelquepart (810) 2005-10-24 19:12
Ah les villes africaines... Jolie lumière malgré les nuages.
annagrace (2469) 2005-11-08 18:54
Interesting photo and even better note. Great lighting on this dismal scene, well done!
njmv79 (611) 2006-04-02 3:40 [Comment]
meme (273) 2006-04-27 11:21
before a storm... very nice photo , although it`s a picture of a big mess ;)
Juzo (3031) 2009-11-12 5:20
Hi Steven,
Interesting image and POV. The city look dense and has contrasts and this is a great capture.
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hey, before you throw popcorn at me, read on!!
He. Is.
in the lead role of Shooter, as the guy named Bob Lee Swagger! He took that role and made it his own which goes to prove what Ive believed all along, he aint just another pretty face! Bob the Nailer was the character as envisioned by author Stephen Hunter, upon whose book this movie is fashioned. They never did refer to Bob Lee by that nick, and that was okay. It was a Nam thing, and stayed there.
I want to thank director Antoine Fuqua (
pronounced Few-kwa
) for the superb job of combining scenes and editing out certain scenes that were in the trailers he left out any hanky panky between Bob Lee and Sarah, and thankfully and mercifully left out the check-out gal commenting on the purchases Bob Lee & Nick made at the local guys store (
Fleet Farm? Farm & Fleet? Menards?
Whatever!! LOL!) That scene always made me shudder
I want to thank screenplay writer Jonathan Lemkin for allowing the character of Bob Lee to call Nick Memphis Pork. You need to read the book if you want to know what I mean. But I am not thrilled with the innuendo that Payne had his way with Sarah when he kidnapped her.
The set-up was great, the weapons were awesome, the explosions were fiery, the action was top notch, the weapons were awesome, the body count was high, the conspiracy theories abounded, Wahlberg was superb, the cast was well-chosen, did I mention the weapons were awesome?
Please read up on the JFK conspiracy theories if you want to get a kick out of Levon Helms character, to whom Bob Lee and Nick go for wisdom. Helm is/was a member of The Band, out of Woodstock in 69. Fuqua worked with him in the documentary he made on the Blues, called Lightning in a Bottle. His line about the shovel went over most of the heads that were in the theater...sheesh, it's history, boys and girls!!
Michael Pena has some of the best lines. And once again, the top-notch bad guys cant shoot worth a darn. C'est la vie.
Now about Bob Lees bullet wounds. Didnt you learn anything in
Three Kings
? What happens when a bullet enters the body? Something called sepsis. And dang, if Bob Lee didnt know how to deal with it! And realized he needed saline after losing so much blood. Hallelujah, somebody did their homework. Some really great scenes there DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! However, I recall he was shot twice and we never did find out much about the 2nd bullet wound. Hmmmm. As for Sarah tending to the injured Bob Lee, well, there may be a spot on the DVD that gets a little extra look-see once its out, sorta like the volleyball game in Top Gun.
I could go on and on. I am pumped. I am wired. I laughed and groaned and threw popcorn -- and spent a lot of time on the edge of my seat! LOL! There were cheese-y moments and a duh moment or three. Poor Bob Lee, he was the only one who didnt see the set up coming. Didja ever see that Looney Tunes cartoon where the character gets wrapped up like a sucker?? My eyes rolled out of my head.
I love Danny Glover and Ned Beatty playing the bad guy roles. Nobody seems to remember that Glover was the bad guy in the 1986 Harrison Ford movie, Witness... Yep, I am old!!
I wanna say more, but I'm out of time. I hope y'all enjoy it when you get to see it - it was everything
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Hot sale soybean milk processing machine
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|soybean milk processing machine
|Cold & Hot Pressing Machine
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|Jinan, China (Mainland)
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|Processing capacity:
|20tpd to 200tpd
|Steam consumption:
|≤280Kg/T (0.8MPa)
|Power consumption:
|≤ 15KWh/T
|Solvent consumption:
|≤3Kg/T(6#solvent oil)
|Residual oil in meal:
|Residual solvent in finished meal:
|≤ 300PPM (qualified detonated experiment )
|12 Months
Product Description
Shandong Leader Machinery Co.,Ltd. cold and hot amphibious screw oil press machine is a new research improvement product.Palm Fruit Processing Line is for oil extraction from oil-bearing materials,such as rapeseed,peanut,tea seed,soybean, sunflower seed,shea butter,palm kernel and so on.Equipped with micro-electrical control,infrared heating and filtration system,Hot sale soybean milk processing machine can press oil through cold press and hot press. pour raw material to the machine,Shandong Leader Machinery Co.,Ltd. can get pure oil which can be eaten directly.Hot sale soybean milk processing machine is very suitable for individual users.
The specificaitons of Hot sale soybean milk processing machine:
(1).Cleaning: Our vibration screen and destoner will Remove the raw material peanut in various impurities, such as: iron, stones, clump, such as the plant leaf, clean up after the raw material peanut impurity content should not exceed 0.2%.
(2).Crushing: Oil seed is crushed into 6-8 pieces. In order to meet the requirements of crushing, the peanut is suitable for crushing with the moisture of 7% to 12%.
(3). Softening: The purpose of softening is to adjust the moisture and temperature of oil, and make it soft.
(4).flaking process: Rolling raw material into flakes, and the purpose is to increae surface area, destroy the peanut cell tissue, shorten the way of oil out from cake.
(5).Drying: Adjust moisture of rice bran to meet the requirement of going to extraction process.
(6).cooking process: use steam cooking, inject direct steam and cook the flakes to meet the requirement of oil press.
Hot sale soybean milk processing machine
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Jinan Dinter Heavy Industry Machinery Co., Ltd. is a professional modern enterprise which
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been engaged in manufacturing vegetable oil press machine for more than 30 years including 5
years overseas market experience. We have three manufacturing plants, tens of independent &
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advanced management, sales and technology, and learn the domestic and foreign management
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Our enterprise cultural concept is : "shared ,happy, growing", we regard "no perfect individual,
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happy, we will try our best to offer satisfied service and grow up with customers all over the world.product description
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|Soybean milk processing machine process brief introduction:
1. Solvent pumps: continuously spray solvent to the rotary-type extractor.
2. Roary extractor: Spray and soak the pre-pressed cake with solvent so that oil fats can be
diss-olved in solvent(form miscella). After processing, you can get wet meal and miscella (mixed oil).
3. DTDC: usd to separate the solvent from the wet meal.
4. Miscella tank 1st: pump the miscella (oil with solvent) in to the miscella 1st , then add saline water to it. The phospholipid in the miscella will react with the saline water, at last the reactant precipitate,
reaching the goal of purifying.
5. Miscella tank 2nd: the purified miscella will be pumped into it.
6. Miscella stripping: it will remove the remaining solvent in miscella. And the solvent will be discharged to condenser for recycling.
7. Condensers: used to cooling the solvent gas separated from the wet meal and miscella for recycling.our services
1.Ensure to timely provide complete sets of equipment and accessories.
2.Ensure that one-time installation debugging acceptance.
3.To provide high quality material with preferential price.
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Product Delivery
Palm Fruit Processing Line complete equipment:
Palm fresh fruit bunches--Retort sterilization--Threshing--Oil extraction--filter--Dehydration--To refine
Shandong Leader Machinery Co.,Ltd. independent research and development production of Hot sale soybean milk processing machine for many years, providing a dedicated oil press palm fruit, palm fruit thresher,sterilization pot palm fruit, palm kernel oil press, palm mashed machines.
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Lately, we've been getting a lot of emails from people wanting tips on how to analyze the SEO Competition matrix – so I wanted to share with you this Market Samurai technique – from outside the Samurai dojo.
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Rather than looking broadly at the SEO Agency Competition matrix, they focus on 3 key areas that give them a good overview of the strength of their competitors.
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- The first thing to look for is whether more than one competitor has a 'Y' (a Yes) in ALL the YAH, Title, URL, Desc & Head columns. If there is more than one site, we should pass on this keyword and move into the next one.
- If no (and for this keyword it's a 'no'), we then need to look at the Pagerank of the each of the websites (PR column) and make sure that there are at least two sites with a Pagerank of 3 or below in the top 10. In this case, there are. In fact, 8 of them fall into this category.
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Ann Coulter must have a real beef against popular uprisings. Last fall we looked at a column in which she argued that mass upheaval ran against the grain of American history. Now she's contrasting the radical, bloody, atheistic French Revolution with our law-abiding, orderly, religious one.
I think she's correct to draw the distinction. In many ways, the American and French Revolutions were qualitatively different. But I would quibble with her over a few points.For one thing, when the French Revolution did erupt, it was pretty popular among large segments of the American population. After all, the Democratic-Republican Societies openly celebrated Bastille Day, and cheering crowds greeted Citizen Genêt when he arrived in the U.S. One reason for this enthusiasm was the Republicans' conviction that the French Revolution was part of the same movement begun in 1776, a conviction embraced by their spiritual figurehead, Thomas Jefferson.
Second, let me reiterate something I've suggested before in comparing the two revolutions. The Americans didn't keep the guillotines running around the clock during their struggle for independence, but that doesn't mean it was a bloodless affair. The Tories who suffered lynchings, floggings, confiscation, and exile would probably argue that the American Revolution was rather savage indeed. Washington and his subordinates managed to keep the Continental Army on a fairly tight leash, but militiamen and partisans weren't always so restrained in dealing out violence. And if we consider the war between Indians and whites that coincided with the contest between America and England, the French Revolution doesn't always look all that cataclysmic by comparison.
Finally, it's important to remember that the American Revolution meant different things to different people. Some Patriots were content to define it as a separation from Britain and monarchy. Others had more radical ambitions. Independence was a chance to redefine the nature of American politics and society—to empower popular legislatures, to eliminate the deference that characterized the colonial world, and to alter the status of women and blacks. For some Americans, the Revolution rolled right on after the ratification of the Constitution, supplied with the momentum of its own ideology.
It's not that Coulter's portrait of the Revolution is wrong; there's a good deal of truth to it. The problem is that it's incomplete. You could fundamentally disagree with her about the American Revolution and its legacies, and both of you could still be correct because the Revolution was itself a sometimes contradictory affair. Even the participants and their heirs never completely agreed on what it all meant.


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Sure, the New England Patriots lost perhaps the league's top playmaking tight end for a few weeks with a broken forearm. But Rex Ryan's team knew better than to celebrate.
"I don't know," Ryan said, shaking his head. "They have five tight ends on their roster, so I don't know if they'll put another guy in that role. I'm not sure how they'll do it."
If Ryan has learned anything in his nearly four seasons as coach of the Jets, it's that Bill Belichick usually finds a way to win no matter who's out there -- or isn't -- on the field for the Patriots. Ryan also knows New England can change the personnel, but as long as it's still Tom Brady's bunch, it'll be a tough task.
"When you look at him," Ryan said, "you can almost say he's a machine back there."
And Ryan is right about the Patriots' glut of tight ends. Aaron Hernandez could return for the game against the Jets (4-6) Thursday night at MetLife Stadium after missing the last three with a sprained right ankle, and New England also has Daniel Fells, Visanthe Shiancoe and Michael Hoomanawanui at the position.
"New England is so multiple, they give you sometimes it could be four wides, five wides, could be a bunch of tight ends and all that," Ryan said. "So, we'll see as the game goes how it affects them."
Belichick was typically tight-lipped when asked if the loss of Gronkowski will change the offense for the Patriots (7-3).
"Well, we'll see," he said. "I don't know. We'll see."
Sounds as though Belichick, one win from becoming the eighth NFL coach with 200 victories, has something up his hoodie. Just as he always does. Gronkowski or no Gronkowski, the Patriots still have Brady, of course, and that's enough for anyone in New England to feel confident.
Brady was asked earlier this week if Gronkowski seemed to be in a decent mood when the two spoke.
"I haven't been thinking about his spirits," Brady said. "I've been thinking about the Jets."
A focused and determined Brady is certainly cause for concern for the Jets.
"He's going to be Brady," safety LaRon Landry said. "He's going to complete passes and he's going to be great out there. We are going against a tough quarterback."
Talk about an understatement. Brady needs one touchdown pass to extend his streak with at least one to 43 straight games -- third-longest in league history behind Drew Brees (53 and counting) and Johnny Unitas (47). He has 51 career 300-yard passing games in the regular season, and one more would put him into tie for fifth place with Kurt Warner. Brady also needs 86 yards passing to move past Dan Fouts (43,040) for 10th place on NFL's career list.
"The thing about him is he's a machine, yet he's passionate and a fiery leader and all that type of stuff, so you wish he was just a machine," Ryan said. "His competitive side elevates his team as well. That's what you get in those once-in-a-generation type quarterbacks, that he's just a special guy."
The Jets know all about it, too. Brady is 4-0 with 10 TDs and one interception in his last four regular-season games against them. He's 17-5 overall when playing New York, including New England's playoff loss in the 2010 postseason.
The Patriots have also been dominant in the second halves of seasons since 2010, going a combined 18-0 so far -- including 8-0 in both 2010 and '11, and 2-0 this season. That doesn't bode well for a Jets team trying to get back into the playoff hunt after a miserable start.
"This is a very important game for our season, so I'm not overly concerned with their season," Brady said. "I think about what our season is all about and what we need to do. This is a very good team. It's always very challenging to play them, especially on the road. It's a short week and there's a lot to prepare for, so it will really test our mental toughness and see what we're all about."
Well, the entire league already knows that the Patriots' top-ranked offense is efficient and explosive, as proven by their 59-24 walloping of Indianapolis on Sunday. Brady leads a steady passing game, and a four-man rotation of Stevan Ridley, Danny Woodhead, Shane Vereen and Brandon Bolden gives New England a productive and unpredictable rushing attack.
The Jets handled Brady and the Patriots' offense for much of the game the last time the teams played last month in a 29-26 overtime victory by New England that New York thought was theirs for the taking.
"When it mattered most, he delivered and they got the victory," Ryan said. "We know each other so well. We know enough of Tom Brady to know if he knows exactly what you're in, you're in trouble."
That game ended when Rob Ninkovich forced and recovered a fumble by Mark Sanchez, moments after Stephen Gostkowski kicked a go-ahead field goal in overtime. It started a string of three straight losses for the Jets, who appeared on the verge of seeing their season slip away until a solid performance last week in St. Louis.
Sanchez was efficient and mistake-free for the first time in weeks, giving the Jets plenty of hope heading into this matchup with the Patriots.
"They played really well against St. Louis if you watched that game," Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker said. "They're a physical team. They got to the quarterback. They forced some negative plays for them and really did some good things. So, they got some momentum coming off that game and we've just got to make sure that we keep our momentum going."
Both teams are cramming to prepare for their second game in five days, a short work week for such a big game.
For the Jets, a win would get them within a game of .500 and avoid a sweep by the Patriots for the second straight season. For New England, it would put them in control of the division at 4-0 with just two games against Miami left and send New York scrambling to stay in the wild-card hunt.
"You look at this as a chance to separate yourself from the rest of the pack," Patriots linebacker Jerod Mayo said. "We handled the Bills and now this is a big game for us to kind of distance ourselves."


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