As Admiral Allen and Secretary Napolitano have made clear, we've made preparations from day one to stage equipment for a worse-case scenario.

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Pink tribute act Zoe Alexander was shown swearing and pushing people and stage equipment after her performance of the US rocker's song, So What.

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These folks come in with their big tractor-trailers full of music gear and stage equipment and all that other stuff--this is some thing I didn't learn in the cable business.

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We then offered to stage the equipment and provide on-site installation including file porting and final turn over to the store managers.

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Tyondai Braxton, Ian Williams and Dave Konopka all zoom full-speed from the minute they hit the stage, manipulating enough equipment for three one-man bands.

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Though it did not rise to the auditorium or stage levels, some technical equipment was lost.

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Then there is the next stage of the production process where the onboard equipment is installed and the engines fitted.

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Dresser-Rand equipment, used at nearly every stage of the oil-and-gas supply chain, is well positioned to take advantage of the global investment increase in energy infrastructure.

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At this stage, everybody is confident that the staging process, the prepositioning of resources, commodities, equipment that are going to be needed to respond to this storm are in place.

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