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Romain Pelletti, Biography
Date: 31.01.2018
Born in Corsica, Romain Pelletti, was raised in the South of France into a world for music, while his Mother was a DJ his Father was the owner of a night club. This had a profound influence on Romain as a child and laid the foundations for what has become a lifelong obsession.
Romain´s launch into the world of DJ-ing began in popular venues in the "City of Popes" which quickly gained him access to the most prestigious clubs on the French Riviera including Saint Tropez and Cannes. Romains international career took off in 2004 when he started performing on the dance floors around the world including Ibiza, Russia, Poland, Geneva, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Miami, Dubai, and now Thailand.
Romain has been lucky enough to combine his two passions in life, fashion and music by working for companies such as Dolce & Gabbana and Christian Audigier, for which he performed with artists such as the king of pop, Michael Jackson.
Since 2013 Romain is based in Phuket Thailand which also happens to be one of his favourite locations. Currently Romain works as the Artistic Director at CATCH Beach Club, a part of the Twinpalms Group and without doubt the most prestigious beach club on the Island, if not Asia.
When asked Romain describes himself as an eclectic artist designing beats swaying between deep house, House and Nu Disco. Romain believes music is the manifestation of love and passion which with his infectious personality and artistic flamboyance connects him with his audience in a very real and unique way.
In the summer of 2015 he returned to Thailand from Europe after visiting venues in Ibiza and the South of France. inspired by a new innovative House Music Style, the likes of which Asia had never heard before. With his special unique style and influence as one of Phuket´s leading DJ´s he took the Island by storm introducing a new fresh and inspirational trend in House. It is fair to say that Romains reputation proceeds him and he is fittingly known locally as The Lion of Corsica.
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Here's another teaser from Warlord of the Forgotten Age and there is a little more meat to this one. So, just a warning there and I hope you enjoy.
Plucking a blue apple from the tree, Dariana takes a seat next to Fizzle and uses her sleeve to clean the snack. The purple-scaled drite is on his back and breathing heavy, his scaly stomach bloated from overeating. Rubbing her friend's blunted horns, the telepath takes a bite of the fruit and nearly chokes on the deluge of water that runs down her throat. Feeling Fizzle shiver in the early winter air, Dariana gently places him in her lap and removes her long-sleeved shirt to use as a blanket. Unaffected by the cold, she remains outside in her dirty t-shirt and cautiously nibbles at the rest of the apple. The stars appear one by one while Tavon the Blue Moon rises to her left, its three siblings nowhere to be seen even though it is only the first day of the new season. The champion's puffs of breath drift through the air and gather like tiny clouds that dance around the extravagant garden. They are about to return to the telepath when she senses another presence and has them dissipate.
"This may be the last time I can visit you," Zaria says as she takes a seat next to her daughter. Noticing a few faces in the sky, the Purity Goddess glares at the curious deities until they leave. "Some are still hoping that I get myself sealed, but the Law of Influence is not as heavily enforced these days. Once your father is defeated, things will return to normal. So . . . why are you lying to your friends again?"
"Only to Nyx," Dariana replies while running a finger along Fizzle's delicate wings. She stops when the drite's tail slaps at the ground and he whimpers in response to a bad dream. "I told her enough about Luke. Regardless of what Nyx says, she doesn't need to know how broken his mind truly is. The surface is nothing more than pain and fear, but deeper is this abyss that I've never felt before. At first I thought a part of him was torn out by the Baron or one of his agents. Yet, I still sense that something is in there and it's avoiding me. Luke is certainly shattered and shouldn't be able to resist my power, but it's like trying to pull a specific drop of water out of an ocean."
"Mortals are physically simple, but mentally complicated," the red-haired goddess states with a sigh. Curious about the unusual apples, she stretches her arm to claim a yellow one and takes a bite that causes her tongue to shine like a lantern. "I would comment on Luke's condition if I had anything to say that you don't already know. Like you, I have faith that he will recover before he is needed. Not that you have a lot of time left. Arthuru is waiting in Vir's Castle and his patience does have its limits."
Dariana is about to ask a question, but it is wiped from her mind by her mother's intrusive thoughts. Unused to being on the receiving end of such a graceful telepathic attack, the silver-haired woman shudders and twitches for several seconds. Worried that she might hurt Fizzle by accident, she places him on the ground and is barely aware of him floating on a cloud of rainbow mist. Her body relaxes once she erects enough mental shielding to sort through the static that is making her brain spasm. The relief is short-lived as another pulse rocks her psyche and sends it tumbling through a chilling darkness that seeps into her nerves. Numb and defenseless, Dariana struggles to trust that her mother knows what she is doing and has a good reason for the unexpected attack.
Her descent comes to an abrupt end when the telepath lands in a patch of clovers that absorbs the solid impact. Getting to her hands and knees, Dariana sees that she is on an island small enough for her to see the entire coastline. The largest plants are berry bushes that are spread out around the flat land, which is a patchwork of clovers and crabgrass. She is about to head for a small hut made out of sticks and tan mud when the champion hears a low hum from behind her. Cautiously turning around, Dariana finds herself a few steps away from a towering portal composed of lightning, shadows, fire, and ice. Energy constantly ripples from the yawning maw that cycles through images of all the places she has ever been, many of them no longer in existence. The moment her eyes focus on the terrifying sight, her psyche is snapped back to her body and she wakes with a jolt.


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Fhrer himself, however, whom Robertson summoned in the Number 61 motorbus on 13 and 17 May, was gravely displeased. To him this denunciation of onanism by a native of Onania could only be seen as an act of both treachery and hypocrisy. Robertson, who hated keeping his flies buttoned in front of this great autoeroticist, led the conversation immediately to the subject of onanism. He had never loved other people otherwise than cosmetically, he declared, and had never experienced love except with his own person. Bernhard, too, he gratuitously [1] maintained, was a practicing autoeroticist, for "the manner in which he spoke of onanism, and even his need to speak of it, would alone suffice to convince me." In order to provide material for the heteroerotic part of The Angry Londoner, he confessed, he had transposed to "the budding grove of girls—make that the single budding shrub of girls—all that was graceful, tender, and charming" in his own autoerotic memories; in other words, that portion of them dating from the stage of his life that Adam Long in the character of Roger Trilling [2] had once termed "the male jacking peak," the very late teens. Fhrer sorrowfully reproached him for "seeming to have intended to stigmatise plutonism"[3]; "Will you never portray this form of Eros for us in the aspect of youth and beauty?" he asked. Robertson adroitly replied that he felt that neither Rugger nor his penis "was so old or repulsive as all that," and that he must reserve youth for his transpositions, because young, smooth penises were more easily transposed into detachable erotic objects than craggy, middle-aged ones. These unfortunate mornings exposed and perpetuated the incompatibility between those two autoeroticists of (if nothing else) remarkable fecundity. I've annoyed many onanists with my last post," Robertson told Matt Boulanger (Henryk's younger brother), "and I'm sorry for it; and I'm sorry that Rugger occasionally hints at the modest dimensions of his member, but I couldn't suddenly make him look like John Holmes." Fhrer wrote later in his Tagebuch of Robertson's "duskily particoloured desert camouflage [düsterer bunter Wüstenblendanstrich]," "this offence against truth [dieser Gegenwahrheitsfrevel]," and called him the "great dissimulating master baiter [große verheimlichende Meister-Bierer {4}]." More seriously still, Robertson's biased avowals, made partly to tease and partly to mollify his friend, have been conveniently accepted by his critics as his final and total diagnosis of his own abnormality and its relation to his blog. Seen in their context, and compared with the known facts of his life, they form only a fraction of the far more complicated—if ultimately rather lame—truth. In his blog Robertson accepted but cordoned off his own autoeroticism, and created the heteroerotically-contented part of Rugger from the lost but real heteroerotic part of his own divided nature; he used onanism, like antagonistic football fandom and beer-snobbery, as an incarnation of particularized derivative virtue; if he had told the figurative truth and made Rugger love only his own penis, he would have destroyed the literal truth of his work.
[1] i.e., because Bernhard himself had apparently never made any bones about his onanistic predilections: "According to his good friend Paul Wittgenstein, Bernhard told him that he masturbated naked in front of a mirror." Gita Honegger: Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2001), p. 10.
[2] Yo-Yo Ma Interview. (Odessa, Florida: Adabertson Recordings Catalogue No. 548 [1992]).
[3] i.e. (keine Scheisse?), onanism. The etymology of this term is hotly disputed. Some (the so-called classicists) say that it derives from millennia-old topoi likening onanism to the "plutocratic" practice of hoarding (albeit that Occam's razor—together with Molly Sugden's testimony—suggests more obvious parallels between onanism and spending); others (the so-called modernists) date it from the discovery of the now-ex planet Pluto, in which, on account of its solipsistic, renegade orbit many a 1930s onanist apparently discovered a kindred spirit; still others (the so-called Disneyans), take it for a synecdochic appropriation of the name of Mickey Mouse's beloved pet dog, whose species is of course the subject of a famous joke embodying simultaneously the utopian and totalitarian aspirations of all onanists. For a presentation of each argument, see, respectively, J. M. Phipps, "'A Sordid Boon' Indeed!: Etymological Reflections on Plutonism" in Peristylum 3(2), pp. 455-74; S. P. Breakstone, "Doing One's Own 'Thing': Etymological Reflections on Plutonism" in Scientific American (234) 21, pp. 475-94; and B. F. Funicella, "'Cover Your Eyes, Minnie!': Etymological Reflections on Plutonism," in Journal of the Mickey Mouse Club Alumni Association 52 (4), pp. 495-82.
[4] The phrase actually gains something in translation, a Bierer literally being someone who does something of no determinate nature involving beer.


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Every day, Northern Arizona University values our opportunities to connect students with the countless possibilities that higher education provides. We do this in many ways – from high-quality degree programs that prepare our Lumberjacks for the jobs of tomorrow to the many locations we offer degrees online and around the state.
Our tuition-setting process is another way we carefully provide access to an increasing number of students. It is not an easy process – indeed, it is one of the most difficult and detailed discussions we have all year – but it is an important one. Through months of dialogue and analysis, we ensure that we balance our responsibility to current students with affordable, accessible options for those who will choose to start their education at NAU. We include our students throughout the process, and we rely on their insights to direct our priorities.
The NAU tuition plan that was approved by ABOR last month was built with our top priority in mind: the success of our students. Whether they are Lumberjacks now or will choose us in the future, we prioritized them. This tuition plan carries the NAU Pledge Program into its second decade, providing certainty for our students and their families by guaranteeing a tuition rate for our incoming Flagstaff mountain campus students for four years. The Pledge Program is an important promise we made to our students, and a promise we prioritize each year.
The tuition plan includes financial aid for our students, and avoids cuts to the faculty, staff and infrastructure we need to continue to provide a student-centered NAU experience. It will grow research programs that connect our graduate and undergraduate students to hands-on experience and discovery, and it will hold the line on class and program fee increases for the third year in a row – a trend that sets us apart from many other universities across the country. In three years, we have eliminated more than 300 class fees and reduced the rate of another 300 fees. We enhanced transparency in our fee-setting process so our students know how fees directly enhance their experience and their academic program – like the fees for three undergraduate and three graduate programs. These fees provide resources to support students in several high-cost programs without impacting other students.
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The statewide discussion about the cost of tuition will not end with the adoption of the new tuition plan, and that is a good thing. As a university – and as a state – we need to continue to evaluate the need for new investments in our students and the economic impact our university offers all of Arizona. We need a stronger partnership with state leaders, and we need to continue to enhance our partnerships with community colleges and other entities that share our commitment to educational attainment.
At NAU, we know the power of education and the doors it can open. We know that education can fuel a workforce that will overcome obstacles and find answers to questions we may not even know yet. We know the possibilities, but we also face the realities of providing those possibilities – in a real way, in a real world. We are grateful for the support and engagement of our students and our community as NAU provides accessible, affordable education – whenever and wherever our students need it. FBN
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In August of this year, I purchased Garnier's BB cream to give it a try (and because it's on sale) but I also changed my skincare routine about the same time that I bought and tried the said BB cream. Unfortunately, I started breaking out again. Good thing, I discovered immediately what caused it. And because I've been breaking out badly again, I had to go back to my go-to-acne-fighting-products: Proactiv Solutions.
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Link Building via Word-of-Mouth
Get people talking positively about your company or product and the links will follow. Here are some tips on how to increase exposure, branding, and build links all at the same time.
Get people talking positively about your company or product and the links will follow. Here are some tips on how to increase exposure, branding, and build links all at the same time.
Is your company taking advantage of word-of-mouth marketing (WOMM)? The links will follow once enough people talk positively about your company. People link to familiar names and brands. That's one reason major brands and corporations have acquired so many links over the past decade.
For example, let's say you manage a Web site about parenting. In one month, 10 different people tell you about a new helpful site that offers an interactive tool to help parents screen babysitters. It could be as simple as a tool to build a custom questionnaire for babysitter applicants. After all, parents have different needs and expectation. As the manager of a parenting site, I bet you'd visit the site. Perhaps even link to it. Maybe even feature it in a story.
That's the power of WOMM. More than three-quarters of people trusted consumer recommendations, according to a 2007 study. Compare that to only 34 percent trusting PPC ads.
WOMM can be created in several ways. It could be as simple as offering remarkable customer service, an incentive, a tool, or even a funny animation. It's really only limited by creativity.
The key is to focus on something that will get people talking positively about your company or product. The conversation could take place at a variety of venues: from dinner parties and grocery stores, to e-mail, social media sites, discussion boards, or IM. The location or method will really depend on your targeted audience. Targeting kids? It might be on the playground. Targeting gamers? It could be on social sites.
Let's look at one way to ignite a WOMM campaign.
People of Influence
Whether you're targeting an e-mail discussion list, forums, blogs, social media sites, or real world situations the key is to find the people of influence. Those are the people others listen to, and — most importantly — have influence over. We're a herding society, and people naturally follow the leader.
With that in mind, locate the leaders in each community you plan to target. Take the example of discussion boards (a.k.a. forums) for your industry. Look at which users have the most postings, and best reputation rating. Who tends to start popular threads? Explore the forum to find the leaders that others pay attention to. These are the people to target to jump-start you campaign.
The same basic approach holds true no matter what the target. Find the people who have the greatest influence. Think of it as a political election. Go after other leaders who can bring in the votes.
Now comes the hard part. How are you going to influence them to promote your brand or company? It'll be easier if what you're promoting is truly "remarkable," especially if you're targeting a specific group of people, such as a parenting Web site. Otherwise, there's the time-tested method of offering free products, discounts, or financial contributions. Get some paid endorsements from key people.
OK, some of you may be thinking this is buying links. But think about how politics works. Politicians make contributions, promise favors, jobs, and support of projects. Would Google consider that "selling votes?" If so, that's a felony. Just ask the college kid who tried to sell his vote on eBay.
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Just got back from a 4 day road trip to Pennsylvania. Took the wife and kids and got out of the rat-race to maintain our sanity. Just wanted to share a few observations about topics that may interest you – guns, booze, fireworks, and tobacco.
Overall, I did not care much for Pennsylvania, but there is a certain charm to the place. Didn't like it much the last time I was there a few years ago. As I drove down route 314 to route 611 I noticed that in every mall is a tobacco shop of one kind or another. Mostly they advertise 'wholesale' priced tobacco products. I did not notice that more people were smoking, but they enjoy a much larger variety of shops, which no doubt offer a larger variety of products. I thought of how that would not be acceptable in Massachusetts.
I also noticed gun shops. Alongside every tobacco shop seemed to be a gun store of some kind offering the sale, purchase or rental of guns. Again, I never saw anyone walking around with a gun, but I thought of how all the gun shops would not be acceptable in Massachusetts. I rarely see any in Massachusetts.
Liquor stores in Pennsylvania do not sell 6-packs. They only sell 12-packs or larger. To get a 6-pack one must go to the local supermarket or convenience store. As you might have guessed – I did not see any drunks or abuse of alcohol happening. No bottle deposit on bottles or cans. No trash lining the streets!
Fireworks in almost every mall. All kinds of variety in the local stores. One particular store I visited had these large quart sized fireworks for sale sitting right next to the office supplies and tupperware. Guess what? No piles of lost limbs lying around because people blew their hands off. No lines at hospital waiting rooms to re attach limbs were observed.
I did notice that the local economy was not terribly strong, but one would be hard-pressed to make the argument that it had anything to do with guns, tobacco or fireworks.
I did have a chance to visit a shooting range in Henryville, PA. It was one of the most exciting, fun and enjoyable parts of my time away. I visited a shooting range named Sunset Hill Shooting Range. The people were professional and hard working. I have not shot a gun in nearly 40 years, but I intend to do it more often going forward. I took my two sons and made a morning event out of it. The first rifle we shot was the HK416 Tactical Assault Rifle. It was bad-ass and loads of fun. It happens to be the same model of gun used to kill Osama Bin Laden. it is light, accurate and reliable. Then I shot a Beretta Neos U22 pistol. Awesome! My sons insisted on shooting a sniper rifle. Wow, what a kick it was… Ya know what? No dead bodies lying around with gunshot wounds. I did not see a single dead body all day long. All I saw were families having fun shooting and learning about guns. Both sons agreed it was the highlight of the trip.
The overriding observation was that the people in Pennsylvania have made different choices than the legislators in Massachusetts. People in Pennsylvania have retained their rights to own a gun freely, own and use fireworks and make an industry out of tobacco. They have decided that those things are important to them and they want to hold on to them. On the other hand Massachusetts legislators have made different choices for us. Massachusetts citizens have not given up the right to own those things, but legislators have taken away their right to own those things. As much as I like Massachusetts I find it sad that legislators have taken away our right to so many enjoyable things. I like fireworks. I 'now' love shooting guns. I can understand how people like tobacco. Yet in Massachusetts those things are as taboo as church. Oh yeah, there are a lot more churches in Pennsylvania too.
Massachusetts has made it illegal to own/use fireworks. They have made it nearly impossible to use a gun freely. They would never tolerate large-scale tobacco warehouse stores. The nanny state is alive and well.
Upon my return to Massachusetts I had one unique experience. Since we had been away I decided to pick up two gallons of milk and a 6-pack at a local convenience store in Littleton. I had my daughter come into the store with me to help carry the milk. I was refused the sale of alcohol because my daughter was with me. The clerk (simply doing her job) informed me that it was not legal to sell alcohol to anyone with a minor in tow. There was an assumption that as soon as I left the store I would give the beer to my daughter, who is 20 years old. I was assumed guilty. How long has this been the law? What do parents do when they have kids and need a 6 pack? Do they leave the kids in the car and hope that some other nanny-state do-gooder won't have them arrested for leaving kids in a car on a summer day? WTF?
Guns are safe and fun. It is sad that so many Massachusetts residents have a desperate fear, phobia truthfully, of guns. That phobia has been learned by what progressives teach. I think I will make a donation to The Gun Owner's Action League. They understand things a lot better than most Massachusetts residents.
I also feel bad for Massachusetts citizens because they are missing out on so many of the things that make life fun and enjoyable. What is the harm in a few firecrackers? What is the harm in the open ownership of guns? What is so bad about enjoying a smoke?
And where are the results of all this nanny-state protection? Are we better because of all the things we are denied? I know many uppity Harvard Law School types that think we are better, and worse yet they look down on the guns and God crowd, but that is just people hating on each other. Massachusetts and Pennsylvania are both 'middle of the road' when it comes to happiness. I think we have only given up our liberties, and that is saddest of all…


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We baked some cakes yesterday. They tasted very good :)
To make the cakes we scrunched some kitchen foil, covered it in tissue paper and decorated it.
By the way- the difference in play for English and Estonian children is that English kids offer tea and Estonian kids offer coffee :) I always think of that when we play cafes with Annabel :)
Idea from Mister Maker.
I hadn't thought about the tea/coffee thing before but do you know, I am a coffee drinker but it is alwyas tea when we play! Thanks for sharing your lovely cakes with us at the Play Acdemy.


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I finished the front end work on my Audi last night! I have now installed:
Bilstein struts
Monroe strut mounts
Monroe brake pads
Brembo rotors
Control arm bushings
Can't wait to get it on the road and feel the difference. Tomorrow, I'm doing the rear rotors. Then I just have to troubleshoot a slow oil leak and install the new exhaust with equal-length headers.
Unfinished and hastily refinished uprights.
Old and new Bilstein struts. I can't help but wonder if that's really the original strut that came from the factory 22 years ago. It was still holding up decently for that much age, but it was definitely time for it to be replaced. It leaked oil all over the place.
Current exhaust style on top, improved exhaust on bottom. Can't wait to hear it once these are installed.


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The Official BREAM theme song!
The "Not the Um Um" Players - belting out the BREAM song... apparently written in honour of the Friends of Fish and their efforts that get fishpots banned in Bermuda back in the 1990s.
A blog about what we are doing at the Bermuda Reef Ecosystem Analysis and Monitoring Programme (B.R.E.A.M.) - a Bermudian non-profit organization


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C# is one of the programming languages designed for the .NET Framework software development by Microsoft. It is most known language for this platform. C# is intended to be a modern, simple, general-purpose, object-oriented programming language. C# is a multi-paradigm programming language encompassing strong typing, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, object-oriented (class-based), and component-oriented programming disciplines.
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What is polymorphism?
Polymorphism is one of the four fundamental OOP principles. It is the ability to present the same interface for differing underlying types. In terms of .NET, for example, polymorphism means that at run time, objects of a subclass may be treated as objects of a superclass in places of their use, such as collections or method parameters. When this occurs, the object's actual type at run-time is no longer identical to its declared type. There are several kinds of polymorphism.
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Object-oriented programming or OOP is programming model based on the concepts of "objects", which are data structures that contain data, in the form of fields, and code, in the form of methods. In addition, programmers can create relationships between objects. For example, objects can inherit data and methods from other objects. Program, designed with OOP approach, is maked of objects that interact with one another. Most popular languages have class-based OOP, meaning that objects are instances of classes, which typically also determines their type.
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It's been a month now since we went up north to Baguio City to check out Azalea Residences Baguio.
There was a storm brewing when we went there so we thought that there was nothing to do but to enjoy the hotel and its wonderful amenities, which is not really a bad idea.
Azalea's rooms are enormous and cozy. They have huge fans instead of air conditioners – but who needs an "aircon" in Baguio, especially on a cold stormy weekend.
There are just so many things that I liked about this place – their Boracay and Baguio accommodation are both a dream to experience.
READ MORE: What I Liked About Azalea Residences Baguio
READ MORE: What I Liked About Azalea Boracay
Still, it would be a shame to visit Baguio City after almost two decades without being able to at least see some of the sights I've missed so much.
Last time I was there was in the summer of 1998, perfect weather so we were able to go to some of the major tourist spots in the province – I have listed some of the places that we've visited below:
- Mines View Park
- Good Shepherd
- Bell Church
- Baguio Cathedral
- Baguio Public Market
- Tam Awan Village
- Camp John Hay
- Burnham Park
We even went to as far as La Trinidad to experience strawberry picking. I even bought some fresh strawberries, vegetables and "walis tambo" to take home.
But that was on a clear day. So the question is, what to do and where to go on a rainy day Baguio weekend?
It has to be indoors and it has to be somewhere in the vicinity of Azalea so if the storm worsens we can easily go back to the hotel for some hot cocoa. 🙂
Well it's glad to know that our kind hosts from Azalea, has some kind of contingency for this sort of thing. A rainy day weekend sight-seeing is indeed possible. Here's our itinerary:
- Baguio Museum, Harrison Rd
- Emilio Aguinaldo Museum, Happy Glen Loop Rd
- Easter Weaving Room, Easter Rd
- Verve Music Lounge, Montinola
Baguio Museum
It's a museum that tells the history of Baguio City and the Igorot culture. It's main attraction is a more than a hundred year-old mummified remain of an Igorot woman. The facility however is in badly need of support from the government because its roof and ceiling are already leaking rain water. The exhibits, especially the 3D maps on the 2nd floor are getting wet.
Aguinaldo Museum
Now this museum came as a surprise to all of us. I personally didn't know that the original Philippine flag is in this place and that it's already heavily degraded beyond recognition. The curators said that it has only a couple of years more before it totally disintegrates. So, for those who haven't seen the flag yet, I urge you to go to the Aguinaldo Museum in Baguio quickly before it disappears.
This museum also houses a battle-torn flag used by our Filipino soldiers. You can actually see specks of blood on it. Aside from the wonderful (but very long) war-time stories told by the curators, you can also immerse on Aguinaldo's life through photos, old relics like the cross where he has sworn office as the first President of the Philippines and also some of her personal items and clothing.
Easter Weaving Room
The Easter Weaving Room is literally the weaving area along Easter Rd in Baguio City. Up front, it's a shop that sells various Baguio souvenirs but below is a special room for the weavers of Baguio City. This is where the weaving magic happens, from expert women weavers using traditional weaving equipment.
I am not really so interested with weaving but you gotta admit that these folks are really very talented, resourceful and very patient. I wouldn't last 10 minutes in that room doing all that weaving even if you supplied me a quarter pounder meal every hour.
Verve Music Lounge
Even on a rainy night, Baguio City is still very much alive. But we had to settle for Verve. It's an old school music lounge that has a stage and a centralize videoke system. It's kinda like the old Library Comedy Bar and Restaurant in Malate, Manila – but it's bigger and there are no comedy acts.
Only problem is that you have to wait for the other customers to finish their round of videoke requests before they pass the mic to your table. On the plus side, we've got great company.
I went home earlier than the others because it was late and I was too beat.
- Locked In Escape Room, Nevada Square, Loakan Rd
- Bayanihan Ukay Ukay Center, Otek St.
- We R Overrunners Surplus Shop, Yangco St.
- Old Dominican Castle (Diplomat Hotel)
Locked In Escape Room
On our second day in Baguio City, our friends from Azalea brought us to the old Nevada Square where Locked In is located. It's an Escape Room kind of establishment, kinda like Mystery Manila or Breakout Philippines.
It was my second time to experience this type of activity and my second time losing too. A failed escape but it was kind of an odd experience too. We were suppose to find clues inside our room to open the locks on all the doors, the last door I was able to open by sheer luck – since we're almost out of time, I just tried some combinations on the lock and then luckily it opened. 🙂
I would've passed as a cat burglar for that feat but anyway even with my lucky break, we still ran out of time. The Silent Scream room beat all four of us.
Bayanihan Ukay Ukay Center and We R Overrunners
Our next stop is to do a little bit of shopping – Ukay Ukay at the Bayanihan Center and then some brand new surplus items at We R Overrunners. Ukay Ukay doesn't really have a strong appeal to me unless it contains some really cool vintage stuff which I didn't see that day.
At We R Overrunners, I only bought a white long sleeve polo.
Diplomat Hotel
At night, we went on a little unscheduled (and unsanctioned) private tour to the old Dominican Castle otherwise known as the haunted Diplomat Hotel. BUT that's for another story. 🙂
- Slaughterhouse, Magsaysay Ave.
I was kinda hoping to experience blowing out smoke from my mouth when I arrived in Baguio City but for two days it didn't happen. But when we went out for lunch at Slaughterhouse on the third day that's when I experienced it. My brief moment of fun.
That took me back to my very first trip to Baguio City, when it's way colder outside than in the air conditioned buses. When cold crisp air welcomed me as I alight and smoke began to come out from my mouth when I start to breathe out or talk. Really precious moments that I can still vividly recall to this day.
Anyway, we had our lunch at Balajadia Kitchenette. Simple yet satisfying.
Also during our last day in Baguio City, we went to the Public Market to buy some "pasalubong" – I bought a jar of Tantamcos Ube Jam and Mik'asan Choco Flakes and that is it 'cause I like traveling light.
Aside from Baguio Public Market, all of the places we've visited four weeks ago was actually new to me – I have never been to those places before, so I guess it's providentially a trip worth remembering after all even with the very bad weather.
We could've also just went to SM Baguio – but who goes to SM when you're in Baguio. We've got lots of SM here in Mega Manila and they all look the same. 🙂
The rain was more intense that Sunday before we left the city because the storm was already looming near Benguet.
Overall, it was a really fun experience. I couldn't wait to go back to Azalea Residences Baguio again and hopefully next time the weather would be more cooperative.
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A Mother of Four Starts Career as Biking Instructor
Rachel Van worked as a salesperson in the bicycle industry, but last year, she quit her job to become a certified cycling instructor. She founded Pedal Power Kids to teach bicycle education. As Faiza Elmasry tells us, Van's goal is getting more kids on two wheels. Faith Lapidus narrates.


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Vancouver Sun
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
Byline: Douglas Todd and Nicholas Read Greater Vancouver is at the forefront of a national trend in which more Canadians are declaring they have no formal religion, but at the same time the city is becoming more spiritually diverse.
Organized religion is far from dead among the almost two million residents of Greater Vancouver. Roman Catholicism, the largest denomination in the city taking in 18 per cent of residents, continues to expand, partly because of immigration.
Our ethnically cosmopolitan city has also experienced an incredible growth in non-Christian religions — with the numbers of Sikhs, Buddhists and Muslims more than doubling in the past 10 years.
In Surrey, for instance, Sikhism is now the city's largest religion, with followers making up 16.3 per cent of the giant suburb's population, beating out even Roman Catholicism's 16.1 per cent.
In Richmond, fast-growing Buddhism accounts for seven per cent of the population. It's the largest religion in the Vancouver suburb after Catholicism, according to new census figures released Tuesday.
Unorthodox faiths are also mushrooming. There are now more witches and wiccans (2,625) than, for instance, members of the high-profile Salvation Army (1,545).
Echoing a national shift, the umbrella religious group that suffered the strongest decline in the past 10 years in Greater Vancouver is Protestantism. The number of Protestants — including United Church members, Anglicans and evangelicals — declined about 10 per cent, although together Protestants still make up 32 per cent of the population.
However, the most dramatic story may revolve around the 35 per cent of Metro Vancouver residents who say they have no religion. Statistics Canada analysts and observers are trying to figure out what to make of the largest category in the city.
The number of non-religious residents in the area has jumped almost 40 per cent since 1991 — to where it's now double the rising national rate of 16 per cent.
The total number of Canadians reporting no religious affiliation — almost 4.8 million people — was a stunning 44-per-cent jump from 3.3 million a decade earlier. It also represented a dramatic turn around from the pre-1971 days when fewer than one per cent of Canadians reported having no religion.
Yukoners proved the most secular, with 37 per cent reporting no religious affiliation. British Columbians were a close second and Albertans were third at 23 per cent.
On the flip side was Newfoundland and Labrador where only two per cent of the population reported no religion. Quebec followed at six per cent.
Who are the 676,000 Greater Vancouverites who say they have no religion? Statistics Canada analyst Jane Badets doesn't really know. "It may be that they don't attend. It may be that they are atheists or agnostics and don't want to write that down."
One thing is known, however: The Greater Vancouverites who labelled themselves non-religious are younger than those who identify with most religious group. Their average age is 33, compared to the typical United Church member, who is 48.
The relative youth of the "no-religion" cohort prompts Reginald Bibby, a Canadian sociologist of religion, to suggest many people move out of the no-religion category as they grow older. Bibby also noted that people who say they are not formally religious often hold private spiritual beliefs. They may not go to a church or temple, but they'll still believe in such things as prayer, an afterlife or a Supreme Being.
Trying to explain the high proportion of non-religious people in the city, Langara College religion instructor Larry Devries said people come to Vancouver to experiment with ways of being spiritual that might not entail formal religion.
"This is the West Coast. It's much less traditional in many ways. There are people who come here from Eastern Canada who are looking for a different lifestyle. They're looking for a way to be spiritual without the trappings of authoritarian religion."
Devries has many students who are exploring all kinds of spiritual systems. "They're seeking to transcend the ordinary boundaries of the religious group they grew up in. Even those who are practisingmeditation with a Buddhist group would probably still say they're not religious."
On a global scale, Devries notes that the ranks of the non-religious in B.C. are far bigger than they are in the highly Christianized U.S., where evangelical Christians are dominant.
Vancouver playright Michael Mercer is one of the growing number who choose not to to subscribe to any official religion. He says his reasons are varied, but "I'd say what made me turn against the church from way back is that I can't stand its hierarchical structures."
Mercer says he believes in a God — but not in any conventional sense. "I don't see God being a big nova daddy up there," he says. "I see God as being the principal of creation, not an agent of punishment or reward."
Despite rising antagonism to organized or dogmatic religion, Roman Catholicism remains the largest single denomination in the province and continues to grow. Catholics account for 18 per cent of B.C.'s population of almost four million, a rise of 12 per cent in the past decade.
Across Canada, Roman Catholics remain the largest religious group at 12.8 million people, or 43 per cent of the population, down from 45 per cent in 1991. Just under one half of the country's Roman Catholics lived in Quebec, where they account for 83 per cent of the population, the highest in Canada. The only other province where they made up more than half the population was New Brunswick where the tally was 54 per cent.
Immigration is helping the Roman Catholic church — and other faiths — stay strong. In Greater Vancouver, two out of five Catholics are born outside the country — in Latin America and the Phillipines, for instance.
While Catholicism is hanging in as a result of immigration, almost every Protestant denomination has declined in B.C. The United Church of Canada continues to be the second largest denomination in the province, but it has dropped by 14 per cent to 361,000 adherents (nine per cent of the total population).
The number of Anglicans across the province has not dipped as swiftly, and now comes in at 298,000 (almost eight per cent of the population). The number of Pentecostals, a once-fast-rising evangelical Christian organization, has also dropped 32 per cent in the province in the past decade, to 47,000.
However, some of the decline in numbers for mainline Protestants and evangelicals could be attributed to many switching their identification on this year's census to "Christian" from a specific denomination. The number of people who declared themselves simply as "Christians" on this census skyrocketed 131 per cent in B.C. since 1991, to 200,000.
Still, despite the overlapping categories, the only Protestant group to rise in numbers in B.C. were the Baptists. Self-declared Baptists have risen almost 28 per cent in the past decade to almost 107,000.
The largest gains in religious affiliations occurred among faiths consistent with Canada's source of immigrants, which has shifted to regions outside of Europe, primarily Asia and the Middle East.
In B.C., and especially Greater Vancouver, this accounts for the rapid rise of Sikhism, Buddhism, Islam and Hinduism. The number of Sikhs in the Lower Mainland has doubled, to where they now make up the largest non-Christian group in the area, with 99,000 adherents.In Surrey, there are now more Sikhs than Catholics.
Sadhu Samra, senior vice-president of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara Soci
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On the other hand, local Buddists say the expansion of Buddhist temples in the Lower Mainland can be attributed not just to immigration, but to other Canadians embracing the religion as well. Of 74,000 Buddhists in Greater Vancouver, 13,000 are Canadian born."Buddhism is not just a religion, it's also a philosophy and a way of life," says Man Yee, a Buddhist nun at the Richmond office of the Buddhist Progress Society.
"The tremendous growth is because the people find the teaching can help them in their daily life so they can appreciate what's around them more and enjoy their life better."
While there continues to be a debate in the United States over whether there are more Jews than Muslims in the country, there is no question in Canada or Greater Vancouver that the number of Muslims far outdistances that of Jews. There are now 52,000 Muslims in the Lower Mainland, compared to 17,000 Jews.Many of those Muslims live on the North Shore, where they make up almost seven per cent of the population.
Azia Khaki, vice-chairman of the Muslim Canadian Association, says he suspects government figures on Muslims in B.C. are low. He reckons the number is closer to 100,000. Khaki also hopes that with so many more Muslims across Canada, governments will be more welcoming of a Muslim perspective on relevant issues, including those pertaining to the Middle East.
"While we would expect governments to consider our position and point of view, we also would like to contribute in a positive way by saying: 'How can we help?' "
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No religion 34.4%
More than one in three Greater Vancouver residents — 676,000 people — say they have "no religion." But we continue to become more spiritually diverse. Here is a snapshot of the region's five religions with the most adherents and the percentage of local residents in each faith.
Protestant 32%
The number of Anglican and United Church members has dropped, but together they still claim the loyalty of 273,000 city residents.
Catholic 18.3%
Catholics make up the largest religious denomination in the city.
Sikh 5%
Sikhs are the biggest non-Christian group in the city, and now make up the largest religious group in Surrey.
Buddhist 3.8%
The number of Buddhists in the Lower Mainland has grown by 135 per cent. In Richmond, they're the second largest religion.
Muslim 2.7%
There are now three times more Muslims (52,000) in Greater Vancouver than Jews.
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Percentage 1991 / Percentage 2001 / Distribution / Change
Total population 1,584,115 1,967,475 100.0% 24.2%
No religion 486,200 676,175 34.4% 39.1%
Roman Catholic 304,595 360,620 18.3% 18.4%
United Church 178,000 149,295 7.6% -16.1%
Anglican 143,180 123,905 6.3% -13.5%
Christian not incl.
elsewhere 44,987 101,625 5.2% 125.9%
Sikh 49,625 99,005 5.0% 99.5%
Buddhist 31, 645 74,550 3.8% 135.6%
Muslim 23, 335 52,590 2.7% 125.4%
Baptist 39,005 49,105 2.5% 25.9%
Lutheran 48,620 43,000 2.2% -11.6%
Protestant not incl. elsewhere 45,441 34,535 1.8% -24.0%
Hindu 14,880 27,410 1.4% 84.2%
Pentecostal 26,510 17,690 0.9% -33.3%
Jewish 14,360 17,275 0.9% 19.7%
Presbyterian 31,745 17,180 0.9% -45.9%
Mennonite 12,505 11,095 0.6% -11.3%
Greek Orthodox 9,726 10,815 0.5% 11.2%
Jehovah's Witnesses 12,025 10,775 0.5% -10.5%
Orthodox not incl. elsewhere 2,660 9,535 0.5% 258.5%
Christian and Missionary Alliance 4,685 5,925 0.3% 26.6%


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BeIN Sports, the broadcaster holding exclusive MENA television rights to top sporting events said it had cut its service to Egypt amid a contract dispute with its service provider, Cable Network Egypt (CNE).
"beIN Sports Group regrets that it is unable to provide its services on CNE as of 8 January 2019," the group said on Twitter. "Our viewers in Egypt can continue to enjoy beIN services on smartphones and other devices through the channel's website."
The news is likely to have a huge effect on football lovers in Egypt, who stands to lose access to a large pool of live sports content rights held by beIN that includes the English Premier League, LaLiga, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Serie A, as well as major international club and country competitions.
The service cut came after lengthy negotiations to agree on "commercial terms" for a new contract with CNE broke down, beIN said in a statement, without providing further details of the disputed terms.
"As such we are unable to provide our services on CNE as of January 8th, 2019 until such time that CNE agrees reasonable terms," added the statement from beIN Media Group.
CNE said that the beIN signal has been stopped from the source and added: "We are working to find a solution to the problem. However, the subscribers will get the remaining of their fees if we failed to reach an agreement."
It also means Egyptians may not be able to cheer on Egyptian Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah, who in 2018 emerged as one of the world's biggest football stars. Salah won the 2018 African Player of the Year in a ceremony broadcast on beIN, which viewers in Egypt were able to watch.


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ALERT: Critical Vulnerabilties in Adobe ColdFusion
Adobe released security updates for three vulnerabilities in ColdFusion. Two vulnerabilities are rated critical for arbitrary code execution and one is rated important for information disclosure. Adobe ColdFusion is a rapid development platform used for building modern web applications. As per the advisory, the vulnerabilities are outlined as follows: CVE-2019-8072 : An information disclosure vulnerability […]Read More →


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Thursday, 27 September, 2001, 17:21 GMT 18:21 UK
How many more did Fred West kill?
On New Year's Day 1995 Fred West took advantage of a break in his suicide watch to tie some material to a prison door and hang himself at Winson Green prison in Birmingham. He was awaiting trial for 12 murders. On Tuesday Channel 5 begins a three-part documentary, based on his police interviews, which claims he may have killed another 20 women.
The makers of a documentary about serial killer Fred West have called for a public inquiry into police and social services failings which allowed him to continue killing women for 25 years.
Next Tuesday Channel 5 will screen the first of three one-hour documentaries about the Gloucester killer, and his wife Rose, based partly on hundreds of hours of police interviews.
The documentary has caused outrage among some MPs and has been criticised by Gloucestershire Constabulary.
But director and co-producer Derek Jones told BBC News Online none of the relatives had objected to the programme and the police had not objected initially either.
Mr Jones said: "There were objections to a drama on the subject, but that has long since been shelved, and was nothing to do with us."
West, who was awaiting trial on 12 murder charges, hanged himself in January 1995 and his wife is now serving 10 life sentences.
She said: "Fred said that there were two other bodies in shallow graves in the woods but there was no way they would ever be found.
'Twenty other bodies'
"He said there were 20 other bodies not in one place but spread around and he would give police one a year.
"He told me the truth about the girls in the cellar and what happened to them so I don't see why he would lie about other bodies."
Derek Jones, the director and co-producer of the programme, told BBC News Online: "There definitely needs to be a public inquiry.
"No-one has even scratched the surface of this case. They should look at the failures of social services and police in Gloucestershire in the 1970s and 1980s."
He said questions should also have been asked about West's eldest daughter, Charmaine, who disappeared in 1970.
'Need for an inquiry'
"West claimed she had moved back to Scotland to be with her mother and social services failed to follow that up," said Mr Jones.
He pointed out that the public inquiry into the Harold Shipman case had revealed many more victims than he was actually charged with.
West also told his solicitor, Howard Ogden, that he had picked up one girl, Mary Bastholm, who disappeared aged 15 in 1968, at a bus stop and had buried her in the village of Bishop's Cleeve near Cheltenham.
But when questioned by police about the Bastholm case he refused to say anything.
The film will also show extracts from pornographic home movies filmed by the Wests.
But Mr Jones said the extracts were not graphic and would only show Fred West dimming the lights, Rose West's head and shoulders and her anonymous clients.
He said: "When they come up into you it's beautiful, it's when they go away you are trying to hold them, you feel them flying away from you and you try to stop them.
'Animal cunning'
"You can't send them back to where they were."
Mr Jones said the police interviews gave a fascinating insight into a man who led a charmed life as a serial killer.
He said: "While he was illiterate, he was not unintelligent.
"You don't survive for 30 years as a serial killer without a degree of animal cunning."
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Rotator Controllers
We are distributors for the full range of Green Heron Engineering rotator controllers.
Suitable for all types of rotator (user configurable) they transform the efficiency in the shack, allow quicker rotation with no extra load on your rotator system due to full PWM control.
Versions are available for Azimuth as well as Alt/Az Rotators.
SPID Rot1Prog Controller Only - USB or RS232
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- Rot1Prog controller for SPID rotators.
- RAU/RAK/RAEL/BigRAK compatible.
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Green Heron RT-21 Rotator Controller
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- Rotator controller with integral PSU
- PWM speed control effective for most rotator types
- Precision ramp control for smooth starts and stops
- Manual control using CCW and CW buttons
- Point and Shoot knob for set and forget operation to 1º precision
- The ability to correct for mast slippage using OFFSET
- Computer control via RS-232 or USB to 1/10º accuracy
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Navratri Festival
"Nava-ratri" literally means "nine nights." This festival is observed twice a year, once in the beginning of summer and again at the onset of winter.
During Navaratri, we invoke the energy aspect of God in the form of the universal mother, commonly referred to as "Durga," which literally means the remover of miseries of life. She is also referred to as "Devi" (goddess) or "Shakti" (energy or power). It is this energy, which helps God to proceed with the work of creation, preservation and destruction. In other words, you can say that God is motionless, absolutely changeless, and the Divine Mother Durga, does everything. Truly speaking, our worship of Shakti re-confirms the scientific theory that energy is imperishable. It cannot be created or destroyed. It is always there.
Our Gujarati Culture
Gujarati culture is derived from Gujjar Rashtra. Gujarat with the least number of urban populace, the rural areas of Gujarat and its culture exuberance are beautiful manifested in its plethora of element. The nature with the unique aura, casts a spell in the lives of inhabitants, who thereby nicely incorporated with the conventional religious practices of Guajarati community. All these factors are nicely being highlighted in the musical rhythm, dance styles, gaiety festivals, lifestyle and Guajarati cuisine. Gujarati culture is very popular for its celebration of festival. The most popular festival of Gujarat is Navaratri, which is an ancient and colourful festival.
Apart from this, Guajarati are also well known for the celebration of Makar Shankranti, holi and Diwali. Gujarati culture is a fountain of music and dancing style. The most popular gujarati music is Garba and dayro. The most popular gujarati dance is Garba, Rasaka and tippani.
Gujarati people are fond of food. Gujarati cuisine is well known for its very unique and distinct flavour. Gujarati food is mostly vegetarian as most of gujarati are vegetarian. The most popular gujarati dishes are Dhokala, Kachori, Bhajiya, chaat, Chakri, Malpua, Barfi and Doodhpak.


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No, it's not your imagination. Current A-list model Bella Hadid and original '90s supermodel Carla Bruni bare a striking resemblance to one another, and even they agree. Indeed, he two models were finally spotted together and posed for an illustrative side-by-side snapshot. The fateful meeting took place at the Cannes Film Festival. So any conspiracy theories that the two are the same person or there's some sort of time travel involved can end, but where conspiracy theory ends, another begins. Uploading the photo to Instagram on Monday, Bruni decided to start a rumor of her own. "Do I have a hidden daughter? @bellahadid," the former first lady of France wrote in the caption.
The whole thing was orchestrated by none other than Naomi Campbell, who invited the two to her charity gala dinner on Sunday night. The dinner was preceded by her annual Fashion for Relief fashion show, which Campbell threw in order to raise funds for Save the Children and Time's Up, Vanity Fair reported. This year's Fashion for Relief theme was "Race to Equality." "I feel like we are taking two steps forward and one step back," Campbell said at the event, according to Vanity Fair. "We look up to our world leaders—we are supposed to look up to our world leaders…I have seen things. I just got back from Africa two days ago, and we are not where we should be."
"It's what's happening right now. It's in our faces. Why shouldn't it?" Campbell told Vanity Fair about her decision to raise money for Time's Up. "And I think for every successful man there is a very strong and powerful woman."
The fashion show, which has been raising money for different causes since 2005, featured Hadid, Winnie Harlow, and Campbell herself, among other supermodels, The Sun reported. Kendall Jenner was also in attendance. Although she didn't walk the runway, according to The Sun, she later joined Hadid, Campbell, Bruni, and others backstage before moving to the star-studded gala dinner.
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Did you know that different types of steel are produced in harmony to the properties needed for their application? Also, did you know that the grading systems are used to differentiate the types of steel according to the properties of steel? Here is useful information about steel in Tulsa.
The grades of steel include distinctive chemical, physical and environmental properties. Steel is made of carbon and iron. The carbon content ranges from 0.1- 1.5% or 0.1- 0.25%. The property of each steel grade is determined by the quantity of carbon, amount of impurities and other alloying elements.
Steel is the most preferred material for construction by engineers, architects, and designers in Tulsa. The reason behind it is, it provides technical and mechanical functionality. Structural steel has great advantages such as:
- Super-quick to be built on site
- Strong to resist natural forces, e.g., wind forces
- Infinite ready-made structural sections
- A wide range of joining methods, e.g., welding, bolting and riveting
- Can take any shape.
- Can be combined with other types of materials.
Take a look at some types of steel grades for use in fabrication and rebar.
Stainless Steel
Users pick stainless steel because of its high corrosion resistance. It is resistant to corrosion because of chromium availability. Stainless steel is made of 10- 20 % chromium content. Chromium combines with oxygen to make chromium-oxide.
The chromium oxide forms a film that restricts further oxidation and rusting. Stainless steel is further grouped into five categories according to their crystalline structure: Ferritic, Austenitic, duplex, martensitic and precipitation-hardened.
Carbon Steel
Carbon steel is classified based on the amount of carbon. It also contains amounts of alloy metals. It is grouped into three categories:
- Low carbon steels(0.1- 0.3% carbon)
- Medium carbon steels (0.3-0.6%)
- High carbon steels (0.6 plus %)
Alloy Steel
Alloy steel contains more than one element to manipulate the composition of the steel. The elements that make alloy steel vary in quantity making properties such as strength, weldability, hardenability, and formability and corrosion resistance to vary too. The elements that make alloy include aluminum, silicon, copper, nickel, titanium, manganese, and chromium.
Tool Steel
Tool steel is used to make cutting and drilling equipment due to their heat resistance and durability properties. This is possible due to their composition of cobalt, tungsten, molybdenum, and vanadium. The steel products are generally classified according to their use and shapes such as Long/Tubular products or flat products.
The Importance of Great Quality Steel Versus Cheap Quality Steel
One kind of steel metal is not necessarily superior to another kind. Each grade of steel has its advantages and disadvantages. What users do, they match the type of steel to its properties. For example, some grade of steel can be vulnerable to rust but wear resistant while another can be less wear-resistant but resistant to rust.
However, high-quality steel is demanded more than low quality steel in all sectors of the economy. Although low quality steel is cheap and was used in the past to make machinery, computers, motor vehicles, kitchen appliances and aircrafts, it is not considered in the market today. Cheap steel nowadays does have a place in the market because users are demanding for specific requirements.
High-quality steel is more reliable in the market than other qualities. It performs accurately with precision, has safety measures and agrees with engineering requirement. When comparing high-quality steel and low quality steel to perform the same function, the two will give a different result.
For instance, imagine cutting a low quality steel material, first with a high-quality steel blade and then followed by a low-quality blade. The high-quality steel blade will cut the low quality steel material, but the low quality steel blade will be shattered into pieces. Therefore, high-quality steel is used for commercial purposes than cheap steel.
A local building material supply company in Tulsa offers the best fabrication services to their customers. Any grade of steel you need or information regarding steel and its application you can always contact them.
When you buy quality steel for construction, you should check it for spot defects and its coloration. This way, you will have a plan on what will be placed next to it.
Fore more information on construction materials and supply, please follow the Security Building Services and Supply blog. You can also find Security Building Services and Supply on Facebook.


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Sector Expert: Rob McEwen
Rob McEwen is the chairman and chief owner of McEwen Mining Inc. He is the founder and former chairman and CEO of Goldcorp Inc., which is one of the largest gold producers in the world. In 1990, McEwen jumped from the investment industry into the mining industry. By 1993, he had begun a consolidation of five companies that would take eight years to complete. The resultant company was Goldcorp Inc., which has become a gold mining powerhouse. During the last thirteen years of Rob being Goldcorp's CEO, the company's market capitalization grew from $50 million to over $8 billion and its share price grew at a compound annual rate of 31%. McEwen was awarded the Order of Canada in 2007 and the Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee Award in 2013. He holds an Honorary Doctor of Laws and an MBA from York University and a BA from the University of Western Ontario. Also, he received the 2001 PDAC Developer of the Year Award and was inducted into The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame in 2017.
Recent Interviews
Rob McEwen: Trade Wars, the Dollar and Precious Metals (8/23/18)
Rob McEwen, chairman and chief owner of McEwen Mining and former CEO of Goldcorp, speaks to Streetwise Reports about the impact of trade wars on the dollar and precious metals, where he sees the growth in precious metals equities, and how he plans to qualify McEwen Mining for the S&P 500.
Gold Rises on Fed Interest Rate Hike, as Contrarians Predicted (12/16/15)
Predicting is a risky sport and predicting markets an extreme one. But understanding can be much more lucrative. After years of speculation about the negative impact a Federal Reserve rate increase could have on gold, a number of our experts took a contrarian view and based on an understanding that the hike was already priced into the gold price, they explained that it would actually benefit the gold price because it would remove the overhanging doubt. And that is exactly what happened. Within hours of the unanimous announcement on Wednesday that the Fed's benchmark short-term borrowing rate would go up a quarter point, gold was up $14/oz.
Rob McEwen, the Investor, Has Some Advice for Mining Executives Everywhere (12/10/15)
What does a veteran mining executive look for when investing his money in junior equities? In this interview with The Gold Report, Rob McEwen, who has been predicting $5,000/oz gold prices since 2011, explains why he still thinks that this is a possibility in the next four years and how companies can take advantage of technology to ensure that a price rise goes to the bottom lineand ultimately shareholders. And he shares the names of the three companies that meet his litmus test, one of which bears his name.
Recent Quotes
"RBY's development with AEM is positive."
The Gold Report Interview with Rob McEwen
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So you're after some top end cymbals. You have taste and you have a certain sound in your head. You've always gravitated towards the typical choices for brands but haven't quite found what you're looking for. Murat Diril is one of those boutique choices of cymbal maker that may just have the answer for your discerning ears.
The new Superior Velvet cymbals are stunning looking instruments. You instantly start looking for a stick to try them because they're inviting in a rustic and interesting way. The bottoms of the cymbals are a fairly standard matte lathed affair – clean and clear. The tops of the cymbals however, are a different story. Each feature a traditional lathed finish but also feature some unique and dramatic hammerings and scorings. It's almost as if the cymbals have been worked on in a raw state before lathing so that all markings look burnt and raw. They have an incredible amount of presence and look fantastic – let's face it, we drummers all hear things with our eyes at first right? Otherwise the cymbals are fairly standard in shape and profile but have pronounced bells, more so on the ride, which is always nice when you're looking for an all-rounder cymbal that can cut a few different roles as I do.
What a wonderful instrument. The Ride features a moderate sustain with a little vintage dryness – not too much to be singled out as a dry ride but there's an element of control that comes with a dry cymbal and this ride has a great blend of control and spread. It's light enough to crash beautifully but heavy enough to be loud enough in the mix. The lower pitch just blended fantastically with the rest of the drums and instantly worked. There's also a really nice bell that cuts when you get into it, which is rarer to see on a lighter cymbal these days. It felt nice to play and is a truly awesome cymbal that's very musical with a great deal of character.
Perhaps the driest of all the cymbals I tried, the crash speaks quickly and has a reasonably fast decay. The bell is smaller which contributed to the way it responds. This particular crash was a little heavier than I expected too, which meant that it didn't respond quite as quickly to lower volumes but had a loud enough crash when you got into it. It was a good match for the ride but didn't have quite the same light qualities that the ride manages to possess. However, it is a good crash with a heap of character and presence. Bigger is definitely better for this type of crash though and you wouldn't want to be too tentative with it.
Controlled with a good blend, the hi-hats are somehow pronounced and crisp but light at the same time, particularly when opened slightly. With either foot or hand, there's a good 'chick' but the slushy sound when opened sits well in the mix. There's also that element of dryness that the other cymbals have too that adds to the control. They're not overly loud and have a wonderful 'shurp' sound when doing quick open/close accents.
I'm not going to lie; I desperately wanted to take home these cymbals, in particular the ride, which had the perfect blend of everything for me. I could just hear fitting into my set up. Besides the incredible tone and breadth of ability, they just felt nice to hit. Boutique cymbals that are awesome tend come with a price though, and these cymbals can tend to make your eyes water a little when you go to pay for them, but it's hard to go wrong with cymbal choices this right. Murat Diril are right up there with the best at the moment.
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After an exciting 2018 which saw the band release their heavily-praised EP 'Creature', Brighton-based rockers YONAKA have now returned to announce the details behind their eagerly-awaited debut album.
The new full-length 'Don't Wait 'Til Tomorrow' will include the previously shared singles 'Awake', 'Creature' and 'Fired Up', is being previewed by the new track 'Bad Company', and is expected to arrive on the 31st May via Asylum Records.
Speaking about their upcoming release, frontwoman Theresa Jarvis says, "The writing process for the DWTT has been a cathartic one. We self-produced the entire LP, which features nine news songs and 3 already released, including the second track we ever wrote – "Awake". The album's title 'Don't Wait 'Til Tomorrow' is a message about reaching out to someone, picking up the phone and making a call; it's about knowing it's ok to not be ok. The title track is a personal favourite of mine. We can't wait to release the album and we hope it resonates with our fans as much as it does with us."
Have a listen to the new single 'Bad Company' in the player and see the album's full tracklisting below.
'Don't Wait 'Til Tomorrow' Tracklist:
1. Bad Company
2. Lose Our Heads
3. Awake
4. Guilty (For Your Love)
5. Rockstar
6. Creature
7. Don't Wait 'Til Tomorrow
8. Punch Bag
9. Fired Up
10. Wake Up
11. The Cure


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LG has taken up an important position in the smartphone market with its line of G phones. The Korean company is now jump in to the tablet market as well. LG just sent out a press release teasing the announcements of its 3 tablets Tomorrow
LG will have 3 new tablets to show at the MedPI 2014 expo starting in Monaco tomorrow.
Nothing more was mentioned about the tablets except their sizes. LG is set to release tablets in sizes of 7, 8 and 10.1 inches. This is a move to enter tablet market of every size. With Apple, Samsung and Nexus already dominating this market, it wont be easy for the asian manufacturer unless it unveils extraordinary products.
Here is the Complete Press release
Three New Tablets Satisfy Consumer Demand for More Choices to Fit Their Lifestyles
SEOUL, May 12, 2014 ― LG Electronics (LG) is adding three new tablets to its G Pad series to offer more options for tablet users. The new G Pad devices ― G Pad 7.0, G Pad 8.0 and G Pad 10.1 ― will be unveiled at the MedPI 2014, one of the biggest IT/Tech trade show in Europe, taking place in Monaco from May 13-16. LG's extended tablet portfolio, which also includes the well-received G Pad 8.3, will significantly expand LG's footprint in the tablet market.
"Customers tell us that they want a wider range of devices that offer sizable screens without compromising portability," said Dr. Jong-seok Park, president and CEO of the LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. "Unlike smartphones, tablets are not one size fits all. So we designed the G Pad Series for a diverse target audience, some who prioritize portability while others want the best multimedia experience possible. G Pad delivers on all counts."
Highlights of LG's new G Pad Series tablets are:
● G Pad 7.0: Designed to be held in one hand, LG's smallest tablet is an on-the-go entertainment hub that delivers both portability and power.
● G Pad 8.0: With its 8-inch display, LG's mid-sized tablet offers an immersive multimedia experience and smooth multitasking.
● G Pad 10.1: With the largest display and battery, LG's 10.1-inch tablet provides endless hours of entertainment and fun.
The latest G Pad tablets will also include LG's proprietary UX features such as QPair 2.0 and Knock CodeTM. With an updated version of QPair, which was first introduced on G Pad 8.3, users can effortlessly connect to their Android-powered smartphones via Bluetooth to receive notifications of calls and messages and now be able to respond directly from the G Pad. What's more, Knock Code™ enables users to power on and unlock their LG smartphones in one easy step by entering a personalized "knock" pattern on the smartphone's display. Knock Code™ offers convenience and greater security as the knock pattern can be entered anywhere on the screen in any size ― with the display on or off ― using a personalized sequence of two to eight taps for more than 80,000 possible combinations.
Additional details of LG's new G Pad tablets including specifications and availability will be announced locally in the weeks ahead.


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London Road Film
Script by Alecky Blythe and music by Adam Cork, directed by Rufus NorrisRead full synopsis
Script by Alecky Blythe and music by Adam Cork, directed by Rufus NorrisRead full synopsis
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Hailed as a remarkable, groundbreaking work during two sell-out runs at the National Theatre, the feature film adaptation of London Road reunites the award-winning team, with a script by Alecky Blythe and music by Adam Cork, and directed by Rufus Norris (Broken).
With an ensemble cast that includes Olivia Colman, Kate Fleetwood, Anita Dobson and Tom Hardy, London Road documents the events that shook Suffolk in 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street.
The film follows the community who found themselves at the epicentre of the tragic events, and is based on interviews conducted with the road's real residents. Using their own words set to an innovative musical score, London Road tells a moving story of ordinary people coming together during the darkest of experiences.
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