 made of the same material, which makes replacing bathroom parts very easy. This can also make your installation and maintenance cost a little more cost-effective because the material is so easy to work with. Aside from being easier to find, brass fixtures are more malleable than steel or iron. This means it's easier to bend, shape or mold fittings to suit your needs than most other metals.
Stainless steel, on the other hand, is considered a step above brass. Its physical durability exhibits longevity that other materials cannot muster. It has natural heat-resistant properties that are considered corrosion-resistant, tarnish-resistant, and will not rust. This means it requires less maintenance since it's scratch-resistant and will disguise spots and smudges.
Stainless steel is extremely hygienic. It's a common material used in the food processing, hospital, and pharmaceutical industries due to its corrosion and rust-resistant traits. The stainless steel material used in faucets provides a smooth, easy-to-clean surface that will not produce small pores or crevices where bacteria may otherwise harbor. Its naturally occurring properties can be very attractive features to a plethora of industries.
One of the most major differences between brass and stainless steel material is that stainless steel is 100% lead-free. All plumbing fixtures in the US should be safe, but as we mentioned earlier, some materials contain a minute amount of lead. Stainless steel doesn't, so you can rest assured it won't release lead into the water that comes out of the faucet.
You can coat most metal and plastic faucets and fixtures with almost any finish, which means when shopping for a new faucet, make sure to ask about what material is inside the faucet's body. Another trick is to feel how heavy the faucet is. Since a good quality faucet will have some heft, you'll want to feel out how heavy various faucets are.
Solid brass constructions are much higher quality than faucets that have brass plating or a brass-like finish. You can usually distinguish between the two because solid brass is a lot heavier. The same goes for stainless steel fixtures. There are a lot of cheaper steel options on the market, but their lower price point often correlates with their lower quality. True stainless steel faucets are made of either 304 or 316 stainless, so be wary of anything listed differently.William Saliba and Matteo Guendouzi saw their second match abandonment of the season on Sunday, as their trip to Lyon ended early.
In a big game for Marseille against Lyon, with the opportunity to push up into the Champions League places, we only saw five minutes of action.
Arsenal loanees William Saliba and Matteo Guendouzi both started the match, and after just four minutes, Dimitri Payet was hit by a water bottle thrown from the stands whilst preparing to take a corner.
Both teams were initially sent to the dressing room, and the Marseille players never came back out.
After a couple of hours, the match was officially called off.
There was a similar incident in August, when Payet was again hit by a bottle.
That time, the former West Ham man threw it back into the crowd, and the fans responded by rushing onto the pitch to confront him.
On that occasion, Ligue 1 officials made the surprising decision to continue the game.
Nice (who were winning and at little risk from their own supporters) were happy to continue, Marseille (who were losing and being physically assaulted) were not. The game was eventually abandoned.
Perhaps that helps to explain why Payet just stayed on the ground this time, and why Marseille weren’t keen to come back out. They’ll likely be hoping for further points deductions for their opponents.
You can’t blame them for that. If they’re at risk of missiles from fans, those fans should know they’re risking their team being punished for it.
The Sonic Smith Squaver P1 is a semi-modular, audio controlled analogue synthesizer. It uses a proprietary chip designed (patent pending) by Sonic Smith to give you super fast audio control of the analogue oscillator. It also adds PWM, sub oscillators, harmmonics, VCF, expression pedal input and foot-switches to make this a really unique product.
The demo used a microphone to control the synth, but you could just has easily use a guitar or something else entirely.If you’ve driven through any major intersection in Las Vegas (or even along roads around the country) you’ve likely encountered one of them. They’re pumped up, rhythmic, sweating and holding (or spinning, or jumping over) some kind of sign while trying to make eye contact. In the industry they’re known as “human directionals,” and they take many forms—ranging from a man in an Astro Boy costume with a “COLONICS!” sign at Green Valley Parkway and Interstate 215 to Pelvis Cleansly, the colonics-crooner dressed like Elvis who works for A Gentle Cleanse on Wigwam Parkway and Pecos Road.
While we’re a bit, uh, murky on why human directionals point toward colonics so frequently, we do know this: Sign spinners are about more than clean colons. They’re used by all kinds of businesses. And in Las Vegas, they’re perennial.
A variety of companies offer the services of human directionals, a.k.a. sign twirlers or sign wavers. EyeShot, for example, lays claim to being the “original human directional company,” having been in the directional business for more than 26 years. EyeShot works with local businesses to pair them with its attentiongetting sign spinners.
The four or five times a year Cricket Communications uses human directionals from EyeShot, the business has a noticeable increase in traffic, says Traci Holman, office manager for Cricket in Las Vegas. “It drives business,” she says.
Sign spinners who work for Aarrow Advertising, which is based in San Diego but operates in Las Vegas and 26 other cities, puts its spinners through a boot camp. By the time they’ve hit the street corners they’ve learned up to 500 tricks out of Aarrow’s “tricktionary,” with names such as the Bruce Lee, the Helicopter and Jump Rope.
But it’s not just about the tricks, according to Joe Ambert, director of business operations for Aarrow. A large amount of training is devoted to the presentation of the sign—how to freeze it and give each of the thousands of passing cars time to read it. That personal touch, he says, is key.
“Traditional forms of advertising are becoming obsolete almost—radio, TV, print,” Ambert says. “Nowadays you have to have something new, you have to stay on top of it. Having street-level advertising that’s targeting the people one by one, or hitting each single target it really causes them to remember the message.” For five years, sign spinner and Aarrow director of training Johnny Aarrow (who legally had his name changed because, he says, he loves being a sign spinner) has worked to share many messages.
But to hear him talk, he’s received at least as much as he’s given.
In California, pumpkin is famous this time of year. Do Koreans use a lot of pumpkin in their food/desserts as well?
Ooo wow need to try!
We eat zucchinis more.
Yessss We make pumpkin cake!
Is that same pumpkin? It looks little bit differnt.
Starting at Shelburne Bay we saw 2 Greater yellowlegs and 4 or 5 peeps feeding across from the boat ramp at the North end of the parking lot.
On the Panton Road where it crosses Dead Creek we saw 4 Red-necked grebes on the North side of the bridge.
On the South side were 2 Greater yellowlegs, a Great blue heron and a bunch of Common mergansers which quickly flew off as soon as the car door opened.
Saw a single Harrier coursing over the field along Slang Road.
2 Great blue herons at Stone bridge access plus a mature Bald eagle perched in a tree on the West shore across from the cul-de-sac.
At Farrell access we saw another Harrier along the road in and at the end of the road a single Common merganser, a Great blue heron to the South and to the North a solitary Sandhill crane.
At the next stop - Brilyea - we saw another Harrier coursing over the fields to the west of the access Road, a single Great blue heron (and5  Painted turtles in the pond next to the West Road).
We didn’t have high numbers and saw no Brant or Geese but had an enjoyable outing.
Six Rockland County municipalities announced that they are launching a cost-cutting energy program to provide their residents and small businesses with more affordable, locally-sourced renewable energy. The initiative will be offered through Rockland Community Power (RCP), a collaborative program that enables residents and small businesses to purchase renewable energy at a fixed cost that is lower than they have paid historically for standard (non-renewable) electricity supply. The six participating communities—the Town of Clarkstown, Village of Haverstraw, Village of Nyack, Town of Orangetown, Village of South Nyack, and Village of Upper Nyack—are working in partnership with Joule Community Power (Joule) to offer