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Security requirements for staircase railings

Regardless of their use, private buildings and public buildings must meet certain security requirements, which ensure the safe use of the facilities by all occupants and visitors. Among the most important are flights of stairs, and in particular staircase railings that accompany them, and that must ensure the stability, safety and comfort to the users of the staircases. Often these items are culpably neglected during the design and in its implementation.

The iron staircase railings and parapets must – above all – be resistant to various stresses to which they may be subjected. For this type of elements, situations are considered ‘at risk’ when the height of fall is greater than 1 meter. These potentially hazardous situations occur mainly in the presence of children or young people, who tend to climb over the railings and iron staircase railings.

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Trip to Disney’s Africa

lionWho has ever had  the dream to go on an african safari? On a safari it’s possible to see giraffes roaming the savannah, elephants, lioness basking in the sun or hippos floating in a lake. Safari is a dream in a wild nature.

Located at Disney’s Animal Kingdom (you can arrive also from London Stansted) the Wild Africa Trek is a great way to visit “Africa” without having to leave Usa.  During this trip the visitors need only a camera and water and before leaving there will be a little intro activity; then the tourits will be off on a 3 hour safari trek through the Safi River Valley.

The Wild Africa Trek makes the visitors feel like they are on a vacation in Africa. As you listen to your guide call to hippos, cross suspension bridges over crocodiles, and watch giraffes nuzzling under an acacia tree, you’ll feel like you’ve traveled to another part of the world.

We’ve to say that the tour includes a gourmet African inspired meal while the visitors are seated under a covered patio on the savannah and gaze at rhinos, giraffes, and other animals. There is also the opportunity to use a cute park restrooms.

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Nutella day: an important event

On the next May 25 will start officially the World Nutella Day site, nutelladay.com. Seven years after the first World Nutella Day in 2007, here we’re again with another incredible event where it’s possible to meet many people.

This event grow grow up during the years and  from a few hundred food bloggers posting recipes to thousands of people Tweeting about it, pinning recipes on Pinterest, and posting their own contributions on Facebook. We can say that this event has a great success!

So, we can say that this is a great way of organizing comunication for a brand that is so cool and so famous all over the world. The comunication strategy seem to be on the right direction!

But what is Nutella? It is a form of a chocolate spread, made from sugar, modified palm oil, hazelnuts, cocoa, skim milk powder, whey powder, lecithin, and vanillin. Initially the process of making chocolate spread begins with the abstraction of cocoa powder from the cocoa bean. These cocoa beans are harvested from cocoa trees and are left to dry for about ten days. Go from London.

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The advantages of prefabricated staircases

Prefabricated houses have some clear advantages compared to traditional homes: they have a much lower price, delivery time is very limited and can be modified by the future owner with a very high level of customization, which includes all the facilities, from the roof to prefabricated staircases.

Compared to the past, prefabricated houses have almost completely lost the negative connotations of insecurity and instability they had in terms of technical, structural and materials. All structures, walls, integument, prefabricated staircases, windows and doors, at present can be compared in all respects, with regard to the quality and duration, with the corresponding elements in the context of traditional building.

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UFC 140: Jones v Machida

John Cholish in Brazil for a match


John Cholish
(an American  mixed martial artist  who competes in the  lightweight  division of the  Ultimate Fighting Championship.) took a vacation from his job in finance to travel.

Colish said to newsday.com: “I’m going to be cutting weight,then I have to step into the cage with a human being who roughly walks around at 195 pounds and wants to knock my head off. Then I fly back on a red-eye and go straight to work. Not a normal vacation, but it’s fun to me.”

It’s incredible to think that Cholish is a commodities broker for Beacon and in the meantime is a mixed martial artist for the UFC. This man is now in Brazil to fight Gleison Tibau at UFC on FX 8 Saturday in Jaraguá do Sul, Brazil. It is his first fight in more than a year. A groin injury last November forced Cholish to pull out of a December bout against Yves Edwards.

But how Colish organizes his training? Normally, Cholish wakes up in his  Long Island City  condo at 6 a.m. By 7:30 a.m., he’s at his desk at work — in Stamford, Conn. By 8 a.m., and for the next eight hours, he’s following the natural gas markets. Commodities and options, futures and hedge funds, banks and energy companies. Only after this work he can dedicate himself to the sport. Take a plane from London.

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Visiting Manchester to see a “United” match


Manchester
is not the typical touristic city, but tourists have at least one reason to visit it: the Manchester United Football Club.

Manchester Utd is a famous English professional football club, based in Old Trafford,  Greater Manchester, that plays in the  Premier League. The club was founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878.  This is a great winning club and have won many trophies in the history: 20  league titles 11 FA Cups, 4 League Cups  and a record 19  FA Community Shields. The club has also won three  European Cups, one UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, one Intercontinental Cup  and one  FIFA Club World Cup. In 1998–99, the club won a  Treble  of the Premier League, the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League, an unprecedented feat for an English club.

To remember that in 1968, under the management of Matt Busby, Manchester United was the first English football club to win the European Cup. Then begun the Sir Alex Ferguson ”era”: he  has won 25  major honours, and 38 in total, since he took over in November 1986. During this month of May 2013 Sir Alex announced his retirement after a successful 26-year spell at Manchester United.  Take a bus to London Stansted.

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Last minute vacation, what’s new?

The time of summer holiday is coming. Have you booked an hotel or something else? If not, you are one of a rapidly growing number of people who are shunning the traditional booking rush in January and February and waiting until the last minute.

Booking the holiday at the last minute it’s possible to save money, but is this real?Are you doing the right thing? Maybe not. Let’s have a look on this situation. Travel companies have been reporting the growing trend of later and later booking for several years now. But because so many people now research and/or book their holidays online (80 per cent of Britons use the internet to research their travel, according to Google), it is possible for all of us to see exactly when the late booking surges are happening (see google.com/trends).

What is really surprising is just how late many people are leaving it. Searches for holidays peak about two to three weeks before the main school holidays – especially in early July, but also just before Easter and around now, a couple of weeks before the Whitsun half-term break. Take a plane from London Stansted.

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Iron and steel staircase railings over the centuries

Over the centuries the shape and composition of external iron and steel staircase railings have undergone many changes, often parallel and similar to those relating to the iron railings of the balconies and the gates. Mostly performed as a defense and beautification of the house, these works have seen a succession of styles, ranging from the one eyelet, with the drilling at the meeting of the rods, embellishment to light steel beams bent into various shapes.

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