Would you like positive energy to reach your home? You can favor it with decoration. Today I tell you 10 ideas to attract good luck through the distribution and choice of furniture and decorative accessories. They are very easy ideas and it will not cost hardly anything to introduce in any room.
Stones are objects from nature that bring good luck. They say they provide balance in the home. You can put them in a transparent jar, for example, inside a wooden container or inside any pot to drain the water from the plants.
There are plants that also manage to bring fortune to our house. One of them is bamboo. Also, depending on the amount of stems you place you will get certain things, according to Feng Shui. For example, a stem will make you have a simple life, two stems for love, three for happiness and longevity, four to avoid death, five for wealth and health, etc.
We continue talking about plants. There are some that are directly related to this good luck we are looking for at home. For example, it is said that chamomile, basil or fern attract prosperity and money.
It is not that it is a decorative object in itself but it is very necessary to prevent the energy from getting stuck at home and renewing it every day. In addition to health, ventilate the house is great to let good luck come and make the negative inside may flow outward.
In addition to helping you create a very cozy and special decoration, candles are also related to good luck. They are associated with cleanliness and purity and will make it possible for positive energy to stay by your side. You can put them where you want and turn them on without really having a special reason. Directly the environment will become warmer and more serene.
Feng Shui points out that the entrance of the house is the place that establishes the flow of positive energy inside. Therefore, the more orderly, clean, illuminated and clear you have this area, much better.
Feng Shui has several "rules" when placing mirrors inside the house. These should reflect a wall or an interior area of the house, should not be placed in front of a door or in front of a window. If a mirror reflects the entrance of light, the energy that enters your house comes back as soon as it is reflected in it. Neither should they reflect the bed.
If you want to attract good luck to your house, the use of colors can influence. Avoid a decoration in dark tones. Curtains, for example, are better if they are white or in brighter shades such as yellows or oranges. If you do not have the desire or the budget to change them, try to make these tones appear in the decoration through ornaments, paintings or other textiles such as cushions, for example.
Feng Shui recommends having the tops of the toilets lowered and the bathroom doors closed. So positive energy will not go through the pipes.


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The heroical lover, or, Antheon and Fidelta a poem / written by Thomas Bancroft.
Title: The heroical lover, or, Antheon and Fidelta a poem / written by Thomas Bancroft.
Print source: The heroical lover, or, Antheon and Fidelta a poem / written by Thomas Bancroft.
London: Printed by William Godbid, 1658.
TO The Right HONOURABLE The Lord ROSSE.
To his learned Friend Mr. THOMAS BANCROFT, ON HIS POEM Entituled THE Heroicall Lover.
Upon Mr. Bancrofts POEM, THE HEROICAL LOVER.


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Q: Have trouble creating ElasticSearch Domain through AWS CLI due to InvalidTypeException I am following tutorial for using Kibana with AWS elastic Search as per:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/latest/developerguide/es-walkthrough.html
Specifically, tutorial ask me to execute this line (after repacing user info) in order to create a new ElasticSearch Domain:

aws es create-elasticsearch-domain --domain-name my-transcribe-test --elasticsearch-version 6.2 --elasticsearch-cluster-config  InstanceType=t2.medium.elasticsearch,InstanceCount=1 --ebs-options EBSEnabled=true,VolumeType=standard,VolumeSize=10 --access-policies '{"Version":"2012-10-17","Statement":[{"Effect":"Allow","Principal":{"AWS":"arn:aws:iam::123456789012:root"},"Action":"es:","Resource":"arn:aws:es:us-west-2:123456789012:domain/my-transcribe-test/"}]}' --region us-west-2

I replaced it with my own info:

aws es create-elasticsearch-domain --domain-name my-transcribe-test2 --elasticsearch-version 6.2 --elasticsearch-cluster-config  InstanceType=t2.medium.elasticsearch,InstanceCount=1 --ebs-options EBSEnabled=true,VolumeType=standard,VolumeSize=10 --access-policies '{"Version":"2012-10-17","Statement":[{"Effect":"Allow","Principal":{"AWS":"arn:aws:iam::31865135xxxx:user:xxxx"},"Action":"es:*","Resource":"arn:aws:es:us-east-1:31865135xxxx:domain/my-transcribe-test2"}]}' --region us-east-1

However, I get error:

An error occurred (InvalidTypeException) when calling the CreateElasticsearchDomain operation: Error setting policy: [{Version:2012-10-17,Statement:[{Effect:Allow,Principal:{AWS:arn:aws:iam::318651355992:user/xxxx},Action:es:*,Resource:arn:aws:es:us-east-1:31865135xxxx:domain/my-transcribe-test2}]}]

At first I thought it was because I made an error in access policy, however, I created the exact same domain/policy using AWS console without error:

{
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Principal": {
            "AWS": "arn:aws:iam::31865135xxxx:user/xxxx"
          },
          "Action": "es:*",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:es:us-east-1:318651355992:domain/my-transcribe-test2"
        }
      ]
    }

So it can't be that the policy I created is structured wrong.  I have to be doing something wrong in the CLI when creating this domain/policy. Is anyone able to help me to identify the mistake? Thank you.

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Thank you for the inquiry. You will find a slot for the 2016 W Limited Edition Proof Set here: Silver Eagles, 1986-Date, Proofs (Incl. Varieties) and Silver Eagles, 1986-Date, Mint State and Proof (Incl. Varieties). You may also enter your certificate number in the 2016 W slot in Silver Eagles, 1986-Date, Proofs.
OK I see that one, but are they going to create a category for the rest of the set, it includes (1) American Eagle One Ounce Silver Proof Coin – This year is the 30th anniversary of this coin's introduction.
•(5) Quarters from the America the Beautiful Quarters® Program honoring Shawnee National Forest in Illinois, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park in Kentucky, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in West Virginia, Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota, and Fort Moultrie (Fort Sumter National Monument) in South Carolina.
Edited January 16, 2017 by Ali E.
It's been awhile. I hope all is well.
Would you please add the "2016 Last Round Pound"
to the "Pound (Elizabeth II) Circulation Issue"?
I hope you are doing well. We have added the slot. Thanks for the request, and have a good day.
Hi. I am relatively new to the whole Registry thing. Can you add a lot to the set "Real, Isabel II (1852-1864), Circulation Issue" for the 1860/57 overdate. It is not in the catalogs but it exists and you have certified it (4224683-003). Thanks for whatever you can do.
Could you please add the "2016 Two Pound Mint State Year of the Monkey" to the "Great Britain - Two Pound Elizabeth II Mint State" set?
There is already a header in the slot for the coin but there are no points logged for it and it isn't allowing me to add mine.
If you need further assistance, you may reach us at registry@ngccoin.com. We are happy to assist.
There is no score. Coin is "NOT VALID FOR SLOT." What do I do?
I did what it told me and it looks like it sent a note to you. So it's looking good so far.
Why are there no slots for the Eisenhower coins in the Coins and Chronicles set?
Thank you for the slot request. The Eisenhower slots have been added to the Coin and Chronicles set.
Can you add a 5 Drachmai slot to the Type Set, King George l, 1863-1913, Circulation Issue. He also issues Gold 10 and 20 Drachmai coins if it makes sense to add those too.
** "DPL" (deep proof like) scoring to the "Silver Twenty Pounds, (Elizabeth II), 2013-Date, Mint State" set. (I have 3 coins that I tried to add, but they won't add because there is only "PL" and no "DPL"). I tried to add my coins, so it probably already sent you a message about this.
Sorry, I totally forgot to add that this is for the Great Britain - Decimal sets.
For 1825 in the capped bust quarter sets, there are only slots for 1825/2, 1825/3, and 1825/4. I tried to add my 1825 quarter to my registry set, but since the coin's label says "1825" and not "1825/2", "1825/3", or "1825/4", the website won't take my coin. Is there a way to get a regular 1825 slot added? Thank you in advance regardless of whether or not this can be added.
Thanks for the requests, Terry.
We have made the necessary updates. If you need further assistance, you may reach us at registry@ngccoin.com. Thank you.
We added the 1993 slot. Please follow the "Not Valid For Slot" directions when necessary. Thanks very much for the requests.
Thanks for the inquiry, NSP. We responded through the Collector Society program. If you still need assistance, we are happy to help. You may reach us at registry@ngccoin.com.
How do I get to the Collector Society program? I'm new here, so sorry for the (probably) silly question.
Could you please add a slot for the "2013 PRINCE GEORGE CHRISTENING" to the "Five Pounds (Elizabeth II) 1990-Date, Mint State" within the "Great Britain - Decimal" category?
I know this isn't the right place to ask this type of question, but I hope you still can help me.
I was wondering if you could tell me why the 2011 silver piedfort 5 pound Olympic - Countdown coin is only 789 points when the very same coin from 2009 is worth 1805 points and the 2010 is worth 1466 points. The reason I ask is because the 2011 is just as hard to find as the 2009 & 2010 counterparts. Maybe even a little harder.
If you could look into this, or maybe bring it to the right person I would greatly appreciate it.
Can I please get the MS 2014 Baseball Hall of Fame Commemorative dollar and the MS 2012 Sacagawea 17th century trade routes dollar added to the Basic US Type Set, with Gold (7070 + Page 5)?
Hello, Brett. We will get this slot added. Thank you for the request.
Hello, Brett. Our team will consider this score change request and get back to you via email. Thank you.
The 2014 Baseball coin is eligible in the NGC Registry under our Commemoratives category. The Sac dollar is eligible in the Type Set you mention here: $1 SACAGAWEA (2000-DATE). Thank you.
We have added the 1850 5/3 slot. We have not yet graded enough of the two 1887 varieties to include them and require them for set completion. Thanks very much.
Thanks for doing that Ali. No problem for the others. Hopefully we can get them in due course.


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At a time when employers paid workers in cash, knowing the combination of bills and coins needed to meet a payroll was a challenge. The Denominator, a device for counting items in classes, eased that task and similar cash payments. It consists of a set of eleven counters, each with a separate operating key. Six keys are for values of cents, and five for dollar values. Behind each key are three wheels; the value shown by the wheels increases by one each time the key is pressed. The keys are marked: $20; $10; $5; $2; $1; 50¢; 25¢; 10¢; 5¢; 3¢; 1¢.
A steel wing nut on the left side zeros when rotated. On the right side is a space for a sheet of forms.
A mark on the top behind the wheels reads: DENOMINATOR (/) PATENTS PENDING. A mark in front of the keys reads: DENOMINATOR ADDING MACHINE CO. (/) 224-226 SHEPHERD AVE. BROOKLYN, N.Y. A mark on the wing nut reads: 2249.
The Denominator Adding Machine Company of Brooklyn, N.Y. is listed in Thomas's Register of American Manufacturers from 1916 through at least 1928. According to Martin, it originated in 1915. William A. Cook of Hollis, N.Y, and Joseph Levine of Brooklyn, N.Y., applied for a patent for a "denominating apparatus" March 9, 1921. Their invention closely resembles this product. When the patent was granted in 1923, they assigned it to the Denominator Adding Machine Company. The date of this patent application is taken as the approximate date of the object.
W. A. Cook and J. Levine, "Denominating Apparatus," U. S. Patent 1,444,586, February 6, 1923..
J. H. McCarthy, American Digest of Business Machines, Chicago: American Exchange Service, 1924, pp. 42-43.
E. Martin, The Calculating Machines (Die Rechenmaschinen), trans. P. A. Kidwell and M. R. Williams, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992, p. 290-291.


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using System.Messaging;
using AxMsmq.Interfaces;

namespace AxMsmq
{
    public class QueueReceiver<TContent, TTransportMessage> : IQueueReceiver<IQueueMessage<TContent>> where TContent : class where TTransportMessage : Message
    {
        private readonly MessageQueue _messageQueue;
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        public IQueuePath Path { get; }

        public event Action<object /*sender*/, IQueueMessage<TContent>> OnReceiveCompleted;
        public event Action<object /*sender*/, IQueueMessage<TContent>> OnPeekCompleted;

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        {
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            return _transformer.Transform(transportMessage);
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            return messageContent;
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            return _transformer.Transform(transportMessage);
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        {
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            return messageContent;
        }

        public void BeginReceive()
        {
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            _messageQueue.BeginReceive();
        }

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        {
            _messageQueue.PeekCompleted += PeekCompleted;
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        }

        private void PeekCompleted(object sender, PeekCompletedEventArgs e)
        {
            MessageQueue messageQueue = (MessageQueue) sender;
            TTransportMessage transportMessage = (TTransportMessage) messageQueue.EndPeek(e.AsyncResult);
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        {
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            TTransportMessage transportMessage = (TTransportMessage) messageQueue.EndReceive(e.AsyncResult);
            IQueueMessage<TContent> content = _transformer.Transform(transportMessage);
            try
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            finally
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                return _transformer.Transform(transportMessage);
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            catch (MessageQueueException e)
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                {
                    return default(IQueueMessage<TContent>);
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                throw;
            }
        }
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}

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The UN's human rights chief has attacked the "chilling indifference" to the deaths of thousands of refugees shown by European leaders as the crackdown continues across the continent.
Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that although "heroic efforts" are underway to save lives in the Mediterranean, governments are turning their backs on those who survive the treacherous journey.
"Many ordinary people in Europe have welcomed and supported migrants, but political leaders increasingly demonstrate a chilling indifference to their fate," he told a meeting of the UN human rights council in Geneva.
The issue became a topic of debate during the EU referendum, when Nigel Farage unveiled a poster depicting migrants being escorted through Slovenia by police with the caption "breaking point".
It followed criticism of David Cameron's description of a "swarm" and "bunch of migrants", while a Sun columnist compared refugees to "cockroaches".
More asylum seekers are dying attempting to reach the continent than ever before but those who survive the journey face border closures and tightening legal restrictions making it ever more difficult to gain asylum.
The British Government has scrapped a programme to resettle unaccompanied child refugees, while Hungary is building a new fence to keep out migrants and the EU is considering initiatives to keep refugees in war-torn Libya.
The vast majority of boats are launched by smugglers in the country, where a fragile government has been unable to regain control of territory controlled by rival armed groups including Isis.
Libya's agencies, including the coastguard, are themselves accused of torturing, abusing and killing migrants forcibly returned to land and imprisoned in squalid detention centres.
Despite a growing body of evidence raising concern from the UN and humanitarian groups, Britain is among the countries training the Libyan coastguard, while world leaders have agreed to help bolster its capability and Italy has pledged millions of euros in funding for anti-smuggling initiatives.
Mr al-Hussein said he was concerned at calls to establish processing centres for asylum seekers in North Africa and "engage external actors in migration issues, with little regard for human rights".
"Migrants apprehended at sea by the Libyan coastguard or similar agencies may be put at risk of further violence," he added.
Crossings over the Central Mediterranean have increased after the EU-Turkey deal was imposed to stop refugees taking boats over the Aegean, and countries along the Balkans route from Greece to western Europe closed their borders.
Hungary is building a new and reinforced fence to keep refugees out, while passing a new law allowing all asylum seekers on its territory to be detained and forcibly returned over the border to Serbia.
Mr al-Hussein hit out at the "toxic notions of so-called ethnic purity" put forward by anti-immigration leaders including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, warning that they "hark back to an era in which many people suffered atrociously, Hungarians included".
More than 40 countries were examined in a wide-ranging speech on Wednesday, where the UN was warned that 2017 could prove to be a "pivotal year" for human rights amid terror attacks, security crackdowns, populism and the rise of "authoritarian-minded leaders".
Mr al-Hussein launched a wide-ranging attack on Donald Trump, voicing his concern over the President's new immigration ban, attacks on the press and judiciary and the administration's handling of a series of human rights issues.
"Greater and more consistent leadership is needed to address the recent surge in discrimination, anti-Semitism, and violence against ethnic and religious minorities," he said.


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Teofilacte I de Túsculum, en italià Teofilatto di Tusculo, (a. 864 - v. 925) era un noble romà latifundista de la classe dels optimates romani, famílies que controlaven la vida política a Roma des del , que feien funcions de Senat romà i s'anomenaven senadors. S'intitulà Comte de Túsculum.

Apareix esmentat per primer cop el 901 quan era jutge palatí de l'Emperador d'Occident Lluís III el Cec i el 904 era Magister Militum de Roma i Sacri Palatii Vestararius (administrador dels béns del Papa). El 906 se li dona el títol de "Gloriosissimus Dux" i el 915 era considerat en qualitat de Senator Romanorum Primus inter pares com a superior a la resta dels Optimats. Els seus dominis comprenien: Monterotondo, Poli, Anticoli Corrado, Guadagnolo, Rocca di Nitro, Rocca dei Sorci, Saracinesco, Segni, Valmontone, Alatri, Guarcino, Colle Pardo, Soriano, Paliano, Sora i Celano. Alguns d'aquest dominis encara eren de la família al .

Es va casar amb Teodora, coneguda com a Senatrix, dona corrupta que es va convertir en amant del jove bisbe de Cere, cosí de Teofilacte, que fou després el Papa Sergi III. Teofilacte va deixar tres filles:
 Maròzia, comtessa de Túsculum
 Teodora (origen de la família dels Crescenzi)
 Sèrgia, probablement filla del Papa Sergi III però reconeguda per Teofilacte com a pròpia.

El Papa Joan X (fill del Papa Sergi III i la filla de Teofilacte, Maròzia) el va enviar a negociar l'aliança amb el príncep normand de la Campània i es va crear una lliga militar que va obtenir la coneguda victòria de Garigliano sobre els àrabs l'agost del 915, després de la qual els sarraïns van haver d'abandonar el Laci.

Fou destituït el 924 pel Papa Joan X, amb qui s'havia enemistat i va morir vers el 925, quan va cedir totes les seves possessions al seu net Alberic de Túsculum, tot i que per la minoria d'edat del jove va exercir la regència la seva mare Maròzia.

Senyors de Roma
Pornocràcia
Mestres dels soldats
Morts a Roma
Bisbes romans d'Orient
Religiosos de Roma
Militars de Roma

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A group of 12 Apple device users has brought a lawsuit against Google in the U.K., claiming that the search giant violated their privacy by tracking them and secretly logging their browsing habits.
The plaintiffs, according to The Telegraph, say that Google installed tracking cookies on Apple's Safari browser on their computers and mobile devices between summer 2011 and spring 2012. The search giant, they allege, did so after they had explicitly indicated that they did not wish to have their browsing habits tracked.
Google's Safari tracking, explained in this diagram from The Wall Street Journal has come under fire again.
Google, the complaint says, assured users that their habits would not be tracked. The users also state that Safari's default settings should have prevented the tracking.
Early in 2012, reports emerged that Google was circumventing the privacy settings in desktop and iOS Safari browsers to better track their web browsing history. Google "added coding to some of its ads that made Safari think that a person was submitting an invisible form to Google," according to a report at the time. Safari would then allow Google to install a cookie on the user's phone or computer.
Google, responding to the controversy, said it was only using the feature for "signed-in users on Safari who had opted to see personalized ads and other content."
The Federal Trade Commission in August hit Google with the largest fine it had assessed in its history, fining the company $22.5 million for ignoring Safari's security settings. Google agreed to the payment on the condition that it could deny "the substantive allegations in the Commission's civil penalty complaint."
Too bad this was already resolved with Google not admitting anything but paying it off anyway.
But hey, maybe if the EU takes hold of this they'll actually do something to prevent it permanently.
Too bad the FTC has no spine to deal with repeat offenders like Google with more than a slap on the wrist.
Google, the complaint says, assured users that their habits would not be tracked.
See, listening to Google was the first mistake.
Someone needs to whack them, good hard and fast.
I use DuckDuckGo.com as much as possible for searching.
Eh, they'd probably enjoy it. They need to have something primary about their business made illegal. That's better than any fine.
What this thread needs is a tag team of google defenders.
Tag-team for what? That it didn't happen? It did.
TS, Yea - you're right. They probably would.
That was what I so ineloquently meant. A legal authority needs to spell it out loud and clear to those cowboys - who really are running roughshod over people's privacy and making huge money from doing so.
In any other situation they'd have been hung out to dry a long time ago.
The thing that gets me about it is - that advertisers actually believe all the web stats, and keep on paying the big G. Unreal.
Of course it did, but it's not like you to shrink from the challenge. Better tag out.
That would be nice, but I doubt it will happen.
What challenge? I'd have to believe they weren't in the wrong.
Okay, I've been using it, but several times now I noticed the search bar said something like http://secure.google.com, war does that mean? Do they use google as their engine?
I just tried it again and I isn't doing that at all. ??
I use Startpage. It uses Google for the search engine but keeps the searcher anonymous.
So, at least GG admits that Google can't be trusted.
It sounds far more like you want to jerk them all off than you want to punish them.
Google are a bunch of poopy-heads lately.
They even started blocking News searches on my phone because I won't give them my location data. It's probably a bug due to their need/want to localise the results, but still. Maybe I want to search the news without localising the results. If Google still wants to be the defacto standard they shouldn't be blocking services simply because you don't want to give them the data they want.
The real problem is that there isn't an alternative. I have hopes Melissa Meyer can do something with "Yahoo!" (hate that name), but the odds are against her.
A tad off-topic but a report today pegged American Express as the most trusted company in America when it comes to privacy. Hewlett-Packard and Amazon came in at 2 and 3 respectively. Google's not on the list. Neither is Apple.


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Why Are Rolexes In Such Demand?
Rolex pretty much invented the modern wristwatch. That's a bold statement, but one easily proven by the historical record.
When we keep in mind all these advances were made with mechanical movements–no quartz or batteries, mind you–the technological advances made by Rolex are truly amazing. Thus, it is no boast but a simple historical fact that Rolex took the watch from pocket watch to modern wrist watch and from outer space to the depths of the ocean–all in less than forty years.
We have been in business long enough here at Swiss Wrist to know there is no "average" Rolex owner, but we have seen some trends. We know Rolex sport models are still the gold standard for adventurers who want and can afford the best, including members of elite military units. Rolex dress watches have been desired status symbols and symbols of achievement in the business world for ages. Some Rolex buyers are people who just like trying out new models, and therefore only keep a Rolex a relatively short period of time before "flipping it" for something new. We see nothing wrong with that at all. Life is short. Here at Swiss Wrist we like being the party who connects watches with new, happy owners!
All Rolex owners tend to appreciate quality and don't mind paying for it. They also tend to be highly motivated, highly successful people, and as such their time is valuable and we know this and respect it.
That's why we make the selling process as hassle-free and painless for the seller as possible. Your time is precious and we won't waste it.
What about Ebay or Craigslist? My Local Jeweler?
The internet has certainly changed our lives and made buying and selling easier than ever before. However, that doesn't mean you can just throw caution to the wind and buy indiscriminately from strangers and simply "hope for the best." Ebay can be a great way to buy and sell but it is fraught with risk for "newbies" to the Rolex market. There are "shark" types who prey on both buyers and sellers. You might sell your Rolex to a buyer on Ebay only to have them dispute they ever received the watch. Paypal or a Credit Card company might side with the buyer, and even if they eventually side with you, your money may be frozen while the dispute is in progress. Not good!
Craiglist is a great way to sell the futon you used in college or an old stereo, but do you really want to meet a stranger face to face in a transaction involving thousands of dollars and Rolex watches? Prudence dictates otherwise.
But what about my local Jeweler?
There is an exception to every rule, but usually your local Jeweler is one of the worst places to sell your pre-owned Rolex. For one thing, the local Jeweler is probably not a Rolex expert and will be wary of any Rolex brought in to them for resell. They know only too well how good the fakes can be, but may not have the expertise to really identify them. This makes them hesitant to buy, and even more hesitant to pay top dollar. They know that their market to resell the watch will be local and therefore they will usually not be able to pay as much as a dealer whose reach extends all over the world via the internet. But don't take our word for it; check it out. This is almost always the case and is simply the way the business works.
At Swiss Wrist, we specialize in Rolex sales and appreciate the brand for the blue chip, top quality investment Rolex watches represent. We appreciate the history of the brand–the first watch on Everest and the favorite watch of the brave RAF pilots who flew during the Battle of Britain among many other accomplishments–and know the painstaking care that goes into making every single Rolex one of the highest quality timepieces in the world. We truly enjoy being in a position to help you in the buying and selling of the finest watches in the world, and to be a part of helping others enjoy these magnificent symbols of achievement and accomplishment. We never cease to be amazed by the artistry that goes into the manufacture of a Rolex. They are amazing little machines!
We think we are fortunate to be purveyors of art–art you can wear on your wrist. But in order to sell, we must buy, and we realize that without satisfying the customers from whom we buy, we are lost.
Our business philosophy is simple: we work with a small markup, with a high volume of sales, allowing us to have many repeat, loyal, and satisfied customers. We sell High-End Swiss Timepieces online, while still maintaining the highest standards of quality, reliability, and trust which is the true backbone of success for any firm.
We want your business and strive to pay top dollar for quality pre-owned Rolex watches.


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Posted on the 21 November 2015 by Sampathkumar Sampath
For long Chennaites, were complaining that it has been a very long extended summer and there is no escape from the scorching heat – all that changed in a week – there have been rains, and more rains – people are now complaining of water, water everywhere ! Here is how Bay of Bengal looked at Marina on Deepavali eve. Downunder, Sydney is in for scorching weather on Friday as a slow-moving high-pressure system steers a huge hot air mass formed over Australia's Red Centre into the country's south-east.The Bureau of Meteorology said temperatures were expected to soar to 41 degrees in the city on Friday, pushing the mercury to levels reached only once before in November – back in 1982, when it hit 41.8 degrees. If the sea breezes are kept at bay as expected, temperatures will be fairly uniform across the Sydney Basin. Bondi is expected to reach 41 degrees, as is Penrith, some 50 kilometres to the west. A 40-plus reading would be enough to make it Sydney's hottest three-day spell in November in 79 years, Weatherzone said. Sydney Morning Herald reported that the city came to a rapid boil this afternoon, the mercury surging 10C in less than an hour as temperatures soared past 42C at Sydney Airport and a host of other suburbs approached 40C as the city approached the record for the hottest November Day.BOM forecaster Chris Webb said the temperature in the Sydney CBD increased more than 10 degrees in just 45 minutes. There is no Ramanan out there [there is so much meme on social media as students reportedly thanked Mr Ramanan for predicting more rains !] – a spokesman for the NSW Department of Education is quoted as saying that there were no plans to close schools due to heat on Friday, dispelling a myth that there is a set temperature that forces a school to close."Schools are closed only in extreme circumstances, such as during fire or flood or for health and safety reasons. Hot weather is generally not considered to be an emergency," he said. This year too the summer in Chennai was felt oppressive. In mid-May 2015, the maximum temperature peaked to 41.1° Celsius at Nungambakkam, the mercury level touched 40° Celsius at Meenambakkam.Residents and those who by nature of their work had to be outside had to bear with the hot winds and searing heat. In 2014, the maximum temperature in Chennai city peaked to 42.8 degree Celsius. This year saw heatwaves and many losing their lives in various parts fo the Nation. In Nandigama, in Andhra Pradesh, temperature crawled past 47 degrees. There were many deaths reported in Andhra and Telengana. Meantime, Delhi seared to its hottest this summer with the temperature a blistering 45.5 degrees. The majority of the victims were people who were exposed to the sun directly, usually aged 50 and above and from the working classes.
According to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), a heat wave is qualified when air temperatures of at least 40 °C (104 °F) in the plains or greater than 30 °C (86 °F) in the hilly regions. For the IMD classification of heat waves, temperatures greater than 46 °C (114.8 °F) are considered and classified as severe heat waves. Every year India experiences severe heat waves in summer, but in the year 2015, casualties were abnormally high. Moving away, in Aug 2015 : A city in Iran experienced what is believed to be history's second highest temperature ever as a blistering heatwave lingered over the Middle East.The air in Bandar Mahshahr in the Persian Gulf recorded a sweltering "heat index" of 74°C (165°F). The ancient city and port of Bandar Mahshahr sits on the coast in the south-west corner of Iran, where water temperatures are regularly in the 30s. During that time, the Iraqi government ordered a four-day public holiday to help people deal with the heatwave. It's hot, but some places are hotter than others. Shade, vegetation, building materials and the sea breeze create huge variations in temperature even within short distances. An interesting report in today's SMH states :If you really want to know how hot you are, try getting around the city with Jonathan Fox, an expert in urban microclimates armed with an infrared camera and a hand-held weather station, the Kestrel 4000. His PhD at the University of NSW Australia is looking at how different building facades - their colour, position, geometry, material density and so on - affect the outdoor "thermal comfort" of pedestrians and passers-by. Before climate change, no one thought too much about it, and building materials weren't generally chosen for their cooling properties. (Rule No.1: the lighter the colour, the better).Mr Fox's aim is to create a tool to help designers make buildings which keep our cities cooler. .. ~ and at a time, when media wrote about 41 deg C – in the Sydney Fish Market's car park at 11.15am, the infrared camera read 57.7 degrees, just a fraction cooler than the sand on Bondi Beach, where it measured 57.9 degrees. With regards – S. Sampathkumar
20th Nov. 2015.
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Zoey Stark and Cora Jade Collide During The Final Stop Before NXT Heatwave
All eyes will be on these two top contenders as their one-on-match highlights a scorching-hot edition of NXT 2.0
By Chris Phelan
With only one week to go before Heatwave, the WWE Universe will barely have enough time to catch its breath because this week's episode of NXT 2.0 is once again packed full of exciting matches.
Although the NXT Women's division is headlined by its champion Mandy Rose — whose current title reign is nearing the 300-day mark as we speak — two Superstars have quickly climbed up the ranks in the past month, and they'll both meet in the ring tonight in what will be an explosive matchup.
Zoey Stark and Cora Jade both have reason to believe they're the next face of the women's division, and this match scheduled just one week before Stark challenges Mandy Rose for the NXT Women's Championship carries a lot of interest, to say the least.
Of course, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention that Mandy Rose herself has been the puppeteer behind this match:
Mandy Rose's logic has to be intriguing to Cora Jade, right?
If Jade not only beats but injures Zoey Stark tonight, rendering Stark unable to compete at Heatwave in the NXT Women's Championship match, that puts Jade on a collision course with Mandy Rose herself, bypassing Roxanne Perez on the way.
It sure seems like Cora Jade wants to avoid getting in the ring with Perez at all costs, so this might be the best way to accomplish that particular goal.
Of course, it's a win-win for Mandy Rose because in the end — whoever is challenging for the title at Heatwave — that particular Superstar will surely be battered and bruised, giving a huge advantage to the champion.
Needless to say, the entire WWE Universe will be glued to their TVs watching to see what the outcome of tonight's match will be!
In addition, the fallout from the ending of last week's NXT Tag Team Championship match has led to a matchup that has been promised as being the last meeting ever between these two competitors, as Santos Escobar takes on Tony D'Angelo!
After Santos Escobar made his shocking return to NXT last week by ruining "Stacks" and D'Angelo's opportunity to win the tag team titles, D'Angelo was understandably irate — and put out the challenge for one last meeting between his long-standing rival.
Every time these two men meet in the ring, the drama and hatred is palatable. They last faced off on the May 17 edition of NXT 2.0, but somehow their feud has gotten even more personal.
While Escobar has been away from NXT for the past few months, D'Angelo took it upon himself to take Escobar's ex-Legado Del Fantasma allies and insert them into his "Family," and Escobar has not taken too kindly to that particular action.
With intentions to reunite Legada Del Fantasma and destroy D'Angelo's "Family," the WWE Universe will be treated to a match that has the possibilities to absolutely steal the show on Tuesday night!
And finally, with only one week before Bron Breakker defends his NXT Championship against JD McDonagh, we can only imagine what the atmosphere will be like tonight between the two men. In fact, there's a multitude of possibilities between what the WWE Universe could witness between Breakker and McDonagh this week.
Could we see another face-to-face war of words?
Or another dastardly mind game played by JD McDonagh?
How about Breakker delivering one nice shot to the mouth of McDonagh to serve as a Heatwave preview?
And surely no one would be surprised if the tensions got so high that it triggered an out-of-control, locker room-clearing brawl.
All of these scenarios are on the table — no pun intended — just seven days before these two mens do battle in one of the biggest NXT main events in recent history! (And yes, we wouldn't be surprised if a table breaks at some point tonight as well!)
Once the dust has settled from this week's action-packed episode, the road to NXT Heatwave will be complete, leaving nothing but anticipation toward what will certainly be an epic and memorable event.
Everything comes to a head next week, Aug. 16 on USA!


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A good oral health education program starts from early ages, and the most important time to initiate this it is when the first permanent tooth (the first permanent molar) erupts, and it lies on a correct diet and hygiene habits, including a healthy diet, a correct brushing technique, and a preventive therapeutic approach. The beneficial effect of a preventive program is a good oral health and the therapeutic approach is the dental sealing. Of course it is important to motivate small patients to maintain a good oral health, through the correct use of oral hygiene products, individual brushing techniques, and good eating habits. The prevention programs and the children's receptiveness in maintaining proper oral hygiene can improve the oral health. If there is good communication between the physician and the patient then we can talk about the triad: theoretical presentation, practical exercises and individual biofilm removal techniques, which are indispensable factors in achieving an appropriate oral health status. When dental education programs can't provide the proper prophylaxis of caries lesion, especially at the occlusal surfaces of molars and premolars with deep and retentive pits and grooves, dental sealing is an ideal option.
Risk assessment for the disease development is an essential component of any oral disease prevention program. Susceptibility risks can be determined by various methods including the person, the whole community and of course the teeth, and all dental surfaces. Tooth decay is a bacterial-dependent disease so dental sealing is a preventive measure that can be implemented when the patient is at risk. There are many risk factors that can influence the formation of carious lesions which includes the eating habits and dental hygiene habits, regarding brushing techniques in sense of frequency and time of dental brushing. Of course that periodic consultation and early detection of caries are also important factors that hold the key of success in dental health. Oral disorders, starting from the incipient lesions and leading to the most complicated clinical cases, depend on many factors including the dietetic and hygiene habits of the patient. When talking about dietetic habits, the evolution of the carious lesion depends to a great extent, of the presence in the diet of sugars, carbohydrates (juices) etc., but also it depends on regular meals without eating between meals. Also, an important factor in the appearance and evolution of the carious lesion is the patient's hygiene habits, such as how he performs dental brushing, how many times a day, etc. In other words good hygiene habits must be learned from an early age, and this can be done through dental education programs, which can be implemented in schools. Tooth brushing is an essential part of an effective dental education program, and achieving optimal oral health depends on the efficiency of the method used to remove the biofilm from the surface of the teeth. Tooth brushing aims, to remove, by mechanical means, the food residues and the biofilm from dental surfaces. The efficiency of the biofilm removal depends on several factors: the time of dental brushing, its frequency, the technique used, the tools used, and the quality of the toothpastes. Associating oral hygiene with a healthy diet will help reduce the risk of carious lesions.
Even if all of these rules are respected by patients, this may not be enough, if the teeth have deep and retentive pits and fissures, because the toothbrush bristle can't get inside those grooves, and clean the biofilm, which can accumulate and determine the lesion on the occlusal surface of the premolars and molars. Dental sealing is considered by the World Health Organization to be a major factor in the prevention of carious lesions, especially in schools with children from low-income families, so through dental sealing programs it can be reduce the incidence of caries, especially when focusing on sealing permanent molars in children. Preventive dental sealing treatment has a beneficial effect on the patient, from all points of view. Maintaining a good oro-dental health is one of the most important therapeutic attitudes in all dentistry branches. The most beautiful feeling as a dentist is when he succeeds in motivating the patient about oral health, because it is easier to prevent than to treat a disease.
It is noted that from the entire group of patients, the majority of children consume carbonated beverages, which is not suited for a good oral health status. However, a very small percentage of children do not consume carbonated beverages. Drinking this kind of beverage, is not a good thing for oral health, especially if dental brushing is not done right after, so we have gathered data on sweets consumption, and we noticed that all children in the batch eat sweets except for one boy, which is worrying in the absence of dental brushing. It's a concerning result for children's oral hygiene, but if teeth brushing is performed after eating sweets, then the oral health of small children will not be affected. We next correlated the data on fruit consumption, which is a part of the category of foods that are beneficial to both the oro-dental health and the health of the whole organism. It is observed that most of the patients included in the lot consume fruits, almost in the same way that they consume carbonated beverage (Figure1). The data collected about fat consumption, which, at some point is beneficial to dental health, but can also have a negative effect to oral health, is as follow: an increased percentage of patients consume non-fat foods, and a small number of patient have fat in the diet. The consumption of vegetables, which are recognized as being good for oral health, is found in more than half of the patients; in fact a third does not consume them against the two-thirds who consume them. This result is a positive one, because there are more children who consume vegetables, but it would have been better if that number would have been even higher.
After correlating all the outcomes on the patients' diet, we assessed the way in which the small children consume sugars, so we evaluated whether eating sugary foods is done between or during meals (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Eating habits-consumed sugars.
Sugar is consumed between meals by most patients in the group, regardless of gender, representing a high percentage, 63%, with a total of 67 patients, compared with 40 patients who consume sugar during meals, representing 37% of the children. This result is not satisfactory because the consumption of sugary foods increases the risk of carious lesions in absence of dental brushing after consumption. We have noticed that patients or their parents give a great importance to oral hygiene products by choosing different products on the market but they do not put as much emphasis on the brush technique and its frequency. It is noted that all patients include in their hygiene habits, the toothbrush and toothpaste to perform everyday dental brushing. Most of the patients tend to complete their daily dental hygiene with the mouth wash, which chemically removes the biofilm from dental surfaces, so there was a 62% of children, male and female that uses mouthwash, this being a relatively satisfactory percentage, but it would have been better if this percentage were higher. Regarding dental floss, things are different, and it appears that 85% of patients do not use it. This result is not satisfactory one because the use of dental floss reduces the risk of carious lesions on the proximal surfaces of the teeth (Figure 3).
Figure 3. Products used in dental hygiene habits.
Although all the patients included in the study use the toothpaste and the toothbrush, a special importance should be given to the frequency of dental brushing. It is noted that most patients perform dental brushing twice a day, accounting for 57 patients of both sexes, namely 28% of male patients and 25% of female patients, followed by 29% of patients performing dental care after each meal, 13% patients performing dental brushing once a day, and the smallest percentage is 5% representing patients who do not perform dental brushing every day (Figure 4).
Figure 4. The frequency of dental brushing.
Following the correlation of all the results obtained so far, the tendency of the entire group of patients relating to oral hygiene habits and diet habits are in ascending parameters, towards good oral health, but some improvements should be made. The gaps that still exist in the habits of the patients had repercussions on oral health, so initial patient evaluation did not necessarily have good results. In the initial examination of the patients, they presented different degrees of oral hygiene, as can be seen in the chart below, 11% boys and 7% girls were with unsatisfactory hygiene, 25% boys and 22% girls, had an average grade of hygiene and good hygiene was achieved by 16% boys and19% of the girls. According to the chart below (Figure 5), the majority of patients, 47%, had average oral hygiene, followed by the 35% with good hygiene, and the lowest percentage was for unsatisfactory hygiene, 18%.
Figure 5. The degree of oral hygiene.
The idea deduced from this series of arguments or findings is that the percentage of patients with unsatisfactory grade of hygiene was 18% patients, and 82% of children had average or good hygiene (Figure5). By correlating all data relating to dietary habits, dental brushing with its frequency, the auxiliary means used in removing dental plaque and the evaluation of oral hygiene, we tried to relate them to the incidence of caries in permanent teeth of this children, namely the first molars.
From the data provided in the graph below (Figure 6), it is found that a number of 226 teeth are without lesions or with clinically undetected lesions and it represents 53% of teeth, more than half of the teeth examined. Also we found that 19% of the molars had incipient lesions. Tooth decay was present in an28% of the molars examined, but 9% of molars were treated before our examination, and 19% still presented caries lesions. In other word we can say that tooth decay was present in 15% of males and 13% females.
Figure 6. Incidence of caries lesions at first molars.
From the category of teeth with no clinically detectable lesions, 121 of them had a risk of carious lesions, representing 28% of the whole teeth we examined, and it is shown in the chart below (Figure 7).This percentage does not differ significantly from that of teeth without risk to caries, which is 25% of examined teeth.
Figure 7. Teeth at risk of carious lesions.
Figure 8. Teeth examined and sealed.
From the graph above, it is noted that the total number of 428 teeth examined, only 226 did not show treated or untreated dental lesions, so only this half was evaluated for dental sealing. The other half who experienced lesions with or without treatment was examined and either the incorrect dental restorations were replaced or the present lesions were treated. From the evaluated teeth for dental sealing, which is, half of the teeth evaluated and examined in the entire group of patients, the need for dental sealing was at half of them. This means that of the 226 teeth evaluated in terms of prophylactic and preventive treatment, 121 teeth, permanent first molars, had an indication of sealing.
The teeth which received dental sealing were half of the total teeth not affected by lesions, and this is a very high number, because in fact, these teeth actually have a tooth decay predisposition, and in the absence of dental sealing they lose their morpho structural integrity. Following control, 6 months after application, most of the seals remained unchanged, however 3 dental seals were no longer present on the teeth, and in the control after 1 year, 5 teeth lost their sealing. The loss of dental sealing may vary, depending on whether the patients followed the indication for a good oral health or simply because of local factors. It is noted that the number of un affected dental sealing is high, so the purpose of prevention is met. There was also an improvement in oral health through better diet habits and oral hygiene habits with better brushing techniques and increasing brushing frequency, and also using more auxiliary means for removing the biofilm.
Dental sealing has had a good result because as long as it remained in the pits and fissures, its preventive purpose was fulfilled. The need for dental sealing, as shown in our study is quite high, and depends on many factors, such as better brushing techniques, increasing brushing frequency, using more auxiliary means such as dental floss and mouthwash, in removing the biofilm, through both local as well as general means.
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Wright JT, Tampi MP, Graham L (2016) Sealants for preventing and arresting pit-and-fissure occlusal caries in primary and permanent molars: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials a report of the American Dental Association and the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. JADA 147: 631–645.


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Bright achieves 102.0% vendor assessment in 2015
One of its most valued accounts has awarded Bright Enginering with its best Supplier Performance Scorecard of 2015. We are delighted to have helped such a presigeous company achieve its objectives in 2015 and are equally comitted to maintaining the same performace level throughtout 2016.
Please find attached the Q4 vendor scorecard for 2016 with a performance result of 102%.
This is the best score we have issued to any vendor throughout 2015 and a vast improvement from the 93.3% result in Q3.
Bright Engineering has demonstrated fully on-time delivery with no defects or quality issues on the products supplied and also expedited orders when requested and this has concluded in the score being increased over 100%.
Thank you for all the efforts and hard work from everyone involved at Bright Engineering throughout 2015."
The Board of Bright Engineering would like to add its own thanks to its staff and management team who have been unstinting in their efforts in helping the company to become key suppliers to the aerospace and engineering industry.


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Isaiah Washington is returning to "Grey's Anatomy" for an episode later this season. Washington left the show in 2007 following alleged homophobic slurs against castmate T.R. Knight. He returns to seek closure with Christina (Sandra Oh) after leaving her at the altar in Season 3.
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Tennessee freshman to miss the rest of the season, redshirt
By Terrence PayneFeb 20, 2015, 6:30 PM EST
With five games remaining in the regular season, Tennessee head coach Donnie Tyndall decided to shut down freshman forward Jabari McGhee for the remainder of the season, he announced on Friday afternoon, according to Ben Fredrickson of the Knoxville News Sentinel. McGhee will be ruled a redshirt.
McGhee, a three-star recruit entering Knoxville, had been out since Dec. 18 with an injured right foot. He had appeared in eight games for the Volunteers, averaging 3.9 points and 3.3 rebounds per game. The timely of the injury only added to Tennessee's depth up front, as transfer big man Dominic Woodson had left the program a week prior.
"He could probably play in another week, but now you're talking about maybe the last two or three games of the season, and the conference tournament," Tyndall told the News Sentinel. "And I just don't feel like it's worth bringing him back in limited minutes, in a limited role, risking the possibility of him injuring it again, when you can redshirt him and he's going to be a really good player for us down the road."
Tennessee, which is 14-11 (6-7 SEC) on the season, travels to Ole Miss for a conference matchup on Saturday afternoon.
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Co-riders This Season Include "The Walking Dead" Castmate Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Dave Chappelle, Mario Batali and More!
London – 6th November 2017 – AMC today announced the UK premiere of season two of "Ride with Norman Reedus" on Wednesday 15th November at 9:00pm, available exclusively to BT customers. Viewers can catch up on the excitement of season one of "Ride with Norman Reedus" with double bill episodes each Wednesday at 9:00pm until 8th November.
AMC is available free of charge in the UK to BT customers on channel number 332 on BT TV, and to BT Sport Pack subscribers on Sky channel 192. AMC is also available in HD on both BT TV and Sky with an HD subscription1.
Norman kickstarts season two in Spain along side "The Walking Dead" castmate Jeffrey Dean Morgan and a few hundred thousand fans. Additional episodes this season follow Norman hitting the Low Country of Savannah, Georgia with comedian Dave Chappelle, taking on his home turf of New York City with famed chef Mario Batali, and much more.
AMC recently announced the renewal of "Ride with Norman Reedus" for a third season, slated to air in 2018.Season three of the AMC Studios production will continue the journey with Norman as he hits the pavement with friends and special guests, riding across the United States and abroad.
"Ride with Norman Reedus" follows "The Walking Dead" star and motor cycle enthusiast Norman Reedus as he hits the open road to explore local biker culture and celebrate the best and brightest collectors, mechanics and craftsmen. Each episode features Reedus and a riding companion as they journey across an unknown terrain and experience the culture surrounding them… with plentyof time for unplanned detours and tire changes.
"Ride with Norman Reedus" is produced by Left/Right("This American Life," "The Circus," "Odd Mom Out"),with Ken Druckerman, Banks Tarver, and Anneka Jones serving as executive producers. Reedus also serves as executive producer.


Last night was the first "official" kickoff of the restoration project, and some of my fears were alleviated once we got started.
Anytime you begin a project like this, there is always the risk of disappointment. My biggest fear was that the hull would buckle under the stress of taking it off the trailer for the first time since 1992. Combine that with the majority of those years being stored outside at the mercy of the Pacific Northwest elements……………..things can go south in a hurry.
Note: Tim Ramsey has volunteered to lead the project, and will serve as the teams "Crew Chief". I will assume the "Team Manager" role. Tim will be in full control of the restoration, I will handle the media and promotion related stuff.........that I can handle.
As we lifted the hull of the trailer (a trial run), we were pleased with the results enough to move forward. Removing the bolts that secure the hull to the trailer for transport was a challenge, as they were nearly rusted together. But with some patience, we were able to take the nuts off without breaking the bolts……………which surprised me. I was sure we would have to cut them off to get them out, so that was a plus in our favor.
Once we hooked up the gantry and forklift, the hull came off relatively easily………nothing too concerning. Getting it into the museum itself was somewhat difficult, but we pulled it off without damaging anything in its path. You could feel the excitement in the room; this was a big moment for me personally. I have been waiting for 3 years to get this project started…………..and now it was actually happening.
It was tough helping out with the move, and trying to take pictures at the same time. I only get one shot at this, so I didn't want to miss anything on camera. I captured what I could, but it was fun to get my "hands dirty" along the way too. Tim was positive everything would go smoothly, so that was assuring............but you just never know sometimes.
Once we lowered the hull onto the support saddles and pushed the hull into position, I knew there was no going back………….we had did it. I took a couple minutes to soak up the achievement, and then it was back to work. I unbolted the engine cowling from the deck so we could have access to the engine well. I also removed one of the skins from the vertical stabilizers with our names on it. It won't be needed for the restoration, and it makes for a nice souvenir for my family. It's not every day that you have your name on a hydroplane, so we wanted to keep that piece for ourselves.
As I walked on the deck of the boat, it felt "softer" than I remembered it being only a couple months ago. No doubt, the fall rain has been taking its toll on the wood components. We will begin removing the decks in the next couple weeks, as we have to let the hull "dry out" some before then.
We can only imagine what surprises await us when we expose what lies underneath the decks; hopefully it's not worse than we hope. Regardless, we will save as much as we can………………and go forward from there.
Personally, I like a good challenge…………so it looks like we're all going to get one!
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What is Hentai Porn, and Why Is It So Popular?
Even though cartoons are not real bodies, it can encourage men to commit violence against women and girls; it makes sexual violence a form of entertainment.
By Fight the New DrugDecember 2, 2020No Comments
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Among the thousands of messages we receive, many are from people who say they are struggling with a different form of pornography, one that they say is just as addictive. Although most everything we post deals with hardcore sexually explicit images and videos of people having sex, there have been many who say that they are struggling with a form of porn that doesn't include real human beings at all.
hen·tai
henˈtī/
a subgenre of the Japanese genres of manga and anime, characterized by overtly sexualized characters and sexually explicit images and plots.
Hentai porn is a relatively new wave of pornographic material that has become extremely popular over the last decade. The word hentai is a word of Japanese origin which is short for hentai seiyoku—a "perverse" sexual desire. In Japanese, the term describes any type of "perverse" or bizarre sexual desire or act. Internationally, hentai is a term used to broadly categorize the genre of anime and manga pornography.
Cartoon porn, particularly hentai, has become increasingly popular and is now one of the most searched terms of internet porn. According to 2019's Pornhub analytics detailing the most popular search terms on their site, hentai was the second most popular category on the entire site. This is huge, considering how Pornhub received 42 billion site visits last year. Needless to say, this genre of porn is part of the mainstream, now.
Related: "Real People Are Gross": 3 Reasons Animated Porn Is Gaining Global Popularity
The animated porn depicts highly exaggerated sex acts featuring characters with impossibly large body parts, and specializes in featuring disturbing fetishes like animal tentacles, children (particularly little girls), and incest. It is common for monsters, demons, animals, giant insects, and plants to rape cartoon women. Women and girls in hentai look like a mixture of adult and child with rosy cheeks and all. The categories of woman and child are blurred, because neither is off sexual limits. A consistent theme in hentai is a type of "sexy innocence." Adult women, teens, and children are fused into one. The large eyes, childlike expressions, and hairless bodies with tiny, petite frames are combined with massive breasts and exaggerated sex acts.
Many hentai fans argue that this type of porn is safer and more ethical to view. After all, they reason, it's not exploiting real human beings and is not linked to issues associated with real porn like sexual exploitation and human sex trafficking. They claim that because it's just animation, it is not harmful to the viewer. And while we understand why people have this perception, allow us to offer a different perspective.
Keep in mind that the research that shows porn's harms is still catching up to the world of animated porn, so we're relying on personal stories and logical reasoning for the following discussion.
It's just cartoons, right? Isn't that harmless?
Here's a real comment we pulled from a porn site, and while it's about hentai, the reasoning can be applied to animated porn in general:
Do you think having a mindset that real people are gross and real women are less attractive than cartoons will help a hentai consumer to have healthy expectations for a partner and relationship? Not only that, comments like this show that hentai porn does not exclusively exist in a separate porn world, "regular" porn and hentai porn are interlinked. They both live in the porn world of fantasy sex, with hentai even displaying gravity and physics-defying sex acts and character behavior.
Porn is an escape from reality, and many hentai consumers find themselves clinging to that escape through the means of abandoning reality altogether via animation. And even though cartoons are not real bodies, many themes found in hentai porn normalize violence against women and girls, and normalize the sexualization of children. Even though this content is animated, hentai makes sexual violence a form of entertainment. Rape and coercion are abundant in hentai porn, as are many other forms of degrading and demeaning sexual abuse, frequently toward children. Animated or not, is it ever healthy to watch something for entertainment that eroticizes and normalizes these things?
Related: True Story: Think CGI Porn Is No Big Deal? Have You Considered What It Normalizes?
According to an article on the subject by Estela Lopez, even though a cartoon porn consumer might not initially look for pictures of young girls, they will eventually find them. In the world of adult entertainment, hentai porn has been made into interactive online games. On one site, dress-up games that are actually strip games involve children. On another, the player clicks through some text to reach a little girl's room, where they can then touch her while she sleeps. In another game, the objective is to remove clothes from the girl, Meina, in the correct order. If the player does so incorrectly, they have to start over again. Her cheeks get rosier the more clothing is stripped from her.
This content involving young kids is called "lolicon," a sub-genre of hentai. Under the 2002 change in the 1996 Child Pornography Prevention Act, this is technically a legal form of child exploitation images, commonly known as "child porn." Lolicon is intended to have characters that look like young girls, or even toddlers. The animated children are often portrayed as frightened or resisting the depicted abuser, but they are also shown enjoying sexual abuse. Even animated child exploitation images can provide a normalizing tool for consumers. Content like this can also prove to be a tool for abusers to show to victims, grooming them before abusing them. The depiction of children in pornographic content, even when they're animated, legitimizes child sexual abuse. How is this acceptable in a society that fights to protect kids?
In another vein of animated porn, cartoon pornographers often make famous, non-sexual cartoons into adult entertainment that some kids can accidentally stumble upon.
Someone's real experience with hentai
One recent message we received from a female Fighter shows hentai's real effect on real people. We know there are countless others who say they watch hentai and have developed zero problem with it, but hear us out and check out this woman's story.
"I've been a member in this movement for more than a year now and I noticed FTND hasn't touched on this one particular topic: 'hentai' (a western term for 'anime porn' or Japanese animation porn). A little more than a decade ago, (I'm 21 now) it was my gateway drug to porn addiction. It's an interesting topic to touch upon as it's a popular subculture of porn amongst children and youths during the past decade and today.
Hentai sexualizes just about everything from incest to bestiality. Rape and underaged kids being the top common themes. There are even hentai forms of innocent children anime shows such as Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, and Cartoon Network characters in extreme porn.
It is very unfortunate that plenty of the kids and my peers today are getting their 'sex education' from watching anime porn and/or reading hentai 'mangas' (Japanese comic books) as well as hentai 'doujinishi's' (self-published or amateur Japanese comic books). Many parents and older generations are not aware of this porn subculture, which gives more advantage for kids to get further sucked into their porn addictions.
My ex and I started to feel a little guilty about watching live porn so we decided to turn to hentai mangas as an alternative to watching porn. This, however, further escalated his sex addiction and he would feed it by watching anime porn multiple times behind my back and during our temporary break-ups.
Related: How Mainstream Adult Entertainment Can Normalize And Fuel Child Exploitation
Many people who have struggled with hentai say that it is worse than live porn because the themes tend to be hardcore—the males sometimes have extremely large phalluses and the female bodies are unnaturally 'perfect' looking and hypersexualized. A few other porn addicts I have bumped into also said hentai was their gateway drug to live hardcore porn. I've also witnessed heartbreaking moments online where young males have expressed that they can't get turned on by real females because their brains have been rewired into thinking anime-looking females are a lot more attractive. This reduces their chances of being satisfied with a real partner.
I would also like to share an unfortunate experience. My past boyfriend was so obsessed with anime females and anime porn that he had them on all his profile pictures and wallpapers. He told me multiple times that he had no friends and once made a 'joke' that these anime females (who obviously look nothing like me) on his desktop wallpapers were keeping him company. His usage of porn and non-stop gaming fueled his isolation from the real world. In the end, he chose these flawless looking anime pixel characters over his own real partner.
Bringing up this important topic to the public would be key to educating and spreading further awareness on the harmful effects of porn amongst children, youths, and adults today. It would definitely make many youths question and open their eyes. Porn is porn regardless of what form it's in. Thank you so much for all the brilliant works you do. I and many other people, including porn addicts out there, truly appreciate it. You guys are awesome!"
-F.
This message shows that porn is porn, regardless of if it is real people or exaggerated animated characters. Objectification is objectification, and normalized abuse is normalized abuse—and neither are healthy. Hentai and other cartoon porn often focus on the complete control and exploitation of the female character, even (and especially) if she's a child. Even though this content is not available on TV, children with access to the internet can accidentally find it while searching for familiar cartoon characters. Accidental exposure like this frequently can lead to what can become a lifelong obsession with porn.
Related: True Story: How Hentai Porn And Chat Rooms Twisted My Sex Life
With more advanced technology, porn will keep spreading and evolving. As evident in computer-enhanced cartoon porn, technology makes the images more flesh-like. Even if it's just animated pixels on a screen, pornography that makes rape and abuse look sexy. In a culture that often is vocal about equality and protecting abuse victims, how is making entertainment of it acceptable or healthy?


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Why people get attracted to the games?
by Gwen Holmes January 2, 2021 July 2, 2021 028
Human beings are always involved in finding new things. In this stressful full world, everyone is moving towards looking forward to their world. To relax, they choose to play online games. It is a kind of stress relief to them. There are a lot of new things in online games. So many attractive things are found in online games. No one gets bored of playing games. It is very interesting to play. We can also gain our knowledge by playing these online games.
What are the benefits of playing an online game?
There are a lot of advantages we gained through playing online games. Let us see one by one. If we are playing continuously then it helps us to gain fast eye-hand coordination. The permanent playing of an online game helps us to know more about the online gaming world. If we are playing constantly for more than a year then we become masters in that field. It makes our minds very calm and peaceful. Gaming is the kind of a stress buster. If we are new to the online gaming world then no problem, we can learn everything within a short period. There are some games while playing that we can start earning a real cash prize. This online gaming platform makes a normal man into a millionaire.
What are the different types of online games?
We may get bored of playing the same kind of games. To avoid this, the software developer has developed a variety of games based on people's choices. We have action games, thriller games, adventure games, puzzles, chasing games, and mini-games for kids. Let us see one by one. Action games are the ones where we get the number of lives. If we got out from the game then by using the life we can continue playing our game. A lot of attractive things and exciting themes are also available in this action game. While playing the thriller games we can feel that we are watching a thriller movie. The themes and the background effect and the sound effects are amazing, which creates a feeling that we are in a ghost world. Some may get feared of playing this one but many people like to play this type of game. Adventure games are really interesting. Their person who wants to live an adventure lifestyle mostly likes this game very much. After completing each level in this type of game, we may feel comfortable and pleased. Adventure games are the most played games all around the world. Puzzles are really exciting games. Solving the puzzles is a challenging task. People who have an analytical mindset will solve this type of game easily. Solving puzzles and riddles increase our neuron cells. So our thinking capability is also increased. Chasing games are very interesting. Studies show that most of the people in the world play chasing games. Lots of exciting rewards we will get while clearing each level. That's why kids show more interest in this online platform.
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The labor shortage is really a pay shortage
I bookmarked an article you wrote a few years ago: B.S. on the jobs numbers euphoria. Jobs numbers are the #1 story again: 260,000 jobs added versus over a million the economists predicted would be a slam-dunk! Is that a labor shortage or job shortage? Maybe a pay shortage? Once again they're blaming us, people looking for jobs! We're not educated enough or skilled enough or willing to go on goose-chase interviews recruiters e-mail us about. Now we're deadbeats living on rich unemployment supplements. Who needs to work, right? I DO!
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The burning question in the news today is, why are so many employers unable to fill jobs? Is it because, as some claim, recipients of pandemic relief benefits would rather "collect" than work? Is it because people who want to work are afraid to, because the virus is still a risk? Or, as others say, are working women staying home because someone has to watch the kids while schools are closed?
Labor shortage or shortage of pay?
I'm no economist — hell, they just got the "jobs added" numbers wrong by about a factor of 4! — but based on what my readers tell me and on what I see, the answer is simple. Employers don't want to pay market wages and salaries to attract workers for jobs they say are so important to fill.
I believe low pay most readily explains much of the inability to hire. There's no labor shortage. It's a supply and demand problem. And many employers are running scared because they don't know what they're doing. (A more cynical view is that they're just greedy.)
Let's look at the contradictions.
Business to labor: You're deadbeats
On one hand, unemployment has remained at around 6.1% — still very high. According to Neel Kashkari, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, between 8 and 10 million people who want to work can't find jobs. He also suggests it's unreasonable to expect the effects of the pandemic are over. He says things are getting better, but it's going to be months before we see substantial improvements. Judging from the numbers, we don't need an economist to tell us the problem is a shortage of jobs — jobs that pay enough to attract workers.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, on another hand, suggests those 8 to 10 million are deadbeats living large on pandemic relief benefits. In fact, the Chamber is so sure it can find jobs for all those people that it has demanded the extra $300 per week unemployment benefits be cut immediately. Says the Chamber: "It's giving some recipients less incentive to look for work."
Labor to economists: You're stupid
Now we need a third hand to juggle the facts. On May 6 Barrons proclaimed, Get Ready for a Blockbuster Jobs Report of 1 Million or More. Oops! The next day, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that business added just 266,000 jobs last month — not over a million like economists confidently predicted. So, where are "all those jobs" employers can't fill and that you should be applying for?
Who's stupid about jobs?
It seems pretty simple: The real disincentive to look for work is that there aren't enough jobs since the pandemic started! Employers who are trying to get back up and running think they can keep pay low because millions are "looking" — but job seekers aren't buying low wages. They're not stupid.
I'm sure some jobs are going begging, but lots of unemployed workers are refusing to beg. Let's look at some examples.
Who's competitive?
New Jersey's Star-Ledger reports:
"Mike Jurusz is worried about the summer. As owner and executive chef at Chef Mike's Atlantic Bar & Grill in South Seaside Park, [a New Jersey beach town] he said he can't find anyone to hire. He blames his staffing troubles on expanded unemployment benefits and stimulus payments. 'It's impossible to get help right now,' he says."
Here's where facts run into overwrought explanations — and perhaps into poor business decisions. (By the way, I don't pick on Jurusz or anyone else except that they're a handy examples provided by the press. I don't know him or his business other than what I've read.)
Jurusz doesn't reveal what he's paying to fill those jobs. Yet he complains that "businesses that raise their hourly wage to entice workers make it harder for others to compete."
Now get this.
"'We are going to have to be forced to pay people who are not worth what they should be getting,' Jurusz said. 'That will increase my labor costs, then we have to increase the pricing because we have to stay in business. You're going to see $30 plain pizzas and $35 subs."
What I hear is a small businessman running scared. I feel for anyone facing business challenges, but having to make payroll is going to put some businesses out of business. Welcome to the new economy.
Do employers really need to pay more?
They do if you listen to retailers, who say that to compete with Amazon, which pays more than $15 an hour to snatch up available labor, they, too, have to raise wages. While some restaurateurs can't beat that kind of job offer, Amit Patel, a snack-food manufacturer, also in New Jersey, said to the Star-Ledger:
"Do you think an employee would want to work at $10 or $11 an hour in a COVID environment when they have no job security, no benefits? People are realizing their worth is a lot more."
Patel has raised the wages his company pays by 30% since the start of the pandemic.
Smart employers are busy hiring
Another New Jersey restaurant owner in the same Star-Ledger article, Tim McLoone, said he doesn't blame the hiring challenges on people who don't want to work.
"It's offensive to demonize one group of people," he said. "There's no question that unemployment has contributed to the diminishment of the labor market, but it's not like they're staying home to watch The Price Is Right and they don't want to work."
McLoone recently increased hourly wages to $15 for employees who don't receive tips. Got a labor shortage? Grow up and pay what you have to. It's called a market.
The economists who got it wrong are trying to scapegoat working stiffs who know from experience that employers aren't adding jobs at the rates economists claim. All those job postings on Indeed and LinkedIn include a lot of dupes and garbage. They know many employers aren't offering wages worth working for — just ask them what the recruiters are pitching. Anyone that planned on over a million new jobs got suckered by wishful economic predictions.
It's a new labor market
Blaming the pandemic relief program is a cheap shot designed to deflect responsibility from employers large and small that have been profiting enormously for a decade without sharing with their employees. You can look up the average disparities between executive pay and employees somewhere else. I'm frankly sick of looking at the numbers. If anything, the relief benefits are balancing the scales a bit.
But there's another part to this. Some of those unemployed workers have wised up to the game. They've gotten smarter than employers and economists. They know they're worth more and won't work for less.
In other words, it seems employers that respect the law of supply and demand offer higher wages — and they can afford to. Just look at Amazon. If your business model doesn't permit you to pay enough to attract good workers in a highly competitive market, maybe that says you can't compete. Maybe you shouldn't be in business. It's a new labor market.
The "jobs numbers" suggest that many of the millions of unemployed who want to work are wise to wait until healthy businesses offer them higher pay. The pandemic benefits make it a bit easier to hold out, but it's the choice I'd make even without the benefits.
The noise continues
I'm not an economist or a labor market expert. But it's not hard to see what's going on. I can interpret what I see pretty easily by looking where the big money is telling me not to look — past the noise.
For example, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says:
"Based on the Chamber's analysis, the $300 benefit results in approximately one in four recipients taking home more in unemployment than they earned working."
The Chamber is bragging that its members pay less than unemployment does? If employers really believe Uncle Sam is out-bidding them and keeping labor on the sidelines, those employers are simply uncompetitive.
The Washington Post reports that:
"Some businesses have been complaining to the White House and lawmakers that they are having a hard time recruiting workers, particularly for low-wage, hourly jobs."
But are these businesses offering more competitive wages?
"Average hourly wages rose about 21 cents across the country, data that the BLS suggested reflected increasing demand for labor."
21 cents? Not only are these clowns not competing with Amazon and Tim McLoone, they aren't even anteing up to stay in the game. The Star-Ledger reports that Morey's Piers, operator of amusement parks in New Jersey, has boosted pay 25% to $15 an hour to fill 1,500 seasonal jobs this summer. There are those that get it and those that don't.
Labor shortage: Last thing employers want to do is raise wages
This isn't complicated, unless you listen to economists and greedy employers. Yes, greedy employers. I'm not even going to offer you links to articles about massive profits, stock prices and executive pay that has dwarfed employee pay in the past several years. I'll just point out that the business world's alpha dog, Jeff Bezos, has allowed that he understands and supports tax hikes on corporations and the very wealthy — and Amazon has boosted employee pay. The jig is up. It's time for business to pay up.
I'll leave you with two brief audio segments from a Bloomberg Radio interview with Fed President Neel Kashkari. (I've added emphasis.) This guy gets it and he's not afraid to say it.
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"I hope we see employers step up. That was one of the things that was extraordinary about the last recovery. It took 10 years to return to something like maximum employment, and I'm not even sure that we quite got there before the pandemic hit. And it was only in the last few years of the recovery, after many years of businesses complaining that they couldn't find workers, only in the last couple of years that we finally saw wages start to pick up, especially for those lowest income workers. Businesses will do anything they can do to try to meet their labor needs — and the last thing they want to do is raise wages."
"We have the tools to tighten monetary policy to keep inflation in check. I'm not worried about that. What I am worried about is not having another 10-year recovery for our labor market. That's devastating to millions of Americans and we need to put them back to work much more quickly."
Yah, I know it's more complicated, but this Fed president has the candor to break it down so it's simple. It's time for politicians, employers and government to grow up. The sooner the economy faces it, the better. To get businesses back up and running post-COVID, companies have to pay more. Not because of COVID. Because it's long overdue. The virus has just served to remind people that life is short — and they're not willing to work for less.
Those employers that cry higher wages will put them out of business must realize that offering low pay will probably put them out of business.
What do you see when you step back from the "labor shortage?" What's the fix? Have you stayed out of the job market because employers are low-balling you? Have you found competitive employers who pay well? How can an unemployed job seeker find a good-paying job today?
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