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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">If you are looking for an effective solution to enlarge your penis  then you are not alone. Up to 75% of men desire a longer, thicker penis and it is possible with the right techniques.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Penis extenders are a well-known solution but are they safe and effective?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What is a Penis Extender</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.x4labs.com/">penis extenders </a> is a medical device that is worn on your penis with the intention of providing a constant stretching force. <a href="http://www.x4labs.com/">penis enhancement </a> lightweight and worn whilst your penis is in its flaccid state. They can be adjusted to accommodate the growing penis and apply different levels of traction force as desired. They are usually worn for 6-8 hours per day to get the best results. They can be worn in 2 sessions (eg. 3 hours in the morning and 3 hours in the evening) if desired.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">How does a Penis Extender Work?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.x4labs.com/free-penis-extender.php">x4 labs</a> a penis extender applies a constant traction force to stretch the penis causing the cells to split and grow.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">More cells = more blood flow = a bigger penis in both the flaccid and erect state.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Penis extenders work on the principle that the human body changes it&#8217;s appearance as a reaction to the environment. This is why a constant force is applied to make the teeth move in orthodontics or why we exercise our muscles through lifting weights.</p>
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		<title>Do Penis Enlargement Pills Work?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The million dollar question in men&#8217;s health these days is undoubtedly that of asking do penis enlargement pills work? Penis enlargement is a field in which the only way to truly know its success is through experimentation and extensive trial and error,  penis enlarger pills works most men become interested in penis enlargement for one [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">The million dollar question in men&#8217;s health these days is undoubtedly that of asking do penis enlargement pills work? Penis enlargement is a field in which the only way to truly know its success is through experimentation and extensive trial and error,  <a href="http://www.enlargementworld.com/">penis enlarger pills works</a> most men become interested in penis enlargement for one reason, and a good one at that: women. Today however, it has gone beyond that. Women have magazines that devote entire sections to their honesty, with 71% of women polled admitting they wish their significant other had a larger penis. And so began the trying of penis enlargement pills <a href="http://www.enlargementworld.com/">penis extender devices</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As a warning, the internet is full of cracks and crevices to get lost in with penis enlargement. This is because everyone thinks they know the answer, when usually it is just hoping for overnight success, which research will show is unlikely. In fact after seeing so many false claims, I had figured the answer to whether penis enlargement pills worked was a huge resounding no. As luck would have it though, I did not give up there, and finally stumbled upon what is now the penis enlargement empire known as Extagen, <a href="http://www.enlargementworld.com/">penis enlargers</a>  It was my goal as a men&#8217;s health guru to study this product up and down to form a rational, truthful and insightful unbiased opinion for the masses of men also looking for a larger penis.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.slim9.com">Best diet for losing weight fast and keep it off</a> and on and on. With the plethora of plans currently available both online and through normal outlets, how can you possibly narrow down the focus to find one that will well with your particular weight loss goals? This question is asked by people everywhere as they try to cut through all of the hype and locate a program that will not only help them to lose the extra pounds, but also be able to maintain this new size in the future. The best starting point is to make a short list of your long and short terms goals as a basis upon which to base your research.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Being able to locate <a href="http://www.slim9.com">best diet for losing weight fast</a> isn&#8217;t necessarily hard, but with your new list, it should be easier to narrow the focus on one that will function effectively with your body type, age and situation. Obviously, you don&#8217;t want to pick one that requires a lot of initial energy if you haven&#8217;t lead an active lifestyle in quite a while. Also, there has to be a customer support system that allows you to either get feedback on your progress or will help you over the rough patches that are bound to occur in any of the plan <a href="http://www.slim9.com">best diet for losing weight fast men</a>. Make sure when evaluating different programs that this option is available as part of the regular package.</p>
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		<title>Duplicate Bridge Scoring</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning how to score at bridge makes it easier to understand the bridge bidding system. Once you know how to score you will understand why it is better to play in hearts/spades/NT than diamonds or clubs and why players will continue bidding to the 4, 5, 6 or even 7 level instead of stopping at [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Learning how to score at bridge makes it easier to understand the bridge bidding system. Once you know how to score you will understand why it is better to play in hearts/spades/NT than diamonds or clubs and why players will continue bidding to the 4, 5, 6 or even 7 level instead of stopping at the 3 or 4 level.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Let&#8217;s start with the absolute basics.</p>
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<li>No points are scored for the first 6 tricks. A contract for 1 of a suit (or 1NT) means you think you will make 7 tricks (6 + 1 bid). A contract for 4 of a suit means you think you will make 10 tricks (6 + 4 bid).</li>
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<li>High Card Points = points score for cards held. Four for each ace, three for each king, two or each queen and one for each jack.</li>
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<li>A &#8220;game&#8221; contract is one that would score 100 points if achieved. If you achieve (or exceed) the contract you score a 300 point bonus.</li>
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<li>A part score contract is one that would score less than 100 points if achieved. If you achieve the contract you score a 50 point bonus.</li>
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<li>If you bid a part score but actually make enough tricks for game you will ONLY get the part score bonus as that is what you bid for.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Points scored per trick (above 6) = 20 per club/diamond, 30 per heart/spade. In a No Trumps contract score 40 for the FIRST trick and 30 for subsequent tricks</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">No of tricks needed to make &#8220;game&#8221; = 11 in clubs/diamonds, 10 in hearts/spades and 9 in No trumps</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Minimum contract needed to score game = 5 clubs or diamonds, 4 hearts or spades and 3 No trumps</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">High Card Points needed for game = 27 for a minor suit, 25 for a major suit contract or NT contract</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you fail to make the contract you bid for, your opponents score 50 points for each trick you failed by. So, if you bid 3 of a suit (bid to make 9 tricks) and only make 7 tricks your opponents score 50 points for each of the two tricks you failed to make (100 points in total)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Doubling<br />
If you think that your opponents are unlikely to achieve the contract they are bidding for you can &#8220;double&#8221;. This means that your side will score double the points for each trick the opponents go down by, but also means they will score double the points for each trick if they make the contract. They will also score an extra bonus of 50 points for achieving the contract.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If the opponents are certain that they WILL make their contract they can &#8220;redouble&#8221;. In this case they will score 4 times the usual point value for each trick made if they achieve the contract, plus a 100 point extra bonus.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Vulnerability<br />
To add a little extra &#8220;spice&#8221; to the scoring one, or both sides become &#8220;vulnerable&#8221;. This rotates between neither side vulnerable, E-W vulnerable, N-S vulnerable and both side vulnerable. If your side is vulnerable and you fail to make a contract then your opponents score DOUBLE the number of points for each trick you fail by.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If your side is vulnerable and bid for and achieve game, then your game bonus is increased.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">No increase for part score &#8211; 50 points scored</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Game score &#8211; bonus increased from 300 to 500 points if vulnerable</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Slams</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There are two types of slams. A small slam (12 tricks) and a grand slam (all 13 tricks). You only score an additional bonus for these if you bid to make them.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So, if you bid a contract of 3 hearts (to win 9 tricks) but actually win all thirteen tricks, you will just score the regular game bonus and won&#8217;t score the additional grand slam bonus. You will only score the additional small or grand slam bonus if you bid to win 12/13 tricks (6 or 7 of a suit).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you bid and make a small slam you will score an additional 500 point bonus (or 750 if vulnerable)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you bid and make a grand slam you will score an additional 100 point bonus (or 1500 if vulnerable)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Both of these are in addition to the regular game bonus.</p>
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		<title>Old Sheffield Plate: An Introduction</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Silver has always been expensive. Since ancient times it has been used to fashion objects of status and desire. Status is the word. Until quite recently silver had little practical use. It is too soft to make a tool or weapon from. While it can be polished a very sharp edge it dulls quickly, and the sharp edge is so thin as to be extremely fragile. Certainly, it was a metal which was easy to work, and so could be hammered up in to complicated functional objects. But there are other metals just as easy, or easier to work, which would do the same job. Silver has been and still is coveted mainly for one simple fact. It is extremely beautiful. Highly reflective, heavy and soft to the touch, silver has the gentle glow of moonlight, seeming at times to emanate a light of its own. Also, it is scarce. The demand has always been greater than the supply, meaning that this valuable commodity has always been the preserve of the wealthy.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Status though is desired by many not only those who can afford it, so there has always been a market for convincing alternatives. However, applying a thin veneer of silver to an object of another metal is difficult, attaining a convincing finish even more so, and creating a durable surface that could withstand any sort of use an ever-present problem. The best method pre-Old Sheffield was mercurial plating, where a mixture of precious metal powder (silver in our case, but more famously, gold) and mercury was applied to the surface of an object. The object was then heated until the mercury evaporated, leaving a thin but solid layer of the precious metal. This method was dangerous and expensive. The former consideration probably not so important for our ancestors, while the latter was highly important!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>History</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Old Sheffield Plate, or &#8216;fused plate&#8217; as it is sometimes known, was the first commercially viable method of plating metal. The method itself was invented by a Sheffield Cutler named Thomas Boulsover in 1743. The various accounts of his invention are vague and slightly contradictory*, but suffice it to say that in the course of his work, by a happy accident, Boulsover discovered that applying sufficient heat to contacting silver and copper the two metals fused. This, in effect, meant that the two metals acted as a single one, and when worked or hammered out the proportions of silver to copper remained the same. The technique Boulsover developed was to sandwich an ingot of copper between two plates of silver, tightly bind it with wire, heat it in a furnace and then mill it out in to sheet, from which objects could be made.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Boulsover himself started out small. He made buttons and little else. It is not known how other manufacturers learned his technique, but Boulsover never patented it, and did not benefit from it financially beyond the sale of his own products. The potential of the material was quickly realised, and soon it was being used to fashion boxes, salvers and jugs, and not long after that candlesticks and coffee pots, and other traditional tableware. The creation of complicated objects from Sheffield Plate brought a whole plethora of technical difficulties that had to be overcome. To begin with, it was not possible to use hard solder as the high temperatures required would simply cause the silver to run off. Therefore, a whole range of solders with low melting points had to be devised, and used very carefully. Secondly, all evidence of copper must be hidden, and so the finishing of edges had to be approached with special care and attention.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The very early pieces often have a rather crude charm, but quickly the Old Sheffield Plate producers became very proficient at hiding seams, concealing joins, and generally giving the impression of solidity and quality. Indeed, in many ways the creation of a good piece of Old Sheffield Plate was technically more difficult than the creation of an equivalent piece in solid silver.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It was not cheap either. The saving in silver was considerable, but the process still required substantially more silver than the later electroplate. This is why many 18th century pieces still have a good layer of silver, while electroplated pieces made 100 years later or more can be found having been replated several times at least! As well as the high silver content Old Sheffield Plate manufacture was more labour intensive than solid silver, meaning higher labour costs. So some of what was saved in silver content was spent on labour. Old Sheffield Plate was still very much a luxury product, and only available to the very wealthy.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Indeed, many buyers of Old Sheffield Plate could afford the silver alternative, but simply preferred to save the money. While much Provincial silver lagged behind the times somewhat in terms of fashion, many of the better Old Sheffield Plate producers ensured their designs were at the height of fashion. Perhaps this was because they felt they had something to make up for, but it is also because while provincial silversmiths catered to a local market Sheffield Plate was made to compete with London made silver.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The renowned Old Sheffield Plate manufacturer and industrialist Matthew Boulton famously said that he wished to make &#8220;What all the world desires&#8221;, and much of his and other Old Sheffield Plate producer&#8217;s output was indeed exported abroad. Indeed, the production and sale of Old Sheffield Plate is firmly rooted in the history of the British Industrial Revolution, as well as that of 18th and 19th century art history and the history of design. For both these reasons Old Sheffield Plate is now keenly collected. Precisely as with furniture and solid silver, Old Sheffield builds up a wonderful patina over the years, and copper wearing through on the high points (known as bleeding) is very attractive (especially against mahogany!). For those of us more interested in the design of an object than the material it is made of Old Sheffield regularly provides us with exceptional examples of Adam, Neoclassical and then Regency styles. While the 18th century ware has the prestige of age and originality the 19th century Old Sheffield Plate producers really perfected their art, and much of their output is of truly wonderful quality. Also, many makers of solid silver had at this time adopted many of the labour saving techniques of the Sheffield Producers (such as die stamping for shape and decoration), so the quality and effect are very often identical.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What started off as a method for providing gentlemen with cheap coat buttons became something much broader and more interesting than it is likely Bouslover ever imagined. However, by accidental discovery at a pivotal moment a whole industry was created in Sheffield and beyond. It came at the perfect moment, fuelled by a trickling down of wealth to those who were desperate to prove their good taste and refinement. It also arrived at a time when mechanised workshop techniques were coming in to the silver industry (and of course industry at large) and so it was not such a stretch for the bright minds of Sheffield Industry to match the discovery&#8217;s potential to the new demand for affordable luxury.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Additional Reading</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For a more involved discussion of Boulsover&#8217;s invention and Sheffield Plate in general see Crosskey, 2011 &#8220;Old Sheffield Plate: A History of the 18th Century Plated Trade&#8221;</p>
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<p>James Baldwin is an Antique Silver dealer with over a decade of experience in the industry. As owner and Proprietor of James Baldwin Antiques, he provides his services and expertise to a wide-range of clients based all round the world.</p>
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