Nobody wants to have to wear tarnished jewelry to an evening out to a party. Especially not a necklace which would get the most attention on a woman, and should be clean of any blemishes that can be seen even from a feet or two away. Your Sterling Silver jewelry needs constant care and there is no getting away from this fact. Further, you do not want to have to do it every week, because let’s face it - no one loves their jewelry that much! Here follow a few things you are better served by for taking care of your silver necklace.
Caring for the Jewelry
It does not take much to tarnish sterling silver - just air can do it. So keep your sterling sealed after you are done using it. Packing it in air-tight container is the right thing to do. Apart from air, packing it will protect it from moisture too, an even deadlier agent of ageing for your silver. Water not only affects the surface, but it will also be laced with chemicals, acidity, and other harmful agents that are part of living in a industrial society. If your jewelry gets wet, do NOT allow it to dry on its own, because the chemicals and agents will harm the surface of the sterling. Use a towel to wipe off the water from its surface, which will also remove the harmful agents.
Cleaning the Jewelry
Always clean your jewelry with a soft cotton or flannel cloth. Silver can scratch very easily, just because it is one of the softest metals in use. Never use anything other than these - paper, fabrics, synthetics, or plastic brushes are to be avoided completely.
To clean your silver, just wash it in warm water mixed with a mild dishwashing or a hand washing liquid or soap. No more than that, and this should be enough. Rub this homemade soap mix all over the surface of the necklace, as much as you can reach. Do it often, and you will never have to worry about blemishes coming on it, nor about having to wear a large collar dress.
Pearls and Stones
Do not immerse it in water, if your necklace includes pearls and other gemstones. Instead use a moistened cloth, the soft cotton mentioned above, wet it in the soap mix made above, and run it over the jewelry. The difference is that jewelry with gems is not to be immersed in water. After cleaning it like this, dry it with a cloth too.
After having cleaned it, you should let the jewelry dry completely, otherwise moisture will prove damaging to if it is stored with moisture in it. Let it keep overnight if required. After letting it dry, polish it with a jewelry polishing cloth. Never polish in a line, so that you do not get any pattern on the surface.
Store it in a dry and possibly air-tight place to avoid dust etc..
Dont's
Here is what you should NOT use on your jewelry: toothpaste, baking soda (despite what you may read online), cleaning agents like Lysol which are just too powerful for silver, which is a very powerful agent anyway and should be used with caution.
Keep it safe, keep it clean.
Why Creating Your Own Jewelry Using Sterling Silver Findings is becoming the New Trend
Jewelry is designed by jewelry houses, and much of it is manufactured in industrial processes under strict quality control, and then is made available at your nearest store, beautifully displayed. Some of the higher end and not-so-higher end jewelry is made to order, and the client gets a personalized piece. Professionals make and deliver jewelry, and do it well too, as seen by the business they seem to be doing. Designing jewelry needs expertise, and businesses can pay experts to that for them - experts who are artists.
The advantages of manufactured jewelry are manifold - professional design, industrial, which translates to precise, quality of manufacture, and the wide variety of choice available. Add to it the experience of shopping for Jewelry, which can be a reward in itself.
Amateur Jewelry Design
From the earliest times, women have always been involved in making their own jewelry. But nowadays, making your own jewelry is more widespread than before, so much so that it can be called a new wave of trend. This is especially true for Sterling Silver findings - these findings are readily available from stores, whether online or real ones - and women have discovered that there are a lot of interesting things they can do with them.
Silver Findings
Sterling Silver is a beautiful metal. When combined with precious and semi precious gemstones, it is used to make some of the most elegant and beautiful jewelry. Silver findings are little pieces of jewelry that can are manufactured or made for the purpose of using them to make jewelry, at home or in a industrial setting. These findings can be pendants, beads, fine wire and wire pieces, solder pastes and such little pieces that are not jewelry by themselves, but can be combined and used to make jewelry that can be worn.
Advantages
Here are some advantages that are driving this trend:
* If you want a particular style of earring, you can just get a piece of wire and a stone or pendant and make it yourself. This applies especially if it’s a completely new type of jewelry, created by you only. If you copy some other style, you can personalize it by adding color or a different twist to it. All in all you get a personalized piece of jewelry worn by no one else in the world.
* Getting silver findings and making a piece is much cheaper than buying the same as part of jewelry. It's kind of obvious, but to get the real idea about how much cheaper it is, you will just have to go to the nearest store to ask around. Prepare to be surprised.
* This is a way to express your creativity - using your mind is a good exercise, whether you read a book or solve a puzzle. Creating your jewelry, and by which is meant making a "design" and then crafting it, is just such an exercise.
* Lets admit it, it won’t be as much fun for anyone if you make your own jewelry, and don’t discuss it with anyone. It gives a topic of conversation in many settings.
There are a host of videos on YouTube and other video sites where users have shared their stories, and their skills with making their own jewelry. Join in!
The advantages of manufactured jewelry are manifold - professional design, industrial, which translates to precise, quality of manufacture, and the wide variety of choice available. Add to it the experience of shopping for Jewelry, which can be a reward in itself.
Amateur Jewelry Design
From the earliest times, women have always been involved in making their own jewelry. But nowadays, making your own jewelry is more widespread than before, so much so that it can be called a new wave of trend. This is especially true for Sterling Silver findings - these findings are readily available from stores, whether online or real ones - and women have discovered that there are a lot of interesting things they can do with them.
Silver Findings
Sterling Silver is a beautiful metal. When combined with precious and semi precious gemstones, it is used to make some of the most elegant and beautiful jewelry. Silver findings are little pieces of jewelry that can are manufactured or made for the purpose of using them to make jewelry, at home or in a industrial setting. These findings can be pendants, beads, fine wire and wire pieces, solder pastes and such little pieces that are not jewelry by themselves, but can be combined and used to make jewelry that can be worn.
Advantages
Here are some advantages that are driving this trend:
* If you want a particular style of earring, you can just get a piece of wire and a stone or pendant and make it yourself. This applies especially if it’s a completely new type of jewelry, created by you only. If you copy some other style, you can personalize it by adding color or a different twist to it. All in all you get a personalized piece of jewelry worn by no one else in the world.
* Getting silver findings and making a piece is much cheaper than buying the same as part of jewelry. It's kind of obvious, but to get the real idea about how much cheaper it is, you will just have to go to the nearest store to ask around. Prepare to be surprised.
* This is a way to express your creativity - using your mind is a good exercise, whether you read a book or solve a puzzle. Creating your jewelry, and by which is meant making a "design" and then crafting it, is just such an exercise.
* Lets admit it, it won’t be as much fun for anyone if you make your own jewelry, and don’t discuss it with anyone. It gives a topic of conversation in many settings.
There are a host of videos on YouTube and other video sites where users have shared their stories, and their skills with making their own jewelry. Join in!
How Women Can Improvise Their Sterling Silver Bracelets To Use For Self-Defense
One self-defense technique can be that critical difference which helps avoid abuse or sexual assault for a woman. That one technique could be a pepper spray, a karate move, a kick in the groin; any of these could serve you to repel an attacker. And these are not the only ones - using your jewelry can be part of your defense moves too, apart from the others which you may use.
Precautions
The first rule of street safety is to not be conspicuous when you should not be. Note the stress on "when". There is a difference between being the life of the party and the center of attention in a a party thrown by your friends, and doing the same in a side-street at 9 pm on some Wednesday night while returning home. Part of that involves not flaunting any jewelry that you may wear. For example, it’s a good idea to wear your Sterling Silver necklace to a party, but not removing it while you are returning home is risky enough to be called a fools’ errand. Also note that even if you are with a friend, by itself that does not ensure safety. And your security is compromised all the more if you are alone. Do not flash your costly touch phone around, is another piece of advice to follow. Think of these things as crime magnets - they will draw not just attention, but the attack itself.
Basics
Having made it clear that you should not wear jewelry that compromises your safety, lets now understand how it can be used as a weapon in your self-defense. We are here talking about a bracelet, which is usually inconspicuous, especially if you are wearing long-sleeved top or shirt.
An important principle of self-defense is that anything can be used as a weapon. This principle has been taught to professionals like MI6 spies (think James Bond), commandos and other such fighters. In fiction, the protagonist of 'The spy who came in from the cold', when threatened and attacked, uses a matchbox as a weapon. A matchbox that he crushes and gets the jagged ends outwards, to strike the attacker with. Your Sterling Silver bracelet can come to the same use - and much more effectively than a match of boxes.
Using Your Bracelet
The following factors make a bracelet a good weapon in personal combat: almost all bracelets have edges, if not in the body then in the beads that it may have. It is worn on your hand, which you will anyway use to attack, by way of defense. Also if you do not have any option, it may be the strongest choice of weapon you may have.
To improvise on it further, if your bracelet is loose, you could use the other hand to pull it over your hand, and let it attach itself on the lower part of your hand. In which case it will no longer dangle, and the attacker will see this new weapon more clearly too - something which will deter him.
Another improvisation you can do is take the bracelet off your arm, and hold it in your fist. Then use this as an impact device to punch and parry the attacker with. Attacks on the face are more effective with this new "weapon" of yours too.
Conclusion
A Sterling Silver bracelet is not just a show piece - at the fundamental level it is metal - more importantly an alloy which has been designed to be strong. Metals are strong, and using them, you can be stronger too. It’s one more weapon in your arsenal, and the bigger the arsenal of self-defense skills, the more secure and confidant you will be. Keep yourself safe and secure.
Precautions
The first rule of street safety is to not be conspicuous when you should not be. Note the stress on "when". There is a difference between being the life of the party and the center of attention in a a party thrown by your friends, and doing the same in a side-street at 9 pm on some Wednesday night while returning home. Part of that involves not flaunting any jewelry that you may wear. For example, it’s a good idea to wear your Sterling Silver necklace to a party, but not removing it while you are returning home is risky enough to be called a fools’ errand. Also note that even if you are with a friend, by itself that does not ensure safety. And your security is compromised all the more if you are alone. Do not flash your costly touch phone around, is another piece of advice to follow. Think of these things as crime magnets - they will draw not just attention, but the attack itself.
Basics
Having made it clear that you should not wear jewelry that compromises your safety, lets now understand how it can be used as a weapon in your self-defense. We are here talking about a bracelet, which is usually inconspicuous, especially if you are wearing long-sleeved top or shirt.
An important principle of self-defense is that anything can be used as a weapon. This principle has been taught to professionals like MI6 spies (think James Bond), commandos and other such fighters. In fiction, the protagonist of 'The spy who came in from the cold', when threatened and attacked, uses a matchbox as a weapon. A matchbox that he crushes and gets the jagged ends outwards, to strike the attacker with. Your Sterling Silver bracelet can come to the same use - and much more effectively than a match of boxes.
Using Your Bracelet
The following factors make a bracelet a good weapon in personal combat: almost all bracelets have edges, if not in the body then in the beads that it may have. It is worn on your hand, which you will anyway use to attack, by way of defense. Also if you do not have any option, it may be the strongest choice of weapon you may have.
To improvise on it further, if your bracelet is loose, you could use the other hand to pull it over your hand, and let it attach itself on the lower part of your hand. In which case it will no longer dangle, and the attacker will see this new weapon more clearly too - something which will deter him.
Another improvisation you can do is take the bracelet off your arm, and hold it in your fist. Then use this as an impact device to punch and parry the attacker with. Attacks on the face are more effective with this new "weapon" of yours too.
Conclusion
A Sterling Silver bracelet is not just a show piece - at the fundamental level it is metal - more importantly an alloy which has been designed to be strong. Metals are strong, and using them, you can be stronger too. It’s one more weapon in your arsenal, and the bigger the arsenal of self-defense skills, the more secure and confidant you will be. Keep yourself safe and secure.
Using Microsoft Word
Apparently Microsoft is serious about going after Google – the 800 pound Gorilla of the internet. So in that spirit, I bring to you my latest, most uninteresting post – the only remarkable thing about which is that I am writing this blog post using Microsoft Word 2007.
A sample of my writing: the prompt was - Salaries of Clinical Research Doctors in the UK
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According to the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry (Abpi), the national trade association for the industry, it employs around 75,000 people, of whom around 17,500 are graduates. For the financial year 2009-2010, its exports formed the largest chunk for any single industry, at around US$12 Billion. All this drug manufacturing needs not only manufacture of drugs, but also clinical research and testing of the same, even before they get to the manufacturing phase. The government regulation body, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency ( MHRA), has strict standards with which a new drug must meet before it is allowed to be introduced to the market, or exported. Apart from the requirement by MHRA for clinical research doctors, independent Clinical Research Organisations (CROs) and Pharmaceutical companies too need clinical research doctors in their employment.
The work of a Clinical Research Doctor usually involves Phase-I to Phase-III of the clinical trial process. Salary depends on experience of the doctor and the the position within the company. A Clinical Research Doctor or Clinical Research Physician, as they are also known, will usually act as a team leader in a company setting. Many a times CROs prefer a Clinical Research Physician with experience as an Investigator or as an sub-investigator.
Many Universities and CROs offer positions as Clinical Research Fellow, which also involves working in a clinical trial setting. These positions are open to students under training as well as to fully qualified GMC Registered professionals. A Clinical Research Fellow usually starts at a salary of 31,000 GBP per year, with the expected working hours at around 40 per week.
Often, CROs employ Clinical Research Doctors under the job description or title of "Medical Advisor", a position that involves not only Clinical trials, but also providing medical advise, representing the CRO at biddings to win business for the company and acting as a consultant for the pharma company sponsoring the drug or the trial. The average salary for a Medical Advisor is around 100,000 GBP, and the range at which is offered is from 70,000-150,000 GBP per year, depending on experience and the CRO. The candidate can also expect a range of benefits as an employee. Many jobs require the candidate Doctor to have an specialization in the field the company has advertized the position for - for example its common to see an job advertisement for a Medical Advisor or Clinical Research Doctor with expetience in ophthalmic domain. Many European companies advertise for UK clinical doctors too for their job requirements.
These positions require a doctor to work independently, many a times acting as a senior consultant to the Pharmaceutical company and the CRO - positions which require prior experience as a Clinical Fellow and an Investigator or sub-Investigator. As mentioned previously, recent graduates can start off as Clinical Fellows and thereby gain experience in that position. Apart from universities, CROs also employ graduates as Clinical Fellows, a position from which they can start their career. Usually, recent graduates can expect a salary of around 30-35,000 GBP per year.
There are various online portals where jobs are advertized for Clinical Research Doctors; these can be searched for using keywords like - clinical research doctor, clinical research physician, medical advisor, clinical research fellow, research fellow, research fellow, team leader clinical trials.
According to the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry (Abpi), the national trade association for the industry, it employs around 75,000 people, of whom around 17,500 are graduates. For the financial year 2009-2010, its exports formed the largest chunk for any single industry, at around US$12 Billion. All this drug manufacturing needs not only manufacture of drugs, but also clinical research and testing of the same, even before they get to the manufacturing phase. The government regulation body, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency ( MHRA), has strict standards with which a new drug must meet before it is allowed to be introduced to the market, or exported. Apart from the requirement by MHRA for clinical research doctors, independent Clinical Research Organisations (CROs) and Pharmaceutical companies too need clinical research doctors in their employment.
The work of a Clinical Research Doctor usually involves Phase-I to Phase-III of the clinical trial process. Salary depends on experience of the doctor and the the position within the company. A Clinical Research Doctor or Clinical Research Physician, as they are also known, will usually act as a team leader in a company setting. Many a times CROs prefer a Clinical Research Physician with experience as an Investigator or as an sub-investigator.
Many Universities and CROs offer positions as Clinical Research Fellow, which also involves working in a clinical trial setting. These positions are open to students under training as well as to fully qualified GMC Registered professionals. A Clinical Research Fellow usually starts at a salary of 31,000 GBP per year, with the expected working hours at around 40 per week.
Often, CROs employ Clinical Research Doctors under the job description or title of "Medical Advisor", a position that involves not only Clinical trials, but also providing medical advise, representing the CRO at biddings to win business for the company and acting as a consultant for the pharma company sponsoring the drug or the trial. The average salary for a Medical Advisor is around 100,000 GBP, and the range at which is offered is from 70,000-150,000 GBP per year, depending on experience and the CRO. The candidate can also expect a range of benefits as an employee. Many jobs require the candidate Doctor to have an specialization in the field the company has advertized the position for - for example its common to see an job advertisement for a Medical Advisor or Clinical Research Doctor with expetience in ophthalmic domain. Many European companies advertise for UK clinical doctors too for their job requirements.
These positions require a doctor to work independently, many a times acting as a senior consultant to the Pharmaceutical company and the CRO - positions which require prior experience as a Clinical Fellow and an Investigator or sub-Investigator. As mentioned previously, recent graduates can start off as Clinical Fellows and thereby gain experience in that position. Apart from universities, CROs also employ graduates as Clinical Fellows, a position from which they can start their career. Usually, recent graduates can expect a salary of around 30-35,000 GBP per year.
There are various online portals where jobs are advertized for Clinical Research Doctors; these can be searched for using keywords like - clinical research doctor, clinical research physician, medical advisor, clinical research fellow, research fellow, research fellow, team leader clinical trials.
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