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What you need to know about limited edition chess sets

The world of collecting is very diverse and many collectors have specific types of items to look for. Some collect natural items like insects and flower pressings or everyday items like postage stamps and matchbooks. However, most collectors look for antiques and collectibles. Antiques are generally considered to be at least 100 years old and usually represent another era or society. Virtually any item can be an antique however the most prized antiques are well-preserved and demonstrate excellent craftsmanship.

Collectibles are items of certain significance that are too current or modern to be considered antiques and are usually created for the purpose of collecting. Oftentimes collectibles will be available for a limited time or quantity also known as a limited or special edition. Limited editions may refer to items that are restricted to a fixed number of copies produced or available for a given period of time and can be numbered or unnumbered. Numbered limited editions provide more authenticity because it makes each item unique to its collector and ensures authenticity and the limited quantity. The scarce nature of limited editions makes those items more valuable and special to the collector because he or she has one of the few that are in existence. With items that require precise human work such as sculpting chess pieces, producing items as limited editions optimizes the quality of the production which in the case of chess sets is the craftsmanship of the pieces and/or board. Furthermore, limited edition products have an inherent scarcity and rareness that give them greater value than mass produced products in the long-term.

Chess, one of the most popular games in the world and in human history, is rich with collectibles and has many fans that don't even play the game. Aside from its rich and complex gameplay, part of chess' appeal is the ornamental design of the chess pieces which in themselves can be considered works of art. Artists often deviate from the normal board and piece designs to come up with absurd takes on the look of chess. Many chess sets have been built around specific themes or brands ranging from African tribal pieces to characters from The Simpsons. The beauty of chess set design is that nearly any enthusiast can design their own personalized chess pieces easily and cheaply. However, there are also many amazing professionally made chess sets to fit your every taste and preference. Many chess enthusiasts even purchase limited edition chess sets as part of their collection with no intention of using them for chess. However, collectible chess sets aside from being aesthetically pleasing also provides a thoroughly enjoyable chess playing experience.

If you are looking begin or expand your chess set collection, the crucial factors are authenticity and quality. As with many dealers, it is important to find a trusted source for collectibles with a devotion to providing high-quality collectibles. One of the most well-known manufacturers of limited edition chess sets is Natraja. Natraja commissions a select number of limited edition chess sets to renowned sculptor, Avtarjeet Dhanjal. While Dhanjal's background has mostly been in large sculptures and exhibitions he also provides a line of limited edition hand carved chess sets at natraja.com. Dhanjal, himself the son of wood carver, collaborated with master craftsman Bhupinder Singh and his son, Mandeep Saggu to create a series of five designs, with only 100 numbered sets per design available to collectors. Natraja also devotes two sets per design for museum collections and another two for Natraja's own collection. Each set is made from boxwood and ebony or boxwood and rosewood in themes such as King Arthur, Marc Anthony and even sea horses. The set includes a special leather bounded box for storage and a signed certificate of authenticity. Of course, in the world of collecting authenticity is the name of the game. The outlets that Natraja's sets are sold in are limited to protect consumer's interests and ensure quality. The only place to get Natraja chess sets is at www.natraja.com and select outlets. This prevents a major issue with collectibles of counterfeits and knockoffs being sold at non-authorized dealers to unassuming customers. There are several chess dealers that fraudulently advertise limited editions for sale and any chess set collector needs to be wary of these scams. Natraja sells its limited editions through very select outlets that are referred on Natraja's website. Other dealers claiming limited editions that are not part of Natraja's outlet network will not be able to issue the artist's signed certificate. In the United Kingdom, Natraja sets can be found in limited supply at Chess & Bridge in London while House of Staunton has its own exclusive special edition of Natraja sets in the United States.

Limited edition collectibles are the gold standard for any respectable collector. Particularly, for chess set collectors, limited edition chess board and pieces are the prized possessions in any collection. For starters, they are one of a kind pieces of art that are excellent conversation pieces that will pique the interest of any person. Moreover limited edition chess sets tend to display superior craftsmanship and greater attention to detail. Whether you are buying your first chess board or your hundredth, always go for quality and authenticity.

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Special Edition Nokia 6300 Red Mobile

The undisputed leader in mobile phone industry, Nokia manufactures high quality handsets which ensure great performance and long durability. The Nokia 6300 Red mobile handsets of this company are preferred by everyone in the world. One of the most important handsets from this brand is the Nokia 6300 which is packed with very strong features. This Nokia 6300 Red mobile is available in different colours, like silver, black, red-silver, white silver. So it has everything you are looking for.

The Nokia 6300 Red mobile Equipped with 7.8 MB user memory and 2 GB external memory, the Nokia 6300 allows the users to store songs, videos, images, ringtones and other important files with supreme ease. This beautiful gadget comes with great media player.  The Nokia 6300 Red mobile supports of MP3 and MP4 formats, one can enjoy his favorite video and audio files with ultimate enthusiasm. Refresh yourself with some favorite tracks and interesting programs with its FM radio. This Nokia 6300 phone also comes under pay as you go category. The Nokia 6300 Red mobile is preloaded with a powerful battery giving the individuals a standby time up to 348 hours and talk time up to 3 hours and30 minutes. Another attraction of this lovely device is its 2 mega pixels camera that comes with high resolution and other unique features to provide people a great photographic experience. With its Bluetooth and USB features, one can share important files with other mobile phones, computer, laptop and some other compatible devices.

This Nokia 6300 Red mobile phone is a stunning device that comes with a great design and look. Further, it also possesses some other popular functionality, including Bluetooth, Sync ML, GPRS and EDGE and many more. The Nokia 6300 Red mobile XHTML browser of this wonderful phone lets you enjoy mobile Internet, whenever you want. This classic designed phone comes with a large keypad and the keys are well spaced. Thus, it makes typing extremely easy and reduces the scope of errors. Nokia 6300 Red mobile has wonderful device surprises with its blue lights on both side and this glow when there is any unread text message. Nokia 6300 Red mobile has amazing handset runs on Series 40 user interface that makes it user-friendly. With this device it is quite easy to navigate, one can see the icons, tabs, and other Menu items very clearly. Also, people can rearrange icons in the order they prefer.

Finally, the Nokia 6300 Red mobile phone weighs just 91 grams and has dimensions of 107 x 44 x 13 mm. Messaging with the Nokia 6300 Red mobile is a hassle-free chore, because it provides almost all the modern messaging facilities,  including SMS, MMS, Email and Instant messaging. Apart from this, the handset offers other remarkable features such as calendar, calculator, voice memo, and voice command push to talk and so on. The Nokia 6300 Red mobile GSM-enabled gadget has polyphonic and MP3 ringtones which are the big sources of entertainment for the users. For more entertainment, people can download some other interesting ringtones as well. The Nokia 6300 Red mobile device also fascinates the users with its powerful battery that provides a talk time up to 3.5 hours and standby time up to 348 hours. For more details visit www.phoneandbeyond.com

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What You Need to Know About Pictures for Your Online Dating Profile

First of all, if you want optimal results with your online dating profile, you have to have a picture. Every bit of research shows that a profile with a picture will get at least three times as many responses as one without.

 

Second, your pictures are there primarily to pique her interest so she either reads your profile or decides then and there to send you some kind of communication.

 

Third, put up current pictures. It's not going to do you any good to show up on a date 30 pounds fatter than you are in your pictures. All you're going to do is turn her off, show that you're deceitful, and find out that she might not be attracted to you. It's not like you can blame her.

 

Likewise, if you have something major going on like you only have one arm, you're crippled, or as in my case, your ear is mutilated, you need to address that somehow. Either in your pictures or in your profile.

 

The fact is that if you're comfortable with whatever is "wrong" with you, everyone else will be too. People don't know how to react to certain things, and they'll take their cue from you. If you create the reality that you're comfortable with yourself, everyone else will accept you. You create the reality that you want. After I've gotten to know them, some women have told me that on first meeting me they thought my ear was disgusting and a turn off. Regardless of what they think, I make it a point to bring my ear up early in the first conversation. There is no sense trying to ignore the elephant in the room.

 

Here's a paraphrase of what I say:

How do you like my ear? Pretty cool, huh? My best friend did this to me, some friend, huh? He had a great left hook and I was never good enough to slip it. He hit me so much that it ended up looking like this. I love it. People ‘in the know' know that I must be pretty tough. Or maybe they figure I must not be all that good if I get hit so much. Either way, they know I've been through some shit. It's not like you get an ear like this from playing checkers.

 

Then I go into a story about how people ask me if I fight in the UFC or if I've ever played rugby. Or I tell the story about the commentators talking about my ear when I fought live on ESPN. All of that is purposely designed to be funny, show social acceptance, and illustrate that I'm proud of my deformity. I say that I love my ear. It's a badge of honor. That people "in the know" respect me for it. That other people are comfortable bringing it up. I end the anecdote with a story with something that makes me unique, either being on TV or having strangers come up to me and ask about it. I create the reality for the woman.

You can do the same thing with stuff about yourself that's a bit strange. You can turn anything around with the right story, make any seemingly negative thing into a positive, and make something that was unattractive into something that is. It's all about your attitude and the stories you tell.

 

Picture basics:

You need a variety of different shots on your profile. On most sites you can post at least 12 pictures. Using what I'm going to show you here, you'll need at least six.

These are the minimum I suggest:

1. A basic head shot

2. You in another country or traveling to somewhere notable in the US.

3. You in any kind of leadership position

4. A full body shot

5. In a social setting having fun with friends

6. You doing something unique

 

I've heard some people say that you shouldn't put up a real picture, but instead an illustration or some artistic rendition of yourself made with Photoshop filters. In the experiments I did, this cut my responses to almost one third compared to when I used a real picture. It wasn't as bad as using no picture at all, but still not the best bet.

 

Another thing that actually works in terms of generating initial responses is to have a picture where you can't necessarily see your face, but that shows you doing something interesting. And, believe it or not, a picture that doesn't show your face at all will get just as many responses as one that does, as long as the picture is unusual, intriguing or mysterious. The problem with this is that most sites (but not all) require your main picture to be a face shot.

 

The advantage to putting up one of these "fake" pictures is that it will give anyone responding to you an immediate talking point. Every single one of the emails we got either asked us for a real picture or commented on the illustration. I'm not sure if that's all that significant though, because when we put up real pictures, almost everyone asked us about one or more of those too.

 

I'll go over the six points one-by-one in future articles, until then—start snapping pics and let's get on the road to success!

 

JT

 

For more tips, check out my site at www.online-dating-mastery.com

 

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JT Pierce is a wold-renowned dating coach who helps guys succeed with women both on and offline. For more tips, go to www.online-dating-mastery.com

 

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Cinema 4D - Splines, Primitives, and Their Friends

Cinema 4D provides quite an array of tools for splines, primitives, and nearly anything you can imagine. I often discover tools 'in reverse', when I want to create something and need a tool to help me do it. When you create a splash, bounce something, launch something, there's a good chance you will want to catch it in the same animation. Having a bowl should do the trick. This could be a body of water, this could be a moving vehicle in space but the shape you want and its skeletal definition will resemble a bowl. No problem.

A great way to get started on this project is by creating sphere. Picture the bowl, or pond, or spacecraft reservoir it will become but begin with a simple sphere. Once you have your sphere, make it editable by entering the 'C' key, or using the top menu item on your tool menu on the left of your layout in the standard (and most) menu layouts. A helpful exercise on making an object editable is to choose your sphere first, then click 'Structure' on the top menu. You only see 'Create Polygon' presented as an option. Make your sphere editable and click on the same 'Structure' menu option. Now nearly every option on the structure menu is available and this is an impressive library! for free 3d models

To use these tools your object needs to be editable and to have 'released' some of its property as a primitive object reclaiming some of its 'splineness'. Even the selection process in Cinema 4D involves some selection of its own which can be a bit frustrating in the beginning but like most of Cinema's features, this simply provides greater flexibility which is appreciated down the line.

Here we are going to select the upper half of our new sphere. To be able to select several sections of an object with a fell swoop, use the rectangle selector which is found under the 'Selection' menu. For this exercise use the 'right' view by entering the 'F3' function key. From this profile view for free 3d models, it is much easier to visually separate upper and lower sections of your object, in this case, a sphere. Use your rectangle selector to extend beyond the upper half into the first section of blocks below. You immediately see your upper sphere highlighted with little spears, lines extruding from the sphere. Be sure one other selection has been made and that is, under your rectangle selection attributes, 'un-check' 'Only Select Visible Elements'. With select only visible elements, that is exactly what you get and in our case, it would only choose the portion of the sphere visible in the right profile view.

Just for fun, check the 'Select Only' then use the green up arrow to draw your sphere up vertically and you will see only one side affected. Enter 'F1' to return to your perspective view and see how only part of this object is moving and the distorted shape you are creating. Now, there may be times this is exactly what you want, a partially distorted shape with only a part of one side or top being redrawn but using 'Select Only' makes all the difference. for free 3d models

Now, with these many steps of preparation, simply 'right click' then choose 'disconnect' from the options presented. You will see a 'preserve groups' option which is chosen by default. Click 'OK' and you will have your sphere in two sections now. Try different views to appreciate your what you have done. Move the upper half up to see the distinct 'half' sphere. However notice that while you have disconnected your sphere, it is still a single object. When you used the disconnect command you chose the default 'preserve groups' option.

Do this same exercise, perhaps 'Ctrl Z' to backup to the step where you separated your sphere only this time don't choose to preserve groups. Now using the 'live selection' tool, see that any separate face on your newly created polygon is a separate object. You can reshape, change color or texture to that single piece of your new shape for free 3d models.

Now we have the bowl that we sought at the beginning of the exercise. What if you wanted to keep both halves though, and sew them back together. Why, the 'stitch and sew' command would be just the thing, in our continuation of 'splines, and their friends'.

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