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4. MENGATASI JERAWAT
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7. MENENANGKAN KULIT
pasti ada yang pernah terkena sunburn atau kulit terbakar matahari ?? salah satu manfaat dari Aloe Vera Soothing Gel adalah untuk menenangkan kulit. jika kalian terkena paparan Sinar Uv segeralah oleskan produk ini supaya memberikan efek dingin pada kulit, apalagi kalau kulitnya sudah memerah.

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Kalian bisa mengaplikasikan Nature Republic Aloe Vera pada alis dan bulu mata. produk ini dipercaya bisa digunakan untuk menebalkan alis dan melentikkan bulu mata. pada saat kalian mengoleskan Aloe Vera Gel pada seluruh wajah dan leher, jangan lewatkan untuk mengoles juga di alis dan bulu mata.

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Titanium and tungsten are almost impossible to work with. I can almost guarantee there’s nobody in your hometown able to size a titanium or tungsten ring. Call around and see for yourself. You might get lucky and find someone on the internet located in the middle of North Dakota who says he can do the job. Good luck.
Gold and platinum can be soldered and sized and fixed by jewelers the world over. Ten years from now, when you’re ten years older, and your finger is one size larger, you’ll easily be able to size up your gold or platinum ring.brushed women tungsten rings

Want to replace your smaller center diamond with something bigger? No problem. Need to re-tip your worn prongs? Again, not a problem with gold or platinum.Know this: your finger size will change. They often do over time. Our knuckles can continue to grow even if the rest of our body doesn’t. Weight gain or loss can effect your finger size too.

If your finger size changes in time will your titanium and tungsten wedding bands change with you? Nope.The titanium slab in the picture is worked on my filing, sawing and drilling. There is no casting or soldering with titanium. It's worked in a machine shop, not a jeweler's bench.

Getting married? Don’t Buy Titanium and Tungsten Wedding Bands. Get a gold or platinum ring. Leave the titanium and tungsten for your right hand. For the ring that represents your union and your love, don’t go cheap and temporary.

Use the metals that represents lasting value and lasting love. Get wedding bands you can pass on to your kids. I have sized so many rings from my client's parent's and grandparents. For students and young people with little money, these inherited jewelry gifts keep on giving as they can be sized and altered. The meaning that these rings give is sentimental and priceless. I know I'd want to give wedding rings to my heirs that could be sized and re-used.

For your love, for the changing finger sizes in your married life, chose gold and platinum. Your love is worth it!

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We lock our doors, install alarms, and even put bars on our windows to protect our devices, but we leave our home Wi-Fi insecure. Why? Read on to see how to secure your Wi-Fi, enhance your router’s safety, and protect your home network.

Why you want to secure your Wi-Fi
Piggybacking: Other users connecting to your unsecured Wi-Fi may be on the lower end of the threat spectrum, but it still raises some concerns. In most cases, this results in reduced bandwidth as part of your connection is being stolen. Depending on your service plan, this may also lead to higher costs. In rare cases, someone using your Wi-Fi to perform illegal activities can get you in trouble, as the authorities may identify you as the culprit.
Prevent Wi-Fi-based attacks: Hackers seek out unsecured networks because they're great attack vectors. They can scan your traffic to learn your passwords, perform “man-in-the-middle” attacks, breach your devices or even find your home address.
Secure your router: Depending on the router and the hacker, some unsecured Wi-Fi networks can be exploited to break into your router as well. This gives the hacker even more options. They can turn your router into a part of their botnet to hide their illegal activities, use it for crypto-mining, or passively monitor your traffic even when they're gone.

How to secure your Wi-Fi
Set up a new Wi-Fi password.
This is a basic security method that helps to prevent unauthorized access. Having no password or keeping the default factory one is like having a public Wi-Fi – anyone can join in.
Change the default settings for your network.
Many routers come with factory-default passwords, SSIDs (your network name), and other details that hackers can easily find online. Change anything you can that won't affect the actual functionality of your router.

Filter MAC addresses.
You can improve your Wi-Fi security further by filtering the MAC addresses of the devices you want to connect to your network. This makes it difficult for any other device whose MAC address hasn’t been added to the network to connect to it.

Turn off SSID broadcasting.
Your SSID is broadcasted at all times. It makes it easier for new devices to find and connect to your Wi-Fi, but it also makes it equally as easy for hackers to find it too. These signals can be easily scanned and transformed into heat maps that show where a certain network is. These maps are readily available to average users or stalkers, too. However, you can turn off SSID broadcasting to protect your home network.

If you disable SSID, that doesn’t mean that you will no longer be able to find your Wi-Fi. You’ll just have to manually enter your Wi-Fi name when looking for your Wi-Fi network.

Disable UPnP.
Many routers have UPnP enabled by default. UPnP helps external devices connect automatically and discover other devices on your home network. However, it presents many vulnerabilities as your router doesn’t question whether connections coming from the UPnP protocol are trustworthy. This way a hacker can use a UPnP connection to connect to your network.

Without UPnP, you’ll have to manually configure port forwarding. However, this is worth doing because it improves your overall network security.

How to secure your Wifi?

Log out of your router’s web interface.
Some routers may be vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks. These are difficult to defend yourself from as they target the websites you visit rather than the router itself. However, if you forget to log out of your router’s web interface, hackers can use it against you, leak your login details and breach your network.

Make sure that your Windows Firewall is on.
If you are a Windows user, make sure that this built-in security feature is on. It will filter and block potentially harmful programs from communicating with your device and will protect your network. You can check whether it’s on by typing ‘firewall’ in your search bar, opening ‘Windows Defender Firewall,’ and looking for ‘Windows Defender Firewall state’ – it should be on!

Update your router’s interface.
The software that runs on your router – its firmware – isn’t perfect. Like any other software, it goes out of date. Router manufacturers tend to issue firmware updates to patch security holes that old firmware might present. However, the problem is that your router won’t remind you to do this the way your operating system would.

To check whether you need to update your firmware, go to your router’s web interface. Most of them will indicate when your firmware was updated last and whether there’s a new version you can install.

Connect your router to a virtual private network (VPN).
Connect your router to a VPN will actually secure devices AFTER they connect to your Wi-Fi, not in the local area while they connect.
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With the abundance of online security tips around, Internet users tend to think they know the basics of how to avoid tricked by criminals. Yet the statistics show that up to 45% of Internet users keep clicking on dangerous links or providing personal information where they shouldn’t.

Internet users recognize phishing emails. Or do they?
The results of the National Privacy show that almost 94% of all respondents would ignore an email request from their bank to provide personal information. Warnings about email phishing scams are among the most basic cybersecurity tips, and it seems that Internet users who took the National Privacy Test are largely familiar with one of the most prevalent forms of phishing.

However, the prevalence of phishing scams signals that more sophisticated baits are still very profitable for cyber criminals. According to Verizon’s research conducted in 2016, as many as 30% of phishing emails are opened. In another example, Kaspersky reports that Kaspersky Lab products blocked 51 million attempts to open a phishing page in Q1 2017.

These results lead to believe that although users may be aware of basic types of malicious emails, more sophisticated phishing ventures still work in many cases.

With two significant ransomware attacks that have just affected countries around the world and rising email phishing, the question stands: how can email users get better at spotting malicious messages?

Tips for spotting a phishing email
Examine the sender’s email address. Don’t just trust the official display name – pay closer attention to the email address. If the domain strikes you as not quite right (e.g. info@secure.apple.com), don’t open the email.
Check for spelling and grammar mistakes. Serious companies don’t normally pester their customers with emails that contain bad grammar and basic spelling mistakes.
Analyze the salutation. Your bank or another legitimate institution would usually address you with your full name. If you see a vague “Dear user” or similar instead, remain watchful.
Don’t click on links – instead, hover your mouse over the button to check the destination link. See if it looks legitimate and if it contains the “https” part to indicate a secure connection.
If uncertain, make contact with your bank or other institution over the phone or a different email address and ask to confirm if the email is legitimate.
For added security, use a VPN. Using a VPN service when browsing can protect you against malware and phishing attempts that target online access points. VPN’s feature CyberSec is activated every time a user switches the VPN on, and protects from malware, annoying ads and phishing attempts. It checks each website the user tries to access against a list of malicious sites. Any site included in the phishing blacklist is blocked before any harm can be done.
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Looking into ways to avoid monitoring and stay anonymous online? Tor browser and VPN services are the most popular online privacy tools for this. Though to many users they may seem very much alike, which is true to some extent, these two technologies have significant differences. Read on to find out how Tor and VPNs work, is Tor the same as a VPN, what their peculiarities are, and which of them to choose. Take it away!
What is Tor? 
Tor stands for The Onion Router. It refers both to the network of computers for managing Tor connections and the software you install to run Tor.
The Tor technology disguises your identity by encrypting and directing your traffic via Tor servers. As a result, the party on the other end of your connection can’t trace the traffic back to you. 
How does Tor work?
When your computer sends a message using the Tor network, here’s what happens:
1.The Tor software on your device selects 3 random Tor servers and builds a path between them. These servers are called a guard node, a middle server, and an exit node.
At this stage, your message undergoes multiple encryption process – Tor enciphers it 3 times for each of the 3 different nodes.
2.Once your message is encrypted, Tor sends it to the first server, or the guard node. It removes one layer of encryption before passing your message to the next server.
Though the guard node can see your IP address, it is unable to read the encrypted message because of the 2 layers of encryption left.
3.The process repeats. The middle server takes off the second layer and passes the message to the exit node. As you may guess, similarly to the first server, it can’t read the contents of your message as well. 
4.The exit node peels off the final layer and can read the decrypted message. However, it is unable to identify your IP address, so the sender remains unknown. This last server then passes the message to the recipient. 
What is VPN and how does VPN work?
VPN, or Virtual Private network, is the technology that encrypts your data and directs traffic via an intermediary VPN server. VPN services provide a number of servers in various locations to choose from, so you can get whatever country IP address you want.
Top-notch VPN software employs reliable, military-grade 256-bit encryption technique. This cypher is impossible to brute-force, so all your data is completely secure.
Information sent from your device passes through a remote VPN server before reaching its destination. Likewise, the traffic sent to your computer passes through the same encrypted tunnel before reaching your device.
VPN makes it impossible for your ISP or any third parties to peer into your traffic, making you completely anonymous online and protecting all your private data.
Should you use a VPN: VPN pros & cons
As opposed to Tor, with a reputable VPN it’s easy to tell who runs the servers, so the end-user can be sure about the quality of service. Other advantages of using a VPN service include: 
Faster connection speeds compared to Tor, due to the less complicated routing scheme.   
Encryption of all your internet traffic, not just the browsing data. 
Accountability – it is possible to tell who the servers belong to.
Access to geo-restricted content – you can easily get an IP address of the location where the content you’re looking for is available. 
Compatibility with most popular devices and even routers. 
Customer support available 24/7 to answer your questions and solve any technical issues. 
VPN offers advanced capabilities, such as special servers for safe torrent download and for unblocking Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services. 
Though a VPN service provides lots of benefits, there are still some concerns left:
Your data passes through fewer servers and you entrust your information to a single service provider. 
Depending on the providers, policies, and jurisdiction, some VPNs collect user logs. Moreover, a recent research shows that a number of VPN providers are secretly owned by firms from China, where privacy laws are quite lax. 
A best VPN software is not free, as providers need to maintain a network of servers, keep the software and hardware upgraded, etc. 
All the mentioned issues can be easily addressed just by choosing a trustworthy provider. For instance, VPN is just the perfect security and privacy solution for you. With its transparent privacy policy and affordable VPN plans, you can enjoy all the benefits of an advanced VPN without any privacy concerns. VPN download

Tor vs VPN: which one to choose?
To make the choice easier for you, we’ve summarized the pros and cons of Tor and VPNs in the chart below.
Tor vs VPN - comparison of features
Bottom line on anonymous browsing with Tor or VPN
We hope that now you can tell which is better – Tor or VPN. The answer is – a trustworthy VPN! It offers more accountability, better speed and protection, and other hefty benefits. Download VPN to protect all your traffic and enjoy completely anonymous browsing wherever you are!
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The internet has become a necessity these days. We like to stay connected throughout the day. That is why, even when we are outdoors, we often search for public WiFi hotspots that can provide us with fast connectivity. 
However, they are a double-edged sword. While the advantage is that you can get a fast Internet connection, the disadvantage is that you cannot be sure about its security. That is why, if you plan on using any of the public WiFi hotspots, it is essential to know how to remain protected. 
Today, we will share a few tips on how to stay secure even on public WiFi hotspots. With the help of our guide below, it will be easy to browse the internet with no cybersecurity risks.
How VPN services help stay safe online?
A best VPN can help you stay secure online. Some of the most direct ways it keeps you safe online are:
1.Thanks to the point-to-point protocol, data transfer via VPN is completely secure. Since the authenticity of the data is checked on both ends of the connection, you can be sure that tampering or infiltrating the data is impossible.
2. VPN services utilize encryption protocol. That is why, even if someone intercepts your traffic, they will not be able to access the data or read it without your personal key. Thanks to encryption, you can be sure that your data will be entirely safe even when using public WiFi hotspots.
3. Usually, VPN service providers use any of the following protocols (or their combinations): OpenVPN, L2TP, or PPTP. These three protocols can secure your data in different ways, but their general purpose is establishing a secure VPN tunnel from your device to the website you access.
4. Also, no VPN provider worth its name stores any of your records. It means that you can browse the web without anyone snooping on your online activities. And even if some officials request to provide them your data, the VPN provider won’t have any to begin with!
So, if you’re looking to stay safe while being connected to public WiFi hotspots, a VPN is the best option for you to browse without any cybersecurity risks.
How to use lookup services to be safe?
If you’re still concerned about connecting to public WiFi hotspots, there is a secondary check which you can perform. Lookup tools is a solution that allows you to reverse check phone numbers, perform people search, and lookup addresses.
One of the main dangers of a public WiFi hotspot is that you do not know the entity or the person providing it. A better way to know more about the public WiFi hotspot is to look up the address in the vicinity using lookup services like Spokeo, Whitepages, and AnyWho. It can help you determine if a legit organization is providing a particular public WiFi hotspot, or it is a trick to lure you. 
Similarly, you can opt for the people search services or reverse email lookup to learn about the owner of the organization before making your decision. It will help you find more information about the provider of the public WiFi hotspot. Before connecting, you can know right away whether it is safe to use that hotspot or not.
Using the two steps above, it becomes easy for you to stay secure even on public WiFi hotspots. In addition to those, here are a few general tips which you should follow for online security.
Additional precautions which you should take to stay safe online irrespective of the network you’re on include: 
Creating complex passwords
The most well-known passwords are easy to crack. Any hacker using a brute force attack can crack one. So, it is better to use a complex password with a mix of uppercase and lowercase characters, numbers, and symbols. Also, many websites these days also offer 2-factor authentication that you should certainly activate. It will ensure that your accounts are nigh impossible to hack unnoticed.
Activate the firewall
Most computers have a firewall in their operating system. Users sometimes disable it as it can be restrictive and create certain inconveniences. However, when browsing on unknown hotspots, it is advisable to keep your firewall activated. 
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Do you have concerns about your personal privacy and the safety of your information on the Internet?
You should.
It's not that the Internet is an inherently dangerous place, but it's certainly not a safe, secure refuge where your personal information is carefully protected...even though it's supposed to be.
All you need to do is follow the news to see how often companies' computers are broken into and how many networks are "breached"—that is, how often hackers not only break into a network but also steal company (and customer) information off networks and computers.
Indeed, with the increasing number of hack attacks, the growth of our wireless/smart devices and the arrival of the Internet of Everything and globally connected world, it might be time to give some thought to your own online life:
Should you have a lower profile on the Internet
Do you need to be more cautious about what you share online?
Do you trust companies, apps and people more than you should, and assume everything will simply be okay?
Information Privacy
Forget about the Internet for a second and ask yourself this question: Would you be fine with just anybody and everybody having access to your personal information?
Your medical records
Your driving record
Your shopping habits
Your Internet browsing activity
Most people are more private than they think but they let their guard down on the Internet.
Surely, you wouldn't tell strangers off the street many details about your life (or any!) just because they asked. But on the Internet, strangers can indeed learn details about your life that you don't want them to know. It's just that you're not aware of it because they're invisible to you.
Those strangers could be hackers who break into networks to steal passwords and other information. Yet, that's not even always the case. They could be random people on Facebook, LinkedIn and other social medial platforms who simply take an interest in you.
Before the Internet—and the growth of databases, networks and the cloud—the personal information that doctors, stores and companies had about you was relatively safe. But with the Internet and global connectivity, the concept of information privacy has taken a hit.
Taking steps to boost your privacy.
You can take steps to help safeguard your personal information. They revolve around keeping a lower profile on social media sites and limiting what and how much you share online.
Here is a list of steps you can take to better safeguard your personal information. *
Fill in only necessary information for online rebate, warranty and registration forms.
Don't provide your phone number, driver's license or Social Security number to anyone unless it's absolutely necessary.
Check to see if your landline phone number is unlisted.
Use cash as often as you can instead of debit and credit cards.
Remove your name from mailing lists to limit how often your information is shared.
Request a free credit report at least once a year to check for errors or fraudulent usage.
Put the minimum amount of information on website enrollment forms. Where you can (and when it's not fraudulent) put down false birthdates, etc.
Explore antivirus/antispam programs and use a "cookie manager" to limit and filter cookies.
In an office or public setting (library, Internet cafe), clear your browser's history file after an Internet session.
Set up a free email account you can use only for online merchant accounts.
Get help from a tech-savvy friend and install a personal firewall.
Never open an email without examining it carefully. Be on the lookout for spam and phishing emails every time you check email.
Consider using online tools or programs to surf the web anonymously (but check them out carefully).
Hide your IP address by using a virtual private network (VPN) or other networks.
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Last Thursday, two brothers aged 6 and 4 both reportedly drowned playing near a river in Shanghai's Songjiang district while their parents were at work. 

Every summer in China, it seems that there is at least one new daily drowning reported in the news. While the world laughs at photos of overcrowded Chinese beaches and pools overrun with locals wearing inner tubes, China mourns its all-too-frequent drowning victims.Children swimming in Shanghai

Nearly 700 Chinese citizens were killed while traveling overseas last year - one-third of them died during water-based activities while on holiday, such as swimming and snorkeling, according to an article in the South China Morning Post in February.

With more and more Chinese venturing abroad during public holidays and summer vacations, including to Asia's vast number of exotic beach destinations, a rising number are also drowning.

China is the biggest source of foreign visitors to Thailand, as reported by CNN, with almost 10 million Chinese nationals visiting last year. Thailand has hundreds of islands, along with hundreds of some of the nicest and most popular beaches in the world. But what is this great attraction that the Chinese have with beaches when they can't even swim in them?

In 2017, 61 Chinese tourists drowned in Thailand, people.cn reported. On July 5, two boats carrying more than 120 Chinese tourists capsized in a storm off the Thai resort island of Phuket. According to the Global Times, at least 47 of them were confirmed as drowned.

According to the World Health Organization, drowning is the single leading cause of injury death in Chinese children aged 1-14 years. An article in chinanews.com reported that "drowning deaths often occur in summertime, and commonly in rural areas, when Chinese adolescents swim in rivers without parental supervision."

A universal fact of life is that children love to splash in the water on a hot day, but the number of related deaths increases exponentially depending on their respective society's ability to swim. Oddly enough, Chinese culture places little importance on learning swimming skills. 

"About 60,000 people drown in China every year, not including those who die in floods or boat and ferry accidents, according to government statistics. Up to 70 percent of the victims are children," USA Today reported in 2016.

Even Chinese water sports performers can't swim! In April, 17 people drowned after two dragon boats flipped over in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, during Dragon Boat Festival, the New York Times reported. These were trained, experienced boat paddlers who failed to wear life jackets.

Shallow, supposedly safe "kiddie pools" can become death traps, too. Last year, a 4-year-old boy drowned in a knee-deep pool while his mother, who was standing only two meters away, played on her mobile phone, as reported by thepaper.cn in January 2017. In May, Sina News reported on a video showing a 2-year-old child getting stuck in his inner tube underwater for 72 seconds before narrowly being rescued by a passing adult swimmer.

Such tragedies highlight the fundamental absence of adult supervision in Chinese swimming pools, beaches and water-sports spots. A recent lifeguard competition held in Pudong New Area aims to remedy this problem, with the Global Times reporting that there are now 7,000 licensed lifeguards in Shanghai, many working at the city's popular public pools.

But the real problem is the dire lack of swimming education in China. Community based, supervised swim lessons for school-age children in Western countries is why those nations have very low drowning rates. Thus, if China wants to reduce its tragically high number of seasonal swimming-related deaths, it absolutely needs to make swimming a compulsory skill that all Chinese children must learn and pass by primary school.

A local childcare-capacity crunch is driven by limited physical space and the ability to recruit and retain quality staff. While the city of Aspen and its Kids First department work on long-term solutions to the classroom-space shortage, staff is proposing that Kids First create a new-teacher training position to address the personnel question.

A memo to the mayor and city council released last week from Shirley Ritter, Kids First director, proposes adding a second teacher position to her office. The position, which Ritter said has been around for about 18 years, rolls over every year and involves classroom leadership training and serving as a substitute teacher for the various childcare programs housed in the city’s Yellow Brick building.Teacher training for early years or nursery education

“Ultimately the staff in the Kids First teacher positions are successful applicants for senior roles in child care centers throughout the Roaring Fork Valley,” says Ritter’s memo.
At a work session last month, council members took a pass on proposals to add more classroom space in the existing building by cutting into the gym and staff offices, while asking staff to fast track long-term projects to create more classrooms elsewhere. The staffing issue repeatedly came up at the meeting as an impediment to any expansion plans.

“While the community works toward a solution for the physical space, staff heard council direction at the Aug. 20 work-session to develop a plan that addresses the workforce need for increased capacity,” the memo says. Expanding the teacher-training program seemed like effective step the organization could take, Ritter said.

Adding a second Kids First teacher position would cost roughly $77,000 a year, according to the memo. At the end of the year, the person would have completed all state licensing requirements to assume a classroom leadership role. It would also provide an additional substitute teacher steeped in the philosophy of early childhood education.Ritter emphasized that staff is hard to find for childcare centers.

“During this tight hiring market, we have seen the childcare programs (and other businesses) have more difficulty recruiting and retaining qualified staff,” her memo says. “As we began to think about ways to grow the early childhood workforce to meet the need for childcare capacity, the idea of an early childhood teacher who could gain experience by acting as a substitute in the programs and getting classes, training and coaching at the same time seems a good fit.” 

Kids First is waiting for council’s decision on the budget request, expected by November, to fund the position for 2020 and beyond before hiring anyone. But Ritter said recruitment efforts will begin soon, on the understanding that they would cease if the appropriation is not supported. Finding the right person will take time, she noted.

“Kids First staff has varied and deep experience and credentials to provide the training and coaching. This would also provide a high-quality foundational experience for a person who is motivated to remain and advance in the early childhood profession,” the memo says.