Julie Steenhuysen writes about the effects on the brain of flavanols, an ingredient found in cocoa + other viewpoints @ http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1836014620070218
I think it's time that chocolates are prescribed for jewelers, gemologist, lab gemologists, diamond + colored stone dealers / graders, artists + consumers, before meal (s), at least three times a day, for better blood flow to the brain when they are at work + the experts believe that chocolates could also hold promise for treating some vascular impairments. It would be an educational experieince to test diamond/colored stone (s) grade (s) before/after chocolate medication, and see if the grade (s) are consistent. If there are overlaps, you be the judge. Just do it.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Can You Identify This Stone?
(via The Canadian Gemmologist, Vol.III, No.4, Spring, 1982) My color is caused by copper and I am considered idiochromatic. If you put acid on me, I fizz like a shaken bottle of cola. Monoclinic in structure, with an R.I somewhere between 1.65 – 1.90, I am used for jewelry and for carving. What am I?
Answer: Malachite
Answer: Malachite
The End Of Poverty
Good Books: (via Emergic) Jeffrey Sachs's book The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time is an almost-true revelation of today's state of the world. A good book for tomorrow's entrepreneurs.
The Amazon review provides an introduction:
Celebrated economist Jeffrey Sachs has a plan to eliminate extreme poverty around the world by 2025. If you think that is too ambitious or wildly unrealistic, you need to read this book. His focus is on the one billion poorest individuals around the world who are caught in a poverty trap of disease, physical isolation, environmental stress, political instability, and lack of access to capital, technology, medicine, and education. The goal is to help these people reach the first rung on the ladder of economic development so they can rise above mere subsistence level and achieve some control over their economic futures and their lives. To do this, Sachs proposes nine specific steps, which he explains in great detail in The End of Poverty. Though his plan certainly requires the help of rich nations, the financial assistance Sachs calls for is surprisingly modest--more than is now provided, but within the bounds of what has been promised in the past. For the U.S., for instance, it would mean raising foreign aid from just 0.14 percent of GNP to 0.7 percent. Sachs does not view such help as a handout but rather an investment in global economic growth that will add to the security of all nations. In presenting his argument, he offers a comprehensive education on global economics, including why globalization should be embraced rather than fought, why international institutions such as the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank need to play a strong role in this effort, and the reasons why extreme poverty exists in the midst of great wealth. He also shatters some persistent myths about poor people and shows how developing nations can do more to help themselves.
The Amazon review provides an introduction:
Celebrated economist Jeffrey Sachs has a plan to eliminate extreme poverty around the world by 2025. If you think that is too ambitious or wildly unrealistic, you need to read this book. His focus is on the one billion poorest individuals around the world who are caught in a poverty trap of disease, physical isolation, environmental stress, political instability, and lack of access to capital, technology, medicine, and education. The goal is to help these people reach the first rung on the ladder of economic development so they can rise above mere subsistence level and achieve some control over their economic futures and their lives. To do this, Sachs proposes nine specific steps, which he explains in great detail in The End of Poverty. Though his plan certainly requires the help of rich nations, the financial assistance Sachs calls for is surprisingly modest--more than is now provided, but within the bounds of what has been promised in the past. For the U.S., for instance, it would mean raising foreign aid from just 0.14 percent of GNP to 0.7 percent. Sachs does not view such help as a handout but rather an investment in global economic growth that will add to the security of all nations. In presenting his argument, he offers a comprehensive education on global economics, including why globalization should be embraced rather than fought, why international institutions such as the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank need to play a strong role in this effort, and the reasons why extreme poverty exists in the midst of great wealth. He also shatters some persistent myths about poor people and shows how developing nations can do more to help themselves.
The Good German
Peter Schjeldahl writes about Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s 'Berlin Street Scene' (1913-14) + other viewpoints @ http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2007/08/20/070820gonb_GOAT_notebook_schjeldahl
Disharmony In The Concert
David Alan Brown writes about the differences between the styles + the metamorphic poetry and evocative power of new type (s) of painting (s) by Titian and Giorgione + other viewpoints @ http://artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2081
Greatest Film Directors
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. D.W. Griffith
3. Orson Welles
4. Jean-Luc Godard
5. John Ford
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. Sergei Eisenstein
8. Charlie Chaplin
9. Federico Fellini
10. Steven Spielberg
2. D.W. Griffith
3. Orson Welles
4. Jean-Luc Godard
5. John Ford
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. Sergei Eisenstein
8. Charlie Chaplin
9. Federico Fellini
10. Steven Spielberg
A Market Premium For Fraud
Chaim Even-Zohar writes about the side-effects of Certifigate scandal + the diamond dealer (s) concerns + the consumer (s) dilema + other viewpoints @ http://www.idexonline.com/portal_FullEditorial.asp?TextSearch=&KeyMatch=0&id=25232
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