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Diamond Eyes, Diamond Dreams, Diamond Ways

Until this past decade the diamond trading world was a cold and cold blooded business of secretive agents in alleyways in Antwerp. It took an Australian company which changed the world diamond business into more of the free for all it is today. In the past, a secretive, tight cartel delivered a tightly controlled amount of diamonds to the world market. Then came the so called blood diamonds from Angola, where a loose diamond explosion had diamonds and land mines scattered all around the country side, to the fear and death of many locals.

That business has been cut way down, areas have been cleared of land mines and less hostile regimes now in place can change much. Now, diamonds on the market no longer carry this taint. Either from australian burning desert, or up in Canada’s Arctic north the massive new diamond pipes spiral down for miles under the surface. What this means to you and I, is for industrial or our residential use, this all means that the world has many years of high grade cluster diamonds that fall apart into large gem size.

Locals are being given priority in jobs, and world class expert training takes place on the site. In view of global warming melting Arctic ice, a polar bear is engraved on the base of Canadian diamonds. This irony is not lost on native groups who see their former life style gone with the ice, and diamond mining jobs are a comforting respite of good quality employment and way to maintain their families. Housing near the job sites and year round roads connect the sites to the outside work, and ironically transport is easier in winter months.

In winter the many lakes and rivers are frozen and faster to get around on. Owners in the syndicates developing the diamond mines are varied and include many shop keepers from Fifth Avenue jewelry stores. Diamonds are pure carbon that have gone through a hellish transformation. Beginning as a seam of carbon in the state of coal, some lightning strikes come up from inner earth to the surface in seams of light through coal: the completed process leaves behind narrow seams of diamonds in their wake.

The new Canadian diamond seams are tightly clustered and break down into large ring size clusters. Information about which rock formations in a sea area hold the rare diamond pipe is complicated by factors as diverse as the magnetic pole location nearby and solar flares. Aircraft computers and cameras nowadays can be down loaded into corporate computers while in flight, as the process begins with pilots in small aircraft hanging ultra scope camera that see down below the earth’s surface.

Most diamond clusters are tightly packed together and require careful skills with diamond experts to handle these often tempermental diamonds. Not so the new Canadian diamonds, which tend to more lightly crumble open into gem and ring sized quality diamonds. After camera scans and scientific test drills confirm, a new diamond mine site is in the process of being created. This process goes to prospecting crews to technical people and mine site preparaton, usually with a large closed space for central workers areas.

Trained experts in Canada’s north train natives how to process new diamonds, that are allowing jewelry sales and bargains with a clear conscience. Win win win works well in diamond drilling, and diamond minds are quick to see the opportunities that lie about.

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Diamonds have always expressed eternal values due to their unique quality of hardness enough to make a diamond a cutting agent to all else.

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Derek Dashwood notices how science measures history, some that make us more loving savior of motherland, less warrior at
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Chinese Culture Beyond China’s Olympics

We saw the future in China’s Olympics, really. More of the same excellence, of the same dedicated spirit to attain greater new records, new heights, new goals. We learned to expect to be amazed by China. And that this should now be our common attitude towards China was the great hint put forward by the recent Olympics and all they foretold. That by far the most gold medals were won by Chinese athletes. Even the one scandal was of girls younger than age 12 beating older females from other countries. The question of how much better she might be with several more year practice did not come up in the media frenzy about this.

Napoleon said of China that it was a sleeping dragon, and it was best to let it sleep. For when awakaned, its roar shall surely shake the world. All our frenetic capitalist role model building created modern Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Honk Kong. Wealth building by the smaller tigers has surely awakaned the dragon, and we see ir strut and roar. For mighty China has density and mass in its favor. China can create an up and running factory from raw land faster and cheaper than any other place on earth.

Ten million people now work in what was recently farmland in the Pearl River Delta near Hong Hong. A city twice the size of Hong Hong has been created and is now the focal point of much of the exports to America. We watch the BBC man with the golden voice at the docks where the man says that a ship leaves every so many minutes on average around the clock every day now. We go through a factory, and spend a day in the life of a young female worker. She is from a farm village far to the west.

We see her bright cheery small apartment in a tall modern tower complex. She walks to work as her factory is near her home. We see few cars, we see many people walking. She works in the factory for perhaps four months, and then returns home for as long, or more. She enjoys life in the farm village more, but this pays her money she would never see if she stayed at home in the village. Here she can afford to buy things for those at home, conveniences such asa television when the village receives electricity from the new dam.

Many people must be displaced in order to flood the valleys, and soldiers usually come to deliver this message, and then to assist or force any having difficulty obeying orders to leave before the water begins to rise. Many grave sites end up not being completly sealed before dams, and the greatest lake of them all is rising with a foul brew of dead animal, grave site bodies and lack of environmental preparation is creating a future nightmare. For while pristine new cities are being created, dirty coal and dirty dam sites are creating toxic nightmare for this area on earth.

We see the factory is very clean in contrast to the dirt and grime around the farm. Yet we sense that the heart and soul of these young females still resides in the country, and when ever she can she will return to the farm of her youth. How more likely we must also suppose that artwork from the glorious past will one day be a hidden treasure reborn anew again. So while your person who makes your microwave can get a discount on that, you know what she really craves? She has enermous respect for the China of the paat, not so much this new city, new factory, no heart, no soul.

Our modern worker to rcreatethe vast mighty new China treats her job as it is: a job. She does not love it, she loves her family and her lifestyle back in the village on the farm. Not the lead lined pot of today, but great grand mothers old Mings and things. Who could have guessed? Besides Napolean and you, that is. The Mings and things should accumulate on your mantle, Mickey. She antique China off to the world, until that pendulum curve works its way around to China and you. The Mings and things will have their day, and those late to see this will be made to pay.

You can smile serene in your ways, Mings and things you did buy, before prices went too high. Lucky guy, lucky ways.

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We came, we saw and we were overwhelmed by China’s Olympics. What next?

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Derek Dashwood notices how science measures history, some that make us more loving savior of motherland, less warrior at
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Chinese Antiques, China Now: More Glorious, More Rich

To have a plan on where you are going does make it more likely your plans become realized. The state plans beloved by Communist Chinese hearts can look at huge concepts and see future projections made realities year after year. Five year plans come and go, and when the state plans take in the vastly greater industrial power of capitalism from the west, can the east grow ever richer. To understand China is to feel the sense of urgent destiny in each grand gesture and in the style and ways of China to display its new and glorious destiny.

With city states such as Jericho yet to be uncovered in China, going back the ten thousand years as does Jericho to unveil deeper truths of the past. As it is, Damascus in Syria is considered to be the oldest continually inhabited settlement on earth, with Sumeria, Babylon and Egypt all nearby. In China as in the middle east digs into middens reveals older cultures further down, thnese excavations continue with human and animal bones. Most digs in China have only uncovered back five thousand years so far.

But as peoples have inhabited these plains forty thousand years, surely new digs and finds are yet to be uncovered. Most recent DNA samples seems to indicates that modern humans arrived into easter Asia by forty thousand years ago, and continued their migration up eastern Asia and over the land bridge to the Americas around thirty thousand years ago. It had been thought the peoples who went west into Europe had moved over from the Levant, however this view has been proven incorrect: Europe was instead populated by peoples from India and Persia.

With China, there was a direct family connection with those family leaving Africa for India and the south Pacific and Australia. With China, a northern branch of the humanity family tree branch differently in various ways including eyes and skin color. The closer to the equatorial sun the darker the skin needed to be, the farther north the more eyes and skin could lighten to absorb more sunlight. Thus can be seen darker skin Sri Lankans in the south contrast to lighter skin Indians north in Delhi.

As China is farther north than India such contrasts are not so obvious in China. Here the subtle ways are in the land. Vast China is cut in half by the mighty Yangstze River which enters the South China Sea near Shanghai. As this mighty river winds due west into the heart of China and as it is at the natural climate zone to divide crops, we find wheat crops grow north of the Yangtze, rice grows south of the Yangstze. So Shanghai is a gathering place of two different crop growing cultures, and all the other effects that would naturally grow out of that.

Silk plants to weave baskets would be very different than a wheat grass basket, and any other reed plants that are limited to either a cold or hot crop area. What you can learn from all this is shown in the types of plants inscribed onto say Mings and things. Whether you awaken to the celestial wisdom required to have you buy heiroom Chinese antiques today, as a lay away plan for tomorrow that will certainly come. And when your future buyer wants to view your Mings and things, you know the plan. You buy low now before several hundred million Chinese go from new middle class to new rich class. Give it a decade.

A decade from now, all your dusting and enjoying your Chinese antiques will pay off rather handsomely, when your email rings. You must now give special respect to the rich new buyer of her family Mings and things, who wondered where her great grand mothers Mings and things were. And what do you know, but Google says they reside on your mantle, you sly fox. When she arrives, reminded her how deeply your bow of great respect (and high price)your Chinese antiques are. She must take off her shoes.

Proud buyer of your Mings and things will pay too much when she is rich enough and proud enough. You merely smile, give great kowtow, that is great low bow, you smile, enjoy.

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It is glorious to have a rich and civilied culture, and it is even more glorious to become rich today as well.

About the Author (text)

Derek Dashwood notices how science measures history, some that make us more loving savior of motherland, less warrior at
http://www.chineseantiquesshop.com

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Derek Dashwood enjoys noticing positive ways we progress, the combining of science into the humanities to measure life at
Chinese antiques

Chinese Antiques, China Now: More Glorious, More Rich

To have a plan on where you are going does make it more likely your plans become realized. The state plans beloved by Communist Chinese hearts can look at huge concepts and see future projections made realities year after year. Five year plans come and go, and when the state plans take in the vastly greater industrial power of capitalism from the west, can the east grow ever richer. To understand China is to feel the sense of urgent destiny in each grand gesture and in the style and ways of China to display its new and glorious destiny.

With city states such as Jericho yet to be uncovered in China, going back the ten thousand years as does Jericho to unveil deeper truths of the past. As it is, Damascus in Syria is considered to be the oldest continually inhabited settlement on earth, with Sumeria, Babylon and Egypt all nearby. In China as in the middle east digs into middens reveals older cultures further down, thnese excavations continue with human and animal bones. Most digs in China have only uncovered back five thousand years so far.

But as peoples have inhabited these plains forty thousand years, surely new digs and finds are yet to be uncovered. Most recent DNA samples seems to indicates that modern humans arrived into easter Asia by forty thousand years ago, and continued their migration up eastern Asia and over the land bridge to the Americas around thirty thousand years ago. It had been thought the peoples who went west into Europe had moved over from the Levant, however this view has been proven incorrect: Europe was instead populated by peoples from India and Persia.

With China, there was a direct family connection with those family leaving Africa for India and the south Pacific and Australia. With China, a northern branch of the humanity family tree branch differently in various ways including eyes and skin color. The closer to the equatorial sun the darker the skin needed to be, the farther north the more eyes and skin could lighten to absorb more sunlight. Thus can be seen darker skin Sri Lankans in the south contrast to lighter skin Indians north in Delhi.

As China is farther north than India such contrasts are not so obvious in China. Here the subtle ways are in the land. Vast China is cut in half by the mighty Yangstze River which enters the South China Sea near Shanghai. As this mighty river winds due west into the heart of China and as it is at the natural climate zone to divide crops, we find wheat crops grow north of the Yangtze, rice grows south of the Yangstze. So Shanghai is a gathering place of two different crop growing cultures, and all the other effects that would naturally grow out of that.

Silk plants to weave baskets would be very different than a wheat grass basket, and any other reed plants that are limited to either a cold or hot crop area. What you can learn from all this is shown in the types of plants inscribed onto say Mings and things. Whether you awaken to the celestial wisdom required to have you buy heiroom Chinese antiques today, as a lay away plan for tomorrow that will certainly come. And when your future buyer wants to view your Mings and things, you know the plan. You buy low now before several hundred million Chinese go from new middle class to new rich class. Give it a decade.

A decade from now, all your dusting and enjoying your Chinese antiques will pay off rather handsomely, when your email rings. You must now give special respect to the rich new buyer of her family Mings and things, who wondered where her great grand mothers Mings and things were. And what do you know, but Google says they reside on your mantle, you sly fox. When she arrives, reminded her how deeply your bow of great respect (and high price)your Chinese antiques are. She must take off her shoes.

Proud buyer of your Mings and things will pay too much when she is rich enough and proud enough. You merely smile, give great kowtow, that is great low bow, you smile, enjoy.

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It is glorious to have a rich and civilied culture, and it is even more glorious to become rich today as well.

About the Author (text)

Derek Dashwood notices how science measures history, some that make us more loving savior of motherland, less warrior at
http://www.chineseantiquesshop.com

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Derek Dashwood enjoys noticing positive ways we progress, the combining of science into the humanities to measure life at
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Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend, Again

One of the sweet benefits of the aging process is that you get to go shopping with your grand daughters and that somehow it is so much easier at the same age than it had been with your daughters. The lack of direct authority, perhaps, allows the grand daughters to speak more freely. Also, as a parent I was younger, more rushed, more goal oriented which would have put pressure on my daughters. With my grand daughters, if they don’t see anything they like, that’s fine, really, and not a waste of time that would make them feel guilty.

With the grand daughters, we are all liberated from those old parental urges and teenage angst. And how the grand daughters shop is also more liberating, and liberated. Take diamonds, which are not on each weekend’s mall walk, and now for a reason. Where their mothers had steered clear of blood diamonds from Africa, events have trnspired to take those blood diamonds off the market with wars and warlords later, the world has moved on. And massive new diamond finds in Australia and in Canada have flooded the market with precious near diamonds of near perfect size and quality.

Our grand daughters know that blood diamonds are old news, and that new diamonds can be purchased in bulk amidst bargain sales over the net, which did not exist until recently. But now, the grand daughters have discovered low bid auctions, and have their friends over for a web party. Not every viewing party results in a purchase. But when that happens, there is much laughter and cheering. It gives me a warm feeling to see their triumphant gestures when they have pulled off a win.

In contrast, these days when we are at the mall the grand daughters are interested in the clothes: apparently they have to see it, feel it, amd then one of a handful, they try it on. Once the garment has been tried on the decision is quickly made, usually negative if the garment makes the wearer look fat. And this comment from a grand daughter as slender as a model. A diamond of a human being really, brains and beauty, and as well a quiet inner determination. It is well to observe your good works being acted out in a generation beyond that which you sweated so much about.

Now, at the grand parent stage it all seems so easy and natural, this process of birthing, creating and growing perfect people. You set your standards high and your children saw that and were influenced by that and it all became part of who she was to be, adapted by all the things that influenced that along the way. And now her children tell you that mom doesn’t understand, and you go for a walk together and talk about that. You talk about the pressures of being a parent today, and how bothneed to work to pay the family finances, pressures a teen will learn much about all too soon.

How these diamonds of human beings affect your judgement will be seen in your behavior towards others. Do you show empathy for others? Or are you quick to take advantage of another’s error? Our grand children are looking and listening while we unconsciously walk our talks each day in life. How much they need your love and approval will determine to what extent they incorporate your bad habits with your good. For they will hopefuly have heard honest fair values discussed at a Sunday School or some youth group or even at school.

How well you encourage their worthy behaviors will be shown soon enough in the compliments or complaints you receive from others about their behaviors. Loose diamonds are not only a commodity now available over the web, they could well stand for those individual souls we have put so much love and good values into that we know we have cast a diamond out among with ordinary carbons of life.

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Diamonds have a reputation of perfection among gems. This sparkling creation comes up to us from fires deep inside eart.

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Derek Dashwood notices how science measures history, some that make us more loving savior of motherland, less warrior at
http://www.diamondsandgemstonesshop.com

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Derek Dashwood enjoys noticing positive ways we progress, the combining of science into the humanities to measure life at
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Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend, Again

One of the sweet benefits of the aging process is that you get to go shopping with your grand daughters and that somehow it is so much easier at the same age than it had been with your daughters. The lack of direct authority, perhaps, allows the grand daughters to speak more freely. Also, as a parent I was younger, more rushed, more goal oriented which would have put pressure on my daughters. With my grand daughters, if they don’t see anything they like, that’s fine, really, and not a waste of time that would make them feel guilty.

With the grand daughters, we are all liberated from those old parental urges and teenage angst. And how the grand daughters shop is also more liberating, and liberated. Take diamonds, which are not on each weekend’s mall walk, and now for a reason. Where their mothers had steered clear of blood diamonds from Africa, events have trnspired to take those blood diamonds off the market with wars and warlords later, the world has moved on. And massive new diamond finds in Australia and in Canada have flooded the market with precious near diamonds of near perfect size and quality.

Our grand daughters know that blood diamonds are old news, and that new diamonds can be purchased in bulk amidst bargain sales over the net, which did not exist until recently. But now, the grand daughters have discovered low bid auctions, and have their friends over for a web party. Not every viewing party results in a purchase. But when that happens, there is much laughter and cheering. It gives me a warm feeling to see their triumphant gestures when they have pulled off a win.

In contrast, these days when we are at the mall the grand daughters are interested in the clothes: apparently they have to see it, feel it, amd then one of a handful, they try it on. Once the garment has been tried on the decision is quickly made, usually negative if the garment makes the wearer look fat. And this comment from a grand daughter as slender as a model. A diamond of a human being really, brains and beauty, and as well a quiet inner determination. It is well to observe your good works being acted out in a generation beyond that which you sweated so much about.

Now, at the grand parent stage it all seems so easy and natural, this process of birthing, creating and growing perfect people. You set your standards high and your children saw that and were influenced by that and it all became part of who she was to be, adapted by all the things that influenced that along the way. And now her children tell you that mom doesn’t understand, and you go for a walk together and talk about that. You talk about the pressures of being a parent today, and how bothneed to work to pay the family finances, pressures a teen will learn much about all too soon.

How these diamonds of human beings affect your judgement will be seen in your behavior towards others. Do you show empathy for others? Or are you quick to take advantage of another’s error? Our grand children are looking and listening while we unconsciously walk our talks each day in life. How much they need your love and approval will determine to what extent they incorporate your bad habits with your good. For they will hopefuly have heard honest fair values discussed at a Sunday School or some youth group or even at school.

How well you encourage their worthy behaviors will be shown soon enough in the compliments or complaints you receive from others about their behaviors. Loose diamonds are not only a commodity now available over the web, they could well stand for those individual souls we have put so much love and good values into that we know we have cast a diamond out among with ordinary carbons of life.

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Diamonds have a reputation of perfection among gems. This sparkling creation comes up to us from fires deep inside eart.

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Derek Dashwood notices how science measures history, some that make us more loving savior of motherland, less warrior at
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Derek Dashwood enjoys noticing positive ways we progress, the combining of science into the humanities to measure life at
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Marco Polo And The Perfect Chinese Kowtow

Marco Polo had been warned by his father and his uncle on the etiquette of court in ancient Cathay, China to our modern mind. How well you expressed your kowtow, that is your bow to the emperor, said much about your wise use of subtle means to express deeper desires. Marco had many opportunities to practice his bows, and made good use of each new meeting with friend of foe, all would be rreceived by Marco with a generous bow, a very respectful deep bow, some times too deep for one of low station, but Marco erred on the side of wise prudence.

That is, a too effusive bow to a serving person was better than having offended a moody warlord. After coming up over the great hump of Asia from the Black Sea to the Gobi Desert, Marco had studied eye contact with many a trader and fellow traveller. He had faced them all off, and had tried to show by his ragged ways he was a beggar of no worth use to rob. The Polos walked mostly alongside their pack animals these many thousands of miles journey. With the Great Wall out of sight but never too far to their north, they arrived finally in Beijing just past the desert edges.

In great Beijing was the Forbidden City, the fabled home of the emperor and his court. Here was the great symbol of the people and name of China in elegant Tiammamen Square. Up to modern times any volice of dissent has been attempted here. As from back to the days of Confucious up to now, a deep kowtow to the might and weight of the emperor is wise. To stand your ground before a tank of the army of the emperor is to be ground down before the eyes of the world, in ensuring images that sear the mind and seal the fate of millions.

Marco Polo would have known that it was wiser to bow low and deep in a gesture of loyalty, Marco would have done more than, and soon than, what was expected of him. This simple logic applies within any system, and should be applied with grace and serene good will to all. Marco would entertain lightly, playfully, mock a stumble by himself to the giggle of the ladies in court. The perfect kowtow would sweepingly enjoin all the room in attendant to both join the bow to the emperor, but also receive in its way with the bow becoming rather like an athletic wave.

The wave seems to sweep al before it, and all seem to join their bodies ever so slightly in a mutual long low bow. The playful nature of Marco probably both graced and deceived Marco. More often Marco saw his fortune rise due to his witty ways that caused the emperor to smile than frown. Any frown Marco was quick to detect, and quicker to repair. For Marco was an apt student of people, and he could detect a smile from a frown and correct quickly. In contrast Marco was an innocent diversion at court and the tales of their Christian faith interested him greatly.

In a great act of kowtow Marco even carried a message to the Pope in Rome to send one thousand Christian monks or scholars to teach his people a religion to settle them down. Marco did complete this journey and the new Pope decided not to act. On his second trip to Cathay Marco found that the emperor had instead received one thousand scholar of Buddhism from India, so the Catholitc Christians were no longer welcome. However by 1250 Christianity had lost its golden opportunity to have broken into China as the state religion.

And because the emperor wanted a religion to make the people easier to managed. How you make use of your understanding of the rare intimite nature of Chinese antiques and how they came to be available. While the lead lined Neds push their buggys filled with lead melamine copies, watch them watch you as you check the net for web Mings and things. Imagine a decade from now, when some just now middle class, customer one day sooner richer, want grand mothers Mings and things.

That you own, price is nos so much more than what you did pay. Who could have even imagined? You could, you did, Marco - great buy, greater sell.

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To be able to kowtow, that is bow low to the emperor and those in Court meant all the difference in how successful you were in your royal visit.

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Derek Dashwood notices how science measures history, some that make us more loving savior of motherland, less warrior at
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Chinese Antiques, Marco Polo And The Silk Road

Marco Polo and his father and uncle discovered a new, more northern Silk Road to Chinese antiques when they alighted from their sailing vessel on the north east coast of the Black Sea. They walked north east and found an established east-west trading Silk Road around the north end of the Aral Sea, and from here they passed a series of mountain ranges and were generally able to fairly easily bypass most mountain routes and traverse this more northern Silk Road to Cathay, or China to us now. Their road had them walk across barren fields by a lush Aral Sea. Marco would not recognize the Aral Sea today.

Today the Aral Sea continues to shrink because of global warming and wasteful irrigation. The sea shore is littered with signs of dead sea life and relics of ships miles from the receding sea. In his day 1220 man had not yet deveolved the power to taint the earth and darken the skies: that was up as volcanic furies from the gods. As you hiked eastward your journey lifts as you hike up over the great bulk of earth around the mighty Himalaya Mountains. As you pass through that classic corridor in east Afghanistan you enter the western desert areas, and Indo European Afghan peoples changes to Mongol like peoples.

The Mongol type peoples of the Gobi Derest regions are usually controlled by the central authority in Beijing, but only warily so. This sparsely populated area of Mongol type peoples are always a worry to the central authorities, as they have alien ideas and too much open land to allow them to live free. This Silk road could never have supported the silk worm, which is a tender creature that needs a warm moist winter that does not exist at any way along the Silk road, until the final detour off to the right and down over the mighty Yangstze River.

Your Silk Road leaves Beijing and continues south, as Marco Polo would have found to his impatience. For it was just not done that a foreigner could be allowed tolive to see a silk plantation and survive to tell the tale. But not only did Marco live to see the silk plant, but he became familiar with the nurture and care of the silk worm. Temperature was vital, in event of a sudden unexpected frost this would cause the laying of thick mattresses of plants, corn stalk, wheat rice and bamboo, being put on fire as needed.

These practices are continued to this day in the moderating a sudden frost with protective smoke barriers to break cold spells. Marco would have kowtowed his deep low bow to the emperor, to ensure his approval was granted. Marco would have had members of the court accompany him, and there would have been merriment and laughter along the way. To be a part of the inner court and be a part of the playful banter was to feel part of the inner court, the classic In Set.

The life back in the Forbidden City in Beijing can experience hot desert summer but cold bitter Siberian winter winds. In his several year in Cathay, Marco learned to try to enjoy Beijing in the spring and the fall, and avoid therefore the burning Gobi desert summer, or the freezing Siberian winter. It was bliss to be able to negotiate travel time that had you visit the silk plantations in their moist warm winter. There are fabled towns in south China with Venice of the Orient names for good reason.

Here, elegant bridges loop over gentle brooks carrying many canoes laden with flowers, foods, fruits, vegetables of many colors. The warmer southern climate that is the reeal end of the Silk road is a cornucopia of splendor. Marco and his father and his uncle would likely onlyh feel agreeable about travelling north to the Forbidden City only after spring breezes were wafting north in the May breezes. Whether you see the merit in buying Chinese antiques, or if you agree with lead head Ned who buys shiny new Chinese modern with their melamine lead pots, the profit is in the action by you.

Imagine a decade from now, if you buy some Mings and things now. By then, a decade lateer some middle class Susie Wongs will be wanting to upgrade. If she Googles what happened to her great grand mothers Mings and things, and finds the new owner is - you, she will give you a call. Well, Marco, you make her pay. Ask her to take off her slipper at your door. Bow very low, deep kowtow. Ask way too much, and stay firm. Enjoy, this is your retirement golden parachute. Enjoy your moment, Marco, you looked into the future and saw that the money would flow from Chinese antiques. Enjoy your trickle down, hero.

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In times of Chinese antiques, Marco Polo and his father and uncle carved a new more northern Silk Road between Europe to China.

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Derek Dashwood notices how science measures history, some that make us more loving savior of motherland, less warrior at
http://www.chineseantiquesshop.com

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Derek Dashwood enjoys noticing positive ways we progress, the combining of science into the humanities to measure life at
Chinese antiques

Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend, Again

One of the sweet benefits of the aging process is that you get to go shopping with your grand daughters and that somehow it is so much easier at the same age than it had been with your daughters. The lack of direct authority, perhaps, allows the grand daughters to speak more freely. Also, as a parent I was younger, more rushed, more goal oriented which would have put pressure on my daughters. With my grand daughters, if they don’t see anything they like, that’s fine, really, and not a waste of time that would make them feel guilty.

With the grand daughters, we are all liberated from those old parental urges and teenage angst. And how the grand daughters shop is also more liberating, and liberated. Take diamonds, which are not on each weekend’s mall walk, and now for a reason. Where their mothers had steered clear of blood diamonds from Africa, events have trnspired to take those blood diamonds off the market with wars and warlords later, the world has moved on. And massive new diamond finds in Australia and in Canada have flooded the market with precious near diamonds of near perfect size and quality.

Our grand daughters know that blood diamonds are old news, and that new diamonds can be purchased in bulk amidst bargain sales over the net, which did not exist until recently. But now, the grand daughters have discovered low bid auctions, and have their friends over for a web party. Not every viewing party results in a purchase. But when that happens, there is much laughter and cheering. It gives me a warm feeling to see their triumphant gestures when they have pulled off a win.

In contrast, these days when we are at the mall the grand daughters are interested in the clothes: apparently they have to see it, feel it, amd then one of a handful, they try it on. Once the garment has been tried on the decision is quickly made, usually negative if the garment makes the wearer look fat. And this comment from a grand daughter as slender as a model. A diamond of a human being really, brains and beauty, and as well a quiet inner determination. It is well to observe your good works being acted out in a generation beyond that which you sweated so much about.

Now, at the grand parent stage it all seems so easy and natural, this process of birthing, creating and growing perfect people. You set your standards high and your children saw that and were influenced by that and it all became part of who she was to be, adapted by all the things that influenced that along the way. And now her children tell you that mom doesn’t understand, and you go for a walk together and talk about that. You talk about the pressures of being a parent today, and how bothneed to work to pay the family finances, pressures a teen will learn much about all too soon.

How these diamonds of human beings affect your judgement will be seen in your behavior towards others. Do you show empathy for others? Or are you quick to take advantage of another’s error? Our grand children are looking and listening while we unconsciously walk our talks each day in life. How much they need your love and approval will determine to what extent they incorporate your bad habits with your good. For they will hopefuly have heard honest fair values discussed at a Sunday School or some youth group or even at school.

How well you encourage their worthy behaviors will be shown soon enough in the compliments or complaints you receive from others about their behaviors. Loose diamonds are not only a commodity now available over the web, they could well stand for those individual souls we have put so much love and good values into that we know we have cast a diamond out among with ordinary carbons of life.

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Diamonds have a reputation of perfection among gems. This sparkling creation comes up to us from fires deep inside eart.

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Derek Dashwood notices how science measures history, some that make us more loving savior of motherland, less warrior at
http://www.diamondsandgemstonesshop.com

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Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend, Again
 

One of the sweet benefits of the aging process is that you get to go shopping with your grand daughters and that somehow it is so much easier at the same age than it had been with your daughters. The lack of direct authority, perhaps, allows the grand daughters to speak more freely. Also, as a parent I was younger, more rushed, more goal oriented which would have put pressure on my daughters. With my grand daughters, if they don’t see anything they like, that’s fine, really, and not a waste of time that would make them feel guilty.

With the grand daughters, we are all liberated from those old parental urges and teenage angst. And how the grand daughters shop is also more liberating, and liberated. Take diamonds, which are not on each weekend’s mall walk, and now for a reason. Where their mothers had steered clear of blood diamonds from Africa, events have trnspired to take those blood diamonds off the market with wars and warlords later, the world has moved on. And massive new diamond finds in Australia and in Canada have flooded the market with precious near diamonds of near perfect size and quality.

Our grand daughters know that blood diamonds are old news, and that new diamonds can be purchased in bulk amidst bargain sales over the net, which did not exist until recently. But now, the grand daughters have discovered low bid auctions, and have their friends over for a web party. Not every viewing party results in a purchase. But when that happens, there is much laughter and cheering. It gives me a warm feeling to see their triumphant gestures when they have pulled off a win.

In contrast, these days when we are at the mall the grand daughters are interested in the clothes: apparently they have to see it, feel it, amd then one of a handful, they try it on. Once the garment has been tried on the decision is quickly made, usually negative if the garment makes the wearer look fat. And this comment from a grand daughter as slender as a model. A diamond of a human being really, brains and beauty, and as well a quiet inner determination. It is well to observe your good works being acted out in a generation beyond that which you sweated so much about.

Now, at the grand parent stage it all seems so easy and natural, this process of birthing, creating and growing perfect people. You set your standards high and your children saw that and were influenced by that and it all became part of who she was to be, adapted by all the things that influenced that along the way. And now her children tell you that mom doesn’t understand, and you go for a walk together and talk about that. You talk about the pressures of being a parent today, and how bothneed to work to pay the family finances, pressures a teen will learn much about all too soon.

How these diamonds of human beings affect your judgement will be seen in your behavior towards others. Do you show empathy for others? Or are you quick to take advantage of another’s error? Our grand children are looking and listening while we unconsciously walk our talks each day in life. How much they need your love and approval will determine to what extent they incorporate your bad habits with your good. For they will hopefuly have heard honest fair values discussed at a Sunday School or some youth group or even at school.

How well you encourage their worthy behaviors will be shown soon enough in the compliments or complaints you receive from others about their behaviors. Loose diamonds are not only a commodity now available over the web, they could well stand for those individual souls we have put so much love and good values into that we know we have cast a diamond out among with ordinary carbons of life.
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Diamonds have a reputation of perfection among gems. This sparkling creation comes up to us from fires deep inside eart.
About the Author (text)
Derek Dashwood notices how science measures history, some that make us more loving savior of motherland, less warrior at
http://www.diamondsandgemstonesshop.com
About the Author (HTML)
Derek Dashwood enjoys noticing positive ways we progress, the combining of science into the humanities to measure life at
loose diamonds
Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend, Again
 

One of the sweet benefits of the aging process is that you get to go shopping with your grand daughters and that somehow it is so much easier at the same age than it had been with your daughters. The lack of direct authority, perhaps, allows the grand daughters to speak more freely. Also, as a parent I was younger, more rushed, more goal oriented which would have put pressure on my daughters. With my grand daughters, if they don’t see anything they like, that’s fine, really, and not a waste of time that would make them feel guilty.

With the grand daughters, we are all liberated from those old parental urges and teenage angst. And how the grand daughters shop is also more liberating, and liberated. Take diamonds, which are not on each weekend’s mall walk, and now for a reason. Where their mothers had steered clear of blood diamonds from Africa, events have trnspired to take those blood diamonds off the market with wars and warlords later, the world has moved on. And massive new diamond finds in Australia and in Canada have flooded the market with precious near diamonds of near perfect size and quality.

Our grand daughters know that blood diamonds are old news, and that new diamonds can be purchased in bulk amidst bargain sales over the net, which did not exist until recently. But now, the grand daughters have discovered low bid auctions, and have their friends over for a web party. Not every viewing party results in a purchase. But when that happens, there is much laughter and cheering. It gives me a warm feeling to see their triumphant gestures when they have pulled off a win.

In contrast, these days when we are at the mall the grand daughters are interested in the clothes: apparently they have to see it, feel it, amd then one of a handful, they try it on. Once the garment has been tried on the decision is quickly made, usually negative if the garment makes the wearer look fat. And this comment from a grand daughter as slender as a model. A diamond of a human being really, brains and beauty, and as well a quiet inner determination. It is well to observe your good works being acted out in a generation beyond that which you sweated so much about.

Now, at the grand parent stage it all seems so easy and natural, this process of birthing, creating and growing perfect people. You set your standards high and your children saw that and were influenced by that and it all became part of who she was to be, adapted by all the things that influenced that along the way. And now her children tell you that mom doesn’t understand, and you go for a walk together and talk about that. You talk about the pressures of being a parent today, and how bothneed to work to pay the family finances, pressures a teen will learn much about all too soon.

How these diamonds of human beings affect your judgement will be seen in your behavior towards others. Do you show empathy for others? Or are you quick to take advantage of another’s error? Our grand children are looking and listening while we unconsciously walk our talks each day in life. How much they need your love and approval will determine to what extent they incorporate your bad habits with your good. For they will hopefuly have heard honest fair values discussed at a Sunday School or some youth group or even at school.

How well you encourage their worthy behaviors will be shown soon enough in the compliments or complaints you receive from others about their behaviors. Loose diamonds are not only a commodity now available over the web, they could well stand for those individual souls we have put so much love and good values into that we know we have cast a diamond out among with ordinary carbons of life.
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Diamonds have a reputation of perfection among gems. This sparkling creation comes up to us from fires deep inside eart.
About the Author (text)
Derek Dashwood notices how science measures history, some that make us more loving savior of motherland, less warrior at
http://www.diamondsandgemstonesshop.com
About the Author (HTML)
Derek Dashwood enjoys noticing positive ways we progress, the combining of science into the humanities to measure life at
loose diamonds
Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend, Again
 

One of the sweet benefits of the aging process is that you get to go shopping with your grand daughters and that somehow it is so much easier at the same age than it had been with your daughters. The lack of direct authority, perhaps, allows the grand daughters to speak more freely. Also, as a parent I was younger, more rushed, more goal oriented which would have put pressure on my daughters. With my grand daughters, if they don’t see anything they like, that’s fine, really, and not a waste of time that would make them feel guilty.

With the grand daughters, we are all liberated from those old parental urges and teenage angst. And how the grand daughters shop is also more liberating, and liberated. Take diamonds, which are not on each weekend’s mall walk, and now for a reason. Where their mothers had steered clear of blood diamonds from Africa, events have trnspired to take those blood diamonds off the market with wars and warlords later, the world has moved on. And massive new diamond finds in Australia and in Canada have flooded the market with precious near diamonds of near perfect size and quality.

Our grand daughters know that blood diamonds are old news, and that new diamonds can be purchased in bulk amidst bargain sales over the net, which did not exist until recently. But now, the grand daughters have discovered low bid auctions, and have their friends over for a web party. Not every viewing party results in a purchase. But when that happens, there is much laughter and cheering. It gives me a warm feeling to see their triumphant gestures when they have pulled off a win.

In contrast, these days when we are at the mall the grand daughters are interested in the clothes: apparently they have to see it, feel it, amd then one of a handful, they try it on. Once the garment has been tried on the decision is quickly made, usually negative if the garment makes the wearer look fat. And this comment from a grand daughter as slender as a model. A diamond of a human being really, brains and beauty, and as well a quiet inner determination. It is well to observe your good works being acted out in a generation beyond that which you sweated so much about.

Now, at the grand parent stage it all seems so easy and natural, this process of birthing, creating and growing perfect people. You set your standards high and your children saw that and were influenced by that and it all became part of who she was to be, adapted by all the things that influenced that along the way. And now her children tell you that mom doesn’t understand, and you go for a walk together and talk about that. You talk about the pressures of being a parent today, and how bothneed to work to pay the family finances, pressures a teen will learn much about all too soon.

How these diamonds of human beings affect your judgement will be seen in your behavior towards others. Do you show empathy for others? Or are you quick to take advantage of another’s error? Our grand children are looking and listening while we unconsciously walk our talks each day in life. How much they need your love and approval will determine to what extent they incorporate your bad habits with your good. For they will hopefuly have heard honest fair values discussed at a Sunday School or some youth group or even at school.

How well you encourage their worthy behaviors will be shown soon enough in the compliments or complaints you receive from others about their behaviors. Loose diamonds are not only a commodity now available over the web, they could well stand for those individual souls we have put so much love and good values into that we know we have cast a diamond out among with ordinary carbons of life.
Description
Diamonds have a reputation of perfection among gems. This sparkling creation comes up to us from fires deep inside eart.
About the Author (text)
Derek Dashwood notices how science measures history, some that make us more loving savior of motherland, less warrior at
http://www.diamondsandgemstonesshop.com
About the Author (HTML)
Derek Dashwood enjoys noticing positive ways we progress, the combining of science into the humanities to measure life at
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Marco Polo And The Silk Road To China

By 1220 AD when Marco Polo and his father and his uncle began their treck eastward, they had to carve a route from Europe to the China of Chinese antiques. There had long been a Silk Road to the east from Damascus. In fact as Damascus was the western terminus of this thousands of miles long trading route, the finely woven silk Damask was created in Damascus, the oldest continually inhabited human settlement on earth. The great arc of civilization lifted around Jericho, down through Mesopotamia and Sumer, and in the fertile Nile delta of Egypt.

This area became the cradle of civilization, as it was the first wave of humanity out of Africa. The peoples living in this area had the most time to evolve their ways of mastering their local environment and how they adapted themselves and the local crops and the domstication of animals moved humanity forward from tribal to urban, at least in the first city state effect of ten thousand year old Jericho before all, then the fertile crescent of Mesopotamia at Sumer and then Babylon, and fertile Nile delta Egypt. We now know this area as Syria, Isreal, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq,Turkey and Iran known as the Levant and area.

We know that civilization in Europe came directly from India. History shows the westward drift of civilization from India came to us through the Persian Empire, who had roots in nearby India; who fought against, yet were absorbed into western thought and mathematics. Carved statues in ancient Persia shows kings walking hand in hand in harmony, and this was centuries before Roman power with emperors who made themselves Gods, as Alexander had done. Alexander had defiled decent concepts of free will.

Free will, in good or evil are Indian, not Chinese in their influence. Chinese talents praise the emperor and allow that the highest duty is to serve the emperor, or the state. The Sanskrit words of India are the basis of modern wetern expression, math came to us from the Arabs. Yet it was mysterious Cathay and its more mythic Silk Road that drew medieval Venetian travelers drawn to the possible route to the mysterious east. Travel between the west and the east has often held unpleasant suprises, an Marco Polo came prepared for this, as his father and uncle had before him.

With Marco Polo it was a natural route to follow as his uncle and father had completed with success. That is, their trading vessel would take them down past the Dalmatian Coast and around Greece, up the Dardanelles and through the Bosporus at Constantinople into the Black Sea. Here they would transverse up to the north east edge of the Black Sea, and begin to meet and interview temporary guides to the east. This was best arranged with tokens of tribute, but no show of wealth ever.

Any foolish enough to display wealth could easily die on the trail, or in dark alleys. In those days of 1220’s Silk Road to China entailed many obstructions of a physical or human nature. Each had to be handled in its way. Aragged mountain pass on the descent down from the great high plateaus of Tibet down to the burning sands and brackish water of the Gobi Desert. By then looking quite ragged theselves by then, Marco Polo would fight off fear and a sense of desperation and continue to encourage the pack animals to move further along.

Even if you or I were not on that 1220’s series of walks along the Silk Road, you can display the sense of urgency about realizing your moment, and what to do next. With Marco, it was to keep well hidden his cache of diamonds to trade for rolls of silks and packets of spices. How you buy now while their nas not been a notable rise in price allows you time to gather your Mings in May, so to speak. For when the autumn winds of a decade from now will be here all so soon. And Who will the new rich Chinese buyer want to see.

When the buyer of your Chinese antiques has searched and asked Google who owns her great grand mothers Mings and things. And she finds that the owner is - you. How you handle her will require serene inner wisdom; kowtows by you should be graceful and supreme. Make her pay, Marco. You have shown infinite wisdom, smile with inner acceptance, you hold your retirement porfolio of success, enjoy.

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Marco Polo and his father and uncle had to carve a new silk route to China from Europe, which would meet the older more southern silk road from China to Damascus.

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Derek Dashwood notices how science measures history, some that make us more loving savior of motherland, less warrior at
http://www.chineseantiquesshop.com

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Derek Dashwood enjoys noticing positive ways we progress, the combining of science into the humanities to measure life at
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