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Green is an important color for garnet, but the green garnet varieties tend to be rare, such as tsavorite, demantoid and mali garnets.

The popular image of garnet is a deep red gem with a brownish secondary hue. This is is a fair description of the common red garnets such as almandite. But garnets actually occur in a wide range of colors, including orange, brown, green, yellow, colorless, even blue. There are also some color change garnets which change from green or greenish blue to red or purplish red.

Green is actually as typical as red for garnets, but the green garnets, unlike the reds, tend to be rare. There are several different garnet species which occur in green.

The most common green garnet is grossularite, which is one of the six main varieties of garnet. An especially fine grossularite containing chromium and vanadium is known as tsavorite garnet, and is regarded as one of the finest of colored gems. The rare chrome green tsavorite is found in east Africa, in the border area between Tanzania and Kenya.

An even rarer green garnet is demantoid, a member of the andradite garnet family. Demantoid is the rarest and most valuable of the garnets and is one of the rarest of all colored gemstones. It is remarkable for its brilliance and fire. The most valuable demantoid comes from Russia, and is distinguished by unique horsetail-pattern inclusions of byssolite. The vivid green color is the most valuable and stones over 1 carat are very rare. Prices for Russian demantoid start at about $1,000 per carat. There is also some demantoid from Africa without horsetail inclusions that is less expensive.

Mali garnet is a hybrid of grossularite and andradite, and is a fairly recent find, discovered in 1994 in Mali in West Africa. Though generally lighter in color than demantoid, it is valued for its fire and its rarity. Mali garnet colors range from yellow to greenish yellow, and yellowish brown to brown. Lighter colors tend to show more fire or dispersion and the greenish colors are preferred over the brownish.

Color-change garnet is usually a mixture of pyrope and spessartite garnets that displays different colors under daylight and incandescent light. This phenomenon is rare and valued by collectors. There is a range of color change, but green or bluish green to red or purple tends to be the most dramatic. These rare garnets have been found in Kenya and Madagascar and prices range from about $500 to $1,000 per carat, depending on size, color and clarity.

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The words “I LOVE YOU” has been greatly abused by many people. Though it is an expression of deep affection for someone, yet many couples, married or unmarried, expressing “I LOVE YOU” to each other yet still found their love-life in rot. One would wonder and think that those couples used to be super sweet but now they have already lost that loving feeling they had for each other. There are just too many examples of this situation to cite here. Like for example, a husband would tell his wife those words when he affectionately holds her hands but affords to hit her when they have a fight. A guy would say those same words to his wife when they are both alone petting yet he says those same words of affection to his other women while drowning in convulsive ecstasy. Another guy says those words to his girlfriend while having sex with her but leaves her afterwards emotionally devastated. A single woman says those words to her boyfriend while in voluptuous and torrid kissing with each other but has no respect for him by calling him bad words whenever they have some kind of disagreements. These situations are quite common. The guy and the girl are into a seemingly loving relationship yet they hurt each other verbally and physically. To all the guys out there, do you really love her? And to all the girls out there, do you really love him? Or do you just lust for each other? Let us examine what love really is so that after knowing what it is, we would be able to recognize it when it comes into our lives; or that when something else comes – lust.

Our idea about love mostly comes from the romantic stories that we see on TV and in the movies. The actors in those movies portray a kind of love that they believe is real love, so that the influential effect of this portrayal brings a lot of people into that same kind of outlook. And this portrayal of love reverberates to a greater public to an extent that it seems to have become the authority on love. The world has been tricked to believe that making love (kissing and caressing and doing sensual acts) is real love as what can be seen on TV and movies and in advertisements, etc. Where then can we find real love? But the term “real love” is even a misnomer because there cannot be such a term as “unreal love” because love in itself is what it is. If it is not love then it is something else – lust.

So where can we find what love really is? The bible is the real authority on love, not the movies, not the TV and the advertisements. The Bible says in First Corinthians 13: 4-7, “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres”. Basing on this truth and authority about love, you can now look into what you feel for someone right now. Is it love or lust?

When a husband would tell his wife “I LOVE YOU” as he affectionately holds her hands but affords to hit her when they have a fight does not really love her but just lusting with her. When a guy would say those same words to his wife when they are both alone petting yet he says those same words of affection to his other women while drowning in convulsive ecstasy does not love her but only lusting with her. When another guy says those words to his girlfriend while having sex with her but leaves her afterwards emotionally devastated is not really loving her but just lusting with her. When a single woman says those words to her boyfriend while in voluptuous and torrid kissing with each other but has no respect for him by calling him bad words whenever they have some kind of disagreements does not love him but is only lusting with him. Conclusively, the bottom line of all this is that it is not love when you have no regard for your partner that you cause to hurt him/her emotionally or physically. When you are in this state of being, you don’t say “I LOVE YOU”, but fittingly and rightfully, you say, “I LUST YOU”.

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People buying a new car do not think twice about insurance. That is because they are now accustomed to the fact that as well as being legally required to have it, they accept that it is sensible and prudent in any case. On a larger scale, those buying a house also accept that household insurance is a requirement, although not necessarily a legal one at the moment. So it is a surprise that with a traditional wedding today still costing an average of £15,000, albeit down from the 2010 high of £20,000, many couples are still not taking out any form of wedding insurance to protect what is almost certainly their third largest financial expenditure of their lifetime.

These facts come from recently released statistics from insurers and other wedding orientated bodies. There are also a few interesting anomalies, like the fact that it is more likely to be men rather than women who take out wedding insurance. There must therefore be an underlying reason why people planning to get married are not protecting their investment. Apart from lack of media interest, there is a general perception that wedding insurance is not really necessary. People getting married are often so wrapped up in their organising that they forget that they are spending thousands of pounds without having any kind of protection if things go wrong. And things can and do go wrong. When they do, it can be a costly exercise.

The current financial climate has meant that hitherto safe businesses are now going to the wall at a frightening pace. That means that the venue that you paid your £4,000 deposit to can easily go bust and you will not get a penny of it back! Similarly, those companies that offer the ancillary services, like florists, caterers and so on are all subject to the same financial risks. So doesn’t it make sense to pay a relatively cheap insurance premium and be able to forget about it?

Before taking out any wedding insurance, there are a few things you should consider first. If you use your credit card to pay for anything, like the deposit on your venue for example, you may find that you already have some protection in the form of the Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act. In simple terms, this covers you for anything termed a breach of contract, like the venue being double booked, and you may be able to get your money back that way.

Finally, check whether your household insurance already covers you for certain aspects of a wedding, usually a month before and after the event, but check with your insurer.

Although a credit card or home insurance may offer a certain degree of protection, neither is a real substitute for a full wedding insurance policy. With the average wedding costing a small fortune, for the sake of a premium starting from around just £20.00, be sensible and protect your ‘investment’ with wedding insurance.

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The many seemingly contradictory suggestions for how to eat before and after exercise make it tough to know what diet style is best to maximize loss of body fat. To further complicate things, there are two main exercise types, cardiovascular and resistance training, and each has its own unique focus and desired outcome. Opinions vary among experts even within one training type and desired outcome. Let’s look at how to eat before and after each type of exercise specifically to maximize the loss of fat.

The best way to lose fat from light cardiovascular training is to eat a healthy diet daily, not eat before training, and not eat at all for an hour or more after training. The exercise uses glycogen stores in your muscles which your body then must replace. For maximum fat loss you are training your body to take that replacement fuel out of your stored fat. Eating or drinking carbohydrates particularly interferes with that process as the body then restores glycogen from the fuel you’ve just eaten instead. Try wait an hour or more post-exercise before you start your regular meal. Staying hydrated with water, or a low-carb electrolyte replenishment drink if needed, is always a good idea during and after exercise.

Heavy cardio exercise of an hour and a half or more, like marathon running and bicycle racing, changes your eating requirements a bit. Many trainers recommend days of carb loading before a big race, but that is specifically to increase your speed and energy during the race, not to lose fat. The Mayo Clinic, for example, warns that this type of carb loading may cause weight gain, but mostly as water gain. Still, above a healthy daily diet with very good protein amounts, there is no specific need for special pre-workout eating to maximize fat loss. Post-workout it may be wise to use high quality protein, such as whey or egg, with low carbs in the 15 to 30 minute window immediately after exercising to smooth out muscle rebuilding, yet still make the body replenish glycogen stores from stored fat.

When you add a fat loss as a priority to long hard cardio workouts the picture changes. Better than carb loading before the workout is simply eating a good diet with plenty of protein, and no extra pre-workout carb or protein loading. It is possible that you won’t have as much energy during your training, and your time may slow down a bit, but you will be requiring the body to convert those fat stores, and to become very efficient at it. Post-exercise the same highly digestible protein with very low carbs is still a great idea, especially within the ‘refueling window’ which is open for close to 30 minutes after your training.

The best choice for carb-loading during heavy racing is to achieve a middle ground. Train for races without adding extra carbs to your diet. This conditions your body to use those fat stores instead of depending on easy carb intake. But for actual races, use some carb supplementation so you aren’t too fatigued to continue. And make sure to drink plenty of liquids, get your electrolytes and have a good daily protein intake.

When you are doing resistance training, you will be focusing even more on getting good amounts of protein in your regular daily diet, about.8 to 1.2 grams per pound of ideal body weight. You won’t need special pre-exercise food, but you may want to get in your good, digestible protein in the 30 minutes post-exercise. The post-exercise protein is good to help decrease the muscular discomfort and increase ease of muscular tissue recovery, but is not mandatory.

With a fat loss target, it is best to hold off for quite a while after your workout, an hour or more, before eating any carbs. Going right into your next regular meal after an hour or two will be fine. This again trains the body to replace muscular glycogen stores out your deposited fat cells. To lose fat, skip pre-training and post-training carbs as much as you can. Still consider taking in some good digestible protein in the 30 minute refueling window.

Here is what we know about eating pre- and post-exercise:

- Eat a good diet daily with plenty of protein

- For Fat Loss, avoid carbohydrates before and after exercising, which trains the body to use your fat stores for energy

- Carbohydrates pre-, post- and during a workout may be needed to prevent energy drop only during competitive, 90 plus minute events

- Some easily digestible protein in the ‘refueling window’ for the first 30 minutes after exercise will help with deep tissue muscular recovery if the muscles have been seriously stressed

So eat judiciously in conjunction with your exercise to really speed your fat loss, and enjoy your new slim ready-for-anything body.

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