How to Choose a Pearl Necklace for Your Wedding Day

Written by Yan Berry


The elegant beauty of a strand of pearls has fascinated brides for centuries. People believe that wearing pearls on their wedding day will bring bliss to their marriage.

Pearls are classic wedding jewelry. How do you choose that perfect pearl necklace?

Here are some tips:

There are four types of pearls: Akoya, Tahitian, South Sea, and freshwater. Akoya, Tahitian and South Sea pearls grow in oceans. They are more valuable than freshwater pearls for their rarity and high luster.

Akoya pearls arerepparttar most popular. These pearls are valued for their rich color, mirror-like finish, and appealing roundness.

As with any other gemstones,repparttar 101479 value of pearls is determined by their quality. A pearl’s quality can be A, AA, AA+, AAA, AAA+. The last two, AAA and AAA+ pearls, haverepparttar 101480 best quality and they are most valuable. For pearls ofrepparttar 101481 same size, an ‘A’ quality pearl necklace costs only a small fraction of AAA quality pearl necklace.

The quality and value of pearls are based upon six criteria: luster, nacre, surface, color, shape, size and matching. The educated buyer uses his or her preferences to decide which criteria are most important.

Nacre: Most buyers of pearl jewelry pay most attention torepparttar 101482 pearls' nacre thickness. Nacre isrepparttar 101483 coating that a pearl oyster produces to coverrepparttar 101484 pearl’s nucleus; it isrepparttar 101485 key to how long pearls last. You should look for pearls with nacre thickness over 0.4mm.

Book Summary: Mind Your Own Business

Written by Regine P. Azurin


This article is based onrepparttar following book:

Mind Your Own Business

A Maverick’s Guide to Business, Leadership and Life

Doubleday & Company, Inc., 2003

ISBN 0-385-50959-6

208 pages

A maverick is an independent person who will not go along withrepparttar 101478 other members of a group (Oxford ESL Dictionary). This book provides priceless stories and insights from a maverick ofrepparttar 101479 business world; an exemplary business leader who prefers not to follow orthodox beliefs in business, nor be eaten byrepparttar 101480 hyped up ideas ofrepparttar 101481 present. Instead, he choosesrepparttar 101482 course of action that is appropriate forrepparttar 101483 changing times.

The Maverick’s Way: New Old Thing

What is effective? This isrepparttar 101484 question answered byrepparttar 101485 maverick. He reconcilesrepparttar 101486 good things from bothrepparttar 101487 Old and New times, and focuses on what is really effective in confrontingrepparttar 101488 challenges of 21st century business dealings.

A maverick thinks outside ofrepparttar 101489 bed, knows that it pays to be daring, does not allow technology to tyrannize, finds strength in diversity, maintains balance and harmony among people, sets leadership by example, has a strong ethical base, and values employees and customers. A maverick knows his customers and believes strongly in his products.

To a maverick, a company is a not just a big candy store. It is a living instrument with living human beings. It should have a HEART.

Keys to Leadership

The leader leads. He exercises critical judgment, which will have a great impact on his people.

The leader definesrepparttar 101490 company. The leader’s responsibility is to explicitly present and advocaterepparttar 101491 company’s purposes and goals.

The leader inspires. He gives sense and meaning torepparttar 101492 job. He makes his people realize, that beyond profit there is an underlying meaning, value, and deeper reason forrepparttar 101493 work they do.

The leader should berepparttar 101494 evangelist. He should be able to exercise his influence, to sellrepparttar 101495 values of ethical conduct.

The leader must seerepparttar 101496 company as a coherent whole. He should be aware ofrepparttar 101497 diversity inrepparttar 101498 company and bring this together to promoterepparttar 101499 whole.

The leader must know that there is no better way to create a family inrepparttar 101500 workplace than to encouragerepparttar 101501 family at home. Harman International introducedrepparttar 101502 anti-domestic violence program inrepparttar 101503 company, which reinforcesrepparttar 101504 idea thatrepparttar 101505 company cares.

The leader should never underestimaterepparttar 101506 value of disciplined hard work.

The leader empowers subordinates to do their jobs. He should institute programs forrepparttar 101507 guidance and training of his people. He should always keeprepparttar 101508 lines of communication open.

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