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What Is A Blood Diamond Or Conflict Diamond?
By Kevin Chang
Also known as conflict diamonds, A blood diamond is a diamond that was mined in a war zone that is sold most of the time to benefit war-torn areas especially in Central and Western Africa. United Nations defines a blood diamond as "...diamonds that originate from areas controlled by forces or factions opposed to legitimate and internationally recognized governments, and are used to fund military action in opposition to those governments, or in contravention of the decisions of the Security Council.”
Blood diamonds are mined on war sites, where many men where killed by disease and plagues. Many people are trying to stop the sale of blood diamonds all across the world. Blood Diamond sales became big in the 1990's with the conflict of Sierra Leone. During this time frame in the 1990's the blood diamond sales made up an estimated 4% of all diamond sales around the world. Today due to sales being banned in some areas, and the Kimberley Process, these diamonds take up around
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an estimated 1% of the worlds diamond sales. This majority of this small percentage is made up of sales in the Republic of Congo who was suspended from the Kimberley Process, and Liberia and the Ivory coast who are under the United Nations Security Council Resolutions in hopes to stop the extraction and trading of these diamonds. During July of 2000, the global diamond industry made their disposition of blood diamonds blatantly known all over the world. Highly concerned with abolishing the problem, they began to work very closely with the United Nations and other organizations in efforts stop the extraction and trading of blood diamonds. In 2003 in order to get closer to stopping sales and extraction of the diamonds, the Kimberley Process Certification was created. This system protects against blood diamonds entering the sanctioned diamond supply chain. Article Directory: http://www.articlecube.com To learn more about Blood Diamonds, visit The Diamond Blog
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Job Recovery Not Coming
By United Citizens of America, Fri Dec 9th
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Self Defense And Street Fight Psychology
By Alexander Popov
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Difficult Conversations: 8 Potholes of the Mind and How to Avoid Them
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St. Elizabeth joins radiation safety campaign
St. Elizabeth Healthcare has joined a national effort to promote radiation safety in medical imaging.
The campaign, called Image Gently/Image Wisely, is based on revamped American College of Radiology guidelines. It applies to both adult and pediatric patients.
The initiative ?originated from a need to educate our patients, physicians,
and our community to ensure that we take the necessary steps toward reducing unnecessary radiation exposure and still meet our top-quality care patients have...<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_cincinnati/~4/ojcAO9lL5Yc" height="1" width="1"/>Procter & Gamble alumni still claiming top jobs
They are a helpful bunch, former employees of Procter & Gamble Co.
It?s been about a month since we asked for help in updating our list of P&G alumni who claimed top leadership posts with other companies.
And we?re happy to report that our list has grown by 20 people. It?s now over 200 and hopefully still rising. Among the new names on the list are Brian Driscoll, recently announced as CEO of Diamond Foods Inc., and Tom Moore, CEO of the Princeton, N.J.-based biotech firm, Advaxis. He?s...<div class="feedflare">
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Chairman and CEO Terry Lundgren noted in prepared remarks that Macy?s began its reorganization in 2008 and 2009 and became ?an all-new company.?
?Fast-forward to today. The customer is voting, and they?re voting with us because our year has been quite good,? he said.
Quite good, indeed. The Cincinnati-based department store chain (NYSE: M) has grown sales by more than $1 billion in each of the last...<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_cincinnati/~4/ryG89ytUJnQ" height="1" width="1"/>Social Madness contest starts June 1
A big thanks to the dozens of Cincinnati-based businesses that signed on to participate in our first-ever Social Madness Challenge presented by Capital One Spark Business. The nomination period is officially closed and 70 companies signed on to compete.
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In quantitative psychology, a mediation model is one that seeks to identify and explicate the mechanism that underlies an observed relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable via the inclusion of a third explanatory variable, known as a mediator variable. ...
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