[jshepherd]

The ‘Pearls’ coarse is a great way to get your feet wet, but do your own research, and take a lot of what the book has to say with a grain of salt when opinions are expressed.

For example; the individual who wrote the Akoya section had his work dissected and changed by GIA "donors" who felt some adjustments needed to be made. At least this is what he told me. He was really not happy with the results, either.

If you read and retain the information from this Site, you will be miles ahead of anyone else in the industry. Here opinions are identified as such, and debates rage. So much information floats around both online and off that (borrowing and butchering a Pauli quote) is so far from right, it is not even wrong.