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Farming Cocoa Beans has recently became unviable for growers . The crop from which all chocolate , but particularly quality chocolate is mainly produced in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.

There is a Government structure in place called the Ghana Cocoa Board( Cocobod) which was set up to support the farmers by guaranteeing a price for their Cocoa which they would get if they could not sell it on the open market. Up to now it has been a profitable business and the Cocoa Growers have not had to worry about the uncertainties of the Global Market.

However, now, the prices have dropped on the Global Market and the buyers don’t want the Cocoa Beans. Cocobod is struggling to support the farmers, being three billion dollars in debt itself.

This has brought great personal hardship for the Cocoa Bean Farmers and the price that will be set by Cocobod for their crops next year will not meet their costs for farming their crop.

One solution might be to look at manufacturing chocolate themselves, which if there already is an oversupply might not work.

Dark chocolate is actually a bit of a health food and I think chocolate( good quality chocolate ) is good for the digestion. I certainly will be thinking of the Cocoa Bean Farmers this Easter and I hope that they find markets for their beans or that Ghana and the Ivory Coast create a product that is popular amongst us foodies.

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Thanks to Jack Smart for People Online for the Headline.

Not one for giving flame to a rather damp squib, frankly I don’t even know any of Mr Chalamet’s work, but if good old Steven Spielberg wants to add his penny worth to the fray then so be it. Let’s face it it was a throw away comment, which Mr Spielberg knew would travel.

He just said what we all think colloquially as ” different strokes for different folks”. Mr Speilberg , thought ,because he’s a guaranteed coffer increaser in Holly wood, said it with the gravitas of a wielder of power and influence. Excitement over.

Mr Spielberg probably knows that Opera is dividedly expensive, still most punters when we had cinemas could afford them. Oh and ballet lessons are always popular as are most dance classes.

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Thanks to Annika Olsen of Artnet News Online for the Headline.

“The Three Carracci”, founders of an inspirational art school in Bologna Italy in the 16th Century. Annibale Carraci the elder of the three brothers was the driving force behind the school and also a very influential artist. His style championed “naturalism” and was influenced by Northern Italian Renaissance painters like Titian.

This style became popular in genre paintings in later periods and though Rembrandt and Carracci could never have met; being separated by land and time. Rembrandt owned some pieces of Carracci or at least attributed to Carracci and would have known his work. Rembrandt had many influences.

Sadly, as with everything, but more particularly progress in Art, the past is sometimes forgotten and Annibale Carraci’s work in developing his school as well as producing some very memorable “naturalistic” paintings along with developing the methods of producing them perhaps have been overlooked. His visceral style and techniques certainly persists in modern painting today and there is strong evidence that he influenced the great masters of Europe, maybe even Rembrandt.

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