<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254943011025355983</id><updated>2009-11-04T22:58:08.076-08:00</updated><title type='text'>AOA Diamonds</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7254943011025355983/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aoadiamonds.com/blog/index.php'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aoadiamonds.com/blog/atom.xml'/><author><name>AOA Diamonds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04263620048710561144</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254943011025355983.post-4103623712397988895</id><published>2009-11-04T22:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-04T22:58:08.101-08:00</updated><title type='text'>ARE ALL DIAMONDS CREATED EQUAL?</title><content type='html'>YOU MIGHT LOOK AT THE TITLE AND SAY OBVIOUSLY NOT.SOME DIAMONDS ARE CLEANER,LARGER AND WHITER THAN OTHERS.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; WHAT REALLY DETERMINES FIRE AND BEAUTY IN DIAMONDS EVEN BEFORE THEY RISE TO THE SURFACE OF EARTH BY VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;IN SOME DIAMOND MINING COUNTRIES,THE ROUGH DIAMOND THAT COMES FROM THE EARTH IS OF BETTER GENES.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;DIAMOND CUTTERS WILL TELL YOU THAT SOME DIAMONDS ARE LIKE BUTTER.VERY EASY TO POLISH AND CUT.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WHILE OTHER DIAMONDS ARE STUBBORN AND HARD TO CUT.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ANOTHER BIG DIFFERENCE IS EASILY VISIBLE WITH DIAMONDS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN CUT.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;IN MY 15 YEARS EXPERIENCE WITH DIAMONDS,I HAVE SEEN DIAMONDS OF VERY HIGH COLOR AND CLARITY GRADES,IDEAL CUT FOR MAXIMUM BRILLIANCE,CERTIFIED BY GIA AND WITH NO FLUORESCENCE AND YET,ON A SCALE OF ONE TO FIVE WITH 5 BEING THE BRIGHTEST,THEY WERE HARDLY A ONE.JUST SITTING THERE WITH NO FIRE OR JOY.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WHEN BUYING A DIAMOND,COMPARE DIAMONDS SIDE BY SIDE.TRY TO FOCUS ON YOUR EMOTIONS AND NOTICE HOW THE DIAMONDS YOU ARE LOOKING AT AFFECT YOU.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I CAN PROMISE YOU DIFFERENT EMOTIONS WITH DIFFERENT DIAMONDS EVEN IF THEY ARE OF SIMILAR QUALITIES.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ALWAYS BUY THE BEST CUT YOU CAN FIND,AND FOR ACCURATE DIAMOND QUALITY AND PEACE OF MIND,BUY GIA CERTIFIED DIAMONDS.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;IF YOU HAVE ANY DIAMOND QUESTIONS OR REQUESTS ,PLEASE CONTACT US AT WWW.AOADIAMONDS.COM OR CALL 800 297 1143&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7254943011025355983-4103623712397988895?l=aoadiamonds.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7254943011025355983/4103623712397988895/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aoadiamonds.com/blog/2009/11/are-all-diamonds-created-equal.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7254943011025355983/posts/default/4103623712397988895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7254943011025355983/posts/default/4103623712397988895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aoadiamonds.com/blog/2009/11/are-all-diamonds-created-equal.html' title='ARE ALL DIAMONDS CREATED EQUAL?'/><author><name>AOA Diamonds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04263620048710561144</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04428053470110374800'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254943011025355983.post-5205232121890356634</id><published>2009-10-31T22:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-31T22:21:17.644-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ANOTHER YEAR IS ABOUT TO TURN.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "&gt;WOW,I CANT BELIEVE ANOTHER YEAR IS COMMING TO AN END.THESE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS I THINK WE ALL HAD TO WEATHER A HURRICANE.TODAY,ALL AROUND US WE WITNESS THE IMPACT OF A 100 YEARS STORM.AT THE TIME,WE COULDNT SEE THE END BUT TODAY,IT'S STOPPED RAINNING AND THEY SAY THE STORM HAS PASSED. IT WILL TAKE YEARS TO REBUILD BUT BETTER DAYS ARE AHEAD. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I THINK WE ALL LEARNED MANY IMPORTANT LESSONS FROM THE STORM.ONE OF THE LESSONS WAS TO BE FRUGAL.I THINK WE ARE A SMARTER NATION BECAUSE OF THE LAST TWO YEARS. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REALLY,MAZAL TOV TO ALL OF US. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOW,IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS IN THE MARKET FOR DIAMOND JEWELRY,I URGE YOU TO EDUCATE YOURSELF,SHOP ARROUND,COMPARE AND MAKE A SMART CHOICE. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AT AOA DIAMONDS,WE TAKE THE TIME TO EDUCATE YOU ON THE 4 C'S OF DIAMONDS.IN AN EASY,SENSE MAKING LANGUAGE,YOU WILL KNOW MORE ABOUT DIAMONDS THAN YOU DID WHEN WALKING IN. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT DIAMONDS,CALL US TODAY. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WE PROMISE TO SELL YOU A BETTER DIAMOND FOR LESS OR YOU WILL BE FULLY REFUNDED.A NEW MERCEDES FOR LESS THAN A NEW CAMARY.THROUGH BEST CONNECTIONS DIRECT WITH THE BEST CUTTERS AND JEWELRY MANUFACTURERS IN THE WORLD, WE CAN MAKE SUCH A PROMISE. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE BEST MONEY BACK POLICY IN THE INDUSTRY. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;omi@aoadiamonds.com &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;808 877 6791 WWW.AOADIAMONDS.COM &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7254943011025355983-5205232121890356634?l=aoadiamonds.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7254943011025355983/5205232121890356634/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aoadiamonds.com/blog/2009/10/another-year-is-about-to-turn.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7254943011025355983/posts/default/5205232121890356634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7254943011025355983/posts/default/5205232121890356634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aoadiamonds.com/blog/2009/10/another-year-is-about-to-turn.html' title='ANOTHER YEAR IS ABOUT TO TURN.'/><author><name>AOA Diamonds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04263620048710561144</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04428053470110374800'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254943011025355983.post-419181302905627120</id><published>2008-12-21T23:34:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-22T01:13:38.415-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Lucy in the Sky with an Enormous Diamond</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2004/02/040214080728.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 388px;" src="http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2004/02/040214080728.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;It's the compressed heart of an old star that was once bright like our Sun but has since faded and shrunk.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Astronomers have decided to call the star "Lucy" after the Beatles song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. &lt;!-- E SF --&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Twinkle twinkle&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"You would need a jeweller's loupe the size of the Sun to grade this diamond," says astronomer Travis Metcalfe, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who led the team of researchers that discovered it. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The diamond star completely outclasses the largest diamond on Earth, the 546-carat Golden Jubilee which was cut from a stone brought out of the Premier mine in South Africa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7254943011025355983-419181302905627120?l=aoadiamonds.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7254943011025355983/419181302905627120/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aoadiamonds.com/blog/2008/12/test.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7254943011025355983/posts/default/419181302905627120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7254943011025355983/posts/default/419181302905627120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aoadiamonds.com/blog/2008/12/test.html' title='Lucy in the Sky with an Enormous Diamond'/><author><name>AOA Diamonds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04263620048710561144</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04428053470110374800'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry></feed>