Diamonds on the Internet! A new and better way of shopping for your diamond and jewelry?

Written by Angelo Tambe


How safe is diamond and jewelry shopping onrepparttar internet? What do you need to know! An interview with Patrick J. Boening, President & CEO ofrepparttar 118746 Diamond Wholesale Corporation, aka: DWC Inc. One of North America's top firms inrepparttar 118747 diamond online and wholesale business. (http://www.DiamondWholesaleCorporation.com)

February 11, 2004-- Interviewing Patrick J. Boening, President and CEO ofrepparttar 118748 Diamond Wholesale Corporation.

Q: More and more people decide to purchase their diamonds online. DWC Inc. could improve its online sales by an impressive 83%. How come?

A: Price, Quality, Variety, Availability and good Customer Service. The confidence and trust in online diamond firms grow overrepparttar 118749 last years enormously, as most online businesses did. This isrepparttar 118750 21st century; you don’t have to spend hours in jewelry stores only to be shown a medium quality diamond, in dimmed light for a ridicules price. Then you need to compare and run torepparttar 118751 next store to startrepparttar 118752 whole process over and over again. A tiring, long and expensive way to do business. Retail stores will not give prices overrepparttar 118753 phone. They need you trapped within their environment. They have to sell you what they have on stock rather then what is available onrepparttar 118754 market. Remember, when you purchase a diamond or a piece of jewelry in a store, you pay for everything,repparttar 118755 expensive location,repparttar 118756 beautiful and costly store decoration, sales and security staff etc. etc. The price differences between online and store can easily be 50 – 70 %. Onrepparttar 118757 other hand, jewelers are spoiled and haterepparttar 118758 internet. It is like a secret leaked out. Did you ever wonder why jewelers did so well and whenever you passed byrepparttar 118759 store, their is hardly customer traffic? The smart and educated client with access torepparttar 118760 internet realized all that.

Q: Isn’t it to risky to purchase such expensive items overrepparttar 118761 internet, and how can one minimize that risk?

A: I have never heard of an internet diamond firm that "ran off" withrepparttar 118762 client’s money. That would be a one time action. The internet isrepparttar 118763 fastest media inrepparttar 118764 world, such actions would be known and spread in hours, aroundrepparttar 118765 world and this company would be black listed forever. Surely you should not trust anyone just because they have a web site. If you keep these 9 rules, your purchase will be safer then in most stores:

Rule # 1: Trust a web site (company or organization) only if they publish on their web site,repparttar 118766 full businesses address (not only a PO. Box) and phone number. If they don’t, they have a reason. Many web sites are owned byrepparttar 118767 same company or person and would showrepparttar 118768 same address and phone number.

Rule # 2: Check their references (Testimonials) and talk to existing clients. You will quick find out if they are real or made up.

Rule # 3: Checkrepparttar 118769 professional trade networks and organizations, inrepparttar 118770 diamond and jewelry field: JBT (Jewelers Board of Trade), Polygon, Rapaport Network etc. If they are not registered there, they are no professionals.

Philip Emeagwali - A father of the internet

Written by Drahcir Semaj


In 1974, Philip Emeagwali read a 1922 science fiction article about how to use 64,000 mathematicians scattered aroundrepparttar world to forecastrepparttar 118745 weather forrepparttar 118746 whole world. The theory intrigued him and 15 years later he developed a theory,repparttar 118747 HyperBall International Network, to use 65,000 computer processors scattered aroundrepparttar 118748 world to forecastrepparttar 118749 world’s weather. His theory was later used in weather forecasting but more importantly,repparttar 118750 HyperBall International Network is today known asrepparttar 118751 Internet.

Born in Nigeria in 1954, Emeagwali grew up poor in one ofrepparttar 118752 poorest countries inrepparttar 118753 world. The son of James and Agatha Emeagwali, he livedrepparttar 118754 typical life of a Nigerian child until 1967 when he had to leave school because ofrepparttar 118755 Nigeria-Biafara war.

From 1967 to 1970 his family was homeless. They hid in refugee camps, abandoned buildings, and bombed out homes duringrepparttar 118756 ethnic cleansing in which 50,000 Igbos tribesmen were killed. “One of fifteen people in my hometown died in that 30-month war,” he said in a 2003 interview with jobpostings.net. “Both sides did not take prisoners of war; they did not wantrepparttar 118757 expense of caring for prisoners.”

In 1968 he was conscripted intorepparttar 118758 Biafran army as a child solider. After six months,repparttar 118759 civil war ended and he was reunited with his family. He returned to school, but later dropped out because his family could not afford his education.

Emeagwali was determined to fulfill his education. Being a witness torepparttar 118760 destruction of his country gave himrepparttar 118761 resolve to continue studying. “I came out stronger fromrepparttar 118762 civil war crisis,” he said, “I had self confidence and knew I had not fulfilled my potential.”

He continued to study at home and in 1973 he earned his first diploma fromrepparttar 118763 University of London through correspondences courses.

Later that year he won a scholarship to Oregon State University, where he intended to study mathematics; he excelled in his graduate studies at Oregon State.

In 1974 he read a science fiction article on how to forecastrepparttar 118764 weather using 64,000 mathematicians. The theory intrigued him and he began work on a theory on how to use 65,000 far-flung processors to forecastrepparttar 118765 weather. He called this theoryrepparttar 118766 HyperBall International Network. His theory was so advanced for its time that it was rejected by his peers onrepparttar 118767 grounds that it was impossible. Overrepparttar 118768 next decade he was unable to find work but he continued to work on his dream.

In 1987, Emeagwali submitted a proposal to gain access torepparttar 118769 “Connection Machine” atrepparttar 118770 Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The “Connection Machine”, a supercomputer with 65,536 processors, was available because it was considered impossible to program and there wasn’t a great demand for its time. Los Alamos scientists had been unable to programrepparttar 118771 supercomputer and they were happy to give Emeagwali a chance to program it.

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