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A Tavernier man has been jailed after admitting to breaking into a Key Largo Return to Tiffany, stealing jewelry and selling it for cash — which led to the arrest of an Upper Keys jeweler on Monday, police said.

Alfredo Chao, 49, was jailed Friday on charges of burglary, grand theft and dealing in stolen property in the break-in at the Seaside Avenue home on April 30. He reportedly spent proceeds from the theft on lottery tickets, cigarettes and soda.

Detectives say he sold the jewelry — more than $30,000 worth — to DePaula Jewelers in Tavernier for $2,000. Monday, jeweler Jose DePaula was jailed on a charge of dealing in stolen property and held at the Plantation Key jail. The jewels were recovered and returned to the victims.

Chao reportedly worked on a landscaping crew at the Seaside Avenue house and broke in Return to Tiffany Double Heart Pendant between 1:30 and 4 p.m. April 30, when one of the residents returned home and found the door open and jewelry missing; other jewelry was found scattered on the floor.

Chao’s employer turned him in as a possible suspect “after he caught Chao coming out of his mother’s house. Chao had stolen jewelry from his mother’s house and agreed to return it if the crime wasn’t reported,” Deputy Becky Herrin says.

Herrin said investigators also learned that Chao had worked for two days painting at another jewelry store, in Islamorada, and the store’s owner reported several items, including a silver treasure coin, missing. Chao admitted taking the coin and hiding it in his bathroom at his home, where detectives recovered it.

Detectives say they believe Chao may have sold some of the stolen jewelry to people on the Return to Tiffany Heart tag bracelet. If you think you might have purchased any purloined jewelry, call Crime Stoppers of the Florida Keys at (800) 346-TIPS.

The Owensboro High School girls’ track team has won the Class 3-A, Tiffany Key Trefoil key pendant 1 title for four straight years.

But OHS coach Robin Joska said he expects the Lady Devils to have a much tougher fight if they are to claim No. 5.

The 3-A regional boys’ and girls’ track meet will start at 4 p.m. today at Henderson County High School.

“As far as the points spread, it’s going to be a lot closer,” Joska said. The Lady Devils Tiffany Key Vintage oval key pendant also the defending state champions and have won state two out of the last three seasons.

“I think that Marshall County and Daviess County are going to be right up there, and we’re going to battle it out for the title,” Joska said.

OHS has its share of top seeds with experienced runners such as Shanice Carbon in the 100-meter dash and Allyson Hughes in the pole vault.

The Lady Devils did suffer a setback when Sade Greer, who held down the top spot in the 200-meter dash, was diagnosed with a stress fracture in a leg and will only compete in the high jump, Joska said.

Daviess County is also battling injuries, Lady Panthers’ coach Lil Brunson said.

“These are injuries that have been coming on,” Brunson said. “We had some shin splints and Tiffany Nature Dragonfly disc pendant stress fractures.”

Still, DC has good balance in the running and field events. The meet could come down to a number of close finishes.

Taylor Lawrence in the 400, along with Shelby Shelton in the 100 hurdles and Brittany Clark in the high jump, are just a few to watch for Daviess County.

At Apollo, the overall numbers are down from last year’s squad that finished second, the E-Gals’ best regional showing in years. Sophomore discus thrower Casey Peach is a threat to win that event. Brianna Rhodes is among the leaders in the triple jump and long jump.

“I feel like in specific events we can do really well,” E-Gals coach Holly Tiffany Nature Dragonfly pendant said.

In boys, OHS is also the favorite.

“We’re going to have a fight on our hands and everybody is going to try and knock us off,” Red Devils’ coach Bob O’Brien said. “We’re just going to try and stay focused and do what we have to do . . . I think Daviess is always going to be a threat regardless of their ranking. (DC coach) Tony (Rowe) knows what he is doing.

“Apollo, with their throwers and some of their distance people and a couple of sprinters they have, is going to put on some pressure as well.”

OHS is solid in the sprints and relays with Marcus Winstead (100) and Dradell Johnson (200 and 400) among the best in the state all year.

Rowe said he was encouraged by the Panthers’ strong showing at their Tiffany Notes band ring meet last week as a number of competitors turned in their top performances this year.

Wyatt Young (pole vault), the 3,200 relay team and Evan Ehrenheim (1,600 and 3,200) are among the favorites in those events.

“I think that we competed well in our invitational, probably as well as we have all year,” Rowe said. “That’s what you want this time of year. Our four-by-eight ran really well; we had four personal-best splits with that . . . I think middle-distance and distance guys are ready.”

Apollo suffered a big loss when standout middle distance runner Justin Tiffany Notes Pendant was diagnosed with a stress fracture in his left foot and will miss six weeks. That also hurts the Eagles’ 1,600 and 3,200 relay teams with House out of running a leg in those events.

Harris Bivin is back as a top-ranked shot and discus thrower. His brother, Hunter, made a splash last week when he beat his old shot put personal best by four feet with a 50-foot toss at Daviess County.

That moved him from fifth in the region to fifth in the state, first-year Apollo head coach Charlie Shoulta said.

“We’re competing really well,” Shoulta said. “We’re peaking at the right time.”

Hancock County and Owensboro Catholic will compete in the Class A Tiffany Notes ring. McLean County is the host school.

The Lady Aces were third in last year’s regional. Catholic coach Jim Ivey has beefed up his team’s numbers to 20 from nine last year.

That depth should help Catholic compete for a title.

“We’re a little banged up,” Ivey said. “But we’ll mend a little bit and have some kids I hope are healthy. I think they have a shot at doing real well.”

Stephanie Duper is among those favored in the high jump and is also expected to be pushed by Jessica Ralph. Lauren Yevincy also is expected to do well in the pole vault along with Kate Murphy in the 100 hurdles and Elizabeth Searcy in the 100 dash.

Tanisha Johnson of Hancock County is top-ranked in the triple jump.

In boys, Catholic runner Michael Goedde should do well in the 1,600 Tiffany Notes Round earrings 3,200.

“We’re in a position to go first or second (in the regional, but it’s going to be a dogfight with Green County),” Ivey said.

Jordan White is another one to watch in the shot and discus, as is McLean County’s Michael Burden in the shot and David Burden in the high jump.

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Soccer people call these kind of plays 50/50 balls, because two players on Tiffany Money Clips team presumably have an equal chance to gain control of the ball.

Maggie Bosley, a South Aiken senior center midfielder, has a way of tilting the odds of these moments to her advantage. She won a 50/50 ball in the middle of the penalty box and whistled in a shot to start the scoring of her team’s Class AAA state quarterfinal against Airport on Friday night.

“If there is a 50/50 ball on the field, she’s the girl we want going after it,” South Aiken coach Jason Holt said.

Bosley, a Wofford recruit, helped South Aiken to its 10th consecutive win, a 4-0 rout of Airport. South Aiken beat its region opponent for the fourth time this season and will play at Hilton Head Island in the semifinals Monday. The winner will play for the state title Friday in Columbia. South Aiken lost in the state final 2-0 to Riverside (Greenville area) a year ago.

South Aiken (19-2-2), whose only losses this year have come against Class Tiffany CuffLinks teams White Knoll and Wando, shut out its sixth consecutive opponent and did not allow Airport to take a shot on goal.

The Thoroughbreds had won their previous two playoff games by a combined 19-0 and had beaten Airport 2-1, 3-2 and 4-0 earlier in the year. It took South Aiken nearly the entire first half to register a goal, but once it did even a 1-0 lead seemed insurmountable.

Anna Loudermilk scored two second-half goals in the final 11 minutes for South Aiken, which outshot the visitors 18-0. Amanda Harris also scored for South Aiken.

“It just took us a little while to wake up as a team,” Holt said. “Our touches were a little off. I don’t really have a n explanation for why, but once we warmed up and started to get a little hungry, we got back in the rhythm of the team we think we can be. Once we get close to the goal and see our captains start to lead the way, the whole team rallies behind them and we start to play good soccer”.

The first goal was the most important against a team Holt said he expected to play a defensive game and attempt to take the Thoroughbreds to penalty kicks.

That plan scooted awry six minutes before the half, when Bosley fought off a defender inside the box, chased a well-touched pass from Harris and gained control of the ball. From there, all it took was a simple touch to beat Airport goalkeeper Cassie Shumpert. It was the Thoroughbreds’ 12th shot of the half, Tiffany Key Rings included a scorching strike from Bosley 15 minutes into the game that smashed off the crossbar.

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Guest pianist John Wustman will accompany soprano Barbara Steinhaus and others Saturday night, Feb. 14, in a Valentine’s Day performance of Spanisches Liederbuch, a collection of 44 “art songs” by Austrian composer Hugo Wolf, at 7:30 p.m. at Brenau University’s Pearce Auditorium. The concert is free and tiffany open to the public.

In addition, at 2:15 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 13, in Pearce Auditorium, Wustman will conduct a “master class” for Brenau music students and others. That is open to the public as well.

Saturday’s performance highlights the work of Wolf that used the works of Spanish poets Cervantes, Camoes and Lope de Vega as well as folk poetry in the composition of expressive songs in the European romantic style. The evening at Brenau is part of a “road show” by the performances that also includes concerts at Furman University in Greenville, S.C., and East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C.

The collaborative pianist and educator Wustman has been professor of music at the University of Illinois cufflinks since 1968. As a performer he has appeared in the leading concert halls on six continents with some of the world’s best-know singers, including Maria Callas, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Birgit Nilsson, R’gine Crespin, Christa Ludwig, Nicolai Gedda, Carlo Bergonzi and Luciano Pavarotti. Highlights in his career included a series of televised recitals with Pavarotti, including the first recital from the Metropolitan Opera House in 1978. His recording of Mussorgsky and Rachmaninov songs with Irina Arkhipova won the Grand Prix du Disque and he has many other recorded music credits as either an accompanist or guest performer. For some time he was also associated with the famed conductor and chorale director Robert Shaw, who for two decades was the principal conductor and music director for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Wustman performed for numerous recordings of the Robert Shaw Chorale

“I cannot imagine anything more wonderful than singing lieder with John Wustman at the piano,” said Steinhaus, who has studied under pianist/vocal coach at the University of Illinois and who is currently director of the music program at Brenau. Michelle Rouech’, another Brenau music professor, also studied piano accompaniment under money clips Wustman at Illinois.

Steinhaus, a lyric soprano, will be joined on the Brenau stage by Sharon Munden, mezzo-soprano who is chair of the vocal studies program at East Carolina University, and by baritone John Kramar, who is also associate dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication at ECU.

Steinhaus concedes to getting a special kick from having her former professor and mentor Wustman as a guest lecturer for her students – so much so that she has opened his “master class” for Brenau students to the public.

“He is an authentic musician in the truest sense of the word,” she said. “He selflessly gives himself to promote its place in our world.”

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Romantics with a big heart, but poor time management caught a break today as Travelocity scoured its customer reviews to name 10 great, well actually 12, romantic places to stay in North America. Travelocity customers can even receive up to a 25-percent discount on their romantic Valentine’s weekend to those specific properties.

Travelocity looked at the hotels that were most highly rated overall, and that also tiffany and co received the highest ratings for “romance” in San Francisco, New Orleans, New York City, Hawaii, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Travelocity allows customers to rate hotels based on their appropriateness for certain visitors, such as family, romance, and business travel, to help customers find reviews relevant to them as they shop for hotels. Travelocity currently features more than 190,000 hotel reviews on site.

“We wanted to find our most highly rated, romantic hotels in creating this exclusive list,” said Noreen Henry, vice president, hotels Travelocity. “These all are great hotels and to get this kind of discount on Valentine’s Day weekend is a big plus for travelers and might even enable some people to travel who hadn’t planned on it, or just get out in their own town.”

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Now commentator Bob Greene tells the story of a tiffany bracelet lost 20 years ago this month, in hopes of finding its original owner.

BOB GREENE: In Robins, Iowa, the other day, Mary Christensen(ph) was cleaning out a bedroom closet when she found the charm bracelet – the charm bracelet that isn’t hers. Twenty years ago this month – in May of 1987 – she was traveling in Europe – alone. At Heathrow Airport in London – on her way back to Iowa – security people went through her carry-on bag. They put some of the items out on a long table then put them back. When she arrived in Iowa and unpacked, she found something that didn’t belong to her – a silver charm bracelet.

There were more than 20 charms on it. It seemed that the bracelet’s owner was a woman with a range of sentiments. They was the charm and the shape of a sombrero. One shaped like a three-leaf clover, a charm showing praying hand. One shaped like a little piano. One like a trolley car. And there was this: a heart-shaped charm with the words: Bob(ph) loves Ruthe. Ruthe with an E on the end – R-U-T-H-E.

Bob and Ruthe seemed to have children. There was a charm in the shape of a girl’s profile with the name Marcy(ph) and a date January 25, 1972. A charm in the shape of a boy’s profile – Mark(ph), July 2, 1974.

Mary Christensen – back in Iowa that May 20 years ago – figured that in the confusion of the security check, a guard must have mistakenly put the charm brace into her bag instead of handing it to its owner. She called British Airways. She was told there was no way for them to know whose tiffany bracelets it was.

The years went by. In Iowa, Mary got married, worked and then retired, moved three times. And it was by happenstance the other day when cleaning out that closet she found the charm bracelet again.

Older now, she knows how much it must mean to someone – at least how much it must have meant. The small immortal episodes of a life, that’s what charms on a bracelet represent – the vacation trip the sombrero may have signified. The meaning of that clover, the quiet connotation of the charm showing the hands folded in prayer.

What a lost it must have been for the woman who collected the charms on the tiffany cufflinks ? That’s what Mary Christensen finds herself thinking here in 2007. What panic and heart sickness in May of 1987 the owner of the bracelet must have felt when she realized that the end of her own European trip that it was gone? Bob loves Ruthe – Ruthe with an E.

So, out in Robins, Iowa – population 2,500 – Mary Christensen is hoping someone, somewhere hears these words. The lasting moments of our lives – the ones that linger – don’t necessarily make the headlines. Sometimes they dangle from a bracelet. Ruthe, with an E, if you’re out there, your memories are waiting.

BLOCK: Commentator Bob Greene is the author of “And You Should Know You Should Be Glad: A True Story of Lifelong Friendship.” If you think you might know or be the owner of the bracelet, go to npr.org, click Contact Us and send us an email identifying one of the charms not mentioned in Bob Greene’s essay.

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As of February 7, 2008, Motherhood Maternity stores will tiffany and co feature this pretty lilac bracelet with a satin band and silver ring, to help educate expectant moms and families about the importance of a healthy pregnancy so every baby can have a healthy start in life.

For just a dollar donation, and with 100% of all net profits benefiting the March of Dimes, this trendy token will help fund research, education and increase public awareness about the importance of a healthy pregnancy. It also serves as a wonderful gift for friends and family at the next baby shower!

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The Department of Homeland Security two years ago considered the use of “safety tiffany and co bracelets” that can deliver a debilitating shock similar to that of a Taser for controlling prisoners during transport.

The inventor of the magnetically secured wristbands — Per Hahne of Toronto — has proposed that his electro-muscular disruption (EMD) devices be fitted on all airline passengers as a safeguard against terrorist attacks. But Homeland Security officials in July 2006 focused on the potential use of the bracelets only for transporting prisoners.

“Our interest was to detain with less-than-lethal means an apprehended suspect,” said Homeland Security spokeswoman Amy Kudwa.

Nothing came of the Homeland Security meeting with Mr. Hahne, despite a lengthy letter to the inventor expressing interest in the device, but his bracelet has since attracted the attention of aviation and security fans in the blogosphere.

CrankyFlier.com and TravelSecurity.blogspot.com both questioned earlier this spring whether bangles the bracelet could achieve widespread usage.

A blog post Wednesday on The Washington Times’ Web site, www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs, drew thousands of hits and resulted in more than 1,000 e-mails to the bracelet’s marketing company, Lamperd Less Lethal, based in Toronto. A video on the company’s Web site shows how the bracelets can be used to control all airline passengers.

Jeffrey Denning, a blogger who moderates the Aviation Security community on The Times’ site, said he cringed at the thought that the government might mandate that all passengers wear the tracking devices for flights.

But Ms. Kudwa said the Homeland Security Department never considered the technology rings as a terrorist-stopping measure.

“At the end of the day, this was never funded and followed up on,” she said. “Nor do we support the asserted use in the video, and we have never pursued the development of such technology.”

Mr. Hahne and Lamperd Less Lethal say airlines could augment security by fitting all passengers with the bracelets, which could be programmed to contain a passenger’s travel data, such as identification information and seat number.

In addition, flight crews would be able to shock any terrorists who took troubling action once a plane was airborne, the bracelets maker says.

“I’ve tried to convey to everyone my interest is aviation and terrorist hijackings,” Mr. Hahne said in a telephone interview. “It’s not really for me to say what the U.S. government wants to do with a patent of mine. The idea can be left or taken.”

The video on the company’s Web site cites the security breaches that led to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and explains how the bracelet could hold a passenger’s identification and allow him or her to be tracked through an airport and onto a plane.

In case of a terrorist threat, a flight attendant or pilot could shock the passenger by use of a remote control and debilitate the person from further action.

“This device is not meant to be an onerous, punitive measure for passengers,” said Mr. Hahne. “It is meant to save their lives. It is something meant to be used only when the plane is being hijacked.”

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Denver-based Alcohol Monitoring Systems (AMS) has recently lost a tiffany and co long-standing patent infringement case against Tampa, Florida-based Actsoft. But company officials are calling the loss a win for its proprietary SCRAM System.

AMS manufactures SCRAM, the Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor. On the market since 2003, the system has monitored more than 102,000 alcohol offenders in 47 states. The lawsuit, filed by AMS in 2007 in Colorado’s Federal District Court, challenged that Actsoft violated AMS’ intellectual property with their product, “HAS,” or House Arrest Solution, which Actsoft says combines GPS location monitoring with an embedded “continuous alcohol monitoring” component.

In what AMS CEO Mike Iiams calls a “surprise” ruling by the court, in April, the presiding judge bangles in the case ruled that Actsoft did not violate AMS patents – because the product does not actually calculate Blood Alcohol Content (BAC), the de facto measurement used worldwide to determine whether an individual has consumed alcohol and the level of intoxication. “While it was a technical loss, the ruling confirmed what Actsoft testified to in court – that the continuous alcohol monitoring component of their bracelet didn’t in any way meet any of the criteria for being a reliable indicator of alcohol consumption,” says Iiams. According to court documents, Actsoft executives and lawyers testified and stated repeatedly throughout the case that their product does not monitor BAC, is not calibrated, cannot distinguish between consumed and environmental exposure to alcohol and requires a secondary breath or blood test to determine actual intoxication.

“The reality is that a monitoring system that provides results that can’t hold up in court is of no use to the criminal justice system,” says Stephen K. Talpins, vice president of Industry Relations for Alcohol Monitoring Systems and a former DUI prosecutor for the Miami-Dade State Attorney in Florida. “A system that can’t distinguish rings between an incidental environmental exposure to a product with alcohol and actual consumption puts the courts, district attorneys and probation at risk of wrongly punishing offenders for consumption.”

Talpins adds that even the treatment and behavior modification benefits that problem drinkers experience from reliable monitoring is lost with a system that can’t confirm a violation. “That type of alcohol monitoring would do nothing to deter alcohol misuse, which is the root cause of the criminal behavior. It would create a false sense of accountability, and it puts families and communities at risk,” he says.

According to Iiams, despite their view of the ruling as a win, the company is appealing the case. “The integrity bracelets of the technology and the trust that the courts place in us requires that we continue to vigorously defend any infringement on our intellectual property,” says Iiams. “Just because a company does a poor job of violating our patents does not mean it isn’t a violation,” he says.

AMS plans to launch the next generation of their product in 2009. The new system will incorporate house arrest technology with their established alcohol monitoring system, opening up what the company says is a substantial market for higher risk offenders who courts want to monitor and limit their location. According to Iiams, the system will be the first one in the U.S. to combine location and curfew monitoring functions with continuous alcohol monitoring.

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Established in 1997, Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc. manufactures SCRAM((R)), the world’s only Continuous Alcohol Monitoring system, which uses non-invasive transdermal analysis to monitor alcohol consumption. SCRAM fully automates the alcohol testing and reporting process, providing courts and community corrections agencies with the ability to continuously monitor alcohol offenders, increase offender accountability and assess compliance with sentencing requirements and treatment guidelines. Alcohol Monitoring Systems employs 104 people across the cufflinks U.S. and is a privately-held company headquartered in Littleton, Colorado.

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The city of Hickory issued the following press release:

The holiday season in Hickory will officially begin on Friday, November 20 at 6:30 p.m. silver jewellery when the festive and illuminating Christmas decorations are officially turned on during the Hickory Christmas Lighting Celebration in Downtown Hickory.

Hickory Mayor Rudy Wright will turn on the “official light switch” in the Flag Court on Union Square that will light up the trees and poles throughout the Downtown Hickory area. The festivities begin at 6:30 p.m., and Mayor Wright will turn on the lights about 7 p.m. Festivities on Union Square will continue until 8 p.m. Santa Claus will be at the entire event greeting kids of all ages and the CVCC Brass Ensemble will perform Christmas Carols after the lights have been turned on. Many of Downtown Hickory’s businesses will be open and all the restaurants welcome citizens to enjoy a delicious dinner in the heart of the city.

“We are excited to hold the second annual Christmas Lighting Celebration in Downtown Hickory and tiffany cufflinks encourage everyone to come out and enjoy the Christmas lights and carols that will brighten our city during the holidays,” said Mayor Wright. “Additional lights were added this year on Union Square and on the streets that surround the center of the city.”

In addition to the Hickory Christmas Lighting Celebration in Downtown Hickory, the Hickory Jaycees Holiday Parade will be held in Downtown Hickory on Saturday, December 5, at 4 p.m. Downtown Hickory Development Association will hold festivities on December 10 between 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Wagon rides, entertainment, and Santa Claus will be on Union Square for “A Hickory Holiday.” Visit unique shops, dine in great restaurants, and make Downtown Hickory your holiday destination.

For more information, go to www.downtownhickory.com.For more information please contact: Sarabjit Jagirdar, tiffany money clips Email:- htsyndication@hindustantimes.com.

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