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It's bingo night in the Cloister Ballroom, a biweekly tradition. At left, Carolina Herrera's lace gown with bow ($4,990); Toby Pomeroy hoops ($1,750); Robert Lee Morris hammered-gold bangle ($2,100). At right, also by Carolina Herrera, an embroidered top ($4,990) paired with a brocade evening skirt ($3,290); Diego Percossi Papi for Jaded earrings ($1,175) and bracelet ($2,600).Valentino's beaded knee-length dress in silk georgette could be worn for cocktails ($16,800). Diego Percossi Papi for Jaded earrings ($1,175).

Sunnin' along the Black Banks River. At left, a Ralph Lauren Collection halter swimsuit ($300) and matching silk-jacquard shorts ($598); Toby Pomeroy hoops ($1,750); Blinde sunglasses ($260). At right, Burberry's bandeau-top bikini with rope ties ($395); Jacques Le Corre sun hat (price on request); Sigerson Morrison sandals ($325).

Head out to lunch or afternoon tea in Vera Wang's striped silk dress, which has a draped neckline and an asymmetrically gathered skirt ($1,890). R&Y Augousti wood belt ($150); Anya Hindmarch metallic leather bag ($595); Oscar de la Renta Tiffany Signature™ ring heels ($585).

At left, Yves Saint Laurent's pleated silk-muslin dress ($6,790); Robert Lee Morris Castanet earrings ($995). At right, a short satin evening dress by Prada ($4,250); Robert Lee Morris hoop earrings ($325); R.J. Graziano wood and bead necklace ($110) and rope necklace ($175).ON LOCATION

Just off mainland Georgia, the Sea Island resort has Tiffany Knots cuff up a warm-weather retreat for nearly eighty years. Accommodations include private cottages, the forty-room Lodge and the property's flagship, the 156-room Cloister, which recently emerged from a three-year renovation that expanded the hotel's amenities while remaining faithful to the original Mediterranean-style architecture designed in 1928 by Addison Mizner. Three golf courses, eighteen tennis courts, equestrian facilities and options for the aquatically inclined (such as scuba diving and saltwater fly-fishing) are available, along with programs for children and teens. About ten eateries, from formal dining rooms to casual snack bars, provide a culinary potpourri; the spa, some cherished downtime. Rates from $725. 912-638-3611.

Tête-à-tête in the Cloister's solarium. At left, Gucci's silk floral dress with chain and bamboo details ($3,795); Lee Angel for Jennifer Miller earrings ($120); Robert Lee Morris sterling-silver bangles ($250-$395); Oscar de la Renta clutch ($850); Sigerson Tiffany Signature™ ring. Sterling silver, white enamel. toe-ring sandals ($395). At right, a MaxMara jersey tank top ($165) and a Christian Lacroix pixel-print taffeta skirt ($1,920); Robert Lee Morris hoop earrings ($1,195); Valentino zebra-print bangle ($150); R.J. Graziano wood bangles ($85-$95); Alberta Ferretti wedge heels ($595).

Published Date:
05/08/2010
Modified Date:
05/08/2010







many people each day

McCord became interested in paralysis research and education about 18 months ago when she and her family attended a fundraiser for The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis in New York.

"At the fundraiser, we heard a speech by a young girl who said she would do anything to be able to wiggle her toes. That was like someone grabbed my heart out of my chest," said McCord. "It made me feel so selfish that I could do so many things."

Since that time, McCord has been learning about what is being done to cure paralysis.

"We have the knowledge and the technology, but Tiffany 1837™ cuff is needed," she said. "I want to do what I can to promote this cause because they are close to finding a cure."

McCord has been active in assisting the Tiffany Knots ring Miracle Network, hosting a walkathon in Baton Rouge that raised $1,200 to fund a playground for children with paralysis at a Baton Rouge hospital.

"I am passionate about this issue," said McCord. "There are so Elsa Peretti® Open Wave ring things we can learn from those who are paraplegic and quadriplegic. Many people are not aware of this issue, but it affects many people each day."

McCord has been a nationally ranked power lifter and took MMA classes for fitness. She sees majoring in criminal justice as a way to make an impact.

"I want to explore areas and fields that are generally not associated with women in order to show that I can do that," said McCord.

McCord plans to graduate in May 2011 and will add a concentration in addiction studies. She plans to take the LSAT and will also consider going to graduate school along with starting a law enforcement career. But for the next 12 months, she will focus on the Miss Louisiana Pageant and representing NSU.

Published Date:
04/08/2010
Modified Date:
04/08/2010







the career Cheema

Sharma's talent also lies on the field. He was adjudged the best athlete for two consecutive years at St John's School, Chandigarh. He represented the union territory in the football national levels and captained the under-19 team. "I love both my music and football," he smiles. Both require discipline and practice and he makes sure he juggles both with ease.

Miriya Bhatia Cheema, pilot, 20The skies have always lured her. Coming from a family of commercial pilots, she will soon become the youngest woman in the world to fly a Boeing 777

Flying is in her blood and revving up the plane engines and taking to the skies excite her like nothing else. With a chief ground instructor for a father and the first woman commander (flying instructor) in India as her mother, it ought to be so. "I remember the joy rides with my tiffany for sale as a child. That firmed my decision to be in the sky all my life," says Cheema.

"Right from my childhood I have seen my parents dress up in necklaces uniform. I always dreamt of flying with them. I did my flying course from Karnal aviation club as my father was the flying instructor there and got my commercial pilot license in 2008."

With a certain amount of glamour being attached to the career Cheema however says that the going is tough. She says, "While you are on the pilot's seat you have to take the responsibility of the whole aircraft, passengers, operate it as per the DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) norms and standards, be an alert engineer, acquire accuracy of a good weatherman, have sound knowledge of regulations, employ constant presence of mind and self innovation to tackle tricky situations. Now, isn't that a lot!" She adds that one has to be passionate about it and willing to take risks in life.

When she is down on the round, she shoots. Cheema loves tiffany jewellery. "If not a pilot, I would have opted for photography as a profession. My two loves come together in my frames. You will notice my weakness for the azure sky and aircrafts in my photography as well."

Published Date:
03/08/2010
Modified Date:
03/08/2010







I'm really inspired

The storyteller is sacred Over the weekend I travel to Dahanu, a richly forested tribal area only a three-hour drive from Bombay. My friends Brian Lobo and Pradeep Prabhu work with the Warli tribals there, defending their rights to land and proper wages. For years, along with other organisations in different parts of the country, they have been demanding a Tribal Bill, which was finally passed last year.

Dahanu is a space very far away from Bombay, much more than an actual tiffany jewellery distance. My husband is shooting parts of a film essay here. As we enter the forest, we are told that the Warlis can see from about two kilometres away exactly how many people are approaching, and if they know the person they can even identify who it is from that distance. The Warlis tell us the forest must be preserved because it is where the past is handed over to the future. In the initiation rites for a newborn they say: "Resist the sarkar [government]; don't be afraid of the lion and the bear, we live with them; don't be afraid of thunder and lightning, we are part of them; and don't send away a hungry man from your door." They have a storyteller whose role is sacred. They also have a story affirmer without whose presence the storyteller tells no stories.

My style: classic and modern, with an eclectic and playful twist Style philosophy: Use the season's trends only as a guideline. Always remember to incorporate your own personality into your wardrobe. Keep your look simple and go with great accessories. Tall-and-lcan dressing tips: Despite what people think, shopping isn't easy for tall-and lean girls. Length is a problem in everything from tops to bottoms and, as much as I love shoes, I always have a hard time finding my size. I stick to black and neutral shades since colour-blocking and large-print patterns tend to elongate my height. My tall-and-lean rings mantra: I always buy two of something if it fits. I just bought my favourite H&M skinny jeans in light-grey denim and in dark blue. I love the new modern cut of voluminous and oversized items for my body shape, and I m looking lorward to this season's high-waislcd pencil skirts and skinny cropped pants that hit right at the ankle-a dream tor tall girls. I'm really inspired by accessories; I find mysell buying a complete look around just one great accessory. 1 always buy styles-especially bangles, necklaces, bags or shoes-that have a larger-than-life personality ol their own. whether it's a bright colour, tiffany cufflink or amaxing heel. 9-5 uniform: I love skinny bottoms and men's-style trousers, with a leminine, tailored or voluminous lop and a lew layered necklaces. Boots or kitten-heel pumps are a must. Spring look: romantic, ladylike and feminine prints with lots ol layers, anything voluminous and modern structure Making the trends work for you: I always pick an element ot the trend that I like, whether it's cut, colour or fabric, then I stick to what suits my height.

Published Date:
02/08/2010
Modified Date:
02/08/2010







the Israel diamond industry's new

"Creating jewelry from everyday objects is very similar to connecting simple letters into words and individual words into sentence and sentences into a moving literary work. A truly inspired piece of jewelry is like a poem; they are both more than mere form," says the curator/jewelry designer who also dabbles in poetry. (In honor of the exhibit, Kassif composed what he playfully calls the "missing chapter in the Song of Songs" - a wedding poem accessories clearance the style of the original Biblical work which incorporates 30 Hebrew words describing jewelry. He printed the verse and distributes it to some of the visitors.)

The title of the exhibit "Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver" aptly refers to both words and jewelry. In Biblical times, the small golden balls used in intricate jewelry designs were known as "apples." The full phrase comes from the Book of Proverbs, 25:11: "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver."

Why is a diamond museum hosting an exhibit of gold jewelry, tiffany jewellery than diamond-studded creations? Eli Avidar, managing director of the museum - situated next to the Israeli Diamond Exchange - explains the business rationale: "In the past, the Israeli industry was focused exclusively on loose diamonds: trading, manufacturing, selling and marketing them. But with the economic decline in major markets, we felt it is time to try to take a larger piece of the global diamond industry by expanding into jewelry. The idea is to promote the use of diamonds in locally designed jewelry," says Avidar, noting that in recent years many talented Israeli jewelers have been moving to European design centers. "We want to encourage them to stay in Israel."

To that end, he says, the Israel Diamond Exchange will be sponsoring a rings for young Israeli designers who create jewelry with diamonds - the gems to be provided by local diamond firms. "The current exhibit is a way of drawing attention to the Israel diamond industry's new emphasis on locally-designed jewelry, as well as a salute to the jewelry designers and craftsmen of ancient Israel."

Those contemporary artists who rise to the challenge will end up with one thing that their ancient predecessors never got: credit. Who were the men - and women? - who made the bangles that Sarah might have worn, or the "Jerusalem of Gold" tiara prized by Rabbi Akiva's wife? Not a single jewelry-maker or designer of yore is named in any ancient Jewish source, nor was there a tradition of signing individual pieces - this, despite the apparent prominent role of jewelry in the culture.

Published Date:
31/07/2010
Modified Date:
31/07/2010







these estimates

These results will provoke intense debate among the global health measurement community. This much was clear during the peer review process. For example, although reviewers concluded that this study was "well designed...[and] well explained", "a very important contribution to our understanding of the epidemiology of maternal mortality", and "seeks to make a crucially important contribution to the global monitoring of maternal mortality", concerns about uncertainty estimates, in particular, were common. Understanding the varying approaches to measuring maternal mortality-their strengths, weaknesses, advantages, and disadvantages-must now be a priority for all those concerned with translating global health numbers and country estimates into policy.

There needs to be serious reflection among the global health community about how it responds to new data. Even before the paper by Hogan et al was submitted to us, we were invited to "delay" or "hold" publication. The justification for this concern was several fold: potential political damage to maternal advocacy campaigns; confusion among countries, policymakers, and the media, given the difference between this maternal mortality estimate and the tiffany ring UN number; undermining progress on global commitments to maternal health; and the risk of an unproductive academic debate while women continued to die. Although well-intentioned, these requests to slow the pace of scientific discussion for political considerations are likely to be far more damaging than fostering a serious debate about progress in reducing maternal mortality as and when new data appear. Is the global health community unable to accommodate diverse voices and sources of evidence? Is it unable to create constructive ways to cheap silver cufflinks scientists and policymakers together to reach agreement about the meaning of new research findings?

Given the dramatic difference between the results of these estimates and those last reported by the UN, a process needs to be put in place urgently to discuss these figures, their implications, and the actions, global and in country, that should follow. Ban Ki-moon is currently leading a Joint Effort on Women's and Children's Health. The purpose is to plan measures for the MDG Summit in September. One outcome of the UN Secretary-General's important initiative might be to convene a high-level, intergovernmental MDG preparatory meeting as a satellite event at Women Deliver in June. The goal of such a preparatory meeting would be to bring the best available data to tiffany jewellery on formulating policies to launch in September.

Published Date:
30/07/2010
Modified Date:
30/07/2010







school-based physical activity intervention

Using product-oriented assessments, there is some evidence that motor skills track through childhood (Brama, Haubenstricker, & Seefeldt, 1984; Burton & Miller, 1998; Malina, 1990). Tracking has been defined as maintaining relative rank within a defined group over a period of time so that measurements tend to follow a pattern in which initial measurements predict later levels (Malina, 1996). Studies have also shown gender differences tracking to different degrees (Branta et al., 1 984; Thomas & French, 1985), with the disparity between boys' and girls' performance in some skills widening over urne (Burton & Rogerson, 2003; Cratty, 1986; Keogh & Sugden, 1985; Thomas & French, 1985) . Understanding consistency or stability of motor skill performance across developmental time for boys and girls is important, as it can tiffany money clip determine how to intervene to improve motor skill proficiency. Despite this, there are few such longitudinal studies and even fewer that use process-oriented motor skill assessments. The purpose of this study was to: (a) examine whether gender differences exist in the mastery and nearmastery performance (MNM) of three object control and three locomotor skills at two time points, childhood and adolescence, (b) report the percentage of improvement from childhood to adolescence in children demonstrating MNM performance of these skills, (c) investigate the influence of gender on the relationship between childhood and adolescent object control proficiency, and (d) investigate the influence of gender on the tiffany jewellery between childhood and adolescent locomotor proficiency. This study was part of a larger study known as the PASS, set in New South Wales (NSW) , Australia.MethodParticipants

In 2000, the motor skill proficiency of 1 ,045 children from 18 randomly selected and stratified primary (elementary) schools in an area comprising 24,555 km- in NSW was assessed for the posttest of the Move It Groove It (MIGI) school-based physical activity intervention (van Beurden et al., 2003). Of these students, 1,021 had first and last initials noted on their motor skill assessments, and 929 records (91 .0%) were matched by full name and gender to the class roll.

In 2006-07, the list of 929 original study participants was sent to 41 consenting earrings clearance schools from the original study to identify adolescent students for follow-up as part of the PASS. One school did not consent to participate. Slightly more than half the original 928 (one student passed away prior to consent) participants (52%, n = 481/928) were located in 28 schools. Once identified, each student received a written invitation to participate, an information sheet, and a consent form. Students who returned a consent form (57%; n = 276/481) signed by themselves and their parents/ guardian were included in the PASS sample. The overall follow-up rate then was 30% of the original participant sample. The University of Sydney, the NSW Department of Education, and die local Catholic Diocese provided ethic approval for this study.

Published Date:
29/07/2010
Modified Date:
29/07/2010







advertising supplements

Why are consumer electronics accessories such a powerful engine for the front end? For one thing, they add a sense of entertainment to a department largely dominated by packaged goods and household necessities. They impart an aura of fun to the front end of the chain drug store. As such, they are very attractive to advertise in weekly flyers, driving additional traffic. And they relate naturally to one of chain drug's most important departments, photo buy tiffany accessories. Many of our accessories relate directly to saving and caring for digital imaging, one of the fastest areas of the photography business.

Chain drug executives, however, can't merely purchase and stock consumer electronics accessories to be successful. Our most successful chain drug retail partners employ simple but powerful marketing and merchandising strat?gies to drive their success.

They recognize that specific advertised items create traffic and sales for destination products. But, they also create tremendous opportunities for impulse item sales. And despite the fact that they're advertised at attractive prices to draw traffic, the margins remain strong.Together, our retail partners and we have learned additional powerful strategies to insure success with consumer electronics in the front end.

Merchandise aggressively. In addition to weekly advertising supplements, use in-store communication techniques to provide exposure for featured merchandise and special promotions. This is especially important in light of the fact that other retail channels have tiffany jewellery curtailed aggressive merchandising of electronics accessories. The drug channel can gain an advantage here.

Do not be afraid of new technologies. Be aggressive with them. The chain drug channel has embraced DVD and iPod early and has been receptive to new DVD and iPod technologies as they have come to market, including printable and rewritable DVD cheap silver pendants and iPod nano accessories. Of course, these are not the only new technologies that the chain drug channel has embraced, but they are the most prominent.

Published Date:
28/07/2010
Modified Date:
28/07/2010



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