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Oct. 28--Domestic violence suspects awaiting trial in Orange and Chatham counties might be ordered to wear monitoring bracelets to track whether they get too close to their alleged victims while out on bond.

The counties' sheriff's offices, along with sheriff's offices in Alamance, Pitt and Rockingham counties, have received grants totaling nearly $725,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice to test the bracelets in a two-year program.

"It's a way of adding another layer of supervision for that individual tiffany key rings the arrest and when they go to court," Pitt County Sheriff Mac Manning said.

Manning's office has been testing the bracelets on domestic violence suspects for about a year. A judge can order a defendant to wear one of the bracelets as a condition of release from jail while awaiting trial.

The bracelets provide 24-hour, real-time monitoring and alert law enforcement of violations. If a suspect gets closer than he is supposed to be to an alleged victim's home, for example, an alert is sent to a domestic violence officer's pager. An alarm also goes off if the bracelet is tampered with or removed.

The time between a suspect's arrest and trial or plea can be tiffany necklaces difficult for victims of violence, said Donna Kay Smith, interim executive director of the Family Violence Prevention Center of Orange County.

"When somebody is arrested, it can make them angry," she said. "Violence is very much about having power and control over another person, and when you have someone arrested, it shifts the balance of power and control, and that can make them even more violent as they try to get that back."

Orange County Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass said he hopes to have the program running in his office by January.

"We think it will be another way to lend assistance and some more protection for victims of domestic violence," he said.

Sgt. John Guard of the Pitt County Sheriff's Office's Domestic Violence Prevention Unit said he's optimistic about results so far. There have been 11 incidents -- arrests or calls -- among the 53 suspects who have worn the bracelets in the past year. Among domestic violence suspects the Sheriff's Office arrested in 2004, the rate of reported repeat incidents in the same calendar year was about 36 percent.

Guard cautions that the program shouldn't be seen as the solution to tiffany accessories problem of keeping victims safe.

"I believe this is going to be a good program," he said. "But we should never put the blinders on and say any one thing is going to eradicate domestic violence or increase victim safety. ... It's a societal issue."

Credit: The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 16 -- Christian Verdon of tiffany money clips, Switzerland, and Michael Bach of Biel, Switzerland, have developed a bracelet with links made of rigid material on a flexible core.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The bracelet is formed of several juxtaposed links made of rigid material and a flexible core onto which the links are threaded. The flexible core is formed over a part of its length of flexible elements removably assembled one after the other. Each flexible element comprises on two opposite sides a first assembling portion and a second assembling portion complementary to the first assembling portion."

An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "elements can be assembled one after the other by fitting the first and second assembling portions together to form a flexible strip. The links are positioned on the flexible core to hold the flexible elements in their tiffany pendants position."

The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,021,041 on April 4.The patent has been assigned to Montres Rado SA, Lengnau, Switzerland.

The original application was filed on Feb. 11, 2005, and is available at:

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MALIBU, Calif. - A reported $11,000 in pledges was raised Sept. 16 to help filmmaker Kavi Raz promote his award-winning film "The Gold Bracelet" through a Hollywood management company during a fundraiser held at Dr. A.S. Marwah's ranch here.

After describing himself as the film's "number one fan," tiffany rings Management Corporation managing director G. Jarbe Durant asked those present to donate $1,000 each to help "create a grassroots movement and a public relations marketing movement" for the film.

Both he and Marwah got the ball rolling by donating a $1,000 each. The money will be used as "working capital...I'm going out helping to put together dinner parties, helping to put together groups to raise money to have the marketing and working capital to make these things happen," Durant said, adding that $200,000 needs to be raised by Thanksgiving.

"We need to get on talk shows, we need to get on TV shows (and) we need to get into the chat rooms on the Internet," the same way Mel Gibson used it in raising awareness for his "The Passion of the Christ," he added.

"This is a film that should be shown to the children, it should be tiffany bracelets to the general masses to show what intolerance is about, what our common goal is in life to see if we can live together peacefully and not as we experienced earlier" after the 9/11 attacks, Marwah stated in making his appeal to the gathering.

On behalf of Congressman Ed Royce, Marwah then presented Raz with a Congressional Certificate of Recognition for his accomplishment in making the film and subsequently winning awards on the film festival circuit.

After having seen the film earlier, former El Centro mayor Dave Dhillon recounted how he told Raz that "I think we have finally broken the barrier on mainstream American and I truly believe that this film will go beyond Indian audiences throughout America, Canada, London and India."

Dhillon used the occasion to announce that "Kavi and I are working together with a tiffany cufflinks key congressmen to show this film exclusively to the House of Representatives in Washington, D. C. and at the SAG offices across from the White House sometime in January."

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Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas (3rd CD) issued the following press tiffany notes:

On Thursday, October 5, 2006 at 2:30pm, McKinney-resident Paula Chambers will return a Prisoner of War (P.O.W.) bracelet engraved with Sam Johnson's name and shoot-down date to Rep. Johnson (3rd Dist.-Texas) in Richardson.

Chambers has never met Congressman Johnson, but she attended school with his children in Plano while he was in captivity. Members of the media are invited to attend a photo opportunity at the top of the meeting.

Chambers graduated from Plano High School in 1972 and bought the bracelet around that time. Paula's mother, Doris Alexander, worked for James P. Melton, the brother of Shirley Johnson, the wife of then-P.O.W. Johnson. Shirley Johnson helped create the National League of Families that started the P.O.W. bracelet campaign as a way to draw international attention to the cruel treatment of the Prisoners of War in Vietnam.

People wore the bracelets bearing the name of a P.O.W. as a reminder to pray for the person in captivity, even if the person did not know the serviceman personally. Many proudly wore these bracelets, and some still do, as a symbol of hope that the P.O.W.s and tiffanys In Action (M.I.A.s) would return to their families alive.

Shot down on April 16, 1966, Johnson spent nearly seven years as a Prisoner of War in Vietnam, more than half of that time in solitary confinement. This January, accompanied by his wife, Sam Johnson returned to the Hanoi Hilton for the first time since his release in February 1973.

After Johnson's 1973 homecoming, thousands of bracelets were returned to him in person or in the mail. However, 33 years later, the traditional return of the P.O.W. bracelet has become much more infrequent. Over the last several years, Johnson estimates that he has accepted one every other year or two.

Recently Chambers came across the P.O.W. bracelet in her jewelry box and contacted the Congressman to return it to him. Engraved in the bracelet reads: "Lt. Col. Samuel Johnson 4-16-66."

WHEN: Thursday, October 5, 2006 at 2:30pm

WHO: McKinney-resident Paula ChambersCongressman tiffany bangles Johnson - Former P.O.W. in VietnamShirley Melton Johnson - Founder of National League of Families

WHAT: P.O.W. bracelet presentation to Johnson photo-opportunity

HARWOOD, Beth The Mermaid's Bracelet Illustrated by Patricia tiffany pendants. Scholastic, 2006. Unp. Illus. Gr. Preschool - 2. 0-439-94661-1. Hdbk. $15.99

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Hannah loves her holidays by the sea, but wishes she had a friend to play with when she is there. One day she finds a message in a bottle from a mermaid named Shelly that helps her wish come true.

This is a very girly book, with its sparkly cover and pretty, softly coloured illustrations by Patricia MacCarthy. Mermaid Shelly is an exceedingly lovely creature with flowing golden hair and a sea-green crown, whom little girls raised on Disney will adore. Just as attractive to young readers will be the little notes that Hannah and Shelley write to each other, affixed to the pages in tiny coloured envelopes that are decorated with illustrations of shells and sea creatures. Through their correspondence, tiffany earrings and Shelly agree to meet by the seashore, where Shelley reveals a treasure map that leads Hannah indirectly to a new friend named Emily. Although the story has a somewhat saccharine quality to it, it also has a gentleness that is appealing, and a satisfyingly happy ending that young children will enjoy.

The fragile envelopes and an enclosed charm bracelet makes The Mermaid's Bracelet an unsuitable book for a tiffany key rings collection, but it could still be an appealing birthday or Christmas gift for preschool girls.

Thematic Links: Friendship; Mermaids

Evette Berry

BETHEL, Conn., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Next week, independent film loversthroughout Connecticut will welcome the debut of the first statewide filmfestival. The Connecticut Film Festival kicks off October 3 at the GardenCinema in Norwalk with the feature The Gold Bracelet, and continues tiffany bracelets 8.

The Gold Bracelet, a film by director Kavi Raz, chronicles how the events of 9/11 disrupt the happy wedding times of an Indian family living in Los Angeles. The film has inspired audiences and filmmakers alike at numerous top film festivals including Method Fest, The Newport Beach Film Festival, and Cinequest.

"We're thrilled to open the festival with The Gold Bracelet," said Tom Carruthers, founder of the Connecticut Film Festival. "The caliber of independent films we're showing during the week sets the bar for this brand- new, statewide festival. We're looking forward to our debut, and getting feedback from attendees to make next year's bigger and better."

More than 70 independent feature films, short films, student films and documentaries will screen at various venues in Bethel, New Haven, New Milford, Litchfield, Norwalk, Westport, Waterbury and Stamford. In addition, the festival features workshops, panels and parties.

The festival's Artistic Director, Jean Tait, tiffany cufflinkscufflinks this week that the slate of films includes the world premiere of Holes in My Shoes, a 90-minute feature documentary about Connecticut resident Jack Beers.

Beers is almost 100 years old, and the film takes viewers back to his poverty-stricken Lower East Side boyhood as "New York City's Strongest Boy" performing to packed audiences, to the present time where he's now riding a stationary bike 3 miles per day, driving, pruning trees, performing feats of strength, and more.

"Holes in My Shoes is a magical film by David Wachs, and audiences will absolutely fall in love with its subject," said Tait. "The fact that he's almost 100 is an accomplishment in itself, yet the way he has done it is so colorful and amazing -- from his strongman days, to working as an ironworker who erected the famous Radio City Music Hall marquee, to specifically helping to shorten World War II at the Manhattan Project, to erecting the famous Empire State Building spire."

Both the director and subject of the film, Jack Beers, now 96, will be tiffany money clipsclips the film's premiere, to be held on Saturday, October 7 at 5 p.m. at The Saugatuck Elementary School at 70 Riverside Avenue in Westport, with a Q&A session, and a wine reception following with Klezmer music.

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The South Dakota Attorney General issued the following news tiffanys:

Attorney General Larry Long said today that his office will begin implementing the use of a special ankle bracelet to expand his 24/7 Sobriety Project to rural areas of South Dakota.

SCRAM, or the Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor, is an 8 oz. leg bracelet that monitors alcohol consumption by analysis of the emissions from the wearer's sweat glands. Tests are random and the subject has no idea when the testing will take place. The information is transmitted though a modem placed in the subject's home via conventional phone line and emailed to the agency assigned to testing. The testing agency has the ability to customize testing schedules and monitor subject tests at any timetiffany bangles

Many 24/7 Project defendants have difficulty traveling to a testing site to submit twice-a-day breath tests," said Long. "The bracelets would play a key role in filling the void for those counties that do not have jails and allow defendants from remote areas of South Dakota to benefit from this program."

The State has received 25 of 100 bracelets purchased by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The cost of daily use will be $4.30 per day per user. State officials will charge wearers for part or all of the related costs. Major alcohol distributors have donated monies to help defray some of the costs. Those distributors include: Anheuser-Busch, $10,000; Brown-Forman Corporation, $5,000; The Century Council, $10,000; Coors Brewing Company, $3000.

The State has distributed the first 25 bracelets as follows: Pennington tiffany rings 10, Minnehaha County 10 and the Department of Correction 5. The bracelets are currently being used in 37 states and a product of Alcohol Monitoring Systems (AMS), a Colorado based company. AMS manufactures the world's only continuous alcohol testing system that uses Transdermal Analysis to measure alcohol consumption.