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I am sure it will be widely acknowledged that he has manoeuvred his way out of the difficult times with great adroitness. He has contained fiscal deficit to the extent feasible and that too without curtailing growth. He has given concessions where required,cuff Links, raised allocations for the poor,bracelets, especially the rural poor, besides offering much required relief to tax-payers that should sustain demand for consumer goods in the economy.

Some duties have, of course, been raised and these will, no doubt, add to some pressure on prices. These increases were, however, largely expected, and the manufacturers and consumers had taken them into account. I think that the roll-back of incentives, talked about for so long, has been kept within bearable limits.

Social stability As in the last Budget,Charm bracelet, the Finance Minister has once again focussed his attention on reaching the poorest of the poor. That is where the benefits of all national efforts towards boosting growth must be directed. India must begin to rise from deep below – from where all growth will ultimately come.

Also, it is only by adopting an inclusive growth paradigm that orderly and sustainable economic progress and social and political stability can be attained. If growth and its benefits do not reach the bottom, everything we have attained so far will be jeopardised. The increase in allocations for these sections and the improvements envisaged in delivering the benefits to them are, therefore, especially welcome.

Farm focus The renewed and increased emphasis on raising agricultural production and providing incentives for food storage and processing are other very important points. As we have seen, the last two years’ inflationary pressures have largely,tiffany, almost solely, been the outcome of scarcity of agricultural commodities.

It is the most urgent need of the times not only to arrest negative growth in agriculture but reverse the falling trend and boost production of all commodities, including oil-seeds. The increase in allocations for this area is highly commendable. In addition, this calls for some very innovative measures all along the base and frontiers of agriculture.

Overall, I am sure Mr Pranab Mukherjee’s Budget will put India on a path that will lead to achieving the targets he has set for the country for 2010-2011 and beyond. It is a handsome and inclusive Budget which will propel the country’s ambition of fulfilling the dreams of a billion-plus population.

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The event is long overdue, according to Van Cleef’s chief executive officer Nathalie Guedj of the Chicago store, which quietly opened its doors on May 12. This is the fifth store in the U.S for Van Cleef, part of the luxury conglomerate Compagnie Financiere de Richemont.

“Chicago is one of the largest and most important cities in the country and we should have been there long ago,” Guedj said.

The calm, salonlike interior is outfitted with salmon carpeting and slubby silk-covered chairs. The long, narrow 1,100-square-foot space features several glass cases that hold signature examples of the watches and floral-inspired jeweled brooches, necklaces, bracelets and rings the Parisian jeweler has been known for since its beginning in 1906.

And one such case holds one-of-a-kind pieces, including a platinum-and-diamond flower brooch for $485,000.

PARIS — Bulgari has a new jewelry box.

Its new 3,000-square-foot unit, on the upscale Avenue Montaigne shopping artery, replaces a smaller shop the Italian luxury jeweler and retailer first opened on the same street in the Plaza Athenee hotel in the early Eighties.

“Now we have more room for accessories and the jewelry can be presented in a larger, more luxurious way,” said Francesco Trapani, Bulgari chief executive officer, in an interview at the shop, which features clean lines and sycamore, glass and bronze fixtures.

Bulgari also operates a shop on the prestigious Place Vendome, as well as a shop-in-shop at the Printemps department store.

“France, and Paris in particular, is a very important growth market for us,” he said, adding that the Left Bank is another potential location for Bulgari. “This shop is part of our effort to concentrate on growth in France.”

To celebrate the new store, Bulgari hosted a dance party at the cavernous Theatre de L’Empire. Boy George manned the turntables to entertain revelers, including Claudia Schiffer and newly appointed Chloe designer Phoebe Philo.

DALLAS — De Boulle is moving up in the world.

The independent fine jewelry and watch retailer moved from its tiny, 1,300-square-foot shop into a grand Mediterranean-style home, tripling its jewelry inventory and adding a new fine art gallery.

Reconstructed from a single-level shell for an undisclosed sum, the new store, with its two-story pale-yellow stucco building, slate mansard roof and residential-style interior, is intended to establish de Boulle as a brand name that can draw clientele not just to its store from other Texas cities, but also to its new Web site at deboulle.com.

Within its 13,500 square feet are 24 luxury watch collections, a new gallery of estate jewelry including 500 pieces from Fred Leighton and the store’s own precious jewelry, specializing in large diamonds and a cluster of designer lines.

The luxurious new digs were made possible by the success of the 18-year-old enterprise in its former location just down Preston Road, where sales reached $13 million last year. Denis Boulle, president and owner, believes he can now easily reach $15 million annually, but is aiming for $20 million. After 10 days in the new location, in the heart of the affluent Park Cities neighborhood, sales doubled compared to the same period a year ago.

Pearls and pins have sold well, including a $45,000 strand of golden South Sea pearls and a $15,000 diamond, ruby and enamel frog pin. Trendy pave diamond hoop earrings are bestsellers, and estate pieces have been warmly received — a dozen were sold in the first 10 days — at $3,000 to $20,000.

“With our partnership with Fred Leighton, Dallas has never seen a collection of estate jewelry like this,” said Boulle.

Concentrated on the second level, the art gallery is mostly 18th-and 19th century French and English oil paintings, which Gilbert Rebillet, de Boulle’s chief operating officer and president of the fine art division, also plans to use to stage sculpture shows and book signings.

Several establishments, especially those known for their romantic atmosphere, are booked or nearly booked for Valentine’s Day, still more than a week away.

The American Restaurant, for example, sold out for Valentine’s Day on Jan. 29 — more than two weeks before the big date.

The Crown Center restaurant, which boasts a heart-within-a-heart ceiling design and has been a Valentine’s Day gift lovers’ rendezvous since it opened on Valentine’s Day in 1974, isn’t seeing the same enthusiasm for the dreaded Friday the 13th.

But Thursday the 12th is nearly sold out.

Maybe diners are eager to splurge a bit after months of cutting back. Or maybe the primary driver is that Valentine’s Day falls on a Saturday, traditionally the most popular day of the week to dine out.

No matter — Jim Beemer of Blue Springs saw this coming. He made his Feb. 14 reservations at McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurant on the Country Club Plaza right after New Year’s, but even then could only make a 5:45 p.m. reservation or something much later.

“I didn’t want to be aced out. I knew from prior experience,” said Beemer, who celebrated at McCormick & Schmick’s on his wedding and his fifth anniversary.

Eating out has long been a popular Valentine’s Day choice — in fact, it is the second most popular day of the year for dining out.

“It seems like we are filling up much faster than last year,” said Andrew Sloan, co-owner of Room valentines jewelry 39 in Leawood. “Maybe they have been saving up for a special occasion.”

Reservations for Room 39 started in earnest last weekend, he said, with 130 seats booked for the 75-seat restaurant by Tuesday and only a few openings for late night on Feb. 14.

The new Fogo de Chao as of Wednesday only had openings from 2 to 4:30 p.m. or after 9:30 p.m.

“I think they are taking advantage of the holiday to come check us out,” said Sidiclei Demartini, a manager of the Brazilian steakhouse on the Plaza.

Still, consumers aren’t so smitten that they aren’t looking for deals, according to the National Restaurant Association.

“People still want to celebrate the special day, but they might do so on a budget,” said Maureen Ryan, spokeswoman for the Washington, D.C.-based association.

The Drop at 409 E. 31st St. has been expanding its dinner menu and also is becoming more “event-driven.” So this Valentine’s Day it will serve a special four-course menu with appetizer, salad, red snapper or petite filet, dessert and champagne toast for $80.

Farther south, McCormick & Schmick’s is offering a three-course steak and lobster, salad and dessert Valentine’s special for $29.95 from Thursday through Sunday.

“It was booked way faster than last year,” said Carey Grider, general manager of the Plaza restaurant. “People are saying, ‘What do you mean there’s no reservations after 3:30?’ But I think people wanted to get the best slots.”

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Valentine’s Day dining

–Valentine’s Day is the second most popular day of the year to dine out, after Mother’s Day, with more bangles than one-third of Americans visiting a restaurant.

–Of those who dine out, 80 percent spend less than $100 on their meals, with an average spending of $62, based on 2006 data.

To reach Joyce Smith, call 816-234-4692 or send e-mail to jsmith@kcstar.com. Source: National Restaurant Association

One goal of the program is to help with overcrowding at the jail, which is built for 118 prisoners but averaged 180 last year.

Jail officials are going through their prisoner rolls to see who might qualify for the program. The bracelets also give county judges a new option in sentencing people.

So far the sheriff’s office is monitoring three people with the bracelets, which are made by a company called iSECUREtrac.

Two of them had been jailed for failing to make child-support payments.

“One of the main charges that we’re trying to target [for the program] is non-support,” said Capt. Robert Hall, who oversees the jail. “With this program we can divert them from jail, put them back out in their residences, require them to work as a condition of that and make sure that they are paying their child support. That way it’s a win-win for everyone.”

Deputy Derrick Stamper is the only deputy assigned to the program full time, which silver necklaces limits the number of people that can be monitored to about 25. Other deputies have undergone training to do the monitoring, however.

Many offenses, ranging from murder to some drug crimes, disqualify people from ever being eligible for the program.

To be eligible for monitoring, an offender must volunteer for the program and be sentenced to or facing a sentence of less than 12 months.

Stamper said he has already been hearing from lawyers and family members who are interested in whether particular people are eligible.

A man waiting in the jail lobby said he was there to try to enroll in the program to avoid jail time for violating his probation.

“Either I can have the ankle brace or do the six months in jail,” said Anthony Rasnake. “tiffany bangles Obviously I want to work and pay may bills.”

Stamper said studies have shown lower recidivism rates for offenders who undergo monitoring, which severely curtails where offenders can go, typically limiting them to home, school, work or rehabilitation programs.

The electronic leash is so tight that Stamper said “if they stop and get gas they have to tell me which gas station they are going to stop and get gas, and which day and which time.”

The system allows for real-time tracking of offenders and automatically alerts authorities if the ankle bracelet is tampered with, Stamper said.

Offenders have to pay the cost of their own monitoring in the form of a $40 start-up fee, $12 bangles for weekly drug screening and $14 for daily monitoring.

Incarcerating them, on the other hand, costs taxpayers about $45 a day.

Kathy Stout did just that as she watched the larvae of caddisflies painstakingly build protective casings out of small stones.

“I thought they were incredible insects,” she said. “I thought, `Wow, they’re so beautiful.’”

Ms. Stout was introduced to the caddisfly by her former husband, Ben Stout, a biologist. As he studied the tiny fresh-water insect, her fascination with its masonry grew. Ms. Stout thought it would be interesting to see what the larvae would do with precious and semi-precious stones. She watched in awe as they created beautiful artwork that they discarded as they entered the adult stage of life.

Ms. Stout realized the casings were perfect natural ingredients for creating jewelry.

“I can’t leave the house without a piece of my jewelry on,” Ms. Stout remarked. “I have silver necklaces literally sold jewelry right off my body.”

Ms. Stout is just as committed to telling the story of the amazing caddisfly as she is to the jewelry she makes with their help. The presence of caddisflies in a river or stream is a sign of clean water.

Ms. Stout will be at Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary in Worcester on Thursday evening to talk about her favorite insect – “I want them to be as famous as the dragonfly,” she said – and demonstrate how she uses the exquisite casings to make earrings, necklaces and bracelets.

“I’m going to bring some bugs with me,” she said by telephone from her home in Wheeling, W.Va. “I’ll bring jewelry and casings and material to construct jewelry.”

In order to make her jewelry, Ms. Stout needs to be rather closely involved in the later stages of tiffany bangles the caddisfly life cycle. Each March, she gathers a few friends and they trek up to the headwaters of springs in the mountains of West Virginia, where the larvae congregate and live off debris. “They maintain the water quality in the stream for other organisms,” Ms. Stout explained.

She and her friends collect the larvae that are in the stage in which they are starting to construct their protective casings; it’s an amazing process to observe, she said. The larvae start by gluing pieces of leaves together with silk.

“If it’s a nice, beautiful weekend, it’s wonderful,” Ms. Stout said. “You sit on the side of a stream and look at leaves. They cut these round-circle disks out of leaves to start constructing the casings. You find the leaf disks and know they’re there.”

Ms. Stout and her friends collect 2,000 to 3,000 caddisflies and bring them back to her house, where she has bins filled with water kept between 55 and 65 degrees. She must maintain a certain water flow and oxygenation or the caddisflies will perish. She feeds her insects leaf debris she has collected from the headwater streams. It took years to create her simulated environment, and she must continually fine-tune it.

As the larvae move into the stone-building stage, Ms. Stout provides them with gems from which to build their casings. Each September, the casings become cocoons. The caddisflies emerge and head for land. They shed one more layer of skin and fly off. Ms. Stout collects the hollow casings and, using a syringe filled with jeweler’s glue, she carefully seals each one.

Ms. Stout, 46, works as a respiratory therapist, and her mother designs and makes much of the jewelry. It is tiffany rings sold on Ms. Stout’s Web site, www.wildscape.com. As far as she knows, she is the only person making jewelry out of caddisfly casings. She knows of an artist in France who uses the casings to create pieces of art.

As much as Ms. Stout enjoys making her jewelry, her real dedication is to the welfare of the caddisfly. She visits schools to give talks and is working on an educational video on the caddisfly ecosystem.

“One way I can get younger kids involved in looking at streams is showing them the beauty and art associated with a stream,” she said.

Ms. Stout recently returned from Salt Lake City, where she attended the annual meeting of the North American Benthological Society, which is dedicated to the study of bottom-dwelling creatures in streams and lakes. When she’s away, her caddisflies are tended by her “bug sitter.”

“She knows the system really well and monitors the caddisflies for me,” Ms. Stout said. “They’re my babies. I want them to survive and live a happy life.”

Contact Pamela H. Sacks at Psacks@telegram.com

Jewelry Created by the Caddisfly

When: 7 p.m. Thursday

Where: Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, 414 Massasoit Road, Worcester

How much: $3 for members; $5 for nonmembers. There will be a charge for materials used, and Kathy Stout’s jewelry will be for sale.

State Representative Selim Noujaim (R-Waterbury) will be ringing in the Holidays – literally. On Monday, December 14th, 2009, between the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Rep. Noujaim will be out in front of Wal-Mart store 3548 located at 910 Wolcott Street ringing a bell for charitable donations with the Salvation Army. The event is part of their “Bell Ringing Across America” program.

Last year the Salvation Army collected $34 million in front of Walmart stores and silver jewellery Sam’s Club locations. These funds helped the Salvation Army serve 29 million people in need.

The funds donated while Rep. Noujaim rings his bell will go to the Salvation Army. Wal-Mart matches all of the donations earned by Rep. Noujaim during his bell ringing and donates them to the charity of his choice. Rep. Noujaim has selected the Waterbury Association for Retarded Citizens (WARC) as the beneficiary of the funds he earns while standing in front of the store.

“This is the season for caring for those who need our assistance, and I hope Waterbury residents will come out for this event and donate to a worthy local cause,” said Rep. Noujaim. “This is a great opportunity to make a donation to help two great charities at once. I am grateful for the opportunity to join with Wal-Mart to tiffany bangles help the Salvation Army and the Waterbury Association for Retarded Citizens, one of our finest community charities.”For more information please contact: Sarabjit Jagirdar, Email:- htsyndication@hindustantimes.com.

This animated retelling of the Charles Dickens classic from director Robert Zemeckis serves its purpose — it delivers just enough holiday cheer to appease the most festive and still entertain the Scrooges of the world.

Using his performance capture technique that he used in “The Polar Express” and “Beowulf,” Zemeckis stays faithful to the original work — a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser named Ebenezer Scrooge (voiced by Jim Carrey).

Scrooge is a successful businessman who holds anything but money in contempt, especially everyone’s feelings of holiday cheer during the Christmas season.

One night Scrooge is visited by his former partner, Jacob Marley (voiced by Gary Oldman), Tiffany Accessories who tells him he must change his ways and warns him of three more ghosts.

Scrooge is then visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, who take him on a journey of self-redemption.

“A Christmas Carol” has been adapted for film dozens of times — featuring everyone from Bill Murray to George C. Scott to the Muppets — so its familiarity is probably one of this version’s biggest flaws.

This is also the third film where Zemeckis has used his unique animated style, so even that has a feeling of “been there, done that.”

Still, I found that this version worked on its own level. Carrey is rather restrained, but Tiffany Keys believable as Scrooge, and the addition of some nice talent like Oldman, Cary Elwes and Bob Hoskins adds some credibility to the project.

The 3-D presentation is also solid, although I don’t think the film will lose anything if you have to see it in a standard 2-D format.

I’m kind of on the fence when it comes to “A Christmas Carol,” but I’ll give it a mild recommendation. If you are looking for holiday cheer on film, you can definitely do a lot worse.

DVD dandy of the week

This week’s dandy is “Humpday” (B) an unconventional bromantic comedy that isn’t afraid to go to some rather uncomfortable places. The result is a smart and funny film, full of rich characters and some pretty good performances.

The film tells the story of Ben (Mark Duplass) and Andrew (Joshua Leonard), college buddies who have drifted apart.

Ben has settled down, married Anna (Alycia Delmore) and is looking to start a family. Andrew is still drifting around, an artist and free spirit looking for a good time.

When Andrew shows up at Ben and Anna’s doorstep one night, the two instantly reconnect. tiffany bangles The reunion leads them to a party where in a drunken stupor Ben and Andrew decide they are going to make an erotic film together and submit it to a local amateur porn festival.

What starts out as a gag quickly turns into a battle of wills with neither player wanting to back down from the original dare — regardless of the consequences.

Writer/director Lynn Shelton has created an interesting little film that smartly explores the dynamics of friendship and marriage.

The premise of “Humpday” screams gimmick trying to shock, but it is really quite tame — the characters and their relationships are the real hook of the film.

All three leads are very good — especially Delmore, who delivers the film’s best scene (a moment tiffany rings of acceptance of this crazy dare that turns into an intimate revelation).

At that moment the film takes a turn I wasn’t expecting, but was pleased to see. It’s a daring move that many filmmakers wouldn’t take, but more should.

“Humpday” is rated R for some strong sexual content, pervasive language and a scene of drug use and will be available Tuesday on DVD.

– Sportswriter/movie reviewer Micheal Compton has been writing a lot about basketball on his blog, but that doesn’t mean he won’t write an occasional opinion on movies as well. For the latest, visit his blog at mcompton.wordpress.com or his Twitter page at twitter.com/mcompton428. You can also e-mail him at tiffany bracelets mcompton@bgdailynews.com and give him suggestions on anything, film or hoops.