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Raise the ante! World Series of Poker(R) 2008: Battle for the tiffany jewellery has shipped to retailers nationwide from Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATVI). The game features Phil “The Poker Brat” Hellmuth Jr. — owner of a world record eleven WSOP bracelets — in a special “Beat The Brat” Heads-Up mode and thrusts players deep into the high-stakes world of tournament poker to face off against other A-list pros such as Johnny Chan, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, and Mike “The Mouth” Matusow on the quest to win the championship bracelet for the $10,000 Main Event and over $60MM in total prize money.

“World Series of Poker 2008: Battle for the Bracelets allows gamers to challenge all of their favorite poker pros in one of the largest sporting events in the world,” said David Oxford, Activision Publishing, Inc. “We are proud to deliver intense poker tournament action to gamers who want to experience the high-stakes competition of championship poker from the comfort of their homes.”

In World Series of Poker 2008: Battle for the Bracelets, the #1 poker video game franchise returns as players challenge over 30 of the world’s top poker champions. With intense heads-up tournament play, expansive poker tutorials, and strategy clips from Phil Hellmuth’s Ultimate White to Black Belt Course as produced by iAmplifyVegas.com, players can learn from the very best in the industry and take on all opponents in real-world locations such as Las Vegas and New Orleans.

World Series of Poker 2008: Battle for the Bracelets is available on the Xbox 360(TM) video necklaces game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION(R)3 computer entertainment system for a suggested retail price of $49.99, the PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system, PSP(R) (PlayStation(R) Portable) system and Nintendo DS(TM) for $29.99, and the PC for $19.99. The game is rated “T” (Teen) by the ESRB. For more information on World Series of Poker 2008: Battle for the Bracelets please visit www.BeatTheBrat.com.

About Activision, Inc.

Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision, Inc. is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure products. Founded in 1979, Activision posted net revenues of $1.5 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007.

Activision maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Scandinavia, Spain, the Netherlands, Australia, Japan and South Korea. More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company’s World Wide Web site, which is located at www.activision.com.

This World Series of Poker game includes trademarks owned by Harrah’s License Company, LLC. and used under license. All rights reserved.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements: Information in this press release that involves Activision’s expectations, plans, intentions or strategies regarding the future are forward-looking statements that are not facts and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. In this release they are identified by references to dates after the date of this release and words such as “will,” “will be,” “remains,” “to be,” “plans,” “believes”, “may”, “expects,” “intends,” and similar expressions. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, sales tiffany accessories of Activision’s titles, shifts in consumer spending trends, the seasonal and cyclical nature of the interactive game market, Activision’s ability to predict consumer preferences among competing hardware platforms (including next-generation hardware), declines in software pricing, product returns and price protection, product delays, retail acceptance of Activision’s products, adoption rate and availability of new hardware and related software, industry competition, rapid changes in technology and industry standards, protection of proprietary rights, maintenance of relationships with key personnel, customers, vendors and third-party developers, international economic and political conditions, integration of recently acquired subsidiaries and identification of suitable future acquisition opportunities, limitations on our ability to issue stock and options and foreign exchange rate changes. Other factors that could cause Activision’s actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements set forth in this release include, without limitation, the further implementation, acceptance and effectiveness of the remedial measures recommended or adopted by the special sub-committee of independent directors established in July 2006 to review Activision’s historical stock option granting practices, the board and Activision; the outcome of the SEC’s formal investigation and the derivative litigation filed in July 2006 against certain current and former directors and officers of Activision relating to Activision’s stock option granting practices, the possibility that additional claims and proceedings will be commenced, including additional stockholder litigation, employee litigation, and additional action by the SEC and/or other regulatory agencies, other litigation (unrelated to stock option granting practices), and the risks identified in Activision’s most recent annual report on Form 10-K and recent reports on Form 8-K. The forward-looking statements in this release are based upon information available to Activision as of the date of this release, and Activision assumes no obligations to update any such forward-looking statement. Forward-looking statements believed to be true when made may ultimately prove to be incorrect. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond our control and may cause actual results to differ materially tffany keys from our current expectations.

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The U.S. Department of Justice’s Drug Enforcement Administration’s Boston tiffany jewelry Field Office issued the following press release:

Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that GENERO MARTE, also known as “G,” 44, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in Blackwood, New Jersey, was sentenced yesterday, November 24, by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport to 204 months of imprisonment for supplying cocaine to a New Haven drug trafficking organization. Judge Hall also ordered MARTE to pay a fine in the amount of $25,000. On November 20, 2008, a jury found MARTE guilty of one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base (“crack cocaine”).

This matter stems from “Operation No Nonsense,” an investigation conducted by the DEA New Haven Drug Task Force, including agents and officers of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the New Haven Police Department and the West Haven Police Department, into a significant crack cocaine trafficking ring silver earrings operating in and around the Newhallville section of New Haven.

According to court documents, statements made in court and evidence disclosed during trials of several of the individuals charged as a result of this investigation, during 2006 and 2007, DEA Task Force agents made several supervised purchases of crack cocaine from Mauriel Glover, also known as “Feet,” of New Haven. In September 2007, the DEA obtained court-authorization for wiretaps on phones used by Glover and Roshaun Hoggard, also known as “Foot,” of New Haven, after which hundreds of incriminating drug-related calls were intercepted and recorded. The wiretap revealed that Glover, Hoggard and others regularly received cocaine from MARTE, which was transported to Connecticut and processed into crack. Glover, Hoggard and others then sold the crack to numerous customers in the Newhallville section of New Haven.

In several recorded conversations, Hoggard described the process of cooking the powder cocaine he had obtained from MARTE into crack. Hoggard also was intercepted complaining to MARTE about cocaine powder that was of too low quality to be processed into crack and which he wanted to return. During the trial of silver key rings MARTE and Hoggard, the Government presented the testimony of law enforcement agents who followed Hoggard to the Bronx, New York where he met with associates of MARTE to pick up distribution quantities of cocaine.

MARTE, Glover and Hoggard have been detained since their arrests in December 2007.

On May 21, 2008, Glover pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base. On November 20, 2008, a jury found Hoggard guilty of one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base, and one count of possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base. Each awaits sentencing.

This case has been investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the New Haven Police Department silver necklaces, the West Haven Police Department, the Shelton Police Department, the Meriden Police Department and the Branford Police Department. The United States Marshals Service assisted in the arrests of several of these defendants.For more information please contact: Sarabjit Jagirdar, Email:- htsyndication@hindustantimes.com.

Shawnee State University issued the following news buy tiffany release:

A summer enrichment program for students first through eighth grades has been an annual event at Shawnee State University and this year, “Kids on Campus” (formerly “Fun in the Sun”) is being planned early to offer session gift certificates for unique Christmas gifts.

Numerous activities are planned for the summer program with a full spectrum of programs involving academics, life skills, culture, art, crafts, sports and more. Sessions are geared for each of the age groups including cheerleading, dancing, sports, cooking and baking, Spanish, music lessons, crafts, sciences and much more.

Each course will be offered three times each day with Session 1 beginning at 9 a.m. Monday silver key rings, June 28 through Thursday, July 1. The teachers for all the classes are from local schools and SSU staff teaches the athletics.

“I feel like the county’s best teachers step forward to teach in the summer program,” said Ginnie Moore, director of University Outreach.

The summer program is sponsored by a 21st Century Learning Center grant. More than 40 different sessions are offered. Each four-day session with the holiday special is $30 if purchased before Jan. 31, 2010. The early bird fee is $35 if purchased before March 31; registration is $45 from April 1 to May 28, 2010; and a late registration fee is $60 from June 1 to June 24, 2010. Lunch will be provided for $20.00 for the entire four days.

“My son, Zane, and I have been involved in the summer enrichment program at Shawnee State for a number silver necklaces of years,” said Sandy Smith, program coordinator. “He and his friends look forward to the experience each year.”

Register now by purchasing gift certificates for a holiday special discount. The gift certificates may be purchased by phone, with your Discover, MasterCard or Visa at (740) 351-3274 or stop in at the office to purchase gift certificates in person. Office hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call (740) 351-3274.For more information please contact: Sarabjit Jagirdar, Email:- htsyndication@hindustantimes.com.

New Mexico Highlands University issued the following news release:

New Mexico Highlands’ Madrigal Choir presents a “Christmas Now!” tiffany for sale concert Nov. 22 at 3 p.m. in the university’s Ilfeld Auditorium, 900 University Ave.

The concert will feature the university’s women’s choir performing English composer Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols along with two Christmas songs by Santa Fe-based composer Linda Rice.

In the second half of the program, the men in the university’s madrigal choir will join the women to perform Misa Criolla, a folk mass based on Latin American rhythms and traditions composed by Argentinean composer Ariel Ramirez.

The program ends with the madrigal choir singing two lively Christmas pieces by tiffany pendants Welsh composer William Mathias.

The director for the concert is Andre Garcia-Nuthmann, the university’s choral director and Department of Music.

Accompanying the madrigal choir will be music professors Linda King on piano and Edward Harrington on bass. Other accompanists include Roberto Capocchi on guitar, and Ralph Marquez and Michael Campbell on percussion.

The members of the Women’s Choir also sing in the Madrigal Choir, including Karliz de Marco, tiffany earrings Nicole Robinson, Christel Garcia, Betty Thompson, Margaret Loehr, Victoria Evans, Tiffany Neeley, Linda Castillo, Christine Jordan and Ardys Otterbacher.

The men in the Madrigal Choir include Devin Barad, Thomas J. Jefferson, Richard Lindeborg, Marcos Sedillo, Joseph Chavez, Michael Hatlee, Josh Lindsey and John Loehr. Tickets are $10 for the general public, and $5 for Highlands’ faculty and staff, seniors 65 and older, and children under 10. All Highlands’ students with ID are free, along with other students with tiffany key rings school ID.

For more information, contact Jane Quintana at 505-454-3359 or Vick Evans at 505-454-3135.tiffany necklaces For more information please contact: Sarabjit Jagirdar, Email:- htsyndication@hindustantimes.com.

“It reminds you of the old times, like in the movies; everyone is interacting and having a good time…it gets you in the spirit!” silver jewellery says Barry Martin of Springfield, Missouri after visiting the Santa’s Wonderland event last year at the Bass Pro Shops in Springfield.

Angela Ferguson, a customer at the store in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma said regarding her visit, “Definitely tell people to come see Santa’s Wonderland ’cause there’s a lot of stuff for the kids to do, and they love it a lot and it’s free!”

Comprised of both animated and live elves, nutcrackers, reindeer and more, the village offers an old-time model train area, remote control cars, a Red Ryder(R) laser arcade, a soft gun arcade and slot car racing. Kids will love playing the hottest fishing game of the season — “The Strike Bass Fishing Game.” Activity tables will be set up where they can write a letter to Santa, color a Christmas picture and every weekend do fun crafts — all absolutely free. Of course, Santa will be in residence there throughout the season.

And, compliments of Bass Pro Shops, parents will want to pick up the free “Parenting Magazine” Holiday Fun silver earrings Guide available at the store. This guide covers many holiday activities and is full of ideas, tips and checklists to help you make the most of your holidays.

Always a family tradition, customers can get a free 4×6 photo with Santa and his reindeer from 5 pm to 8 pm Monday through Friday, Saturdays 10 am to 9 pm and Sundays noon to 5 pm with extended hours beginning November 27th. Photo and gift packages will also be available for purchase in-store. If the line is long, customers can grab a Bass Pass and their appointment with Santa is set.

Every weekend from 12 to 5 pm beginning November 14th through December 20th at Bass Pro Shops Santa’s Wonderland, shoppers can introduce their children to time-honored traditions of making crafts and holiday ornaments. Kids will have fun making moose ornaments, reindeer cone ornaments, Santa bobbers, reindeer hats, candy cane reindeer and Christmas cookies. Again, it’s all free! A complete schedule of activities and times will be available at Santa’s Wonderland or visit www.basspro.com/santamedia for more details.

And, since the most important part of Christmas is the lesson of giving, Sunday, December 13th, Bass silver key rings Pro Shops will feature a special night for “Local Heroes” that will offer local firefighters, policemen, paramedics, military personnel and others and their families the chance to shop with extra discounts and enjoy free activities.

Bass Pro Shops stores will kick off the Christmas season with a special Preview Night Sunday, November 8th (Foxborough, MA Bass Pro Shops Preview Night to be Saturday, November 7th) from 3 pm to 8 pm. Local children’s groups and carolers will be singing in front of the store and customers will be treated to hot chocolate and cookies. Santa arrives in a Tracker(R) boat pulled by a Toyota Tundra truck. Kids will be invited to help Santa, through a little magic, light a big Christmas tree in the main entrance and then on into the store for the unveiling of Santa’s Wonderland. Also, Santa will be giving away a $25 Bass Pro Shops gift card to one lucky winner every half hour that night. Kids will enjoy a special FREE craft like coloring their own stocking at the activity tables.

Bass Pro Shops also will be celebrating their 3rd Annual Great Turkey Campout beginning at 5 pm Thanksgiving Day silver necklaces. Customers are invited to bring their tents and camp out all night on the parking lot so they can be one of the first in line to enter the store the next morning. They can enjoy hot chocolate, coffee and smores from 5 pm to 8 pm around the fire pits and there will be special drawings for prizes.

Return to the Christmases you remember as a kid, return to “Santa’s Wonderland” at Bass Pro Shops and begin your own family tradition you are sure to remember for a lifetime. For more information go to www.basspro.com/santamedia. (For a video/cd or images from last year’s event, please contact Jenna Kendall at 417-873-5059, Katie Mitchell at 417-873-5618 or Larry Whiteley at 417-873-5022).

What’s black, white and red all over? Yes, it’s a newspaper, but it’s being used in a whole new way for Christmas tiffany jewellery decorating that’s nostalgic, fun and inexpensive.

Black and white has been a popular home decorating trend for about three years, says Joyce Gilpin, an antiques dealer at the Jesse James Antique Mall. But this year, the trend — using things you have around the house, like newspapers and sheet music — is making a splash in holiday decor.

“It’s a way of repurposing what you have for Christmas,” Ms. Gilpin says.

NEWSPAPERS

Of course, using newspapers as wrapping paper has long been a classic money-saving idea. But when you add a contrasting bold red Christmas ribbon and pine-cone tassels, cheap becomes chic.

“I hardly ever buy wrapping paper,” says Angie Hummer, co-owner of the Rusty Chandelier. “We always use newspaper. Why waste the money and put it in the landfill?”

Old newspapers also can be used as a backdrop for vintage holiday collections by key rings covering a folding screen with them. Or make paper chains (you know those construction-paper chains you made as a kid) out of newspaper, as Debbie Dusenberry has done to decorate the black-and-white room at her shop, Curious Sofa in Prairie Village, Kan. She cut up vintage newspapers, old paperback books and sheet music in different sizes with pinking shears and scalloped scissors, then strung them on an old dowel rod and hung them from the ceiling.

“We sat down in front of the TV with a glue stick and went crazy,” she laughs.

You can see more of her black-and-white ideas in the Better Homes and Garden Christmas Ideas issue, which will be on the newsstands through December.

Or what about a newspaper Christmas wreath? In Country Living magazine, a full-size wreath made out of newspaper “flowers” and strips of newspaper streamers looks stylish hanging against a bright red door. (See instructions below.)

SHEET MUSIC

Dig out your old sheet music from the attic, because when Ms. Gilpin made her annual trek to the fall antique flea market in Roundtop, Texas, she noticed sheet music for decorating was very big.

“They kind of set the precedent on what is in,” Ms. Gilpin says.

One of the most popular ways they used it is was to print (with the computer) individual letters in red or black on each page to spell out holiday words, such as joy, peace and love. They can be hung across the mantle, by the piano, on the wall or anywhere you want to spread Christmas necklaces cheer.

“Just select the fonts you want and run it through,” Ms. Gilpin says.

If the sheet is too small, she suggests using double-stick tape to affix it to a regular piece of 8 1/2 -inch-by-11-inch paper.

Add some gold or silver glitter for extra pizazz. You also can age or antique sheet music for a more vintage look, she says. For a light patina, suite101.com suggests using hot tea: spread the pages across a clean baking sheet (with raised sides) and pour a cup of strong, hot tea over them (black or pekoe). Let soak for several minutes, then drain and dry flat on a towel or rack.

RED ALL OVER

The secret to using repurposed items — and having them look good — is sticking to a color scheme, Ms. Gilpin says. In addition to newspapers and sheet music for your black-and-white colors, display old family black-and-white photos in new black or white frames. Maybe get a black Christmas Tiffany Accessories tree and top it with a black top hat, as Ms. Dusenberry did, or gather a rookery of stuffed penguins around the tree for a little whimsy. For the red, place shiny, red ball ornaments in glass goblets. Add sparkle to anything with red tinsel. Throw in a mix of new and old Santas and other red holidays items, and it’s starting to look like Christmas.

Lifestyles reporter Sylvia Anderson may be reached at sylviaanderson@npgco.com.

Newspaper wreath

To make this wreath, cover a foam floral wreath base with newspaper “flowers.” To make a flower, cut a Tiffany Keys 4-inch-by-4-inch square from three pages of newspaper. Fold the stack in accordion fashion, trim, and then tie with floral wire in the center. Spread the petals and then hot-glue to base. Repeat steps until wreath base is covered; you will need about 40 flowers. For the bow, cut several 12-inch paper strips. Form loops with each strip, gather a bouquet, and secure with wire. For streamers, cut long strips and fold in accordion fashion. Hot-glue bow and streamers to wreath.

A sophisticated identity theft ring that counted Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s Tiffany and co wife among its victims didn’t stop at stealing money electronically. Authorities said Tuesday it also sent a woman wearing a variety of wigs into bank branches to drain their accounts in person.

Shonya Michelle Young, 38, of Myrtle Beach, was being held Tuesday at a federal detention center in Miami on a charge of conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

“She was a major check casher,” U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Barry Golden said Tuesday.

At her first court appearance Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge William Turnoff ordered Young held until Thursday, when another hearing will be held to determine when she will be transferred to federal custody in Virginia. Prosecutors said Young had been a fugitive for more than two months.

Hundreds of victims were targeted in D.C., Maryland, Virginia, Illinois and elsewhere earrings. Among them: Anna Bernanke, whose purse was stolen outside a Capitol Hill coffee shop in August 2008. Someone started cashing checks using the Bernankes’ bank account days later.

According to District of Columbia police, the purse contained Anna Bernanke’s Social Security card, checkbook, credit cards and IDs. The amount of money stolen from the couple has not been disclosed.

When Young was arrested Monday at a corporate apartment complex near Miami International Airport, authorities said she had a fraudulent New York driver’s license and a Visa debit card under the name Deborah L. Taverna, along with several wigs.

“She had about three wigs that she would wear to mimic her victims or change her appearance,” Golden said.

Young would impersonate the victims to obtain fake IDs and cash illegal checks, draining their bank accounts, authorities said.

In court Tuesday, Turnoff listed numerous aliases and three Social Security numbers Young allegedly key rings used.

Similar scenes played out at bank branches across the country as other ring members used IDs, personal checks and bank information to impersonate victims, according to court documents.

Ten of the alleged ring’s members have been charged, and other fugitives are being sought, authorities said. The suspects were identified in an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Secret Service and D.C. police.

U.S. Marshals initially sought Young at her South Carolina home, but she had fled to Miami, authorities said. Young told the court that she is an unemployed widow who supports a 19-year-old. Her federal public defender did not return a phone message Tuesday. Authorities described her as a girlfriend of one of the alleged ringleaders but wouldn’t identify which one.

The Federal Reserve declined to comment Tuesday because the investigation is ongoing. Last week, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke thanked law enforcement officials for working to solve the case and prevent others from becoming victims.

“Identity theft is a serious crime that affects millions of Americans each year. Our family was but one of 500 necklaces separate instances traced to one crime ring,” Bernanke said.

From January 2007 through May, the ring allegedly stole more than $2.1 million, and the frauds involved at least 10 financial institutions, according to court documents.

A suspected ringleader, Clyde Austin Gray Jr. of Waldorf, Md., pleaded guilty July 22 in Alexandria, Va., federal court. Prosecutors said Gray hired pick pockets then made counterfeit IDs for coconspirators who conducted the bank transactions. Gray allegedly took a cut of the proceeds.

Another man and another woman who prosecutors say were check cashers in the scheme also have pleaded guilty.

AP Economics Writer Jeannine Aversa in Washington contributed to this report.