For a trendy transition to cooler temps, try wearing denim cutoffs with black tights (or patterned ones, for a more offbeat style). The look is a fresh way to show off your legs without opting for a Xmas Earring skirt, says star stylist Lindsay Albanese (who's worked with Audrina Patridge). "Pair shorts with a boyfriend blazer or mili, tary cargo jacket, and finish off the outfit with black high-heeled booties," says Albanese. Avoid denim on denim unless the washes are drastically different.REVERSIBLE JEANSDouble-duty denim: Avril Lavigne and other stars are switching up their jeans style by turning their pants inside out! Rockstar Sushi's new slimfitting reversible denim features an edgy, dark wash with zippers on one side and a simple gray on the other. The $200 trendy twofer is available at shopkitson.com.A NEW DRESS MESS FOR Jess. On August 25, Jessica Simpson, 30, stepped out in West Hollywood in a $2,200 Dior number that had people talking - but not in a good way. "She looked like she was smashed into her dress," an onlooker tells Us of the 5-foot-3 Price of Beauty star, who has said she "fluctuates between a size 4 and 6." Explains NYC stylist Elle Werlin: "Though a classic sheath is a good idea for her, this one was wrong. It's too Xmas Key Ring, too bright, and her undergarments add bulk." Simpson - who was mocked in2009 for her mom jeans - is no stranger to style snafus. Why isn't that changing? "She only works with a stylist for certain events," says an insider. "Usually, she dresses herself." Killer carves Though the star - whose clothing line pulls in roughly $500 million a year - often brags about body acceptance, pals say she's bluffing. "She's desperate to lose weight," a source tells Us. "But she wears unflattering clothes." An easy fix, says Werlin: "She's not a big girl. She just needs to stay away from things that are too small."
These celebs opted for a buttoned-up look that doesn't quite suit themThe Inspiration?Melanie Griffith in Working Girl, 1988.J-WowwCOHEN: From the law offices of G.T.LAshley GreeneST. GEORGE: This suit red-iculous!Cate BlanchettROSE: At least she gets great reception.Repeat Offender!Jessica BielWOLF: Hey, SpongeBob: Time to hang up the square pants.TOP COPSNELLIE SCIUTTONurse Marino in Shutter IslandSTEVE KEMBLECBS RadioMALLORY ST. GEORGEcomedianGALANTY MILLERScottgalantymiller.comMICHELLE BOROS97.1 Amp Radio KAMP-FM/Los AngelesBUCK WOLFWeird News producer, About.comJACKIE Xmas Money Clip, Marrying upDAN BRICKLEYHitdanback.comSTEFANIE NOVIKcomedianMICHAEL COHENThe star dressed down in Rich & Skinny cargo leggings. ($194, richandsk/nny.com)Look edgy with Rock & Republic Danika slouchy skinny pants. ($198, neimanmarcus.com)Liv Tyler loves to wear these G-Star Low-T skinny jeans. ($180, g-star.com)Turn heads in Paige Premium Denim Verdugo jeggings in Super Tanzania. ($189, paigeusa.com)The actress rocked Helmut Lang Twist jean leggings. ($230, 212-242-3240)Hot spots! Go vintage in these Jet by John Eshaya patchwork jeans. ($194, johneshaya.com)Kate Moss adds shimmer to her style in studded Siwy Hannah jeans. ($218, ronherman.com)A classic pair: Keep it simple with J Brand Jeans Martini pants in Heritage wash. ($130, Nordstrom)CHARLIZE THERON
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The card-based loyalty program might just be going the way of the dinosaur ... or the two-way pager. The newest crop of location-based mobile apps rewards consumers for actions before they reach the tiffany jewelry sale, and it could save them from fumbling for cards in wallets or loading down their key rings with plastic tabs. Mobile apps like Shopkick, Loopt Star and CheckPoints offer shoppers discounts and deals when they check in, walk into a store or pick up products and scan their barcodes. One startup focusing on loyalty programs for hotels, Topguest, even rewards users for tweeting. "We realized a while ago that the conversations about our hotels are happening on Facebook or Twitter without us," said Michael Doneff, VP-marketing for Viceroy Hotel Group, which offers discounts to users who check in at its hotels through Topguest. "These are guests who are passionate about our properties; why wouldn't we want to reward that?" This set of loyalty apps also takes the check-in-to-places phenomenon that Foursquare has popularized right to the mall or grocery aisle. Rather than checking in to alert your social network or post to Facebook, users can check in for discounts to use at the register or for points that add up to gift cards, prizes or donations. tiffany bracelets sale there are some big-name proponents. Mikael Thygesen, chief marketing officer at Simon Property Group, just spent the past few weeks traveling to big-name retailers with Shopkick's founder and CEO Cyriac Roeding. "They have all been intrigued and interested," Mr. Thygesen said of the meetings."The fact that, for the first time, you as a retailer are going to be able to identify a shopper when they cross the threshold of the store, not when they're at the point-of-sale and getting ready to exit the store, that's a game changer.
" SHOPKICK WHAT IT DOES: The app rewards shopper behavior, beginning when they walk through the door. Consumers rack up points for scanning products, testing products or even visiting a dressing room. Rewards are doled out as special offers and discounts from the retailer, or as Shopkick's currency, Kickbucks (see sidebar), which can be donated to charity or redeemed for Facebook credits, products or gift cards. BRANDS ONBOARD: Best Buy, Macy's, American Eagle, Sports Authority. Simon Property Group will be rolling out Shopkick technology in more than 100 malls before the holiday season. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT: Instead of relying on GPS technology for check-ins like other apps, Shopkick uses a device in store that emits an inaudible sound picked up by the user's phone. That ensures consumers are only rewarded when they actually enter the store. SWAGG WHAT IT DOES: Swagg is meant to be a mobile wallet-consumers can buy, send and redeem gift cards through the app, without the piece of plastic. Like credit-card companies, Swagg will reap fees on transactions. With an iPhone app slated for the holidays, Swagg also tiffany earrings sale to consolidate numerous membership and loyalty cards for multiple stores in one app that keeps track of purchases and alerts when rewards are due. The app is also a vehicle for location-based offers and deals. Users can set their preferences to tailor the deals they receive-say, decline men's clothing, prefer electronics-while Swagg collects on a cost-per-action basis. BRANDS ONBOARD: American Apparel, with more expected in the coming weeks. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT: In a category crowded with venture-funded start-ups, Swagg enjoys the backing of Qualcomm. The tech giant bought Swagg developer Firethorn for its mobile-commerce expertise and already enjoys relationships with major handset manufacturers. LOOPT STAR WHAT IT DOES: Check in at participating stores on Loopt Star and get a discount to take to the register. The app recently launch "Rewards Nearby" so users can find deals up to 20 miles away when they launch the app.
The new feature puts the four nearest special offers to you at the top of the check-in screen and, since it launched, stores have seen foot traffic from the app spike, says Loopt founder Sam Altman. BRANDS ONBOARD: Gap, Burger King, Steve Madden, Element, Paul Frank WHY IT'S DIFFERENT: Loopt grew up as a social location-based network like Foursquare and recently moved into retail with the launch of its Star extension. The app is also based on Facebook, which could prove fruitful now that the social network is turning on its new location feature, Places. "The reason we're moving everything to Facebook is we're close to a world when you can display your location to all your friends," Mr. Altman said. "There's about to be 100 times more geo-social data there." TOPGUEST WHAT IT DOES: Launched in June, this service aims to convert your existing check-ins and tweets about hotels and airlines into loyalty points for programs you've already signed up for. When you check in on Foursquare or tweet about a travel brand, Topguest automatically translates those social-media actions into points for a loyalty program. Brands decide the value of actions, like check-ins and social-media mentions, to rewards points beyond dollars spent. BRANDS ONBOARD: Users can earn loyalty points at 4,500 hotels globally. It's partnered with the rewards program Priority Club, which includes Holiday Inn, Intercontinental, tiffany necklaces sale Plaza and Hotel Indigo. Standard Hotels and Viceroy have also signed on. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT: Topguest is not an app and doesn't ask you to check in or post on yet another service. "Rather than trying to get consumers to adopt new behavior, we want to give rewards for things they're already doing like checking in on Foursquare," said Geoff Lewis, Topguest CEO and cofounder. CHECKPOINTS WHAT IT DOES: When the app launches this fall, users will earn prizes like iTunes songs or iPads, gift cards or airline miles for picking up and scanning product barcodes once they've checked in to a specific store. When the app is opened, it features a list of products that are worth points. Featured products from brand partners allow for bonus points or special promotions like coupons or buy one, get one offers. BRANDS ONBOARD: CheckPoints will announce a number of brand partners at launch in mid-September, said CEO-cofounder Mark DiPaola. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT: This app focuses on supermarkets, office-supply stores and home-goods outlets, which house multiple brands on its shelves. Mr. DiPaola calls it more product-focused than other apps. "When a user goes into these busy places with tens of thousands of products, we're aiming to drive consumers to pick up specific products, whereas they may have walked past that product before, or not even walked down that aisle," he said.
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These Community Education/non-credit offerings are not funded with tax dollars and are self-supporting. For more information about JWCC personal interest courses visit www.jwcc.edu/communityEd/ .Joseph Muchina was a teenager living in a Kenyan slum in the early 1970s when a radical concept took shape: teach the poor skills to make them self-reliant rather than keep them eternally reliant on charity. Muchina was among the first wave of participants in a new program sponsored by a Kenyan church group. Later, he was among the first to join the international fair trade network. Some cheap tiffany 1837 years later, he is co-founder and co-owner of an international jewelry business that employs people living in Nairobi's teeming slums.Beading, painting and packing to meet a deadline to ship a large order of jewelry to a distributor in Denmark.A handful of artisans work in almost near silence to beat the clock. Workshop owner Joseph Muchina says he and his workers have the same goal:"...creating beautiful things, and making sure also we maintain our culture, our African culture of the kind of jewelry we used to have, because it is dying, slowly and slowly," said Muchina.
Such is life at Trinity Jewelry Crafts, a small workshop in Nairobi's low-income area of Kariobangi. But Trinity Jewelry Crafts is more than just a producer of bracelets, necklaces, earrings and other ornaments sold primarily overseas, mainly to customers in Canada and the United States. It is a social experiment gone right.In 1971, Joseph Muchina was one of a small group of slum-dwelling young people trained by the National Council of Churches of Kenya in a project with a radical new philosophy."The intention was, after you get training, then you have to be on your own: go and start your own business, with either your own family or join together as a partnership a number of you, and then start doing something for your own future," said Muchina.He recalls how this way out of poverty contrasted with the more widespread notion of "charity.""We were used to being given, given, given, given so many things," he added. "Yes, the majority of us could maybe not take it well coming cheap tiffany key rings that kind of life of being given so many things to, you know, going and standing on your own, doing things on your own, because it is really tough."Muchina learned how to design and make jewelry, skills that he taught for 14 years within the National Council of Churches and a subsequent organization.In 1984, he and two others created Trinity Jewelry Crafts in the low-income area of Dandora, where they worked for about a decade before moving to Kariobangi.Muchina achieved another feat: having one of the first Kenyan companies, and one of three in Africa, to join the World Fair Trade Organization in 1991.
The city of Franklin issued the following news release:Last night, just before 6:30, Franklin Police were summoned to the Kohl's located at 300 Spring Creek Drive, where store security was discount tiffany bracelets Nayade Carrasco for shoplifting. Carrasco, 46, of Spring Hill, concealed 26 necklaces, four bracelets, two pairs of earrings, and four shirts in her purse before leaving the store and being stopped by security. The total value of the merchandise, $928, makes Carrasco's crime a felony.Specially trained loss prevention specialists, sometimes referred to as store detectives, combined with high-tech video monitoring and recording capabilities, make shoplifting a precarious crime for thieves. Their chances of being caught and arrested are increased greatly by today's corporate emphasis on shrinkage control. It is not uncommon for shoplifters arrested in Williamson County to be sentenced to time in jail.Old wives' tales warn about keeping a broken mirror or glass in the house. They say it is sure to bring in bad luck. So to do away with it head straight to glass artist Anjali Venkat with the broken shards of glasses and mirrors.Venkat's interest in art started young: "I was one of those children who would always be found in the art room at school." Her passion and her sense of aesthetics have combined to create what she calls 'functional' art that recycles the broken pieces. She can easily transform a broken mirror into a glass lamp with a wooden base, or say, a tray with a magazine collage and discount tiffany earrings handles or even delicate earrings.Initially, her work was met with scepticism. But she never gave up. With an encouraging family, the artist continued to study glass cutting, soldering and fusing across continents. Venkat's work is unique for it is not art merely for art's sake. The objects d'art that she creates must be "artistic, functional and useful too."Venkat recalls how she has met many who perceive recycled goods as 'tacky'. She has tried to dispel this myth with her vision for 'upcycling'- process of converting waste materials into new products of better quality or a higher environmental value. Upcoming work from Venkat includes a collaborative exhibition called 'Wood Paper Glass' where she and friend, Shetal Parrek, are exhibiting work in mixed media. She also conducts classes on glass cutting and soldering. But her favourite is to create her own quirky jewellery.The exhibition is on from October 2-4, 2010 at H-18/4, Arundale Beach Road, Kalakshetra Colony, Besant Nagar. Call 45511170 for details.
SOUTH WALES, United Kingdom, Sept. 20 -- Camomilla SPA, Milan, Italy, has filed the trademark "Camomilla" (customer's reference: IOW/MJ/53721) on July 30 for soaps, body care preparations, bath foam, suntan creams, creams, perfumery, deodorants, spectacles, mobile telephone cases, motorcycles helmets, photographic apparatus, discount tiffany necklaces, chandeliers, torch, night lights, toasters, water dispensers, costume jewellery, non-precious materials, stationery, leather, leather imitations, umbrellas, rucksacks, furniture, mirrors, frames, sofas, armchairs, chairs, tables, tea, coffee tables, dishes, glasses, tableware, bowls, cups, textile goods, clothing, hair clips, headbands, carpets, rugs, games toys, playthings, wine and sparkling wine and also to provide retail services connected with, soaps, body care preparations, bath foam and gel, shampoos, suntan creams, creams, perfumery and deodorants.The trademark application (serial number: 2546776; journal number: 6853) was published on Sept. 17.
The description of the mark registered is: "Soaps; body care preparations; bath foam and gel; shampoos; suntan creams; creams; perfumery; deodorants for personal use; toiletries; sanitary toilet preparations; essential oils; cosmetics; lipstick; nail varnish; make-up; hair lotions; hair care preparations; dentifrices.discount tiffany rings, parts and accessories therefor, including chains for spectacles; cords for spectacles; cases for spectacles; mobile telephone cases; motorcycles helmets; photographic apparatus and instruments; radios; stereos; CD and DVD players; scales; timers; calculating machines.Lamps and chandeliers; torch lights; night lights; toasters; water dispensers.Costume jewellery of precious and non-precious materials; necklaces; earrings; bracelets; rings; pins; horological instruments and chronometers; watch straps.Stationery; drawing books; note books; agendas; rubrics; ball-point pens; synthetic-tipped pens; roller ball pens; fibre-tipped pens; diaries; small diaries; photograph albums; cases; adhesives; sticker albums; adhesive labels.