With his responsibilities in the classroom, running a school store and coaching the Capital High girls basketball program, Henderson didn’t have much time for anything else.

That ability to juggle his day caught the attention of Capital principal Melanie Romero, and she offered Henderson chance to develop a business program at the school.

However, that required Henderson to give up his head coaching duties, which he did Wednesday afternoon.

He was head coach for two seasons, compiling a 19-33 record. He also was an assistant coach for the 2007-08 season.

“Teaching comes first,” Henderson said. “And if I wouldn’t be giving the same passion I had to basketball to teaching — especially in building that program — I wouldn’t have a teaching job next year. That’s one of the things I have to do.”

Henderson’s duties will be to build a business curriculum, help run the Delta Double heart pendant Chi Association marketing program and continue to oversee the school store.

What Henderson has learned in 15 years of coaching, especially the program building aspects, will be necessary skills for helping build a successful business model.

The most important quality, in Henderson’s mind, is communication.

“We build off that,” Henderson said. “We do a lot of career guidance and assessment. That’s kind of what the DECA program is about. You’re building yourself in a professional and individual manner.”

Still, Henderson was disappointed that he will not be a part of an athletic Elsa Peretti for the first time in two decades. He has had head volleyball coaching stints at Roy, McCurdy School and Escalante, while also assisting at Capital and Escalante in basketball.

This was his first head coaching job at basketball, and he was doing it with a program that had gone through two coaches in as many years when he was hired in 2008 and three in five years.

Unfortunately, he is now a part of a string that grows to four in seven years, and that was what he was trying to avoid.

“I really wanted to provide that,” Henderson said. “I talked to my administrators and said, ‘I don’t feel like I can do it.’ The thing is, we have a lot of the team coming back and I feel they can take us deep into the (state) tournament.”

He can point to point guard Dominique Vigil-Lovato and forward Elsa Peretti Apple pendant Romero as key returnees, as well as forwards Stephanie Oeillien and Ashley Sorenson. They helped Capital to an 11-14 record in 2009-10, finishing in a tie for fourth with Taos in District 2AAAA.

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James E. Gilbert, 46, had pleaded no contest to 10 counts of solicitation of a minor via a computer.

During a more than two-hour hearing Wednesday, Gilbert told Orange Circuit Court Judge Marc Lubet that he was sorry.

“I feel bad for what I did,” Gilbert said. “What I did was wrong.”

But Lubet also questioned how truly remorseful Gilbert is and found him guilty. The Tiffany Necklaces also sentenced him to eight years’ sex-offender probation. Gilbert will have to register as a sex offender.

Gilbert was a trooper with FHP for more than 15 years when he was arrested in December 2008.

He was accused of sending hundreds of text messages, some sexual in nature, to a 17-year-old during a span of around two weeks.

In a statement filed earlier in court, the girl’s mother said Gilbert talked about taking the teen to a cabin in Tennessee where they would “take things slow.”

The teen told an investigator she told Gilbert he shouldn’t talk to her that way. She said Gilbert responded by saying things such as, “It’s your choice, even if anybody found out, if I still want to do something or if you did, nobody can stop us; there’s nothing wrong with it.”

On Wednesday, Gilbert said he didn’t have any intention of following through Tiffany Rings any of the statements he made to the teen.

The victim, now 18, attended today’s sentencing, and her attorney told the judge that she is afraid of Gilbert and thought his testimony was angry and resentful.

Lubet said he didn’t think Gilbert posed a future threat to the public. Lubet also said he felt the 10 years Gilbert potentially faced were too harsh given the circumstances.

He noted Gilbert had a stellar record as a Tiffany Key Rings and didn’t have a prior criminal history.

The report focuses on the US, UK and Swiss market – value, growth rate, and segments. It also discusses the key trends prevalent in the market. The report profiles the major jewellery and watch market players.

1. Market Segmentation

This section gives a brief introduction about the various segments of the jewellery and watch market. It also classifies the segments by their respective SIC Codes. Real Jewellery Fashion Jewellery Mechanical Watches Quartz Analogue Watches Quartz Digital Watches

2. Supply Chain Analysis

The trade channels for diamonds are illustrated by a graphical representation of the supply chain, followed by a detailed discussion of exploration, mining, sorting, polishing, dealing, jewellery manufacturing, and retail. Exploration/Mining Sorting Cutting & Polishing Manufacturing Retail

3. Market Size

3.1 Luxury Sector

The luxury sector being extremely cyclical is mostly driven by GDP growth, tiffany cufflinks flows and the growing percentage of high net worth individuals.

Luxury Sales Growth Vs Global GDP Growth

3.2 US Jewellery & Watch Market

The jewellery market consists of retailers of various sizes, making it one of the most fragmented markets in the retail sector. However, the watch sector is much more conventional, with several large manufacturers. Distribution Channels Retail Sales of Jewellery, Watches and Clocks Break-up of Market Value at Manufacturer’s Level

3.3 UK Jewellery & Watch Market

The jewellery and watches market in the UK has seen tremendous growth during 2000-06, mainly due to higher levels of consumer disposable income. Market Value at Retail Prices Market Forecast at Retail Prices

3.4 Swiss Watch Market

Switzerland is one of the worlds largest watch producers by value and is responsible for about half of all world production. 4. Market Trends 4.1 Luxury Watches Reach Record Sales 4.2 Top Trends from Jewellery Shows 4.3 Men’s Jewellery – Growing Popularity 4.4 Jewellery and Watches – Online Shopping Trends 4.5 Top Ten Brands – Moving in Style 5. Competitor Analysis

5.1 Citizen Watch

Citizen is focusing on women’s segment, by updating classic styles like the Lucca with a mother-of-pearl dial.

Overview

Brands

5.2 Swatch

Swatch is the only global watch company that is fully vertically integrated. It produces all the components required by its 19 watch brand companies.

Overview

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5.3 LVMH

TAG Heuer is LVMH’s best-selling watch brand and the world tiffany money clips in sports watches and chronographs.

Overview

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5.4 Tiffany

Tiffany, a multi-channel jewellery specialty retailer in the US, also generates a significant amount of business internationally, especially in Japan.

Overview

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5.5 Richemont

Richemont, one of the leading luxury goods groups, is most famous for its jewellery, luxury watches and writing instruments.

Overview

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5.6 Timex

Timex, the largest watch producer in the US, has diversified its product range from simple watches to high-tech sports watches.

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5.7 Rolex

Rolex SA has three watch lines – Oyster Perpetual, Professional and Cellini.

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5.8 Seiko

Seiko released the worlds first electronic paper watch in 2006, a display technology in which tiffany pendants are displayed on a thin and flexible sheet.

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Brands List of Tables SIC Classification US Retail Sales of Jewellery, Watches and Clocks (1996-2006) UK Jewellery Market Value at Retail Prices (2001-06) UK Jewellery Market Forecast at Retail Prices (2007-10) Major Watch Brands in Swiss Market Citizen Watch – Brands Swatch – Brands LVMH – Brands Tiffany – Brands Richemont – Brands Timex – Brands Rolex – Brands Seiko – Brands List of Charts Diamond Supply Chain Luxury Sales Growth Vs Global GDP Growth (1990-2005) Distribution Channels in the US Break-up of US Market Value at Manufacturer’s Level (2006) Jewellery Y-o-Y Growth (H206 vs. H205) Market Segments: Y-o-Y Growth (H206 vs. H205)

The spirit of Cupid careers evet iee over the retail landscape this season, from the vaunted coffers of Tiffany & Co., with its diamond-encrusted hearts, to the cluttered confines of Dee & Dee (22 West 14th Street), where a scarlet teddy, albeit without all the bells and whistles of the Kmart ursine, is $1.99. At Duane Reade (all over town), sure to be open late on the night of the 14th if you’re caught up short, there’s a gift that might go well with that poor Hunka Love bear-a box of $9.99 Russell Stover Elvis chocolates that has the King’s portrait and autograph on the cover (“Valentine’s Greetings, Elvis”) and also plays “Love Me Tender” when you lift the lid. For $4.99 you can get a smaller box with a picture of Elvis dressed as a soldier or a Hawaiian tourist, but for that price a collectible magnet stands in for the music.

Underwear, along with candy and flowers the traditional Val Day tribute, is also available at Duane Reade, in the form of 100 percent cotton boxer shorts ($4.99) that don’t exactly break any new ground theme-wise: They’re printed all over with predictable hearts, the hardly fresh “I love you,” or pictures of those pastel candies that say stuff like “Be mine.” (Duane Reade has little boxes of these Necco sweethearts, with a variety of slogans-”Got Love”, “Only You”– for 44 cents.) Over at Anthropologie (85 Fifth Avenue; 375 West Broadway), whoever is adjudicating the lingerie debate has come down firmly on the thong side of the controversy. (Instyle magazine’s latest issue devotes five pages to the discussion.) In any case, at least one example manages to combine the salacious with the virginal in equal measure– it’s $12, made of lace-trimmed white cotton, and it’s embroidered across the front with the vaguely sinister “mine.” (Well, it couldn’t be embroidered across the back, since there isn’t any.) A cufflinks camisole is $24.

Anthropologie also has something for couples who’ve faced a rocky time of late but are determined to get through it: It’s called a Wash Away Your Sins Bath and Body Sampler, and it’s intended “for liars, cheaters, and wrongdoers.” The kit includes the following remedies for redemption: two cleansing bars, one bottle of bubble bath, lip balm, and a quartet of towelettes ($20). Someone whose love life is in even dicier shape might nevertheless appreciate being remembered on the 14th. For this friend, Alphabets (47 Greenwich Avenue; other locations) has something called the love voodoo doll, made of soft red cloth, presumably to accommodate pins, and covered with phrases like “cold shower” and “gold digger.” It comes with a Spell Book of Romance and Revenge and makes the dubious claim that “you can take charge of your love life with voodoo” ($9.95).

At Mxyplyzyk (125 Greenwich Avenue), it’s possible to avoid completely the sticky sensibility that threatens to bury this holiday in a flood of stale chocolate and putrefying flowers. A group of determinedly austere brushed-metal picture frame-from $12 for a small rectangle to $45 for a triptych– refuse to slide into bathes no matter how corny the picture you force them to display. For couples with a scholarly bent, the shop has a book called Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions From the Golden Age of the Paperback, by Susan Stryker. The generously illustrated text concerns itself with pre-Stonewall days, when the carrying of a particular paperback–classics like Ann Bannon’s Odd Girl Out or John Rechy’s City of Night provided a signal to fellow travelers ($19.95).

Any number of more obvious erotic indicators-footless fishnet lights, feather boas-present themselves at the jaunty, remarkably inexpensive Girlprops (33 East 8th Street; 153 Prince Street; 203 Spring Street). The store also has a plethora of items with a lower sizzle content, including a bunch of those charm bracelets so popular this season, earrings tricked out with hearts and all in the under-$5 range. Rhinestone nameplate necklaces manage, at $3.99, to evoke the louche elegance of the young Madonna. On tap are “master,” “devil,” “hot,” “kinky,” “angel,” “baby,’ and “slave,’ and “We also have `slut,’ ‘dirty’ and `brat,’ offers the salesperson, who has a Louise Brooks bob and a winsome manner that belies her multi-pierced lip.

If your loved one is similarly punctured, there is plenty of Valentine-appropriate body jewelry at Cassioppia (38 West 8th Street). Two styles of what the shop calls tongue rings, though they look more like tongue studs, offer a red heart under a clear dome. A plain, very tiny version (but how big do you want something in your tongue to be, really?) is $18; a slightly larger example, with a border of silvery beads is $24. On a recent gray afternoon, the shop, which seems to function as a meeting place for piercing enthusiasts, was filled with chatty visitors. “You’re not healed yet-it’s going to really hurt it if that gets inside the septum hole!” warned the woman behind the counter to an overeager, freshly pierced young gentleman. Though she was speaking of his newly perforated nose, she could have been musing on the whole subject of love: “After all, piercings are never really just exactly what you expect them to be.”

The US dollar value of exports rose 17.2 percent from a year earlier to $13.84 billion. The baht tiffany jewelry value rose 14.1 percent to 459.34 billion, reflecting the local currency’s strength.

But export values were down from October by almost $1 billion, about 7 percent. November’s year-on-year improvement is also against poor conditions in November 2008, when Bangkok’s airports were closed for the last six days of the month by anti-government protesters.

Despite easing growth from October, Commerce Minister Porntiva Nakasai said the prospect was very promising.

“If we can achieve $13 billion in export value this month, our contraction for the whole year will be 15 percent,” she said.

Mrs Porntiva believes exports could expand 10 percent to 15 percent next year, albeit from a very low base this year. The ministry expects exports of $150 billion this year and about $170 billion next year.

Srirat Rastapana, director-general of the Export Promotion Department, said that despite a likely 15 percent export contraction this year, Thailand’s exports to main markets such as the US, Europe and Japan remained on the rise, reflecting strong competitiveness and the ability of Thai exporters to adjust.

The department forecast agricultural and processed food would do well next year, with automobiles, electrical appliances, tiffany cufflinks and home furnishings expected to see increases even though some observers remain wary about the health of the global recovery.

The value of imports fell 2.2 percent in November to $12.78 billion, against a drop of 17.5 percent in October. The trade surplus narrowed to $1.06 billion from $1.76 billion in October.

Exports for the first 11 months were down 17 percent to $137.95 billion, and 13.4 percent in baht terms. Import value fell 28.9 percent to $119.37 billion, leaving a trade surplus of $18.57 billion.

Dusit Nontanakorn, chairman of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, said the rise in November exports was not surprising, as signs of resuming purchase orders had become visible since October. He also noted the low base effect compared with November last year.

Despite the promising outlook, Mr Dusit said the private sector remains concerned over political tension, the Map Ta Phut issue and transparency in the government’s spending under the Thai Khem Kaeng stimulus programme.

Somphob Manarungsan, an economist at Chulalongkorn University, said China could have been a major contributor to November’s tiffany money clips.

“China’s imports rose by 27 percent in November, not only from Thailand but also Korea, Taiwan and Japan,” he said.

Cammilli’s rare artistry displays destiny’s hand at work. Her brand of jewel-making, while having roots in the old goldsmith traditions, continually researches and incorporates technology. The ‘painterly’ effect is achieved with the help of four new alloys that offer as many tonalities of gold for experimentation in work and finish. Today, the designer collaborates with her designer-daughter Raffaella and top Florentine goldsmiths to bring her unique designs to life.

Delectable new jewelsAs a collection celebrating the beauty of the most romantic blossom in fully unfurled glory, the jewels in Black Rose see blooms whose every petal is painstakingly ‘sketched’ and highlighted by diamond dazzle. Simply pick your blooms in mysterious shades of black rhodium, orange gold or your perennial favourite yellow gold in a spread of pendant chains, earrings and rings. The Hypnosis collection blends orange gold, white gold with a delicate sprin-kling of diamonds with a smoothly polished pendant chains.

The Boheme’s rings capture the charm of rose blooms whose petals are ruffled by the wind in a blend of pink gold touched by diamond glitter, and the Cashmere collection sees the designer recreate the rose in yet another neo-art version casually spinning thin gold chords around large oval shaped pink amethysts, prasiolites and fume quartz to present pendant chains and rings dotted by diamonds.

Next in line is the Calle collection where Cammilli allows her fans to explore the famed beauty of calle lily flowers through a poetic spread of pendant chains, stud earrings and rings blending orange gold, white gold and diamonds. While the Glam collection offers riveting pendant chains crafted in pink and orange gold with diamond sparkle, the Horizon collection unveils a sophisticated array of jewels featuring a round design motif bringing together tiny rose buds on one side and a luminous hued stone such as onyx, corniola or green amethyst rising like a sun on the other side. Between these two realms runs a thin ‘wave’ of diamonds.

Capturing sunflowers and ears of corn in ‘candid’ portraits is the Le Collier collection with pendants strung on chains made up of unusual shaped links. While rounding off the array is the Spighe collection unveiling graceful pendant chains and earrings in orange and white gold with diamonds, in jewels featuring ears of corn as design motif.

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The century-old, 140,000-square-foot structure with Old World brass and marble accents at 910 16th St. houses several floors of retail jewelry stores, jewelry repair shops and diamond wholesalers. Many of the businesses have been there for decades.

“It’s kind of a throwback building,” said Toni Mathews, vice president and retail broker at CB Richard Ellis Inc. in Denver. “Years ago it was the jewelry district in Denver, and it’s remained that way.”

Bob Kortz, president of Kortz Jewelry Co. on the building’s street level, doesn’t recall exactly how long his family has operated that store, but he thinks it’s 80plus years. Kortz remembers clearly, though, when he went to Vail to sell a black diamond to rock ‘n’ roll legend Elvis Presley.

“That’s part of our history,” Kortz said.

Jay Feder jewelers has been in the University Building 25 years, and in that time, Jay and Celia Feder have welcomed their son Marc into the business. Jay also hasmaintained a side job as a mohel; he had a bris in Boulder just the other week.

“The air conditioning here is not working perfectly, but at my age, I’m not working perfectly,” Jay Feder said. “There’s just something nice about a vintage building.”

Mayer Jewelers on the 10th floor came to the building only 16 or 17 years ago, according to part-owner Lawanda Woodard. But the store is celebrating its 124th anniversary this year, making it one of the Denver area’s oldest jewelry storesif not the oldest.

“I think we’re the oldest,” Woodard said.

Early tenants in the University Building, which opened in 1910, were attracted by its modern design and high technology.

The structure was designed by top Denver architects William E. Fisher and Arthur A. Fisher. The brothers also designed a handful of downtown Denver banks, including Colorado National, in the early 1900s as well as the Denver Country Club clubhouse. They created the precursor of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center – the old University of Colorado School of Medicine and Hospital, which opened in 1925.

When the 12-story University Building opened as the A.C. Foster Building, named after its first owner, it was one of Denver’s first “high rises,” according to manager David Kaufman. Built of steel and concrete, it supposedly was the first “fireproof building west of the Mississippi River.

The property currently is owned by a group of Denver investors called 910 Associates Inc. The group was incorporated in 1991 and acquired the building about the same time.

Its name changed to the University Building in the 1940s, after Foster donated the structure to the University of Denver as an investment property.

Over time, the building became something of a haven for smaller, often new businesses. The late Byron “Whizzer” White – University of Colorado football star, Rhodes Scholar, U.S. Navy officer, U.S. Supreme Court justice and Denver federal courthouse namesake – had an office there when he practiced law.

Jewelry businesses like the University Building especially because of its security system, which includes alarms, surveillance monitors and security guards. Access to upper floors, where many jewelers are located, is limited to elevators and stairs.

Tenants that make and repair jewelry appreciate that the University Building is one of the last Denver office buildings fueled by natural gas, needed for soldering torches. Hanson & Glassman Jewelers on the 16th floor, one of the few places in the area that fixes American Indian jewelry, needs a feature like that.

Perhaps the building’s biggest asset for its jewelry tenants is the synergy of having so many similar businesses in one place.

Among the stores’ biggest customers, for example, are engaged couples in need of engagement and wedding rings. At the University Building, couples can wander from store to store and floor to floor, all under one roof.

“Seventy percent of our business is loose diamonds, and 90 percent of that business is bridal,” said Jay Feder, who hopes to hit $5 million in sales this year.

Other jewelry customers range from visiting professional baseball players and dignitaries attending international meetings such as 1997s Summit of the Eight to downtown Denver business people.

Because of the building’s relatively low rent – $10 to $12 per square foot a month jewelers offer bargain prices to entice customers. Mayer Jewelers sells watch batteries “cheaper than anybody else” and offers its own financing, according to Woodard.

“I think we’re the only jeweler left in town to do that,” Woodard said of the financing.

The recent soft economy actually has been good for some of the building’s jewelers because of their discount prices. During good times, jewelry shoppers often go someplace such as Tiffany’s because of its prestige. But during tough times, they go to the University Building for bargains.

With that synergy comes a sense of community the jewelers value as much as any of the University Building’s other attributes. Even though many tenants compete with each other, they also collaborate.

As neighbors, they can band together for a common purpose, such as solving the problem of indigent street people congregating at the building’s entrance and inhibiting customer traffic. Recently, building occupants met with representatives of the Denver police, City Council, mayor’s office and 16th Street Mall manager Downtown Denver Partnership Inc. to hash out a solution.

One idea that came from the meetings is for the yellow-jacketed “ambassadors” located on the mall to assist visitors to also gently encourage street people not to block the building’s front door. The University Building’s street-level McDonald’s fast-food restaurant, a major magnet for the homeless, hired a security guard as well.

Occupants contend once people get through the front door, they’ll be surprised at what they find in the University Building.

There even are non-jewelry businesses, including a barbershop, hair salon and collectible stamp store. Office tenants include architects, attorneys, accountants and real estate professionals.

“We’re just somewhat of a diamond in the rough,” Kaufman said.

Judith Kaplan of Stuart, Fla., used the $1,000 check that the campaign sent back to her to buy a bracelet.

Mr. Hsu, one of the top fund-raisers for Mrs. Clinton, is under investigation for reimbursing associates for political donations after The Wall Street Journal wrote about the suspicious correlation in donations made by both Mr. Hsu and a California family of modest means.

Mrs. Kaplan said she made her contribution so her granddaughter could tiffany bracelets attend a New York fund-raiser for Mrs. Clinton organized by Mr. Hsu. Mrs. Kaplan said her granddaughter was eager to attend, because she had just written a school paper on the candidate and wanted to meet her in person.

That didn’t mean Mrs. Kaplan felt obligated to send the contribution back.

“I bought myself something because, I figured, if all this is going to happen, I might as well take care of myself,” she said. “And my son had a hard time with that — he said, ‘You’re going to give it back, aren’t you?’”

Her son, Andrew Kaplan, an analyst with Lehman Brothers, and Katherine Erwin, who lives at the same address in Bronxville, N.Y., were two of the 10 donors to decide to give the money back to the campaign. Mr. Kaplan declined to comment.

Mr. Hsu “bundled” more than $800,000 in donations for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, tiffany cufflinks from 248 individuals. Only $34,200 was again donated to the campaign after it was returned.

“These are not individuals we’re soliciting,” said Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for the campaign. “If anyone chooses to give again, we will scrutinize their donations very carefully.”

Mrs. Clinton announced the campaign’s intentions to accept more donations from Mr. Hsu’s contributors on a conference call shortly after the revelations about Mr. Hsu’s past.

“We’re not asking that that be done,” she said. “But I believe that the vast majority of those 200-plus donors are perfectly capable of making up their own minds about what they will or won’t do going forward.”

The veterans program began using the technology, known as SCRAM (for Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor), in December of 2008 in order to help manage the epidemic rate of alcohol abuse and addiction among the combat veterans in their court. The system includes an ankle bracelet, worn 24/7, that actually samples an offender’s perspiration every 30 minutes in order to measure for alcohol consumption and ensure compliance with court-ordered sobriety and treatment requirements.

The award-winning program was the first veteran-specific court in the country to deal with the unique needs of the ever-increasing number of combat veterans going through the criminal justice system. Under the direction of the Honorable Robert T. Russell, the court aims to link veterans coming through the city’s criminal justice system with a full range of social services, including drug and alcohol treatment, mental health services, medical care, anger management, family counseling, vocation/educational services and housing. “Substance abuse, homelessness, unemployment, mental health problems–these issues are found in combination and in alarming numbers with our combat veterans,” says Russell. “Ensuring the sobriety of these offenders while we address their issues is essential for bracelets long-term success and for helping these men and women get their lives back on track, as well as community safety,” he adds.

The National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP) has recently launched a Veterans Treatment Court Clearing House in response to the overwhelming interest in creating a veterans program from courts across the U.S. According to NADCP, there are now 13 Veterans Treatment Courts across the country, and with funding from the Veterans Administration, the number of programs is expected to increase substantially in 2010.

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), 1.8 million combat veterans meet the criteria for having substance abuse issues. The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reports that 35 percent of justice-involved veterans suffer from alcohol dependency, and the U.S. Department of Defense reports that the rate of veteran involvement in alcohol-related incidents, including DUI, reckless driving and drunk and disorderly conduct, more than tripled between 2005 and 2006 alone. “This isn’t about criminality,” says Mike Iiams, chairman and CEO of Denver-based Alcohol Monitoring Systems, which manufactures and markets SCRAM throughout the U.S. “This is about addiction. When these individuals drink, bad things happen, and this program is redefining the way our justice system can change the course of their lives,” says Iiams.

The Buffalo Drug and DUI courts have utilized the SCRAM System since 2007, monitoring more than 330 offenders to-date, and the Veterans Treatment Court began using the anklets in December of 2008. AMS donated 10 units to the Buffalo Veterans program in 2008, acknowledging what Iiams calls the “critical importance” of the ground-cufflinks breaking program. Today, veterans monitored by SCRAM in the Buffalo program pay $6 per day for the monitoring fee, making the program self-sustaining.

SCRAM currently monitors just over 10,000 offenders daily and has monitored more than 115,000 offenders in 48 states since it became available in 2003. SCRAM is used to manage and monitor drunk drivers, drug and domestic violence offenders and underage drinkers. It’s also utilized as a tool in family court, where the determination of custody may be dependent on a participant’s sobriety.

About Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.

Established in 1997, Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc. manufactures SCRAMA, the world’s only Continuous Alcohol Monitoring system, which uses non-invasive transdermal analysis to monitor alcohol consumption. SCRAM fully automates the alcohol testing and reporting process, providing courts and community corrections agencies with the ability to continuously monitor alcohol offenders, increase offender accountability and assess compliance with sentencing requirements and treatment guidelines. Alcohol Monitoring Systems employs 108 people across the U.S. money clips and is a privately-held company headquartered in Littleton, Colorado.

SOURCE Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.

Two diamond rings valued at about $18,900 were taken from Zales Jewelers in the Francis Scott Key Mall on Buckeystown Pike at about 12:16 p.m., according to a news release from the Maryland State Police Frederick barrack.

Meanwhile, several pieces of jewelry were stolen from Zales Jewelers in the Columbia Mall on Little Patuxent Parkway in Howard County around 11 a.m., according to Howard County’s communications center.

The Howard County Police Department is investigating the robbery in Columbia. silver rings The department declined comment Wednesday evening.

Maryland State Police said the suspect in Frederick was wearing a black and white referee-style striped shirt when he entered Zales at FSK mall and asked to look at two diamond rings.

The store’s associate placed the two rings on her thumb and displayed them to him, the agency said. The suspect reached across the counter and pulled both rings from her thumb and left the store.

A witness described the suspect as a black man in his early to mid 20s, according to the press release. He weighs about 150 pounds and wore white and blue tennis shoes, the agency said.

Police searched the area around the mall but found no sign of the suspect, Maryland State silver bracelets Police Sgt. David Harper said.

The description of the man who stole items from the Zales store in Columbia matched the suspect described in the robbery at Zales in FSK, police said.

Anyone with information about the robbery should call Maryland State silver cufflinks Police Trooper First Class Jeremy Hite at, 301-600-4151.

Credit: The Frederick News-Post, Md.