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  • The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' National Institutes of Return to Tiffany Heart tag bracelet issued the following news release:

    Overweight girls who lose weight before they reach adulthood greatly reduced their risk for developing type 2 diabetes, according to researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Harvard University, who analyzed 16 years of data on nearly 110,000 women.

    Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of the disease. It is marked by high blood sugar levels and difficulties in the body's production or use of insulin. Being overweight, exercising infrequently and having a family history of diabetes are known to contribute to the risk of developing the disease.

    The findings were published online in Diabetes Care and will appear in the June issue.

    The study was conducted by researchers at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Return to Tiffany Heart tag choker Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Along with the NICHD, two other NIH institutes, the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases provided funding for the analysis.

    The study followed 109,172 female nurses from 1989 to 2005, noting how many developed diabetes during that time. An initial survey collected information about the women's health, history and lifestyle habits. One question asked them to pick which of a series of diagrams best matched their body shape at ages 5, 10 and 20. The series of nine line drawings depicted female silhouettes of different sizes, ranging from gaunt (size 1) to obese (size 9). The nurses were also asked to provide their height and current weight and to estimate their weight when they were 18. Every two years after the initial survey, the women submitted follow-up information including whether they developed diabetes.

    The researchers recorded a total of 3,307 cases of type 2 diabetes over the course of the study and found that the nurses who were overweight as girls were more likely to become diabetic as adults. Women who indicated that their size at age 5 matched or exceeded the size 6 figure were more than twice as likely to develop diabetes as those who recalled matching the size 2 figure. The women indicating the size 6 or above at age 10 were 2.57 times as likely to develop diabetes as adults. Those who reported a body mass index of more than 30 (considered obese) at age 18 were almost nine times more likely to develop diabetes than their normal-weight counterparts (BMI of 18-19).

    BMI, or body mass index, is a standard measure of a person's build based on their Return to Tiffany Heart tag necklace and weight. A BMI between 18 and 24 reflects a healthy weight. BMI calculators and additional information about maintaining a healthy weight are available at: http://www.nichd.nih.gov.libproxy.library.wmich.edu/health/topics/Obesity.cfm.

    In the study, the researchers also examined the combined effect of extra weight at various ages. Compared with women who were not overweight at key ages in childhood, adolescence and adulthood, those who indicated they were overweight at all three ages were 15 times more likely to develop diabetes. Conversely, women who recalled being overweight at age 10 but not overweight as adults were no more likely to become diabetic than their peers who had been normal-weight children.

    "These findings suggest that ensuring that overweight kids reverse their weight gain is critical to limiting their future risk of diabetes as adults," said study author Edwina Yeung, Ph.D., of the NICHD Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research.

    When the women entered the study, they averaged 34 years old. At that time, they were asked to recall their weight at age 18. The researchers found that women who gained weight after age 18 also increased their diabetes risk. Those who gained more than 25 pounds increased their diabetes risk more than 20 times. Return to Tiffany Heart tag ring the other hand, women who recalled being overweight or obese at age 18 and subsequently lost 10 pounds or more decreased their risk by more than half, compared with overweight or obese women who maintained that weight as an adult.

    Other authors of the paper were Cuilin Zhang and Germaine M. Buck Louis of the NICHD and Walter C. Willett and Frank B. Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.


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  • MANY SUNDAYS WHEN he's not on tour, Hold Steady singer Craig Finn will walk the five blocks from his Brooklyn apartment to St. Anthony-St. Alphonsus Catholic Church. He'll receive Communion, recite the Lord's Prayer. He doesn't do confession - that booth can get kind of heavy, and Finn likes to keep it Paloma's Tenderness Heart pendant - but for a few weeks each year, he will show props to Jesus by giving up alcohol for Lent. Which is why, on this balmy Good Friday in April, the boozehound-poet leader of the greatest bar band in America is kicking back before a show with a cold, refreshing 12-ounce can of Coke Zero.

    "It's been nice, actually," Finn says of his holy detox. "Being in a rock & roll band, no one ever tells you not to drink. Sometimes you gotta tell yourself." Today is Day 45, and even though Lent ends on Sunday, he's thinking about pushing it longer, "maybe until the end of the tour."

    Finn is backstage at Life the Place to Be, a "family fun center" in Ardsley, New York. It's the first stop on a two-week tuneup tour to promote the band's fifth album, Heaven Is Whenever, and as Finn might say, it's a real positive scene. A less self-assured group of guys might sniff at the Chuck E. Cheese vibe and small-market room as being beneath them (the Hold Steady have opened for the Stooges and the Rolling Stones), but Finn is too Minnesota nice for that. "I think it's cool," he says. "It's definitely the first time we've played a place Paloma's X pendant a rock-climbing wall."

    Backstage, the rest of this crew of indie-rock lifers - guitarist Tad Kubler, bassist Galen Polivka and drummer Bobby Drake - are chowing on takeout Thai and trading war stories about the road. "We used to behave like we were on fucking shore leave," Kubler says. Finn nods: "Someone would be like, "Try this local ale!' and I'd be like, 'Definitely! When in Syracuse. . . .' You don't know it's 13 percent alcohol, and the next day you're almost dead. Now it's Budweiser or Corona."

    Those kind of rock & roll life lessons are woven throughout Heaven, the follow-up to 2008's 88,000-selling Stay Positive. "I'd been thinking about this idea of, like, the cosmic philosopher," says Finn. "Sort of like Jerry Garcia, where he's wise and he's on his front porch and he's telling simple truths about life. Or Joe Walsh, you know, 'Life's Been Good' - he's just kind of sharing what he's learned." He rattles off others: Steve Miller, David Lee Roth. "It amuses me to step into that mind-set," he says. "It's sort of druggy and misguided, kind of ridiculous. But it's rock & roll, man. Like, 'Let's get all our old ladies, a couple of boxes of wine, get up to a cabin and just let some tape roll.'"

    DAVID LEE ROTH ONCE said that the reason rock critics loved Elvis Costello was because they all looked like him. By that logic, accountants must worship Craig Finn. Abalding 38-yearold in glasses, saggy Levi's and a rumpled Old Navy button-down, Finn looks like he stepped onstage straight from the graveyard shift at Jackson Hewitt. He says his day involves "a lot of bumping, a lot of spilling," and he has a voice he endearingly describes as "nasally." According to Kubler, who's known Finn since their days together in late-Party charm bracelet Twin Cities outfit Lifter Puller, "I had the same first impression of Craig that most people probably have: "This guy's in a rock band?'"

    Yet Finn's Everydude-ness is an essential part of his appeal. "I drink beer, eat chicken wings, watch the Twins," he says. In Kerouac-ian terms, he's more Sal Paradise than Dean Moriarty - not so much a doer as a watch-you-doer. He's the guy hanging by the keg in the corner, taking in the action, scribbling details (a nickname here, a pickup line there) in his Moleskine notebook for future retrieval. His impeccable ear and knack for the killer one-liner - e.g., "She said the theme of this party is the Industrial Age, and you came dressed like a train wreck," on Heaven's "The Weekenders" -have, seven years into the Hold Steady's career, justified his rep as one of the best songwriters in America.

    Finn likes authors who can develop a story: Raymond Carver, Larry McMurtry, Graham Greene ("the heavy Catholic thing"), Philip Roth. He says the Hold Steady's new song "Hurricane J" was inspired by characters from Richard Price's Lush Life, and that his most recent read was a Sam Lipsyte novel on his Kindle. In January 2009, he rented a house on the Hudson River and tried to write a book of his own before bailing a quarter of the way through; he had better luck in August, when he teamed with a Late Show writer named Tom Ruprecht to adapt Chuck Klosterman's Fargo Rock City into a screenplay. (They're shopping it around.)

    When Finn sits down to write a new Hold Steady album, he likes to focus on a theme. For Heaven, he says, "I was thinking a lot about struggle and reward - about how the struggle is part of the reward. With anything you care about, from having a relationship to being in a rock & roll band, there are going to be days that suck. The key is understanding those days as part of the euphoria."

    It's a very Catholic idea, finding joy in everyday suffering. But it's also borne from two decades of, as Kubler puts it, "driving 800 miles in a van and sleeping five guys to a room in a shitty Days Inn in Cincinnati." Says Finn, "If you're playing a show for 20 people somewhere in the middle of South Dakota, you can't Return to Tiffany, 'We just have to get through this, and it'll get awesome.' It has to all be awesome."

    Two weeks later, the Hold Steady are back in New York, capping their tour with a triumphant double-header at two clubs they've long since outgrown. They'll debut their new songs in Manhattan, then zoom over to Brooklyn to do it again.

    For a band that's famous for working fast and loose, making Heaven was a meticulous departure. Finn and Kubler wrote songs collaboratively, instead of welding words to some pre-existing riff, and the group recorded for six months, as opposed to its usual six weeks. Kubler says Finn "sang his ass off." The result is at once more tender (see "We Can Get Together," a lovely ballad about the communal power of music), more melodic (the slide guitar on opener "The Sweet Part of the City") and even a bit cocky. As they crow in the new song "Barely Breathing": "Now we're pointing at the scoreboard/ And it feels so amazing."

    To the Hold Steady, the fact that it's their fifth album is an important milestone. As Kubler says, "This isn't a fluke. We're not just a flash in the pan. This all started with very little ambition - we didn't know if we were going to make a record, let alone go on tour. Having played in bands since we were teenagers to little or no success at all, I think there's a tremendous amount of gratitude."

    As the band wraps up its second encore of the evening, a sweaty Finn says his thankyous Return to Tiffany Double Heart Pendant the fans. In one hand is a microphone; in the other, a cold bottle of beer.

    "I think I've earned this," he tells the crowd. And then he takes a sip.


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  • The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation Paloma Picasso Loving Heart pendant the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should immediately remove the drawstrings or return the garment. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.

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    Incidents/Injuries: None reported.

    Description: This recall involves S. Rothschild girls' wool coats with a detachable cape. The coats were sold in pink, red, blue and vanilla with a faux fur cape and in charcoal and vanilla with a faux fur trimmed cape. Two faux pompoms are attached to the end of strings that hang from the cape. The sewn-in neck tag reads, "ROTHSCHILD SINCE 1881."

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  • The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ: BONT) today announced comparable store sales for the five weeks ended January 2, 2010 decreased 2.6%. Total sales for the five weeks decreased 3.0% to $511.1 million compared with $527.2 million for the prior year period.

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    Tony Buccina, Vice Chairman and President - Merchandising, commented, "We are pleased with our December sales results, which exceeded expectations despite the snow storms that negatively impacted our performance on key selling days. Our eCommerce business continues to be the fastest growing segment of our company. Our best performing businesses were ladies' accessories and jewelry, shoes, children's and moderate missy sportswear. Outerwear and cold weather accessories posted strong sales results as well. Our weakest performing businesses were furniture, hard home and better missy sportswear. December end-of-month inventory was down 4% on a comparable store basis; this reduction, along with 22% less clearance merchandise, will benefit our margin. Our inventories reflect fresh, transitional merchandise and we are pleased with our customer's positive response."

    Keith Plowman, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, stated, "We ended December with excess borrowing capacity under our revolving credit facility of approximately $488 million, well above the required minimum availability of $75 million."

    The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc., with corporate offices in York, Pennsylvania and Milwaukee, tiffany sale, operates 278 stores, including 11 furniture galleries, in 23 states in the Northeast, Midwest and upper Great Plains under the Bon-Ton, Bergner's, Boston Store, Carson Pirie Scott, Elder-Beerman, Herberger's and Younkers nameplates and, in the Detroit, Michigan area, under the Parisian nameplate. The stores offer a broad assortment of brand-name fashion apparel and accessories for women, men and children, as well as cosmetics and home furnishings. For further information, please visit the investor relations section of the Company's website at http://investors.bonton.com.

    Certain information included in this press release contains statements that are forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements, which may be identified by words such as "may," "could," "will," "plan," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "project," "intend" or other similar expressions, involve important risks and uncertainties that could significantly affect results in the future and, accordingly, such results may differ from those expressed in any forward-looking statements made by or on behalf of the Company. Factors that could cause such differences include, but are not limited to, risks related to retail businesses generally; a significant and prolonged deterioration of general economic conditions which could negatively impact the Company, including the potential write-down of the current valuation of intangible assets and deferred taxes; changes in the terms of the Company's proprietary credit card program; potential increase in pension obligations; consumer spending patterns, debt levels, and the availability and cost of consumer credit; additional competition from existing and new competitors; inflation; changes in the costs of fuel and other energy and transportation costs; weather conditions that could negatively impact sales; uncertainties associated with expanding or remodeling existing stores; the ability to attract and retain qualified management; the dependence upon relationships with vendors and their factors; a security breach; the ability to reduce SG&A expenses; the incurrence of unplanned capital expenditures; the ability to realize the expected benefits from our planned tiffany jewelry on sale in operating structure and the ability to obtain financing for working capital, capital expenditures and general corporate purposes. Additional factors that could cause the Company's actual results to differ from those contained in these forward-looking statements are discussed in greater detail under Item 1A of the Company's Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.


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  • Retailer Saks Incorporated (NYSE: SKS) (the "Company") today announced that owned sales totaled $393.6 million for the five weeks ended January 2, 2010 compared to $354.4 million for the five weeks ended January 3, 2009, an 11.1% increase. Comparable store sales increased 9.9% for the month.

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    On a year-to-date basis, for the eleven months ended January 2, 2010, owned sales totaled $2,433.1 million compared to $2,857.1 million for the eleven months ended January 3, 2009, a 14.8% decrease. Comparable store sales decreased 15.9% for the eleven-month period.

    As previously disclosed, December's comparable store sales performance reflected the shift of a designer clearance event into December this year from November last year. For December, the strongest categories at Saks Fifth Avenue stores were women's designer and "gold range" apparel, men's sportswear, women's shoes, and handbags. The weakest categories at Saks Fifth Avenue stores for December were fine jewelry, intimate apparel, men's contemporary apparel, men's accessories, and cosmetics. Saks Direct performed well for the month.

    Management now estimates that comparable store sales will decline in the mid-single digit range for the full fiscal fourth quarter.

    Prior year numbers have been adjusted to remove the sales of the Company's discontinued Club Libby Lu operations.

    Saks Incorporated operates 53 Saks Fifth Avenue stores, 55 Saks OFF 5TH stores, and saks.com.

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    The information contained in this press release that addresses future results or expectations is tiffany jewelry sale "forward-looking" information within the definition of the Federal securities laws. Forward-looking information in this document can be identified through the use of words such as "may," "will," "intend," "plan," "project," "expect," "anticipate," "should," "would," "believe," "estimate," "contemplate," "possible," and "point." The forward-looking information is premised on many factors, some of which are outlined below. Actual consolidated results might differ materially from projected forward-looking information.

    The forward-looking information and statements are or may be based on a series of projections and estimates and involve risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include such factors as: the level of consumer spending for luxury apparel and other merchandise carried by the Company and its ability to respond quickly to consumer trends; macroeconomic conditions and their effect on consumer spending; the Company's ability to secure adequate financing; adequate and stable sources of merchandise; the competitive pricing environment within the retail sector; the effectiveness of planned advertising, marketing, and promotional campaigns; favorable customer response to relationship marketing efforts of proprietary credit card loyalty programs; appropriate inventory management; effective expense control; successful operation of the Company's proprietary credit card strategic alliance with HSBC Bank Nevada, N.A.; geo-political risks; the performance of the financial markets; changes in interest rates; and fluctuations in foreign currency and exchange rates. For additional information regarding these and other risk factors, please refer to the Company's filings with the SEC, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2009, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and its Current Reports on Form 8-K, which may be accessed through the Internet at www.sec.gov.

    The Company undertakes no obligation to correct or update any forward-looking tiffany bracelets, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.


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