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If you're still wondering what to get your honey bunny for Valentine's Day, rest assuredhe really is the simple creature he claims to be when it comes to receiving gifts. I asked several male friends to reveal their ideas of romantic offerings. By and large they have nothing to do with flowers ("Ugh, completely impracticalT one complained), chocolates or stuffed bears. So bypass the things you like and pick up one of the following:

Home Cooking

If your boo has been good to you, save the hassle of going out and throw down in the kitchen. "There's nothing a man loves more than good food and good sex," a male friend promised me. You take care of the former, then let him take care of the latter.

Sporting Event Tickets

It's a rare man who isn't into watching a ball being tiffany silver, kicked or hit in person. Buy tickets for your guy's favorite team and deliver them in a card on V-Day.

iPod Shuffle

Make this hard drive special by uploading it with a complete dlscography of his favorite artist or band. Bonus: Order online and have his Shuffle engraved with a special message for free.

Kicks

There is never a bad time to buy your man sneakers, and you can't go wrong with a pair of dunks. Nikeid.com lets you customize the shoe in your man's favorite colors or add his nickname to the heel.

A Massage

If your guy's stressed, get him a relaxing deep tissue tiffanys. On a budget? Pick up a chocolate-scented massage oil , and lay him down in the living room.

If Benjamin Franklin was right thrifty Ben was the first to say that a penny saved is a penny earned then tiffany pendant N. Shade is on his way to becoming a very rich man. Pennies become dollars, and Shade has learned how to stretch them until they screech. When he rented a dilapidated Harlem apartment four years ago, he not only saved himself money in the renovation, but he also demonstrated how much a designer could do with how little. How cheaply, he asked himself, could he turn his one-bedroom Cinderella into a princess?

What started off as an intellectual challenge soon turned into an obsession, and Shade ventured where few designers have dared to go: Home Depot, Salvation Army thrift shops and flea markets in New York and Connecticut. He even found useful items three tables and two slipper chairs that are now in his living room, for example in the rich lode of trash New Yorkers put on the curb every day. Inexpensive is good. Free is better.

Shade had previously lived on Manhattan's Upper East tiffany necklace (see ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST, September 2004). But he had often worked in Harlem, and he liked what he calls the area's uptown vibe. It has a huge creative community, and it's friendly, he says. When he heard that there was an apartment for rent on one of Harlem's most coveted streets, Shade grabbed it.

For a time it may have seemed as if it had grabbed him. The apartment, just 550 square feet, was, to use his word, a mess. It had been horribly neglected and was crying for help, he says. There was not even a finished floor in the hallway and bedroom. But the apartment's dreary condition made his challenge all the more exciting. If he could make something glamorous out of that unpromising material, he would prove his point that anybody can afford good design.

The most important space, he decided, was not the living room or bedroom; it was the hallway. I thought the hallway could be a teaser, he says, the introduction to the rest of the apartment. I wanted it to stand out to pop! He put down inexpensive hardwood flooring, then overlaid the newly painted khaki-colored walls with bold vertical tiffany bracelet. Eight Chinese lanterns, purchased for six dollars apiece, were installed to make the once dim corridor as bright as a Broadway stage. All it needs now is a chorus line.

The University of Missouri at Kansas City issued the following news release:

Scholarship honors past Burns & McDonnell president Newton A. tiffany necklaces The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) Foundation and the School of Computing and Engineering are pleased to announce and acknowledge an endowed scholarship gift to the School of Computing and Engineering. Kansas City, Mo.-based engineering firm Burns & McDonnell created the Newton A. Campbell Engineering Excellence Scholarship in honor of Mr. Newton A. "Newt" Campbell - the firm's fourth president. The Burns & McDonnell Foundation is donating $100,000 to establish the scholarship and has pledged to donate an additional $150,000 over the next five years.

Mr. Campbell earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana in 1949 and an MBA from the UMKC Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration in 1970. Since 2008, he has served as executive engineer in residence and volunteer at the School of Computing and Engineering. He works with School of Computing and Engineering Dean Kevin Truman in promoting the School and engaging the Kansas City engineering community.

"The UMKC School of Computing and tiffany ring is very grateful to Burns & McDonnell for providing the Newton A. Campbell Engineering Excellence Scholarship," Dean Truman said. "Mr. Campbell made Burns & McDonnell one of the most successful employee-owned engineering firms in the country, and now his scholarship will help future engineers succeed."

Mr. Campbell also serves on the UMKC Trustees Board and has served on the Provost's Committee for Science & Technology, Bloch Advisory Board, Bloch Dean's Circle Board, Bloch Endowment Committee and Bloch Human Resources Advisory Board. He has received the Henry and Marion Bloch Community Service Award, UM System Presidential Citation Service Award and Bloch Alumni Achievement Award.

After joining Burns & McDonnell in 1952, Mr. Campbell began building a foundation that has made the firm one of the most successful in the engineering industry. In 1976, he became manager of the firm's Power Division. Six years later - in 1982 - he was named Burns & McDonnell's fourth president.

In 1986, Mr. Campbell helped orchestrate a successful employee buyout of Burns & McDonnell from corporate parent Armco Steel. This built a foundation that has served as a model for employee ownership throughout the engineering industry. Following the buyout, he continued to serve as chairman and CEO until his retirement in 1993.

Today, the 3,000 employees of Burns & McDonnell owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. tiffany note. His vision and perseverance have helped Burns & McDonnell succeed as a firm in which every employee is an owner.

The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources issued the following news release:

A trade show for gift and souvenir buyers is scheduled at Pipestem Resort State tiffany earrings, Monday through Wednesday, Feb. 8-10. An annual event, the trade show brings wholesale vendors and gift shop buyers together under one roof for three days. Buyers must register in advance or at the door. There is no charge for buyers to attend.

"Marketplace is an opportunity for gift shop or businesses with gift sales to meet a variety of wholesale vendors. We get to see merchandise and new products for the coming year," says Rita McAllister, a buyer for Twin Falls Resort State Park. "It is a one-stop wholesale shopping for any gift shop or business that is interested."

The gift show is known as Gift Buyers Marketplace or the Pipestem Gift Show and tiffany key buyers from parks, attractions, retail shops and shop buyers looking for new souvenir or gift ideas for retail sales. This 2010 Gift Buyers Marketplace features items ranging from shirts and caps, wood works and novelty items to West Virginia products.

"In today's retail world it is nice to have an opportunity to come to a show with more than 40 vendors under one roof," says Sue Newton, gift shop coordinator at Pipestem Resort. "I get to actually look at the merchandise to make a buying decision and talk with the salesperson one-on-one, and the vendors get to see a lot of buyers."

The Marketplace starts Monday, Feb. 8, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and runs through noon Wednesday, Feb. 10. The agenda includes opportunities for buyers and vendors to network as well as one-on-one appointments and merchandising opportunities. A vendors list is tiffany pendants. The exhibit hall is staged in the Hudkins Conference Center at Pipestem's McKeever Lodge. Buyers must register to attend the show.

Murray State University issued the following news release:

Paducah native Paul Reed Smith's interest in public radio and in honor of his tiffany accessories at St. Mary's School System in Paducah, led him to donate a substantial gift to WKMS. His lifelong love of public radio and his strong belief in education caused him to pull those two loves together. WKMS is Murray State University's National Pubic Radio station.

Smith, 55, died after a year-long battle with cancer. His wife, Darlene Feikema, contacted WKMS with the news that Smith had made a planned financial gift to the station. Paducah native Paul Reed Smith's interest in public radio and in honor of his education at St. Mary's School System in Paducah, led him to donate a substantial gift to WKMS. His lifelong love of public radio and his strong belief in education caused him to pull those two loves together. WKMS is Murray State University's National Pubic Radio station.

Smith, 55, died after a year-long battle with cancer. His wife, Darlene Feikema, contacted WKMS with the news that Smith had made a planned financial gift to the station.

Smith graduated from St. Mary's High School in Paducah, Ky. He earned his degree from the University of Kentucky, where he received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Germany. He worked at the University of Washington in technology for 29 years.

According to Feikema, his love of languages led him to study tiffany bracelets and Spanish. For nearly two decades he coordinated a group to gather and speak German. He also created a website where these language groups could keep in touch.

Feikema said, "People have told me that Paul's charm and vitality drew them to him, so his work was like dropping a pebble in a pond ... his influence kept rippling outward."

Feikema and Smith met in 2006. According to her there was an instant connection and they started dating. In the summer of 2007, he was diagnosed with cancer. "We realized we had little time, so we married Sept. 1, 2007."

Smith's brother, Robert "Buzz" Smith, former city commissioner of Paducah, remembers his brother's sharp and clever wit, scholasticism and his love of traveling. According to Smith's brother, he would return to Paducah from Seattle a couple of times a year, always enjoying the city as if he were a tourist, visiting tiffany cufflinks, riding on a riverboat and savoring his hometown memories. Smith said his brother's personality was unique He loved to make people laugh and he enjoyed mentoring young people. He always enjoyed diverse cultures and Smith thinks that is probably why his brother was so fond of public radio, because of its diverse reporting.

Service to the community is an integral part of what it means to be an silver necklaces. More than 60 million people -- one-quarter of the U.S. population over the age of 16 -- regularly give freely of their time through a service or charitable organization. The teenager who helps clean up a riverbank, the father who coaches his daughter's basketball team, the senior citizen who reads to patients in a hospital -- all these people are doing their part to make their communities better places.

On average, volunteers give 52 hours of time each year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. Women volunteer at a higher rate than men: nearly 30 percent of women and 23 percent of men. They also differ in the types of activities they volunteer for. Women are more likely to do fundraising; to tutor or teach; or to collect, prepare, distribute, or serve food. Men are more interested in doing manual labor; in coaching, refereeing, or supervising sports teams; or in providing professional or management assistance.

In addition to those who devote time to volunteer activities in between their regular commitments to work and family, millions more give one or more years of their life to national service through the military, the Peace Corps, or AmeriCorps, a domestic service program. The U.S. government silver pendants encourages volunteer activities and works closely with state and local organizations to support programs that benefit all Americans.

On April 21, 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law a bill that dramatically expands national and community service opportunities for Americans, whether with a formal organization like AmeriCorps or in their local neighborhoods. The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, named for the late senator from Massachusetts, will usher in a "new era of service," the president said.

The Serve America Act reauthorizes and expands the national service programs administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency created in 1993. The corporation enables 4 million Americans to serve in a wide variety of capacities each year, including AmeriCorps members, Senior Corps volunteers, Learn and Serve America students, and additional community volunteers mobilized through the agency's programs. The Kennedy Act authorizes increases in the number of AmeriCorps volunteers from 75,000 to 250,000, for example.

Upon signing the law, President Obama addressed Americans of all ages: "We need your silver rings right now, at this moment in history. I'm not going to tell you what your role should be; that's for you to discover. But I'm asking you to play your part. ... And if you do, I promise you your life will be richer, our country will be stronger, and someday, years from now, you may remember it as the moment when your own story and the American story converged, when they came together, and we met the challenges of our new century."

Winthrop University issued the following press release:

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* The Carters are familiar with the many contributions of the Hardin family to the Rock Hill silver cufflinks.

* When the Carters' gift is realized, it will produce support for the conservation, historic preservation and adaptive use of Winthrop space and facilities.

Winthrop University has received a Charitable Remainder Unitrust valued at more than $1.5 million from alumna Patricia "Patz" Whetstone Carter '69 and her husband Ray of Chapin, S.C.

The Carters have committed to this significant gift because of their love and longstanding family ties to Winthrop. Patz Carter is a former member of the Winthrop University Real Estate Foundation. Her aunt, Celeste Whetstone White '58, her sister, Cynthia Whetstone Tobin '82, and her niece, Courtney Hagins '01, are all Winthrop alumnae, along with Ray's sister, Gail Carter Rogers '72.

The Carters are familiar with the many contributions of the Hardin family to the Rock Hill community and want to honor a family whose efforts have enhanced the Winthrop campus. When the Carters' gift is realized, it will produce support for the conservation, historic preservation and adaptive use of silver earrings space and facilities. It also will provide scholarships and faculty fellowships in the Department of Design.

By the end of the year, the planned garden at the south end of Scholars Walk will be completed and named in honor of the Hardins as the Hardin Family Garden. Still in the early stages of construction behind Roddey Apartments, the Garden will utilize an ancient design, called the "the Golden Section," to achieve balance and beauty.

The Carters are delighted to pay tribute to a family whose love of history and art have enhanced the Winthrop campus and local community. Some examples of these connections include former Rock Hill Mayor John Anderson Hardin who advocated for the creation of Glencairn Garden in Rock Hill; the late Dr. Walter B. Roberts, who presided over Winthrop's Department of Music for more than 40 years; Walter Hardin, associate vice president for Winthrop facilities management who has helped carry out the campus additions and renovations over the past 20 years; Jim Hardin, a local attorney and member of the President's Community Leaders Advisory Group; and Martie Hardin Curran, the former executive director of alumni relations who was heavily involved in the local arts.

"We give because we are so excited about what is silver key rings on the Winthrop campus. We are doing what we can to help make a difference," Patz Carter said. The Carters also hope that by making a planned gift, they will inspire others to learn more about and use the variety of planned giving vehicles available.

The University of Connecticut issued the following news release:

A campaign gift from a couple with deep ties to the Cooperative Extension System will cheap rings seed funds to take innovative new ideas from concept to implementation. Because of their lifelong passion for 4-H, they are also providing major support for 4-H activities.

Nancy Bull, vice provost for academic administration at UConn, has worked with the Cooperative Extension System for more than 30 years. She came to UConn in 1993 as an adjunct professor of textiles and design management. In 1995, she was named associate dean for outreach and public service in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and associate director of the Cooperative Extension System. Her husband, Col. David Bull, dean of administration at Quinebaug Valley Community College and retired from the U.S. Air Force, was raised on a sheep, corn, and soybean farm and was involved in 4-H throughout his childhood.

"Cooperative Extension System programs, including the 4-H youth development cheap tiffany, touch lives in countless and sometimes unknown ways," explains Bull. "Education on forest and wildlife management impacts on water quality. Family life education programs teach families how to be more effective parents and feed their children, which has a long-term impact on the health of our nation. Sustainable production agriculture provides for a local food supply that is not transportation-dependent, and keeps the state's environment healthy while improving the quality of life for all."

The couple's $250,000 planned gift will be split between two existing funds: the Cooperative Extension System Innovation Programming Fund and the 4-H Centennial Account. In honor of their support, the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources renamed the innovation fund the Nancy H. and David E. Bull Cooperative Extension System Innovative Programming Fund. Additionally, they have been inducted into the Foundation's Founders Society.

"We are so thrilled to thank Nancy and David Bull for their generous silver bracelets gift to the college to support innovative programming in Extension and 4-H," says Gregory Weidemann, dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. "It is truly special to have the opportunity to celebrate such a wonderful gift from a member of our own college family. Nancy has dedicated much of her professional life to this college and UConn. To have Nancy and David continue to support Extension through this gift is particularly meaningful."

The University of Texas at Dallas issued the following news release:

A pioneering member of the UT Dallas School of Management faculty has made possible a new cheap money clips professorship that pays tribute to the excellence of the school's accounting program and endows its future strength.

A gift from Dr. Adolf J.H. Enthoven, who has taught at the School of Management for more than three decades, sparked creation of the new position. His generosity and matching funds from the School of Management created the $250,000 professorship. The new post will carry his name, the Adolf Enthoven Distinguished Professorship in Accounting and Information Management.

Enthoven, professor of accounting and information management and director of the University's Center for International Accounting Development, said he donated the gift in appreciation for the way the school has cultivated its accounting program. "I have been at The University of Texas at Dallas for 34 years. When I first came here, there was no accounting program," Enthoven recalled. "Nobody knew who UT Dallas was, and they have done a remarkable job of developing a fine school. I thought that it was time I gave something back to them."

In expressing appreciation for the gift, School of cheap necklaces Dean Hasan Pirkul said the new professorship appropriately ensures that "as one of the founding professors of our school, Dr. Enthoven will not be forgotten."

"It is fitting that Dr. Enthoven's name will be associated with our school forever," Dean Pirkul said, "because of his many contributions and accomplishments."

A noted expert on international accounting who has written numerous books and papers on the subject, Enthoven has also established oil and gas financial management programs for developing countries. Through the accounting development center, which is based in the School of Management, and with the assistance of experts in various fields, he offers an intensive advanced international program.

Designed for mid- and upper-level personnel in oil-producing countries outside the United States, the program focuses on the critical financial management aspects of the industry for countries that are experiencing a transition in their economic system. The center has worked with companies and public organizations in the former republics of the Soviet Union as well as in Brazil, India, Indonesia, Nigeria and elsewhere to help emerging economies navigate their changing realities.

"UT Dallas has allowed us to bring into focus oil and gas financial management, including cheap pendants, which makes us pretty unique," Enthoven said. "I think some universities offer a course in international accounting, but they are not oriented toward transitional and emerging economics."

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