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You don’t have to pay a fortune to get cute and colorful bracelets for going back to school.

Take a look at these bangles and cuffs from Mudd in the photo at right.

The casted filigree cuff on top is $14; the stretch bracelets are $12 each, and the festive bangle set is $14.

They’re available at Kohl’s. To find a store or shop online: kohls.com.

Help a child, get a gift

Want your very own watermelon-, grape- or chocolate-scented pencil?

Catching Fireflies, the adorable gift store with locations in Berkley and Rochester, is collecting new school supplies to give to kids in need.

If you bring in five or more school items, you’ll get a free scented pencil.

Among the supplies Catching Fireflies is accepting for donation: backpacks, pencils, pens, markers,necklaces, highlighters,thanksgiving bangles, kids’ scissors, notebooks, folders, binders, rulers,tiffany necklaces sale, index cards,buy tiffany rings, tissues and hand sanitizer.

There’s a limit of four free scented pencils per family.

School supplies will be turned over to the Judson Center in Royal Oak for distribution.

The Berkley store is at 3117 W. Twelve Mile; 248-336-2030.

The Rochester store is at 203 E. University; 248-650-3318.

For more info: catchingfireflies.com

Intimacy at Somerset

Because girls of all ages need something special for the back-to-school season: Intimacy, perhaps the holy grail of bra stores,discount tiffany Pendants, will be coming to the Somerset Collection in mid-September.

The shop, which has locations in some of the nation’s toniest malls, specializes in such European brands as La Perla, Prima Donna and Chantelle and boasts 90 sizes, from A to K cups. It offers free custom alterations and promises to teach women how to wear bras, use them to eliminate back fat and care for them properly.

It will be the only Intimacy store in the state.

You find it at Somerset Collection South (Big Beaver and Coolidgein Troy. Info: myintimacy.com.

Contact GEORGEA KOVANIS: 313-222-6842 or kovanis@freepress.com

The newest romantic drama from 88-year-old French filmmaker Alain Resnais is at times confounding, achingly beautiful, tedious and clever. "Wild Grass" is a great-looking, emotionally messy motion picture.

"Wild Grass" is all over the place, especially in matters of the heart. This is intended to be a controlled chaos as presented by Resnais, an old master whose romantic dramas "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" (1959) and "Last Year at Marienbad" (1961) were best foreign-language film Academy Award nominees in their day.

He’s still exploring those places that the human heart goes when it’s in disarray, in an adaptation of Christian Gailly’s novel that follows the entanglements that form when a woman’s wallet is stolen.

That a man finds the discarded wallet and turns it in to the police seems a simple enough story. For most of us, the story would be over at this point. But this is merely a jumping-off point for a gorgeously photographed,cheap tiffany key rings, existentialist tale of longing.

The overall arc of the script is certainly that of not only a missing wallet,necklaces, but of people who are all missing something valuable in their lives. But I could never quite tell where the story was heading.

The predictable is confounded repeatedly as Georges (AndA– e Dussollier of "Tell No One") desperately attempts to meet the woman whose wallet he found. Unpredictable is a good quality in films; unfocused is not.

Marguerite (Sabine Azema, Resnais’ real-life companion) has no such interest in meeting Georges

- until an act of vandalism, an odd phone call and her own yearnings compel this shoe-buying, airplane-flying dentist to seek an adventure.

These mysterious characters remain perplexing throughout — cold, detached and distant are equal descriptions — and I found I didn’t engage their stories more because they weren’t better defined. But Resnais’ camera makes the journey a colorful, playful trip through cinematic techniques.

There are fantasy moments. There are inner monologues (Marguerite berates herself for buying more shoes; we watch as Georges practices his phone-call voice like a teen calling for a date). Lighting colors change as people’s emotions alter.

These aren’t merely flights of filmmaking fancy, but veteran flourishes that frame a heady,tiffany watche, often distracting mix of melancholy, light comedy and moments both romantic and disturbing.

These curious avenues traveled by the film may induce those who dismiss French films out of hand to cite the picture as an example of why they do so. But for others, "Wild Grass" may slowly grow on you.

WILD GRASS

Stars: Andre Dussollier,discount tiffany Pendants, Sabine Azema,tiffany earrings sale, Anne Consigny, Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric

Theater: Circle Cinema

Running time: 1 hour, 44 minutes

Rated: PG (some thematic material, language and brief smoking)

Quality: (on a scale of zero to four stars)

Note: in French with English subtitles

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michael.smith@tulsaworld.com

After a Vancouver pain clinic lost the ability to prescribe painkillers,rings, Larae Corzine a year ago said her family was in dire straits.

Her husband, Steve, was a longtime patient at the Payette Clinic, which forfeited its rights to prescribe opioids last year after federal agents linked the clinic to the overdose death of an Oregon teen.

Corzine told a newspaper reporter in April 2009 that other doctors in town wouldn’t see her husband, who she said suffers from reflex sympathetic dystrophy, because they were afraid he was addicted to Oxycontin. She said her husband was in pain, was not an addict, and needed help.

"The pain is 10 times worse than it’s ever been," Corzine told The Columbian last year. "He’s vomiting and shaking. I’m surprised he hasn’t gone into seizures."

Now, the distressed wife is behind bars and charged with three Vancouver pharmacy robberies and an attempted robbery on a fourth occasion. The alleged drug of choice: Oxycontin.

The 39-year-old Vancouver woman was arraigned Thursday on the most recently filed charge of first-degree attempted robbery relating to a June 18 holdup attempt at the Vancouver Clinic pharmacy, 501 S.E. 172nd Ave.

Corzine also is charged with three counts of first-degree robbery relating to the April 20, June 14 and June 18 holdups of the Bi-Mart pharmacy, 11912 N.E. Fourth Plain Blvd.

She is being held in the Clark County Jail in lieu of $300,000 bail.

Trial has been set for Oct. 18.

Corzine was first arrested after the June 18 Bi-Mart robbery when a suspect sped away from police in a green Ford Taurus and crashed into an SUV at Northeast 63rd Street and 58th Avenue. In the collision, both cars were knocked off the road and the Taurus caught fire, deputies said.

After taken to Southwest Washington Medical Center and later jailed, investigators allegedly linked Corzine to the other robberies through surveillance video and witness identifications, according to court documents.

In each robbery, the bandit had a black gun tucked in her front waistband and made threatening requests for Oxycontin. In the Vancouver Clinic Pharmacy holdup, the robber said, "Give me Oxycontin 80 (mg) — I have a gun," according to court documents. She then counted down from 10.

Two pharmacy clerks escaped into an office,Charm pendant, called 911 and the robber fled.

Corzine’s case isn’t the first evidence of fallout from the Payette Clinic. Of the 800 former patients, the Drug Enforcement Administration estimated that half were physically dependent on narcotics. The clinic remains open under a new name,watches, Walnut Grove Medical and Mental Health Clinic.

In September 2009,necklaces, another former Payette patient,key rings, Harold Andres Jr., was sentenced to four years and seven months in prison after pleading guilty to three Safeway pharmacy robberies earlier that year for oxycodone.

Laura McVicker: 360-735-4516 or laura.mcvicker@columbian.com.

The family of a mother of four found dead six months ago outside a bar here is asking St. Louis County police to reopen her death investigation.

The body of Stephanie Dianne Carroll, 42, of Florissant,pendants, was discovered about 8:45 a.m. on Feb. 25 in the parking lot of Meyer’s Country Cottage & Irish Pub, 4960 Parker Road. The medical examiner ruled that she died of hypothermia and acute intoxication.

Some of her relatives and Zaki Baruti,key rings, president of Universal African People’s Organization, met Thursday at the site to raise questions of whether Carroll was the victim of foul play.

Juliette Carroll, who attended with her husband, Louis Carroll Sr., said their daughter had bruises over her entire body. "When we got her clothes, they were in very good condition. Her blue jeans and sweater were in good condition. No tears, smudges, scuffs, dirt or gravel were on her blue jeans or sweater. No marks on her clothes of any type showing a fall, but her body had all these abrasions and contusions and bruises from her head to her toe. Why aren’t her clothes torn or scraped up?"

She noted,necklaces, "Our daughter was found with the top part of her body exposed. Her sweater and bra up around her neck. No coat on and no shoes. It was 15 degrees that night."

Baruti said bar employees claimed she left about 1 a.m., but a credit card found on the body had been used at 2:10 a.m. He also questioned a signature on a receipt that did not appear to be in her handwriting.

Her parents said she had been to the tavern on at least three occasions and went there that night to meet a friend she had reconnected with on Facebook. They believe someone attacked Carroll in the bathroom and left her in the parking lot.

County police spokesman Rick Eckhard,Charm pendant, acknowledged Thursday that someone representing the family had contacted the lead investigator, seeking an additional review.

"We will entertain any information that someone wants to provide to us on a case," Eckhard said. "Right now,bangles, the status of the case is closed. If that individual comes forward with information that can change the status, we have to make that decision when we see the information."

Performers who make a name for themselves in the guise of an alter ego usually have a short shelf life. They tend to become camp curiosities within minutes of achieving cultural saturation. But Paul Reubens avoided the fate of Carrot Top, Andrew "Dice" Clay, Larry the Cable Guy,cuff Links, and their ilk,Bead bracelet, who, if they remain familiar, do so in the manner of a mortifying ex. Reubens survived on his own terms because his Pee-wee Herman was a much savvier invention, utterly specific visually (snug glen-plaid suit, red bow tie, white loafers) but otherwise built on a series of childlike ambiguities (hostile or silly? gay or straight? wise or innocent?) that he steadfastly refused to resolve or even acknowledge. In his first decade of fame–from The Pee-wee Herman Show, which played Hollywood’s Roxy Theatre in 1981, to the 1985 hit movie Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (directed by the neophyte Tim Burton) to Pee-wee’s Playhouse, the Saturday morning kids’ show that ran on CBS from 1986 to 1991–Reubens rarely appeared as himself in public. And then, in the wake of his 1991 arrest for indecent exposure (he was supposedly masturbating in a porn theater), he stopped appearing in public altogether, except rather brilliantly to ask the audience at that year’s MTV Video Music Awards if they’d "heard any good jokes lately."

The taint of the overblown scandal–exacerbated in 2001 when he was falsely charged with possessing child pornography–may have stuck like glue to Reubens, but it bounced right off Pee-wee. So while the actor went on to take small, dark roles (he played a suicide in Todd Solondz’s recent Life During Wartime), his alter ego lived on, Peter Pan-like, and has reemerged unscathed. A new Pee-wee movie, to be directed by Judd Apatow, is in development, and in what feels like a kind of homecoming (though he’s never appeared in a Broadway house) Reubens is bringing The Pee-wee Herman Show to the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, in a production that starts previews on October 26 and runs through January 2. It is perhaps a sign of the breadth of his rehabilitation that on the day he spoke to New York, Reubens had just returned from (of all places) a series of promotional appearances among the hog-heads at the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota.

Yours is the first show in the former Henry Miller’s Theater since it was renamed for Stephen Sondheim. Some people might find that ironic–do you? I don’t know what you mean. I love Sondheim’s work. Well, he’s the writer of the darkest,money clips, most serious musicals around … I guess the fact you had to explain it to me is the answer. I hate to come off as such a hick here–it’s not like I’m totally unfamiliar with Broadway. I almost took over for Alan Cumming for Cabaret, and almost went into How to Succeed … after Matthew Broderick. I’ve been offered stuff, but always to replace somebody, and it’s always too long of a commitment. This is a long commitment, too, but it’s a commitment to my own story. How similar is the Broadway show to the version you did in the early eighties, or to the television series? It has the same plot, in which Pee-wee has this dream to fly. But I spent five months rewriting it because it didn’t have all the characters from the CBS series, and I thought people would wonder where they were. So we’ll see Chairry and Miss Yvonne and Cowboy Curtis and all the rest? Right. It’s amazing what you were able to get away with on TV. Did CBS ever censor you? There was no interference. I’ve been in many situations where people promise to leave you alone, but you write a script and the next day they have fifteen notes for you: "Change the dog to a cat." Instead, in five seasons of my show, I probably had a total of five notes. They never even saw the show until it was finished, two hours before it aired. Could Pee-wee’s Playhouse get made today? It would be difficult in one sense: There isn’t even Saturday morning anymore! Now there are so many more outlets, and they’re 24/7. But in terms of content, I would argue it was tamer than you think. Everything is–even the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Pee-wee’s Playhouse was sort of what Johnny Carson used to be: always titillating, but not more than that. A dirty joke that wasn’t explained. I mean, a line like "You know what they say, Pee-wee: ‘Big shoes, big feet!’" isn’t very blue. And no one wanted it to be. They were kids! But the tone suggested the existence of another world children might someday gain access to. Did you actively try to shape kids, or was that a by-product of entertaining them? I took it seriously, 150 billion percent. It may sound corny and stupid, but I had an opportunity to come in under the radar and do something important. Sesame Street was already on, but it was very corporate in a certain way, and I just felt I had this opportunity to be entertaining, less "we’re going to learn the letter Q today." They had that covered. I was going to be lighter and more specific, more like: All your friends got invited to a party, and you didn’t. I was so lucky–I was presented with such an opportunity. And if I can pat myself a teeny-tiny amount on the back, I delivered. I was in a position to shape a certain percentage of kids who watched, teach them things that I think are important in life, like the golden rule, and wrap it up in colorful eye candy and make it seem like fun. It would be hard to do that at all today–and I got to do it for five years. And not only that,necklaces, I can feel the effects still. I’m meeting people who say they are an artist because of my show. It’s staggering. People say, "Do you have any idea what a difference you made?" No, but I’m starting to. Do you think that’s your signal achievement? I’m not trying to be coy or facetious, but I don’t know the answer to that, and I don’t think I should. Because (a) I’m afraid it’ll dry me up and I won’t be able to do what I want to do,tiffany, and (b) I don’t feel the need. I leave that to others. For me, it would be like Samson cutting his hair. Speaking of transformations, is it hard, twenty years along, to fit into Pee-wee’s suit? I still fit into the same size suit–but I don’t know what size it is. I don’t know what size suit I wear, either. Does Pee-wee appear when you put it on? Is he a character you switch into, or one you release, like from prison? Well, I don’t give it too much thought. It’s more like … riding a bike. You’re about to have a birthday. Yes, I’ll be 39. Right, 58. And how old is Pee-wee? I don’t know the answer to that.

A pediatric urologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center has pioneered a successful surgical procedure for young girls who have absent or malformed vaginas, a condition that affects about one in 4,000 females (see also <http://www.newsrx.com/library/topics/UT-Southwestern-Medical-Center.html> UT Southwestern Medical Center).

Unknown causes and certain genetic disorders can cause girls to be born with these defects, along with other birth defects that can accompany the vaginal problems, including abnormal neck,watches, absent or malformed uterus and fallopian tubes,pendants, absent kidneys or abnormal external genitals.

"It was initially challenging to construct a treatment for something so rare," said Dr. Linda Baker, professor of urology at UT Southwestern and a surgeon at Children’s Medical Center Dallas. "My goal was to develop a treatment that would lead to a natural repair at the first operation, as well as a method to correct vaginal scarring in girls and women who’d had prior, unsuccessful vaginal surgeries."

Existing procedures for these conditions include using portions of a patient’s skin or lower intestine to build the vaginal walls and an external vaginal opening. Dr. Baker began studying other areas of the body for potential healthy tissue to use and discovered that interior cheek tissue, or buccal mucosa, had several similar physiological qualities to vaginal tissue in its thickness, elasticity, strength and visual similarities.

"There were many surgical methods for reconstructing the vagina,bracelets, but when I began seeing these patients, I thought the results were not natural-looking and inadequate in many cases," said Dr. Baker, director of the Sarah M. and Charles E. Seay Center for Pediatric Urology. "Too many suffered with complications from these types of vaginal reconstructions, often leading to painful intercourse in adulthood."

The surgery begins by removing a portion of the top layer of cheek tissue from inside a patient’s mouth. That tissue is then stretched and made into a graft that is perforated, much like a skin graft. Once complete, the graft is wrapped around a plastic mold and fitted inside the patient’s body.

"After a week or so, the mold is removed, and the graft is vascularized," Dr. Baker said. "The tissue cells fill in the gaps, and the new vagina becomes complete. The mouth heals quickly, and no one can see any scars from the surgery."

Because the tissue comes from the patient’s own body,Charm pendant, there is no risk of rejection, and the vagina functions similarly to a natural vagina. Another major advantage to the surgical procedure is that it can be done with minimal damage to surrounding tissue. Patients undergoing the older methods for vaginal reconstruction may require surgery that involves entering the abdomen, which means recovery is much longer. Those procedures carry a higher risk of postsurgical complications, something minimized for women who have the buccal mucosa graft.

In some women, the uterus and fallopian tubes are malformed or damaged from trapped menses behind a malformed or blocked vagina. In these cases, Dr. Baker teams up with Dr. Ellen Wilson, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UT Southwestern and Children’s.

"In general, vaginal birth defects are something young women suffer from silently – it is so personal. It’s not something they want to talk about, which makes it harder to resolve. This isn’t a common problem, but it’s a serious one that doesn’t receive much attention," Dr. Baker said. "So far we’ve done 23 of these procedures with minimal complications, and we’re hopeful this becomes a more and more common way to treat these patients."

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DSS Research, the leader in market research for the health insurance industry,money clips, developed a proprietary set of metrics that gauge the level of engagement in health care on the part of the consumer. This quarter we added extra questions to further test the relationship between different literacy measures and the level of engagement amongst commercial and Medicare populations and the uninsured (see also <http://www.newsrx.com/library/topics/DSS-Research.html> DSS Research).

Consumer engagement is at the forefront of many initiatives to get individuals to take responsibility for their care and health literacy is a critical component of getting these consumers engaged. Even well-educated individuals lack confidence when it comes to understanding medical information and filling out medical forms. Those who are able to follow detailed directions and correctly distill information found on nutrition labels still admit seeking help or lacking confidence when it comes to medical information.

Literacy is highly correlated with demographic characteristics such as education, income and ethnicity, as well as, attitudes about health care and current health status. However, engagement is more correlated with medical claims,tiffany, health care knowledge and healthy behaviors than is literacy alone. Consumer engagement is more correlated with measures of confidence in reading and understanding health related information than it is with more typical literacy measures related to reported problems or difficulties using health information and materials. Household income is a better predictor of self-reported problems with health information and level of confidence in filling out medical forms than is level of education. Hispanics are much more likely than other ethnic groups to report problems with health information,necklaces, but are comparable to other ethnic groups regarding their level of confidence in filling our medical forms and the frequency with which they need someone to help them read instructions or other written materials

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It’s scorching hot, but it’s also a good time to have those end-of-summer get-togethers and cookouts.

That means unexpected spills, dribbles and stains. So before that barbecue sauce ruins your hubby’s favorite linen shirt, The Clothing Doctor, Steve Boorstein,earrings, has some tips. The expert clothing restorer and dry cleaner shared these laundry disaster fix-its in the summer issue of The Nest magazine:

Ketchup and mustard: Rinse stain with cool water and blot with a dry white cloth. Next, tap a stain fighter into the fabric with your fingers and if the stain isn’t gone within five minutes,Bead bracelet, toss it in the wash. Mustard can be more stubborn; you may need to soak it in warm water with a dab of color-safe bleach.

Hamburger grease: Pretreat at home with glycerin, found at your local drugstore,bangles, which will help lubricate, break up and release the stain. Then head to the dry cleaners (even if it’s on cotton) because food oils need very hot water to come out, and most washers don’t get hot enough.

Berries: Rinse with cold water immediately before treating with a stain remover. Then launder it as usual,necklaces, but if a stain remains, use color-safe bleach.

Barbecue sauce: If the sauce is water-based and not oil-based, treat with a stain remover or even a diluted amount of grease-fighting liquid dish detergent and wash the same day.

Sangria: Rinse with cool water immediately and then blot with a dry white cloth. Treat spot with a stain remover and wash

in warm water. Air dry and if needed treat with color-safe bleach as above.

A blood-splattered woman walked into Brockton police headquarters yesterday and announced "I just killed someone" — directing stunned cops to a Bridgewater condo where they found the body of a retired teacher,earrings, authorities said.

Lorraine Wachsman,necklaces, 62, was stabbed to death after a violent,pendants, bloody struggle in her condominium on Main Street in Bridgewater, Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz said.

Eunice Field, 54, of Brockton, was charged with Wachsman’s murder,Beads necklace, Cruz said.

She will be arraigned today in Brockton District Court.

Cruz said the two women "knew each other through a third party" and Field "recently became upset" with Wachsman.

Cruz declined to say what led to the spat. He said the two battled "in several locations" in the condo.

Cruz said a blood-drenched Field then went to a Brockton police station and told officers, "I just killed someone."

Brockton police, seeing she was "covered in blood," called Bridgewater police, who found Wachsman’s body. Bridgewater and Brockton police declined comment.

Wachsman retired as a Randolph middle school teacher in 2007.

"It’s a big shock," said Marybeth Nearen, chairwoman of the Randolph School Committee. Wachsman was Nearen’s own junior high English teacher. "You remember that one teacher you’ll never forget, and she was that one. She was special."

emason@bostonherald.com