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Plainview, New York – May 24, 2010 – Kassoy LLC, the world leader in jewelry supply, today announced
several new and exciting products and promotions. The announcement comes in anticipation of The JCK
Las Vegas Tradeshow where the following products will be on-hand for live demonstrations and purchase
at Kassoy Booth #60001 .

Radio Frequency Identification, or “RFID”, is the cutting edge in inventory technology. It allows for faster,
more accurate inventory control with minimal physical handling of products and tags. No longer do
jewelers need to waste valuable time scanning each piece of their collection. RFID makes conducting an
inventory analysis quick and time-efficient. Computerized chips are wirelessly “read” by a wand as it
passes over a showcase or jewelry tray. This system has the potential to revolutionize the way jewelers
handle their inventory.

As the recycling of precious metals continues to increase, so does Kassoy’s testing inventory. At JCK
Las Vegas, Kassoy will be debuting its highly anticipated Precious Metal Analyzers. Specifically designed
for the rapid, accurate and non-destructive testing of gold and other precious metals, these energy
dispersive x-ray fluorescence spectrometers are ideal for all types of jewelry analysis, including gold
purity, plating and coating thickness measurement, lead testing and more. Available in two sizes, the
units come equipped with superior radiation shielding, plug and play operation and a two-year warranty.
Both models are liquid nitrogen (LN2) free, eliminating the costs and hassles associated with LN2
dependent units.

“Here at Kassoy, we pride ourselves on our ability to stay on the technological forefront and provide the
most cutting-edge tools and solutions to our customers,” commented Joanne Slawitsky, President.
Slawitsky continued, “Each of these exciting items will be front and center at our JCK Las Vegas Booth
#60001.”

At JCK Las Vegas, booth 60001, Kassoy technicians will be on hand to answer questions, give
demonstrations and provide expert advice. Jeweler’s are invited to stop by to have questions answered,
view our new product inventory and enter to win an iPod Nano with any purchase of $50 or more.
To request a catalog, call Kassoy toll-free at 1-800-4-KASSOY (1-800-452-7769) or internationally at 516-
942-0560. For more information contact sales@kassoy.com.

About Kassoy LLC
Headquartered in Plainview, New York, with a Manhattan showroom, Kassoy has been providing all types
of jewelers with the supplies they need for over 75 years. What began in 1936, as a supply company for
diamond dealers, today boasts over 3,000 different SKUs, and a complete product line of more than
40,000 items for every professional in the precious metal, gemstone and jewelry industry. An innovator in
the industry, Kassoy first made bar-code jewelry tags available to retail jewelers in 1987 and continues as
a leader, delivering new products, solutions and technology to the jewelry industry year after year. For
more information, visit http://www.kassoy.com.

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When it comes to the Court’s Reputation, Offenders & Community…

Taking the Time to Research a Program is a MUST!

Providers with “new” programs for shoplifting offenders are popping up all over the place, likely in response to the current economic climate and the increase in shoplifting being reported by retailers. Unfortunately, too many of these providers fall short in terms of client and offender support services, compliance rates and effectiveness claims – leaving the courts underserved, the offenders open to repeat offenses and the community at risk.

A major contributor to these “pop-up” programs is the internet which makes it easy for companies, with little or no experience and few if any qualifications, to create websites where information has simply been “lifted” from a variety of other sources – with or without the consent or permission of those sources. In fact, several of these new programs have simply “copied and pasted” information from others to create their “new” programs.  More often than not, the information is “lifted” from the non-profit National Association for Shoplifting Prevention (NASP) – either from the NASP website, one of the NASP programs or a NASP research report – in clear violation of U.S. Copyright Laws.  Such was the case with one long time, seemingly reputable, drug and alcohol program provider.

Another program, while we did not find that its content was plagiarized, uses discriminatory language and inappropriate – if not offensive – scenarios to make its point. One program boasts “endorsements” and “accreditation” from seemingly separate and objective websites yet the sites are not accreditation authorities at all. In fact, they are simply the same company using these other websites – which they themselves created – to endorse and accredit their own programs!

The irony of this is that these program providers are stealing the material they need to create a program to teach shoplifters not to steal!

But the most important take-away here is the need for the court system to ensure that any alternative sentencing program they utilize – whether for shoplifting or any other offense – successfully accomplishes the long-standing goals of the court system; to reduce recidivism, reduce court appearances and effectively serve the best interests of the community. Low-cost, stripped down programs are unlikely to meet these goals. Yes, corporate America is always seeking the next thing that is “faster, cheaper, better.”  However, the fact is that when it comes to truly effective crime prevention, faster and cheaper is rarely better.

To protect the court, the offenders and the community, the court officers making these program decisions must make it a priority to thoroughly research providers, to carefully evaluate the programs they offer and to verify the claims they make.

When Evaluating A Program Make Sure The Provider…  …Is Not Violating any U.S. Copyright Laws Subjecting your Court to Potential Litigation

ASK: Is the program original material? If not, what knowledge base and
sources of information were used to develop it?   …Offers a Program that is Research-based to Ensure Effectiveness.

ASK: What research have they conducted? With how many offenders? Over
how many years? On what do they base their expertise? A Google-search on “shoplifting” or “shoplifters” does not qualify as research, even today.  …Is Not Making False Claims About their Success Rate or their Program being “Evidence-Based.”

ASK: What evidence can they show that their programs are truly effective? How many recidivism studies do they have to back their claims?  Valid recidivism studies are conducted by the courts themselves and tracked over time. Self-studies conducted by the company itself – the one selling the program – are not a valid measure of success in preventing the next offense.

…Can Provide Valid and Credible References. Offering a program over the internet has empowered many to market themselves as “national” providers – implying that their program is well-established and utilized by courts throughout the country – without having any real track record.

ASK: Can they provide a list of references from court personnel in various counties and states? If so, check the references; reach out to your peers and get honest feedback on effectiveness.

Finally, ASK For A Sample Program And Invest The Time To Go Through It And See Exactly What The Offenders Will Be Learning.

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NYC Car Bombing Suspect

An image taken from a surveillance video released by police on Monday shows a man, center, carrying a bag and walking away after removing his shirt in New York City.

NEW YORK – Investigators combed through security video and other evidence on Monday in the hunt for suspects in a failed car bombing in New York’s Times Square.

New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said a white man in his 40s was spotted in security video footage about half a block from where the vehicle was left on Saturday evening with its engine running and hazard lights flashing.

In a video released by police, the man, who appears to be thin, is seen removing a dark shirt, stuffing it into some sort of bag and walking away down the sidewalk, carrying the bag and glancing at least twice over his shoulder.

Police said they’ll be releasing more video of people seen acting suspiciously in and around Times Square, including footage, taken by a tourist, of a man running away from the scene, heading north.

Police told NBC News that it would be incorrect to characterize the people, including the man shown changing his shirt, as “suspects.” They were sought for questioning, a spokesman said.

Police found the “amateurish” but potentially powerful bomb in a smoking sport utility vehicle in the busy theater district Saturday night after being alerted by two street vendors, then cleared the streets of thousands of tourists so they could dismantle it.

‘Mayhem’
The SUV contained three propane tanks, fireworks, two filled 5-gallon gasoline containers and two clocks with batteries, electrical wire and other components, police said. Timers were connected to a 16-ounce can filled with fireworks that were apparently intended to set the gas cans afire, then ignite the three barbecue-grill-sized propane tanks.

Commissioner Kelly said it was “the intent of whoever did this to cause mayhem, create casualties.”

Police also found eight bags weighing more than 100 pounds of a substance that turned out to be fertilizer that was incapable of exploding.

Police spokesman Paul Browne said that unlike the ammonium nitrate grade fertilizer that has been used in terror attacks including the Oklahoma City bombing, this fertilizer would not have caused a massive explosion.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said there was no evidence of a link to al-Qaida or any other militant organization in the failed bomb attack that prompted the evacuation of the teeming entertainment and shopping district.

“It’s unfortunate that this happened. I’m confident that we will find out who did it,” Bloomberg told reporters outside a Times Square restaurant.

Officials were treating the incident as a potential terrorist attack, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” though it was too soon to tell who is responsible. She added that investigators had no suspects but that they had recovered forensic evidence, including fingerprints, from the vehicle.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility. In a one-minute video, the group said the attack ws in revenge for the death of its leader Baitullah Mehsud and the recent killings of the top leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq.

Kelly said there was no evidence to support the Pakistani Taliban’s claim.

In another video released early Monday and apparently dated early April, Pakistan’s Taliban chief promised attacks on major U.S. cities, a monitoring group said.

“We avoided what we could have been a very deadly event,” Bloomberg said in a press conference earlier Sunday. “It certainly could have exploded and had a pretty big fire and a decent amount of explosive impact.”

A T-shirt vendor and a handbag vendor alerted police at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday, the height of dinner hour before theatergoers head to Saturday night shows.

T-shirt vendor and Vietnam veteran Lance Orton said he alerted a mounted policeman when he noticed smoke coming from a parked SUV.

Car Bomb NYC

“People take it lightly,” Orton said on NBC’s TODAY show. “I’ve had a few situations where I’ve told people about things; they say, ‘That’s nothing.’ But you can’t take that attitude.”

One of Orton’s helpers suggested calling 911. Orton said he pointed at mounted police officer Wayne Rhatigan, who was on duty in Times Square.

“There’s a patrolman right there on the horse. I asked one of my guys, ‘Go over there and grab that officer,’ ” Orton recalled. “He came over on horseback. He saw what I did. It was steadily getting worse.”

After the vendors noticed the SUV, police cleared buildings and streets at the so-called “Crossroads of the World.” Officers were deployed around the area with heavy weapons on empty streets in the heart of busy midtown Manhattan.

A white robotic police arm then broke the windows of the dark Nissan Pathfinder to remove any explosive devices.

While he called the device “amateurish,” Bloomberg said it could have been deadly.

“We are very lucky,” he said.

A Connecticut license plate on the vehicle did not match the SUV, according to authorities, who did not know a motive. Police interviewed the Connecticut car owner, who told police he had sent the plates to a nearby junkyard, Bloomberg said.

‘Act of terrorism’
New York Gov. David Paterson called the incident an “act of terrorism.”

“Luckily, no one is hurt, and now the full attention of city, state and federal law enforcement will be turned to bringing the guilty party to justice in this act of terrorism,” Paterson said in a statement.

Shelly Carlisle of Portland, Ore., said police crowded into the Booth Theatre after the curtain closed on “Next to Normal,” a show on the same block where the SUV was found.

“At the end of the show, the police came in. We were told we had to leave,” Carlisle said. “They said there was a bomb scare.”

The car was parked on 45th Street, and the block was closed between Seventh and Eighth avenues as a precaution, police said.

Times Square lies about four traffic-choked miles north of where terrorists bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, then laid waste to it on Sept. 11, 2001.

The block that was closed is one of the prime blocks for Broadway shows, with seven theaters housing such big shows as “Billy Elliot” and “Lend Me a Tenor.”

The curtain at “God of Carnage” and “Red” opened a half-hour later than usual, but the shows were not canceled, said spokesman Adrian Bryan-Brown.

Katy Neubauer, 46, and Becca Saunders, 39, of Milwaukee were shopping for souvenirs two blocks south of the SUV when they saw panicked crowds.

“It was a mass of people running away from the scene,” Neubauer said. “There were too many people, too many cops. I’ve never seen anything like it,” she said.

Bloomberg left early from the White House correspondents dinner in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night. President Barack Obama, who attended the annual gala, praised the quick response by the New York Police Department, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said.

He has also directed his homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, to advise New York officials that the federal government is prepared to provide support.

Brennan and others will keep Obama up to date on the investigation, Shapiro said.

The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York responded along with the NYPD, said agent Richard Kolko.

Islamic link?
Islamic militants have used propane and compressed gas for years to enhance the force of explosives. Those instances include the 1983 suicide attack on the U.S. Marines barracks at the Beirut airport that killed 241 U.S. service members, and the 2007 attack on the international airport in Glasgow, Scotland.

In 2007 the U.S. military announced that an al-Qaida front group was using propane to rig car bombs in Iraq.

London’s theater district was also the target of a propane bomb attack in 2007, which may provide clues to American investigators.

In both cases, “the intention was to create a fireball” that would incinerate passers-by, Andy Hayman, former assistant commissioner in charge of counterterrorism at New Scotland Yard, told msnbc.com.

No one was injured when police discovered two Mercedeses loaded with nails packed around canisters of propane and gasoline outside of Tiger Tiger, a popular nightclub, on June 29, 2007.

“The big advantage (in New York City) is that because the car hasn’t been destroyed, the forensic opportunities are immense,” Hayman said.

“Police will be keen to mobilize the public — tourists might inadvertently have recorded the perpetrator leaving the car. There could be some very good images there,” he added.

Hayman also predicted that New Yorkers might be jumpy in the coming days.

“With a perpetrator at large, there will always be the worry that, being frustrated, he’ll try again,” he said.

In the London incident, police traced suspects two days later.

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