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		<title>U.S. Senators pay visit to Jades, S.A.</title>
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	Jades, S.A. welcomed several congressmen and senators from the United States, including John Cornyn and Richard Shelby.

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		<title>Jades S.A. Celebrates its 30th Anniversary</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jades S.A. celebrated their 30th anniversary in May 2004 with a party to introduce our new jewelry designer, Andrea Novella, our 19 year old granddaughter. She inaugurated her own jewelry design business this year, Novella Creations, to help defray the cost of her freshman year at NYU. 

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		<title>Jades S.A. sets an example, gives back to the community</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jades, S.A. helped workers rom Camotan, one of the poorest and most remote areas of Guatemala, to learn to polish, grind, shape, and drill a soft calcite stone from their own land. 
 

They were taught how to make ornamental pieces and jewelry to sell in Guatemala’s internal tourist market. These entrepreneurs create fossil calcite beads [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mljade.wordpress.com&blog=2930429&post=25&subd=mljade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dalai Lama Visits Guatemala</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guatemala welcomed the Dalai Lama in October and we basked in his message of world peace, which was welcome as we suffer murky political moments around the globe.

In the photo above the Dalai Lama is about to place a rose in the Monument for Peace, at the National Palace of Culture, on his first day [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mljade.wordpress.com&blog=2930429&post=24&subd=mljade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jades S.A. Active Promoting Jade Museums</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jades S.A. is selling Jade Museum/Showroom franchises in the region to local owner-operators. We are excited about the success of the first two, Ambergris Jade Museum on Ambergris Key and Maya Jade Museum of Belize in Belize City. We are moving on others in Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador.

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		<title>New Cruise Port Facility at Puerto Quetzal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new cruise port facility on the pacific coast at Puerto Quetzal was inaugurated with the arrival of Holland America’s ship “Zaandam” on May 5, 2004. Mary Lou Ridinger was aboard lecturing on Maya Archaeology and Jade.

	Jades, S.A. has a new store at Puerto Quetzal which was visited by Guatemala’s new president, Oscar Berger, who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mljade.wordpress.com&blog=2930429&post=22&subd=mljade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jades S.A. helps keep Sister Cities ties alive</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jades S.A. is doing its part to sustain the recently renewed Sister City relationship with Coral Gables, Fla., near Miami. Sales Manager Veronica Ortiz traveled to Coral Gables last September with a contingent of Antigua business and civic leaders.

	She presented to Coral Gables Mayor Don Slesnick a handsome Jade carving depicting the seal of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mljade.wordpress.com&blog=2930429&post=21&subd=mljade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jade search reveals untouched Mayan site</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While scouring the Sierra de las Minas for additional sources of blue jadeite that the ancient olmecs had mined, Jake Ridinger discovered an untouched Mayan archaeological site.

 
	The find includes nine small ceremonial pyramids and a Maya ball court measuring 30 meters by 20 meters bordered by two lines of rocks. The structures were covered with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mljade.wordpress.com&blog=2930429&post=18&subd=mljade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Governor Richards of Texas Visits Jades S.A. Showroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2002 06:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among VIP visitors lately to the Jade Museum and Jades, S.A. showroom in Antigua was former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, who had an enjoyable visit with seventh generation Texan Mary Lou Ridinger.

Among Texas tales they exchanged were recollections of Mary Lou’s great grandfather, who lost the governor’s race i the 1930s to Ma Ferguson, wife [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mljade.wordpress.com&blog=2930429&post=20&subd=mljade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rotary introduces new members</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2002 06:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Antigua chapter of Rotary International, under the leadership of new president Juan Antonio Meza, is introducing new members. 

	The Antigua chapter was instrumental in establishing  the first children’s surgery hospital, back in the 1950, to correct cleft palate deformities. More recently, the Antigua chapter has provided $20,000 to HELPS, an NGO, to install efficient, clean [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mljade.wordpress.com&blog=2930429&post=19&subd=mljade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rave Reviews!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2002 06:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Antigua, Guatemala 
Arguably the most picture-perfect colonial city in the Americas.
October 24, 2002: 3:41 PM EDT 
By Glenn Coleman, Money Magazine Senior Editor

ANTIGUA, Guatemala (Money Magazine) &#8211; Stuffed from lunch, my wife and I sat for an extra-long while at our restaurant table, holding hands by a tropical garden in a Spanish colonial mansion more than two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mljade.wordpress.com&blog=2930429&post=17&subd=mljade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fine Jade rosary, emblems crafted for Papal visit.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2002 06:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Pope John Paul II made his historic trip to Guatemala in July, he had Guatemalan Jade at hand. 

	John Paul, making an unprecedented third visit to Guatemala to canonize Central  America’s first saint, was presented with a handcrafted rosary of fine green jade and 18k gold, a gift from Jades, S.A. A medallion on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mljade.wordpress.com&blog=2930429&post=16&subd=mljade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More notable shoppers visit Jades S.A.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2002 06:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Panama President Mireya Elisa Moscoso visited Jades S.A. showroom in Antigua prior to the papal visit to Guatemala in late July. President Moscoso, a trained interior designer, was elected in 1999, the first woman president of Panama. Her late husband was Arnulfo Arias, who had been president three times. President Moscoco defeated her principal contender [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mljade.wordpress.com&blog=2930429&post=15&subd=mljade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Burial site at Abaj Takalik yields mask</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2002 06:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The archaeological team working at Abaj Takalik, near the municipality of El Asintal in Guatemala’s department of Retalhuleu, discovered a unique mask in a newly excavated burial site at this ancient Maya community.

	Mary Lou Ridinger, Jades S.A. president and resident archaeologist, was honored to be invited by the team to examine and assess the mask, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mljade.wordpress.com&blog=2930429&post=14&subd=mljade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medical clinic opens for Jades S.A. staff, families</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2002 06:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jades S.A. employees and their families needn’t wait in the doctor’s office anymore. The doctor comes to them, courtesy of the company. 

 
Once a week, Dr. Ivonne Zelaya de Berduro sees patients in a clinic at Jades, S.A., where nearly 100 Guatemalans work.
	“It’s so typical to ignore a little ailment only to have it evolve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mljade.wordpress.com&blog=2930429&post=13&subd=mljade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cruising for Tourists, One Ship at a Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2002 05:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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When cruise ships dock at Caribbean ports such as St. Thomas, Cozumel, or Cancun, nearly all of the passengers disembark to shop, eat, or sightsee. When cruise ships dock at Guatemala’s Puerto Quetzal, nearly all of the passengers stay aboard. Archaeologist Mary Lou Ridinger of Antigua has embarked on a one woman campaign to entice tourists off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mljade.wordpress.com&blog=2930429&post=12&subd=mljade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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