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Necklace of pearls

9/2/2010

Rowayton residents heard a pitch last night from the Norwalk Land Trust, which is asking the Sixth Taxing District to contribute $250,000 to its campaign to buy 2 acres of tiffany jewelry in Farm Creek.The district's commissioners said they favored making the donation with some of the proceeds from its $650,000 sale of an historic house on Wilson Avenue.The land trust's purchase would preserve the waterfront property, along with four adjacent acres already owned by the trust and 10 owned by the city. The land trust is seeking a conservation easement from the city so its 10 acres can never be developed.Residents heard the plans at last night's special meeting of the SixthTaxing District, along with other ideas for the proceeds from the house sale. They will vote on the proposals at the district's annual meeting tomorrow night.Pam Davis of the Norwalk Land Trust spoke of creating a refuge for wildlife and about the educational opportunities. The public also would have access to the 2 acres, with walking cheap cufflinks and benches."If you string this all together, it's like a necklace of pearls," Davis said.The land trust can buy the 2 acres for $4.3 million from Rowayton resident Charles Schoendorf by June. Otherwise, the land could be developed with a few homes, according to commission members.Commission Chairman Edward Kweskin said if the district commits the money, it would expect to receive something, such as part ownership of the property, an easement or restrictive covenant. The district would spread the cost over two years.Kweskin compared the purchase of the property with investments the Sixth Taxing District has made in the past, such as buying Pinkney Park and Bailey Beach. He said the views from the land were unique."This will really knock your socks off," Kweskin said. "You do get a sense of serenity. That really is not overstated."Rowayton officials also presented plans for spending the rest of the proceeds of the Wilson Avenue house sale. The plan includes allocating $250,000 to reduce some of the district's $719,000 debt, incurred by the purchase of the house and the construction of a municipal parking lot.The commissioners proposed spending $150,000 to fix the deteriorated 450-foot sea wall along the Five Mile River, and $100,000 to fix up the historic buildings at Pinkney Park.The 19-century Pinkney House, which the Norwalk Historical Society is turning into a museum, needs renovations, including electrical upgrades, repair of water damage and installation of air conditioning and heating. A barn on the property needs a new roof, and all structures need to be painted."We feel this is one of the crown cheap money clips of Rowayton's portfolio," Commissioner Michael Barbis said of the Pinkney House.Andrew Conroy, the district's treasurer, said it was a good idea to pay down some of the district's debt, but he urged spending the bulk on capital projects, because any new debt would have a higher interest rate.

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Necklace Necessities Product Line

8/2/2010

"I realized the need for a good quality adjustable necklace extender when I was shopping for a solution for myself," explains Janis Helfman, president & CEO of Buttercup Creative. "All I could find were standard magnetic-type and straight chain-type extenders, which are quite different from the Necklace Necessities product, as they are not adjustable.tiffany jewelry stay right where you want them with the Necklace Necessities product as the extenders hold firmly when 'stations' are positioned. What makes the Necklace Necessities product even more unique is the charming purse package, containing bonus products, that is so fun to give as a gift."The designer package ensemble holds a trio of necklace extenders -- one adjustable silvertone extender, one adjustable goldtone extender (each of which extend from 3.5 to 6 inches) and one non-adjustable four inch "faux" pearl extender, along with a 12-piece trial package of Necessities Secure Strips(TM) inside a handy organza travel pouch.In addition to the necklace extenders, the company's other novel product, Necessities Secure Strips, provides a solution to another fashion dilemma -- necklace clasps that turn to the front of one's frank gehry. The Necessities Secure Strips are small, clear, hypoallergenic adhesives used to secure the necklace extenders and clasps in place at the back of the neck. They can be purchased separately in a 30-piece package.Buttercup Creative is the parent company of Necklace Necessities, an innovative line of adjustable and nonadjustable necklace extenders and special accessory products that provide a solution to the female fashion dilemma of necklaces that are too short or too tight and clasps that turn to the front of one's outfit. The headquarters of Buttercup Creative is located in Fullerton, Calif., with a distribution warehouse office in Anaheim, Calif. Assembly of the Necklace Necessities product line is contracted to Goodwill of Orange County. For more information and a product demonstration.It may be aimed at brides, but Adornbrides.com's tasteful jewelry selection would work for any occasion. After making our selection based on a picture and a brief write-up that included diamond sizes, we agreed to lease for $90 a pair of single-strand drop earrings worth $2,200. (We got to keep them for two days. After that, the site charges a late fee.)After filling out information like the date of the event, we were billed $22.50, 25% of the rental fee, with the remaining 75% and the $33.50 shipping fee to be billed upon return of the paloma picasso. (All of the sites bill your credit card if an item isn't returned or comes back damaged.)A calendar full of fancy social events can put a dent in anyone's bank account. As a result, a number of companies have sprung up to rent everything from dresses to diamond earrings.Given our initial observations and that telemetry is frequently used on this species of international conservation concern, we investigated the behavioral effects of necklace transmitters on burrowing owls. Our goal was to compare activity budgets of owls with and without necklaces to determine whether behaviors were affected and, if so, whether the owls became habituated to the necklaces.

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Necklace Ascending A Staircase

6/2/2010

On Friday, he will present what he describes as his ''couture collection,'' made up of one-of-a-kind elaborately constructed compositions, which will be shown on a chorus line of synchronized dancers and sold through his New York studio. On March 23, he will begin selling a less expensive variety of necklaces and bracelets, from $14.99 to $59.99, at Target.It is one of fashion's more delicious little tiffany jewelry when a line called Subversive goes mainstream.This was perhaps a predictable outcome, as Mr. Giunta's ornate, intellectual, collagelike designs have been a hit since he began making them on a whim after arriving in New York from Pittsburgh. He had first tried to make a living selling chandeliers, T-shirts, ''anything I could to survive in New York City,'' he said. When he applied himself to valentines key rings, by piling pearls, charms, cameos, filigrees and whatnot onto necklaces that looked like beautiful train wrecks, he seemed to strike a chord.''I was a one-man sweatshop for supplying the demand I had created,'' he said.Although the prices were low when he started (out of necessity), they have gone up over the years along with the preciousness of materials involved and the grandness of scale. His designs now range from $300 to $3,200.So the opportunity to design for Target, Mr. Giunta said, could be viewed as a return to his original philosophy: ''the undermining of an institution, which is jewelry.'' In other words, he was an artist making necklaces while questioning the very idea of what a necklace is -- kind of like a Duchamp or Magritte for the Vogue mind-set.Target customers may be satisfied that his designs are still pretty and do not look watered down. A gold-tone cluster of bangles and beads, for example, looks recognizably Subversive, as does a tangle of pearls (actually shell and glass) attached with a fringe of chains to a pocket-watch frame, floating like a squid underwater. "Obama has been consistently ambivalent,"on NAFTA. The Associated Press reports that during his 2004 Senate campaign, Obama urged the U.S. to pursue more deals like NAFTA and that his state had benefitted greatly from the treaty. He also called for more stringent protections for U.S. valentines necklaces.According to The Ohio Poll 41 percent of likely Democratic voters believe the economy is the most important issue of the 2008 presidential campaign.Comparison-shopping pays off, says Eileen Stewart of Roosevelt, who visited several places, including an appraisal fair, to get the best price for some old jewelry and coins she was selling for her elderly neighbor."Sometimes, customers will request to be paid in bullion," a tradable commodity for which they pay a premium, Garfield says. Still others ask for the cash value of their gold be used to purchase casting material, or small beads of gold alloy of a known karat that can be worked by a jeweler."When the price of gold becomes newsworthy, we see quite a jump in people selling old gold, and we're seeing a large increase in business now," says Joshua Garfield, marketing director at Philadelphia-based Garfield Refining, which is in the business of refining scrap gold. "And when people want to sell, people come out of the woodwork to buy."

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