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22.02.2010

Cherrydale Fundraising Recalls Bracelets Due to Risk of Lead Exposure

Name of Product: Decorative Stretchable Aqua Tiffany 1837 Bar key ring

Units: About 45,000

Importer: Cherrydale Fundraising, of Allentown, Pa.

Hazard: The bracelets contain high levels of lead. Lead is toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health effects.

Incidents/Injuries: None reported.

Description: The recalled bracelets are stretchable, with silver-colored square links and aqua-colored beads. SKU#Tiffany Circle clasp necklacenecklace is printed on the packaging.

Sold at: Various dollar stores, liquidators, and schools as part of fundraising, nationwide from September 2003 through April 2007 for between $1 and $12.

Manufactured in: China

Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled bracelets and take them away from young children. Return them to the store where purchased or contact the firm to receive a full refund.

Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Cherrydale Fundraising at (800) 333-2565 between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit the firm's Web site atHeart and Tiffany Box Charm

Note: CPSC was alerted to this hazard by the New York State Attorney General's Office.

20.02.2010

2 Men Shoot Subway Rider After Trying to Take Earrings

LEAD: Two young men trying to steal a sleeping subway passenger's earrings shot her in the face yesterday when she awoke tiffany for sale the robbery attempt, the police said.

Two young men trying to steal a sleeping subway passenger's earrings shot her in the face yesterday when she awoke during the robbery attempt, the police said.

The shooting occurred about 7 A.M. on a southbound No. 2 IRT train near the Atlantic Avenue station in Brooklyn, said Albert O'Leary, a spokesman for the transit police.

The victim, an unidentified 21-year-old woman, ''was asleep on the train and feels a tug at her Frank Gehry Fish drop earrings,'' Mr. O'Leary said. ''She wakes up to find she is being robbed.''

It was not known whether the woman resisted, but one of the men shot her twice in the face with a small pistol.

The victim was taken to Kings County Hospital, where she was admitted in critical but stable condition, Mr. O'Leary said.

Detectives were looking for two men, who were reported to be in their early 20's. One was wearing a black Frank Gehry Fish earrings, the other a yellow jacket.

12.02.2010

Girl with a Pearl Earring

.The scant confirmed facts about the life of Vermeer, and the relative paucity of his Tiffany 1837 square cufflinks, continues to be provoke to the literary imagination, as witnessed by this third fine fictional work on the Dutch artist in the space of 13 months. Not as erotic or as deviously suspenseful as Katharine Weber's The Music Lesson, or as original in conception as Susan Vreeland's interlinked short stories, Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Chevalier's first novel succeeds on its own merits. Through the eyes of its protagonist, the modest daughter of a tile maker who in 1664 is forced to work as a maid in the Vermeer household because her father has gone blind, Chevalier presents a marvelously textured picture of 17th-century Delft. The physical appearance of the city is clearly delineated, as is its rigidly defined class system, the grinding poverty of the working people and the prejudice against Catholics among the Protestant majority. From the very first, 16-year-old narrator Griet establishes herself as a keen observer who sees the world in sensuous images, expressed in precise and luminous prose. Through her vision, the personalities of coolly distant Vermeer, his emotionally volatile wife, Catharina, his sharp-Tiffany 1837 concove circle cufflinks and benevolently powerful mother-in-law, Maria Thins, and his increasing brood of children are traced with subtle shading, and the strains and jealousies within the household potently conveyed. With equal skill, Chevalier describes the components of a painting: how colors are mixed from apothecary materials, how the composition of a work is achieved with painstaking care. She also excels in conveying the inflexible class system, making it clear that to members of the wealthy elite, every member of the servant class is expendable. Griet is almost ruined when Vermeer, impressed by her instinctive grasp of color and composition, secretly makes her his assistant, and later demands that she pose for him wearing Catharina's pearl earrings. While Chevalier develops the tension of this situation with skill, several other devices threaten to rob the narrative of its credibility. Griet's ability to suggest to Vermeer how to improve a painting demands one stretch of the reader's imagination. And Vermeer's acknowledgment of his debt to her, revealed in the denouement, is a blatant nod to sentimentality. Frank Gehry Fish cuff links, this is a completely absorbing story with enough historical authenticity and artistic intuition to mark Chevalier as a talented newcomer to the literary scene. Agent, Deborah Schneider. (Jan.)