In the gloom of the down economy, the price of gold has been an unusual bright spot.

How bright? Enough that Cash4Gold, which buys old buy tiffany jewelry by mail, could afford a prime Super Bowl ad starring Ed McMahon and M.C. Hammer.

Across the country -- and across North Texas -- people are responding to TV spots, billboards and newspaper ads that promise to turn rings and trinkets into cash.

Most discover that the metal is worth a fraction of the purchase price -- a ring that sold for $150 a decade ago might be worth $50. But many sell the items anyway, figuring that a bit of cash in the hand is better than an old ring stuck in a drawer.

Compared with other used items, this may be a particularly good time to sell gold, experts say. Collectibles and other commodities are flooding the market, driving prices down. But gold was priced this week at better than $900 an ounce, which is near a record high.

Gold has historically been a haven for investors in tough times because many people have confidence that the precious metal will hold value when other commodities are tanking. That faith persists in the current meltdown.

Combine high prices with a growing number of people nervous about their cash flow and you generate the kind of revenue that pays for the Cash4Gold Super Bowl ad. In the post-game buzz, some commentators said it was sad to see McMahon and Hammer reduced to hawking a mail-in gold resale company.

But Cash4Gold founder Jeff Aronson said it reflects what's happening with the economy. "I feel more sad when I see people being laid off from the largest companies in America," he said.

Laid-off workers are some of his customers, and they're among those bringing gold to pendants jewelers in North Texas.

William Oyster, president of Dallas Gold & Silver Exchange in northwest Dallas, said he's buying four times more gold now than last year.

"It started picking up about the middle of last year and since then we are spending almost $10 million buying gold. We were spending half of that, about $5 million, before the price of gold went up," Oyster said.

Fuller's Jewelry Store in Addison is another of the many places in North Texas where people can take gold for resale. Fuller's didn't buy scrap gold until customers who saw the Cash4Gold ads asked about it, said Ken George, who handles much of the gold purchasing and marketing for Fuller's.

George was tactful about the urgency some people are feeling about getting money for their gold.

"We have been very pleased with the number of responses we are getting from the advertising we're doing," he said.

Like many other places that buy gold, Fuller's says it's willing to help newbie sellers learn the process. And getting smart about gold is a good idea, said Chris Burgess, vice president and chief compliance officer for the Dallas office of the Better Business Bureau.

He warns potential gold sellers to be prudent about their transactions. Better Business Bureau offices across the country have been fielding complaints about gold resale, he said.

Some of the complaints are about potential scams, but others are from people who don't understand that a gold transaction isn't as simple as buying peas at the grocery store: A low initial offer should be the start of a negotiation that the seller can walk away from.

"There is a certain amount of dickering that has to be done in this transaction, and there is not a lot of experience in the American public with doing that," he said.

Consumers can check with the Better Business Bureau for ratings and complaints about individual companies.

Cash4Gold, for instance gets a C+, which the Better Business Bureau considers a "good rating." A relatively few customers from last year's 500,000 transactions complained about not getting their jewelry back fast enough if they wanted a return, or not getting what they thought was a fair offer.

Other places will pay more for gold, but they don't provide the same level of convenience and service, Aronson said.

"I'm never going to be the highest payer on the street, nor do I ever want to be," he said.

Fuller's has an A rating with the Better Business Bureau.

People seeking to resell their earrings jewelry need to realize that it doesn't matter how pretty it is or how much they liked it, George said. For scrap sale purposes, it might as well be a hunk of ore.

"I'm just looking at it as raw materials," he said.

Al Dia staff writer Lorena Flores contributed to this report.

MARKET TEST

Wondering what your unwanted gold jewelry might be worth? We tested the resale market with some trinkets -- three 14-karat gold rings and three shiny charms that turned out to be gold-plated and essentially worthless.

Calculated worth:

We had 14.2 grams of 14-karat gold, which is 8.2 grams of actual gold. The price for gold on the day we got our bids was about $29 per gram. So on the spot market, we had about $238 worth of gold.

The offers:

--$150 for the rings from Fuller's Jewelry Store in Addison

--$110 for the rings, plus $3 for the golden flakes on the J-shaped trinket, from the traveling GemCo appraisers who set up for the week in a Richardson hotel

--$105 for the rings from Central Diamond Center in Richardson

What we learned:

--The offers will be much less than you originally paid.

--Don't be afraid to bargain; this is a negotiation.

--Go to several places.

--The more gold you have to sell, the better price you can get per ounce.

--"Golden" doesn't mean it's gold. Gold-plated key rings jewelry has no gold resale value.

Jeffrey Weiss

WHAT'S IT WORTH?

Calculate what your gold is worth on the spot market:

--Find out what your gold weighs. Unless you own a jeweler's scale, you'll probably need to go to a jewelry store.

--Find today's spot price for gold for whatever units of weight you have -- troy ounces, grams, pennyweights.

--Find out what karat your gold is. If you don't know, a jeweler should be able to tell you.

--Calculate what percent of your jewelry is actual gold.

24-karate gold is 100 percent gold

18-karat gold is 75 percent gold

14-karat gold is 58.33 percent gold

10-karat gold is 41.67 percent gold

--For example, a 5-gram ring made of 14 karat gold contains 2.91 grams of pure gold. If pure gold is selling for $29 a gram on the open market, 2.91 grams of pure gold would be worth $84.58.

--The offer you get will be some fraction of the open market value, minus the cost of handling and processing -- usually the material is sent to a smelting company -- and the profit taken by the buyer.

A primer on units:

--Karats are a measure of the purity of the gold. Pure gold is 24 karats. Most jewelry is 14-karat gold, which means that the other 10 karats are copper, nickel or zinc. (Carats are different, used with gemstones.)

--Troy ounces are a little bit larger than the 16 avoirdupois ounces that make up a pound.

--A pennyweight is 1/20th of a troy ounce.

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Overweight girls who lose weight before they reach adulthood greatly reduced their risk for developing type 2 diabetes, according to researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Harvard University, who analyzed 16 years of data on nearly 110,000 women.

Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of the disease. It is marked by high blood sugar levels and difficulties in the body's production or use of insulin. Being overweight, exercising infrequently and having a family history of diabetes are known to contribute to the risk of developing the disease.

The findings were published online in Diabetes Care and will appear in the June issue.

The study was conducted by researchers at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Return to Tiffany Heart tag choker Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Along with the NICHD, two other NIH institutes, the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases provided funding for the analysis.

The study followed 109,172 female nurses from 1989 to 2005, noting how many developed diabetes during that time. An initial survey collected information about the women's health, history and lifestyle habits. One question asked them to pick which of a series of diagrams best matched their body shape at ages 5, 10 and 20. The series of nine line drawings depicted female silhouettes of different sizes, ranging from gaunt (size 1) to obese (size 9). The nurses were also asked to provide their height and current weight and to estimate their weight when they were 18. Every two years after the initial survey, the women submitted follow-up information including whether they developed diabetes.

The researchers recorded a total of 3,307 cases of type 2 diabetes over the course of the study and found that the nurses who were overweight as girls were more likely to become diabetic as adults. Women who indicated that their size at age 5 matched or exceeded the size 6 figure were more than twice as likely to develop diabetes as those who recalled matching the size 2 figure. The women indicating the size 6 or above at age 10 were 2.57 times as likely to develop diabetes as adults. Those who reported a body mass index of more than 30 (considered obese) at age 18 were almost nine times more likely to develop diabetes than their normal-weight counterparts (BMI of 18-19).

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In the study, the researchers also examined the combined effect of extra weight at various ages. Compared with women who were not overweight at key ages in childhood, adolescence and adulthood, those who indicated they were overweight at all three ages were 15 times more likely to develop diabetes. Conversely, women who recalled being overweight at age 10 but not overweight as adults were no more likely to become diabetic than their peers who had been normal-weight children.

"These findings suggest that ensuring that overweight kids reverse their weight gain is critical to limiting their future risk of diabetes as adults," said study author Edwina Yeung, Ph.D., of the NICHD Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research.

When the women entered the study, they averaged 34 years old. At that time, they were asked to recall their weight at age 18. The researchers found that women who gained weight after age 18 also increased their diabetes risk. Those who gained more than 25 pounds increased their diabetes risk more than 20 times. Return to Tiffany Heart tag ring the other hand, women who recalled being overweight or obese at age 18 and subsequently lost 10 pounds or more decreased their risk by more than half, compared with overweight or obese women who maintained that weight as an adult.

Other authors of the paper were Cuilin Zhang and Germaine M. Buck Louis of the NICHD and Walter C. Willett and Frank B. Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

MANY SUNDAYS WHEN he's not on tour, Hold Steady singer Craig Finn will walk the five blocks from his Brooklyn apartment to St. Anthony-St. Alphonsus Catholic Church. He'll receive Communion, recite the Lord's Prayer. He doesn't do confession - that booth can get kind of heavy, and Finn likes to keep it Paloma's Tenderness Heart pendant - but for a few weeks each year, he will show props to Jesus by giving up alcohol for Lent. Which is why, on this balmy Good Friday in April, the boozehound-poet leader of the greatest bar band in America is kicking back before a show with a cold, refreshing 12-ounce can of Coke Zero.

"It's been nice, actually," Finn says of his holy detox. "Being in a rock & roll band, no one ever tells you not to drink. Sometimes you gotta tell yourself." Today is Day 45, and even though Lent ends on Sunday, he's thinking about pushing it longer, "maybe until the end of the tour."

Finn is backstage at Life the Place to Be, a "family fun center" in Ardsley, New York. It's the first stop on a two-week tuneup tour to promote the band's fifth album, Heaven Is Whenever, and as Finn might say, it's a real positive scene. A less self-assured group of guys might sniff at the Chuck E. Cheese vibe and small-market room as being beneath them (the Hold Steady have opened for the Stooges and the Rolling Stones), but Finn is too Minnesota nice for that. "I think it's cool," he says. "It's definitely the first time we've played a place Paloma's X pendant a rock-climbing wall."

Backstage, the rest of this crew of indie-rock lifers - guitarist Tad Kubler, bassist Galen Polivka and drummer Bobby Drake - are chowing on takeout Thai and trading war stories about the road. "We used to behave like we were on shore leave," Kubler says. Finn nods: "Someone would be like, "Try this local ale!' and I'd be like, 'Definitely! When in Syracuse. . . .' You don't know it's 13 percent alcohol, and the next day you're almost dead. Now it's Budweiser or Corona."

Those kind of rock & roll life lessons are woven throughout Heaven, the follow-up to 2008's 88,000-selling Stay Positive. "I'd been thinking about this idea of, like, the cosmic philosopher," says Finn. "Sort of like Jerry Garcia, where he's wise and he's on his front porch and he's telling simple truths about life. Or Joe Walsh, you know, 'Life's Been Good' - he's just kind of sharing what he's learned." He rattles off others: Steve Miller, David Lee Roth. "It amuses me to step into that mind-set," he says. "It's sort of druggy and misguided, kind of ridiculous. But it's rock & roll, man. Like, 'Let's get all our old ladies, a couple of boxes of wine, get up to a cabin and just let some tape roll.'"

DAVID LEE ROTH ONCE said that the reason rock critics loved Elvis Costello was because they all looked like him. By that logic, accountants must worship Craig Finn. Abalding 38-yearold in glasses, saggy Levi's and a rumpled Old Navy button-down, Finn looks like he stepped onstage straight from the graveyard shift at Jackson Hewitt. He says his day involves "a lot of bumping, a lot of spilling," and he has a voice he endearingly describes as "nasally." According to Kubler, who's known Finn since their days together in late-Party charm bracelet Twin Cities outfit Lifter Puller, "I had the same first impression of Craig that most people probably have: "This guy's in a rock band?'"

Yet Finn's Everydude-ness is an essential part of his appeal. "I drink beer, eat chicken wings, watch the Twins," he says. In Kerouac-ian terms, he's more Sal Paradise than Dean Moriarty - not so much a doer as a watch-you-doer. He's the guy hanging by the keg in the corner, taking in the action, scribbling details (a nickname here, a pickup line there) in his Moleskine notebook for future retrieval. His impeccable ear and knack for the killer one-liner - e.g., "She said the theme of this party is the Industrial Age, and you came dressed like a train wreck," on Heaven's "The Weekenders" -have, seven years into the Hold Steady's career, justified his rep as one of the best songwriters in America.

Finn likes authors who can develop a story: Raymond Carver, Larry McMurtry, Graham Greene ("the heavy Catholic thing"), Philip Roth. He says the Hold Steady's new song "Hurricane J" was inspired by characters from Richard Price's Lush Life, and that his most recent read was a Sam Lipsyte novel on his Kindle. In January 2009, he rented a house on the Hudson River and tried to write a book of his own before bailing a quarter of the way through; he had better luck in August, when he teamed with a Late Show writer named Tom Ruprecht to adapt Chuck Klosterman's Fargo Rock City into a screenplay. (They're shopping it around.)

When Finn sits down to write a new Hold Steady album, he likes to focus on a theme. For Heaven, he says, "I was thinking a lot about struggle and reward - about how the struggle is part of the reward. With anything you care about, from having a relationship to being in a rock & roll band, there are going to be days that suck. The key is understanding those days as part of the euphoria."

It's a very Catholic idea, finding joy in everyday suffering. But it's also borne from two decades of, as Kubler puts it, "driving 800 miles in a van and sleeping five guys to a room in a shitty Days Inn in Cincinnati." Says Finn, "If you're playing a show for 20 people somewhere in the middle of South Dakota, you can't Return to Tiffany, 'We just have to get through this, and it'll get awesome.' It has to all be awesome."

Two weeks later, the Hold Steady are back in New York, capping their tour with a triumphant double-header at two clubs they've long since outgrown. They'll debut their new songs in Manhattan, then zoom over to Brooklyn to do it again.

For a band that's famous for working fast and loose, making Heaven was a meticulous departure. Finn and Kubler wrote songs collaboratively, instead of welding words to some pre-existing riff, and the group recorded for six months, as opposed to its usual six weeks. Kubler says Finn "sang his ass off." The result is at once more tender (see "We Can Get Together," a lovely ballad about the communal power of music), more melodic (the slide guitar on opener "The Sweet Part of the City") and even a bit cocky. As they crow in the new song "Barely Breathing": "Now we're pointing at the scoreboard/ And it feels so amazing."

To the Hold Steady, the fact that it's their fifth album is an important milestone. As Kubler says, "This isn't a fluke. We're not just a flash in the pan. This all started with very little ambition - we didn't know if we were going to make a record, let alone go on tour. Having played in bands since we were teenagers to little or no success at all, I think there's a tremendous amount of gratitude."

As the band wraps up its second encore of the evening, a sweaty Finn says his thankyous Return to Tiffany Double Heart Pendant the fans. In one hand is a microphone; in the other, a cold bottle of beer.

"I think I've earned this," he tells the crowd. And then he takes a sip.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation Paloma Picasso Loving Heart pendant the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should immediately remove the drawstrings or return the garment. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.

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Name of product: Girls' coats

Units: About 13,500

Importer/Distributor: S. Rothschild & Company Inc., of New York, N.Y.

Hazard: Strings on the detachable cape can pose a strangulation Paloma Picasso Loving Heart ring to young children. In February 1996, CPSC issued guidelines (which were incorporated into an industry voluntary standard in 1997) to help prevent children from strangling or getting entangled on the neck and waist drawstrings in upper garments, such as jackets and sweatshirts.

Incidents/Injuries: None reported.

Description: This recall involves S. Rothschild girls' wool coats with a detachable cape. The coats were sold in pink, red, blue and vanilla with a faux fur cape and in charcoal and vanilla with a faux fur trimmed cape. Two faux pompoms are attached to the end of strings that hang from the cape. The sewn-in neck tag reads, "ROTHSCHILD SINCE 1881."

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Firm's Recall Hotline: (800) 223-2664

CPSC Recall Hotline: (800) 638-2772

CPSC Media Contact: (301) 504-7908

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One of the more interesting and no doubt informative events on the ladies-who-lunch merry-go-round is the annual Women & Science Lecture and Luncheon at Rockefeller University on the Upper East Side.

This year's program, the 13th, featured a talk about cardiovascular disease and strokes discount tiffany women by Rockefeller scientists Jan Breslow and Barry Coller, followed by a panel discussion featuring Holly Anderson.

As in years past, it attracted its fair share of heavy hitters, among them Princess Firyal of Jordan, Nancy Kissinger, Daisy Soros, Caryn Zucker, Gigi Mortimer, Serena Boardman and her sister, Samantha Boardman Rosen.

"Women in Science was established in 1997 with several goals," said Marnie Imhoff, the school's vice president of development.

"We wanted to encourage leading women in the philanthropic and business circles of New York to embrace science as an interest and as a philanthropic pursuit. We wanted to showcase women scientists and provide a way that women could support those scientists directly. Since it was founded, New York City women have raised $14 million for the fund at Rockefeller."

The program consists of several breakfast and evening forums, but the culmination is the Tiffany Bangles spring luncheon, which this year raised $1 million for research. Ms. Imhoff said at least one woman in attendance described the afternoon as "the brainy lunch."

How did it become so popular, Ms. Imhoff was asked.

"It was Nancy Kissinger, Lydia Forbes, Sydney Shuman and Isabel Furlaud, who are still in every program listed as Founding Chairs," she said. "They wrote countless handwritten notes. They called their friends and said, 'You have to discover Rockefeller and the great science going on in our laboratories.'"

"The first year was a smaller group, and every year it gets bigger," said Ms. Kissinger, reached at her Tiffany Bracelets home in Connecticut. "It's huge now--400 people! I've only missed one year since we started 13 years ago, and I try to go to all the breakfasts, too."

She explained the popularity: "Here, people come to the lectures, they become fascinated by all the new discoveries and all the research."

Being an event devoted to wellness, Ms. Kissinger added that the lunch is "very Tiffany Pendants. Some years they have chicken, but this year it was fish and vegetables. They did, however, have a very delicious rhubarb pie."

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The dangling pinky keeps the Tiffany Rings from tipping as you take a sip.

Cross your ankles as soon as you sit.

Walk with your head up, and please don't slouch.

"Being here," said Daitia Brinson, 17, "you learn the right way of being a lady."

Brinson and friends Markia Harris, 12, and Danielle Dous'e, 16, weren't shy Saturday afternoon about sharing etiquette tips from a banquet table in a hotel on Jacksonville's Northside.

For the last few months, they've been part of a group of about 25 girls taking part in a new organization aimed at polishing their manners, building their self-confidence and teaching abstinence.

Earlier this year, retired Duval County schoolteacher Ellafair Jones-Tiffany Money Clips launched the Christian-based ministry known in short as "The Experience." On Saturday, the former home economics teacher's efforts began to pay off as her young members showcased their society skills while parents joined them for a tea party.

From kindergarten age up to high school students, the members stood to introduce themselves to the crowd by name. They also put in a word or two about their hobbies, which set up some chuckles when a high-school girl said she liked "texting," and 5-year-old Treasure Jones declared this:

"I like to swim, and I like to breakdance."

Club members meet once a month at a city library to learn skills ranging from the Tiffany CuffLinks of conversation, to dressing for occasions, to setting job and personal goals for the future.

"Here they're telling us 'your body's a temple' and out there they're dressing in little clothes and telling us to put it out there," said 16-year-old Arnicia Alexander.

The First Coast High School sophomore said she's seen friends struggle with poor decisions, including one who is trying to recover emotionally after an abortion.

Alexander said the tea party's theme "It's all about me," was a message about self-respect.

"You're your first priority, but you're not better than anybody else," she said.

Before the afternoon event ended, the girls sang, danced and Tiffany Key Rings long-stemmed red roses to their mothers. Each member also got her own tea cup to keep.

Use them and cherish them, Jones-Swain told members.

She left the rest unsaid.

Pinkies up, ladies. Pinkies up.

The "Dog Lady" got bit by Lady Justice yesterday.

Virginia Wetzel, who last month was convicted of 25 counts of tiffany sale to animals for hoarding 21 live and four dead pets in her squalid Port Richmond home, was sentenced to six to 12 months in jail.

Wetzel, 70, formerly of Monmouth Street near Belgrade, must report to jail in 30 days, but was briefly held on contempt charges after refusing to provide her current address to Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge Karen Y. Simmons.

The judge also ordered Wetzel to serve probation for four years and pay $32,300 in restitution to the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

She also can't have pets for 15 years, Simmons ordered.

Wetzel, a widow with no children, earned her nickname from weary tiffany rings sale who complained about animal odors wafting from her home. She told the judge that she never harmed any of the animals.

Evidence from her case paints a different picture. PSPCA officers entered her two-story home on Sept. 30 after receiving a tip on the agency's hot line.

In addition to finding a filthy brood of 12 cats and nine dogs, the officers discovered the skeletal remains of four other animals, two of them under Wetzel's bed.

It took the officers two hours to clear a path through ceiling-high debris to reach the animals.

Wetzel took in strays as she found them, said Scott Sigman, her defense attorney.

"From our opinion, Ms. Wetzel is not a criminal. She cared for the animals like tiffany bracelets sale were her children. Things, obviously, got a little out of hand," he said.

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The city seized and sealed her Port Richmond house, tiffany bracelets sale 21 dogs and cats she said she had rescued from the streets, and hauled out trash piled six to eight feet high.

Yesterday, after insisting she did nothing wrong and then refusing to divulge her new address, 70-year-old convicted "animal hoarder" Virginia Wetzel was off to jail for six to 12 months.

"I've never hurt any animal in my life," Wetzel, a state welfare caseworker, told Municipal Judge Karen Yvette Simmons. "I have never intentionally even killed a roach."

But Simmons cited evidence from the nonjury trial in which she convicted Wetzel of 25 counts of animal cruelty: 12 flea-ridden cats, 9 dogs, and 4 decomposing, mostly skeletal, cats found Sept. 30 in Wetzel's malodorous, trash-filled Monmouth Street house.

The judge also noted Wetzel's arrest in 2004 for the same thing and the likelihood she would begin collecting animals again: "She doesn't believe she is guilty of anything."

A presentence exam showed that Wetzel is not mentally ill, tiffany pendants sale said.

In addition to prison time, Simmons barred Wetzel from owning any animals for 15 years; ordered her to reimburse $32,304 to the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which took the animals and cleaned out Wetzel's house; and let the SPCA regularly inspect Wetzel's house to ensure she doesn't again bring in stray animals.

The last condition became an immediate problem when Wetzel, a diminutive woman with bowl-cut gray hair and wearing a burgundy windbreaker, refused to give her address.

Her Port Richmond house was seized by the city and is being sold to cover the costs borne by the Department of Licenses and Inspections.

"Your Honor," said Assistant District Attorney Barbara Paul, "Ms. Wetzel says she doesn't remember her address."

Simmons, who had said she would let Wetzel have 30 tiffany necklaces sale to surrender and begin her prison term, looked exasperated and then ordered Wetzel taken into custody.

"Take her back until she remembers her address," Simmons told sheriff's deputies.

Defense attorney Scott P. Sigman urged probation. He called Wetzel a "good-tiffany earrings sale person" who does not "have a malicious bone in her entire body."

"When you get 21 animals, it's very hard to be able to provide the absolute best level of care," Sigman added.

Paul argued that Wetzel's record showed she would not be dissuaded from hoarding animals. "She didn't learn from what happened five years ago."

Contact staff writer Joseph A. Slobodzian at 215-854-2985 or jslobodzian@phillynews.com.