If your jewelry box is overflowing, some of the pieces you no longer wear could find a new home Thursday during Baubles, Bangles and Beads,tiffany earrings clearance, a jewelry swap/fundraiser for the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Guild.

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If your jewelry box is overflowing, some of the pieces you no longer wear could find a new home Thursday during Baubles, Bangles and Beads,tiffany earrings clearance, a jewelry swap/fundraiser for the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Guild.

The event,buy tiffany bracelets, the first of its kind for the guild, serves a triple purpose. Primarily, it will raise money for educational programs for the Youth Orchestras, but young women at Girls Inc. also will benefit. And those attending get the chance to bring home new-to-you pieces to add to their personal collections.

Admission is $25 plus at least one quality piece of costume jewelry from home (bring more if you like). Organizers stress the importance of quality costume jewelry. No junk please, said publicity co-chairwoman Suzanne Ahn.

The first item you bring will be donated to Girls Inc.

"They can use the jewelry as Christmas gifts for their mentors who have become very special in their lives," Ahn said.

For every other item you bring,watches, you can take home half that amount from other donated jewelry. For instance, if you bring four items, you can take home two.

"It’s an opportunity for other people to pick up gifts for other people or to add to their own collections,discount tiffany Pendants," Ahn added. "This was an idea for something fun and different to do."

Reservations are advised so organizers can get a head count of how many to expect,bangles, as wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served on the mezzanine level at Greenlife Grocery.

"And you can do your grocery shopping on the way out," Ahn said.

If you go

–What: Baubles, Bangles and Beads jewelry swap.

–When: 4-7 p.m. Thursday.

–Where: Greenlife Grocery, 301 Manufacturers Road.

–Admission: $25 plus at least one piece of quality costume jewelry.

But speak to those who live there,]]> Let me tell you about the North Luangwa valley, Zambia’s best-kept secret. Mention Zambia in safari-going circles and the cognoscenti wax merrily on about the charms of the South Luangwa valley, how its legendary guides Norman Carr (now dead), Phil Berry and Robin Pope, both still very much with us, have made it the world-famous home of the walking safari.

But speak to those who live there,tiffany bracelets sale, who know every corner of the vast and varied country, and they’ll tell you that northern Zambia is the place to go. And because they told me it was the place to go,bangles, I went. I found there the Africa that one dreams of in the cold winter nights back home, an Africa that today is disappearing fast, that is vast and wild, where designer camps and their fancy cushions have yet to arrive. It’s a raw and empty wilderness and these days that is something to be savoured. In 4,600 sq km of the North Luangwa National Park there are just three small and simple,bracelets, rustic bush camps with no more than 28 beds between them. They’re spread far apart so that as you sit at sunset, your feet dangling in the clear and shallow waters of the Mwaleshi river, a glass of Pommery in hand, you have the illusion that you and your little group have all Africa to yourselves. Up in the North Luangwa valley there are no cars, other than the four-by-fours owned by the guides and antipoaching guards, and it’s home to quite another sort of walking safari, one where you will see nobody else at all and you can walk wherever your guide and the fancy takes you. The game is skittish and you don’t see a lot but what you see is wild and glorious. The lions do what proper lions should always do, which is to growl and threaten and let you know that if you don’t disappear sharpish, there’ll be trouble. North Luangwa lions don’t do posing for tourists.

The only way into the park is to fly into one of the three camps and while all have their followers, for us Rod and Guz Tether’s chic and simple little camp, Kutandala, seemed quite perfect. Guz is a phenomenal cook (she trained at Ballymaloe), which whilst not strictly speaking essential turned out to be an enormous plus. But the real magic lies in the place, in its simplicity, in the sense it gave of privacy and peace, in the rustic reed and thatch cottages sitting right on the banks of the Mwaleshi river and in the river itself, where in the dry season all the animals tend to come down to drink. With Rod, a phenomenal guide who knows the Zambian bush intimately, we spent three magical days doing as we pleased – a freedom long gone in the busier, more heavily regulated parks. We walked and we walked. We came upon buffalo and lion, elephant, eland and hartebeest, wildebeest and a million thrilling birds. At night we sat under a great big mahogany tree, lanterns in the branches, Guz’s extraordinary food on the table. Kutandala is, above all, a bush experience. It’s for people who love the smell and the sound of the African bush and want to feel in and of it. If you want to tick off the big five in super-quick time, go somewhere else.

Then, if you’re there in November or December (when the fanatical seekers after rare sightings make a special pilgrimage) you should head for Kasanka, one of northern Zambia’s other extraordinary glories. You need to know that there is nowhere at all swanky to stay. Wasa lodge is Africa as it used to be, rundown and shabby but clean, comfortable and the food is perfectly fine. The point of the visit is to see one of the most remarkable wildlife phenomena the world has to offer – the regular evening migration of some five million straw-coloured fruit bats. By day they roost in the small mushitu swamp forest of Kasanka National Park,Beads necklace, often breaking the branches with their weight as so many are crowded into such a small, one-hectare forest. Every evening, absolutely predictably, some time between 6pm and 6.15pm, almost as one, they leave their daytime roosts, blackening out the dying sun, and head for the wild fruit trees where they eat all night long. You can watch it all from the Fibwe hide, deep in a giant mululu tree, overlooking the Kapabi swamps or else you can do as we did and venture out among the high papyrus grass. By day it’s a great place to look for the sitatunga, an extremely shy aquatic antelope with splayed hooves which spends its days deep in the papyrus swamps. Do whatever it takes to get Frank Willims, a Dutch-born ornithologist, as your guide – beg, cheat, bribe – he’s worth it. He brings the forest alive and knows every bird and call.

While you’re up there in northern Zambia you shouldn’t miss out on its great monument to colonial eccentricity – Shiwa Ng’andu. An extraordinary house built by a very unusual man, Sir Stewart Gore-Browne, who tried to build a vast utopian house beside an African lake, the very one where Livingstone’s dog Chitane was eaten by a crocodile. He was one of those breed of men who needed a larger canvas than Britain could ever offer. Africa beckoned – vast, untamed, full of possibility. In 1914 he set out with 30 porters on foot and by canoe to find a place to call home. Today, after many a long dramatic and often tragic story, brilliantly (if somewhat controversially) told by Christina Lamb in The Africa House , it is being lived in by Gore-Browne’s grandson, Charlie Harvey, his wife Jo and their two children. They have four to five rooms (a few with ensuite bathrooms) but the great charm of staying there is that you live with them, eat with them, listen to their stories and learn what it takes to survive deep in the remote African bush and how they are accommodating the new Africa that is fast emerging. This is not a wildlife experience (though there is the sitatunga to search out from a hide over the swampy grasslands) – more an emotional, historical,cuff Links, unforgettable journey into the very recent past and an insight into a very complex present.

But this is still just to touch a fraction of the really wild and remote places that are still to be found in Zambia. If you can, I would recommend a little detour, on your way back to Lusaka, to the Busanga Plains in Kafue National Park, which are strictly speaking in southern Zambia, but it’s worth it because it’s not a long hop by plane and you arrive in an unspoiled wilderness, much the size of Wales, of open plains, flood plains, swamps and woodland. Until Wilderness Safaris opened a few very small, beautifully inconspicuous camps there, there was almost nowhere to stay. Now it can be seen and experienced in comfort. Because it’s been so little visited and still is under water for much of the year (from December to May/June) it has an unpolluted, pristine air. Over its plains roam hartebeest, red lechwe, roan and sable, blue wildebeest, eland, oribi, kudu, puku and impala as well as the more dramatic stuff, the larger mammals such as elephant, hippo, zebra, buffalo, lion, leopard, cheetah, and – very thrilling, this – the endangered wild dog. It’s not a place to walk because the plains are so open that there isn’t enough cover and you would see little, but it is a chance to spend time in an extraordinarily remote and wild place. Today they offer balloon rides, a wonderful way to get some idea of the size and scale of the plains. It’s good to know there’s so much more to Zambia than the South Luangwa valley, much-lauded though it is.

Deana L. Watkins, 45, of Reubens, entered an Alford plea in Asotin County Superior Court for first-degree theft, a class-B felony. An Alford plea means that while not admitting guilt, Watkins feels a jury would find her guilty if presented with evidence against her,]]> A woman accused of stealing a substantial amount of money from an elderly family member was sentenced to 90 days in jail Thursday.

Deana L. Watkins, 45, of Reubens, entered an Alford plea in Asotin County Superior Court for first-degree theft, a class-B felony. An Alford plea means that while not admitting guilt, Watkins feels a jury would find her guilty if presented with evidence against her,bangles, Asotin County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Curt Liedkie explained. Watkins pleaded innocent to first-degree theft on May 20, and a trial was scheduled for Sept. 1.

Although Watkins has no criminal history,key rings, Judge Ray D. Lutes imposed the maximum sentence under standard range. She must also pay restitution to the victim in the amount of the money she spent. Watkins did not have anything to say to the judge prior to sentencing, but let her attorney, Richard Laws,earrings, speak for her.

"She’s maintained from the very beginning that she lacked the necessary intent to deprive Mr. Watkins permanently of anything, but she does understand how it looks and how it could look in front of a jury," Laws said.

According to court documents, while caring for 90-year-old Clarkston resident William (Murphy) Watkins, Deana Watkins spent at least $160,000 of his money in just less than two years. From January 2008 to September 2009, Murphy Watkins’ $80,000 checking account was whittled down to around $500, documents say. This included monthly deposits of $1,900 to $2,500 from Social Security and retirement and a $42,000 CD she cashed and deposited into her own account.

Liedkie said it’s difficult to tell how much money Watkins actually spent, because she didn’t keep a record of the transactions. Documents used to charge Watkins say she stole in excess of $5,000.

Watkins, who married into the family, had power of attorney over Murphy Watkins. Although the agreement was never official, lacking a doctor’s signature, the family operated as though it was.

"Her name was on the account," Liedkie said.

Her expenditures started small — withdrawals of $300, groceries or clothing — and quickly escalated. Family members believe during the two-year time period, Deana Watkins purchased a washer and dryer, a new car, two pickup trucks,watches, a riding lawn mower,tiffany, a boat, a 24-foot trailer and a 30-day trip to Texas.

She also withdrew around $30,000 for a down payment on a house that her and Murphy Watkins — who lived in a nursing home after breaking his hip — planned to share.

Sheriff’s reports indicate Murphy Watkins was "very upset" when he learned about Deana Watkins’ activities and insisted they had no agreement that allowed her to spend his money. Deana Watkins, however, told detectives they had a verbal agreement.

Roy (Skip) Watkins, Murphy Watkins’ nephew, said Murphy trusted Deana Watkins, and that trust was breached.

"I don’t think anyone realizes the emotional stress this has caused for Murph," he said in the courtroom Thursday. "He was devastated when he found out that his account was depleted to $585."

He added that despite her power of attorney, Deana Watkins did not pay many of Murphy Watkins bills, including medical and prescription insurance and numerous doctors’ bills.

"She started out in good faith by cleaning and running errands for Murph, and then it progressed to power of attorney, and then her greed became excessive and snowballed," he continued.

Following the proceedings, Roy Watkins said the family intends to file a civil suit against Deana Watkins.

Gaboury may be contacted at kgaboury@lmtribune.com or (208) 848-2275.

Deputy Police Chief John Livingood said the boy's mother and his siblings had just returned home at 4:10 p.m.]]> A 6-year-old boy from Glenside died after being accidentally struck by his mother’s vehicle,bangles, which was parked at home,Charm pendant, Abington Township police said.

Deputy Police Chief John Livingood said the boy’s mother and his siblings had just returned home at 4:10 p.m. Thursday. The car was parked on a steep driveway, and the woman had turned off the engine and removed the key from the ignition.

She unloaded several of the children,Charm bracelet, including the boy, and was preparing to remove the others when the vehicle inexplicably rolled backward,pendants, Livingood said Friday.

The boy died from his injuries a short time later at Abington Memorial Hospital.

Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said her office had been notified of the accident but would take no action. She termed the boy’s death a "horrible, unimaginable,watches, tragic accident."

Livingood said the vehicle was a 1996 Chevrolet Suburban that had been inspected and appeared to be in good repair.

"We have the vehicle and are having it examined for mechanical defects," he said. "So far, we have not found any."

Livingood said the department was withholding the name of the family until all its members were notified of the boy’s death.

Contact staff writer Bonnie L. Cook at 610-313-8232 or bcook@phillynews.com.

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Edgar Ibarra Jr. is a typical 8-year-old boy, who is into cars, airplanes and superheroes. He's shy with strangers but curious as to how things work. Meeting him for the first time, it is hard to notice that Edgar has spina bifida, a neural tube defe]]> S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command issued the following news release:,money clips

Edgar Ibarra Jr. is a typical 8-year-old boy, who is into cars, airplanes and superheroes. He’s shy with strangers but curious as to how things work. Meeting him for the first time, it is hard to notice that Edgar has spina bifida, a neural tube defect developed while in the womb.

Little did Edgar know when he woke up on Aug. 20 that he would be spending the day at Laughlin AFB with the 85th Flying Training Squadron and become a "Pilot for a Day".

"Every time we go in or out of town, he likes to see the planes from the base. So it was real exciting for him,rings," said Edgar’s mother Angelic Martinez.

The "Pilot for a Day" program gives terminally ill or disabled children the opportunity to experience a day in the life of a pilot at Laughlin. Every "Pilot for a Day" is specially designed to meet the needs and wants of the child participating, which makes it a day like no other.

"We’ve been doing this now for about six years and every one of these is different," said Sharlene Perez, Department of State Health Services, Children with Special Health Care Needs employee.

"We tailor the program to what he would dig and not dig. Every agency on base loves to get involved. It’s been an awesome experience," said Capt. Winfield Scott, an 85th FTS, T-6 instructor pilot and coordinator for Edgar’s day.

For Edgar’s special day, he and his family had breakfast with Airmen from the 85th FTS,necklaces, watched a military working dog demonstration, took a tour of the fire department and air traffic control tower and explored a T-6 Texan II aircraft. He even received his own flight suit,cuff Links, cap, coin and spare patches from other squadrons.

Following his favorite meal, pepperoni pizza,bangles, Edgar could wait no longer; it was time for him to fly his own T-6 simulator.

"He’s been giving thumbs up all day," said Perez.

When asked how his day went, Edgar responded bashfully, "Good. Everything was good." For any query with respect to this article or any other content requirement, please contact Editor at htsyndication@hindustantimes.com

Three. Three in the past four years -- in 2006, 2007 and 2009.

Exeter's quest for a fourth -- this time in the newly aligned Division I level -- begins Tuesday when it hosts Hollis-Brookline.

Anna Grant, who has experienced two of those three championships, was gearing up for the season with her teammates Tuesday a]]> How many Class L championships has the Exeter High School girls soccer team won now?

Three. Three in the past four years — in 2006, 2007 and 2009.

Exeter’s quest for a fourth — this time in the newly aligned Division I level — begins Tuesday when it hosts Hollis-Brookline.

Anna Grant, who has experienced two of those three championships, was gearing up for the season with her teammates Tuesday at an afternoon practice session.

Grant is one of nine seniors on the team, five of whom are returning seniors — Allison Wilson,key rings, Connie Boutilier, Aly George, Abby Hughes and Grant.

"We should be good," says the 17-year-old from Stratham, who made a verbal commitment to play college soccer at Siena College this past July. "We lost some good players (to graduation), but we’re pretty much the same team. We should be pretty experienced."

Their success will depend upon everyone performing their roles and coming together as a team.

"I have a feeling everyone wants to win it," says Grant. "Everyone knows what it’s like to win."

Grant said Exeter wasn’t expecting to win the championship after losing pretty much its entire starting lineup from the 2008 team. The skill and play of their younger players, however, was a huge and welcome surprise. So was the team’s chemistry.

"We played really well as a team," says Grant.

Megan Curran returns for her 10th season as the head coach.

"We have a solid core group back," says Curran. "Expectations are high."

Three of those players have played on two of those championships and will continue their soccer careers at the college level — Walker (Northeastern University), George (undecided) and Grant.

"They definitely have a taste of that (championship) experience,tiffany," says Curran.

Grant, who received Honorable Mention All-State honors last year, returns as the team’s stopper,bangles, while Walker,bracelets, who received second-team recognition for her play at sweeper,Charm bracelet, returns to that all-important position, and Abby Short, who received Honorable Mention recognition last year as a freshman, returns as a striker.

George, meanwhile, is back at center midfield, and Boutilier returns at outside back.

Michaela Janowski, meanwhile, last year’s JV goalie, is a senior this season and expects to be the starting goalie.

"There’s a lot of people fighting for spots," says Curran, noting it’s still so early in the season and they haven’t had a full team practice yet this season due to injuries.

There were five injured players sitting on the sideline on Tuesday.

"Nothing serious," says Curran, noting the injuries are minor, injuries which just require rest.

"We have a long way ahead of us," adds Curran, noting that at this point of time they’re focusing on their first game of the season, and Hollis-Brookline, which has moved up from Class I to Division I, is a very good team.

"We’ll have our hands full," says Curran.

Curran is assisted by Jillian Goldman and Steve Holmes.

It was July 24, 2007, and Hollar sat down to talk with veteran Henrico homicide detective Thomas Holsinger and Kevin Harver, a forensics specialist who had collected much of the evidence surrounding Danielle Wilson's death.