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For this Mother's Day, let your gift container be a present in itself. Embellished with silk flowers and lace, this papier-mache box becomes a striking package.
When it seems as if you've exhausted all the possibilities for Mother's Day gifts (after all, just how much perfume can one woman wear?), maybe it's time to take a different approach. Everyone loves to receive a beautifully wrapped present, so why not focus on the outside of the gift this year and let it inspire what's inside?
Inexpensive papier-mache craft store boxes or hat boxes make ideal gift containers. To transform your box, measure the lid with a compass and transfer the measurement to fabric. Or simply place the lid on the underside of fabric and trace. Cut out the fabric round and attach with fabric glue. Add a contrasting fabric trim cut to the height and circumference of the lid rim. Treat the bottom section of the box the same way.
Find materials for embellishing the box just by sifting through a sewing basket and junk drawer: scraps of lace, ribbons, buttons, strands of faux pearls, charms and beads are all candidates for decoration. A hot glue gun will enable you to attach them quickly. Top with a silk flower (for instance, a gardenia to match her Mother's Day corsage). What to put inside? A new spring hat or a pretty scarf come to mind.
If you'd rather not mess around with glue, paint the box. Assemble an array of acrylic paints in the colors of your choice. Tape on stencils and sponge on motifs. For instance, stars, hearts, checks and flowers mix and match in any combination. Paint freehand details like squiggles or dots on the sides of the lid. This would make a great gift for a mom with artistic flair. Fill it with a new palette of paints and selection of brushes.
A box decorated with paint and decoupage also is charming yet easy to make. Base-paint the box with acrylics, perhaps a leaf green or a rich, dramatic brown or black. When dry, use a decoupage medium to attach and seal flower prints found in clip-art books, gift wrap or greeting cards - for instance, a dozen different roses. Stock the inside with gardener's gloves, seed packets, little plant-care books or a real bouquet. Keep in mind that if the paper you're decoupaging is too thick, you can wet the back with water and peel off extra layers. Small sharp scissors - such as decoupage, embroidery or cuticle scissors - aid in cutting out fine details like petals and leaves.
If you're working with kids to create Mother's gift, consider a more free-form design: Decoupage a pastiche of images to cover the box completely. Theme the cutouts to Mother's interests. Sheet music decoupaged on the outside could inspire a selection of CDs on the inside. A box decorated with maps might be stocked with foreign guidebooks, language tapes, and, yes, maybe even a bottle of French perfume.
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Brian Reich completed his PhD in Biostatistics in 2005 under the direction of Jim Hodges of the University Minnesota. After graduation, he joined NCSU first as a post-doc with Montse Fuentes and then as a member of the statistics faculty in 2008. His research interests include:
- Spatial statistics
- Extreme value analysis
- Quantile regression
- Variable selection and dimension reduction
For more information about this research, please view:
For a great illustration of spatial statistics research, check out this spatial visualization project by former NCSU statistics graduate student Josh Katz.
For information on undergraduate research in statistics at NCSU, check out the CSUMS website.

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I'll be honest, Don Rocko is another artist I've never heard of but that doesn't mean he's not something special to a whole lot of people. If you are rolling a Rolls Royce Drophead Coupe on rims, I'll stop and take a look!
But one sidenote, does this Drophead Coupe make him look like he's about 5 foot tall?


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The next few weeks might finally reveal what happened to the Amelia Earhart's attempted round-the-world flight 75 years ago.
A $2.2 million expedition to a remote Pacific island is on its way back to Hawaii after gathering "volumes of sonar data and many hours of high-definition video," according to Monday's online update from TIGHAR, the Delaware-based group that organized the search.
"Did TIGHAR's Niku VII expedition find the Earhart aircraft? It's far too early to say," reads the latest report at www.tighar.org. "Big pieces of airplane wreckage were not immediately apparent, but after 75 years in Nikumaroro's severe and unstable underwater environment, that is hardly surprising. Whatever survives is hard to find."


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Two Wits Regale Reporters after Golf Hall of Fame Ceremony
Two figures from each side of the Atlantic Ocean known for their rapier-like wit and golf commentary were inducted in Monday's World Golf Hall of Fame ceremony. Veteran BBC broadcaster Peter Alliss and the inimitable American sportswriter Dan Jenkins were among five inductees in the 2012 class; the others included golfers Phil Mickelson, Hollis Stacy and Sandy Lyle.
Though Alliss is known perhaps more for his trenchant commentary, he was a pretty good player in his day, making eight straight Ryder Cup teams as a British professional between 1953 and 1969. Jenkins, who covered a variety of sports with a main focus on golf, was recognized for his outstanding writing career.
"How could anybody get it so right, so fast, so good?" asked Jenkins' editor at Golf Digest, Jerry Tarde, who introduced Jenkins during the ceremony. "He is golf's most influential writer."
Here's what the Alliss and Jenkins - two of golf's all-time raconteurs - had to tell reporters following their big night at the St. Johns County Convention Center in St. Augustine, Fla.
MODERATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, our last two inductees of the day. We have Peter Alliss and we have Dan Jenkins, two legends.
PETER ALLISS: May I just warn you, ladies and gentlemen, that I haven't done this for 60 odd years, since the old king died, in fact. So if I appear to be a little bit slow and a little bit awkward, you'll have to excuse me. I say no more.
Q. You gentlemen got to see your exhibits behind glass today. Any profound thoughts on seeing your life before your eyes?
PETER ALLISS: Well, I think it's one of the most impressive facilities I've ever seen. I'm not saying that because I'm here and you're all here and it's all being recorded for posterity. We have nothing like this in Britain. Your country is a little bit bigger than ours, a little bit more expansive than ours. We have the museum at the R&A which is about a quarter of the size or less than that, which is interesting, full of goody things and nice things and interesting things, but I think the World Hall of Fame here and everything that goes on, the complex, the golf courses, the hotel, the clubhouses, the whole facility, the way it's run, is quite magnificent.
My wife did a wonderful job in finding any bits of memorabilia that I'd got left because I stopped playing sensibly in 1974, and so I didn't have much left. But the interesting thing, and some of you may wonder why my golf bag is all battered. I had eight Ryder Cup bags. But we used them. We didn't have a whole lot of things given. Now, a lot of the golf bags in there, the Ryder Cup bags, have only been used for four or five days. Mine was used for about five years, so it looks awful.
And the shoes, you actually wore the shoes and you wore the sweaters because we didn't have anything else, and we wore them with great pride. And to see the bits and pieces that my wife has put together, it makes you very proud of your family and what you've done in your life and what your father did. The only reason I went into the game of golf was because my father was a golf professional, and I followed on. It's a very sobering and a very humbling thing to see, particularly when it's been done so beautifully.
DAN JENKINS: Well, first of all, I feel like I ought to be sitting out there, where I usually am. But I'm delighted, of course, to be here. The thing that I'm pleased most about is that on that walkway out there where you have your signature, they had the good sense to put mine next to Ben Hogan, which is probably the main reason I'm here, really, or one of the main reasons. I mean, it's great fun.
I'll tell you, Deane Beman and Tim Finchem have really done a great job of getting this thing off the ground and getting it done. I've been frankly overwhelmed at what it's become. I'm not often overwhelmed, but I am here about all this and all the exhibits, and I love all the history part of it more than the showcases that those of us in here now have. But just to go through all that room with all the history, I'm still astounded at how they can get such clarity on those photographs that they blow up to the ceiling. Of course I don't know anything about mechanics or anything else. But it's a great experience, and it's fun, and like I say, when I walked through there, I feel like I'm walking through there like one of you guys, which I'm really a part of, and the fact that they wanted to take a living writer in, I'll represent all of you who are still living.
Q. Dan, did you go visit the exhibits of the other Fort Worth guys who are in there?
DAN JENKINS: Well, I glanced at Byron's driver and some of Ben's stuff, and I was amazed at what they had, still have, of Ben's, because most of his stuff is in the USGA and also at Colonial and Shady Oaks. There's a little bit left. But somebody stole enough of it to put in here. By the way, there's a great set of clubs in Ben's locker. They're First Flight irons in a little bitty round bag, which no wonder he couldn't make it on the Tour that early with that kind of equipment. But this is before he signed with MacGregor, but it's worth looking at. You look at that and you think, Ben Hogan used those? Bring him on, I'll play him.
Q. This is what we asked some of the other ones. Was there a single item that you found for the exhibits for both of you that triggered a special memory for you or particular memory?
DAN JENKINS: Of my stuff? Well, my TCU golf letter and my high school basketball letter is hanging in there. That was one of the things I wanted to get rid of. But they just picked and chose. They took everything they wanted, and some of it makes sense.
PETER ALLISS: There's not an awful lot of - the Ryder Cup bag, I think, from 1957 because that was one of the years we won. We should have won in 1953, and we should have certainly won in 1949. But we didn't, and so we were on this run of losing, and in '57 we managed to win. So that golf bag holds very special memories for me. But Dan mentioned it last night, that probably one of the most poignant things in the exhibition is the uniform of Larry Nelson's when he performed his gallant duties in the Vietnam War. I think one tends to forget, if you go back, I was only nine, ten when World War II started, and of course many thousands of men and women who were either in business or sport or whatever, it blighted the lives of millions of young people, and there in relatively modern times, there is a man's uniform who really was part of a bloody campaign. It makes you just think that there's more to knocking the little white ball about.
DAN JENKINS: My favorite picture in there is Bobby Jones putting on a green, I don't know which hole it is. It's Sandwich, but which hole, the big mountain?
PETER ALLISS: Third, fourth.
DAN JENKINS: It had to be a Walker Cup because he never won the Open Championship at Sandwich. But it's a great, wonderful picture. It covers the whole wall. That's one of my favorite things in there.
Q. A question for both of you guys. Your careers have spanned six decades, and I'm curious how much nowadays, what you do for a living, how much has it changed from when you started doing it six decades ago to now?
PETER ALLISS: Well, you can't compare then and now. As I said, I only came into golf because my father was a golf professional, and I couldn't do anything else. I left school when I was 15 and went as his assistant and followed on from there, and golf professionals or people in sport weren't idolized as they are today. Football, or soccer, we call it football, they were idolized because it was a game for the workers, and they used to get big teams, Everton, Liverpool, they used to get 60,000, 70,000 people, home games every two weeks, and the players were paid £8 a week, and they were performing to audiences of 70,000 or 80,000, and they had to go to work on the bus and clean their own shoes.
It was a different world, a different time. And you try and explain it to young people today, they don't know what you're talking about. Even my children, we've had to - we sit down to eat at our house, which is we think quite civilized, but a lot of people think it's very old fashioned to sit around the table, and we talk about things. Our postage rates are going up alarmingly in Britain. No one will write letters soon. No one will be able to afford to write letters. I said to one of them sitting here, my senior son sitting here, and I said, how many letters do you think you could send when I was 16 years of age for a pound? And they thought for a minute, and they said, oh, 10, 12. And I said, 240. So they looked at you as you were a bit potty, you were a bit crazy. But that's how many pence there were in a pound. You could send a Christmas card for a penny, and now you can send one. So if you're looking for something to illustrate inflation, that's it. 240 letters for a pound; today, one. Thank you.
DAN JENKINS: The biggest change for me in covering the majors is that I used to park at the clubhouse and the players used to talk to me. (Laughter.)
PETER ALLISS: There's a lot of truth to that, really. There was - it's very easy to put fancy words on it, camaraderie, friendship, all that bullshit really, but it was like that. And the golf writers when Dan began, and I was there at that time playing at the highest level, we used to go out with them in the evening if they were in the same hotel, and we used to have a few drinks or a talk, and we'd put a few of them to bed sometimes and sometimes they'd put a few of us to bed. But it was never written about. It was never a great thing. Today's keyhole journalism I think is one of the sad things not only about sport but about life, that somebody can be a promising young person, boy, girl, whatever, and the editor in today's society wants to find out if they ever did anything naughty when they were young. Did they ever steal something from Woolworth's, a packet of sweeties, or did they ever have a boy boy relationship when they were at college or girl girl relationship, and have you got any photos. That's the way it is.
DAN JENKINS: We did a dog and pony show yesterday afternoon. We got a big laugh when we got the question what do you think of the belly putter, and I said, the person who invented the belly putter ought to be in prison, and then Peter said -
PETER ALLISS: Well, I tried to make it quite serious. I said, well, I've known Dan for 50 odd years or whatever, and I said, I've disagreed with him a few times before but not too often. But on this occasion I just disagree with him because he's talking rubbish. Belly putters, sending a fellow to prison. He should be flogged first and then sent to prison.
DAN JENKINS: That's our best sound bite.
Q. Dan, I was just wondering what that bling ring is on your hand, if you won a Super Bowl I didn't know about or what.
DAN JENKINS: I'm going to take it off. TCU Rose Bowl.
Q. Have you noticed a difference how touring pros play from the beginning of your careers until now?
PETER ALLISS: You can't compare then and now. I've just tried to explain footballers getting £8 a week. It's a great thing. How old are you, 15, 16? Well, when I was your age, it was a great thing to save up to buy a bicycle, and if you were a precocious child, boy, girl, at ice skating, golf, whatever, whatever, then you might do a paper round, as well, earning a pound a week delivering papers at 6:00 in the morning. You saved your money and you bought a bicycle and then you got a little bit older and you saved up and bought a wreckedy rackedy secondhand car.
And now if you have a precocious talent and you're 18 or 19, you go to Italy and guy a Ferrari and you spend $250,000 on a car because it's there. Those are the opportunities that are offered today in a lot of sports. I don't really follow American sports, the three great sports here. But I read about contracts for millions of dollars, some lads from Puerto Rico or somewhere, 20, 21 years of age getting millions, and it's very hard to comprehend how they look after that money. Is somebody helping them with it? It's one of the great difficulties. It's very easy spending other people's money, and it's very hard to look out for your own money, particularly if you have a lot. If you're a bit careful like Seve Ballesteros, a dear friend of mine, he was the tightest duck assed fellow I ever knew in my life, but I loved him dearly. But he had millions. He had two cars in his garage. He had a Lamborghini and a Ferrari, and I think they both had about 3,000 miles on the clock. And a Range Rover. I'm going back 12 years. He said, "They use too much petrol. I can't afford that petrol." And he was the 840th richest person in the world or whatever it was at that time.
So it's just a different world. We were given, when I was a good player, three golf balls. I worked for Slazenger, but there were Titleist and MacGregor. Three golf balls for two rounds of golf the first two rounds, and we played on Wednesdays and Thursdays, 18 holes, and if you qualified you played 36 holes on Friday. 36 holes. And you were given an extra three golf balls. Now I think I'm right, every locker has three or four dozen balls in every week, six gloves or whatever. It's just a different world, and I just hope they enjoy it and they appreciate it and they write an occasional Twitter thank you now and again to somebody.
DAN JENKINS: I can't speak about hard times because I come from a very wealthy, highly educated family and I just do this for a lark.
PETER ALLISS: And do it very well.
DAN JENKINS: I will tell you what I think the difference is. I believe, and I said this yesterday, I believe that the athletic heart can transfer eras. It can move from one decade to the other. You don't know what's inside - Trevino said this better than anybody. You never know what's in a guy's heart. How big a winner is he going to be? I don't know because I don't know what's in his heart.
You don't know that about people. But if you're a competitor, if you're a great athlete, you can move from one era to the other because you're still people, and it just depends on - the thing I've always thought, and I don't know whether it's true or not, but everybody wants to win and everybody says they want to win, but the great champions are those who absolutely despise the idea of losing, and I think that's what Ben Hogan had. I think that's what Arnold had. Jack certainly had it. I frankly don't know that Tiger Woods has it or not because he's never had to come from behind. Every major he won, he was in front, and everybody else, most of them dropped dead. So we'll see.
PETER ALLISS: It's very interesting because I played against some of the toughest golfers, although I can't speak about other sports, but the great thing about the great champions as far as I was concerned, apart from one or two, they were gracious to an opponent. They were gracious. And if somebody played a good shot, they weren't against saying, "good shot." They didn't go around, boo, like that, without communicating. And it's no weakness to show courtesy to an opponent. I think Billie Jean King summed it up at this year's Wimbledon talking about great players, and she said, the nearly players are frightened of winning and the great players are frightened of losing, and that summed it up.
DAN JENKINS: A lot of people, they want the money but they don't want the burden of carrying around that No.1 thing. That's what I think I've observed over all these years. Some of them love it, thrive on it like Jack and Arnold did, like Ben and Byron and Sam did. I'm sure Bobby Jones did. But they carry it well. They can't imagine not being the guy, right? How many guys out there today want that? I don't know. That's why we all cover the game. Who doesn't?
PETER ALLISS: American golf to me, and I've played in many, is Billy Casper. They all talk about the big three. Casper was one of those just behind, and I think I'm right, and Doug Sanders was another one, I think they won, or Casper certainly won over a period of two or three years, he won as many if not more tournaments himself than the big three won collectively, and it's all sort of forgotten or not remembered for whatever reason. And it's quite remarkable really. Dan puts it very well when he says that the great, great players had some desire, and it wasn't always a bullish bullying desire. Some of them were very gracious. But by God, they were as tough as old nails.
DAN JENKINS: The other thing is that I like this gracious thing, too, because we've own known the great champions and the ones that we've known were the most gracious losers, and I've always thought, it's easy to be a gracious loser when you've won 18 majors like Jack. He's a great loser. His best interviews were always when he lost.
PETER ALLISS: But equally, this is where, again, rather like my flogging, I think Jack was a gracious winner.
DAN JENKINS: He was.
PETER ALLISS: You can be a pain in the ass and win everything, and you can be gracious when you lose everything. There's a gracious loser and there's all the old silly clichés about show me a good loser and I'll show you a good loser and all that old nonsense. But gracious winners, it's hard not to be yah da da da da, and you're a pain in the neck to other people. It's very hard to be gracious. You know you've done well, you accept the accolades, but you get on with it. Next week is another week.
DAN JENKINS: The other thing is that in a sense, and this is probably the secret that all of us in the press have kept to ourselves all these years, that it might be easier to win majors than it is something else because there are fewer people in the field who think they should win a major. There might just be 20 guys out there who think they deserve to win a U.S. Open, but anybody can win a Tour tournament. Look at the record book. You can prove that.
Q. Peter, I'd be curious your views on the Ryder Cup just from the perspective of somebody who played on a team back when Britain never won -
PETER ALLISS: I beg your pardon? When Britain never won?
Q. Dan, interject here, please.
PETER ALLISS: Ryder Cup has become one of the biggest sporting occasions in the world, and a lot of people talk and write about it as if it happened when Britain encompassed the matches with Europe. And I remember it very well when the first time we had Europeans playing. I think it was either '79 or '81. '81 was at Walton Heath, and it was not a success. '81 was - you had probably, arguably, one of the best teams ever assembled. But up until the last day, the home team was holding its ground. I think there was only a couple of points in it, which is, again, conveniently forgotten.
But you crucified us on the last day. I think you won - if there were 10 matches you certainly won nine of them. And that sort of led to sort of complacency, and I think Jack Nicklaus is one of the people who went to Lord Darby who was the president of our association and said, these matches are becoming very boring and we're winning too often, and you've won three or four over the last 40 years, but it's not enough, and what can be done about it, otherwise people here would lose interest, sponsors would lose interest or whatever. And that's how the European boys became involved.
And they went on from there and started producing young players. At the moment the European - you all talk about Faldo and all the rest over here and a few others, there are probably 10 youngsters in Europe, 16, 17, 18 that have the possibility of becoming the next Rickie Fowler, the next McIlroy. But I think the Ryder Cup is okay. It gets a little bit too passionate at times and a bit too sort of sycophantic and a bit too rah rah rah. It's only a game, and everyone says there's no money involved. There's millions involved. They say the players don't get anything.
I think about six years ago, the women, I think, on our team, I think they had about £20,000 of goodies each, have a dress, have some shoes, have a handbag. So it wasn't for nothing. And the players would get £5,000 to give to their charity or whatever it was, and they all pretended they played for nothing. But I still think it's a wonderful event. It's very nerve racking, and I think that the players battle to get into the teams, and I think that's a good thing. And I think Europe has brightened it up a lot.
DAN JENKINS: What was it like when you were playing and losing all the time?
PETER ALLISS: Well, I played on eight teams and we won a couple and we halved one. We should have - '49, we should have killed you in '49. '53 we could have won. I took four from the edge of the last green. Bernard three putted and we lost that won. And we won in '57. But you were so much better than us. We had funny rules and regulations. You couldn't take your wife. You came over with your team in the days when they came by sea, and the wives were all wearing beautiful clothes and fur coats when fur coats were acceptable, and they were all elegant and coiffured and beautiful fingernails, and ours had a cardigan on and flat shoes and three kids trailing in the background with snotty noses, and so it looked very different. You overwhelmed us with your equipment. It all looked better than us. We were really second rate citizens or were made to feel that way through no fault of yours. But that was just the culture of the time.
DAN JENKINS: You know, you used to have ugly shirts, but I think we're in danger of catching up with that now with all the new designers getting involved. Our colors used to be red, white and blue, but I don't know what they are now.
Q. Drawing on your collective wisdom, does Tiger win five more major championships?
DAN JENKINS: No. Next question?
Q. Can you talk a little bit about your presenters tonight, and do you know what they're going to say and how they're going to present you, and if you were presenting them, what would you say about them from a personal perspective?
PETER ALLISS: I'd have pretty well nothing to say about mine, Terry Jastrow, who I've known since he was a boy. He was Henry Longhurst's gofer. I first met him at Medinah in 1975 or something like that. He was just out of college and drove Longhurst around, and that's when I met him, and he went on to become a producer of golf for ABC, married Anne Archer, the film actress, 36, 37 years ago, which I find hard to believe, and live in Los Angeles, and he started he worked and produced the Jack Nicklaus Productions golf business, which did Shell, then he went on to Gaylord Promotions. He's just written a play which is going to start up in London, story of Jane Fonda and her battles against the Vietnam War. Very interesting, good friend, pushy, very masterful. I said to him once, Terry, I really do in a male way love you dearly, but I know, I just know if you and I were in a belt and the sea got rough and there was one lifebelt, I would not get it. That was the end of that. Work it out.
DAN JENKINS: Back to Tiger for a minute, it's going to be a great story if he does win a major because he'll be the first guy that ever did it with three golf swings. It'll be a great story for all of us. We had Oliver Moody do it with a cross handed putting stroke and we had Keegan Bradley do it with the belly putter last year. We had Hale Irwin do it with contacts, as I recall, contact lenses. But a guy has never done it with three golf swings.
PETER ALLISS: I find as an old player and the son of one of the best players of his time, who was also a very good teacher in a simplistic way, I do not understand the thinking of Tiger Woods. I think his golfing brain for some reason or other is completely addled. Perhaps the good part of his brain for a period drained from here (indicating side of head) down to here (indicating lap), and that caused him great distress, probably a modicum of enjoyment at the time. But he's gone. And for somebody who can play and did play, he hit a few wild shots, but he was Gulliver in a land of Lilliputians. We're talking about Nicklaus, Palmer, Player. There was Floyd and Trevino and Casper and another 10, 12 competitors. He didn't have one real for 10 years. He didn't have a real chaser, a real competitor. He dominated everyone. He frightened everybody. Then he gets into this trouble with the ladies, and seemingly he loses it, and then he has to start again. I'm not saying I'm a great teaching guru. I'd love to have a half an hour. If I couldn't put him right - if he can get this right, if he couldn't be put right in an hour, I'd go home and stick my head in a bucket of ice water, because to me it's so simple. You stand and you swing.
Last year's Masters, I've known Arnold Palmer since he was a boy, and we've had some great battles, and we were sitting at the end of the new practice ground at Augusta, and there 50 yards away is Tiger Woods at the green nearest the television facility being shown how to chip. You must do it this way, this way. And I said to Arnold, are we seeing - are we going? He was the greatest chipper in the world for a period, and this guy is teaching -no, don't do it that way. It's like Pavarotti saying I'm fed up being a tenor; I think I'm going to sing as a baritone. Land sake. That's as stupid as that in my opinion. That's not a criticism, it's an opinion. But that's why he's fuddled and befuddled. As Dan says, three swings, Gary Player, talking to him this afternoon, doing all these sort of things. Trevino played that way and thank God never had a lesson, otherwise we never would have heard of him maybe. But he's gone. He's gone at this moment.
MODERATOR: Guys, thank you very much for coming out today.
The transcript for the above interview is courtesy of ASAP Sports.
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American Legion to hold memorabilia sale
Post 617 of The American Legion will host a breakfast and sports memorabilia sale 9 a.m. Sunday at their location, 901 S. Market St., South Williamsport. A full menu breakfast will be available for members and the general public. A sports memorabilia vendor will be on hand to sell items from many different professional sports teams. Collectors of any era are welcome.
Steve Hunter of Flashback Entertainment will be playing music. NHL Hockey and the start of the season is available at the club and members can enjoy all the regular season games there. For more information, call Chris at 327-0255.
Camp Cadet to host Service Night
The Susquehanna Valley Law Enforcement Camp Cadet and Applebee's will host a Celebrity Service Night 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, at the Lewisburg Applebee's, 300 International Drive. All tips received will go directly to the Camp Cadet program. A tip of $10 will give you a coupon towards a visit to the Lewisburg Apple-bee's. Camp Cadet is funded through donations from the industry and private citizens throughout the region.
Relay event to hold 'Relay Idol' contest
The Relay For Life of Jersey Shore will hold a 'Relay Idol' sing-off competition. The competition will be held February through April. Semi-finals will be held May 10 and finals May 11 at the Relay event. The winner will receive a bus trip for two to New York City. Registration is now through Feb. 15 and there is a fee to enter. Registration forms are available online at relayforlife.org/pajerseyshore or at the American Cancer Society office, 1948 E. Third St.
Muncy Public Library to celebrate Dr. Seuss
March 1 is Read Across America Day and the staff at the Muncy Public Library invites parents and their children age 3 to 6 to help celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday. Louise Fulmer will be the guest reader for storytime from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Registration is required. This is the second year that CLUST Retired, a part of PSEA Retired, is promoting the celebration.
Their goal is to enhance literacy and encourage young children and their families to read together, to enjoy their local libraries and to have books in the home, Mrs. Fulmer said.
Each child who attends will receive his or her own book to keep, courtesy of CLUST Retired and the Friends of the Muncy Public Library.
To register, call the library at 546-5014.


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Americans relearned a valuable lesson last week: Don't mess with moms.
After political commentator Hilary Rosen said Ann Romney, wife of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee and mother of five boys, had "never worked a day in her life," people rightly came to Ann's defense from around the country and across the political spectrum.
But somehow all that enthusiasm for moms never went beyond the superficial.
One of the biggest issues for American mothers is the lack of mandated maternity leave and pay in this country.
Women who have babies in 178 other nations have a right to maternity pay — typically three months to a year's pay at half or more of their salary.
Not here.
The U.S. and Australia are the only two major economies in the world that offer no guaranteed maternity pay, although in Australia new mothers can take up to a year off with a guaranteed job upon their return.
American moms don't even get that.
The last law dealing with these issues was passed in 1993 — the Family and Medical Leave Act.
It allows women and men up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for a family member or post-pregnancy or adoption.
The problem is only about 60 percent of workers are covered by the act because people have to work for a year or more and for a company with 50 or more full-time employees.
Even if a woman is eligible, sometimes she cannot take the full time because she needs wages to support her family.
Some women are able to use short-term disability insurance or vacation and sick days to get paid leave, but those benefits are not available to all.
Census data show that a quarter of mothers return to work in less than two months. An astonishing 10 percent of new mothers return to work within four weeks of giving birth.
These statistics should make the nation cringe even more so than Rosen's ill-chosen words.
Scientific studies — and plenty of anecdotal evidence — clearly show the benefits when parents, especially mothers, spend time with infants.
Mothers who do not work during the initial weeks of a child's life have a stronger bond with the child and are more likely to get their child needed immunizations and other medical attention.
Supporting mothers should be one of those "no brainer" issues that unites Republicans and Democrats.
Republicans tout their belief in traditional family values, and Democrats promote equal pay laws such as the Lilly Ledbetter Act.
Even something as simple as maternity pay for six weeks would make a huge difference for many women, especially poor women who often do not receive many vacation days or benefits at their jobs.
Critics — mainly in the business community — claim this would be an exorbitant expense.
But large corporations that have maternity (and paternity) leave policies find that it's revenue neutral because they don't have to hire new employees when parents are able to return to work within a reasonable time frame.
Ann Romney did a fine job raising her five sons, just as Michelle Obama is doing a fine job raising her two daughters. They are good moms who are part of tiring campaigns.
But what we should be asking is how can we help other mothers in this nation — those who are not as fortunate to live in the White House or have a millionaire husband — be able to do the best for their families?
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Three Tips for Taking Fabulous Pictures of Kids at the BeachAlli Worthington
Beaches + Kids = Great Photo Opportunities!
Beaches are happy places, so kids are happy people, thus photographers have great little models. Follow these tips and you'll have some frame-worthy beach photos.
1. Use your flash. I know, it's sunny so you don't need it. But, see…it's sunny, so you need it! Wha?
Bright sunlight means shadows, and shadows on faces mean you can't see those cute eyes. Put your flash on and it will lighten up those shadows (pros call this a "fill flash, because it's filling out the shadows).
Now you just need to try to get the kids positioned so that they aren't squinting.
2. Keep that horizon line level. Or not. Before you snap that photo, look at the water's horizon line…make sure it's straight across from left to right. A wee tilt to the left or right on a photo is discombobulating. Nobody wants to be discombobulated! So don't discombobulate; level that horizon! NOW.
Notice I said a "wee" tilt. A dramatic tilt done intentionally for perspective can have a really cool effect.
3. Ignore the water. When taking beach shots, it's tempting to always include the water in the images. For good reason…I mean, it's THE BEACH.
However, a close cropped photo of kids playing in the sand can have great visual impact.
They still tell a beach story, just in an unexpected way (great way to document a sandy love note, too).
*Bonus Pro Tip. Don't tell anyone I told you this, but a professional photographer told me that pros like to shoot in the hour before sunset. The light at dusk is soft, the water glows, and the sky is filled with drama. Super filled with win.
*Bonus Bonus Pro Tip. Polarizing filters. Depending upon the angle of the filter to the reflective surface, a polarizing filters linearly BLAH BLAH BLAH. They reduce glare and deepen colors; great for shooting on a sunny day at the beach. Yay!
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England: Our windmills are bloody enormous!
The Guardian reports on a new horizontal axis windmill, that promises to help the UK satisfy its ambitious wind goals.
These are still on the drawing board, but are the latest in an attempt to create bigger and less maintenance-intensive windmills. This design is smart as it places moving parts at the bottom, rather than the top. Who really wants to do maintenance 144 meters above the North Sea? Add to the fact the the size means they generate roughly three times the power of a traditional wind turbine.
We think they're pretty awesome. Who knows whether they'll get over recent NATO concerns about wind farms and Radar.
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Seminole County voters have passed a countywide 1-cent sales tax increase.
Officials said 52 percent voted in favor of the referendum and 48 percent voted against it.
Some leaders said the tax will raise $63 million a year to go toward improvements to the county's infrastructure and schools.
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For Mary Wilson, one of the original Supremes, taping the Motown Records' 25th-anniversary special that airs this week on NBC brought back what was best and worst about the group's glory days. On the positive side, the show reunited Wilson and fellow Supremes Diana Ross and Cindy Birdsong for the first time in 13 years to sing their signature ballad, Someday We'll Be Together. Less delightfully for Wilson, Ross departed from the script to cut short their rendition after just one verse and invited the rest of the Motown gang to join them onstage. "I felt very upset that she didn't give the same importance to the Supremes that I did," says Wilson. Moments later Ross raised more eyebrows when she visibly shoved Wilson aside while introducing Motown Godfather Berry Gordy. "People took it as a personal thing, which it wasn't," says Wilson of the faux pas. "But it was very unprofessional."
Wilson, now 39, may have lost the spotlight to Ross again, but she hopes to emerge from the shadows with a memoir due next year, to be called Reflections: My Life As a Supreme. The former backup singer, who these days leads a new Supremes trio that has done well in Europe and the U.S., kept diaries from the early days until the group's breakup in 1976. She promises a tell-all. "It's my viewpoint; it's what I saw, what I lived," says Wilson.
The success of Dreamgirls—the Broadway musical apparently drawn from the Supremes saga—strengthened Wilson's resolve to write her book. She saw the stage production twice and cried both times. She dismissed most of it as generic rags-to-gladrags puffery but was struck by similarities of the character Effie to Supreme original Florence Ballard. Effie is the "ugly duckling" lead singer with an extraordinary voice who is maneuvered out of the limelight by a svelte, ambitious beauty. Ballard left the Supremes in 1967 (Birdsong replaced her) and after years of poverty died of a heart attack in Detroit in 1976. Wilson is shrewdly saving the intimate details of Ballard's fall from grace for her book, but she admits, "It was a heavy situation and possibly one of the most devastating things that happened to me and Diana."
Another prominent figure in Wilson's account will be Motown founder Gordy. As the Svengali who signed the trio in 1962 and supplied the best tunes and prestige concert bookings, Berry is assumed to have been behind renaming the group Diana Ross and the Supremes in 1967. Ross, who was Gordy's longtime lady, went solo three years later.
Even though Wilson left the Motown roster in 1979, she prefers to look on the sunny side of her experience. "I get very upset when people think it was all ugly," she bristles. "It wasn't. I was happy to be a part of it." She loved the sequins, bouffant hairdos and attention, but says of Berry's single-minded elevation of Ross, "I think I would have been a bit more sensitive to the needs of others."
Wilson's book is part of her one-woman campaign to be recognized as more than the girl who sang the best "oooohs" in the business. After the group broke up, she and two new recruits toured sporadically as "The Supremes with Mary Wilson." That led to an "expensive legal battle" with Motown. She finally won co-ownership of the name with Gordy in an out-of-court settlement.
Like Ross, Mary Wilson grew up poor in Detroit's Brewster Housing Project. One of her earliest performing memories is of an elementary school talent show where she sang a sassy version of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers' I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent. She made good on that claim when her group had a No. 1 hit in 1964 with Where Did Our Love Go, when she was only 20.
Recently divorced after her nine-year marriage to former Supremes road manager Pedro Ferrer, Mary has custody of their children: Turkessa, 8, Pedro, 5, and Rafael, 4. She lives with them in her mother's modest ranch-style house in the Studio City area of Los Angeles; Grandma cares for the kids while Mary is working. That's pretty constant these days as she tries to stir up enough career momentum to snag a recording contract and break out of the "oldies" circuit. Says Wilson: "I'll be damned if I am going to end up like Flo."
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Family Feud Fun Day set for McVeytown
McVEYTOWN - Family Feud Fun Day is set to be held from 2-5 p.m. today at McVeytown United Methodist Church. There will be a scavenger hunt, games, music, crafts and prizes to help families learn more about Jesus. Dinner and awards will be held from 5-5:30 p.m.
New Life hosting hymn sing today
MIFFLINTOWN - A hymn sing will be held at 7 p.m. today at New Life Assembly of God Church, 1578 Cedar Springs Road, Mifflintown. Call 436-8174 for more information.
Churches to present special musicians
YEAGERTOWN - Yeagertown United Methodist Church and Rhodes Memorial Church will host special music by Miranda Shoop at 9:15 a.m. Sunday at Yeagertown UMC, on Mann Avenue in Yeagertown. Lynn Phillips, on piano, will provide music at the same time and place on Sept. 7.
Grove Memorial UMC to host special music
LEWISTOWN - Grove Memorial United Methodist Church, in Lewistown, will host special music by Matthew Proud at 10:45 a.m. Sunday.
Community worship set for county fair
PORT ROYAL - The Juniata County Fair Community Worship Service is set for 4:30 p.m. Sunday under a large tent located on the upper Juniata County Fairgrounds. Guests should bring a lawn chair. A free-will offering will be collected to benefit local charities. After initially paying the admission fee to enter the fairgrounds, individuals who are seated under the tent for the entire service will be reimbursed for the admission fee.
Hymn sing set for Bannerville church
BANNERVILLE - A hymn sing will be held at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at Bannerville Church of the Brethren. A time of fellowship will be held after the service.
Way Bible hosting Prophecy Sunday
McVEYTOWN - The Way Bible Church will host Prophecy Sunday this weekend. "The Coming Antichrist and How Isis Relates to His Agenda" is the subject of a service set for 10:30 a.m. Sunday at the church, located at 2777 Ferguson Valley Road, McVeytown. "The Mark of the Beast: Its Popularity, Purpose and Punishment," is the subject of the 6:30 p.m. service. Call (814) 542-8254 for more information.
Joy Seekers traveling to various locations
LEWISTOWN - Joy Seekers Bible Study will not meet on Monday, in observance of Labor Day. In the weeks following the holiday, the group will be traveling to meet at various locations. Meetings are at 6 p.m. weekly on Mondays. For more information, call 543-3324. Joy Seekers is a weekly Bible study to encourage building relationships among women.
Classes forming for Disciple Bible study
McVEYTOWN - Disciple Bible Study classes are forming for the fall. Classes will be held from 6-8:30 p.m. weekly on Tuesdays at the McVeytown United Methodist Church. Classes begin in September. Call 899-7793 or see the church's Facebook page for more information.
MOPS group starts back up Tuesday
MIFFLINTOWN - Mothers of Preschoolers will be held from 9:30-11:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Family Ministry Center at First Baptist Church, on Route 35 in Mifflintown. Enjoy breakfast with other moms while listening to inspiring speakers, participating in small-group discussions and getting creative with crafts and games. All moms of children birth through kindergarten are welcome to join. Mifflintown MOPS will meet at the same time every first Tuesday of the month through May. Childcare is provided. Visit mifflintownmops.wordpress.com for more information.
Adult Bible study to begin at Sacred Heart
LEWISTOWN - An adult Bible study will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Sacred Heart Church business office, 9 N. Brown St., Lewistown. Classes will be held weekly at the same time and place. The subject of the study will be David.
Fowler leading study on experiencing God
McALISTERVILLE - Graham Fowler, pastor of Lost Creek and McCoysville Presbyterian churches, will lead a 13-week study, "Experiencing God," beginning in September at both churches. An organizational meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Lost Creek Presbyterian Church, in McAlisterville, and a second organizational meeting is set for 6:30 p.m. Sept. 11 at McCoysville Presbyterian Church. Meetings will continue weekly at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays and 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays, respectively. Participants need a workbook, which costs $15. Call 463-3138 to register.
Fall Festival set for White Memorial
SIGLERVILLE - A Fall Festival is scheduled to be held from 4-8 p.m. Sept. 6 at White Memorial Congregational Church, of Siglerville. R.B. Powell and the Unusual Suspects will perform beginning at 6 p.m. There will be free food and games. A donation box will be available at the food stand and entertainment stage. Guests should bring lawn chairs. Contributions will be given to Shelter Services in Lewistown.
'Heaven Is For Real' to be viewed Sept. 6
MILROY - "Heaven Is For Real" will be shown at 5 p.m. Sept. 6 at Milroy Alliance Church. A picnic will be held after the movie.
Highland Park to bless backpacks
LEWISTOWN - A Blessing of the Backpacks is set for 9:30 a.m. Sept. 7 at Highland Park Presbyterian Church, on the corner of Electric Avenue and Sixth Street. Teachers and students are invited to bring their backpack or school bag to worship.
Bonson and Coffee Run to play set
REEDSVILLE - Joe Bonson and Coffee Run will play an acoustic set at 10 a.m. Sept. 7 at Kish Valley Grace Brethren Church, Reedsville.
Willow providing hope through worship
LEWISTOWN - Daryl Willow will provide hope and encouragement through music, testimony and preaching God's word during a morning worship service set for 10:35 a.m. Sept. 7 at Maitland Church of the Brethren, at the intersection of Crossover Road and Route 522 North, in Lewistown.
Gospel concert set for St. Paul's church
MIDDLEBURG - A gospel music concert is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. Sept. 7 at St. Paul's (Erdley's) Lutheran Church, in Middleburg. Barry Boney and "Saving Grace" will perform first. "His Servants" is set to begin at 4 p.m.
The event will be held outside in the picnic grove. Guests should bring lawn chairs. Refreshments will be served. Call (570) 374-5535 for more information.
Family presenting musical program
LEWISTOWN - The Thiel family will present a musical program at 7 p.m. Sept. 7 at Mattawana Mennonite Church.
Church to show 'God's Not Dead'
MIFFLINTOWN - The movie "God's Not Dead" will be shown during family movie night at First Baptist Church, set for 5:15 p.m. Sept. 21 in the Family Ministry Center in Mifflintown. A free meal of pulled pork sandwiches, wings, chips and beverages will be provided.
His Servants singing at Stony Run church
KELLERVILLE - His Servants will sing at 6 p.m. Sept. 21 at Stony Run Mission church.
'Turning Point' to visit Richfield church
RICHFIELD - Turning Point, a vocal group from Eastern University, in St. Davids, will perform at 7 p.m. Sept. 21 at Niemonds Independent Church, on Route 35, in Richfield. Call 694-3700 or visit www.niemonds.org for more information.
LIFT will gather Sept. 17 at Lost Creek
OAKLAND MILLS - Ladies in Fellowship Together will meet from 9-11 a.m. Sept. 17 at Lost Creek Mennonite Church, in Oakland Mills.
LIFT is a time of fellowship for women. Childcare is provided for infants up to age 5, with activities for their age groups. For more information, visit www.JuniataLIFT.blogspot.com or find Juniata Ladies in Fellowship Together on Facebook.
Blessing of animals to be held Oct. 4
LEWISTOWN - Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, in Lewistown, will celebrate the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi with a blessing of the animals. All are invited to bring their family pets to be blessed. The event will take place at 11 a.m. Oct. 4 on the rectory lawn in front of the church.
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visiting Lewistown
LEWISTOWN - Hearts & Hands Woman's Ministry, for women ages 18 and older, will host author and speaker Marie Monville Oct. 24 at the Pine Glen CMA Family Life Center. Dinner will be held at 6 p.m., and Monville will speak at 7:15 p.m. Cost is $11. Reservations are due by Oct. 12. Call Deb Mitchell at 242-4417 or Kimbra Weaver at (814) 542-9969 to sign up.


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Coachella 2014 - Weekend 2
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Coachella began back in 1999 and, sadly, as a single two day weekend (and in October at that). Then, and you may find this amazing, there was no Coachella in 2000 and when it reappeared in 2001, it had shrunk to a single day. It was back to two days the next year, and it took until 2007 for the festival to expand to three days and until 2012 for it to go to a second weekend.
Friday at Coachella features OutKast headlining. Other artists appearing include The Replacements, Broken Bells, Ellie Goulding, Afghan Whigs, and HAIM.
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- Empire Polo Field
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- Indio CA 92201
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Here are the pet peeves of a "grump":
Arch Street sewer main repair this summer.
220 remains a killer. 287 is a killer. The Renovo Road is a killer.
The "cluster" storm sewer repair along the bikepath at Greevy boat landing..
Driver inattention and rudeness.
Clerks who can't make change.
The demise of the USPS.
The "Environmental Movement".
Global Warming
Government intrusion into every facet of our lives.
Not Obama: but, the fact that over half voted for him.
Alex Rodriquez still plays for the Yanks.
That, at this stage of my life so much bothers me.
It should not be so that my attention can be so easily diverted from the goodness and generosity of neighbors, the love that I have at home, the beauty of chicory, asters, daisy fleabane and goldenrod, the blue sky and warm sun and the eagle soaring high
Jude Richardson
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JACKSON – A team can remain under the radar for only so long.
And the Leslie High School girls soccer team now has some attention.
The Blackhawks have quietly been one of the area's strongest teams and are being recognized as such in the Citizen Patriot's girls soccer coaches' poll.
Unranked in the poll until just two weeks ago, Leslie has overtaken Jackson Northwest as the No. 3-ranked team in the area.
And with a roster not expected to lose much firepower after this season, Blackhawks coach Nathan Antelo sees only greater things on the horizon for the program, which is 12-0-1.
"They're just going to get stronger as well because we only have two seniors who aren't really starters," Antelo said. "Most of the girls from teams like Marshall, Northwest and (Jackson), they're going to be graduating. I think they're just going to get better and they still have a lot of promise for this season."
While the Blackhawks' offense has overpowered opponents, led by Madison Willsey's 15 goals and Hayley Conine's nine, the Leslie defense has been nothing short of smothering. The Blackhawks have yielded just three goals this season, each of which came on set plays – two free kicks and one corner kick.
Antelo said the defensive play of Brooke Valzez, Presley Seavolt and Katie Carroll has been integral to the Blackhawks' success in their own half of the field.
"We have technical players, they're good and they're athletic. We have speed and passion," Antelo said. "A lot of the attacks that come against us are stifled because a lot of teams will kick the ball downfield and we have girls like Brooke Valdez or Presley Seavolt, who bring that ball out of the air with just a touch so there is no counter-attack."
In two weeks, Leslie will head into district play and will have to navigate its way through a tournament that includes Jackson Lumen Christi, Brooklyn Columbia Central and Marshall.
It's not an easy bracket, but Antelo believes his Blackhawks can contend.
"It definitely is a realistic goal. We shouldn't have a problem beating Stockbridge in the first game, we beat them 7-0 (earlier in the season). Playing Lumen, I'm pretty optimistic that will be a good game. Hopefully, we can continue to play our style, keep the ball away from them and score a goal."
The Citizen Patriot asked a panel of coaches in each sport to rank the top five teams in the area. Five points are awarded for a first-place vote, four points for a second-place vote, etc. The results will be compiled and published by the Citizen Patriot and on mlive.com/japreps every week.
The tie has been broken atop the Citizen Patriot girls soccer coaches' poll. After being tied last week with Jackson Lumen Christi for the No. 1 ranking, Jackson owns sole possession of the top spot – albeit by a one-point margin over the Titans. Leslie, undefeated, has moved up to No. 3, leap-frogging Jackson Northwest as the Mounties drop to No. 4. Brooklyn Columbia Central remains the No. 5-ranked team in the area.
Citizen Patriot girls soccer coaches' poll
1. Jackson (27)
2. Jackson Lumen Christi (26)
3. Leslie (14)
4. Jackson Northwest (12)
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KOTTAYAM: Convocation of Orthodox Theological Seminary will take place on March 1st at 2.00 pm at the Smrithi Auditorium of the Seminary.
Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan Mar Baselios Marthoma Paulose II will preside over the convocation ceremony. Bishop Dr. Bosco Puthoor will deliver the keynote address. Principal of Orthodox Theological Seminary Fr. Dr. K.M. George will present the annual report.
This year's convocation will honor the successful among the 2006-2010 batch. The Supreme Head of the Malankara Church will distribute awards and prizes during the occasion


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New Orleans police on Thursday arrested a popular Algiers pastor and former NOPD officer, nearly 24 hours after he fired shots at two men he said were stealing copper tubing from air conditioners outside his church.
W.L.T. Littleton, the 62-year-old pastor of Greater Morning Star Baptist Church of Algiers and a local radio personality, surrendered to police shortly before 5 p.m., according to police and court records. He was booked with one count of aggravated battery in connection with the shooting of Rodney Mitchell, 50.
NOPD Interim Superintendent Michael Harrison said Littleton told investigators he caught two men - identified as Mitchell and 34-year-old Joseph Cross - dismantling and stripping unsecured air conditioner units between Littleton's church and his adjacent snowball stand in the 1200 block of Vallette Street the day before.
Littleton pointed a gun and ordered the men to stop, according to Harrison. When they began to flee, first on foot and then in a pickup truck, witnesses said Littleton fired at least eight shots. Littleton then jumped into his white SUV and chased the men's pickup truck. One of the shots Littleton fired struck Mitchell in the head, police siad.
The truck's back window was shattered, though it was unclear whether Littleton fired additional shots once the vehicle chase began.
Harrison said Littleton stopped chasing the truck and flagged down an NOPD patrol car at the corner of Newton and Behrman streets to report the copper theft. Meanwhile, an off-duty NOPD officer came upon the pickup truck a few blocks away, outside a tire shop near Diana Street and L.B. Landry Avenue.
Mitchell was rushed to Interim LSU Hospital Wednesday in critical condition, but had been upgraded to serious condition later in the day. Cross was unhurt, and was arrested and booked with theft, simple criminal damage and a parole violation.
Littleton surrendered his gun to police officers after the shooting. No other weapons were recovered, NOPD said.
The shooting marked the second time in a week that an Algiers resident fired upon someone they accused of criminal conduct. On Aug. 20, 25-year-old Keith Jay Jones was shot and killed by a homeowner who said the masked Jones forced his family into their house at gunpoint in an attempted home invasion in the 1800 block of West Homestead Drive. Detectives ruled that shooting a case of justifiable homicide.
Harrison said the cases were not indicative of a trend toward vigilante justice or unreasonable fear of crime in Algiers.
"Those are case-by-case incidents," Harrison said. "I can't say what citizens should and shouldn't do. We look at each individual case on its own merits. This individual case has its own facts and circumstances."
Cross was on parole from a 2011 simple burglary conviction in Jefferson Parish. His record also includes convictions for cocaine distribution in 2007 and theft in 2009 following Jefferson Parish arrests. Court records show this was his first adult arrest in Orleans Parish.
Mitchell, who was previously convicted of cocaine possession, has been wanted on an active warrant since September 2013 for failing to pay required fees and fines levied by the court.
Littleton had no prior criminal record. He worked as an NOPD officer from 1974-83 before resigning for unspecified health reasons, according to city records. He has worked as a pastor for more than 20 years building a reputation for generosity and forgiveness, according to family members and church neighbors.
"He's a nice man," said Ricky Smith, who lives a few doors down from Littleton's church. "He tries to give people around here work so that don't have to be stealing. But I guess the more you help people, the more they try to do bad by you."
Littleton had remained secluded inside his Algiers home earlier Thursday, skipping his weekday morning radio show on WBOK 1230-AM and declining to meet with reporters at his front door.
Before Littleton's arrest, his son Taschi Littleton said his father was resting after the stress of Wednesday's incident.
"My father is a man of God, and he's prayed up," he said. "And everything's in God's hands."
Less than five hours later, the senior Littleton was booked into the Orleans Parish Prison central lockup. He was released on $10,000 bond sometime before 8 p.m.
If convicted of aggravated battery, Littleton could face a sentence of up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.
Neighbors of the church said they had been grateful to see Littleton return late Wednesday night, free from police custody after being interviewed for several hours at NOPD headquarters.
"They took the pastor in for questioning, but last night he came back to see if everything was all right with the church. He came back around 9 or 10 o'clock," said church neighbor Micquell Dillon. "It was really sad. He's really a nice man. I hope everything is OK with him."
Dillon, who was on her front porch with her young son and other family members when the shooting erupted Wednesday, said she was stunned by what she saw.
"I heard the shots, at least eight or 10 of them," she said. "I leaned over and saw the pastor running to get in his truck to chase after them. I got all the kids inside."
According to Cross' arrest report, Littleton told investigators he looked out a church office window to see the suspect tampering with the air conditioner.
"They must've didn't think he was going to come out as fast as he did," Dillon said of the men.
Cross' arrest report makes no mention of Mitchell or the gunfire. Cross' bond was set Thursday afternoon at $10,000. Littleton's bond was expected to be set Thursday night.
Taschi Littleton praised his father's character before the arrest.
"He's a great father and a great role model to the community," he said. "He's gone out of his way, for years, to give not only to members of his church but anyone who's come in need from other congregations. Anyone who's come to him and asked for help, he's always been there for them."
One man, who declined to give his name, waited Thursday at a bus stop outside the church. He said he often spoke with the pastor on his way to and from work.
"I'm glad he caught them," he said of the accused copper thieves. "You ain't got no business stealing from a church anyhow. That's not cool at all."
Staff reporters Jonathan Bullington and Robert McClendon contributed to this report.


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The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin Edited by Archie Burnett Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 768 pp. $40
Reviewed by John Timpane
For about the last 60 years, Philip Larkin (1922-1985) has been, for many, the poet's poet, one of the best, a fastidious craftsman who let only choice, finished pieces out into the light.
Now we have The Complete Poems, edited with devotion by Archie Burnett of Boston University. It is a sobering triumph. Or maybe I mean a triumph of sobriety. Much about it wakes you up.
The first stunner is how little, in four decades of writing life, Larkin let out. His four books — The North Ship (1945); The Less Deceived (1955), his real fame-maker; The Whitsun Weddings (1964), which I, like thousands of others, read to tatters (the book and the reader); and High Windows (1974) — get us only to page 97. All of the "Other Poems Published in the Poet's Lifetime" get us only to page 123.


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What scared that cat exactly?
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Imo when you read his lips, he would say something like:" We're going out for adventure"
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When I first saw the gif op said he whispered "We're getting a dog."
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My cat follows me around the house like a dog and is literally a rag doll to all human contact. One time i came home at he was laying belly up on the side walk letting random kids pet him.


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Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks effort to invest in bilingual education have been warmly received by Spanish-speaking visitors (a majority of the citizens in neighboring counties). However, the parks' ability to continue has been hampered by the need for professional additional translations of exhibits and handouts. Impact Grants allowed these parks to prepare and share multiple new, revised, and existing bilingual products. The parks are also beginning to work with the blind community and were able to translate some exhibits into Braille.
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You all know I've been waiting to post this thread ever since the men's one was posted... I do love me the ladies!!!
So seeded for 2 spots we have
Yuna KIM
Carolina KOSTNER
Mao ASADA
Kanako MURAKAMI
Ashley WAGNER
Gracie GOLD
Zijun LI (woo hoo!)
Kaetlyn OSMOND
Adelina SOTNIKOVA
Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA
Mae Berenice MEITE
Akiko SUZUKI (whew!)
I kind of am not sure if Yuna Kim will take a pass or not. Ditto Carolina. So this is between 20 and 24 spots taken.
Who else is likely to nab two spots?? Skaters in the top 24 World Standings not on the above list include Korpi, Helgesson (X2), Lipntskaia, Czisny (yup, even after the update), Li, Meite, Makarova, Leonova, Gedevainishvili, Nagasu, Gao, Lacoste, and Zawadzki. So that is 14 more spots taken for a total of 34 to 38 spots taken (less if some, like Makarova, are done or choose not to compete).
I'm gonna let someone else tell me who has the 24 highest scores because these don't seem to be updated and I am not up on this stuff the way, say, Mrs P. is


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Hi. I am concerned about what looks like blood on the plastron of my turtle. He is one years old, eating and behaving normally and hasn't been dropped. Please can you have a look at the picture i've attached and let me know what the problem is? Any help would be great.
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Your turtle needs to get to the vet ASAP. If you do not have a reptile vet, many people have used www.localvet.com with success. Do not delay as I suspect your turtle has septicemia (blood poisoning) which, if left untreated, is fatal. what you are seeing on its plastron are classic symptoms.
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|March 2013
Eli Rotenberg, Staff Scientist
After 20 years of photoemission research at Beamline 7, ALS Senior Scientist Eli Rotenberg has taken on a new role in overseeing a complete rebuild of the beamline and its endstations. The project will expand Beamline 7's footprint to include three endstations, three preparation chambers, and space to expand. The new setup will offer 1000-times better spatial resolution and at least 10-times better energy resolution.
"Beamline 7 wasn't initially built for very high energy resolution," says Rotenberg. "When it was built it was very good in other regards – high brightness and small spot size – but after 20 years the beamline and endstations were a bit mismatched."
The endstations at Beamline 7 had evolved over the years to be pretty state-of-the-art; users come from around the world to do electronic structure research here. Rotenberg has always seen the potential for improving the 50-micron beamline resolution. About 10 years ago, he began building support for a proposal to get the resolution to less than a micron and bring the energy resolution up to current standards at the same time.
"We're always trying to keep up with the state-of-the-art," says Rotenberg. "At the time our proposal was submitted, it was revolutionary."
Users have come to rely on Beamline 7 as a top-of-the-line facility for growing their own crystals and measuring them in place, a capability that Rotenberg says has been perfected in large part because of close collaboration with users. The rebuild will expand these capabilities with advanced spatial resolution, which will benefit users and Rotenberg's own graphene research.
"There won't be anything in the world this comprehensive," says Rotenberg. "We'll be able to grow anything and look at non-homogeneous samples in amazing detail."
Rotenberg also sees the renovated Beamline 7 (modeled at right) fitting in really well with the Lab's new mesoscale science initiative because it will offer the spatial resolution necessary to study emerging phenomenon.
"We know a lot about what electrons and materials do at the atomic scale and large scale," says Rotenberg. "This would be the first time that we'd be able to look at complex materials at the medium scale and understand what's happening."
If everything falls into place as planned, Rotenberg says the ALS should see the first light down the new Beamline 7 this summer, and light to the endstations in the fall. See some photos of Sector 7 upgrade on the Shutdown 2013 Update page.


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Learning Objectives: Understand how smoke-free policies are related with cessation behaviors.
Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To assess the relationship between smoke-free policies in various locations and cessation behaviors.
METHODS: A follow-up study of the NCI Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation was completed in 2001. Detailed telephone tobacco use surveys were administered to 7,329 subjects in 1988, 1993, and 2001. Respondents reported on the extent of smoking rules at work, home, and in the family car, along with several related measures of cessation behavior (e.g. quitting, quit attempts, reduction in amount smoked, use of low-tar cigarettes, use of nicotine replacement therapy, etc.).
RESULTS: Preliminary analyses indicate that policies that prohibit smoking at the worksite, in the home, or in the family car, were all significantly associated with increased rates of making a quit attempt and with successfully quitting. The prevalence of those who never allow smoking was similar for family car (43%) and home (42%) in 2001. The prevalence of worksite policies that prohibited smoking everywhere dramatically increased from 28% in 1993 to 72% in 2001. Additional analyses, including multivariate approaches will be completed to more fully characterize these relationships.
DISCUSSION: This study provides information about the long-term effects of an array of clean indoor air policies on quitting, as well as other measures smokers commonly take when trying to stop smoking.
Learning objective: - To understand how smoke-free policies are related with cessation behaviors.
Back to Trends in Tobacco Cessation: The Latest Evidence
Back to Cessation, Nicotine, and the Science of Addiction
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It is difficult to put out any new and useful information about peripheral vascular disease unavailable to practitioners in this country from the standard textbooks of Allen, Hines, and Barker; Wright; Abrahamson; and the British treatise on the same subject by Martin, Lynn, Dible, and Aird. This book by Barnett and Fraser is based on the Stawell Memorial Prize of the British Medical Association (Victorian Branch for the year 1952). It is a sound general discussion of peripheral vascular disease. The historical review includes a good many items not often found in such books: a longer discussion of the physiology of blood vessels and a detailed investigation of the methods of diagnosis of arterial insufficiency and of the pathology of peripheral vascular disease. The main and longest chapter describes the clinical features of peripheral vascular disease and is followed by a short essay on treatment. Thus it follows the orthodox
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For whatever reason, 'tis the season for some ultra-violent movies in release: "Hansel and Gretel" (please don't confuse this killfest with the original fairy tale), "The Last Stand" (with the retired Governator), "A Haunted House," etc.
Anyone watching their advertisements on television will know these films are full of violence. I wonder: What useful purpose do they have? And then I wonder who in the world would want to see them?
The nice aspect of movies is that you have to want to see them, so if they don't interest you, keep your $12 or find a film less violent, gruesome or sex-filled.
Consumer-based censorship tells the industry not to spend money making garbage.
But such movies continue to be made, and each seems to upstage its predecessor with even more violence, murder, revenge, mayhem.
Obviously, some people are paying to see this junk, and it's justified by the film industry as just being entertainment.
Some folks also choose to play the violent video games that let them massacre a continent with no risk or penalty to themselves.
Again, just entertainment. Yeah, about as entertaining as Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.
Romans flocked to the Coliseum to watch Christians ripped apart by lions or gladiators hack each other to death. The Roman Empire, as we know, fell.
But the Romans were entertained. Again, I wonder who in the world would want to see that?
Ask yourself and ask your children, "What am I really getting out of this movie or game?"
"Am I learning something?"
"Would I want to live in that world?"
"What does it say about ME and MY entertainment preference?"
Then think about going for a bike ride, walk, mountain climb or visit a museum, swimming pool, the beach or other form of entertainment that is far less expensive and much more fulfilling.