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Your kids are very important, and when buying a house one of the most important things you can do is to find the right school. Most people use resources like Great Schools at http://www.greatschools.org/. This is all fine and good, but all you're looking at here is test scores. If you want good test scores, just go find a wealthy neighborhood, they all have good scores.
But test scores aren't a good predictor of how successful your child will be in school. They area really just a goo predictor of how much you'll have to pay for a house. There are more important things than test scores, such as the culture of learning, quality of teachers, family engagement with the school, and your child's perception of bullying and safety.
A good case study of this has been presented by a real estate agent in Seattle at http://jvpRE.com. The city of Seattle has good resources available with school reports of how each school is performing on not just test scores, but also surveys of how parents, students and teachers feel about a variety of metrics important to facilitating learning. You can find the Seattle school reports at the link.
The agent, Justin Vander Pol from Re/Max Seattle has put together a very easy to follow article about how to identify the best schools in Seattle. This is a very important thing to do in a big city. Most people would prefer to live in the cities, but choose the suburbs for their better schools.
In places like Seattle we are starting to see a shift in this pattern. As more families opt for the benefits of living in a city with a vibrant culture, we are seeing the elementary schools get better as more families get involved and more high performing kids are staying in the city.
One place we are seeing this is in West Seattle's Schmitz Park Elementary. It is one of the top schools in the area, and the surrounding schools continue to improve. Once these kids reach high school age then West Seattle High School is likely to improve as well.
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Sam Berns, the teen whose battle with the premature aging disease progeria was chronicled in an HBO documentary last year, has died of complications from the disease, the Progeria Research Foundation said.
Sam's parents, Leslie Gordon and Scott Berns, established the foundation in 1999, shortly after Sam was diagnosed at 22 months of age. Sam, who died Friday, was 17; kids with progeria live an average of 13 years.
In 2013, HBO broadcast Life According to Sam. Sam was the film's charismatic star -- and was the face of the mysterious and extremely rare disease.
"I didn't put myself in front of you to have you feel bad for me," Sam says in the documentary. "I put myself in front of you to let you know you don't need to feel bad for me. I want you to know me. This is my life, and progeria is part of it. It's not a major part of it, but it is part of it."
Sam, a big New England Patriots fan, had been invited by the football team's owner, Robert Kraft, to serve as an honorary captain for the team's playoff game Saturday night.
"I loved Sam Berns and am richer for having known him," Kraft said. "He was a special young man whose inspirational story and positive outlook on life touched my heart. I am so lucky to have had the opportunity to spend time with him and to get to know his incredible family ... My heart aches for his parents, Scott and Leslie, his aunt Audrey and the rest of Sam's extended family. Words cannot express the sadness or the depth of sympathy I feel for them today."
The genetic condition gets its name from the Greek word for "prematurely old." The classic progeria, Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, is named after the physicians who first described it in England in the 1880s, Jonathan Hutchinson and Hastings Gilford.
The kids are born looking healthy but begin to display many characteristics of accelerated aging at around 18-24 months. Kids who have progeria are mentally and emotionally the same age as their peer. Progeria signs include growth failure, loss of body fat and hair, aged-looking skin, stiffness of joints, hip dislocation and heart disease. Heart disease is generally the cause of the children's death.


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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Talk about a long-shot.
The odds of the 76ers winning the NBA title are 9,999-1.
The pro basketball season got underway yesterday and the Las Vegas oddsmakers don't have any respect for Philadelphia.
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9-Inch Ford Rear Axle - Building A Righteous RearWritten by Eric Geisert on April 1, 2012 A close look inside a Currie-built 9-inch Ford rear axle
Not long ago, well, OK, maybe it was long ago, finding a rear axle for your hot rod project involved a pickup truck, a tape measure, and a trip to your favorite junkyard. Of course, just the fact that we refer to the location as a junkyard tells you it was a long time ago, as today we have either salvage yards or automotive recyclers. I still prefer junkyards and all the associated mystique that goes with the term.
But that was then, and this is now, and like most aspects of street rodding, we have graduated to better things than a rear axlehousing with unknown miles and wear, to a brand-new housing filled with the perfect gear ratio, big axles, better bearings, and flanges designed for modern brakes. The new housings are just better in every way, but there are still sizeable amounts of street rodders who view the third member in the driveline as a mystery piece. For that reason we thought it would be interesting to follow along at Currie Enterprises and see just what goes into the building of a brand-new unit.
There are plenty of options available and the professionals at Currie Enterprises will walk you through the benefits of everything from limited-slip differentials to the proper axle size, brake flanges, and available mounting brackets.
While we will be focusing mostly on the internals, don't discount the cosmetic advantages of a new housing. Just think, no messy disassembly, no old brackets to cut off, no rusty, pitted housing to prepare for paint, and the best part, no surprise noises emanating from the third member. Even the Currie housing is a smooth shape that looks perfect under any hot rod. But before you get ready to paint that Currie rearend, let's take a close look inside and see just what it takes to assemble a brand-new custom rearend.
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Here are the main pieces for building a custom width rearend housing. The new centersection with studs installed, two axle tubes, and two bearing flanges for the ends of the tubes.That big, long, solid bar is routed through the empty gear carrier and the axle tubes slide over the steel bar for proper alignment.The steel bar is the same O.D. as the axle bearing, so the axle flanges will be held in perfect alignment to axle tubes and the centersection. A special fixture holds the axle flanges in place.An empty carrier is bolted to the centersection to serve as an alignment for the axle tubes and to prevent any chance of warping during welding.Before the axle flanges can be welded in place, special care is taken to be certain the axle flange bolt pattern is properly aligned. This is important because the brakes bolt to this flange.A series of tack welds hold the axle tubes to the centersection and the axle flanges to the axle tubes.After checking flange-to-flange measurements, the housing is mounted in a rotating fixture and the finish welding is performed, making each weld a non-stop bead.
Currie has a special fixture that clamps in the vise and makes tightening the bolts much easier. Torque the bolts in a cross pattern.The pinion flange gasket is in place first, and the inside of the carrier has been coated with assembly grease before the pinion shaft is installed in the carrier.The main caps are now installed and a torque wrench brings them to the proper tightening specification.The assembled differential and ring gear is lowered into the case and rests on the bearing carriers in the case.With the centersection turned over, the front pinion seal and yoke is installed. Once again a torque wrench tightens the pinion nut to the proper tightness.Setting the gear lash is critical, and the pros at Currie have it down to a science. A special fixture and a magnetic base with a dial indicator make the precise measurements.
The splines are cut in the axle, typical street rod axles are the 31-spline axles, and they are plenty strong.With the centersection in the housing the bolts are snugged down with a wrench in a cross pattern before the torque wrench brings it into spec.The rear backing plates and brakes are bolted on, and then the axles are slipped into the tube and engaged into the differential. A little pushing and spinning will line up the splines.Now the assembled third member is carefully slipped over the studs and into the housing, taking care not to damage the gasket. This chunk is heavy, so having a hoist or a helper is required at home.


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Blood paintings by Pete Doherty on sale at Cob Gallery
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Art works created by junkie rocker Pete Doherty, including pieces created with his own blood, are to go under the hammer at auction.
A collection of paintings, trinkets, clothes and guitars belonging to the 33-year-old will go on sale on Friday at the Cob Gallery in London, where the works were recently exhibited as 'On Blood: A Portrait of the Artist'.
The works showcase Doherty's "arterial splatter" technique.
Doherty said: "Blood plays the starring role in my work.
"Sweat and tears are often waiting in the wings."
One work, Ladylike, includes a self-portrait by Amy Winehouse which she also created with her own blood.
That work is the standout piece and is estimated to raise between £50,000 to £80,000.
Other select items, which are expected to fetch between £50 to £12,000, from the former Libertines frontman's work and life include his iconic military jackets, notebooks, and his writing desk decorated with traditional French design and with secret panels and drawers. It comes complete with profanities engraved into it.


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South Shore PO'd at 'Princesses'
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When reality television works, it presents a harmless, humorous look at a group of people willing to prostrate themselves before a national audience in exchange for fleeting fame. But many South Shore residents feel that Bravo television's "Princesses Long Island," which airs Sundays at 9 p.m., misses the mark to a potentially damaging degree.
The show, which focuses on the lives of a clique of wealthy, 30-ish Jewish Long Island women who still live with their parents, sparked plenty of backlash last week, in the form of blog essays, email campaigns, an organized protest and even a rap song.
Many people critical of the show assembled last Friday at E.B. Elliot's, on Freeport's Nautical Mile, where Debbie Pugliese, a member of the Baldwin Chamber of Commerce board of directors, presented the protesters with Town of Hempstead certificates recognizing their civic pride.
"I don't watch reality TV," Pugliese said, "but I did see the clip of Ashlee White and her disparaging remarks about Freeport. They were offensive and inappropriate, and I am appalled that Bravo would let this air after the devastation Freeport incurred." Pugliese went on to congratulate the protest's organizer, Kim Llompart, as well as Jason Yarde, Joey Jack and Chris Mills of the rap group Nice and Ill.
The scene opened with five shots of massive mansions and a sign denoting the Roslyn historic district ("37 structures built 1690-1865"). There were exterior shots of White's car on the Meadowbrook Parkway, and exiting to Freeport. The first image of Freeport was a police vehicle with its lights flashing. The next was the water tower, lurking behind power lines.
Many things about Freeport upset White, including the presence of couches and benches outside homes and the types of fencing separating properties. Despite having at least one camera operator in the car with her — not to mention a second vehicle, which presumably shot her black BMW as it navigated the parkway — White's distress was so great that she stopped driving through dangerous Freeport to seek some parental support.
"Oy. I'm in Freeport. It's not what I'm used to," said White, who earlier in the broadcast needed to be carried from a nail salon to her car because she could not walk in flat shoes. After her father advised her to lock her doors, White said of Freeport residents, "I feel really bad for them. I literally want to give everybody a hug."
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I have just read this article and find it amazing that TV people continue to pass this kind of stuff off as "entertainment". As a former Long Islander I find this to be totally offensive to most people who live there. To perpetuate this type of stereotyping is not very nice. Keep your voices heard and maybe the pressure will persuade the people in charge of this to rethink their message.
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I use a Lansky sharpener, and it works as advertised for a reasonable price. An extra coarse stone helps for really bad blades. Wear leather gloves.
So I have a bit of a problem. I can take a dull knife and try to put an edge back on it, but I usually make it worse. Does anyone have any suggestions on knife sharpeners. Thanks in advance. Happy holidays everyone.
I use a Lansky sharpener, and it works as advertised for a reasonable price. An extra coarse stone helps for really bad blades. Wear leather gloves.
Lansky is great. I tried a WorkSharp for a while. Very easy to get a shaving edge on a blade with that, but it is very easy to round off the point of the knife with it. I sold it and went back to the Lansky.
I have a Lansky as well. Really like it. Umpquahunter I know purchased a work sharp and loves it! I guess it won popular mechanics product of the year last year.
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I have the Gatco knife sharpening system, which I believe is the same as Lansky. I love it to death, have fixed many a bad blade.
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We debated the importance of batting order last year, and the fact remains that batting order just doesn't make that much of a difference. Even the grossest of errors, batting a pitcher in the #4 hole will cost a team about 15 runs over the course of a season.
The difference between a traditional batting order and an optimal batting order is 1 game, maybe 2, over an entire season. Yes, that 1 or 2 games might be the difference between making the playoffs or not, but the point is, switching a guy between the #2 and #7 slots based on who is pitching might be more detrimental from a psyche standpoint than it is beneficial.
Managers are not likely to go with what is considered an optimal line up any time in the near future. They would be crucified by the press, the fans, and by the players if they went with an optimal lineup, because optimal lineups go against conventional thinking. So realistically, we are talking about 5 runs difference at most over the season in making these line up changes.
It is more important to split up lefties, and probably more important for the line up to have some consistency and comfort.
Once again Kimmi proves that she is the Eric Severeid of the forum.She comes here sporadically and says more in three paragraphs than the rest of the forum does in two weeks. Bill James said the same thing also in the past - batting orders are not that important. Of course, forums love to debate the importance of batting orders but in reality they aren't that important.
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Room Service
Dishes and drinks from all the resort's menus can be delivered to your room around the clock.
Opening hours: 24 hours
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Enjoy a refreshing soft drink, smoothie, cocktail or a bottle of wine at the Rooftop Pool Bar on the 7th floor, which also serves light meals, sandwiches, salads, snacks, pizza and desserts.
Opening hours: 11:00 - 19:00
Swim Up Pool Bar
Sip on a smoothie, shake, soft drink, beer or cocktail while in the water at the third-floor Swim Up Pool Bar, or step out of the pool for a hot-or-cold snack, tasty Thai dish, sandwich, burger, pizza or tempting dessert.
Opening hours: 11:00 - 19:00
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Phuket's only Hard Rock Café, the world-famous music, drinking and dining establishment sits right next to the resort's lobby, and guests of dusitD2 phuket resort receive discounts on their menu items and merchandise.
Opening hours: 11.00 until late.
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The resort offers a variety of amusements and entertainment in the Play Zone for pre-teens and Teen Zone for youngsters:
Teen Zone (13-18 years)
Play Zone (4-12 years)
|Teen zone with internet corner
|Action zone with dress up area
|Lounge at the Kids World
Siam Adventure Club:
Step away from the average tours and let the resort's Siam Adventure Club team recommend unforgettable island adventures and fun indoor activities. Check at their tour desk for all the options.
Opening hours: 24 hours
Fitness Centre:
The seventh-floor Fitness Centre features cardiovascular facilities including treadmills, cross trainers, recumbent bikes and weight equipment such as leg extenders, curling machines, multi-press/pull-down machines and dumbbells.
Opening hours: 24 hours
Araya Spa:
Immerse yourself in a wellness experience in one of Araya Spa's three treatment rooms with personalized packages based on Ayurveda and other ancient philosophies and traditions passed down through the generations.
Opening hours: 10:00 - 22:00
|Fitness Center
|Rooftop Swimming Pool
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International Airport, the resort is reached by
taking Highway 402 towards Phuket Town, and
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells--taken without her knowledge in 1951--became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta's cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can't afford health insurance. This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew.
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells--taken without her knowledge in 1951--became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta's cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can't afford health insurance. This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew.
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PROLOGUEThe Woman in the Photograph
There's a photo on my wall of a woman I've never met, its left corner torn and patched together with tape. She looks straight into the camera and smiles, hands on hips, dress suit neatly pressed, lips painted deep red. It's the late 1940s and she hasn't yet reached the age of thirty. Her light brown skin is smooth, her eyes still young and playful, oblivious to the tumor growing inside her--a tumor that would leave her five children motherless and change the future of medicine. Beneath the photo, a caption says her name is "Henrietta Lacks, Helen Lane or Helen Larson."
No one knows who took that picture, but it's appeared hundreds of times in magazines and science textbooks, on blogs and laboratory walls. She's usually identified as Helen Lane, but often she has no name at all. She's simply called HeLa, the code name given to the world's first immortal human cells--her cells, cut from her cervix just months before she died.
Her real name is Henrietta Lacks.
I've spent years staring at that photo, wondering what kind of life she led, what happened to her children, and what she'd think about cells from her cervix living on forever--bought, sold, packaged, and shipped by the trillions to laboratories around the world. I've tried to imagine how she'd feel knowing that her cells went up in the first space missions to see what would happen to human cells in zero gravity, or that they helped with some of the most important advances in medicine: the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization. I'm pretty sure that she--like most of us--would be shocked to hear that there are trillions more of her cells growing in laboratories now than there ever were in her body.
There's no way of knowing exactly how many of Henrietta's cells are alive today. One scientist estimates that if you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons--an inconceivable number, given that an individual cell weighs almost nothing. Another scientist calculated that if you could lay all HeLa cells ever grown end-to-end, they'd wrap around the Earth at least three times, spanning more than 350 million feet. In her prime, Henrietta herself stood only a bit over five feet tall.
I first learned about HeLa cells and the woman behind them in 1988, thirty-seven years after her death, when I was sixteen and sitting in a community college biology class. My instructor, Donald Defler, a gnomish balding man, paced at the front of the lecture hall and flipped on an overhead projector. He pointed to two diagrams that appeared on the wall behind him. They were schematics of the cell reproduction cycle, but to me they just looked like a neon-colored mess of arrows, squares, and circles with words I didn't understand, like "MPF Triggering a Chain Reaction of Protein Activations."
I was a kid who'd failed freshman year at the regular public high school because she never showed up. I'd transferred to an alternative school that offered dream studies instead of biology, so I was taking Defler's class for high-school credit, which meant that I was sitting in a college lecture hall at sixteen with words like mitosis and kinase inhibitors flying around. I was completely lost.
"Do we have to memorize everything on those diagrams?" one student yelled.
Yes, Defler said, we had to memorize the diagrams, and yes, they'd be on the test, but that didn't matter right then. What he wanted us to understand was that cells are amazing things: There are about one...
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REBECCA SKLOOT is an award-winning science writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; Discover; and many others. She is coeditor of The Best American Science Writing 2011 and has worked as a correspondent for NPR's Radiolab and PBS's Nova ScienceNOW. She was named one of five surprising leaders of 2010 by the Washington Post. Skloot's debut book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, took more than a decade to research and write, and instantly became a New York Times bestseller. It was chosen as a best book of 2010 by more than sixty media outlets, including Entertainment Weekly, People, and the New York Times. It is being translated into more than twenty-five languages, adapted into a young reader edition, and being made into an HBO film produced by Oprah Winfrey and Alan Ball. Skloot is the founder and president of The Henrietta Lacks Foundation. She has a B.S. in biological sciences and an MFA in creative nonfiction. She has taught creative writing and science journalism at the University of Memphis, the University of Pittsburgh, and New York University. She lives in Chicago. For more information, visit her website at RebeccaSkloot.com, where you'll find links to follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
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We're gonna need a bigger boat! What's with mother nature trying to get in a whole month's worth of rain in one weekend? I was one of the lucky ones...no power outages, no leaky roof. Hope you survived without any disasters! So now let's turn our attention to the week ahead:
One of my all-time favorite singers, LINDA RONSTADT comes to town Tues night for an appearance at Powell's Books in Beaverton. She'll be talking about her new book, "Simple Dreams" and her battle with Parkinson's Disease which has taken away her ability to sing. But she can still talk, so stop by and hear what she has to say. WE LOVE YOU LINDA!
Big celebration Sat night at the ALADDIN THEATER..THE OREGON MUSIC HALL OF FAME Induction Ceremony & Concert WITH THE KINGSMEN & QUARTERFLASH.
Also Sat night, if you're up for a road trip...BON JOVI plays the Tacoma Dome
And the DARK STAR ORCHESTRA is at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland Sat & Sun
Get out the BIRTHDAY candles for:
MARC BOLAN of TREX and DEWEY MARTIN, drummer for BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD - Mon
KELLY RIPA, STING, DON McLEAN, & GROUCHO MARX - Wed
TOMMY LEE of MOTLEY CRUE, STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN, LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM, EDDIE COCHRAN & CHUBBY CHECKER - Thur
BRIAN JOHNSON - AC/DC & STEVE MILLER - Sat
KEVIN CRONIN - REO SPEEDWAGON - Sun
Stuff you can win on KGON this week:
KGON Morning Music Marathon Prize - 7:15am Tix to a Live Taping of the Adam Corolla Podcast Oct 11 @ Aladdin
MY 3 SONGS with IRIS - noon hour - Tix to see Dave Chapelle @ Schnitz Oct 11
CLASSIC ROCK TRIVIA WITH SHANNON - Tix to TRANS SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Nov 24 @ Moda Ctr plus a chance at the Grand Prize trip to Council Bluffs Iowa Nov 9 with IRIS for a TSO dress rehearsal
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Im looking for just a bit of warmth when layered with a lycra skin. Waters about 70 now and my 3mm suit is getting too warm. Will this provide any warmth at all or is it no different than the lycra? Also, 57", 275, years of weight training/ cycling has left me with fairly large calves/thighs, Am I best with the 5x?
Hello, this will give you a little bit more warmth than a lycra. When you are sizing a suit you want the focus on the waist and chest measurements then you look at the height then lastly the weight if at all. 70 degrees as still on the chilly side. you may want to consider a 3mm suit.
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Average Customer Review: based on 12 reviews.Rating: Good mask for smaller faces
My son is 25, 170 lbs, but has a narrow face. He likes to snorkel but masks are often too wide, what can I get him?
Hello Don, the mask that I think would fit your son the best would be the Atomic Ultra Clear Subframe Scuba Dive Mask web link: http://www.scuba.com/scuba-gear-32/029079/Atomic-Ultra-Clear-Subframe-Scuba-Dive-Mask.html. Then I would suggest the small-medium size.
Bought a XS Scuba mask from you but strap was taken off and we cannot figure out how to restring it. Went to a scuba shop and they said to just throw away the 2 black clips. Heading to Florida in 2 days please help. Thanks
Hello Richard, you are going to run the mask strap on the inside of the mask buckle on the side of the mask. You feed that threw and then it will come on the outside. Once one side is done repeat the same thing on the other side. I can't understand when you took it to your local dive shop that they did not know how to put a mask strap on your mask.
The XS Scuba Fusion Mask Jr shown does not appear to have a purge valve. It does have one doesnt it?
Dear Ken, There are 2 version of this mask with purge and without purge. The one you have selected is with purge. Link below is without purge. http://www.scuba.com/scuba-gear-45/027825/XS-Scuba-Fusion-2-Window-Mask-Jr.html
our sons are 9 and 10 and have really started snorkeling alot. We are usually in Cozumel monthly and my wife an dI want to get them there own snorkel gear mask fins dry snorkel BC vest what would you recommend? Thanks
Hello Gary, the snorkel package I would suggest for you is the KIDS SNORKEL PACKAGE which is the 6th package on the list: http://www.scuba.com/shop/packages.asp_type_Snorkel_Package_Snorkel. Then the snorkel vest you are looking for is the: http://www.scuba.com/scuba-gear-39/006500/Scuba-Deluxe-Snorkel-Vest-with-Crotch-Strap.html.
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Good, I made mine with smoked sausage but it was hard to keep lit.
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In this remarkable contemporary presentation of the theory and practice of Tibetan medicine, Dr. Yeshi Dhonden, twenty years the personal physician of H.H. the Dalai Lama, draws from over fifty years of practicing and teaching this ancient tradition of healing. This volume vividly presents a series of lectures Dr. Dhonden gave before a group of health care professionals at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. This lecture series was… Read More
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John H. Abrams, M.D., FACS graduated with highest distinction from Indiana University in 1980. During his senior year, he became a Phi Beta Kappa and received the Herman B Wells Senior Recognition Award. In 1984 he graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine with highest distinction and published several articles in the American Journal of Ophthalmology. After serving his internship at St. Vincent Hospital and Health Care Centers in Indianapolis, and his residency at the Indiana University School of Medicine, he completed a fellowship in Uveitis at the Indiana Center for Uveitis. In 1988, Dr. Abrams joined the ophthalmology practice of Lashmet, Spitzberg and Denny. Dr. Abrams' special interests include cataract surgery, refractive and laser surgery as well as the treatment of glaucoma and diabetic eye diseases. He has participated in numerous medical research programs. Dr. Abrams is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Indianapolis Ophthalmology Society, the Indiana Academy of Ophthalmology and the Indiana State Medical Association. Dr. Abrams has a special interest in sports ophthalmology. As well as being the team ophthalmologist for the Bulldogs, he also works with the Indiana Pacers, Indiana Fever, Indiana Ice, and the University of Indianapolis. He is also the Tournament Ophthalmologist for the NCAA and Big Ten Championships as well as the RCA Tennis Championships. Dr. Abrams assists the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and provides consultation to many IRL racing teams. Dr. Abrams has been recognized by The Best Doctors in America as one of the best physicians in the country for ophthalmic surgery. He was voted the Indianapolis Monthly's "Top Doc" in general ophthalmology and cataract surgery by physicians in the Indianapolis area four times. In the most recent survey of Indianapolis physicians in 2005, he was selected as the top overall ophthalmologist. He has authored many articles on ophthalmology topics and has presented at numerous professional meetings throughout the country. Dr. Abrams was the recipient of the "40 Under 40" award by the Indianapolis Business Journal for outstanding accomplishments in his profession at a young age. Dr. Abrams donates his professional services to Prevent Blindness of Indiana, the American Academy of Ophthalmology and various services organizations to provide eye care for those less fortunate. He has provided treatment and performed surgery on immigrants and visiting patients from Russia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, South America and the Caribbean. Dr. Abrams enjoys community volunteerism serving on many Board of Directors including a United Way Agency and the Indiana Pacers Foundation. Dr. Abrams and his wife live in Carmel. They have two children. He enjoys skiing, traveling and attending sporting and music events. Dr. Abrams private practice can be found at www.abramseyecare.com.


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text: Kingdom of Plants 3D: David Attenborough explains the tech behind the trees Culture 21 May 12 by Katie Scott Kingdom of PlantsDavid Attenborough with the titan arum in bloom, filming at Royal Botanic Gardens, KewAtlantic Productions David Attenborough has travelled all over the world, but it was whilst watching the rough cut of a series shot in London's Kew Gardens that he admits his jaw dropped.Speaking to Wired.co.uk at the botanical gardens, Attenborough says, despite having filmed in 3D before, he was astonished by the results of his latest project: "What I couldn't have known was how fantastic, how transcendental and how hypnotic plants are [when filmed in 3D] -- the whole business of watching a flower unfurl its petals and an insect enter. When I sat in the editing suite, my jaw dropped. It worked out far better than I imagined."Kingdom of Plants 3D -- the first episode of which will air on 26 May -- is a three-part series, which will be shown on Sky both in 3D and 2D. It is the third 3D collaboration between Attenborough and producer Anthony Geffen of Atlantic Productions -- one of which, Flying Monsters, won a BAFTA award. Bachelor King 3D, which follows the life of one penguin from adolescent to adulthood, and was shot over five months in South Georgia, is to be released soon.Attenborough says that he was unsure about the medium when Geffen first mentioned the possibility of 3D projects: "I became so apprehensive that I said that perhaps we should start with fossils as they don't take flight and you can get quite close to them. Also, one knows that CGI is very exciting in 3D. That was our first attempt together. It worked well. So what next? Well we decided penguins as they're all identical and they don't give a damn as to whether you're there or not, so we made this film in South Georgia."This latest series, he says, is special because it will allow the audience to "see things no human eye has ever seen before" -- everything from a plant casting around a tendril for something to grip onto, to the flowering of the titan arum, which only happens once every seven years.To capture this footage in 3D was not without its challenges, not least because some of the camera technology simply did not presently exist. This is, however, a conundrum the production team has faced before. Says Geffen: "When we took on Flying Monsters, we didn't have the technology to complete the production, which is why it's such an ambitious film. When we started this latest production, people said that you can't get inside a plant to shoot 3D -- it's not physically possible -- but if you push hard enough, you can always get there."In fact, Geffen recounts how he showed Avatar director, James Cameron, the footage shot with a "periscope camera" at a tradeshow, and even he was surprised at the results.Working with camera rental outfit Onsight, the production team used nine different cameras across the series and, says series director Martin Williams, had to increase Atlantic Production's usual 2D documentary team of four filmmakers to a crew of more than 20 people. "3D adds an amazing extra dimension, but it is infinitely more complicated in terms of cost, logistics, personnel and time," he states.As well as the 70kg rigs, which take four people to move, the team developed specialist macro kits for extreme close-ups. The 3D time-lapse footage was captured using DSLR cameras, "configured on motion-controlled stepper, parallel, and mirror rigs," the team explains. They even created a "copter cam" to capture an insect's view of some of the plants. Described as "a small tea tray with little motors on each corner," this camera can be guided to a particular flower as well as being programmed to reproduce an exact flight repeatedly. There was also the constant noise of air traffic from Heathrow Airport to content with; the fact that cameras don't like the humid conditions of the greenhouses at Kew; and then the general public. Williams recounts that the team had been waiting to film the annual blooming of the jade vine, which grows in Kew's Palm House. "We couldn't believe it," says Williams, "we'd waited weeks for the right moment to film the flower of this spectacular tropical plant and the day before, we get word that somebody -- a child in a school group -- had picked it. We had to abandon the shoot." Read page 2 12 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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|Meusborn honored at Dodger Stadium
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Mike and Euletta Meusborn made a surprise trip to Los Angeles, Calif. last month when their son Tom Meusborn was honored at the third annual High School Baseball Coaches Reception.
Meusborn has coached the Chatsworth Chancellors for an amazing 20 years. Under his guidance, the team has seen two national titles, eight city section titles and 16 West Valley League titles. They have won eight of 13 California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) championship games, played at Dodger Stadium.
In 2003 and 2004 the Chancellors set a state record, winning 54 games straight. In those two years, the state had a 61-8 record, which is the best in California prep baseball for a team playing 20 or more games in two years.
In addition to the team's honors, Meusborn was named National Coach of the Year by USA Today in 2003. In 1990, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2004 he was named Coach of the Year by several other organizations.
Many of Meusborn's players have gone on to play college or professional baseball. On June 22 Meusborn was inducted into the California High School Hall of Fame.
For a phenomenal coaching career, Meusborn was awarded the Tommy Lasorda Lifetime Achievement Award. The award, which is given to the most outstanding baseball coaches in Southern California, was presented to Meusborn by his parents. Mike and Euletta were honored to share in such an important event in their son's life.
While winning 521 games in his career is an honorable feat in itself, Mike was quick to point out that Meusborn is more than a great baseball coach. Each week, Meusborn's baseball team is required to attend a study hall. Every player, from freshman to senior, is expected to put his academics first.
Meusborn's wife Mary and children Shawn and Kellie were also present for the awards reception.


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Roger Federer can't seem to stay out of the news this week.
The 13-time Grand Slammer was supposedly rebuffed by Darren Cahill as a potential coach, announced the upcoming birth of Baby "Mango", and now the latest: he + Andre Agassi are in talks to meet up for and exo event at Madison Sqaure Garden next March!
After the success of his exo with Pete Sampras last season and the ladies' BJK Cup a few weeks ago, the organizers are looking to build an annual tradition of tennis at the Garden.
OMG - this pairing would make a phenomenal exo. Let's make this happen boys - and I'll even babysit too (and possibly blog about it - shhhh)!
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Fed + Andre reportedly in talks for MSG exhibition next March - who'll watch Baby Mango then?
Labels: Andre Agassi, exhibition match, Roger Federer, tennis
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They will NOT let you babysit if you keep calling their little bundle of joy Baby Mango. lolReplyDelete
Save this post, I bet if it's a boy his name will be Roger Crackberry Federer II.
Why Mango, I don't get it?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 13, 2009 at 10:48 AM
A crack at all those celeb parents naming their offspring after random fruit (Apple and such).ReplyDelete
Oh that's why, it's funnier Crackberry, definetly.I can't remember any other fruit name except Apple, so I guess it's not really a trend.ReplyDelete
Also, Mango was a hilarious character on Saturday Night Live a few years back.ReplyDelete
LOL mango. XDReplyDelete
I wish MSG would get some more events as well.
- AnonymousMarch 13, 2009 at 3:17 PM
by next March, you mean March 2010? Thats ages away!!ReplyDelete
anon: good things come to those who wait my friend - even on friday the 13th!ReplyDelete
haha are we officially calling feds baby baby mango? lmao hilarious.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 13, 2009 at 7:54 PM
I love baby Mango, but I still prefer what somebody else suggested, Rafael Federer. I present to you the next goat: Rafael Blackberry Mango Federer!ReplyDelete


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WPP - As a person whose house basically had a revolving door the first week that DS was home, I will tell you that you need to put your foot down about guests if you don't think you can handle them. Some of your guests may be self sufficient (ie. know where the cups are and what to do when they get thirsty) and that's fine. But I didn't have the presence of mind to think about dinner, guests, pets, etc. If your mom needs to make a reservation, tell her to make it for mid-October (or later) and that will be her time to help out, regardless of when your little girl gets here. It must be really hard for them to be so far away. Also, I will say that they might surprise you. Grandparenthood has changed my parents for the better. But, in case it doesn't, don't let them come before you're ready. Your first priority is healing from the birth, your second is keeping your baby content. Planning dinner for your parents is far far far down the list.
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AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — Where's the beef? On Molly Schuyler's plate. She's set a new record at an Amarillo, Texas, steakhouse.
She devoured a 72-ounce steak in just under five minutes.
Her chaser, another four and a-half pound slab of steak.
But she took her time eating that one, just under 10 minutes.
The Amarillo Globe-News reports the 5-foot-7, 125-pound mother from Nebraska is a competitive eater. She once downed 363 chicken wings in 30 minutes to set a record in Philadelphia.


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1964 Dodge Polara - Recreating HistoryWritten by on April 4, 2013 We love historic race cars. now we're building one...kind of
If you're into Mopars, chances are you're into racing and the racing heritage that made Chrysler famous. From the dawn of motorsports, Chrysler embraced the racetrack, building cars and trucks to compete in nearly every competitive form of racing. Some argue that they did their job too well, as their purpose built race cars dominated many of the classes they were designed to run in. Some of these cars were handicapped by sanctioning bodies to the point of being non-competitive, while others like the Hemi powered '68 Darts and Barracudas were relegated to run in their own class since none of the competitive brands could keep up. Even today if you watch the Top Fuel and Funny Car classes of NHRA drag racing you'll notice that most, if not all, competitive cars still run a version of the famous 426 Hemi engine.
With so much racing heritage, it's no wonder that many Mopar enthusiasts not only study the history of Mopar racing, but also own, drive, and race classic Mopars themselves. At Mopar Muscle we certainly fall into this category, owning our share of classic muscle cars as well as drag racing these cars any chance we get. And while we love seeing any Mopar running at the events we attend, the ones with a hint of nostalgia really get our blood pumping. For this reason, we make it a point to be sure we're at the starting line any time we hear the announcer call the Nostalgia Super Stock (NSS) cars to the staging lanes.
Already curious about the Nostalgia Super Stock classes of drag racing, we had a chance to really get an education about this class while attending the 2012 Chrysler Performance Trade Show and Swap Meet held at the Indianapolis State Fairgrounds. Hosted by Indy Cylinder Head, there were a series of seminars at the trade show including one featuring Doug Duell speaking specifically about Nostalgia Super Stock racing. Unlike NHRA or IHRA Stock and Super Stock classes, the rules for Nostalgia Super Stock don't restrict car owners from building big engines, or utilizing a variety of aftermarket suspension components, so long as the car looks the part of a '60s-era race car and conforms to the published class rules. We love the variety of cars in the NSS class, as some are built as tributes to historic race teams such as Sox and Martin, others are simply the owner's interpretation of how they would have built the car if they had raced during the sixties, and some are actually more modern renditions of classic racecars.
To qualify as a Nostalgia Super Stock car, a Mopar basically just needs to look the part, meaning the body is factory appearing, the firewall is in the stock location, and the engine is of the type that would have come in the car from the factory. Any full-bodied 1960 to 1967 Dodge or Plymouth car equipped with a big-block, or any 1964 to 1967 with a second generation Hemi qualifies for the class, and the car must be foot-braked meaning no trans-brakes or electronics are allowed. The classes are divided by half-second elapsed time indexes, so cars can be competitive whether they run 13 seconds flat in the quarter-mile all the way down to 10 seconds flat for the A class of Nostalgia Super Stock. And if you want to go quicker, Nostalgia FX has classes all the way down to 8.50 seconds in the quarter mile. Of course there are a variety of other rules, all of which can be found on the website www.nssracing.com, and races are held throughout the country.
Since we've always liked drag racing, and picked up a '64 Dodge Polara hardtop at the 2011 Mopar Nationals, we figured the Nostalgia Super Stock class would be a great way to have fun with this car. If you read about our '64 Dodge in the Hidden Treasures column a couple of issues ago, you'll remember that our car didn't have an engine or transmission when we purchased it, making it an excellent candidate for a racecar project. Even better, we don't have to build an all-out race car initially since the NSS classes are based on indexes. We can start off building our '64 Dodge into a solid street/strip car, and then progressively add components to make it quicker in the quarter mile. This is the way many of you build your cars, and will give us the opportunity to highlight and test a variety of parts as we progressively transform our Dodge into a serious race car.
The '64 Dodge we're using as a basis for this project is a fairly clean example, and was evidently taken apart for paint by the previous owner. When we purchased it from the car corral at the 2011 Mopar Nationals, it was a bit of a basket case and was missing many components including the engine, transmission, and both bumpers. Fortunately the interior was largely intact, and the odometer and title reflected relatively low original mileage at some 68,000. The floors, frames, and outer body of our Dodge are also solid, and the car has a decent paint job on it (keyword: decent, not spectacular) but the trim and interior were just piled inside the car and trunk. As for the engine and transmission, we'll install the 451-inch Indy-headed wedge we built in the May 2011 issue of Mopar Muscle, and top it with Indy's new Mod-Man intake for the low-deck big-block to meet class rules. To replace our nonexistent bumpers, we'll use fiberglass units from Sled City Fiberglass and install one of Sled City's fiberglass hoods as well.
This month we'll show you how the car looked when we got it, and highlight some of the work we've done so far. We'll also outline our plans for this project, and we hope you enjoy reading about it as much as we'll enjoy building it. Of course, our main goal is to get the car to the track, and we'll be sure to let you know which events we'll attend and how our testing goes once the car is running. We'd also love to hear your input about this project, so be sure to write in or log onto www.moparmuscle.com to tell us what you think about our latest Mopar project car.
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|1964 Dodge Polara hardtop from car corRal at Nats
|Transportation back to Florida
|$250 in gas money
|3 meals and return favors for buddy Matt Koops
|endless promises
|Building the same model Dodge that you street-raced in high school
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1. When we saw this '64 Dodge in the car corral at the Mopar Nats, the overall state of disassembly led us to believe that we might be able to actually afford this car. The asking price was a little high in our opinion, but as the weekend progressed the number on the sign kept getting crossed out and a lower number inserted.2. On Sunday we made an offer of $2,000 for the '64 Dodge, and the owner somewhat reluctantly accepted. Now we had to get the car back to Florida, guess we should have thought of that before purchasing a car with no truck or trailer on site.3. It helps to have friends when you make the foolish decision to purchase a project car 800 miles away from home. Luckily, Matt Koops (on the left) made the ultimate sacrifice, agreeing to drive the original '69 Charger 500 he had trailered to the Mopar Nationals, so that we could haul our '64 Dodge. Thanks, Matt. We owe you one.5. To power our Dodge, We're using a 451-inch big-block we built in a previous issue. With a Comp solid roller cam and Indy 440-1 heads, this engine made over 550 rear-wheel horsepower when we had it in a '71 Road Runner street car, and should easily power our Dodge to quick enough times to compete in one of the Nostalgia Super Stock classes, even if not the quickest NSS/A class.6. The interior of our Dodge turned out to be in decent shape once we cleaned it up, and we've already installed new carpeting. In a box of parts in the trunk we found both a radio delete and a shifter delete panel, which are perfect for the theme of this car. We'll keep our eyes open for a heater delete panel to complete our bare-bones dash.7. We've already moved the battery to the trunk of our car, and removed the factory gas tank which was half full of varnished gasoline. To replace the factory tank we installed a fuel cell and a complete Aeromotive fuel delivery system.8. Our Dodge was originally equipped with a poly 318, so we got a conversion set of motor mounts from Schumacher Creative Services. These mounts, along with a Schumacher transmission mount and torque strap, will keep our big-block properly placed in the engine bay without the intrusion of a bulky motor plate.9. Aftermarket axles are mandatory in any race car, so we'll be installing a pair of Strange axles in our car's 83⁄4 rear differential housing. Of course we'll also be replacing the open center section with a spool and lower ratio gear for quick launches.10. Rather than trusting our safety to nearly fifty year old 10-inch drum brakes, we'll be installing a Wilwood brake system on our car. Brake technology has come a long way since this Dodge was built, and the Wilwood brakes will greatly improve stopping distance as well as being lighter than the factory brakes.
11. We considered a manual transmission for our car, but in the interest of durability and consistency we decided a TorqueFlite was a better choice. We'll shift the transmission with a Hurst Quarter-Stick shifter we got from Summit Racing Equipment.12. We've already decided to install fiberglass bumpers and a fiberglass hood on our Dodge from Sled City Fiberglass. The fiberglass components will save significant weight from our car, and details of their installation will be covered in a future issue of Mopar Muscle.


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This model uses the discrete-ordinates method (DOM) to analyze the radiative heat transfer in a utility boiler with internal obstacles. DOM is one of the most useful radiation models for prediction of radiative heat fluxes on the furnace walls of a combustion chamber. With this model, the behavior of the temperature and heat flux within the furnace and on the heat surfaces can be easily obtained if required.


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Reno, NV (Sports Network) - A 24-yard touchdown pass from Devin Combs to Aaron
Bradley in overtime proved to be the difference as the Nevada Wolf Pack
slipped by Wyoming, 35-28, in Mountain West Conference action at Mackay
Combs, who stepped in for Cody Fajardo after the latter went to the bench with
back spasms, completed 11-of-19 passes for 217 yards and two touchdowns as the
Wolf Pack (5-1, 2-0 MWC) won for the fourth time in as many games. Bradley
finished with eight catches for 111 yards and Richy Turner accounted for seven
receptions for a game-high 150 yards.
Fajardo, who went to the sidelines with just over five minutes remaining in
regulation, converted 19-of-26 passes for 221 yards and two scores of his own.
Brett Smith paced the Cowboys (1-4, 0-1) with 197 yards and three passing
scores, but he failed to finish the game as well after being ejected following
a second unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in the fourth quarter. Before exiting
Smith also gained a team-best 60 yards and scored once on 15 rushing attempts.
His substitute, Jason Thompson, completed only one of his six pass attempts
for 10 yards.
Wyoming jumped on top in the first quarter when Smith hit Robert Herron with a
16-yard touchdown pass at the 5:34 mark.
However, Nevada responded by putting up three straight touchdowns beginning
with a three-yard scoring run by Nick Hale late in the frame. In the second
quarter Fajardo tossed TD passes of 13 and 20 yards to Zach Sudfeld and
Kendall Brock, respectively, to give the hosts a 21-7 advantage.
Before the first half could close, Smith managed to guide the Pokes on an 11-
play, 51-yard drive that finished with a six-yard TD pass to Herron to cut the
deficit to 21-14 at the break.
Wyoming took the lead in the second half, thanks to a 42-yard touchdown pass
from Smith to Jalen Claiborne in the third quarter and an eight-yard scoring
run by Smith early in the fourth before leaving the game.
Trailing by a touchdown at 28-21, Combs answered the call for Nevada and hit
Turner with a 44-yard TD strike with just 1:18 remaining in regulation to knot
the score at 28-28.
In overtime Combs was again the hero for Nevada as he combined with Bradley to
give the hosts the thrilling win.
The Pack, which entered the week ranked fourth in the nation in rushing with
308.8 ypg, was held to just 127 net yards. Running back Stefphon Jefferson,
tops in the country with 175.4 ypg on the ground, saw his run of consecutive
games with at least 100 yards snapped at five games as he was limited to a
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MARIETTA, Ga -- Police are trying to locate two or three vehicles that were involved in a fatal hit-run pedestrian accident that killed a Marietta woman. Her mother is asking the drivers of those vehicles to come forward.
Barbara Brown found out her daughter, Rochelle Brown, 53, was hit by several vehicles while crossing North Marietta Parkway at around 8:15PM Saturday, more than an hour after it happened. She rushed to Kennestone Hospital. "I knew she wasn't going to make it when I first walked in," she said.
She got there in time to pray by her daughter's bedside before she died. "I've never seen my child look so, so beat up, and so banged up," Brown said. "She didn't even look like mine."
Brown said her daughter was crossing the street after buying groceries. Marietta police said she was hit by the mirror of a passing pickup truck. "The Ford truck was heading westbound and it knocked Miss Brown into the eastbound lanes of travel where she was struck by two to three more vehicles," said Officer Michael Gardner.
Gardner said the pickup truck driver stopped and was not charged. The other vehicles that hit Brown kept going. "It's very possible that these drivers might not have known they struck a pedestrian," Officer Gardner said. "They should have known they hit something."
Brown's mother is familiar with the street where her daughter was killed and thinks people drive too fast there. She finds it hard to believe whoever hit her daughter didn't know it. "We need to stop treating each other like you don't matter," she said. "They took my child and acted like it was nothing. She was a human being; she had people that loved her."
Police believe some of the other vehicles that hit Brown could have damage to them. They are asking anyone with information about those vehicles to call Officer Stephen Miller at 770-794-5357.
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Third Annual Tomato Dinner
Hot Pop-Up Planner: Labor Day Weekend Eats and Beyond
By Carolyn Alburger on September 02, 2011 3:00 PM
You know you're supposed to get elbow deep in that new bbq recipe at some point over the next few days. It is Labor Day weekend, afterall. But sometimes life isn't giving you pork butt and spices, it's giving you pop-ups. Since these underground dinners and impromptu "restaurants" are coming out almost as fast as food trucks these days, perhaps this weekend is a good time to avoid the grill all together and check out an outside-the-restaurant-box meal event. We picked our some of our favorite upcoming pop-up events to take you into this weekend, and the coming month too.


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Jordan Graham, the Kalispell bride charged in the death of her husband, Cody Johnson, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. The plea came 15 minutes after the defense and prosecution were set to begin closing arguments.
After Thursday's court session ended, the U.S. Attorney's Office declined to comment, though Graham's defense did speak briefly with reporters.
"The proposal was made by the United States Attorney for the District, Mr. Cotter. Andy (Nelson) and I had a legal obligation to carry that to Ms. Graham…All I can say is the ultimate plea entered was Ms. Graham's choice," said Federal Defender Michael Donahoe.
When asked if he was disappointed, Donahoe said, "I don't have disappointment. I'm just tired."
Graham's other Federal Defender, Andy Nelson, also commented.
"Judge Molloy has a lot of discretion...I can't think of a judge I'd rather have sentence Ms. Graham," said Nelson.
Earlier in the day, the defense team presented Graham's wedding video as evidence. Graham cried during the footage.
"For us, I think it's been emotional from the drop of the gavel," said Nelson.
When asked if this has been one of the hardest cases he's taken on, Nelson replied "Absolutely...First Degree Murder is a very serious charge."
Graham was booked into the Missoula County Detention Center on Thursday. She's set to be sentenced in March.


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