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HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. - Sears Holdings announced the launch of AdYourWay (www.Sears.com/AdYourWay), a new shopping tool that gets to know customers and personalizes the shopping offers that they receive.
"We're living in a customer-controlled retail environment and it is imperative that we continue to reinvent the company through technology and innovation to improve our relevance with our customers," said David Friedman, SVP and president marketing for Sears Holdings. "AdYourWay is a unique shopping tool that puts control back into the hands of our customers, allowing them to manage and organize both the products and the offers that interest them."
From a single personalized page on Sears.com, and soon to come to Kmart.com, AdYourWay allows customers to receive personalized product recommendations based on previous purchases and product searches, the company reported. Once a customer is logged into Sears.com or Kmart.com, AdYourWay technology works to provide customers with deals and offers on products of interest and those that are relevant to their lifestyle.
"We're turning traditional advertising on its head with AdYourWay," said Friedman. "AdYourWay improves the lives of our customers and is an expansion of Sears' online capabilities that help serve as the foundation for strong connections with them now and into the future."


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Reading various guides and doing my first multiplayer bot games, I've seen that there are champions more suited to mid-laning(usually solo).
What characteristics should have a good mid-laner?
Is their role relevant?(carry, tank...)
Is it better to do the mid lane solo or is it just an option?
Reading various guides and doing my first multiplayer bot games, I've seen that there are champions more suited to mid-laning(usually solo).
First of all we need to see the advantages of going mid-lane solo:
It is good to go solo mostly because of the faster XP gain which is a huge factor.
Considering the facts listed above, we can follow-up with the 2 following reasons to go mid-lane:
This doesn't cover all heroes but hopefully will give you a good idea to start with.
Mid is most suited for level dependent heroes (heroes with good nuke abilities),most of those heroes will be able defeat their mid opponent without problems once they reach level 6.
Suitable mid heroes: Pudge, Boodseeker, Lion, Lina, Shadow Fiend, Tinker, Doom, Puck, Storm Spirit...
Carry heroes are often seen on mid since they need extra gold.If there is no better mid hero they are reasonable choice but they are preferred to be in woods or babysitted by a support hero.
Tanks usually lack the damage to kill mid opponent,and since they are melee they often get underfed with opponent denies.Tanks are better off helping other heroes in group fights.
Support heroes are self explanatory,simply there is no one to be supported on mid.
Mid is best soloed since you will mostly have someone level dependent there and with someone you will lose part of the experience.
However there are cases of hero picks,that you could send 3 heroes mid lane to get easy first blood and destroy the first mid tower quickly...it will allow 2 of your players to get solo experience and give them that quick tower gold...it could also ruin opponents mid hero role.
Mid is for heroes who can take advantage of RUNES because runes spawn either in between mid/bot or mid/top.
In competitive games runes are fiercely contested because they can literally turn fights around(DD)/force people out of mid(regen)/create unescapable deaths(haste)/create temporarily uncontestable advantages (DD)/cause mass paranoia (illusion/invis).
A rune resets a bottle which total gives something like 405 life and 225 mana.
Wisp + anything is incredibly scary middle (mostly seen in serious business games) because Wisp's tether allows his hp/mana regen to effect his ally and essentially double the bottle resets. Many more vulnerable mids (SF, Storm, Invoker) absolutely cannot do anything but die to a CK + wisp that knows what they are doing for instance.
Runes are made for aggression. The mid hero(es), their job is normally to help the rest of their team win their lanes (99% of the time in unorganized play. More likely to have more customized plans in organized but this is boiler plate and it works fairly well).
Heroes that snowball either themselves or their teams are generally a good choice (Wisp snowballs his team extremely hard). For example, Earth Spirit is over powered (cannot contest his runes, his spells are extremely mana efficient) but better now after nerfs. He is a good mid. TA is extremely good mid because she starts 1 or 2 hit killing people if she gets ahead too much and has 0 down time because her traps are always up.
Lion is not as good because his spells are mana inefficient and his Finger has a lot of down time.
Storm is very good because he theoretically has 0 down time if the player is good enough with mana management/lucky with runes. Also his first item is an Orchid which is an extremely aggressive and powerful item before people have Linkens/BKB.
Puck is like a safer more AoE version of Storm.
Dragon Knight is actually not bad because he snowballs his team by forcing tower fights/slowly beating them to death. He is basically invulnerable against most of the cast for most of the game if he gets a large gold advantage since he buys hybrid defense/offense items like BKB, Halberd, Cuirass, Satanic.
Invoker used to be popular mid but he dies to everything at lv 1/2, has 280 base ms and can't contest/use runes well and needs too many levels to get useful. Most mids get much more useful at 6.
Shadow Shaman is not bad despite being mana inefficient. Many heroes can't prevent the mid tower from falling when he hits 6. He gets extremely scary if he can start taking towers and working towards his Aghanims early in the game.
Pudge is fun but somewhat risky. He runs slow for one thing and is useless if he can't land good hooks.
Tinker is often times better left alone in the jungle to quickly farm his BoT. Mirana is good if paired with a BANE for guaranteed 5 second arrows, so no solo.
Map control heroes like NS and BS are actually usually better placed in a side lane since they often times can't effectively deal with bottle spam + nuke wave + get all the runes play that Puck/SF/DK/etc. can use against them. They're wasting the lane if they can't contest runes because they are always at tower.


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President Coleman this week delivered the keynote address at the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) annual conference, discussing Bennington's major curricular initiative to reorient the liberal arts around 21st century problems and needs.
The NAIS Conference is an annual, three-day event, attended by more than 4,000 guidance counselors, heads of schools, and other independent high school leaders. Other speakers will include author and education reformer, Geoffrey Canada; educational futurist and staff writer for Fast Company magazine, Anya Kamenetz; founder of Khan Academy, Salman Kahn; writer and consultant for the Aspen Institute, Dan Heath; and inaugural S.T. Lee Professor of Business at the Columbia Business School, Sheena S. Iyengar.
President Coleman was appointed to the NAIS Board of Trustees in early February 2011. She is the only college president currently on the Board.
The NAIS Conference is the latest of many recent events at which President Coleman has been invited to speak, including the Hathaway Brown School's Education Innovation Summit, the Gov 2.0 Summit, the Royal College of Defence Studies, and the 2009 TED Conference.


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So if I do a secondary fermentation for a double IPA and transfer it to a carboy(better bottle) should I use a steeping bag?, or is it better to keep it in the primary fermenter and add the dry hops there and not use secondary fermentation?
I usually use a secondary fermentor when I dry-hop something. The idea for that is to get the beer off of the bulk of the yeast cake, so no autolysis flavors are produced.
I also don't use a steeping bag. I could tell you about how the bag gets in the way of proper contact with the beer or whatnot, but I don't really know anything about that. The reason I do it is that it took me over half an hour to get a bag full of wet hops out of my carboy the first time I dry hopped something. I decided that I could live with a few bits of hop material in my beer after that.
I agree with baka on the headache of removing a bag of hops from a bottle. Instead I just tie the hop bag around the end of my autosiphon when siphoning into the bottling bucket. This effectively block any hops from ending up in your bottled beer.


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Sawtooth Range > Mount Regan > Climber's Log
Mount Regan Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|andrew david
|Not Quite Solo
Date Climbed: Jun 30, 2013
|Tried inventing a route for myself without reading this page or any guide, guessed wrong and got pinned by that Notch along the Northern ridge. Got a nice view anyway and the camping was very fine. Eyed that SE ridge on the way down and wondered what I'd been thinking, but a fellow I met at Sawtooth Lake told me he had done that North Ridge I was pointing out and the notch was navigable. Only with gear, to be sure.
|Posted Jul 28, 2013 10:57 am
|Not sure the route. A lot of scree and ridge hopping.
Date Climbed: Sep 19, 2010
|Backpacked in and camped between the two lakes. Hiked Mount Regan the 2nd day with my dog. First summit I had done and haven't stopped.
|Posted Aug 2, 2012 5:18 pm
|North Ridge
Date Climbed: Jun 3, 2012
|Long Day on the North Ridge. Fun climb up, very tiring descent via the SE ridge route.
|Posted Jun 5, 2012 9:11 pm
|North ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2010
|A bit loose up to the ridge but then a nice scramble on pretty solid rock up to the notch. A short abseil into the notch and a short steep wall back out proves to be the crux. Enjoyable route but descent was a bit loose and tiring.
|Posted Feb 16, 2012 11:55 am
|God knows what route
Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2011
|No register entries since SawtoothSean and Super Dave's. I did a bunch of trouser-filling loose climbing to get to the ridge the wrong way, then a bit more to get to the big snowfield, but other than that... fun day! Trip report
|Posted Jul 12, 2011 5:47 pm
|No Snow
Date Climbed: Oct 6, 2010
|With Super Dave on a warm October day. This route is a classic scramble with an easy trail approach and fairly solid scramble to the base of the summit block. From there the route is really fun and involves some ledges and ramps with big drop offs. The summit log was missing (not the container), but luckily I had replacement materials. After this we did Pt 9486 and Alpine Peak in a big loop.
|Posted Oct 7, 2010 9:41 pm
|Route: North ridge
|Back in the days of pitons and goldline. We overlooked leaving a fixed line at the rappel into the notch, which caused us some grief on the return.
|Posted Feb 18, 2006 2:31 pm
|Route Climbed: SE Ridge Date Climbed: August 26, 2001
|Great scramble with airy, exposed summit pitch to amazing views.
|Posted Jan 7, 2006 6:52 pm


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I'll readily admit that after reading the first book twice, George R.R. Martin's writing style is not particularly to my taste (too 'drug store' for me), but the story itself is a nice take on swords n sorcery, and there's certainly a dearth of this kind of drama on television.
There's a clip of the the first 15 minutes of the first episode on HBO's official site - and it's looking pretty good.
Also a ton of videos here.


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I have been told that the adjoint of an operator behaves much like complex conjugation, and so self-adjoint operators are like real numbers. Can someone explain this analogy more in depth, or give a reference?
For example, a corollary on p. 129 of Axler's "Linear Algebra Done Right" says that the proposition
$T$ is self-adjoint iff $(Tv, v) \in \mathbb{R}$ for every $v \in V$.
is an example of how self-adjoint operators behave like real numbers. I don't see what he's talking about here, and am wondering if there are other propositions that illustrate parallels between self-adjoint operators and real numbers.


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16 Apr 2010 10:54 AM #1
Ext JS 3.2 API Docs - Appcelerator Titanium based Ext Documentation available
A few days ago did not have access to ExtJS.com was inconvenient.
But I have foundver useful ExtDocSuite 3.2.0 Adobe AIR-based Desktop Application
Thank a lot Shyru
I recently used Appcelerator Titanium and Ext JS is developing a desktop application. ExtJS API to create apps that have seen examples in the SDK has been added. And has also added a few links.
Some examples do not work
If you will help. If you have a good idea or errors let me know through here.
1. Support Cross Platform ( Win, OSX, Linux )
2. Support examples of Ext JS 3.2 SDK
3. Insert useful links of extjs.com
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20 Apr 2010 4:17 AM #3
why not just use the docs on a local web server?https://moduscreate.com/wp-content/t...es/favicon.png
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22 Apr 2010 4:30 AM #4
Because with a dedicated application you get a dedicated window that is easily findable because it has another icon as the browser you use. I usually have Firefox open with more than 20 Tabs open (TreeStyleTabs). Finding the Ext Documentation is then at least two klicks: Switch to Browser + Find Tab and klick on Tab.
I find it better to have a dedicated window for this. (But that would also be achievable with Chrome + Application Link) but that does not save tha scroll-position of tabs as the ExtDocSuite does. (WebKit limitation).
Additionally, I found the current 3.2.0 supplied documentation extremely lacking. Some classes where missing, at the top where additional links from the old version of the documentation browser, etc. etc.
ExtDocSuite fixes this shortcomings, and also adds all of the ux/air documentation to the mix, which I find quite handy. Additionally since 3.2.0 you get in page search which is a little bit more intelligent than using the browsers CTRL+F... So if you hadn't tried out ExtDocSuite, give it a try, its IMHO much better then what the ExtJS Team provided, perhaps you'll like it.


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I've got to calculate the thermionic emission through a diode, so I need to use Richardson's Law. However, one thing's got me confused - according to the Wikipedia page:
$$J = A_GT^2e^\frac{-W}{kt}$$
I could live with that, but for $A_G$. Apparently, I'm not the only one; Wikipedia's a bit cryptic about what $A_G$ is, mentioning that physicists have struggled with it for decades, "but there is agreement that $A_G$ must be written in the form:"
$$A_G = \lambda_RA_0$$
"Where $\lambda_R$ is a material-specific correction factor that is typically of order 0.5, and $A_0$ is a universal constant."
That's the last real mention of $\lambda_R$, and the only reference for it is in French.
So, what is $\lambda_R$, really? How can I figure out its numerical value so that I can actually use Richardson's Law?


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6 Important Things You Didn't Know We're Running Out Of
When we talk about a shortage of "resources," most people immediately think "oil." But the only reason oil is the most famous of the dwindling resources is because we feel the spike in prices, since we have to go buy the stuff ourselves on a weekly basis.
But other resources that are key to keeping our society operating are running out just as fast, but much more quietly. Pretty soon, you may turn on CNN to hear about wars being fought over something ridiculous, like ...
#6. Helium
The world is running low on helium? Big freaking deal, right? Worst-case scenario, future kids won't ever experience the joy of shelling out $7 for an amusement park balloon, then immediately tripping and seeing it fly away.
If only it were ever actually this much fun.
Actually, if you have benefited from a piece of technology more complex than a sharp rock tied to a stick, it was probably made with the help of helium. Helium has the lowest boiling point of all materials on Earth, which means it's cooler than a ninja Fonzie in sunglasses. Basically every high-tech industry imaginable has uses for helium, from chilling MRI magnets to producing fiber optics and LCD screens.
Think of it as the Batman of gases -- known for its playful public persona as the stuff that makes you talk like Jennifer Tilly, but secretly a badass vigilante keeping the modern world in one piece. And just like Batman, the government completely doesn't understand it.
All metaphors work best with Batman.
After all, if the stuff is running out, the price should be going up, right? And we sure as hell shouldn't be putting it in party balloons.
But according to Nobel Prize winner Robert Richardson, the problem is that the U.S. government is giving away helium like a discount VCR warehouse: as much as it can, as cheap as it can. In 1996, Congress passed a law requiring the U.S. government to sell off our helium stockpile by 2015. This has forced the price of the gas way, way lower than it should be, considering how little of the stuff is actually left in the world (Richardson says a balloon's worth would cost $100 if the market were allowed to set the price).
Above: The world's greatest helium baron plans her next acquisition.
The U.S. controls more than 80 percent of the world's helium supply, so Richardson says all this sell-off and waste means there's a very real chance we will run out of the gas in fewer than 25 years. If you're one of those people who buys into this whole "technology" fad, that's something to be concerned about.
Fortunately, there's a backup plan: If we run out of mined helium we can always recover it from the atmosphere. That will run us only 10,000 times the current costs.
"Next up for sale, an early 2011 red helium balloon. Starting price is $10 million."
#5. Chocolate
Without even checking the actual stats, we're 100 percent sure that about half of all the commodities available on the free market include chocolate. With such an amazing demand for the product, surely there must be a sophisticated system in place to ensure that the world never runs out of the stuff. Because if, say, the whole chocolate industry was based entirely on Third World back-breaking manual labor, slave wages and actual child slavery that would be reason enough for a worldwide panic.
Oh shit ...
Actually, the majority of the world's cocoa supply comes from West Africa, where the plantations are often tended to by slave children, but there is such thing as fair trade cocoa beans, with guaranteed "No slave labor!" certificates and stuff. Problem solved, right? Nope. (And it's a little depressing when taking slavery out of the equation doesn't immediately fix something.) The fact of the matter is that, currently, cultivating cocoa beans just isn't worth it to the average West African farmer.
Not only is tending to cocoa trees insanely time-consuming (it takes up to five years to grow a new crop), but everything has to be done by hand in often unbearable heat. And at the end of the day, the average cocoa farmer can expect to earn about 80 cents a day for his trouble. That satisfying feeling that his product is contributing to America's obesity epidemic is just not enough anymore, so in fewer than 20 years, chocolate might become an expensive rarity, like caviar. When was the last time you had caviar?
"I ... once saw a picture of caviar."
Cocoa beans can be produced outside West Africa, but only within 10 degrees of the equator, an area that you might quickly recognize as including some of the most politically unstable regions on the planet. It would explain why chocolate prices have doubled in the last six years and will only continue to go up.
The only way to keep chocolate dirt-cheap is to remove cocoa butter from it (which, to us, is completely defeating the purpose), just like Hershey did a few years back. Now the FDA is telling Hershey that it can't even call those products "chocolate."
"How about we drop the pretense and go with 'Fat & Sugar'?"
#4. Medical Isotopes
Medical isotopes are substances that give off short bursts of radiation, after which they decay and become useless. They're used in medical scanners, and each day, more than 50,000 people in the U.S. go through procedures involving medical isotopes to detect bone cancer or diagnose kidney and brain disorders. So if we would ever start running low on those radioactive health thingies -- like right now, for example -- it could mean having to pay more for inferior hospital care in the future.
"Here you go. That will be a million dollars."
About 80 percent of medical isotope procedures make use of a substance called technetium-99m, which has a life span of about 12 hours, meaning it cannot be stockpiled and has to be produced fresh over and over. Naturally, because this is such a crucial part of nationwide healthcare, there's only one major company in North America that makes technetium-99m -- Chalk River Laboratories. And because it hasn't been operational since May 2009, we are now in year two of a massive medical isotopes shortage. As the old saying goes, "Don't have all of your eggs laid by the same radioactive chicken."
That's what grandma always used to say.
CRL actually produced one-third of all medical isotopes in the world, so all the other companies today simply cannot keep up with the demand. Both the U.S. and Canada are hurrying to build new nuclear reactors needed to safely produce technetium-99m, but they won't be ready for some time.
Meanwhile, because of this shortage, your doctor might be using radioactive isotopes that are what scientists call "less than ideal" for medical testing. "Less than ideal," depending on the type used, can mean anything from not as effective to more radioactive, more unstable and generally less predictable. This is great news if your highly radioactive isotope testing gives you mutant powers that turn you into Wolverine, but what if you become someone stupid, like Toad?
Goodbye, showers!


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Hypergravity research for students
In the area of hypergravity research there are numerous reasons to perform ground-based research. The most likely uses for the LDC are:
- to perform scientific studies on the effects of hypergravity on the system under investigation;
- to specifically investigate the parameters which might be affected by hypergravity conditions;
- to test hardware performance under simulated hypergravity conditions.
Within these conditions, a wide variety of experiments can be proposed, from relatively simple to technically complex ones. In the past, Spin your Thesis! teams have performed experiments that involve the following:
- biological cell development under hypergravity
- the effect of gravity on Plasma arcs
- the effect of acoustics on water bubbles under simulated gravity
- the acclimatisation of plants in hypergravity
- the behaviour of high-voltage water bridges under gravity
Many other types of investigations can be conceived, in particular in the fields of chemistry, optical physics, material and fluid sciences and geology.
Technical constraints
While defining their projects, applicants should keep in mind the following constraints that apply to the experiments:
- Experiments requiring high temperatures, open flames or similar conditions cannot be performed within the LDC gondolas. Exceptions may be discussed, but the experiment set-up must be well contained and autonomous and should present no hazard to either personnel or the LDC and its gondolas.
- LDC gondolas do not provide active cooling.
- Power availability in each gondola is limited to 1.3 kW.
- The experiments should not take up an area of more than 50 cm x 50 cm x 75 cm.
- The maximum payload per gondola is 80 kg.
Preparing the experiment in the LDC
The gondolas can be supplied with water and gas from bottles stored in the centre of the LDC broadening the range of possible tests and increasing experiment duration while avoiding intermediate stops.
The LDC is operated by ESA engineers via an operator work station in a control room. The experiments can also be controlled and monitored by the users via the science work stations at their own centres through the LabView programme. The users have access to the LDC sensor data and the gondolas' scientific equipment.
For examples of experiments in hypergravity visit our page on professional centrifuge experiments as well as the pages of the previous Spin Your Thesis! student experiments.


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He is a familiar voice on our radio during the morning drive. He's also a former face of WBKO, making an appearance at our 50th anniversary last year.
Now Scooter Davis is being recognized by the Kentucky Broadcasters Association by receiving the Stephen Foster Award.
"You know it's so funny. To be honest with you I didn't know a thing about it. First off, of course what a thrill and an honor. I am still trying to figure out why I got it. I'm like, all I've done is gotten up early and have fun everyday for 31 years here in Bowling Green," says Davis.
The award recognizes those for outstanding work in radio and influence on the music industry.
Myla Thomas has been working along side Davis for 22 years. She more than anyone has seen the impact his voice has on our community.
"Everybody knows Scooter has been helping in our community for years and years now. He's just one of those go to guys. If you need something done you call Scooter, if you need something on the radio you call Scooter," says Thomas.
"Whether it's for a cancer patient, whether it's for somebody trying to raise money for funeral expenses I mean these are all needs and that's where we thrive and do really good," says Davis.
While Scooter and Myla are two of the most recognizable voices in Bowling Green radio, it all comes naturally for the duo.
"What you hear on the radio is exactly where it's like in the studio. I mean we cut up constantly. I mean he throws things at me occasionally, however he has never reached over and slapped me like he says he has. We just have a good time," says Thomas.
Myla says the good times will keep rolling, perhaps now more than ever with an award winning partner.
Scooter will be presented with the Stephen Foster award at the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony, April 12, in Lexington.


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The 8 Least Intimidating Gangs in Movie History
To upper middle-class white suburbanites, few things are more terrifying than a roving gang of hooligans, with the notable exceptions of poor fuel economy and the maid stealing decorative soaps.
But even those people would be hard pressed to find too many reasons to fear the following gangs, most of whom would probably be mistaken for dance troupes and second-rate children's entertainers in real life.
#8. Red Triangle Circus Gang from Batman Returns
The entire Batman franchise is responsible for some seriously awful gang activity. None so heinously combined our fear of gang violence with our terror of carneys as the Red Triangle Circus Gang as portrayed in the second Batman film.
Answering to the Penguin, this gang was a random bunch of freaks who apparently were so moved by a deformed Danny DeVito that a life in the sewers spent strapping cartoony explosives to aquatic, flightless birds seemed all too beautiful a dream for them.
So with clown makeup, fire eaters and a tiny poodle that catches Batarangs, they left their big-top roots behind and went to work trying to fulfill their vision of whatever the fuck it is a group of malevolent circus freaks thought they'd accomplish by making their dumpy leader mayor of Gotham.
#7. The Greasers from The Outsiders
Nothing epitomizes badass street cred like rolling with Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise and C. Thomas Howell. Unless C. Thomas Howell is playing a character named Ponyboy, in what apparently isn't meant to be anything overtly homoerotic.
Following the same gang format that has existed since Shakespeare made it popular, The Greasers fall in love with some chicks from the other side of the tracks and that means someone really wants to drown Ponyboy, which is understandable. Instead the Karate Kid does some stabbing and the foolish gang violence is soon replaced with two skinny boys on the run, both of whom look like they'd lose a boxing match to Hannah Montana.
Then it degrades into burning school house heroics and poetry, along with deeply profound deaths and other assorted girly aspects of gang life that make it seem like semi-organized crime really isn't all it's cracked up to be.
#6. Los Locos from Short Circuit 2
While not prominently featured in the film, this gang has a memorable turn as the bad asses that turn Johnny 5 into a streetwise thug. Which, in a talking-robot movie targeted towards middle-class white people meant the gang was a group of singing minorities who live on the streets and commit no actual crimes beyond some graffiti and using the word "balls."
#5. The Regulators from Young Guns
Undoubtedly conceived as cool by some people in a studio somewhere desperate to make teenage girls of the '80s want to watch a western, Young Guns was a veritable Calvin Klein underwear ad of a movie featuring men who were at the time considered young and popular.
Little did anyone suspect that only Kiefer Sutherland would ever salvage something close to a respectable career while both Lou Diamond Phillips and Emilio Estevez would live out their days having cashiers at the 7-11 ask them if they used to be famous while they try to trade food stamps for porno (only Charlie Sheen suffered a worse fate, dying and getting sent to Two and a Half Men).
While we don't want to question their pistol-handling abilities, the fact remains that if these four came up behind us in a dark alley, we'd probably fear they were just going to steal our Chapstick.


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FORT HOOD (January 16, 2013)—Fort Hood Wednesday identified a soldier found dead of a gunshot wound Sunday in his off-post residence in Killeen as Spc. James Jesse Delacruz, 29, of Spring, a veteran of two deployments to Iraq.
Killeen police are investigating the death, Fort Hood said, but no further details were released.
Delacruz joined the Army in November 2007 and had been assigned since October 2008 to Fort Hood's 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 41st Fires Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division.
He deployed to Iraq from February 2009 to February 2010 and from July 2011 to December 2011.


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BONNELL, Glenn L., 85, of Lakeland, Fla., passed away Dec. 19, 2012.
Mr. Bonnell was born in Steubenville, OH, on Feb. 8, 1927, to the late Carl and Anna Bonnell. Following his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Mr. Bonnell worked as an engineer for Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel. He was an avid golfer, a Shriner and of the Presbyterian faith.
Mr. Bonnell was preceded in death by his wife, Nancy Bonnell; and brother, Paul Bonnell. He is survived by his daughter, Karen L. Lukhaub and her husband Alan; and his two favorite Pugs, Kissy and Camo.
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Can you believe it's that time of the year again? Hello, Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour madness! For the past few months, you have probably driven past cyclists along the Cape Peninsula – Wynberg Hills, Misty Cliffs, Chapman's Peak, Suikerbossie hill … to name just a few! With five days to go until the biggest cycling event of the year, on Sunday 10 March, cyclists are gearing up this week for the final countdown. While training is important, it is probably too late to pack in the extra kilometres now if you have not been cycling consistently. Instead, shift your focus to nutrition and prepare your body for maximum energy release!


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One could see it coming: a contest between two evenly matched squads who were virtual mirror images of one another with a state berth on the line… What was to be expected other than a low-scoring, nail-biting, close-to-the –vest game?
That's exactly what fans of the 3rd seeded 16-5 Hugoton Lady Eagles and the 4th seeded 13-9 Pratt Lady Greenbacks were treated to on Saturday night at PHS. Pratt emerged with their second upset win in as many nights, punching their ticket to a second consecutive performance at the state tournament by eking out a hard-fought 35-27 victory in the sub-state finals.
Both teams featured bigs in the middle, quick guards and a penchant for playing defense. In some respects, the teams had to feel that they were playing against themselves. That fact made it tough for the coaches. Pratt High head coach Dean Rausch expressed that dilemma, saying, "You go to put together a game plan, and you say, where are the mismatches? And because the teams are so similar, it's hard to find any. We knew going in the game was going to be close and tight."
In the end, it came down to execution, and the Greenbacks were able to make some big plays when it counted the most.
The scoring started slowly as both teams were tight with so much riding on the outcome. Both sides were playing tough defense, with shots in the paint getting rejected by the defending bigs and longer range efforts missing the mark. Neither side could break the ice until Paige Bailey slipped behind the Eagle defense and scored a lay-up on the pressbreaker at the 4:00 mark. But Hugoton then went on a 7-0 run and seemed to be taking charge of the game. Jenson Maydew hit two FT to close out the 1st quarter with Pratt trailing 7-4.
PHS fought back in the second quarter, taking the ball to the hoop and getting to the foul line—Maydew, Whitney Tilley and Bailey connecting from the charity stripe in Q2. The Frogs were also finally able to get some jumpers to fall. Kelsey Smith-Potter and Maydew each connected, and then Stonie Flemming gave PHS the lead going into intermission by draining a 3 as time ran out. 16-14 Pratt at the break.
The third quarter saw Hugoton regain the momentum, relentlessly driving the lane and either scoring or getting fouled. Meanwhile, Pratt could only manage 3 FT from Maydew and a long ball from Payton Hoeme. The Eagles had recaptured the lead heading into the deciding stanza, 26-24.
With the tension in the gym so thick you could cut it with a knife, neither side managed much offense at the beginning of the fourth frame. Maydew got a couple of free throws to drop and Pratt had tied the game at 24 with 5:48 left. Both teams went back and forth ineffectually until Martha Ramos made one of the game's biggest plays with 4:00 minutes to go.
Page 2 of 2 - Ramos picked the Hugoton ballhandler's pocket at midcourt and raced in for a lay-up that would give Pratt the lead for good. "We call Martha 'The Ninja'," Coach Rausch reported. "She just sneaks up on you quietly." It was Ramos' only 2 points of the game, but there were none any bigger.
Down the stretch, the Frogs inside game finally began to click. Hugoton's tall girl, 6-1 senior Nicole Kinser, had picked up her 4th foul, and she could not be as aggressive in trying to block shots inside. Pratt took advantage, with Payton Hoeme getting two buckets to fall and Maydew also scoring in the paint.
"She (Kinser) had been blocking our inside shots, but we still had to take the ball at her," Rausch explained. "We were trying to get movement on the ball, but we still wanted to take it inside."
Meanwhile, Pratt's defense had clamped down and only allowed 3 points to Hugoton over the final 8 minutes. Pratt had established a 32-27 lead with 1:38 left. That put Hugoton behind the 8-ball, and their offensive efforts became more desperate. Pratt was able to handle the Eagles' defensive pressure, Haylie Hook breaking loose for a lay-up in transition and Maydew converting from the free throw line.
When the dust settled, Pratt had a 35-27 win in a game that was even closer than the final score might indicate— and another ticket to Salina in their pocket.
Two things may have made the difference in the contest between such evenly matched teams. The Greenbacks' bench was a little bit deeper, with Rausch able to juggle 10 players, 8 of whom contributed points. The Eagles only had 6 different players put up points. Secondly, if there was one Pratt player the Hugotons had no answer for except to foul her, it was Jenson Maydew— who led all scorers with 14 points, 10 of which came from the free throw line.
With a record of 14-9, Pratt will be the 8th seed at State, facing 22-1 #1 seed Wamego on Thursday at 3:00 p.m. at Salina's Bicentennial Center. Pratt will be an underdog, to be sure, but they come into the state tournament on a roll— having won 4 of their last 5 and notching upsets over highly regarded Andale and favored Hugoton. Anyone counting the Lady Greenbacks out does so at his own peril.
Pratt 4 12 6 13 35
Hugo 7 7 10 3 27
Bailey 3; Hook 2; Tilley 2; Flemming 3; Ramos 2; Hoeme 7; Jenson Maydew 14; Smith-Potter 2
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Sunday's letters: Our monetary policy
Published: Sunday, March 3, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 1, 2013 at 4:22 p.m.
I can see and hear my father, Rudy Rivers, and the late Hubert Hendrix, former Herald-Journal executives, making the utterance, "You can't beat the application of pure intellect." There may have been a time when this was meant as a true demonstration of someone using his head as something other than a hatrack, but it was usually to make a sarcastic point.
Mr. James Lawson's letter last Sunday rekindled that memory, and I thank him for that.
Mr. Lawson seems quite confused about monetary policy and military might. By his reckoning, having nuclear bombs and foot soldiers of every size and description means that our government can spend money that it does not have.
Says Mr. Lawson, "Oversimplification of a myriad and complex matter such as this is just silly." I would like for Mr. Lawson to explain at what mathematical point a common-sense (I suppose oversimplified) idea of not spending beyond your means becomes invalid. Somewhere between the median income in Spartanburg County of $56,900 and the current national debt of $16 trillion, he is able to explain away fiscal responsibility to the point that "it just doesn't matter."
His claim that he never spends one second worrying about the national debt or budget may be a myriad and complex matter that may explain his opinion of people who actually worry about what our government is doing and voice their displeasure. His failure to worry may explain why we continue to elect people who do our nation a disservice. Or maybe it's the application of pure intellect.
Chip Rivers
Extraordinary young men
The 2012-13 Landrum Cardinals varsity basketball team deserves recognition for an exceptional season.
There are remarkable numbers in the record books that attest to the players' skills, expertise, proficiencies and ingenuity on the court. One can't argue with the facts and figures; this is an outstanding group of young athletes.
However, our greatest enjoyment this season did not come from reading the record books but from watching these extraordinary young men develop strength of character, form lasting friendships and learn loyalty and unselfishness as they grew as a team. Many of these athletes spent their Saturday mornings sharing their knowledge and love of basketball with community youngsters.
In the midst of so much bad press about public education, what a great opportunity it has been to share from the sidelines such an uplifting experience! Sincere congratulations and appreciation to the entire Landrum Cardinals team and its coaches for providing us hours and hours of exciting entertainment this season.
Gary and Mary Lytle
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Patong's pulsating nightlife never fails to attract curious visitors every evening. Like a magnet, it's hard to resist a wander down Soi Bangla - the heart of bar scene where girls, neon lights and deafening music compete for your attention. Over a hundred bars ranging from beer bars (girlie bars), Go-Go bars, nightclubs, pubs are condensed into the small action packed area fondly known as "Bangla" where the only priority is to have a good time.
Bang Wad Dam is located in Kathu beside the 18-hole Phuket Golf Country Club golf course. This dam can hold around 8.5 million cubic metres of water and provides around 43,000 cubic metres of water to Phuket households every day. It is also used for flood and drought control.
Surrounded by green hills the dam is a very scenic spot and is popular with locals who like to jog, stroll or ride bicycles around it in the late afternoon and early evening. After exercising you can buy cheap food and drink from the small stalls that are found near the car park. To get to Bang Wad Dam visitors should follow the road signs for the Phuket Golf Country Club.
Visit Phuket Zoo during your stay here and enjoy a wonderfully different type of zoo. Lush tropical gardens invite you to stroll around in the shade of giant trees across bridges onto islands containing all kinds of strange animals. New species of fish, birds and other animals are acquired each year as well as young from our various breeding programs. We exchange animals with other zoos to get rid of excess stock and bring in new blood.
Jungceylon Shopping Complex is located in Patong Beach. It is a centre for shopping; drinking, dining, entertainment and leisure that will impress all visitors and make them want to come back again and again.
120,000 square meters bursting with world-class products, Central Festival Phuket is the consummate one-stop shopping, non-stop entertainment complex for every Phuket resident and visitor. Enjoy the newest, largest, most complete shopping and entertainment complex in the South.
The shops at Premium Outlet Phuket on the Bypass Road deal in guaranteed brand-name clothing and sports accessories at bargain prices. Apart from Thai brands, other articles on sale include Lacoste, Guy Laroche, Hush Puppies, Warner Bros, Pierre Cardin, Van Heusen, Levi's, Lee, Nautica, Adidas and Nike and feature discounts of up to 70%. It's an attractive, open-plan designed shop kept at a constant cool temperature.
If you are looking for some special treasures to keep the memories of your Laguna Phuket holiday alive, you needn't travel far to find them. Just inside the entrance to Laguna Phuket, and only minutes away by shuttle bus or ferry from the resort's seven hotels, is the Canal Village Laguna Shopping Centre. Set around the village's pleasant courtyard are more than 30 shops offering a range of products and services.
Shop for the finest Thai silk products, select the perfect resort wear for the Island's climate, or choose decorative giftware and Thai antiques. Canal Village also includes tailors, jewelers, boutiques, cafes, currency exchange, ATM, medical clinic, mini mart and a bakery.
SF Cinema City is the ultimate in big screen entertainment, where they personalize in activities and events to fit everyone's needs; from tourists to expatriates and to locals. Its newest addition at Jungceylon, Patong-Phuket guarantees world class entertainment and excitement.
A 7-screen state-of-the-art multiplex with wall-to-wall screens, stadium and luxury honeymoon seating together. Highlights on a top choice wines and western ready-to-eat dishes. Labeling is in Thai and English. Shop by phone or fax at your convenience on 3rd Floor, Central Festival Phuket.
If you are looking for some good shopping but want to get out of the overpriced shopping centers, then you should check out one of the Phuket Town Night Markets. The best of the bunch is likely the weekend market located somewhat near the Central Festival. The market runs from Saturday to Sunday every week and is open in the evening through most of the night.
There are literally hundreds of stalls, each selling their own unique style of wares. We won't lie to you, the majority of vendors are selling women's clothing and shoes. But for those men looking to go shopping, fear not, there are still plenty of men's clothing shops as well as other items that both sexes can enjoy.
Patong Beach transforms into a large night bazaar every evening, when all the main roads become clogged with stalls selling handicrafts, silk scarves, sarongs and a variety of beach clothes, leisure wear, leather goods and luggage, CDs, computer games and electronic gadgets and toys.
Thalang National Museum is situated on Pa Khlok Road, to the east of the Two Heroines Monument. This museum gives an insight into Phuket's colorful history. It contains numerous artifacts, and an exhibition depicting the famous battle of Thalang showing the part played by two sisters, Kuhnying Jan (or Thao Thep Kasatri) and Kuhnying Mook (or Thao Sri Suntorn), who succeeded in repulsing the attacking Burmese arm.
Wat Phra Thong, near the Thalang District Office, north of Phuket Town is famous for a half- buried golden Buddha statue called Luang Poh Phra Thong (Golden Buddha) in its grounds. Its other moniker is Wat Phra Phud, meaning 'Temple of the protruding Buddha'. The main attraction is the half-buried golden Buddha image which is said to be 'untouchable' in that every person who has tried to dig it out is reported to have been cursed.
Phuket's Big Buddha is one of the island's most important and revered landmarks. The huge image sits on top of the Nakkerd Hills between Chalong and Kata and at 45 metres high it is easily seen from far away. The lofty site offers the best 360-degree views of the island (think sweeping vistas of Phuket Town, Kata, Karon beaches, Chalong Bay and more.) Easily reachable via a six-kilometre road leading from Phuket's main artery, it's a must-visit island destination.
Chalong Temple (Wat Chalong) is the largest of Phuket's temples, and the most visited. Locals and many Thai tourists come to pray and pay respects to several revered monks who were the founders of Wat Chalong, among them Luang Pho Cham and Luang Pho Chuang, 2 monks who were well known for herbal medicine and took care of local villagers and negotiated for a settlement during a Chinese miners rebellion in the 1870's.
At Kinnaree House carefully select every single one of products based on its beauty, price and durability. So these are three things less you have to worry about. The products are guaranteed a replacement well into the next century. With many years of experience and greeted with the warmest of hospitality. So the next time you are looking for souvenirs to bring home, make Kinnaree House your first choice.
Paintball is the fastest growing extreme sport. Unlike other extreme sports like mountain climbing, motocross, stock car racing, sky diving, whitewater kayaking, paintball is the only extreme sport that gives you a high adrenaline rush without a risk of serious injury, due to an error in judgment.
The Phuket Shooting Range, the first shooting range in Phuket and remain the best, safest and most spacious range Phuket can offer.
The strange and beautiful limestone scenery around this area contains a secret world of karsts, caves, tunnels and interior lagoons - known locally as 'hongs'. These collapsed caverns eroded by natural forces over millions of years, can only be entered by a sea canoe or kayak when the tide is just right, revealing a hidden and unique natural environment. An ideal eco-tourist activity, sea canoeing provides the perfect way to explore this fascinating world.
Need a bit of adrenaline rush to shake the sloth out of your lazy day on the beach but you don't want to get 'too physical'? Here is one that shouldn't be too tiring: Go Kart. It's fast, loud. Exciting and fun to compete with friends. There are two Go Kart tracks on the island and strangely, they are facing each other near Patong, just passed the hill and close to Kathu. Patong Go Kart Speedway is really obvious and you can't miss it when driving by this road. The other, Phuket Kart Speedway, is just across the street, but apart from a sign board, you will not notice it.
Phuket ATV Tours offers the experience of ATV tour in Phuket and Phang Nga. A Phuket ATV tour is 30 minutes, 1 hour or 1 1/2 Hour in Phuket or Phang Nga. An ATV tour offers a great opportunity to see and enjoy the jungle discovery, stunning waterfalls, relax excursions in the middle of Phuket or Phang Nga regions and the unspoiled environment. Phuket ATV Tours could take you along tropical tracks through local rubber plantations, untouched landscapes, unspoiled jungle, mangroves and mystic beaches.
White Water Rafting is fairly new to Phuket, Although there are no large rivers on Phuket, nearby Phang Nga province is a good place to enjoy this eco-friendly adventure sport.
The trip heading to Phang Nga Province, about 80 Kms from Phuket and rafting on the main Phang nga river. The tour starts you on an action-packed ride along mountain rivers range with rain forest. Whether you are white water rafting for the first time or an experienced rafter looking for lots of adventure. Those new to rafting will have a guide and some basic training before their trip to ensure their safety and comfort whilst they enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Phang nga river.
To experience a different side of Phuket, try a trek through the island's interior. Khao Phra Thaew National Park is Phuket's last remaining virgin rainforest and is home to protected species of wild animals. The national park has several forest trails for hiking and guides can be hired from the reserve office near Ton Sai waterfall. There are also tour companies that take small groups on excursions through jungle paths, which also include hotel transfers, English-speaking jungle guides, and drinks.
Phuket Cable Ski & Wakeboarding near Kathu Waterfall is one of the most fun and challenging activities in Phuket. Whether you are a beginner or an expert, you can enjoy many exciting rides from water skiing to knee boarding and wakeboarding on a large freshwater lake.
Currently the only wake park on the island, its location offers exotic views of the surrounding trees and hills. Wakeboards, gloves, vests, water skis, helmets, and lifesaving gear can be rented while basic lessons are provided free of charge by staff members.
At the snake farm, just like in a zoo, you will get a general idea of how many different kinds of these boneless creatures that exist. A man will show different snakes and a woman will in her best English explain the effects of the venoms. You also will get the chance to pet a living cobra and have a very close look at its teeth. The best cobra show you can find is "King cobra " show, located in the Phuket shooting range compound. The show also provides knowledge about how to react when you find snakes.
Horse riding is another wonderful activity for the entire family. There are four centres catering to this activity and even the youngest or complete novice can join in. If you've never ridden before, livery staff will always lead you or be there to lend a hand. Beach rides are a favourite and the jungle rides are perfect for hotter weather.
Phuket Elephant Trekking can be a memorable experience not to be missed during your stay in Phuket, especially for children. There are various elephant camps around Phuket, that provide an opportunity to ride an elephant along a trail through jungle and rubber plantations and that is close to nature, an exciting, enjoyable and unforgettable time.
Phromthep Cape is the island's most photographed and perhaps best-known location. Every evening, large tour buses, scooters and private cars sweep through Rawai Beach and up the island's southernmost hill in order to watch the sunset at its peak. On the top of the hill stands a busy car park where vehicles disgorge crowds of people from every corner of the world. Cameras flash, fingers point and lovers cuddle as Phuket's most fabulous free show is re-enacted nightly – the sunset.
Kata viewpoint is one of the most frequented viewpoints in Phuket. From here, it is possible to take in views of Kata Noi, Kata Yai and Karon beaches. Located between Nai Harn and Kata Noi beaches, the viewpoint is busy most days of the year and is a staple of many tour itineraries. Called locally 'Khao Saam Haad' (Three Beaches Hill), the local municipality for some reason has officially renamed it 'Karon Viewpoint'.
It's located just to the south of Kata Noi Beach and looks out directly out to the Andaman Sea but most people have their cameras trained due north at the undeniably impressive eight-kilometre vista of the three west coast beaches.
Phuket has a large percentage of Chinese residents descended from those who emigrated from southern China a few centuries ago to work in the tin mine business as coolies. These people brought with them their rich culture and traditions and these influences are evident in the number of Chinese temples and shrines around the island and more markedly so in the yearly Vegetarian Festival.
Their religion was and still is predominantly a mixture of Buddhism incorporating with Chinese as well as Taoist gods. Red and yellow are the main colours used and animals such as dragons, lions and monkeys are also important symbols, seen around Chinese temples and shrines.
The significant Sino-Portuguese buildings of Phuket were built in the tin mining era. First influences came from Chinese architecture, showing in the design of the roof including doors and windows. The buildings were mainly one- or two-story buildings made from brick and wood. They had thick walls with Chinese-style tiles.
Khao Rang (Rang Hill) is one of Phuket's most famous viewpoints. Located to the northwest of the city centre, its summit offers views out over the town, to the south of the island, neighboring islands and along the hills forming the 'spine' of the island.
There's a lot to see and do (and spend your money on!) in Phuket town. Phuket City features an exciting mix of old and new, simple and sophisticated, peaceful and pulsating. Nights are reserved for enjoying good company, whether at a restaurant, a disco, a quiet bar, or a combination of all three.
The Stylish Acqua Restaurant serves fine, experimental cuisine and imaginative dishes in a cool, classy and ultra-chic setting and is one of many International Fine Dining experiences to be found in the trendy Kalim Bay area.
One of the most famous Authentic Thai Restaurants in Phuket, Baan Rim Pa features an open air dining experience set against a spectacular backdrop of the bay at Patong. The magnificent Thai dishes perfectly compliment the exuberant mood topped with a bottle of fine wine from the extensive cellar.
360 degrees is not the easiest place to find, but the stunning views of the Andaman Sea and fine dining experience more than make up for it. A magnificent spot to enjoy sunset cocktails there is also an extensive wine list to delve into and stylishly presented cuisines add to this luxurious fine dining experience.
Enjoy fine dining in Phuket at SALA Phuket Restaurants and Beach Bar. Our open-air restaurant is located on the beachfront, adjacent to the swimming pools and also offers an air-conditioned option. SALA Phuket Restaurant offers an exceptional blend of mouth-watering international cuisine and scrumptious traditional Thai delicacies. SALA Phuket's restaurants serve fresh seafood, exceptional international cuisine and Thai favorites.
Choose from a variety of dining venues with the main poolside dining area, the air-conditioned restaurant, the poolside bar, the romantic rooftop, or simply under the stars at one of the candlelit beach tables.
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The tour commences through mountain forests and continues through grasslands. From the vans, the nightly animal world is illuminated by special halogen lights. You will encounter a range of animal including deer, felines, porcupines (and with a little luck) wild elephants at the salt licks.
First point at Pak Chong gateway, built in 1962 is situated at KM 24 on Thanarat Road. Buddhists always stop and pay their respects and receive blessings at the shrine
Like a small museum to get more information & has a souvenir shop
KM 30 of Thanarat Road. This point looks northwards into the park, providing a view of the beautiful forested mountains.
This viewpoint is 14 kms from the park headquarters and a short walk off the road to Khao Kiew Summit. You can enjoy the short walk through moist evergreen forest. The weather is normally cool at all the year round due to the altitude. Trees and rocks near the viewpoint are dorned with moss and lichen.
Nong Pak Chee – this tower is situated at the edge of grassland, adjacent to the Nong Pak Chee reservoir. A saltlick visible from the tower also attracts wildlife to the location. Access to the tower from the road at KM. 35-36 and follow a well-marked track for 1 km. through the grassland.
A well-known waterfall where the water runs over a 20 m cliff into a large pool below. In the rainy seasons the volume of water increases greatly and it runs fast and cool.
Haew Narok Waterfall is a 3 tiered waterfall in the South of Khaoyai and is the biggest waterfall in the park. The water tumbles 60m off the top tiers, before falling straight down off the 2nd and 3 tiers, which lie close to each other. Altogether the creek level drops by 150m.
Kluoi Mai Waterfall the waterfall is a medium-size waterfall, also caused by Huy Lam Takong (Lam Takong Stream), which has Wai Dang (Red Orchid) grow on its cliff and be the symbol of its area, the waterfall is situated 7km from Khaoyai National Park Office and can be reached by car and walking.
Klong Kaew Waterfall a quite low waterfall, caused by Huy Lam Takong (Lam Takong Stream), the border between Nakorn Nayok Province and Nakhorn Si Thamarat Province, which is beautiful and suitable for playing water especially in rainy season. The waterfall is situated 100 meters from Khaoyai National Park office and Travelling Service Center.


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In the past few years a powerful set of open source software has emerged as a robust, full-featured, scalable alternative to proprietary GIS software. The stack is built with open standards at its core, allowing users to swap in different components if the default open ones are not working out, reducing overall risk. While there are many open source geospatial options, the stack of PostgreSQL/PostGIS, GeoServer and OpenLayers has emerged as a best of breed set of components that fit together seamlessly, with extensive communities of contributors around them, in addition to mature companies offering commercial quality support. They work together to truly open information for a wide variety of contexts, instead of just making a single web-based map.
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, Tru64), and Windows. It is fully ACID compliant, has full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures (in multiple languages). An enterprise class database, PostgreSQL has advanced features such as Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC), point in time recovery, tablespaces, asynchronous replication, nested transactions (savepoints), online/hot backups, a sophisticated query planner/optimizer, and write ahead logging for fault tolerance. It supports international character sets, multibyte character encodings, Unicode, and it is locale-aware for sorting, case-sensitivity, and formatting. It is highly scalable both in the sheer quantity of data it can manage and in the number of concurrent users it can accommodate. There are active PostgreSQL systems in production environments that manage in excess of 4 terabytes of data.
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GeoServer is an open source server focused on connecting existing geographically-referenced information to the Geoweb using open standards. It was started by a non-profit organization called The Open Planning Project (TOPP), to help build an interoperable Spatial Data Infrastructure by providing high quality, easy to use, open source software to potential data providers. It has evolved to become an easy method of connecting existing information to Virtual globes such as Google Earth and NASA World Wind as well as mapping websites such as Google Maps, Windows Live Local and Yahoo Maps. GeoServer also serves as the Web Coverage Server 1.1 and Web Feature Server 1.0 and 1.1 reference implementation, also implementing the Web Map Server 1.1.1 and Web Coverage Server 1.0 specifications.
GeoServer allows the publishing of geospatial data as maps/images (using the Web Map Server), as actual data (using the Web Feature Server), and allows users to update, delete, and insert features (using the Web Feature Server-Transactional). The focus of the software is ease of use and support for open standards, in order to enable anyone to quickly share their geospatial information in an interoperable way.
Furthermore, OpenLayers implements industry-standard methods for geographic data access, such as the OpenGIS Consortium's Web Mapping Service (WMS) and Web Feature Service (WFS) protocols. Under the hood, OpenLayers is written in object-oriented JavaScript, using components from and the library. The OpenLayers code base already has hundreds of Test.AnotherWay framework.


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Spec Ops Tactical Folding Knife (9.25" Overall, 4" Blade) for $9.99 + $2.99 shipping
For all those "special ops" in your life like cutting a stray string off a shirt.
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Amazon lists these for $29.99 as a huge markdown from what they agree is an MSRP of $125. I can't imagine anybody ever buying for for $125, but I can easily see $29.99. And that makes this a really great deal. I bought one of each design so that I can give one as a gift to my fishing buddy and we'll still be able to tell them apart when they're sitting in the boat. Including shipping, I paid less for two than I would've paid for just one on Amazon even with my free Prime shipping. Thanks for the deal!
The seller name on Amazon is Brandshopper.com. These are being sold at UnholyCocktail.com. Surprise: The PayPal receipt showed a payment to BrandShopper.com!
I tried going to www.brandshopper.com and was automagically forwarded to www.unholycocktail.com.
So there's only one seller, and they're listing it on Amazon at triple the price that they are listing it on their own website and Woot, and they have the ability to list whatever they want as the MSRP in both places. So, as unlikely as the $125 MSRP sounded, now it fails the smell test even more.
Aside from the the MSRP, the appearance of getting a good deal here because it's three times more on Amazon also becomes suspicious - they set it up that way.
The knives might be great, but this is suspicious as all get-out.
I'm going to try to cancel my order. I wouldn't mind having a really nice knife, but I have a feeling these aren't as nice as they seem. If they were, then deception wouldn't be needed in order to sell them.
@mrgrogg: I don't know anything about these knives or if they are even worth $13, but does it matter that much that they sell it for different prices at different places? deals.woot is for deals so maybe they usually do sell it for the price on Amazon but decided to have a sale for wooters. Not uncommon really. And IF they are actually good quality, again no idea myself, then $13 sounds like a great deal. I don't have a need for more than one or two knives I already have so wont be buying...also prefer tanto blades myself lol.
Just curious why you are so turned off by a deal price being listed here as that is supposed to be the point even if they engineered that themselves.
@jesterfx: The point is that - they engineered it so that this non-deal looks like a "deal." It's unlikely the knife was ever on the market for $125 - it's a fake MSRP to create a false sense of value and deal.
As for the knife, it has some nice features like the line cutter and glass breaker. They state that it's 440 stainless steel but there are different types of 440 steel. 440A and 440B are softer steel that won't hold an edge as well as 440C but is more resistant. For $10, it's likely the A or B steel cause they're cheaper to make.
Save your money and wait for woot to offer a Kershaw again. Those are decent knives and you get the assisted opening.
No way this knife sold for $125. Maybe $14.99 or $19.99 at a flea market.
You'll get what you're paying for with this knife, but don't expect a $125 quality knife.
@jesterfx: It's not that they list it lower here. It's that they list it lower here while pretending to be somebody else when it's listed higher. And the MSRP is luidcrously high, but they try to make it seem real by posting the same numbers in two different places under two different names and nowhere else on the internet mentions it at all. (Not that I could find.)
It -could- be totally legit. But it fails the smell test.
UnholyCocktail.com is a subsidiary of Brandshopper. It says this on their Contact Us page, as well as the boilerplate text on the bottom of the page.
They normally sell this item for $29.99 on both their Amazon and eBay stores.
In the name of fairness, I should also post here about the good customer service I received regarding my cancellation. Shortly after my order, and after posting what I posted above, I sent an email requesting cancellation.
They promptly cancelled the order and sent me a very nice reply. I'm more likely now to believe that this is a good deal. (I'm keeping my order cancelled, but I acknowledge that my suspicion -may- have been misplaced.)
Their reply is close to the character limit on posts here, so I'll post it in the next one...
Here's the reply I received:
No problem, I've gone ahead and cancelled your order and issued a Paypal refund. I noticed your comments on the woot site and will do my best to address your concerns. List prices are set by the manufacturer and these knives are fairly new offerings by Spec-Ops. We've seen high quality tactical supply offerings from Spec-Ops and expect the quality to match. We're excited about this product and believe it rivals a number of top-brand knives, and we look forward to consumer feedback, which we promised to provide back to the Spec-Ops folks. This release is an opportunity for Spec-Ops to get the product in the hands of consumers at a cut-rate while we at UnholyCocktail hope to establish our company as a trustworthy source of high quality products at a significant discount. Truth is, we're selling this product well below our own cost with the hope that it delivers dividends for our growing business. I hope this helps allay some of your concerns.
@mrgrogg: Bravo good sir. We cherish you, and those like you: the vanguard of internet consumer protection. The legion of deal detectives keeps us safe!
@mrgrogg: I'm concerned that on Amazon, the Spec-Ops brand shows no other item results even though Spec Ops is an established brand which makes awesomely rugged bags and other supplies.
So, in my mind, one of several scenarios is happening...
a) brandshopper is unaware that "Spec-Ops" is NOT "Spec Ops"
b) brandshopper IS aware of this, but is trying to pass these knives off as a reputable brand
c) there is an error in the brand name or something along those lines
I'm leaning heavily towards B in this instance, but I'd have to look more into it when not at work :P
Well, for $13 I risked it. If it seems too cheaply made I guess it'll be tossed into a tackle box or spare tool box.
@seventy8: I'd lean more heavily towards C. My own company had a branding problem on Amazon once. It's easier than it should be to screw it up. Additionally, Brandshopper sells some other very cool brands of products on unholycocktail.com. (They have an awesome deal on Browning shirtjackets, fer instance.)
I've had further email exchanges with the company, and I'm now pretty much convinced that my suspicions were badly-founded. I've actually re-entered my order for both knives. They have a good return policy, so there's little risk. I think this was a case of me seeing something a little unusual and jumping to some pessimistic conclusions.
I hope so, anyway. Only the product will tell for sure.
I was weary on ordering one of these just due to nobody knowing for sure about the quality. I am glad I splurged. A coworker and I split the knives (3+3). After assessing the quality, I immediately checked the deal and it appeared to still be live. So I convinced my brother to order a set of 6. After purchasing, he realized that the shipping was different than I had paid. I called into customer service to discuss it. Although this may have not have been their fault (due to the customer service rep (Keith) stating that the shipping promotion was only supposed to be a 24 hour thing), he still honored the original promotion shipping price and refunded the difference. He even allowed me to purchase an additional order the phone (at the original price) to make me extra happy. So,18 of these knives total for me. Great quality knives (although not made in USA). At this price, I couldn't be happier.
Shipping was extremely fast (probably because I live in PA)
5 stars for unholycocktail
I should also note that this deal is now dead... :(
Link no longer works.
@chemicalgutter: I totally agree.
I got my knives, have used them, and love them.
Additionally, the company has proven to have excellent customer service and truly cares about customer experience.
I regret everything negative I said above. Had I known then what I know now, I'd have had nothing but praise for them. Things looked suspicious, and I believe my posts were reasonable given the information available to me at the time, but given more information I have found that I was completely wrong.
If this deal comes up again, jump on it!
Edit: The deal is active again... Looks like they must have fixed the website after today's call to customer service.
i bought 2 of these the first time. just bought 6 more. jump on these. not $125 but as someone else said, ive paid $30 for much worse. as far as $10 goes, these are the best knives youll be able to buy
These are the same as the $7 knives from China (via Deal Extreme, Meritline, etc.). Bad quality and generic design (copycat rescue knife). I regret buying them.


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The meeting is free to all researchers and the public. It will be held in James Simpson Theatre in The Field Museum. People wanting to attend the meetings should enter the museum through the WEST DOOR (the opposite side of the building from the lake), as that entrance is the closest to the James Simpson Theatre. Please see below attachment for a Visitor's Map of the exhibits.
Public Transportation and Parking at The Field Museum
Public transportation: For those who wish to take public transportation to the Field Museum, it can be reached via the CTA getting out at the Roosevelt Road Station (GREEN, ORANGE or RED lines). Or you can take a bus (number 146) to the front door of the Museum.
Parking: The Field Museum is located at 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, in the heart of Chicago's Museum Campus. (From Lake Shore Drive, exit at 18th Street. Follow Museum Campus Drive around Soldier Field. Signs will indicate available visitor parking lots.)
Daily parking rates are $16 for the first four (4) hours and $19 thereafter.
If one arrives early, there is meter parking in the area between the Field Museum and the Adler Planetarium. (Bring lots of quarters to fill the meter so you do not have to go back-and-forth all day).
Museum Collections
The Field Museum has some of the finest collections in the world from South America. The Anthropology Department will accept visiting researcher requests per standard procedure. Interested researchers should contact Ryan Williams or Jonathan Haas at least a month in advance for proposal approval and for information about completing the appropriate visiting research forms. The Anthropology Department will only be able to accommodate a limited number of research visits around the meetings.
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While at The Field Museum do not forget to visit the fascinating exhibits. Meeting attendees may be particularly interested in The Ancient Americas exhibit. The permanent exhibit takes you on a journey through 13,000 years of human ingenuity and achievement in the western hemisphere where hundreds of diverse societies thrived long before the arrival of Europeans. The Field Museum will also be opening the vaults to display rare, never-before-seen mummies from all over the world including South America. The new exhibit, which opens February 17, 2012, has been featured in the Chicago Tribune and will feature the work of the recent mummy scanning project.


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Ironically, the kind of sausage you want is called a summer sausage. There are many varieties as the term really just refers to a sausage that doesn't need to be refrigerated. You might be able to find a few different kinds to give you some variety.
As for cheeses, you can sort of go with whatever you'd like. Generally with sausage you'll see stuff like jack, cheddar, havarti or swiss. With crackers you might see a cheeseball which is usually a blend of cream cheese and a cheese like cheddar.


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That Stephanie only lives 2.2 miles from my house.
I was going to say that, too so I liked your answer...lol I am rooting for you to win.
We all live 2.2 miles away from each other apparently.
freakdash: now that would be one darn scary thought :/
Stephanie who ?
Absolutely right!
Meara, Stephanie is a very bosomy gal whose image is put forward by one of the dating websites.
The Iraq War
don't you mean Operation Iraqi Liberation?
MTV = "Music Television"
MTV music tv. Not maternity tv
Fox "News"calling itself "Fair and Balanced"
Truly the best answer.
I honestly wish I could "like" this over and over.
Taco bells so called "100% beef" tacos
Obama's presidential campaign.

Both of 'em.
When America mentioned their intend to spread peace to the middle east.
Proactiv, it doesnt work! they lie!!!!
It works very well for me.
Cell phone company with a sign that said buy one get one free- but by the time he wrote it all up (a half hour later) it was then he told me he had none in the store- next day i went to pick up my phones and you could tell they were used ones- They were supposed to be brand new- I reported him.
A certain narcissist who had me convinced that he was a decent, loving, normal, rational guy.
The "Sold on TV" crap that sells at Walmart. Most all of it is pure crap.
Buy one pair of glasses get the other for free, it's NEVER THAT WAY. you pay.
we will balance th budget during our administration
sales jobs, they claim you will sell but 2 months later you still havent made a penny
Lol aren't those pyramid scams?
If it's on the internet it has to be true, all men who claim to be french models are french models??
A tampon commercial that makes you believe you can somehow do all these acrobatic stunts on your period and feel freakin fantastic.
The Coca Cola Zero commercial where a whole movie theater full of young people are told that they can't taste the difference between coca cola zero and normal coke.

They look to see that they are actually holding 2 cups, a normal coke cup on the outside, but zero coke cup on the inside.

They all smile - but anyone who has ever tasted coca cola zero knows it tastes like the worst artificial sweetener invented. Sugared cardboard!
Ya ewww , down with diet drinks. They cause cancer anyhow. Its already been proven in lab tests. people can not believe if they want but wait about 20 years then you have cancer from the artif. sweetners. aspert. ect.. Come on real sugar is actually not that bad for you it comes from a plant and plants in general are mostly good for you.
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"Come out to the Coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs."
A fast food bag that said "never greasy" and more than half of the bag was soaked in grease from the bottom up.
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5 Petty Feuds That Shaped the Modern World
#2. Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson Cause the Nixon Presidency
If the nation ever needed a strong leader, it was after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. The two most likely candidates for the role were Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who had been his brother's closest adviser, and of course Lyndon B. Johnson, who had gone from the relatively toothless position of vice president to being the leader of the free world. Unfortunately, the two men didn't see eye-to-eye, mostly because they'd spent much of the past years trying to claw them out of each other's faces.
LBJ technically drew first blood by being a vocal critic of Robert and John's father, Joe, though to be fair, lots of people were critical of Joe Kennedy, a dirty politician who'd been strongly and loudly in the "everyone's secret communists" side of McCarthyism. RFK made the beef real in their first face-to-face meeting -- a chance encounter in the Senate cafeteria. Johnson, the Senate majority leader at the time, was walking around shaking hands with senators. He'd probably said terrible things about plenty of them, but he was the most powerful guy in the room, and that's how politics works. Robert was a newly hired aide. Had Johnson farted in his face, he would have been expected to thank him for letting him smell what real men of power eat for breakfast. Instead, when the most powerful guy in the room extended his hand to the least powerful man in the room, the young man refused to stand and extend his, or even look at him. It's unknown whether LBJ said, "Oh, it is so on!" but it totally was. What could have been a deleted scene from Mean Girls would lead to a feud that would define a decade.
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Kennedy, seen here picturing himself in a threesome with Johnson's wife and mother.
Things got openly hostile between Johnson and the Kennedys once again when Johnson and JFK squared off for the Democratic nomination that would eventually land Kennedy in the White House. LBJ ran a vicious campaign focused on Kennedy's Catholicism (controversial at the time). Of course, JFK would eventually ask LBJ to be his vice president because it was the strategically rational thing to do, and because he was a grown-ass man who knew that he was in politics and not an episode of The Real World. Robert, apparently less clear on that point, decided to go with the "No, but seriously, fuck some Lyndon Baines Johnson" approach, going behind his brother's back and begging LBJ to not accept his brother's offer.
According to friends and aides, JFK's assassination transformed Robert into a completely different, more soft spoken and circumspect person, which appears to have been true in every category other than the stiffness of his hate boner for Johnson. When Air Force One arrived in the hours after the assassination, he rushed past Johnson. While RFK had spent his time as attorney general as his brother's closest adviser, his time under Johnson was spent doing what he did best and giving Johnson the cold shoulder. Since politics is more like rap fights than we'd care to admit, both sides used their aides and followers to do most of their dirt. Kennedy people openly blamed Johnson for having urged President Kennedy to take the trip to Dallas. Johnson people let it be known that the president blamed RFK for the disastrous mistakes in Cuba, which he thought had created an atmosphere of conspiratorial violence. Of course, neither leader publicly blamed the other, but with the country reeling and searching for answers that would help them move along, the president and the most powerful surviving member of the previous administration were all too happy to let their people throw insane accusations at the other guy.
"Mom! Robert's being a stupid cunt!"
The next year, Kennedy resigned from the Cabinet to run for a Senate seat. LBJ grew more and more paranoid about Bobby's political aspirations, and spent the next couple of years destroying his bills just to reintroduce his own, nearly identical versions. The passage of time did nothing to give either leader perspective on how crazy it was to blame the other for the assassination, thought it did make it more acceptable for them to mock each other in public.
When the 1968 election rolled around, everyone assumed that Johnson was going to run and win his second term, but following a poor showing in the New Hampshire primary, RFK decided to run against the president. It was considered an unorthodox move to run against a sitting president from your own party, but Kennedy was riding a wave of popularity, and if he was good at one thing, it was ignoring the fact that LBJ was in a position of power. Either because he'd had enough of this shit, or realizing that a knockdown drag-out election with his dead boss' brother was a bad look, Johnson shocked the world by dropping out of the race.
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"Fuck you and you and you and you. You all can eat my presidential shit. Enjoy your Nixon."
Kennedy became the frontrunner, and had just won the California primary when he was tragically assassinated, leaving the Democratic Party in tatters (leading to what was probably the shittiest convention in the history of the planet) and America up shit creek with only a Richard Nixon-shaped paddle. But even in death, the feud continued. In the last days of LBJ's presidency, Kennedy supporters in the National Park Service used a loophole to switch the name of the new Washington area football stadium from LBJ Stadium to RFK Stadium on the last day of his presidency. Had Kennedy still been alive, he probably would have been OK with just changing the name to LBJ Has No Penis Stadium.
#1. Japanese Inter-Service Rivalry Causes the U.S. to Enter World War II
You probably know that Pearl Harbor caught America off-guard, but they weren't the only ones. For Japan to come so hard at a nation that was still deciding whether or not to sit out World War II didn't make strategic sense, by pretty much everyone's estimation. Historians had puzzled over the decision for years, and then they took a look at the inter-service rivalry between Japan's army and navy. If you're familiar with the annual Army-Navy football game in America, you know that rivalries between different factions of a nation's armed forces can get pretty heated. The feud between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Imperial Japanese Army was sort of like that, except instead of being played with a football, it was played with the fate of the world.
In order to justify more troops and funding, the Japanese army and navy spent much of the 20th century picking fights with giant countries like China and Russia, often in the face of specific orders to not attack. For instance, in World War I, the navy went rogue and captured a bunch of islands in German Micronesia after they'd been told to leave them alone. They then demanded further government money to administer the new regions they had captured without orders, and the government reluctantly forked it over.
"Thank you. Now, if you don't mind, we're off to fingerbang rattlesnakes."
By 1921, the navy had nearly twice the budget of the army, and needless to say, the army was getting a little antsy. Going back to their favorite page in the Japanese military's one-page playbook, they decided to start a new war and invaded China. Since giant warships can't really do jack shit in a land war, it was the navy's turn to sit on the sidelines with their dicks firmly in hand.
By 1941, the budget was dismally low for the navy, and nobody was quite sure what to do. Psych! Of course they knew what to do. Start a war, son!
"You fucking did WHAT?!" -All of Japan
And holy shit did they get one. After attacking the United States at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, it looked like it might work out for a while, but eventually the U.S. used their superior resources to outpunch them in the Pacific. But sure as shit, the navy got that budget increase they were angling for. So we can pretty much thank the Japanese army and navy for creating the world as we know it today.
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