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Four hikes — two easy, two moderate — in Rocky Mountain National Park

Edit Denver Post 07 Jul 2016
In summertime in Colorado, one of the biggest challenges of your hike might take place before you even set a boot on the trail. It’s choosing the right hike. Sure, picking a trail is physically far easier than slogging up a fourteener ... Enjoy ... Each has its own backdrop of craggy peaks, but the view at Emerald, in a cirque beneath the steep faces of Flattop Mountain and Hallett Peak, is far and away the most dramatic view on the trail ... ....

Tekken 7 Hands-On Impressions: Going Beyond The Fist

Edit GamingBolt 07 Jul 2016
The takeaways from the Tekken 7 demo that was on display during E3 was overall very impressive. Namco are gathering what strengths they had achieved with Tekken Tag Tournament 2, such as the fluidity of motion and connecting of hits and making them even smoother on current generation consoles ... " ... Playing as the grey masked Bryan, I was instantly pitted against Paul a character with a tall blond flattop hairstyle ... ....

07/03/2016 Jack Taylor, founder of Enterprise Holdings and leading philanthropist, dies at 94 (Fisher House Foundation)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Jul 2016
(Source. Fisher House Foundation). July 3, 2016. Jack Crawford Taylor, who turned a fleet of seven cars into the world's largest rent-a-car company and donated more than $860 million to charity, died Saturday (July 2, 2016). He was 94 ... Mr. Taylor lived in Ladue. Mr ... Twelve years after founding his business, he renamed it for the carrier Enterprise, one of two flattops he served on in the Pacific theater ... Today, Enterprise Holdings Inc ... Mr ... Mr....

Building Houston’s Perfect Cheeseburger

Edit Houston Press 05 Jul 2016
A A. Facebook-. Twitter -. More shares recommend reddit email - ... For them, a one-third pound “smashed” burger patty, cooked on a very hot flattop until the exterior develops a crunchy crust, is the next best thing to heaven ... Also, there’s never been a burger that didn’t benefit from the brown crust that comes only from a very hot sear, whether it’s from a flattop grill, over flames or in a good cast-iron pan....

The Amazon - a whirlwind for the senses

Edit The Examiner 29 Jun 2016
Below, the obstinate jungle floor, buried under meters of water, attempts to re-grow itself on the water surface, providing a textured flattop for ......

Can drone swarms save America’s aircraft carriers?

Edit Asia Times 29 Jun 2016
By Robert Allison. Since the time of American hegemony, aircraft carriers and their air wings have been used effectively to control the surface of the oceans and conduct strike operations. That time is over. Today, U.S ... Navy does business ... They may even provide an incentive for opponents to strike first, as flattops are a relatively large target and the psychological impact of sinking one at the onset of a conflict would be considerable....

Kyle Petty wins Midway Classic home run derby on retired aircraft carrier

Edit Taipei Times 21 Jun 2016
Standing where fighter jets used to scream into flight, Kyle Petty of the Class-A Bakersfield Blaze on Monday evening drove seven baseballs into San Diego Bay to win the Midway Classic. It was billed as a home run derby, with pink and green buoys marking the 350 feet a ball had to fly off the flight deck of the retired USS Midway to count as a homer. In reality, it was simply some zany minor league fun on a flattop ... That’s about it.”....

Sean “Diving Board Head” O’Prez wears many psychobilly hats on top of that quiff

Edit The Examiner 10 Jun 2016
Today I introduce to you Sean O’Prez ... He left a comment on my Quaranteds article, noting “Wow! A link my review site! Famous at last .D” ... They went, like, “see that cat with the flattop bop,” and all that lark ... My favorite part is where the singer says “dig that cat with the flattop” as the camera pans in on a guy whose hair is sprayed a foot tall in the front and shorn tight across the back. Some flattop! Click here to watch "Hep Bop." ... ....

Truman finds a familiar mission in a new, Mediterranean setting

Edit Stars and Stripes 05 Jun 2016
ABOARD THE USS HARRY S. TRUMAN — The enemy is the same, as are the bombs being dropped against them. Only the setting has changed. The airstrikes begun by this aircraft carrier on Friday opened a new avenue of attack against Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq ... Bret Batchelder, the carrier strike group commander, said in an interview Friday ... Inbound pilots circled the ship to land as deck crews cleared the flattop of each new arrival....

Been There, Experienced That (CITC - Cook Inlet Tribal Council)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
(Source. CITC - Cook Inlet Tribal Council). Peer Support Specialist Sarah Savage (left) makes plans with a CITC case manager before a peer support group meeting. I understand. Two powerful words - but only if you mean them, pointed out Sarah Savage, one of three peer support specialists hired in February as part of CITC's Recovery Services continuum ... They arrange outings, too, like hikes up Flattop, movie nights, or bowling ... (noodl....

Yenisei River Shipping Company Commences Cargo Shipping Season (OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
(Source. OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel). In early May, Yenisei River Shipping Company vessels set off to the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, thus commencing the navigation season in 2016 ... from Slavyanka base (the Kuyumba deposit) to Tura settlement ... As many as 460 various vessels, such as dry-cargo motor ships, tankers, oil and bulk-cargo flattop barges, tugboats and floating cranes, will ensure prompt and regular delivery of cargoes ... (noodl....

Revealed: How the US Navy would destroy a Chinese aircraft carrier

Edit Asia Times 31 May 2016
what can disable or sink a flattop can make short work of lesser warships ... How would American mariners would dispatch an enemy flattop in combat? The answer is the default answer we give in my department in Newport ... Or they can slip underneath A2/AD defenses to assault enemy vessels, including flattops, in their coastal redoubts ... At present the PLA Navy has just one flattop, a refitted Soviet vessel dubbed Liaoning....

Regular bomb resupply vital for carrier ops against Islamic State

Edit Stars and Stripes 27 May 2016
ABOARD THE USS HARRY S. TRUMAN — Behind every bomb dropped by a carrier’s warplanes on the Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, are thousands of sailors and aviation ordnancemen involved in resupplying the ship at sea and assembling the bombs aboard the flattop. The Harry S ... A complete resupply of munitions is done about every other week ... Truman. It’s the job of the AOs to put the bombs together and get them onto the jets ... Twitter ... ....
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