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A few years ago, we found a recipe on CocktailDB for a drink called a Fibber McGee, and we tried it. We liked it, so we've been making it every now and then for awhile now. It's a variation on a sweet Martini, with a bit of grapefruit juice. Few people know it, so it seems to be a fairly obscure drink. I'm not sure when it was developed or how it came about - it may have something to do with a certain radio show, but I haven't been able to determine it's origins.
It appears in print in only one book I've found so far, and it was a recent one - 2005. It was also mentioned in a NY Times article back in 1990, and one other blogger friend wrote about it a few years back.
Well, we made it again recently, so I wanted to suggest it to others - it's a nice drink. Herbal, complex and a tad sweet. Especially so if you use a red grapefruit instead of a white grapefruit. Cheers!
Fibber McGee
1½ oz Gin (I use Distiller's Gin No. 11 of course, but any traditional London dry should work well)
½ oz Sweet Vermouth (Carpana Antica)
½ oz Fresh Grapefruit Juice
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Shake ingredients with ice, strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with a grapefruit twist.
My personal exploration of cocktails, mixology, craft distilling and the Chicago cocktail scene - intended for the thoughtful imbiber. Cheers and welcome!
Friday, February 5, 2010
3 comments:
- maris said...
I'm not really a fan of gin or bitters but for some reason this combination sounds really refreshing!
- February 9, 2010 at 11:41 AM
- ~Sonja~ said...
Hi Maris,
You should definitely try it out, it's very refreshing and a nice change of pace. Cheers!
- February 9, 2010 at 11:55 AM
- Tony said...
I'm a fan of old time radio and I'm very familiar with that show. Can't wait to try this cocktail, in honor of Fibber!
- February 14, 2010 at 1:36 PM
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20 Grilled Recipes & Cooking Lessons to Help You Master the Grill!
The summer grilling season has officially begun, and we want to make sure you're ready to turn on that flame and gather around the grill. Here are some of the best grilling recipes we know — plus some cooking lessons to show you how to grill the best burger you've ever had, how to grill crisp and perfect pizza, and even how to grill no-knead bread and make dessert on the grill. There's smoky grilled cabbage, blackened beer-brined chicken, grilled guacamole, tomato-zucchini salad and more. Light up that grill!
Applying fire to food was one of the very earliest cooking techniques — and whether or not we're hardwired in our DNA to appreciate the charcoal taste of burnt wood and smoke, the grill remains one of our most beloved tools, the closest thing we still have to a communal hearth, a place to gather with beers in hand and bundles of asparagus and platters of chicken, a place to cook and eat together in the sunshine. We hope that you're ready and confident in your grilling this summer — whether that's at a charcoal-fired grill in the park, or a gas grill in your back yard.
• 1 How to Grill Really Juicy Burgers
• 2 Blacked Beer-Brined Grilled Chicken
• 3 Spicy Grilled Shrimp
• 4 How to Grill Salmon on a Cedar Plank
• 5 Grilled Pork Loin
• 6 Grilled Tangy, Spicy Boneless Skinless Chicken Thighs (For a Crowd)
• 7 Rosemary-Lemon Steak Kebabs with Flatbread
• 8 Simple Rosemary-Rubbed Pork Chops
• 9 Grilled Cabbage Wedges with Spicy Lime Dressing
• 10 Grilled Eggplant Topped with Goat Cheese and Tomato
• 11 Grilled Zucchini and Grape Tomato Salad
• 12 Grilled Guacamole
• 13 Grilled Cactus and Corn Salad
• 14 Smoky Corn and Jalapeno Dip
• 15 How To Grill Pizza
• 16 How To Bake No-Knead Bread On the Grill
• 17 Flatbread Stuffed with Curried Potatoes, Spinach, & Chickpeas
• 18 Grilled Figs with Honeyed Mascarpone
• 19 Grilled Peaches with Bourbon Vanilla Whipped Cream
• 20 Saucy and Sweet Grilled Pineappl
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I love the big blue button. It's gigantor sized. The cowl is pretty nice, too.
The cowl is just the zeebee hat without the short-row shaping: lots of garter stitch seamed up to a cosy tube. I added the crochet button loop and the gigantic button just for fun. My modelled shots were less than flattering — to both me and the cowl. The Royal Tweed is soft and squooshy … perfect for fall.
I'm quite happy with the result. Even if I did manage to place the button on the side with the seam. Oh well.
pattern: zeebee hat by schmeebot
mods: just the tube, ma'am
yarn: Lana Grossa Royal Tweed, 2 balls (=100g/200m) (color 26)
needles: US11/8.00mm
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Two beautiful, unique custom tables by Francis Whittaker, America's premier ornamental iron worker/blacksmith. He trained in Germany, where he worked under master blacksmith, Julius Schramm of Berlin. He was a hero to blacksmiths across the country for a lifetime devoted to preserving an almost lost craft and raising the standards of the blacksmith's art.
The federal government came as close as it could to declaring him a national cultural treasure in 1997, when he was honored at the White House by the National Endowment for the Arts as one of 11 National Heritage Fellows, one of the few remaining NEA prizes earmarked for individuals.
Architect Henry Hill commissioned these tables for his client Shirley Todd for her custom home in the Berkeley Highlands. They were created by Whittaker at his Forge in the forest in 1955.
Wrought iron legs, solid walnut tops.
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WTH: Female Police Officer In Wisconsin Arrested For Operating A Crack House! (Smoking Crack While On Duty)
"Federal prosecutors charged a southwestern Wisconsin police officer Tuesday with maintaining a crack house, saying she used the drug while on duty on several occasions. FBI agents arrested Platteville Police Officer Michelle Salentine, 28, on Monday night when she showed up to work her patrol shift, according to court documents. She could face 20 years in prison if convicted. Neither Salentine's attorney, listed as federal public defender Michael Lieberman, nor the U.S. attorney assigned to the case responded to after-hours phone calls Tuesday seeking comment. Platteville Police Chief Doug McKinley said Salentine joined the department in September 2004 and she had never had any problems "of this nature."" - WISN News
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BRANFORD, Conn. – The No. 1 Yale coed sailing team dominated this weekend, qualifying two sailors for the ICSA Men's Singlehanded National Championship, winning the St, Mary's Intersectional by over 100 points, and placing sixth at the Hood Trophy.
The New England Men's Singlehanded Championship was held at the McNay Family Sailing Center in Branford, Conn. Twenty-six boats came representing 13 schools and competing for the five NEISA berths to the ICSA Men's Singlehanded National Championship this November in Newport, R.I.. Three Elis competed at the event, sophomore Eric Anderson and freshmen Ian Barrows and Mitchell Kiss.
Conditions were light all weekend, only allowing ten races to be sailed. Anderson finished in 22nd. Barrows and Kiss battled at the top, finishing first and second respectively, only two points apart. Barrows, the newest New England men's singlehanded champion put up an impressive performance, especially at the end, finishing top-three the last five races and moving himself into first place. Kiss sailed an outstanding regatta as well, winning half of the races over the weekend. Barrows and Kiss will now move onto the ICSA Men's Singlehanded Championship in November along with other NEISA sailors from Harvard, University of Vermont and Coast Guard.
St. Mary's will be the host of this spring's team racing and coed fleet racing national championships, making the St. Mary's Intersectional this weekend important for training as well as competition. Luckily, the Bulldogs were able to excel in both areas, gaining valuable information about this year's nationals venue, and using this knowledge to win the regatta by over 100 points.
Saturday and Sunday both saw incredibly unstable conditions. Saturday's northeasterly fluctuated from four to 11 knots throughout the day, and Sunday's northerly was lighter but equally as unpredictable. While most of the fleet struggled to stay consistent in these trying conditions, Yale remained levelheaded.
Juniors skipper Graham Landy and crew Katherine Gaumond won A division by 30 points over the home team No. 7 St. Mary's, winning eight of the 18 races sailed. Equally successful was the B division squad of senior captain Chris Segerblom with crews sophomore Charlotte Belling in races 1-12 and junior Sarah Smith in races 13-18. They won their division by 40 points, winning seven races during the weekend. Belling said her boat was focusing on simply "getting off the line cleanly and constantly communicating about pressure."
The Hood Trophy hosted by Tufts was the other intersectional of the weekend. The Bulldogs finished sixth out of the 18 teams competing. Seniors skipper Marlena Fauer and crew Eugenia Custo Greig finished third in a tight A division while senior skipper Max Nickbarg with freshmen crews Natalya Doris and Meredith Megarry finished eighth in B division.
Next weekend the Bulldogs will head to one of the most competitive intersectionals of the fall: the Danmark Trophy hosted by the US Coast Guard Academy.
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Fldigi is a "digital modem" program for Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows.
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Type: Enhancement
Status: Open
Priority: Major
Resolution: Unresolved
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: None
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Patch:Code and Test
The implementation of clojure.core/get returns nil if its argument is not an associative collection.
This behavior can obscure common programmer errors such as:
(def a (atom {:a 1 :b 2}) (:foo a) ; forgot to deref a ;;=> nil
Calling get on something which is neither nil nor an Associative collection is almost certainly a bug, and should be indicated by an exception.
CLJ-932 was accepted as a similar enhancement to clojure.core/contains?
Patch: 0003-CLJ-1107-Throw-exception-for-get-on-unsupported-type.patch
Approach: Throw IllegalArgumentException as final fall-through case in RT.getFrom instead of returning nil.
Also see: CLJ-969
Patch clj-1107-throw-on-get-for-unsupported-types-patch-v2.txt dated May 24 2013 is identical to 0001-CLJ-1107-Throw-exception-for-get-called-on-unsupport.patch dated Nov 13 2012, except it applies cleanly to latest master. A recent commit for CLJ-1099 changed many IllegalArgumentException occurrences to Throwable in the tests, which is the only thing changed in this updated patch.
Patch clj-1107-throw-on-get-for-unsupported-types-patch-v2.txt applied cleanly to latest Clojure master as of Jan 23 2014, but no longer does with commits made to Clojure between then and Jan 30 2014. I have not checked to see how difficult or easy it may be to update this patch.
New patch 0003-CLJ-1107-Throw-exception-for-get-on-unsupported-type.patch created from master at 5cc167a.
Patch clj-1107-throw-on-unsupported-get-v4.patch dated Mar 26 2014 is identical to Stuart Sierra's patch 0003-CLJ-1107-Throw-exception-for-get-on-unsupported-type.patch, and retains his authorship. The only difference is in one line of diff context required in order to make it apply cleanly to latest master.
This would be a breaking change
Is it more idiomatic to use "({:a 1}, :a)" and a safe replacement to boot? E.g. could you mass replace "(get " with "(" in a code base, in order to find bugs? I am still learning the language, and not young anymore, and couldn't reliably remember the argument order. So, I found it easier to avoid (get) with maps anyways. Without it I can put the map first or second.
Presumably this could also now be accomplished via a spec on "get".


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Valley Hostel Informations
The Valley Hostel is the place to make your holidays memorable. We are located in the beautiful Valley of Lauterbrunnen, in the heart of the Jungfrau Region, just 20 minutes by train from Interlaken.
Our reception is open for check-in form 8 am to noon / 4pm to 10pm
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- We are on the left hand side of the street, opposite the watch and knife shop. You cant miss us!
Informations about Valley Hostel
The Valley Hostel is the place to make your holidays memorable. We are located in the beautiful Valley of Lauterbrunnen, in the heart of the Jungfrau Region, just 20 minutes by train from Interlaken.
Our reception is open for check-in form 8 am to noon / 4pm to 10pm
There is no check in after 10PM, please not that!
The Valley Hostel is centrally located in town nestled in a magnificent mountain world, surrounded by 72 waterfalls. All shops and restaurants are closer then 50 meters from our hostel. We have single, twin and double, triple and family rooms as well as 4, 5, 6 and 8 bed dorm rooms. All rooms have a nice view to the mountains and famous waterfalls. Shower and toilets are on every floor.
You can prepare your breakfast, lunch or dinner in one of our 3 kitchens in the hostel. On a nice summer day use our B.B.Q. on our large terrace. Relax while lying in one of our deck-chairs in our garden and enjoy the breathtaking view of the many waterfalls and snowcapped mountains.
Want to tell your friends at home news of your travels, just say hello, or plan a trip? If you have your own notebook with you, we have free W- LAN in the house! You will also find laundry facilities on our premises.
Whether it is winter, spring, summer or fall we offer a wide variety of excursions and activities which can be booked directly at our hostel. You can get all information and maps for these various excursions, hikes and activities at our reception.
Take a gondola to the top of the mountains where you can explore numerous hikes and trails (from easy to difficult) and enjoy the spectacular views of the Eiger, Mnch and Jungfrau plus many other glaciers and lakes. Visit the famous Schilthorn with its revolving Piz-Gloria restaurant. Here the 007 Movie, 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', was filmed. A train ride up to the Jungfrau might be the excursion for you. The Jungfraujoch-Top of Europe is the highest-altitude railway station in Europe. See the amazing views from its observation terrace the Sphinx (A winter wonderland all year round).
In winter, spend the day on skis or a snowboard exploring the 120 km of slopes in our area. On the Mannlichen-Kleine Scheidegg you can ski the whole day at the bottom of the Eiger, Mnch and Jungfrau. From the Schilthorn, you can ski all the way down to Lauterbrunnen (it is a ski run of 16 Km in length). The ski rental is just next door from our hostel! If you are not a skier, you can still enjoy the outdoors in winter with the many hiking/walking paths at First or sledding on the Eiger Run.
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Spotlight on Student Scholars - Elizabeth Neary
Elizabeth Neary '14 conducted original research at Muhlenberg College and Princeton University to learn more about one of the most important women writers of the 1890's.
Thursday, January 23, 2014 11:25 AM
Elizabeth Neary '14 is an English and Spanish double major. While researching topics for her junior year thesis, she consulted with Dr. Grant Scott, professor of English and chair of Muhlenberg's English department. He suggested that she revisit an author who had piqued her curiosity in "Decadence: The Literature of the 1890s," a course she had completed during her sophomore year with Scott.
Elizabeth received a Muhlenberg College Dean's grant to complete summer research on George Egerton, the pseudonym for Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright. Today, Egerton is seen as a New Woman and feminist writer, though she herself often disputed those terms. Her work featured assertive female protagonists whose lifestyles argued for the agency of women in an era of Victorian ideals insistent upon women serving primary functions as wives and mothers.
"My most interesting conclusion about her writing was how Egerton's personal life informed radical, intellectual and complex female protagonists," says Elizabeth. "I think the bravery she shows not only in writing these imagined roles of women but also living the life of travel, having affairs with famous male authors, marrying three times; she does it unapologetically, but she received harsh criticism for her own lifestyle and the lifestyle depicted in her stories."
Elizabeth conducted her research by examining both published works and criticisms by Egerton as well as reading the personal letters and original manuscripts housed in the Rare Books Collection of Princeton University's Firestone Library.
"It was fascinating when the process changed from reading short stories to directly reading primary sources and letters that had been written in 1893 and 1894," says Elizabeth. "Reading that correspondence really deepened my understanding of her as an individual and as a writer; it showed a motive to her stories and informed how her life related to them."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury is taking action against another clan in the huge Japanese "yakuza" crime syndicate.
Treasury officials say the government is freezing any assets that the Inagawa-kai clan may have within the jurisdiction of the United States. By designating the clan a transnational criminal organization, the government also prohibits people in the U.S. from doing business with the group.
Treasury also is imposing sanctions on two of the group's leaders, identified as clan head Jiro Kiyota and second-in-command Kazuo Uchibori.
Inagawa-kai is the third largest of the yakuza organizations. Officials in September imposed sanctions on two others.


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Normal Immunological Parameters Among Healthy Volunteers in Kambila, Mali
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00471302
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First Posted : May 9, 2007
Last Update Posted : December 5, 2018
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This study will determine the immune response to malaria infection in healthy volunteers compared with malaria patients. Malaria affects millions of people in Mali and Africa. It can cause fever, headaches, body aches, and weakness. Without treatment, the disease can be very serious in children. Developing an effective vaccine against the parasite that causes malaria is a crucial step toward controlling the disease; however, vaccines tested so far have provided very short-lived protection. A better understanding of the natural immunity to malaria may provide insight that can be applied to developing a more effective vaccine.
People 18 years of age or older who live in Kambila, Tieneguebougou or Kalifabougou, Mali, and are in good health may be eligible for this study.
Participants undergo a complete physical examination at the start of the study and then once a year for the 4-year duration of the study. They have a maximum of nine clinic visits a year to collect blood samples for research. The visits last about one hour, including a 30-minute observation time after the blood draw.
|Condition or disease
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- Obtain blood samples from healthy Malian adults in order to establish normal immunologic parameters for this population and to optimize research assays performed at the MRTC. [ Time Frame: After enrollment, all volunteers will undergo a baseline medical history and physical examination, and will provide a blood sample for a malaria blood smear, and for a filter paper sample for P. falciparum polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis. ]
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- Ability to give informed consent and willingness to comply with study requirements and procedures
- Anemia (hemoglobin less than 11 g/dL).
- Currently taking antimalarials, corticosteroids or other immunosuppressants.
- Underlying heart disease, bleeding disorder, or other conditions that in the judgment of the Principal Investigator (PI) could increase the risk to the volunteer.
- Fever greater than or equal to 37.5 degrees Celsius or evidence of an acute infection.
- Current pregnancy, as determined by urine dipstick test for pregnancy.
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To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00471302
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Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC) ( National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) ):
Healthy Volunteers
Immunological Parameters
B Lymphocyte
Healthy Volunteer
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Protozoan Infections
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The historical Buddha, also known as Gotama Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, and Buddha Śākyamuni, was born in Lumbini, in the Nepalese region of Terai, near the Indian border. Since the Pāli Nikāyas contain much more information about the teachings of the Buddha than about his life, it seems safe to postulate that the early disciples of the Buddha were more interested in preserving his teachings than in transmitting all the details of his life.
He is one of the most important Asian thinkers and spiritual masters of all time, and he contributed to many areas of philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics and ethics. The first complete biographies of the Buddha as well as the Jātaka stories about his former lives appeared centuries later, even after, and arguably as a reaction against, the dry lists and categorizations of early Abhidharma literature.
The Buddha's personal assistant, Ānanda, recited the first part of the Buddhist canon, the Sūtra Piṭaka, which contains discourses in dialogue form between the Buddha, his disciples, and his contemporaries on a variety of doctrinal and spiritual questions.
First, it contains the oldest texts of the only complete canon of early Indian Buddhism, which belong to the only surviving school of that period, namely, the Theravāda school, prevalent in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. Unfortunately, the contradictory conclusions have led most scholars to be skeptical about the possibility of knowing what the Buddha really taught. Some scholars have attempted to distinguish the Buddha's original teachings from those developed by his early disciples. More specifically, our main sources are the first four Pāli Nikāyas (Dīgha, Majjhima, Saṃyutta, Aṅguttara) and some texts of the fifth Pāli Nikāya (Dhammapada, Udāna, Itivuttaka, and Sutta Nipāta). Following what seems to be a growing scholarly tendency, I will reconstruct the philosophy of the historical Buddha by drawing on the Sutta Piṭaka of the Pāli canon.
Selves are thus conceived as evolving processes causally constrained by their past. Although there is no conclusive evidence for any specific date, most current scholars locate the Buddha's life one hundred years earlier, around the fifth century B. Even though he was born in Lumbinī while his mother was traveling to her parents' home, he spent the first twenty-nine years of his life in the royal capital, Kapilavastu, in the Nepalese region of Terai, close to the Indian border.
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Nelson Balido: A Look at the New Players to Impact the Border Debate in 2013
The last days of 2012 are upon us. For those of us who are border watchers, that means familiarizing ourselves with a new slate of players who will be impacting trade and border security in the next Congress. Whether because of redistricting or election wins, there will be lots of new faces in 2013.
In California, longtime Congressman Bob Filner departs for San Diego's City Hall, where he is now that city's mayor after serving 10 terms in the U.S. House. Now representing the district that runs from the southern part of San Diego County along the border east to the state line is former state senator Juan Vargas. In a nod to the new congressman's border district, he was recently appointed to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Vargas will join fellow San Diego County freshman Rep.-elect Scott Peters in Washington. Peters is a former San Diego Port commissioner who will represent the North County area once served by Rep. Brian Bilbray.
Moving to the east, there is one change to note in Arizona's border region.
While Rep. Raul Grijalva will continue to represent San Luis and Nogales and Rep. Ron Barber will represent Douglas, there is a new congressman on the northern edges of Yuma County due to redistricting. Rep. Paul Gosar is now representing a huge new district that spans most of the western part of the state along the Colorado River and includes parts of Yuma County. A member of the House Oversight Committee's subcommittee with jurisdiction over Homeland Security, Rep. Gosar has been a vocal critic of the Department of Justice's handling of the Fast and Furious border gun running operation.
From a statewide perspective, Rep. Jeff Flake moves to the Senate, replacing the retiring Sen. Jon Kyl. Kyl leaves big shoes to fill, but Flake is a committed voice for trade and has been a leader on immigration reform. Expect him to make an easy transition to the Senate.
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Rep. Steve Pearce will continue to be New Mexico's border region representative.
There's a new face in the Senate, though, as Martin Heinrich moves from his Albuquerque-area House seat over to the Senate, replacing the retiring Sen. Jeff Bingaman.
New Mexico has seen the most turnover of border Senate seats, with Sen. Tom Udall taking his seat in that chamber after winning the 2008 fall election when former Sen. Pete Domenici retired.
The Lone Star State saw the most upheaval in its border delegation following the fall elections.
In El Paso, Beto O'Rourke won a seat in the House after dispatching longtime Rep. Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. O'Rourke was recently named to the House Homeland Security Committee, a good fit for a new congressman who, as a candidate, stressed the need for El Paso to expand its trade opportunities.
Further to the east in the sprawling district from the far edges of El Paso County all the way to San Antonio, former state legislator Pete Gallego will be heading to Washington. Gallego was named to the House Armed Services Committee.
Heading over to where the border meets the sea, Filemon Vela will represent the Brownsville-area district after redistricting saw Rep. Blake Farenthold's district move north to be more Corpus Christi-centric. Vela will serve on the House Agriculture Committee.
Statewide, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison bids farewell to the Capitol after a distinguished career full of accomplishments for border communities. Filling her seat is Ted Cruz, who received national acclaim for his speech over the summer during the Republican National Convention and will be one to watch on the 2016 national stage.
These new faces along the U.S.-Mexico border as well as a new U.S.-Canada border district congressman from Minnesota, Rep. Rick Nolan, who defeated an emerging voice for border trade in Rep. Chip Cravaack, will inject their new ideas into the old challenges facing the border.
Will these new players put security before trade, or will they work to advance policies that acknowledge trade's importance to the country's fiscal health and North America's overall competitiveness? With a government-sequester looming that could severely hobble border agencies and damage the U.S. economy, new thinking and a willingness to work across political lines will be welcomed by border advocates.


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Dismissed Corasanti juror fined for DWI and leaving-the-scene charges
A Kenmore man who was removed from the jury hearing Dr. James G. Corasanti's fatal hit-and-run trial in May was fined $2,500 this week as part of his punishment for driving while intoxicated.
Michael E. Barron, 40, of Courier Boulevard, also was ordered to perform 100 hours of community service, complete a drinking and driving program and attend a victim-impact panel, according to the Town of Tonawanda Court. He also must pay a $400 surcharge.
Barron pleaded guilty to aggravated DWI and leaving the scene of a property damage accident.
Town Justice Daniel Cavarello on Monday fined Barron $250 for the leaving-the-scene conviction, in addition to an $85 surcharge.
Barron's driver's license also was revoked for a year.
Barron was removed as a juror on the fifth day of the Corasanti trial. A civilian called police after observing Barron driving peculiarly at about 12:10 a.m. on Elmwood Avenue. He knocked over a utility pole and drove away, officials said.
Barron's blood-alcohol content was triple the legal limit.
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Saint Laurent is one of the premier names in the fashion industry today. Since the 1960s, they have been widely considered one of the most influential forces to impact the fashion industry today. Their style is unmistakable and timeless. Their refined, sophisticated and classical frames are appealing to the young or young-at-heart alike. Saint Laurent was one of the industry's most influential names, and his groundbreaking record of dominating the fashion industry has earned the brand Saint Laurent a place of prominence within any social circle. If you are looking for a classical frame with modern accents, then the Saint Laurent collection is for you.
The Saint Laurent sunglass collection is populated with a variety of styles that meet the needs of any particular set of tastes. For men, modified aviators and acetate rectangles provide classy, masculine styles. While women, are provided a selection of feminine aviators and larger over-sized squares and butterfly frames. Bright colors and temple accents make these frames perfect for female consumer at any age.
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British actor Richard Griffiths, best known for playing muggle Uncle Vernon Dursley in the "Harry Potter" movies, has died.
Griffiths died Thursday at University Hospital in Coventry, England, from complications following heart surgery, his agent, Simon Beresford, told the Associated Press. He was 65.
Large in body and presence, Griffiths appeared in character roles in dozens of films and TV shows, but made his biggest mark as the boy wizard's grumpy uncle.
PHOTOS: Richard Griffiths 1947-2013
"Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe said Griffiths' true demeanor was far kinder.
"Richard was by my side during two of the most important moments of my career," Radcliffe said in a statement. "In August 2000, before official production had even begun on 'Potter,' we filmed a shot outside the Dursleys', which was my first ever shot as Harry. I was nervous and he made me feel at ease. Seven years later, we embarked on 'Equus' together. It was my first time doing a play but, terrified as I was, his encouragement, tutelage and humor made it a joy. In fact, any room he walked into was made twice as funny and twice as clever just by his presence. I am proud to say I knew him."
Griffiths won a Tony Award for his role as a charismatic teacher in "The History Boys," and reprised the part in the 2006 film adaptation of the school drama.
PHOTOS: Celebrities react to the death of Richard Griffiths
Born in northeast England's Thormaby-on-Tees in 1947 to parents who were deaf and mute, Griffith had a knack for nonverbal expression.
He spent a decade with the Royal Shakespeare Co., and had parts in movies including "Withnail and I," "Gandhi," "The Naked Gun 2 1/2" and "Hugo."
Griffiths' last major stage role was in a West End production of Neil Simon's comedy "The Sunshine Boys" last year opposite Danny DeVito. The pair had been due to reprise their roles in Los Angeles later this year.
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PANTONE VIEW Colour Planner Spring/Summer 2012 – Crossing Bridges and Building Colorful Dreams
Multi-discipline Forecast Provides Global Color Direction Across Fashion, Cosmetics, Lifestyle, Graphics and Industrial Design
CARLSTADT, N.J., Oct. 1, 2010 – Pantone LLC, an X-Rite company (NASDAQ: XRIT), and the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, today announced the release of the spring/summer 2012 edition of the PANTONE® VIEW Colour Planner, it's multi-discipline color forecast, entitled Bridges.
Bridges shape our environments and create vital links between people. They are simple, dynamic structures that represent the hunt for innovation. We cross bridges to discover new sights and open up our horizons – to expand and grow. Bridges build dreams and enhance our taste for fantasy. Bridges encourage collaboration and creativity. Bridges are the stimulus and conduit we use to fuel our imagination, and are our tools for exploration.
PANTONE VIEW Colour Planner Spring/Summer 2012 contemplates the idea of bridges as a metaphor for examining the patterns of life, the environment and the imagination. With colors flowing from quiet stillness to full blown intensity, it offers a multitude of surprising and innovative color patterns and combinations, and highlights the important and varied impact that surface material and texture have on color appearance.
"Because color is such an important factor in purchasing decisions today, designers need the most precise color information possible to chart where the market is going," explained Laurie Pressman, vice president of fashion, home and interiors at Pantone. "The PANTONE VIEW Colour Planner now offers even more in-depth color and material guidance to provide designers with a clear road map with which to make these critical color decisions."
The PANTONE VIEW Colour Planner Spring/Summer 2012 includes two new sections, providing the designer with more in-depth color and material direction. The book opens with an overview of the key colors and materials for the season and closes with a chart that outlines the ins and outs of color direction, highlighting the shades that are becoming less popular, those that are on the way in, and those that remain strong.
PANTONE VIEW Colour Planner Spring/Summer 2012 contains the following eight palettes:
Published bi-annually, 18-24 months ahead of the season, the PANTONE VIEW Colour Planner is based on the PANTONE FASHION + HOME Color System, the most widely used and recognized color standard in the world. The book is produced by a team of leading visionaries from all over the world with expertise in different disciplines, providing a comprehensive color forecasting service for multiple design areas, including men's and women's apparel, beauty, lifestyle, graphic and industrial design.
Within each of the season's most directional color palettes, a general introduction outlines the colors included and the philosophy behind them. In addition, a specific breakdown of each palette covers harmonies, suggested color combinations, and suitable patterns and fabrics according to end use. Individual color swatch cards for all 69 colors are also included, housed in a protective box at the back of the book, as well as a CD containing imagery from this edition to be used for story and presentation boards.
Pricing and Availability
The PANTONE VIEW Colour Planner Spring/Summer 2012 is available immediately for U.S. $750 from Pantone directly at www.pantone.com, or from PANTONE distributors nationwide. Call (888) PANTONE for a list of distributors. PANTONE VIEW Colour Planner is published bi-annually by Metropolitan Publishing BV.
About Pantone
Pantone LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of X-Rite, Incorporated, has been the world's color authority for almost 50 years, providing design professionals with products and services for the colorful exploration and expression of creativity. Always a source for color inspiration, Pantone also offers designer-inspired products and services for consumers. More information is available at www.pantone.com.
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X-Rite, Incorporated, is the global leader in color science and technology. The company, which now includes color industry leader Pantone, develops, manufactures, markets and supports innovative color solutions through measurement systems, software, color standards and services. X-Rite's expertise in inspiring, selecting, measuring, formulating, communicating and matching color helps users get color right the first time and every time, which translates to better quality and reduced costs. X-Rite serves a range of industries, including printing, packaging, photography, graphic design, video, automotive, paints, plastics, textiles, dental and medical. For further information, please visit www.xrite.com.


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Since 1986, the Dakota Valley Symphony has performed concerts in parks, churches, schools, community centers and other public buildings throughout the south metro area. The organization was created to provide opportunities for skilled volunteer musicians to perform diverse music of all periods. The group also provides a forum for aspiring local composers to premiere their work. The symphony is comprised of a 60-member orchestra, a 40-member mixed chorus and a 90-member Summer Pops orchestra and chorus, all under the direction of founder and musical director Stephen J. Ramsey. This concert was produced for KFAI by Daniel Zamzow.
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Awards Ceremony & Dinner Overview, 3 November 2011
See all the Winners and Finalists
Read an overview of the afternoon's Symposium that preceded this eventThe Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) announced KfW Westarkade (Frankfurt, Germany) by Sauerbruch Hutton architects as the 2011 Overall "Best Tall Building Worldwide" at its 10th Annual Awards Ceremony.
"As we design for a sustainable future, we desperately need a new definition of beauty that goes beyond skin deep," said 2011 CTBUH Awards Chair, Rick Cook of Cook+Fox Architects of the building. "Already being touted as one of the most energy-efficient office buildings in the world, KfW Westarkade stands out as a shining example of a truly environmentally-responsible project. The building has been carefully integrated into its context, forming relationships with its neighboring buildings, streets and parkland, while simultaneously standing out through the playful use of color. Whereas many buildings use color as a way to mask an otherwise unremarkable building, here it contributes an additional rich layer to what is already a remarkable building. Germany already has a strong reputation for achieving natural ventilation in tall office buildings, and Westarkade can now be added most positively to that list."
Accepting the award on behalf of the KfW Westarkade project team was Axel Hinterthan from building owner KfW Bankengruppe. Joining Axel on stage to collect the award were the project's architects Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton of Sauerbruch Hutton.The Council issues four regional Best Tall Building Awards annually to give recognition to projects that have made extraordinary contributions to the advancement of tall buildings and the urban environment, and that achieve sustainability at the highest and broadest level. The KfW Westarkade project was also recognized as the Best Tall Building in the Europe region. Also recognized at the ceremony were: Eight Spruce Street, New York which took the Best Tall Building Americas award, Guangzhou International Finance Center, Guangzhou took the Best Tall Building Asia & Australasia award, and The Index, Dubai took the Best Tall Building Middle East & Africa award.
"2011 has been an exceptional year for tall buildings," said CTBUH Executive Director and 2011 Awards Juror Antony Wood. "For probably the first time any of the four regional winners could easily have taken the Overall award and there was intense debate on the jury regarding the elegant simplicity of Guangzhou International Finance Center, the sustainable strategies of The Index, and the sublime organic skin of Eight Spruce Street. In the end, however, we felt that KfW Westarkade had it all, including a clever stitching together of the urban habitat."
Also honored on the evening were the Council's two 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award winners: Adrian Smith of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture won the Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award, recognized for his 40 years of designing supertall buildings including the current World's Tallest, Burj Khalifa, Dubai. Dr. Akira Wada was awarded the Fazlur R. Khan Lifetime Achievement Medal for his extensive impact on tall building design around the world, especially in the field of seismic design. Also recognized at the ceremony were the Council's 2011 Fellows: Ron Klemencic of Magnusson Klemencic Associates, Brett Taylor of Bornhorst & Ward, and John Zils of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Held on Thursday November 3rd in Mies van der Rohe's iconic Crown Hall on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus, The Awards Ceremony & Dinner was attended by an international audience of 320 tall building professionals from around the world. For the second year, the Ceremony was preceded by an afternoon's Symposium with over 600 delegates attending to hear presentations from all the award winners.
All of the 2011 Award Winners, Finalists and Nominees are published in the 2011 Awards Book, featuring building profiles with images, detailed drawings and plans, and an in-depth account of the building's design. Further information can be accessed at the CTBUH webshop.
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A young man has been given a 12 month community order after he breached a police notice banning him from meeting a 15–year–old girl.
Chesterfield magistrates' court heard this month how Jordon Spencer, 19, of Dale Road, Matlock Bath, had made text messages to the girl of a sexual nature and they had met on a park bench.
Prosecuting solicitor Ian Shaw said: "Concerns were raised by the 15–year–old's grandmother that this young girl was in a relationship with Spencer who is a 19–years–old.
"One of the concerns was that this was a sexual relationship.
"Police were shocked and a police notice was given and he was not allowed contact with this girl.
"But the couple was seen together and there had been text messages between them.
"The girl used her grandmother's phone and some of the messages were of a sexual nature."
The defendant pleaded guilty to taking the 15–year–old without lawful authority after the incident on May 9.
Defence solicitor Steve Brint said the girl indicated no sexual activity has taken place and there was no evidence of any sexual activity.
Mr Brint said Spencer originally refused to meet the girl because of the notice, however when they did meet one another it was at a war memorial in a public place and she was not abducted.
He said: "He's a young man of 19-years-old from a troubled background."
Mr Brint added: "They had not seen each other until this notice. There were communications between them but Mr Spencer had refused to attend because of the notice.
"However, having succumbed to meet, he did so. But he did not abduct her from her house. They met at the war memorial in broad daylight in a public place and spoke for 20 minutes. She went home to her grandma and he was seen and arrested."
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Kitchen Gallery: Pot Rack Inspiration
Anna's question earlier today about hanging a pot rack over the stove piqued our interest. Where do people hang their pot racks, and are there some good ideas out there that we can apply in our kitchens? So we went hunting through our archives (and a few other places) to bring you good ideas and visual inspiration for hanging your own pot rack.
&bull 1 Rebecca's Wabi Sabi - We especially like pot racks with shelves; they seem so functional. (This is a before shot from Rebecca's place; see her re-do here.)
&bull 2 Songyun and Jae's Nooks, Crannies, and Niches - We like the wood color of this pot rack. It also seems like it's hung higher, and thus more out of the way, visually.
&bull 3 Lori's Latin Lair - Wow! This one has not just pots but just about everything else you need to cook, too.
&bull 4 Maxwell and Sara Kate's place - Here the pot rack hangs directly over the island, and together they frame in the kitchen.
&bull 5 Susy's Organized Kitchen - This pot rack is hung in the corner between the ceiling and the wall, which keeps it out of the way.
&bull 6 Keep it rail - The steel pot rack against the white tile in this kitchen from Living Etc. is really beautiful.
&bull 7 Mom's New Yellow Kitchen - Love how this rack has space for lids, too.
&bull 8 Matt's DIY Pot Rack - An inspiring set of directions for a DIY pot rack.
&bull 9 Wall-Mounted Pot Rack - A beautiful pot rack on the wall, instead of on the ceiling.
&bull 10 Bicycle Wheel Pot Rack - An unusual look, made with a bicycle wheel.
&bull 11 Sean and Holly's Hot Pink Kitchen - A classic, functional pot rack right over the stove.
&bull 12 Creative Ideas from College Students - This recent article from The New York Times featured perhaps the most unusual pot rack we've seen: a wire frame attached to the ceiling. We're not sure how sturdy this would be, but it gets high marks for originality!
&bull 13 Tara's Tiny Kitchen - Tara seems to have the best of both: a pot rack above the stove, but not directly over it. Hopefully this keeps her pots within reach but out of the way of the worst splatters.
&bull 14 Jennifer's Sturdy Copper Rack - It looks like Jennifer's rack is halfway down the wall, which looks rather more accessible.
&bull 15 Kitchen Rack - A wall-mounted rack at Martha Stewart makes use of vintage porcelain or enamel supports and a new bar.
These are just a few of the pot rack installations we've seen lately. Do you have a favorite model, look, or installation you've seen? Share a link!
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text: The Halo 2 Guide to Multiplayer Dual-Wielding By Edward Fu firstname.lastname@example.com Last updated February 17, 2005 *** We interrupt this FAQ for an important announcement *** It is strongly recommended that you view this guide at GameFAQs to be guaranteed of the latest revision. I always update at GameFAQs promptly, but perhaps not so promptly on other sites and never on sites I don't even know about. *** We now return you to your regularly scheduled guide *** === Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Ranking 2.a. Great 2.b. Okay 2.c. Terrible 3. Conclusion 3.a Special Note on Needlers 4. Version History 5. Thanks 6. Contact 7. Permissions === 1. Introduction Sick of throwing frag grenades uselessly? Have a compulsion to glue down the trigger buttons? Still in love with the pistol? Have really good aim but don't want to be a sniper? Then this guide is for you. Keep in mind: this is designed primarily as a guide for multiplayer action. In single player you are best off using what you have, with occasional use of a guide like this. Plus, in single player, grenades are significantly more effective. Another disclaimer: it is very very important to keep in mind that this guide is only useful if you face off against opponents of comparable skill. It doesn't matter what combo you have if you can't handle the weapons (applies to Plasma Pistol and Magnum in particular). Bungie employees could still kick your ass with Needler + Magnum if you can't handle Plasma Pistol + Magnum. Now, before I start discussing it, let's analyze why I feel dual-wielding is much superior than single-wielding. *In any open space like in the middle of Coagulation throwing grenades is a very difficult task. *In closed spaces a good opponent will charge at you if you throw a grenade, possibly killing you as well. *Two dual-wielded weapons will kill twice as fast as a single weapon. In short, I see few purposes to single-wielding a dual-wieldable weapon. If you have the guy trapped or if he doesn't know you are there you can toss a grenade in to good effect. It's obviously also useful to take down vehicles and masses of people with grenades. However, I am not arguing that grenades are useless. Rather, I claim their advantage is by far nullified by the advantage of having a second Plasma Rifle, or having a SMG in combination with the Magnum. Also notice that I only feel it's clearly worse to single-wield a dual-wieldable weapon. I'm not saying dual-wielding is always the way to go. Against two- handed weapons like the shotgun, Battle Rifle, Beam Rifle, rocket launcher, etc. dual-wielding can easily be outclassed. Plasma Pistol + Battle Rifle is probably the deadliest set of non-dual-wielded weapons in the game, AND you can still toss grenades. Having discussed that, let's move on to dual-wielding. 2. Ranking I won't discuss the relatively rare Brute Plasma Rifle. It's virtually identical to the regular Plasma Rifle, except that I feel it is worse in virtually every area for multiplayer. So think of it as a regular Plasma Rifle, but take the regular Plasma Rifle over it any day. Second, as I somewhat mentioned before, this does not discuss weapon combinations like Plasma Pistol / Battle Rifle, because that's not really dual-wielding. That's having two weapons, switching quickly between them, and putting them to great use. This leaves five weapons that can be dual-wielded: Submachine Gun (Human) - SMG Plasma Rifle (Covenant) - PR Plasma Pistol (Covenant) - PP Magnum (Human) - M Needler (Covenant) - N This results in a total of fifteen possible combinations (not twenty-five: PP + SMG is obviously the same as SMG + PP). The vast majority of them won't be of much importance (I have yet to see someone dual-wielding magnum and needler) or are nearly impossible to get (PR + PP is a rare combination not because it's bad, but because it's significantly easier to get a better combo) but the best combinations are extremely important to your survival, especially on XBox Live. To analyze these combinations, keep in mind the following facts: * SMG does most damage against flesh, followed by PR, M, PP, and N. However, N is more EFFECTIVE than PP and M (not counting head shots) because it homes in and can stick and explode on the body of the enemy. * An overcharged PP will remove ALL shields, including overshield. The next most effective against shields is PR, then SMG, then N, then M. * The only time you EVER want to NOT overcharge the PP is if the opponent is unshielded, upon which the PP will kill faster than if you had overcharged it (unbelievably, an overcharged PP cannot kill an unshielded opponent). This is not Halo 1. The PP cannot serve as a PR if you fire really really fast. * Overcharged PP's are difficult to aim well, as they travel very slowly and barely home in. But they will remove ALL shields an opponent has, including any overshield. * You can get a head shot (kills person instantly) if and only if you use the M (okay, fine, sniper rifle too, but that's not a DWable weapon), and only if you actually can hit their head, and only if they have no shields. There is no other good use for the M. * Needles do damage when a person is hit with them, and if the needles stick they explode. Explosion damage depends on how many needles are in opponent. However, a shielded opponent can usually have needles bounce off of them (thereby not exploding) by moving sideways. (Much of this data I collected from T1 Hawk's excellent weapons FAQ) The fifteen fall into three types: Great, Okay, and Terrible They are also roughly ranked within the group, so for example PR + PR is better than PP + N. Don't take that too seriously, however: the difference between the Great combos is extremely minute. See the disclaimer at the beginning of this guide: when it comes down to PP + M vs PR + SMG the difference in skill of the combatants will far outweigh the difference between the combos. Great PP + M PR + SMG PR + M SMG + M PP + SMG Okay PR + PR SMG + SMG PR + PP M + M PP + N Terrible PR + N N + N PP + PP N + SMG N + M Notice: SMG is Great 3 times, Okay once, Terrible once. PR is Great twice, Okay twice, Terrible once. PP is Great twice, Okay twice, Terrible once. M is Great 3 times, Okay once, Terrible once. N is Great 0 times, Okay once, Terrible four times. This doesn't mean that SMG + M is Super-Great, though: a mix of Covenant and Human make up four of the five Great combos. It does mean that you shouldn't bother with N. Ever. (This is discussed later in the guide) This list will vary depending on several things: range; your aim; your opponent's skill; availability; and status of your opponent. RANGE: At long range you shouldn't even be dual-wielding: none of these weapons is very good at long-range. AIM: If you can't aim well at all you're better off with SMG's mixed with PR's (don't get any of the M or PP combos). OPPONENT SKILL: Weak opponents are often flustered if they are constantly under attack (particularly snipers): SMG's and PR's take them down easily. AVAILABILITY: If you can't find a PP + M, use SMG + M. It makes little difference. If the enemy has an overshield, PR + SMG works wonders, while if he has no shield dual SMG's rip through him EXTREMELY quickly. (Note: fun game type: no shields, everyone with only dual SMG's, no radar, small map like Ivory Tower. Total chaos.) In general, however, I have found this to be the list that works best for most. The only difficulty was breaking down the top six, for all of them are very very powerful. Let me analyze each combo now: 2.a. Great Of the Great combos, the only one that doesn't require at least some good aim is the PR + SMG. They are all so powerful, however, I generally advise that once you pick one of them up don't waste time searching for others: get killing already! PP + M Fearsomely effective. This, however, requires extremely accurate aim. Overcharge the PP and take down their shields, then go for the head shot. If done correctly, you only need one shot from each gun to kill them. If done incorrectly, you better switch weapons quick. It's difficult to aim, but if you can do it, go for it. My favorite use of it is on the map Coagulation during a CTF or something similar. Pick up the PP just above the Banshee side of the base, then go inside and take the M. If you aim well, no one can get past you without the rocket launcher / sniper rifle. Not even energy sword. Pros: Insanely good in the hands of a good aimer and can decide a confrontation in less than a second. Eliminates advantage of overshield. Cons: Reasonably difficult to find, but is feasible on most maps without wasting too much time (very easy on Coagulation and Ivory Tower in particular). Plasma overcharge takes a while to reach target. Requires very good aim (the best for any dual-wielding combo) with both PP and M, for if you miss the overcharge you won't be able to fire the PP again within time, and the M will take a while to kill a shielded opponent. PR + SMG This is the best dual-wielding combo for someone uninterested in aiming the M, or for extreme close range. The PR tears through shields very quickly, and the SMG lays waste to the flesh beneath. There's really not too much else to be said about this easy-to-find combo. Pros: Fast death thanks to the anti-shield PR and the anti-flesh SMG. Easy to find these weapons. Cons: Takes a tad longer to kill than with a M, making you vulnerable to a good M aimer. Also has no advantage against the overshield like the PP does, though still quite effective. PR + M Think of this as a slightly modified version of PP + M. Instead of two shots killing the opponent, however, you need to take down their shields using the PR first. It does have the advantage of having considerably more ammo than the PP + M combination, and it constantly sprays them with fire, making it effective against weak snipers. In addition, the PR is much more difficult to dodge than the PP. Unfortunately, an overshield will make this combination much more weak because the M cannot do enough damage to help take down the shield like the SMG can. Pros: Constantly does damage, almost as fast as PP + M Cons: Weak against an overshielded opponent. Doesn't kill as fast. Somewhat difficult to find this combo on most maps. SMG + M This is an extremely commonly seen combo and for good reason. It is almost identical to the PR + M, except for the fact that it's weaker against an overshielded opponent. SMG's work slower against shields than PR's, and by the time you get to flesh it's more important to hit the head shot than do damage with the SMG. There's little reason to choose this over PR + M. That having been said, you'll rarely have the option to choose. Considering you start with an SMG and can find a M quickly, it's better to start killing than waste time searching for a PR. Pros: Same as PR + M, but you can afford to be a little worse in aiming with the M because the SMG is very effective against flesh as well. Also easier to find. Cons: Slightly weaker than PR + M, worse against an overshielded opponent compared to any combo with a Covenant weapon PP + SMG The last of the 'Great' combos, this is quite similar to the PR + SMG and the PP + M. The reason I don't feel this is as powerful as they are is because of the slowness of the PP overcharge and the inability to get a head shot. However, if you manage to hit the opponent with the overcharge, it'll be faster than taking down the shields with a PR, and the SMG will lay waste to him much faster than a M for many people (especially if you miss the overcharge). The PP, as usual, will also destroy any overshield. Plus it's the second-easiest combo to find, in my experience. Using it is simple: overcharge then spray with SMG bullets. Pros: Very effective against an overshielded opponent. Faster than PR + SMG if you land the overcharge, and faster than PP + M if you can't aim very well with M. Also slightly more effective than PP + M if you miss the overcharge. Easy to find. Con: Relies quite a bit on you landing the overcharge, like the PP + M. Plus, a good aimer with PP + M will defeat you easily anyway. 2.b. Okay These combinations are tolerable. If you pick them up, you may as well keep them, but keep an eye out for other combos. PR + PP A candidate in the "Why Bother" category. If you pick up a PR or PP, you'll almost certainly be using it with the default SMG instead. Still, it's almost as good as PP + SMG, and you might find yourself using this on Midship. Pros: Almost same effectiveness as PP + SMG. More effective if you don't land the overcharge, less if you do. Cons: There's little reason to get this set of weapons, considering both are more effective with a M or a SMG. PR + PR This is a decent combo. However, it's really not feasible. It does rip through enemies quickly, and it suffers no recoil as the SMG's do...but this is almost never seen. It's near-impossible to get two PR's on most map without wasting too much time. If you do get it, great. If not, don't worry too much. I think it's made even worse by the fact that the default weapon is an SMG, and PR + SMG is much more effective than PR + PR. Pros: Quite effective, more than the Human counterpart SMG + SMG, especially against an overshielded opponent. Cons: Not as effective as PR + SMG, which you'll most likely be using instead. Two PR's are rare. SMG + SMG This is the easiest-to-find combo of all. It's effective, but not as much as PR + PR, and the recoil is doubled with two SMG's. Still, it's an excellent set of weapons, and considering it's what you'll most likely be using, get used to them. Dual SMG's can take down an Energy Sword. But an overshield would make this tough to recommend. Pros: Enormously easy to find. Effective. Cons: Not as effective as all the above combos because of a lack of a anti- shield or head shot weapon. Bad against an overshielded opponent. M + M This is an interesting combination. On one hand it's rare (though it's pretty easy to get on Lockout). It's also bad against shielded opponents (and don't even think about using this on an overshielded opponent). Plus you wouldn't want to use this if you can do SMG + M. On the other hand...this is probably the best combo (with SMG + SMG a very close second) against unshielded opponents. UPDATE: In retrospect, I've slightly changed my mind. It's sufficiently powerful that it's certainly worth picking up and having some with. However, I would still choose dual SMG's over this combination, simply because anyone with an overshield would completely waste you if you tried to use it. Pros: Twice the M, twice the chance of a head shot. Cons: Weaker than SMG + M, which you'll most likely be using instead. Rare. Takes a while to take down shield. Awful against an overshield. PP + N This is a funny combination. It does happen to be the only feasible combination involving a needler. The overcharge eliminates shields, the needles stick and explode always to flesh. On the other hand.....it's a needler. There is absolutely no reason you want the PP with a N instead of an SMG or PR or M. A good aimer can kill you faster with an PP than a N if you are unshielded (Keep in mind the words good aimer, however). Plus the needles will bounce off a moving shielded target. The only time I can think of to use this is if all you have is a PP and you can't find another weapon. Pros: Needles are good against flesh, and the PP removes all shields. Also removes overshield advantage. Cons: Why would you ever want a much more rare needler in this position instead of the default SMG or a M or a PR I have no idea. 2.c. Terrible These are just plain terrible. Four of them are rare anyway. In almost every case you are better off with ANY weapon in the N slot. PR + N This is a rather silly combination. It works on the same way the PP + N, but it takes slightly longer for the PR than the PP to remove shields, unless you're terrible at aiming the PP. Regardless, however, you're better off with ANYTHING other than the needler in this position. Pro: Better than PP + N if you can't aim Cons: See PP + N's con. Plus, it's not as effective as PP + N, especially against overshield N + N This combination you really only see on Battle Creek. It's certainly possible (and it is indeed fun to spam the map with needles all over), but I see no reason why to do this. A shielded opponent will have needles deflect off of him as long as he keeps moving, and needles don't do enough damage against shields. It'll certainly kill people quickly if they have no shields, but by the time you whittle their shield down they'll probably have killed you. Not to mention it STILL kills slower against unshielded opponents than other weapons. In general, I find that while you can kill someone with it, almost all of the time you'll be dead as well. Not worth the effort. It barely ranks above PP + PP and N + SMG because you can usually kill someone with this before dying, as opposed to just dying. Pro: The explosion of the needles is good against unshielded opponents. Can usually kill an opponent. Cons: Any shielded opponent worth his salt can avoid having needles stick to him. You're never going to be able to use this on an unshielded opponent, and even if you could, other weapons will still kill faster. More effective to stick with something else. Also very rare. PP + PP This combination makes no sense. You'd have to land two overcharges AND hit them several more times. Forget about it, considering how hard it is to land an overcharge and how long it takes to cool down. Amazingly, however, a UNOVERCHARGED plasma pistol will kill an unshielded opponent faster than the needler. Why do I therefore rank PP + N over PP + PP? Because it's infinitely easier to hit an unshielded opponent than with an unovercharged PP. Besides, any other weapon in one of the PP slots will be much more effective. Pro: Takes away overshield. Cons: Still a useless, rare combination. N + SMG For once, this combination is bad in and of itself, not because it's rare. The SMG takes too long to eliminate the shield, and the needles will be ineffective if the shield is in place. Rather pointless except against unshielded opponents, upon which this STILL kills slower than dual SMG's. If you ever happen to have this, ditch the needler immediately, as ANY other weapon in its place will be more useful. Even grenades. It is, however, more effective than one other combo... Pro: SMG and N are effective against flesh, once they get to it... Cons: The N is useless here. It yields roughly same results as a single SMG N + M At last we arrive at the stupidest combination of all. Think of this as a heavily dumbed-down N + SMG, which is weak itself. First of all, the needles will bounce off a shielded opponent (let's not even discuss the overshield). In turn, the M is ineffective against a shielded opponent (no head shots). Needles will stick and explode against flesh. But by that time, you most likely will have killed him with the M's head shot. ANY other weapon in EITHER slot will be more effective than this horrible combination. In some sense you could even think of this as a SMG + M, but horribly slower at removing the shield. Pro: Erm...I suppose if you somehow eliminate the enemy's shield, you can get a head shot. But you could do that almost as fast with a SINGLE M, so there's no point in keeping the N. Cons: You can't remove the shield fast enough with this combo. Don't even think about overshields. === 3. Conclusion * Good aim in Halo 2 will take you far. Plasma Pistol + Magnum kills like no other dual-wielding combo. Learn to land overcharges and head shots. * Magnums are not useless as many newbies tend to believe. They are incredibly effective when dual-wielded with the right weapons (PP, PR, and SMG) * Needlers are not useful as many newbies tend to believe. They are incredibly ineffective when dual-wielded with ANY weapon. Never bother with them. * Single player is not necessarily the best source for multiplayer strategy. Single player rewards camping and excessive caution far too much. More importantly, it makes the player focus on the wrong weapons. PP is far more effective in multiplayer, and the Brute Shot and Needler are far worse. Speaking of which... 3.a Special Note on Needlers I've received quite a bit of email regarding this. I still hold to my original anti-needler position, for several reasons: * Needlers are rarely strong enough to kill the opponent before they kill you. * Dual needlers are certainly fun, but they are rare. * Needlers make poor combinations with many weapons. However, I'm not criticizing the needler for being ineffective. Clearly the needler can do good damage, and it's a better option than no weapon at all. Unfortunately, it is far outclassed by many other weapon combos. Only PP + N is feasibly effective, yet even then any other weapon would be more effective in the needler slot. So in other words, it's not so much that needlers suck, it's that it sucks in comparison to everything else. === 4. Version History: 1.0 First version of the GameFAQs guide 1.10 Added some clarification on my position on needlers, plus a small note in the M+M section. Also touched up the stylistic in random areas and added a short disclaimer on skill up top plus some minor organization changes. Added some things into Thanks. I may yet rewrite the whole thing, I don't like the way the guide sounds. 1.11 Fixed a crapload of line break errors and other minor stuff === 5. Thanks I'm going to say thanks to: CJayC (only if he accepts this guide, which he has) Bungie - I wish they'd fix some glitches, but they still did a great job with the game. Kudos for not cracking under the hype. My Halo 2 buddies - For making me learn the hard way how effective PP + M can be T1 Hawk's weapons FAQ - For helping with much of the data. Universal FAQs - Because I wouldn't have otherwise written this. LUElinks - Just because I can. LlamaGuy rocks. Wikipedia - The best site ever, a symbol of all that I admire in the technological world: a free, open-source, decentralized source of accurate information. Inspired me to start writing. Everyone who emails me - I appreciate you taking the time to do so. === 6. Contact My email is firstname.lastname@example.com Contact with anything you like about this guide. I will respond to every email, though perhaps not as promptly as I'd like. === 7. Permissions Very simple: if you want to use this on another site, go ahead as long as you give me credit and tell me about it. I am proud of the fact that I have not misspelled "dual" as "duel" a single time in this guide.


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Gravel, rocks, snow, compact soil and dust: You trod on them all getting to Eliot Glacier, on the north side of Mount Hood.
At 8,000 feet you come across sand dunes: soft gray windblown sand undulates between ground vegetation and protective rocks along the trail within view of the glacial moraine with its walls 100 meters high — a bowl that looks like something halfpipe meister Shaun White would see in his most glowing dreams.
Those ice-carved walls only look smooth, though. At their base is a bumpy rock flat strewn with boulders, scattered small patches of snow and a single pale green pond, known as a tarn, that looks like an emerald floating in hot chocolate (photo, page B12).
Rocky debris of every grade, from powder to bus-size boulder, covers the trail or its surroundings — and more importantly, the glacier itself.
From the valley floor, Eliot looks like a smooth snow-and-ice natural structure, but up close one sees it for what it is: a rocky, sandy, mud-covered expanse. And it is that dressing of volcanic grit and granule that has been its savior from more extensive melting in recent decades.
"This material insulates the snow and ice, and keeps it from melting," glaciologist Steve Wilson told visitors on an Aug. 18 trip onto the glacier.
"This glacier, probably because of the debris, and snow and rock cover on it is probably longer than it otherwise would be, because of the protection over it," Wilson said. "If it didn't have that the terminus would probably be farther up the mountain."
Wilson, who has studied glaciers in Alaska, Antarctica and Mount Rainier, explained that "a glacier does melt, not completely. A glacier is a perennial mass of snow and ice that moves under its own weight."
In Eliot's case, a meter per year, more or less, Wilson said. "It is moving slowly but it's moving, and carrying this debris down and depositing it on the bottom or the sides, advancing, bulldozing, pushing, carrying surface stuff down," Wilson said.
For a first-timer on a glacier, it is indeed impressive to see up-close the sheer variety of mineral debris scattered on the glacier, combined with the palisades of red rock and blue ice that rise both overhead and underfoot.
Seventeen hikers gained a close view of the geological and esthetic wonders of Eliot Glacier and its surroundings on the dramatic north face of Mount Hood. Community Ed Director John Rust, an experienced climber, and Crag Rats Paul Crowley, Joe McCullough and Dick Arnold helped lead the tour, a first of its kind: Crag Rats mountaineers teamed with Community Education and Hood River Watershed Group to lead the group up to and onto Eliot Glacier, the largest north side glacier, which is visible from the city of Hood River, and is a major source of drinking water and irrigation water for the Hood River valley.
Orchardist Tom Garafalo of Hood River enjoyed seeing the source of the water that supplies fruit trees such as his, and Horizon Christian School's Sheila Sletmoe took numerous photos that she will use this school year to teach her students about erosion.
Wilson pointed to a dominant example of that: the large cliffs and rocky overhangs high on the glacier and its sides are composed of "thermally altered rock that's not very cohesive and likes to fall apart.
"If you're a climber it's not good stuff to be on," Wilson said.
"Climbers say it's like a bowling alley in the middle of the day," Crowley said
"What it's doing is landing on the glacier and the glacier is carrying it down," Wilson said. Eliot differs from southside glaciers in that respect.
"You don't have that on the other side of the mountain. That's why this glacier is so full of rock," he said.
He noted that the moraine is "pretty smooth, which means a pretty steady retreat going on."
In 2006, a PSU team looked at whether Mount Hood's glaciers in particular were growing or shrinking and at what rate. They found that the mountain's glaciers on average have lost 34 percent of their volume. Since 1982, Eliot Glacier has shrunk 30 meters in depth and lost 50 percent of its volume, according to a report by Susan Hess in the online journal New West.
From 1901-2004, Eliot Glacier receded about 625 yards, the effect visible in the mostly barren moraine, according to PSU team member Keith Jackson in his blog, geopulse (though Wilson noted that sections of ice might remain under the moraine, insulated by the rocky sides).
The most pronounced shrinkage has occurred since 1995, according to Jackson. The other six glaciers on Mount Hood exhibit similar patterns, retreating through the first half of the 1900s, advancing or at least slowing their retreat dramatically in the 1960s and 1970s, and then retreating again.
Proportionately, Coe Glacier lost the least area, 15, while White River Glacier lost the most, 61. The ice-covered area of the seven glaciers lost 34, according to Jackson.
Eliot is more than the snow-and-ice natural structure it looks like from the valley floor. It is an expanse of five main coverings: first, fields of rocks; second, gritty lava sand and mud; and third, a glistening hardpack of ice that looks like icy tile with an abstract pattern. It's awe-inspiring to trod on these sections, because you realize you are walking on your drinking water.
The fourth and fifth dominant features are the red and brown cliffs looming overhead, and massive strips of cool blue ice that resemble frozen six- to 10-foot waves.
And what covers most of these features is a dressing of volcanic grit and granule. However, just what it is resting upon could be thick or thin, stable or unstable.
The Aug. 18 tour stayed well away from the cliffs and Rust and the Crag Rats found a route to the midpoint of the glacier that steered clear of wide crevasses, though the team roped up and donned helmets and crampons (grips worn on boot soles) to stay as safe as possible on the glacier. Crevasses are often hidden and they can be quite deep.
"You have to careful on a glacier because it may seem like you're walking on snow, but the last thing to be uncovered is all the (crevasses), because that's where the deepest part is. So if you see a line of snow visible, you probably don't want to go traipsing down there."
Rust shared the following joke:
A climber slips into a crevasse and a partner leans over and calls down,
"Collins, are you okay?"
Comes back the reply, "I don't know; I'm still falling."
Wilson said aerial surveys of glaciers are part of what goes into monitoring and measuring them, but crampons-on study is critical at some point with every glacier.
"You can't always tell where the terminus is and to make repeat measurements, you gotta come out here," he said.
He will often hike for days to get to the glaciers he needs to study, and said that as rugged as Eliot Glacier is, "some are not as easy to get to as this one."
Close study of all Mount Hood glaciers is important in light of heavy and destructive debris flow like that seen in 2006 and 2008, he said.
"It's become a huge impact for infrastructure and the environment," he said.
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How to dual boot Windows XP and Windows 7 (XP installed first)
Got your hands on the Windows 7 beta and want to dual boot it alongside Windows XP? Here's our step-by-step tutorial to get you up and running with Microsoft's latest OS.
[#PAGE-BREAK#Step 1 – Introduction#]
Scenario: You want to install Windows 7 on your PC alongside your XP installation on the same drive. You have already installed XP.
Tutorial Summary: We're going to shrink the Windows XP partition on the hard disk and create enough space for an installation of Windows 7 Beta Home Premium. There are two easy methods of doing this – using the GPartEd Live CD and the DISKPART utility on the Windows 7 DVD. On some systems depending on the primary storage controller We'll then install Windows 7 and use the EasyBCD utility to modify Windows 7's bootloader to get XP loading properly.
This tutorial was tested on a VMWare Workstation 6 virtual machine.
[#PAGE-BREAK#Step 2 – Create Free Space for Windows 7#]
We assume that before you start this tutorial you have backed up the drive (partitions and data) that will host the two operating systems.
Your first step will be to modify the Windows XP system partition to make space for Windows 7 using GParted
The GParted Live CD ISO is available here â burn it to CD and boot the system from the disc. The version we used was 0.3.7-7.
When you boot from the GParted LiveCD depending on your system you should just need to select the auto-configuration boot option.
Option 1 – Using GPartEd
During boot press Enter three times to accept the defaults for keymap language and graphics settings.
When the main GUI loads right-click on the main Windows XP NTFS partition (depending on your setup probably /dev/hda1) and select Resize/Move.
Use the slider to reduce the partition size and free up enough room to install Windows 7 (at least 10GB) and click Resize/Move.
The changes haven't actually been made they've just been scheduled to run. To commit the changes and resize the partition click Apply. GParted will ask to confirm the changes â hit OK and away you go.
Option 2 – Using DISKPART
Boot the machine from the Windows 7 DVD. Select the appropriate language and then "Next".
On the Windows 7 "Install now" page press SHIFT + F10 to launch a Windows PE 2.0 command window. Then type in DISKPART and press enter to get into the DISKPART utility.
Now type in LIST VOLUME – this gives you a readout of the volumes available on the system. Select the main Windows XP volume by typing in SELECT VOLUME 0 (in most cases it will be Volume 0 – in our lab in was Volume 1).
Now type in SHRINK. Windows 7 will reduce the size the selected Volume by around 50%.
Type "exit' to get out of DISKPART and then "exit' again to close the command window.
[#PAGE-BREAK#Step 3 – Now Install Windows 7#]
If you used the GParted LiveCD to shrink the XP partition you'll need to reboot the system from the Windows 7 install DVD. If you've used DISKPART then you just need to click "Install now" and continue the installation. There will be two install options – Upgrade and Custom – select Custom.
Once the install gets to the install location there should be at least two options: a partition marked as Primary and Unallocated space. Select the unallocated space and click Next. The install will then commence.
The Windows 7 boot manager will take over the system completely.
[#PAGE-BREAK#Step 4 – Managing the Bootloader#]
Once Windows 7 is installed and the system reboots you'll be presented with a boot menu with two options: âWindows 7â and "Earlier Version of Windowsâ which is Windows XP.
At this stage the dualbooting is working perfectly but if you want to make any changes to the bootloader then you'll start to encounter some differences between the way in which Vista and Windows 7 handle operating systems on different partitions. If you boot into windows 7 and open Windows Explorer you'll see that there's only one disk partition – the Windows XP partition isn't there. This has the advantage that changes made to the Windows 7 OS have almost no chance of modifying Windows XP but it does make things tricker if you want to change anything in the bootloader as we will see.
In previous dualbooting tutorials we make use of a utility called EasyBCD by NeoSmart Technologies which is a very useful frontend GUI for BCDEDIT – the application which lets you view and modify the bootloader in Windows Vista. It also works fine for modifying the Windows 7 bootloader.
Once Windows 7 is installed call up the browser and navigate to the EasyBCD download page – download the latest version (1.7.2 at the time of writing) install and launch the application.
On the "View Settings" window you can see the entries already present in the bootloader. The main difference between the two entries is the drive which they are loaded from. Windows 7 is loaded from C: whereas Windows XP is loaded from DeviceHarddiskVolume1. Now go into "Change Settings". Under "Entry-B ased Settings" you get the option to modify the "Earlier version of Windows" entry but in the "Drive" drop-down menu you only have the option of C: or Boot. Neither of these correspond to where Windows XP is installed so if you make any changes and click "Save Settings" you'll break the bootloader entry for Windows XP and it won't boot.
There are a few options to get around this. Firstly leave the boot entry alone – it works fine with the default settings.
Secondly if you really do feel the need to change the entries you can assign a drive letter to the Windows XP partition via Windows 7 Disk Management. Right-click on Computer and select "Manage" then click on "Disk Management" in the left-hand window.
On the primary drive there will be two partitions – one defined as C: and the other without a drive letter. Right-click on the other partition (this is where Windows XP is installed) and select "Change drive letter or path". Choose a drive letter from the drop-down list and click OK. You'll now have a drive visible within Windows Explorer.
Go back into EasyBCD and into the "Change Settings" window. Change the "Earlier version of Windows" entry to something else make sure that you select the correct drive letter in the "Drive" drop-down list and click "Save Settings". Reboot the machine and the boot menu will reflect the changes you've made.
The third option is to use BCDEDIT to change the "Earlier version of Windows" entry so that you don't have to assign a drive letter and can keep the original bootloader entry.
To do this launch a Command Window with elevated access – go to Start All Programs Accessories right-click on Command Prompt and select "Run as administrator". Accept the UAC prompt.
Type in BCDEDIT and press Enter. This will display a list of the currently-configured bootloader. You'll see that "Earlier Version of Windows" is handled by the Legacy OS Loader which has an identifier of [ntldr]. To change the description (which is what you see in the boot menu) type in the following command:
bcdedit /set [ntldr] Description "Windows XP"
Press Enter and the changes are committed. Obviously the description can be anything but you have to include the quotation marks. Type in BCDEDIT again to make sure that the changes have taken hold and then reboot. The boot menu will be updated with the modified entry.
If you decide that dual-booting Windows 7 and XP is not for you then it's fairly easy to wind back the clock using EasyBCD.
All you have to do is remove the Windows 7 boot manager â in EasyBCD go to âManage Bootloaderâ select âUninstall the Vista Bootloaderâ and then âWrite MBRâ. At the moment EasyBCD isn't aware of a distinction between Vista and Windows 7 but using this option still works fine.
Restart the machine and that's it â the XP boot loader is the only one left on the system and XP loads. You can then delete the Windows 7 partition and use GPartEd to re-extend the partition to take up the entire disk or the EXTEND command in Vista DISKPART.