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Hallice Cooke, SG, St. Anthony – The Oregon State signee was a big reason St. Anthony was able to escape with a victory over Tift County. He hit a handful of three-pointers and scored off a floater with a under a minute to go to make it a two possession game. The 6-foot-3 guard is a reliable shooter off the catch, but he's capable of handling the ball some too. He scored 11 points, including three three-pointers. He also added three assists.
Josh Brown, PG/SG, St. Anthony – Brown filled the stat sheet against Tift County. He scored 14 points (5-for-8), grabbed nine rebounds and tossed out five assists. Brown is a tough, hardnosed guard that plays hard on both ends of the floor. He rebounds well from his position, is a pretty good passer and has developed some consistency with his mid-range pull-up. He did turn the ball over seven times, so that's an area for improvement.
Tim Coleman, SG, St. Anthony – Coleman was St. Anthony's best scoring option, especially in the first half against Tift County. The 6-foot-4 wing hit one three and a pair of pull-ups off the bounce. His other buckets came off drives to the rim or off of put backs. He's active on the glass and plays physical. He finished with a team high 15 points and added seven rebounds in the St. Anthony win.
Donell Tuff, PF, Tift County – An enforcer in the paint, Tuff was the biggest surprise of the St. Anthony/Tift County game. At 6-foot-6, Tuff is a very good athlete that plays well through contact and attempts to block everything in the paint. He's tough and knows how to use his athleticism. He scored 17 points and threw down some impressive dunks over St. Anthony defenders. He also added seven rebounds.
Aaron Gordon, PF/SF, Archbishop Mitty – Unfortunately Aaron Gordon didn't have any help against Lone Peak. Despite the blow out loss, Gordon managed to impress in a major way. An explosive athlete, Gordon had the highlight reel play of the weekend when he caught an oop one-handed and viciously threw it down on a defender. He dunks everything around the rim, but he's also skilled enough to step outside and hit 22-foot jump shots. At 6-foot-7, Gordon is always active on the glass, defends well and is a pretty good passer. Gordon finished with 27 points on 13-for-25 shooting. He also reeled in 12 rebounds.
Nick Emery, SG, Lone Peak – One of the best shooters in the 2013 class was at it again on Monday. Up against Archbishop Mitty, Emery, a 6-foot-1 guard, didn't waste any time hoisting up threes. He hit four of his eight long-range attempts. All four of them were off the catch. He also worked in drives to the rim and tossed out three assists. While his reputation is that of a shooter, he's certainly capable of attacking the basket and is a crafty finisher once there.
Conner Toolson, SG, Lone Peak – Somehow Toolson has managed to stay under the radar and hasn't pulled in a Division-1 offer. That should change soon. The 6-foot-3 shooting guard is a very good long-range shooter and benefits from playing alongside Emery and Haws on the perimeter. On national television Toolson went 6-for-6 from three and scored a team high 22 points.
Jabari Parker, SF, Simeon – One of the best performances of the weekend came from Parker, Scout.com's No. 2 player. He pumped in 28 points on 12-for-18 shooting and scored them in a variety of ways. He hit a trio of threes off the catch, but also made numerous off the dribble pull-ups. Parker is slowly getting back in shape and looked like the dominant Parker we saw last spring. It was a statement game for the Duke commit.
Kendrick Nunn, SG, Simeon – To go with Parker's big game, Nunn stepped up for Simeon as well, scoring 21 points on 7-for-14 shooting. Nunn struggled early to get his shots to go down, but he ended up hitting a pair of deep threes and scored it well when he attacked the basket in transition. Nunn also added eight rebounds and tossed our four assists in the win.
R.J. Curington, SG, Oak Hill – The senior guard has put together a pretty strong senior season. His jump shot is his best weapon and he was on the mark today hitting three of his five three-point attempts and going 7-for-12 overall from the field. Off the catch from three, Curington is pretty consistent and he's developed a one-dribble pull-up as well. Curington is one of the better available 2013 shooting guards.
Sindarius Thornwell, SG, Oak Hill – Going to the basket is what Thornwell, a South Carolina signee, does the best and he showed that against Simeon. He has a nice first step, plays well through contact and is a very good finisher once he gets to the rim. Thornwell also worked in a pair of three-pointers and scored a team high 27 points. He also grabbed five boards and tossed out five assists.
Nigel Williams-Goss – It was only fitting that Williams-Goss got to take and make the game winning three-pointer against Montverde. The tough as nails guard headed to Washington brought Findlay back from down 11 points in the second half. It started with an And 1 finish. Then he hit a 6-foot runner and followed it up with four free throws. In all, Williams-Goss finished with 26 points on 8-for-12 shooting. He also added five rebounds, four assists and turned it over just once.
Dakari Johnson, C, Montverde – During the first half especially, Johnson dominated the lane. Using his big, wide frame, Johnson cleared space, grabbed the boards in his area and scored off of right jump hooks. We've touted his rebounding before and on Monday it was the offensive glass that he went to especially. In all he finished with 17 points, eight rebounds and four assists.
Devin Williams, PF, Montverde – Williams has had a strong senior season and that impressive play continued at the Hoop Hall Classic. The 6-foot-8 strongly built power forward was physical in the post and active on the glass, where he reeled in a game high 15 rebounds. He also showed some stuff on the offensive end, as he hit two mid-range jumpers and scored with both hands at the rim. The West Virginia signee is on the rise.
Tadric Jackson, SG, Tift County – Although Jackson struggled from the field shooting just 5-for-14, Jackson managed to have a major impact on Tift County's games against St. Anthony with his passing. He tossed out nine assists and a showed great court vision. He spent quite a bit of time on the ball, looked to get his teammates involved and turned it over just twice. He finished with 13 points in the loss.
T.J. Haws, PG, Lone Peak – The 2014 class is full of quality lead guards and Haws continues to prove he's one of the better ones. He's dangerous because not only can he run a team and create opportunities for his teammates, but he's a terrific shooter from both three and from mid-range. Haws hit just two of his six three-pointer attempts, but worked in five mid-range pull-ups from 12 to 18-feet. He finished with 18 points and six rebounds in the blowout win over Archbishop Mitty.
*All four of Brannen Greene's field goals against St. Anthony were three-pointers. He finished 4-for-6 from three and 4-for-10 from the field. He scored 14 points and five rebounds in the loss.
*Jaylon Tate shot the ball just three times, but he helped control the game for Simeon. He tossed out eight assists and added 10 points, as he hit seven of his eight free throw attempts.
*UNLV signee Christian Wood has an impressive upside. At 6-foot-10 he can step out and shoot the ball and has good touch around the basket. He scored 14 points and grabbed seven rebounds in the win over Montverde.
*Reggie Cameron scored a game high 20 points on 7-for-10 shooting. He hit a pair of three-pointers on five attempts.


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News & Events
Lester M. Crawford, D.V.M., Ph.D. - Association of Food and Drug Officials
This text contains Dr. Crawford's prepared remarks. It should be used with the understanding that some material may have been added or deleted during actual delivery.
Speech before
Association of Food and Drug Officials
Annual Conference
Remarks by
Lester M. Crawford, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Acting Commissioner of the FDA
June 21, 2004
Good morning, and thank you for the kind introduction. I'm very pleased to be here, and I want to thank AFDO for hosting such an important dialogue on current challenges and opportunities impacting the public health.
It appears you have quite a power-packed schedule today (five keynotes, including mine), and I know you're going to enjoy hearing from my colleagues Diane Gorman from Health Canada and Ernesto Rubio from Mexico, as well from USDA and CDC.
As today's schedule illustrates, advancing the public health is truly a collaborative effort that brings together many different organizations and agencies from around the world.
AFDO is an essential piece of this collaborative effort. You bring together government, industry and consumers both here in the U.S. and worldwide to discuss and debate important public health topics, and figure out how to address them in the most effective and efficient manner. I'd like to thank you for all of your support of our various initiatives at FDA, and for your commitment to advancing America's health.
Nowhere is this kind of collaboration more essential than in the area of counterterrorism.
In the wake of 9/11, Americans face new and sophisticated bioterror threats. In particular, our food supply has been widely recognized as a potential terrorist target: it is a life-sustaining, universally-consumed commodity; it is susceptible to contamination; and a significant amount of it -- up to 80% of our seafood, and 20% of fresh produce -- is imported from countries where we have no security presence.
Based on these considerations, the FDA was granted by Congress the lead responsibility for a broad-based, multifaceted program to protect the security of our food supply. We are currently implementing a number of unprecedented counterterrorism initiatives, with a heavy infusion of resources, and in close cooperation with an entire spectrum of federal, state, local and international agencies.
New Food Security Regulations
Specifically, FDA has implemented four new food security regulations to significantly extend our ability to prevent and respond to food safety threats:
- Prior Notice of Imported Foods
- Registration of Food Facilities
- Administrative Detention
- Establishment and Maintenance of Records (final rule upcoming)
These new rules represent innovative solutions to 21st century problems. They offer us comprehensive new information on food production and distribution for the first time, including a complete inventory of all food facilities both foreign and domestic, comprehensive information on all imported foods, and information on precisely who is handling food throughout the entire chain of custody on either side of the border. Through their cross-border "life cycle" based approach, these new rules allow FDA to better identify potentially dangerous foods, as well as respond quicker to new threats and handle ongoing outbreaks more efficiently.
Since the Bioterrorism Act was passed, our agency has done a herculean job implementing it. We've set up Internet-based programs where firms can register and send, round the clock, prior notices of intended imports. We've developed the necessary rules and guidances, and conducted extensive outreach to explain the Bioterrorism Act to food exporters in Canada, Mexico, South America, and elsewhere around the world. We're working closely with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to design and implement these new regulations. We're also working with Canada and Mexico on food security systems and infrastructure at both borders.
By the end of this summer, this in-depth, comprehensive protective system will be fully in place and functioning.
The essential backbone and muscle of these new provisions are rooted in new resources and authorities granted to our agency by the U.S. Congress.
Within a few months of 9/11, Congress authorized a $195 million supplemental appropriation for the recruitment of 655 new FDA Field employees, the great majority of whom are safeguarding our food. Three hundred of these new staffers are now posted at 90 major United States ports of entry; 33 are criminal investigators; and 100 are chemists and analysts who have been added to the existing network of food-safety labs, plus a new Food Emergency Response Network. At present, 72 state and federal laboratories have submitted laboratory qualification checklists for membership in FERN.
I'd like to take a few moments to tell you more about this Food Emergency Response Network, or FERN as we call it.
FERN is a national initiative designed to integrate America's laboratory infrastructure in order to better detect and respond to bioterror threat agents at the local, state, and federal levels. The primary objectives of the FERN are fourfold:
- Prevention (federal and state surveillance sampling programs to monitor the food supply),
- Preparedness (strengthen laboratory capacity and capabilities),
- Response (surge capacity to handle terrorist attacks or a national emergency involving the food supply), and
- Recovery (support recalls, seizures, and disposal of contaminated food to restore confidence in the food supply).
FERN offers a tiered screening and confirmation testing laboratory system composed of federal, state, and local governmental laboratories. In particular, this network is responsible for analyzing food samples implicated in threats, terrorist events, or contamination; responding to large-scale emergencies involving food; and conducting ongoing programs to monitor food for the presence of threat agents.
The FERN initiative was begun at the behest of the White House Homeland Security Council and Interagency Food Working Group, and both FDA and USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) have been directed to lead this effort. FERN's role in protection of the nation's food supply was further outlined in the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 9 (HSPD-9).
I'd like to emphasize here that the success of FERN relies on full collaboration and participation at not just the federal level, but also importantly at the state and local levels. And so, we are requesting ongoing cooperation and support through state laboratory officials' participation with our federal partners in the formation, development, and operation of the FERN.
A variety of committees and workgroups have already been formed. These include the FERN Steering Committee as well as other committees dealing with analytical methods, surveillance, proficiency testing, training, and communications. State and federal participants on these groups will assist in the development of FERN policies and operating guidelines, participate in conference calls, and attend conferences and planning meetings.
State participants of the FERN include agricultural, public health, veterinary diagnostic, and environmental laboratories. Laboratories from a variety of federal agencies are also members of the FERN Steering Committee. These laboratories represent the FDA, FSIS, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Defense, Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, the Agricultural Marketing Service, and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Other federal members of the FERN include the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition, the FERN is working closely with the Laboratory Response Network (LRN) and the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) to ensure there are no gaps in our nation's safety net for human health.
This is an ambitious effort, but it is an important one. And we hope we can count on your support of this strategic initiative by allowing your employees to work with us to bring it to completion. Your support of the FERN and its mission is vital for protecting our nation's food supply. I'd like to thank you in advance for your assistance and I look forward to our close collaboration in the months ahead.
In addition to our new food security regulations and the FERN initiative, FDA has taken a number of other important steps to combat bioterrorism. For example, we've issued guidances on security measures for every major type of food business and facility, both domestic and foreign. We initiated a scientific assessment of the vulnerability of our food to attacks with biological, chemical, and radiological agents. We've participated in interagency counter-terrorism exercises; developed a rapid food-pathogen detector; carried out hundreds of inspections of food facilities based on appraisal of their vulnerability to terrorism; and we've multiplied many times over spot inspections of imported food products.
We're spending $5 million working with the National Center for Food Safety and Technology; Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition; and National Center for Natural Products Research on research in three broad food and animal feed security areas. All told, we have more than 25 intramural research projects on food security.
All this does not mean that we've eliminated the possibility of a terrorist attack on our food supply. But I'm happy to say we are far, far better prepared to prevent, mitigate, or cope with it than we were three years ago.
Medical Countermeasures / Project BioShield
Protecting consumers against terrorism and emerging disease also requires that Americans have access to safe and effective medical countermeasures. To that end, over the past year, FDA has worked closely with scientists and product developers and has taken new steps to speed the development of these safe, effective treatments.
For example, FDA collaborated with CDC and other sister agencies on the development and distribution of anthrax and smallpox vaccines. The agency also issued an important new guidance on the development of Radiogardase ("Prussian Blue") for treatment of internal contamination with thallium or radioactive cesium.
FDA has also encouraged the development of new medical countermeasures through our support for the Project BioShield Act of 2004. This legislation was introduced to address the existing lack of reward for developing safer, more effective countermeasures. If/when it gets signed into law, BioShield will give FDA the authority to make new medical countermeasures available more quickly in the event of a terrorist attack.
This legislation has cleared the Senate and is currently awaiting action in the House. We are optimistic that Congress will soon finalize its work on this and send the BioShield legislation to the President for his signature.
I'd like to spend the rest of my time this morning discussing some important steps FDA is taking to improve the safety and efficacy of the products we regulate by updating the way these products are manufactured. What we're talking about here are the so-called Good Manufacturing Practices, or GMPs for short. FDA is developing a roadmap for food and medical product manufacturers that will allow for better quality products, more effective risk management, and improved public health for all Americans.
Pharmaceutical GMPs
Our regulations for drug manufacturing haven't been substantially updated in 25 years. Meanwhile, best practices in manufacturing have undergone significant progress, particularly in other high-tech industries which have adopted "six sigma" and other quality improvement methodologies.
And so, what we're doing is overhauling and upgrading a body of outdated standards and requirements called the pharmaceutical Good Manufacturing Practices. We want to make sure that our regulations encourage progress, savings and quality improvements in medicine. Our new regulatory approaches are being designed to encourage companies to continuously seek out and apply cost-reducing and precision-enhancing innovation in manufacturing and technology.
This project is still underway, and we are already seeing major progress in industry. We anticipate the pharmaceutical GMP initiatives will be completed by the end of this summer.
Food GMPs
Good Manufacturing Practices for foods are just as critical. FDA is currently undertaking two important initiatives – the modernization of the current food GMPs and development of GMPs for dietary supplement manufacturers – which are aimed at improving the quality of the foods that we eat and reducing the risk of adverse health effects to consumers.
The food GMPs were originally promulgated in the late 1970's and were last revised in 1986 in response to the identification of several newly emerging food-borne pathogens such as Salmonella enteriditis, and hemorrhagicE. coli. Food GMPs are an important part of the nation's control over food safety problems. Processing failures from a lack of the application of modern GMP controls are a major cause of food product recalls.
Since the last revision of food GMPs, we have continued to greatly expand our understanding of food-borne illness and have recognized the importance of several new bacterial, viral, and protozoan foodborne pathogens, such as Listeria monocytogenes, Norovirus, and Cryptosporidium. In many cases, these pathogens can be adequately controlled only by the implementation of appropriate GMPs by food-processing establishments.
Food allergens and certain other food ingredients are now recognized as a hazard for sensitive individuals. Cross-contamination of food products with a food allergen may also be prevented through the implementation of appropriate GMPs in food processing.
Rapid advances in food processing technology have also occurred since the GMPs were last revised. Modernization of the GMPs will be essential in creating opportunities for incorporation of newer technologies and better manufacturing techniques and process controls.
We believe this effort, like our work on current good manufacturing practices for medical products, will improve the safety of conventional foods and dietary supplements.
FDA (CFSAN) began the effort to examine the underlying health basis and enforceability of its preventive controls, including GMPs by establishing a Food GMP Modernization Working Group in July of 2002. This Working Group initiated research in two areas: the impact of current GMPs on food safety, and the impact of revised GMPs on food safety and the likely economic impact of such revisions.
To date, the GMP Modernization Working Group has completed: A literature review related to GMPs; and a solicitation of expert opinions, which will contribute to a qualitative evaluation of food risks and the ability of different preventive measures to address those risks.
I am pleased to announce that as a part of this continuing process to modernize the food GMPs, FDA will hold three public meetings this summer to obtain stakeholder input (especially from small businesses) on ways in which the food GMPs should be updated. These meetings will be held in different regions of the country, with one in College Park, MD, one in Chicago, IL and one in Monterey, CA. The three meetings were just announced in the Federal Register and include a list of specific questions about food GMP modernization that FDA would like participants to address.
FDA intends to evaluate the data and information received from these public meetings to determine appropriate revisions to food GMP regulations. We will be accepting written comments through September 10, 2004, at which point we will proceed with rulemaking.
In concert with this review and modernization of food GMPs, FDA is also pushing hard on finalizing the first GMP guidelines for dietary supplement manufacturers.
Consumer interest in dietary supplements has increased exponentially in recent years. According to a recent Institute of Medicine report, American consumers are spending $18 billion annually on dietary supplements and there are about 29,000 such products on the market, with another 1,000 new products introduced each year.
Last spring, FDA proposed comprehensive new regulations that will set manufacturing and labeling standards for the first time for all dietary supplements marketed in the United States, focusing on their quality, consistency and potency.
When finalized, this rule will help protect consumers from dietary supplements that contain impurities or contaminants as a result of how they are manufactured or handled. It will also place dietary supplement labeling under closer scrutiny. Dietary supplement labels cannot claim the supplement will treat or cure a disease, and since December 2002 FDA has worked with the Federal Trade Commission to challenge false claims of supplement effectiveness for treating a range of diseases.
In short, the dietary supplement GMPs will eliminate the "buyer beware" situation Americans now commonly face when they purchase these types of health products.
In keeping with our risk management strategy, FDA will continue to coordinate future revisions of the food GMPs with dietary supplement GMPs to ensure we are doing all we can to protect and advance the public health.
Dietary Supplement Enforcement Strategy
FDA is also outlining a science-based approach to enforcement in order to protect American consumers from unsafe and/or misleading dietary supplements.
FDA has focused its enforcement efforts over the past year to ensure consumers are not being harmed as a result of claims that overstate the effectiveness of dietary supplement products. In the last 6 months alone, FDA has:
- inspected 180 domestic dietary supplement manufacturers;
- sent 119 warning letters to dietary supplement distributors;
- refused entry to 1,171 foreign shipments of dietary supplements; and
- seized or supervised the voluntary destruction of almost $18 million worth of mislabeled or adulterated products.
Most notably, dietary supplements containing ephedrine alkaloids have been taken of the market. These products were extensively promoted for aiding weight control and boosting sports performance and energy. The totality of the available data showed little evidence of ephedra's effectiveness except for modest, short-term weight loss without any clear health benefit, while confirming that the substance raises blood pressure and otherwise stresses the circulatory system. These effects are linked to significant adverse health outcomes, including heart attack and stroke.
In March FDA requested that 23 companies cease distributing dietary supplements containing androstenedione, which are marketed to stimulate testosterone and muscle growth but have anabolic steroid effects in the body. This set of products poses substantial safety risks to all Americans, particularly our nation's youth and athletes.
One of the key messages of this effort is that there are no safe quick fixes when it comes to losing weight and improving athletic performance, and it is only through proper diets, nutrition and exercise that we can improve our performance and more importantly improve our health.
Over the next several months, we will be building out our enforcement strategy and utilizing every tool available under DSHEA to act against unsafe supplements and false or misleading supplement labeling claims.
This includes developing approaches to systematically review the evidence about the safety of individual dietary supplements. FDA expects to evaluate the available pharmacology, published literature (including animal, in vitro, epidemiological and clinical trial data) evidence-based reviews, and adverse event information -- the approach that formed the scientific foundation for FDA's recent rulemaking on ephedra.
I thank you for your attention, and for the opportunity to share with you some of FDA's current priorities for protecting and advancing the public health. Thank you.

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Hornblower to appeal dismissal of suit on Maid of the Mist deal
NIAGARA FALLS – The California company that challenged a deal giving the Maid of the Mist Corp. the right to build a boat dock and storage facility on the American side of the Falls said Friday it will appeal a judge's dismissal of its lawsuit.
Hornblower Yachts – which came out on the wrong end of Thursday's decision from State Supreme Court Justice Catherine Nugent-Panepinto – plans to continue its legal fight, said Richard Jacobs, the company's general counsel.
"We're obviously disappointed with the decision," Jacobs said. "I think it's a $100 million error by Judge Panepinto."
The lawsuit filed earlier this year sought to nullify an agreement reached between the state and the Maid of the Mist allowing for the dock facility to be constructed. Construction of the facility was seen as crucial to keep the company in operation on the American side.
Under the deal announced last November by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Maid of the Mist, the tourism venue agreed to triple its annual rent payments to the state, an amount expected to reach $105 million in the three decades left on the contract.
Jacobs, repeating statements previously made by company representatives, on Friday again said Hornblower would have paid the state $100 million more than it will receive under its deal with the Maid.
Jacobs said the company expects it will win the case on appeal.
Hornblower officials, who won the rights to operate boat tours on the Canadian side starting next year, insisted the project should have included an open, public bidding process.
Nugent-Panepinto, in her ruling, said she had to defer to the state agencies' conclusions that no public bidding was required because it was only an "amendment" to a 2002 deal. The Maid is paying $32 million for the construction of the dock and storage facility.
In her decision, she also wrote that Hornblower did not have the legal standing to challenge the deal.
On Thursday, an attorney for the company called the judge's decision "further confirmation that we did the right thing."
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QUETTA, (Dawn): The Ghalib Mehsud faction of the outlawed Tehrik Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack on the Samungli and Khalid airbases in Quetta in which 10 militants were killed by security forces.
Ghalib Mehsud is the leader of the TTP group wing specialising in suicide attacks.
Security forces thwarted the attack and also arrested one injured militant and shifted him to an unknown place for interrogation.
Balochistan police chief Muhammad Umlaish told media representatives that forces had concluded the operation in Quetta.
The police chief moreover said that 11 security personnel were injured during the operation that lasted for more than four hours. All injured were being treated in the Civil Military Hospital in Quetta cantonment.
He said 11 rocket launchers were recovered from the Khalid airbase while a huge quantity of arms and ammunition was recovered from the Samungli airbase.
"All entry and exit points leading to the airport and airbases are being strictly guarded," Umlaish said.
Responding to a question, he said the militants were spotted instantly.
Moreover, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) in a statement said that the Samungli and Khalid airbases in Quetta have been cleared.
Imran Qureshi, the Superintendent of Police moreover told Dawn that the operation was completed in the early hours of Friday.
Security forces also detained five suspects in a search operation conducted in connection with the attack targeting the Samungli airbase.
"Police are interrogating the suspects," Qureshi said.
"All dead terrorists seem to be Uzbeks," Home Minister Balochistan Sarfaraz Bugti told Dawn.
Khan Wasey, a spokesman for Frontier Corps, told Dawn that the attack had begun with the militants opening fire at the air base and hurling grenades.
Wasey said the attackers had also fired seven rockets that landed in the premises of the two airbases.
More than 20 huge explosions were heard during the operation, police said, adding that the blasts were followed by intense firing.


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As insane as it is to watch the likes of Kurt and Blaine live it, we're so jealous that we just roll with it.
He presumed to place me under restraint in his own house in hopes of either driving me insane or poisoning me.
And the insane cost of keeping so many nonviolent people locked up is an investment in failure.
Because each and every one of the details is ridiculous and insane.
Brought about by the insane wrangling of the traitors to the State of Kentucky!
It was insane of him to go to the Hearing, but he would do it.
He was not in love with her or with any one, but he was in that insane mood when honourable men marry, sometimes disastrously.
There was a friend of mine who went to visit a famous asylum for the insane.
"It's my opinion you'd done better to have gone to the insane asylum folks about her," rejoined Cap'n Ira.
1550s, from Latin insanus "mad, insane; outrageous, excessive, extravagant," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + sanus "well, healthy, sane" (see sane). Originally only of persons; of actions, from 1842. Cf. lunatic; and Italian pazzo "insane," originally a euphemism, from Latin patiens "suffering." German verrückt, literally past participle of verrücken "to displace," "applied to the brain as to a clock that is 'out of order' " [Buck]. The noun meaning "insane person" is attested from 1786.
insane in·sane (ĭn-sān')
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Tucson chef Jamie Castro has parked her Jamie's Bitchen Kitchen Cuban food truck for the summer.
Castro is on hiatus and "may be back in the fall," she said. She cited family matters for the sabbatical.
Castro took the truck out for one final run last weekend.
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Bus service generates complaints
Published Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Complaints have been rolling into Columbia Public Schools over First Student bus service, and the school district is creating a formal database to keep them straight.
"I'm going to track all of the concerns and calls so we can have a gauge to measure whether we're making progress or regressing," said Nick Boren, chief operations officer for the school district.
First Student provides transportation for Columbia schools through a contractual arrangement. Options are limited because the company is the only bus service in town with a large enough fleet to serve the district, with more than 140 buses running roughly 280 routes.
Columbia Public Schools could operate its own fleet of buses. Boren said initial costs could be excessive because a bus can cost more than $70,000, but he's not opposed to finding another provider when First Student's contract expires in two years. "My eyes are wide open with respect to what we need to do and what options are out there for Columbia Public Schools," he said. "All options are open. Hopefully, First Student will dig in and solve some of these issues."
This is Boren's first year with the district, so he doesn't know whether concerns are higher this year than in the past. Other administrators have told him problems have decreased over the years, although the district has not recorded complaints in the past.
But "one transportation issue is one issue too many," he said.
Boren is a member of the Missouri Association of Pupil Transportation board.
"I take each concern very seriously. We just have to continue to do a better job and reach a standard of excellence that's acceptable," he said. "I don't know if we're there or not with regard to First Student, but we're dealing with it each and every day."
Among the complaints:
● Anna Ramm's 4-year-old autistic son attends the early childhood center on Waco Road. As part of his specialized education plan, Ramm is encouraged to let her son ride the bus to gain independence. But on two separate occasions, the child was dropped off at his day-care center an hour and a half late. On one of the days, he returned home soaked with sweat even though the special-needs bus had air conditioning.
Ramm was later told the driver had made unscheduled stops to pick up children from another school. But why he was so sweaty remains a mystery. Her son can't speak, so he can't tell her what happened, and First Student staff said they couldn't show her the video surveillance footage because the bus camera wasn't operational that day.
Boren acknowledged the driver in that instance violated First Student procedures by making the unscheduled stops.
● Mark Hughes wasn't happy when he found out his daughter's bus driver missed her stop and refused to turn around. Instead, the Jefferson Junior High School student was dropped off at Gentry Middle School, forcing the 13-year-old girl to walk alone to her home more than a mile away.
Boren said he hadn't heard of that incident, but drivers are supposed to turn around if they miss a stop.
● One bus route was restructured after some parents complained the trips were too long. Ann Youmans took concerns about that route to administrators and the school board after First Student personnel were unresponsive. She said a group of parents constantly got busy signals or no answer when they called the bus barn. When one parent finally got through, "nobody did anything," she said.
Boren said he's trying to improve communication with First Student. He's begun meeting with the company's regional and local managers monthly to review problems.
First Student contract manager Denise Apperson did respond to a Tribune phone message. Company spokeswoman Jennifer Robinson, who works out of Cincinnati, said she wasn't aware of any concerns about Columbia Public Schools bus routes. But the company's general rule calls for staff to address each concern, she said. "We always have an open-door policy when it comes to the children we transport."
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The Senate gave its stamp of approval today to US Senator Charles Schumer's legislation authorizing the FTC to create a no-spam email registry. Schumer's registry bill was included in the CAN SPAM bill that also imposes criminal penalties and fines on repeat spammers. Schumer issued the following statement:
"With this bill, Congress is saying that if you're a spammer, you could wind up in the slammer. Is this bill going to solve everything? No. Will it make a real difference? You betcha," Schumer said.
"There's no single solution to solving the spam scourge but this bill takes a number of needed steps to help people reclaim their in-boxes, including the registry provision that I proposed a year ago as well as criminal penalties and fines for repeat spammers. The public will finally get some help curbing the onslaught of unwanted email that threatens the viability of the Internet," Schumer added.
The bill requires the FTC to deliver a plan to Congress for creating a no-spam registry within six months and authorizes it to implement the plan within 9 months. The public support for a no-spam registry is overwhelming and the FTC has already said it is technologically possible. Email spam is any form of unsolicited email that users receive from commercial sources. The most common forms of spam include advertisements for online gambling services, pornography, herbal remedies or financial schemes, many of which are fraudulent in nature.
A national survey, conducted by UnSpam and InsightExpress, shows that 3 in 4 Americans favor a no-spam registry. The poll also showed that parents are growing increasingly concerned about email spam infested with pornography and think a federal "no-spam" list akin to the FTC's "Do Not Call" registry is the best way to keep obscene emails from reaching their children's in-boxes.
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Uruguays national telecoms operator Administracion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Antel) is aiming to increase the number of households connected to its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network to 500,000 by the end of this year, the companys president Carolina Cosse is quoted by El Pais as saying. At present, around 288,000 customers are connected to Antels fibre-optic infrastructure, which passes about 740,000 homes in the country. Last year the state-owned company said it will invest USD1.112 billion in its operations by 2017, around USD727 million of which will be spent on its access network, including the rollout and expansion of its FTTH infrastructure. Cosse also revealed that Antels 4G LTE network, which was launched in December 2011, covers 80% of the capital Montevideo and 99% of Punta del Este.
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This art print is taken from our original illustration of a classic french broom wagon 'la voiture balai'. The citroen van's role was to follow behind the Tour de France 'sweeping up' all the injured, sick or exhausted cyclists along the way. This quirky print would make a great gift for a cycling fan, or of course as a little treat for yourself!
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When NBC's David Gregory asked Obama whether the fiscal cliff mess gives him a "Lincoln moment," Obama said: "Well, no."
"Look, A, I never compare myself to Lincoln," Obama said during his Meet the Press interview this past weekend. "And, B, obviously the magnitude of the issues are quite different from the Civil War and slavery."
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So we've landed in Singapore, our last stop before home, and made our way to Fei Fei and Tudor's house where we're crashing for two nights. Nothing much to report, but we did hear from our cabbie here that there was a terrorist plot foiled and a bunch of people killed in raids in Bali on Sundays while we were there. Apparently even in the same city! Crazy.
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For 2013 we're really focused on smart growth. For LAUNCH it's more important to present the right mix of brands than it is to have the sheer number of exhibitors increase, so we're capping the show at 120 brands this year. The goal isn't to exclude any one, rather to ensure that each exhibitor at LAUNCH contributes to the intimate, cohesive energy on the show floor.
What lessons did you learn in the first year that you're building off?
Following the success of the first LAUNCH show, there were so many lessons learned and valuable take aways. For instance, Ray Barbee's instrumental jams were perfect for the vibe of the event and the really suited the venue. However, day two we had a punk band play—not the best call. Amps turned up to ten inside an airplane hangar with a tin roof just didn't work. There were a lot of little things like that which we learned along the way, and now that we have the first show behind us, we've made sure to take those little lessons and put that knowledge to good use. You can expect some really cool upgrades to the show next Summer.
Here's a look back at last year's show:
What won't be making an encore appearance?
Like I said, we will not be bringing in a punk band—that's for sure. We'll make some other tweaks as well, for instance we will have several food truck options next year. The lines this year got pretty long, so we're going to make little corrections for things like that. We've also upgraded our Website pre-registration system, exhibitor application process, and several other internal operations. We're also working on some really cool lounge concepts, so that aspect of the show will be quite a bit different this coming year as well.
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Following the first show, there's been a major increase in interest from brands. I think now that we have the first show under our belts, and because the show was well-received by the media, retailers, and exhibitors we're in a good spot to grow the show in the right way. Now the proof of concept is out there, and word of mouth has been great as well, so I'd say we're in a really good position and there's excitement for the event from returning exhibitors and new additions as well.
What percentage of brands are coming back?
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Are you switching it up on the jury or will it be the same people?
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Each day this week, leading up to Pickle Day, we're featuring different Russ & Daughters pickled products here on the blog. (And then we'll be serving our Beet & Lemon Shrub at the Pickle Day festival on Sunday, October 17.)
Today: Pickled Herring with Curry, Medjool dates and Roasted Cashews.
Sweet and spice meet in this twist on pickled herring: above, a photo of a dish we created for the Russ & Daughters Herring Pairing. Our own pickled herring is served with a sauce of curry powder, lemon, sour cream, buttermilk, and pepper. It's great on its own, and known as Curried Herring in the shop, but for a real treat, serve the Curried Herring with medjool dates and roasted cashews. It's a meeting of both Russ & Daughters counters – Curried Herring from the fish counter and Medjool dates and cashews from the sweets side of the shop.
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What magic ingredient turns an architect into a success? The answer is talent, certainly, but also the ability to keep up with the ever-evolving world of products and materials, and to use familiar ones inventively.
Whether it's a new kind of cast glass, a lightweight but durable wall panel, or a window whose aesthetics matches its energy performance, the pursuit of an architectural palette continues apace. And attaining a firsthand knowledge of those things is a visceral process as well as an intellectual one. As Manhattan architect Deborah Berke, AIA, puts it, "You can't be particularly creative with a material until you touch it, smell it, and knock on it with your knuckles."
Architects tune into the material world wherever they find it--in design magazines, on the Internet, in catalogs, through subcontractors, or while driving by a local construction site. "We benefit enormously from being in New York and being connected to the art world, in terms of our clients, going to art museums, and my teaching at Yale," Berke says. Los Angeles architect Brian Murphy, AIA, BAM Construction and Design, finds information and inspiration on the road. "I'm a materials junkie," he says. "As I rattle around town I'm engaged in how people are building things, be it a skateboard ramp or a train trestle."
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When it comes to tracking mainstream products and materials for the residential market, of course, most architects go to the source for regular infusions of information. Because the window and door companies are particularly competitive, their sales reps are tireless about pitching their products to architectural firms, notes Stephen Tilly, AIA, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. "They'll come in, bring lunch, do an education session, and update our binders. They know that if we have the latest information, we're more likely to spec their products." Ned Stoll of Partners: Stoll & Stoll Architects, of New Rochelle, N.Y., agrees. "Those manufacturers, along with the finishes people, are among the most organized," he says. "It's the lighting and mechanical systems companies that we have to chase down."
Tuck Hinton Architects, Nashville, Tenn., welcomes some kind of supplier nearly every week. "It's a win-win situation," says Kem Hinton, FAIA. "As with clothing, you get certain companies you know provide great things that are built well." And although the firm members keep an open mind, they generally view promises of novelty as old-hat. "If someone walks in and says, "We've got the four new hottest things,' I say, 'Yeah, sure.' There should be some skepticism," Hinton says. "We want our clients to accept inventive solutions, but we also want to make sure we're doing something they'll be pleased with for a long time."
Rather than schedule visiting reps on a regular basis, Berke's office prefers to host show-and-tell sessions with smaller craftspeople. Those who specialize in arts such as making resin-based materials, for example, will be invited in. And "if we have a specific major project going and know we're going to use Marvin Windows, we'll call the Marvin rep to come in and show us what they're doing," she says. The weekly interoffice design panel is another in-formal, albeit consistent, way information makes the rounds. Every Wednesday the staff gathers to talk about a project under way, and often those discussions revolve around materials. "It gives everyone in the office a voice," Berke says, "and is like having 30 ears and eyes."
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Tilly also involves all 17 of his staff in information-gathering—or at least in organizing it. The office manager collects incoming literature and puts it in a file. Every two weeks a different staff member takes responsibility for analyzing the information, logging it into the library database, filing it, and circulating a list of the things that have come in. Literature picked up here and there finds its way into the archives, too.
"One of the most important things about practicing is being a catalog freak," Tilly says. He's fascinated by medical, technical, and industrial supply catalogs, as well as products from the theater world, such as scrims and lighting rods. "If you're interested in doing offbeat interiors, those are great things to have available," he says. The firm recently purchased adjacent retail space to house its store of knowledge. "We'd designed a library recently and decided to do one for ourselves," he says.
Keeping an architectural library current, though, is an ongoing struggle. Rather than taking a scattershot approach, Stoll devised a way to give every section of the Construction Specifications Institute equal and methodical attention. Each month the firm focuses on a different section so that during the course of a year, 12 out of CSI's 16 divisions get covered (four are not applicable to his work, he says). During windows-and-doors month, for example, the firm will pull out all the catalogs and magazine clippings and invite the company reps in to give their spiel and update the binder.
"When we focus on one area at a time, we can compare why we like this type of window more than the one we saw the week before, or talk about specific applications the various products are good for," Stoll says. "A lot of the investigations we do are product-driven," the architect adds. "We'll need something and go out and investigate it. But we did find that's kind of hit-or-miss. We really like having our library up-to-date. Because when we need to make a search, we're already in a rush."
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The quest for speed and precision is driving a lot of architects to the Internet for product and materials research. In particular, firms whose design ethic involves a specific vocabulary turn to the Internet as an expeditious alternative to paging through a Sweet's catalog. "A lot of times we have to match new products with Michael Graves' language, which is always expanding," says architect Bob Miller, of Michael Graves & Associates' Manhattan office. "It's a matter of taking something we have and adapting it with a new product. We get a lot of requests from clients for unique products, such as a concrete countertop embedded with glass. You can type in different buzzwords, like custom decorative countertops, and the search engine will suddenly give you a list of different companies that can fabricate them."
On the other side of the coin, George Beylerian established Material ConneXion (www.materialconnexion.com
"The key word is innovation," says Carina Beylerian, director of communication and exhibitions for the New York City firm. The constantly growing library includes samples that are judged monthly by a rotating jury of a dozen architects and designers. The criteria varies, but usually includes some noteworthy technological or environmental aspect—"that it's 100 percent recyclable, changes color, or makes a certain kind of sound," Beylerian says.
Once the material is accepted, the information—which includes an image of the material, technical data, and contact information—is logged into a virtual library. Web membership is purchased on a per-hour basis. "We're simply making the connections between the manufacturers of the materials and the end users," she says. Meanwhile, to gain the competitive edge, name-brand manufacturers are marketing Web-based services directly to architects. Two years ago Andersen Windows developed Window Studio, free software that allows architects to create combinations of window units for use in construction drawings. The package can be downloaded from the Web site or ordered on CD-ROM.
There's also Window Symbols, containing individual details architects can download in seconds. Will the company's Web-based enterprises make its print media less of a priority? Not exactly, according to Andersen's Rod Radosevich. "Just as radio didn't die when television became available to the general public in the late 1950s, information just takes a new form on the Web," he says. "Our intent in offering all of these tools is to make our products accessible to the architects in whatever form they prefer."
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Much as building icons can be transferred directly to architects' drawings from manufacturer software, Brian Murphy likes to cut and paste from across industries and disciplines. For example, he's used automotive hardware for plumbing. "There's an aesthetic dimension to the beautiful stainless-steel piping used for gas lines, and it's really practical," Murphy says. "And marine hardware will do a myriad of things, because it morphs easily."
Recently Murphy designed a reception desk for an advertising agency out of square-shaped water bottles. "When the natural light hits a bottle full of water, the effect is similar to fiber optics in the way it telegraphs light," he says. "And you've got a back storage of water when there's a big earthquake." Another favorite treasure trove is his local aerospace junkyards, which yield pieces of 30-gauge aluminum; the materials are recycled in Mexico and brought back to Southern California to sell. Murphy observes that people with little money often show the most invention in solving building problems. "Those people have much more dynamic solutions because they're less stifled by convention and the fashion dimension," he says. "From an afternoon's scouring, they've built a fence."
Not all resources need to come from the dump, but recycling has become fashionable. "Everyone in Mission Viejo has a ranchburger mini-estate, and you're sitting there in a glorified chicken coop," Murphy says. "It shakes up the status quo." Architects agree, however, that it's not a good idea to use new materials or products just for the sake of being different. As Berke comments, "I'm more interested in taking generic stuff—even if what is generic is continually changing—and applying it in unexpected ways, than I am in taking materials and testing their physical limits as feats of engineering in my work." Murphy concurs, adding: "If a product or material advances the craft of shelter-building, that gives it a lot more credibility."
trading places
No one knows the building craft better than tradespeople and subcontractors. That's why Jarvis Architects, Oakland, Calif., occasionally sends a staff member to a seminar given by a roofing or HVAC association, and the emissary reports back to the office.
Yet while the best manufacturers provide expert tech help to architects who use their products, on the most complex projects, technical manuals aren't enough. Faced with the design and construction of a 14,000-square-foot house with a tricky roof system of copper-clad intersecting domes and barrel vaults, Jarvis Architects turned to Dallas Mitchell, a 30-year veteran of metal roof installation. "You put as many standard details as you can on paper, but the best thing is to go talk to someone who does the installations," says project architect Jason Kaldis, AIA. "Dallas worked out the details of when we would rely on folding, interlocking, sealants, or mechanical attachments and soldering. Those things had to be taken up in the field; you couldn't preview all those complex conditions on paper or even a computer model."
As the only licensed architect in her firm, Georgie Kajer, AIA, Kajer Architects, Pasadena, Calif., relies a lot on her general contractors for up-to-the-minute information on products and materials. "Fortunately I'm in the position of working with the same contractors over and over again," she says. "There's an eagerness to share nifty things that become available to keep clients happy, such as a different kind of ventilation system for a bath, or a special hinge for a cabinet." In fact, the expertise and availability of trusted tradespeople is a significant factor in the products an architect ultimately chooses.
Although they enjoy reading the European design journals, most architects say they stick to imported products that have a domestic presence. "The time line for getting parts and materials from overseas tends to be longer than our schedules allow," Kaldis says. "And the familiarity of the trades with those products isn't quite as good." Like creativity itself, the pursuit of products and materials is a lifelong endeavor. And in the end, some of the credit for an architect's inventiveness goes to a third party--the client. "We learn how to use products from one job to the next and try to work with the best people," Kaldis says. "But the will and financial means of the client makes a lot of that learning possible."
Cheryl Weber is a contributing writer in Severna Park, Md.
best addresses
If we left it to the technical reps of the manufacturing companies to keep us up to date, we'd be in the Dark Ages," says Chris Schmitt, FAIA, Schmitt Sampson Walker Architects, Charleston, S.C. So the firm turns to that great equal-opportunity source, the Web. Partner Scott Sampson, AIA, who's in charge of the office's specs, frequently uses the following Web sites for product searches.
A site aimed at architects, engineers, and contractors, it offers a forum for both building and technical information, including rooms for chatting about products and materials and how well they perform. A search for concrete countertops, for example, yields links to Web sites of companies that make them.
This Web site also lists products by category. According to the home page, there are links to more than 4,000 manufacturer sites and 450 construction-related associations.
Filled with industry news, tech tips, and product trends, this address favors commercial applications but offers some residential products. A user-friendly info page guides you in your search.
"Almost everyone in our office has this one on the favorites list in their computers," Sampson says. Focusing on interior design, it includes a "best products" list and links to products and materials, interior designers, art, and furnishings.
Sampson looks here when he needs to find out quickly which manufacturers supply a certain type of light, such as an undercabinet fixture for the kitchen. Separate sections are devoted to trade and retail customers.
Geared toward kitchens and baths, this site has a fairly comprehensive list of products, including an ADA category and specialized bathroom heating. It covers about 70 percent of the kitchen and bath manufacturers, Sampson says.
Although this address favors consumers rather than design professionals, it includes useful information on terminology and how to select doors and windows, as well as links to other sites. "When I'm searching for a particular window or door that I'm not familiar with, this is a good starting place," Sampson says.
www.sweets.com and www.csi.com
These sites are both standard sources for building products, but they lean more heavily toward the commercial marketplace. residential architect's sister company, ebuild (www.ebuild.com), has just launched a comprehensive, interactive guide to building products, with more than 215,000 building products already online and 300 more added daily.


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On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Frederic Breitwieser
<frederic at woodbridgedata dot com> wrote:
> Not exactly a m0n0wall question, but you folks may have a good
> recommendation.
> I'm looking for a piece of freeware that would simulate a DHCP request from
> my m0n0wall, so I can look at the result and verify that the PXE server I
> specified is actually being passed.
Why not actually use m0n0wall? I think for that I'd setup a m0n0wall
VM in VMware, and check the DHCP request and response in Wireshark on
the host system.


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{{infobox mission |name=Purple Haze |image= |caption= |game=VCS |for=[[Gonzales]] |target= |location=[[Vice Point]], [[Vice City]] |reward=$1,000 |unlocks= }} '''Purple Haze''' is a mission in ''[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]]'' given by [[Gonzales]] to protagonist, [[Victor Vance|Vic Vance]]. ==Mission== Vic goes to Gonzales' apartment in [[Vice Point]], after a short talk he informs him of some drugs in a lockup at [[Ocean Beach]] and he wants Vic to take them to a deal at [[Washington Beach]]. Once Vic arrives to the supposedly meeting point a truck suddenly drives at full speed crashing into him. Vic, high on drugs, wakes up and receives a message from Gonzales' who asks him how has the deal been. He goes to a nearby payphone informing Gonzales' about the hit and Gonzales' furiously tells him to kill the one's who stole it and take the drugs back to the original lockup. The attackers are over at a party in [[Starfish Island]], Vic makes his way over there and kills all the enemies while taking the van and driving while he's high back to the lockup. Upon arriving at the lockup in time, Gonzales' thanks him for getting the drugs back and tells him about the end of their friendship. ==Script== (''Vic, Gonzales' at a hotel.'') '''Gonzales''': Ah, Vic, my friend. I've a small side deal requiring a sensitive touch. '''Vic Vance''': Sensitive? '''Gonzales''': Let's just say I'd rather my boss didn't find out about this... heh, or my men, for that matter. '''Vic Vance''': Let me guess - you've cut your Colonel's coke to make a side profit. '''Gonzales''': Sssh. Vic, please... This is, after all, the land of opportunity. '''Vic Vance''': I don't care who you rip off, Gonzalez, as long as it's not me. '''Gonzales''': Bueno. The drugs are at Ocean Beach. Take them to the deal in Washington. (''Vic drives over to the deal while a truck attacks him.'') '''Vic Vance''': What the fuck?! '''Attacker #1''': You hit the van too hard! The drugs have gone everywhere! There's more on this dude than in the back! '''Attacker #2''': Quit whining. Let's just get this shit up to the party on Starfish. We've got bitches waiting. (''Vic wakes up and receives a message from Gonzales.'') '''Gonzales''': What's taking so long? Ring me, pronto! (''Vic, Gonzales on the phone.'') '''Vic Vance''': Gonzalez? We got hit. The drugs... They're gone. '''Gonzales''': What? Are you fucking with me? '''Vic Vance''': No... I'm not. '''Gonzales''': What's wrong with you? Are you high on my shit? '''Vic Vance''': No... Yeah... I must've been breathing it in while I was out cold. '''Gonzales''': I want my drugs back, Vic. I still have a buyer who might be interested, but he's leaving town real soon. Kill the bastards who did this, and get my drugs back to the lockup! '''Vic Vance''': Oh, they'll pay alright. (''Vic kills the enemies and takes the van back.'') '''Gonzales''': Well, at least you managed to retrieve my merchandise. But I think, for our friendship, this is the end. Adios. ==Reward== The reward for completing this mission is $1,000. ==Extra Links== *[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsBlWxz4Gxw Purple Haze mission on YouTube by GTAmissions - PlayStation 2 version.] [[Category:Missions in GTA Vice City Stories]]
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How do you make a spoon ring?
In this tutorial we are going to go true the steps for how to make a spoon ring!
You will need:
A Silver spoon
Rubber/Plastic Hammer
Wooden Block
Polish disk, Polish and a screwdriver.
Make sure that your spoon does not contain any nickel!
In this tutorial I am using spoons that is not made out of silver. Instead I using spoons that where "softer"/easy to bend for the propose of training. If you have a spoon that you still want to use and is not made out of silver, you can use clear spray paint to protect your skin from the metal.


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When the Internet first took off, there was a bit of confusion about what it took to get a site to rank well. Many highly knowledgeable programmers knew that keyword tags were crucial to page ranking and took their time to develop the perfect tags to associated with each keyword to get them optimal ranking. Other less knowledgeable programmers were forced to find another way to get their page to rank. They would use a technique called keyword spamming. They would use the keywords improperly in an effort to get their pages to rank higher on the search engine results page. It didn't take long for the search engines to catch on to what the sites were doing. Keyword spamming no longer results in climbing the results page. Keyword spamming can actually lead to a site becoming deindexed.
If you are trying to establish a great keyword optimized strategy, you need to use the keyword tags efficiently. Your keywords Meta tag should be direct and to the point. They should relate to the information that is found on each page and be relevant to the overall information found on your site. The keywords you use on each page of your site should be topic specific. If your site is a cooking site, each page should contain information about one type of cooking, style of cooking, or meal genre. Taking the time to choose the right keyword tags for your site will allow you to be sure that the search engines rank your site high and view your keywords as being good indications for the information found on your site.


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I have a php file (oops.php) that calls in "mma-config.php" which contains...
global $sERROR_NO_CONN = "Error connecting to database. Check back later";global $sERROR_NO_ACCESS = "You are not authorized to access this area.";global $sERROR_ADD = "An error was encountered adding the record";global $sERROR_MODIFY = "An error was encountered modifying the record.";
Inside oops.php, I call mma-config.php and want to reference the error message - example:
if ($mysqli->connect_error){ $SESSION['error'] = ERRORNO_CONN; GoToOops(); exit();}
However when the oops php page is displayed, instead of the error message, it displays "ERROR_NO_CONN";I did check in the oops.php page that I called in the mma-config.php scriptCan't figure out what the problem is.
Do you have any additional code that you can post? It's hard to determine scoping without seeing the full context.
It looks like you might have the wrong idea about the global keyword from what you have posted though. Using the global keyword when declaring variables should result in a parse error (http://codepad.org/uygSzPAW)
The correct usage of global is like so: http://codepad.org/nMtWxwlF
global should be used withing functions to access variables that are declared in the global scope ($foo in both examples is declared in the global scope)
Not sure if you are getting mixed up with define, or whether you need the global keyword at all in this particular context.
Otherwise just access the var as $sERROR_NO_CONN ie with an 's'.


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In this week's 'Holy Hell!' entry, we have Codemasters announcing that they are releasing a £125,000 (roughly $189,000) edition of Grid 2. Dubbed Grid 2: Mono Edition, this ultra premium edition is, according to the release, being recognized by Guinness World Records as the "Most Expensive Video Game Commercially Available – Special Edition". So, what does nearly $200,000 get you? A copy of the game—whew!—a BAC Mono supercar in Grid 2 livery, a day at the BAC factory that includes a tour and visit with technicians to customize the BAC Mono, a themed Mono Edition-branded Bell Racing helmet, race wear (suit, boots, and gloves made to measure), and a PlayStation 3.
Grid 2 is scheduled to launch on May 28 for 360, PC, and PS3.
Official Site: GridGame.com


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May 11, 2010
Profiles in Moonbattery: Roger Ebert
Posted by Dave Blount at May 11, 2010 12:39 PM
Believe it or not, his lousy taste in movies isn't the worst thing about pretentious film critic Roger Ebert. Here's what he has to say about the kids who were punished by their school for daring to wear American flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo in Morgan Hill, Mexifornia:
Kids who wear American Flag t-shirts on 5 May should have to share a lunchroom table with those who wear a hammer and sickle on 4 July.
Maybe Creepert is just bitter because like several other moonbats, he has been reduced by a life of liberal elitism to looking like an aging lesbian:
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Subtle landscape a magnet for Irish writers
HE WAS born 50 miles away in Castlerea, Roscommon, but John Waters says he doesn't feel "like a tourist" in Sligo.
His father came from Mount Edward, near Grange.
"I love Sligo, not so much the town, which is functional and pleasant but the countryside which is the most evocative and inspiring to be found anywhere in the country," Waters said.
Despite his father being a native of North Sligo, ' The Irish Times' columnist, former editor of Magill magazine, author, playwright and Eurovision Song Contest entrant, said the family never went there until they were adults. John said: "I'm not sure why. "Perhaps he couldn't bear to go back to such a beautiful place, having been forced to leave it.
"In any event, I spend a lot of time there nowadays, perhaps to make up for all the times he missed."
Waters has a house in Lislary near Maugherow.
He describes Maugherow as being actually a tiny village on a hill to the west, with a church, a school and a scatter of houses, which he can see from his window.
He said: "It always strikes me as being like a village you'd see in a Western, starring John Wayne."
"Maugherow, is perhaps both the wildest and the most subtle landscape, a strange collision of farmland and wilderness, seeming to exist on the very extremity of civilisation."
John thinks this is why the area is destined to be a magnet for artists and writers, as well as surfers.
He said: "I think the appeal is that people can find a place that seems to be as Ireland once was, just before we remember it.
"Ben Bulben, of course, presides over it all, gazing across the fields upon us, with its benign countenance, which seems to have been bequeathed the spirit of Yeats and renders the whole thing poetic without a word being spoken."


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