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Violent clashes have killed 14 between Christians and Muslims in an isolated town in eastern Central African Republic that began last week.
The mineral-rich but impoverished nation has descended into chaos since northern Seleka rebels seized the capital, Bangui.
The President Francois Bozize was ousted last March.
UN officials and rights groups say both sides may have committed war crimes.
It has prompted calls for outside intervention to end the violence.
Residents of Bangassou, around 750km east of the capital Bangui, said Seleka fighters had backed the town's Muslims during the clashes, which saw four people killed yesterday.
"All four of those killed were from the Christian community," Bangassou's Catholic Bishop Juan Jos Aguirre told Reuters.
Bishop Aguirre said: "We're overwhelmed, inundated by thousands of men, women and children seeking refuge from the fighting at the diocese."
Clashes initially broke out on Tuesday after Christians organised a march to protest against abuses by Seleka's predominantly Muslim fighters based in the town, said Bangassou police official Edouard Mbiga.
"Muslim community members, backed by Seleka, brought out weapons and blocked the march.
The situation deteriorated and there were 10 deaths on both sides. It all a started from that." he said.
Michel Djotodia, who swept to power at the head of the Seleka rebellion, was officially sworn in as the country's president in August.
His attempts to rein in his ex-rebel supporters, including firing the head of the army and formally dissolving Seleka, have failed to curb the violence.
It has led to calls, notably from former colonial power France, for a robust intervention force.
"It's an appalling situation ... There are abuses every day- thefts, rapes, murders," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told France's Europe 1 radio station today.
"We have troops there. The Africans also have troops. And we are working with the United Nations, African Union and regional organisations to find a solution for peace."
France - which intervened earlier this year to oust Islamist rebels from another one of its former colonies, Mali - has said it will provide operational support for an African peace keeping mission, known as MISCA.
Reinforcements for the African force have begun to arrive but the planned 3,600-strong mission will not be fully deployed before 2014.
In the meantime, Paris, has about 450 troops on the ground protecting the airport and French interests.
It is currently mulling three short-term options, a French diplomatic source told Reuters.
It could seek its own UN mandate, boosting its troop numbers to 1,200 to quickly restore security on the ground, or increase the force to 750 soldiers with a specific role to support MISCA.
It may also decide to keep the contingent's size unchanged, but turn it into a rapid reaction force that could be increased if needed, the source said.
Central African Republic is rich in gold, diamonds and uranium but decades of instability and the spill-over from conflicts in its larger neighbours have left the nation's 4.5m people mired in cycles of crises.


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Ed Brayton has a post about a common lie that's being peddled by opponents of Embryonic Stem Cell (ESC) research, namely that there are supposedly 65 (or 80, or whatever number they pull out of their hat) cures that have been derived from adult stem cells, so therefore ESC research isn't needed. Ed puts the lie to that claim, pointing out this letter appearing in Science which shoots down that nonsense. I have a bad feeling though that like so many other myths, this one will continue to spread unabated. The far-right of American politics truly lives in its own little world and rarely, if ever, allows any daylight in.
But what irritates me most about claims over the superiority of adult stem cell is what a complete and total red herring it is. And Ed points out, it isn't an either/or type of issue; researchers would like to use both adult and embryonic stem cells, and the only way to know the limitations of one is to explore the potential uses for the other. Making hay over adult stem cells is purely a distraction from the main issue at hand, which is as follows: Is it somehow immoral to take microscopic blastocysts, which are destined for destruction anyway, and attempt to culture them so that the resulting cell line can be used for research? To rational people, the answer is of course not. Opponents of ESC research either find themselves in the odd position of having to oppose in vitro fertilization outright, since this is what creates all of those surplus embryos that end up being discarded, or they invoke an absurd slippery slope argument which holds that if we allow ECS research to go forward, next thing you know we'll be harvesting live babies for their organs. The sheer ridiculousness of these arguments is precisely why a red herring like adult stem cells gets dragged into the debate. Debating the actual point of contention isn't going to win them any converts, and they know it.
So in reality, it is not even relevant how much promise ESCs may or may not have, or whether some other alternative might exist. The truth is that most research ends up going nowhere, but of course there's no way to know that until you do the research. For opponents of ESCs, pointing out that there are no cures yet derived from them before the research has even been done is used as some kind of a knock-down argument against allowing the research to be done. That makes about as much sense as arguing that Columbus should have never sailed to the New World because, at the time, there was no evidence that there was anything there to be found. But putting aside the stupidity of this argument, the fact is that it wouldn't even matter if the prospects for finding cures with ECS research were slim. As long as there is no ethical problem with using ECSs, and there isn't, then there is no rationale for banning the research.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Lies, Damned Lies, and Stem Cells.
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For two years, the story goes, he searched the world, receiving more than 20,000 applications, holding auditions not only in the United States, but in Dublin, Rome, London, Munich and Madrid, and fighting off hordes of young women who wanted to become the successor to Vivien Leigh in one of cinema's most coveted roles. He had to change his telephone number seven times. Hoop-skirted Scarletts kept pitching up at his front door. But the moment of revelation did not happen. No glittering-eyed, paprika-tempered, natural Southern belle materialised. Halmi even staged a television programme last year to announce his choice, only to inform viewers that he hadn't made up his mind.
Until this week. On Monday, Halmi invited Hollywood's press corps to the fashionable Bel Air hotel in Los Angeles, where, after dining on muffins to the accompaniment of a string quartet, they were introduced to the Scarlett O'Hara of the 1990s: Joanne Whalley-Kilmer. 'Scarlett is probably the most important female role so far in the history of television,' he proclaimed. 'I am very proud to have found a young lady after a long, long search who will fit the bill . . . really, it's her story.'
History, carefully orchestrated by Halmi, was repeating itself. Like the Oscar-winning Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939), Whalley-Kilmer is British, and is therefore something of a controversial choice in America. She has a more than respectable track record, with television credits in The Singing Detective and Edge of Darkness and the film role of Christine Keeler in Scandal behind her. But like Leigh, she is not a household name. Like Leigh, too, she has arrived at the 11th hour, only a few weeks before shooting of the dollars 40m mini-series begins.
As she soaked in the limelight, the 31-year-old actress coyly explained she had not sought out the part, but 'in my heart I have always been after this role. It is something I have always, always wanted to do'. She has read 'GWTW' five times, and is currently practising her Southern drawl.
Whalley-Kilmer is embarking on a project of enormous proportions which is far from a sure-fire hit. Halmi has spent a record dollars 9m buying the rights to make Scarlett: The Continuation of Gone with the Wind, his eight-hour TV mini-series out of Scarlett, the novel by Alexandra Ripley which was commissioned by the estate of Margaret Mitchell, who wrote Gone with the Wind. Despite the novel's poor reception ('Frankly, it's damnable,' the Washington Post said), Halmi is gung-ho about the project, which has been developed in partnership with CBS. 'Scarlett is probably the most important thing I will ever do in my life,' he says. 'Gone with the Wind was the most prestigious movie ever made, and we hope we can follow suit on television.'
He has certainly done everything he can to drum up international interest. His two-year search for Scarlett was a deliberate attempt to rekindle the mythology that surrounds the making of Gone with the Wind, 55 years ago. The search which led to the casting of Vivien Leigh was not as far-reaching as Halmi's, but it was also a drawn-out and heavily publicised business. Gone with the Wind was so popular that, by the late 1930s, it had an army of highly opinionated fans, each of whom had firm ideas over who should star in the leading roles. When David Selznick, then a fast-rising independent producer, purchased the rights for dollars 50,000, he found himself being bombarded with suggestions from housewives, women's clubs, movie buffs and journalists across the United States.
His studio, Selznick International, decided to conduct an opinion poll, but the question of Scarlett O'Hara produced mixed views, none of which particularly impressed Selznick. Bette Davis was the punters' first choice, followed by Norma Shearer and Miriam Hopkins. Among the leading ladies tested were Lucille Ball and Joan Crawford. Selznick decided to look further afield, and dispatched a team of casting directors on a nationwide search, who found themselves sitting in high school halls, college auditoriums, and small town theatres as one would-be starlet after another attempted to flounce and fiddle-dee-dee her way to fame and fortune.
It wasn't until some 1,400 young women had been rejected that Selznick decided he was getting nowhere and postponed the search. His eye did not alight upon Vivien Leigh until filming had started. She was introduced to him by his brother, Myron, a Hollywood agent who also represented Laurence Olivier, Leigh's husband-to-be. The meeting took place while the first scene, the burning of Atlanta, was under way. Selznick later maintained that he made up his mind instantly - the moment he saw the flames (partly created by burning old King Kong scenery on the studio back lot) playing on Leigh's face.
But casting Scarlett was by no means his only difficulty. The almost unanimous choice for Rhett Butler in the opinion poll had been Clark Gable: 98 per cent of respondents were convinced that 'the King', as he was known, was the only man for the job. Selznick agreed. But Clark Gable didn't. He argued that it would be difficult to satisfy a public with such strong preconceived notions of how the role should be performed. 'Rhett was too much for any actor to tackle in his right mind,' Gable later commented.
In the end, Gable's views were ignored, and he was, in effect, forced to take part in the film after Selznick came up with one of the sweetest deals ever struck in Hollywood. The producer persuaded MGM, to whom Gable was under contract, to 'loan' him the actor in return for distribution rights and 50 per cent of the box-office take. To sweeten the pill, MGM provided Gable with the funds he needed to divorce his estranged second wife, Rhea Langham, and marry the actress Carole Lombard.
Fifty-five years on, having settled on a Scarlett, Robert Halmi now faces the tricky business of finally deciding on a suitable Rhett. The hot tip in Hollywood is Timothy Dalton, the current James Bond, who is already rumoured to be involved in negotiations over the role - although CBS executives dismiss this as speculation.
If true, then Halmi appears to be living up to his earlier claim that, while he was looking for a relatively unknown Scarlett, 'all the men can be stars'. He already has one big name in the bag: Sir John Gielgud will play Scarlett's grandfather. But Halmi is a master of publicity who loves surprises, and anything could still happen. Whether the film itself lives up to its hype - 54 years of hype if you take the long view - remains to be seen . . .
If not the hotly tipped Timothy Dalton, then who should play Rhett? Burt Reynolds: Once mooted for Anne Edward's sequel Tara: Gone with the Wind 2. Pros: has own moustache. Cons: bad box office, bald, now too long in the tooth. Spike Lee: Pros: would pull the serious critics, the terminally hip, covers of Time and Ebony. Cons: the black thing. Tom Selleck: Big enough and hairy enough - and his career needs a boost. Pros: see Reynolds, Burt. Cons: already rejected by short-sighted producer.
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What the team has to say prior to the only Formula One race under the nights.
Xevi Pujolar, Chief Race Engineer: The Singapore night race is a unique event that we all look forward to despite the fact that it is probably the most demanding circuit of the year for both driver and car. It is mentally and physically draining for the drivers as it's not only one of the longest races of the year, but they also have to cope with the high temperatures and humidity with the 23 corner layout offering almost no rest. Despite being run at night under floodlights the temperature still averages 30°C, with a humidity of around 75%. There has been a modification to the track layout for this year, the chicane at Turn 10 has been removed and replaced with a flowing left-hand corner before the acceleration zone towards the Anderson Bridge. Singapore has the highest pit lane speed loss of the season and a high chance of a safety car - there hasn't been a race in the modern era without at least one safety car being deployed. These factors, added with how difficult it is to overtake, all hamper strategic capability and for the last couple of years it has typically been a three-stop race. However, Pirelli have gone one step harder on the prime tyre bringing the medium compound so this may change this season.
Pastor Maldonado: Singapore is quite unusual for a street race because it's hot and humid with high speeds, heavy braking areas and lots of corners, all of which test the tyres in terms of traction and braking because it's a long race and the cars carry a very heavy fuel load. That puts a lot of energy through the tyres at the start of the race, so it's vital to manage the first stint well. Tyre strategy is always a key ingredient so I will be spending a lot of time with the engineers discussing how we are going to tackle this track. As difficult as the track is, managing the conditions is another element that drivers have to deal with over the weekend as it gets very hot inside the cockpit. I had a very strong qualifying here last year, finishing in 2nd place, so I feel like this layout suits my eye and I know how to squeeze every tenth out of the laptime.
Valtteri Bottas: I've never driven at Singapore in a lower category and it was one of the tracks that I didn't drive in Friday practice last year for Williams so this will be a new challenge that I'm really looking forward too. I will be doing a lot of simulator work ahead of the Grand Prix to get used to the layout because it has a lot of corners that come in quick succession. I'm normally quite fast at learning new tracks though and showed in Montreal this year that I can quickly get up to speed. The fact that the race takes places at night creates a unique atmosphere but I will try and keep my routine the same as it is important to maintain a rhythm between races, and for that reason I will be staying on European time throughout the week. One thing I do change is the transparency of my visor as we have to use an anti light glare instead of a sun protector because the lights lining the circuit are very bright.
Rémi Taffin, Renault Sport F1 Head of Track Operations: The Marina Bay circuit has more turns than any other track on the calendar, however most are taken in first to third gear. Average speeds are therefore correspondingly low and the engine is working at between 8,000rpm and 13,000rpm for the majority of the corner apexes and exits. The stop-start nature of the track and the short bursts of acceleration between the turns make Singapore one of the least fuel efficient of the year so we try and be as careful as we can with the engine settings to avoid a weight penalty. Temperatures are also something to watch carefully - particularly as the race is the longest in duration of the year. Not only are the ambient temperatures high, but the slow turns give the engines little time to breathe so we will tend to use an engine at the end of its life.
Paul Hembery, Pirelli Motorsport Director: The tyres we are bringing to Singapore are the P Zero White medium compound and P Zero Red supersoft: a change from last year, when we went for supersoft and soft. This is because the tyres are generally softer across the board this year in order to maximise performance and grip. Singapore is quite bumpy - a typical feature of street circuits - and there's lots of street furniture such as painted white lines and manholes that compromise grip and traction. We're racing at night, which presents a unique set of parameters for the tyres to deal with when it comes to the way the track and ambient temperatures evolve. The cars also carry the heaviest fuel load of the year, which again has a direct effect on tyre wear and degradation. It's a long race, and that gives the teams plenty of scope to come up with some interesting strategies at what is a truly spectacular event in every sense.
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Here's a little tidbit about me and the kitchen.
with the making of treats.
But when it comes to dinner, for some reason I shoo them out of the kitchen.
I think I need the space and I often times don't want them seeing
everything I'm putting into their food. Because I know their reaction to
actually seeing it going in is that they'll think they won't like it.
So I hide it creatively.
And meanwhile I'm not involving them in the food prep.
Back when I was sick with pneumonia and my husband was out of the country
working. I was really not doing well and so I enlisted my kids. They all made
salads and my son actually finished cooking the turkey burgers for them.
They were oh so excited to be helping with dinner.
And I realized why don't I do this more! Really, it was one of those major DUH moments.
SO they've been helping more with things like asparagus soup.
And do you know, they're eating more of it because they had a part of
MAKING it.
So there's a little picture me imperfectly confession.
Perhaps you're already on top of this and totally have your
kids in the kitchen at dinner time.
But for me it was an area where I realized I was majorly missing the mark.
And now they're asking, "What else can I do, What else can I do."
To the point where I'm not sure what else to have them do!
By the way...I wasn't good about taking the after pictures,
so the two recipes we made yesterday can be found
here. This was a yummy pinterest find. The kids & grown ups (even our neighbors) loved them.
and here, from my dear friend Kim's blog. She has other yummy recipes on there too!
And just because, I wanted to share this little Easter display we have on a hutch in the kitchen nook.
The book, in case you don't know about it, is "Benjamin's Box." It is a story that goes with the Resurrection eggs. I like it a lot. And everything else was made by my kids.
That plate, Jackson made in class using broken egg shells to create a mosaic.
And the grace garden, each one of them made one in Sunday school this past week. I was so impressed by the work the teachers put into making that possible for each of them.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
3 comments:
- Chelsea said...
How fun! Looks like you've got some great helpers! And that Easter nook is so full of goodness.
- April 4, 2012 at 10:30 AM
- hill said...
thank you dearly for linking up! I'm like you and dinner prep is hard for me already so it's even more difficult to enlist the kids' help but I love that you are making it work. So beautiful. Xoxo
- April 4, 2012 at 1:10 PM
- Kim said...
I love the mantel! So beautiful! And I love how all the kids want to be in the kitchen helping you. Very sweet!
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Friday, July 29, 2011
Thanks a bunch
Tomorrow I will brave the hell that is Chuck E Cheese with Aubs and my 6 yr old nephew Tyler. Please pray for my sanity :p (hopefully I will get some good pictures as my reward)
Its also time for another Some Odd Girl challenge. This one is all about THANKS. You need to create a card using some sort of thank you sentiment. Its the last one featuring the current design team so pop over and check out their cuteness they created before they are gone
Here is my card using Tiny Baker Tia clear stamp
Papers are cosmo cricket delovely :)
Im also entering her into the following challenges:
Do you stack up (orange, yellow and brown)
KB Cute Monday (food and beverages)
Clear it out (anything goes)
Paper Shelter (anything goes)
Lollipop Crafts (anything goes)
Kaboodle Doodles (faux stitching)
Paper Cupcake (layer)
Catered Crop (strawberries, circles, checks, markers, doodling)
12 comments:
- Scraphorse - Åsa said...
Your card is lovely - as allways!
Thank you for this amazing 6 months! It´s been so much fun and Im going to miss you all so much!
Love, Åsa - 2:35 AM
- WencheP said...
Such a sweet card. Thanks for joining us at Do You Stack Up.
-Wenche - 4:23 AM
- sparklygirl-Tina said...
Hi Sarah
What a fabby and fun card love it!
Thanks so much for joining us over at Kaboodle Doodles and good luck.
Tina - 5:58 AM
- Martha said...
oh what a gorgeous card, loving the image :)
Thank you so much for joining us at Clear It OUt - 12:38 PM
- Ren-Yi said...
A fun and cheerful card. Thanks for joining us at DYSU.
- Bella´s Bastelecke said...
Beautiful card...such cute images...thanks for joining us at TPS......
Judith - 9:36 AM
- wannabcre8tive said...
Oh, How cute, I love that little baker girl. Thanks, for joining us in the "There's Magic in The Air" challenge.
- Marie said...
What a lovely card. It looks fantastic. Thanks for playing with us over at TPS challenges this week.
Love n hugs
Marie - 3:31 PM
- princesskitten said...
That a super layout - love all the details
kitten DYSU team - 9:48 AM
- Monique said...
Love your card! Those stamps are soooo cute! (I want them too!!!)
And I had to laugh about your Chuck E Cheese remark ... we were in the US in 2006 and 2009 and my kids are still talking about Chuck E Cheese and how they wish there was one here too! I think eating there was the best thing in their whole vacation!! LOL! - 3:25 PM
- Linda McClain said...
Oh My. What's Cookin'! I love it. Thanks for stirring the pot with us at Catered Crop.
- Girls Pictures said...
Looks like lots of fun!
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
NOTD: OPI La Paz-Itively Hot Matte (& w/ Dots & Top Coat)
Started out just wanting something less ... pastel than my Easter mani LOL. So I picked out one of my recent purchases, OPI La Paz-Itively Hot Matte. This is 3 coats & honestly I would have gone for 4 if wearing it alone because there was surprisingly a little bit of VNL:
It was ... not boring, but plain. So I decided to add a little something. Sometimes that turns out good - sometimes that turns out bad - and I'm still not sure which this ended up to be LOL. I did some little dots at an angle in white & then some more in black, then top coat, but it just didn't end up the way I imagined it. Even when I took it off, I wasn't sure I actually disliked it ... and I actually got a ton of compliments ... but I did decide it looked a little better from a distance:
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- NailChick70April 27, 2011 at 8:48 AM
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Bernard John Manning was an English stand-up comedian. He was born and brought up in Manchester in the north-west of England.
Manning courted controversy because his act often contained material involving ethnic stereotypes and minority groups. This type of material was commonplace among British stand-up comedians in the 1970s, but was largely excluded from television from the 1980s onward. Manning continued to perform in theatres and pubs until his death. Critics of his humour described much of it as racist, although Manning himself denied this.
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In many ways this has been a season to forget for Frank Lampard. He went into it without the support of his mother, Pat, to whom he was very close prior to her death in April 2008. He also suffered the break-up of his relationship to Elen Rives, mother of his two young daughters. The pain of that was revealed last month when he rang a radio station to excoriate the presenter for calling him "weak" and "scum" following a tabloid newspaper story that alleged he was not adequately accommodating his children.
Lampard vehemently denied this and explained that while Rives was living in a flat while he bought a house for her, they shared custody. "I wake up if my kids wake up at three in the morning, if they wake up at six in the morning, regardless of whether there is a football match or not," Lampard says. He adds, of the days they stay with their mother: "The hardest part of this break-up is not waking up with my kids every day."
There has been instability in his working life, too. Chelsea have stumbled from manager to manager, drifted off the pace in the Premier League and followed the penalty shoot-out defeat in last season's Champions League final with a controversial exit in this season's semi-finals.
Yet, through all this turmoil, on and off the pitch, and despite the 3am wake-up calls, Lampard has performed superbly. For Chelsea he has scored 19 goals and made another 16. He has also returned to form for England. Indeed, he has played better than when he was voted Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year in 2005.
Lampard feels so. "Running out, I feel on top of my game," he says. "I'm 30 years of age and the experience I have gained makes me feel a better player than at any time in my career."
Wider recognition has, though, eluded him because of Chelsea's stuttering season. "I got the Chelsea Player of the Year, which I am always proud to get from the people who watch week-in week-out," he says. "Maybe the acclaim has not been there but quite rightly this season Manchester United players have dominated. That's fair, there have been some great performances from them. All I have done is try and play as well as I can."
He adds, in reference to the season's difficult personal context: "One of the fortunate things of being a player is that the adrenalin of going out and playing football is like the get-out sometimes from a lot of things outside. I get an adrenalin rush out of training as well as playing, so this season has been great for me in those terms even though we haven't won anything."
That qualifying clause could be made obsolete tomorrow afternoon. The FA Cup may no longer be as significant to Chelsea as when they won it in 1970 or 1997, but, says Lampard: "FA Cup final days have always been special. I know people get focused in other directions but once you get this far, and you are playing at Wembley, with the huge occasion that it is, not only for your own fans but worldwide, it will always be a massive event.
"It's very important to win. In recent years success has been something expected here, rightly so with the investment in the squad and the players we've got. So it's very important for confidence, for the club and the fans, to take something away from this season. Then we can re-evaluate in the summer and look to go full steam ahead next season.
"Going two years without a trophy is hard when you know how special winning is, but as you become older you realise you are not going to win everything. Standing on the Wembley pitch knowing we were not going to the Euros [with England], losing on penalties to Man United [in the Champions League final last year], they are horrible occasions in sport. They stick in the back of your mind. But you have to use them as a positive and I think we all do that now. It can make it a bit sweeter if you have lost things. Hopefully one day when we lift the Champions League the feeling will be that bit more special."
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kogi, a duo of Korean BBQ-inspired taco trucks in Los Angeles, has "Tweeted" its way to international stardom and is inspiring restaurateurs seeking new ways to tempt diners during a deep recession.
Twitter, a free social networking site, is a vital ingredient in Kogi's success. As Kogi's example shows, the service that started as a way for people to follow the 140-character "tweets" of friends and celebrities is quickly becoming a powerful new way for businesses to talk directly with customers.
Because Kogi's trucks visit locations all around Los Angeles, brand director Mike Prasad wanted to create a single place where fans could gather.
"We had to create a home for them. Twitter was a natural fit," said Prasad.
The plan worked. Since launching in November, Kogi has attracted more than 15,000 followers on Twitter(http://twitter.com/kogibbq).
"There is nothing faster for communicating than Twitter," said Aaron Allen, chief executive of restaurant consulting firm Quantified Marketing Group. "You have to be a complete moron to ignore it."
The Twitter conversation "cloud" can give businesses an early read on consumer sentiment, said Shiv Singh, global social media head at advertising and marketing firm Razorfish.
"It serves as a bellwether for mainstream blog conversations," said Singh, who added that frequent tweeters tend to have extreme views and to be influential.
And negative tweets, like bad news, can travel fast.
Domino's Pizza Inc, the latest victim of bad Web publicity, recently launched a Twitter account at twitter.com/dpzinfo as part of its response to a widely viewed employee prank video that showed, among other things, an employee putting cheese up his nose before adding it to a sandwich. Domino's also fired the employees involved.
While Twitter is free and easy to use, experts say success does not come without putting in some sweat equity.
"It does take time and effort and care and feeding," said Chris Brogan, president of New Marketing Labs, a new media marketing company. "If you go silent it shows. It's like not answering the phone."
Starbucks Corp has more than 140,000 followers on Twitter.
"It's a way for us to answer questions and connect," said Brad Nelson, who oversees the activity on Twitter.
McDonald's Corp and Burger King do not yet have corporate Twitter accounts. Representatives for the companies said explorations are ongoing. Meanwhile, Burger Kingwhich is among the restaurant industry's most technology-savvy operatorssaid the company keeps in touch with the operator of fan page twitter.com/theBKlounge.
Michael Breed, senior marketing manager at Brinker International Inc's Maggiano's Little Italy restaurant, has attracted more than 3,000 followers since mid-February with help from small giveaways.
In Los Angeles, restaurants are looking for ways to stand out from the growing pack.
Quinn Hatfield, of Hatfield's restaurant in Beverly Hills, tweets the ins and outs of creating dishes, punctuated with the occasional mouth-watering picture.
In another part of town, Tender Greens' co-owner Erik Oberholtzer uses Twitter to keep tabs on hardcore fans and to take online marketing to the next level.
Rush Street's Nick Kaufman likes to reward people who tweet while they are dining at the Culver City eatery with things like free drinks.
"It's kind of like I'm the man behind the curtain," said Kaufman, who handles the restaurant's online marketing. "People realize if they follow us they may get something out of it."
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The Tri-State Transportation Campaign released this analysis of federal traffic fatality data with a fact sheet and a map showing when and where pedestrian were killed.
Kings Hwy, Atlantic Ave, Brighton Beach Ave, Ocean Pkwy, Eastern Pkwy, Avenue U, and 4th Ave were Brooklyn's most dangerous roads for pedestrians.
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I Say Fast Time, You Say Slow Time....Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
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Well, I learned some really new things today from reading your post! First, I had never heard a bit of Oregon was in a different time zone so I googled and and it's TRUE! And then I noticed how goofy the dividing lines are and how many states have dual time zones.. the craziest is MI!
You have my sympathies. Teresa :-)I've known it for a while now, but this post confirms what I know to be true. You're a better woman than me!
I'm afraid the whole time thing would put me right over the edge. It doesn't help that I have certain deficiencies when it comes to handling time. I find it elusive and my inadequacies are frequently revealed!
Love the photography that accompanies your enlightening post. :) You have a wealth of beautiful old barns and homes!I never could understand the whole damn thing! Sunlight is sunlight and there is only so much of it in a day, be in summer or winter. So, if they say that they do it because of commuting or whatever, that doesn't make any sense. We all have lights now to turn on, either in the morning if it is dark or the evening if it is dark. Does it make any sense to you? We should all just do what Arizona does...nothing! The clocks never change. Maybe that is why there are so many retirees there. They don't want to stress about time so they move to Arizona where they gain more time, hence stay younger. Smart!!
ReplyDeleteAmen Sister! We live on fast time, but go ten miles west to Illinois, or ten miles north to Newton County, and you are on slow time! We can thank our lovely governor for this mess. Most of Indiana never changed time, which meant that for half the year we were all on the same time. I'm sure if you lined us up on the good ol' USA map, we are west of you and still on EST. I'm sorry, but when the sun is lighting up the face of Miss Liberty in NYC, we are NOT seeing it. I want my "slow time" back for the summer!
I am now going to step off my soap box, but I reserve the right to get back on it later! ;-)That is really fascinating to me! I've been on central my whole life until now. It as really hard for me to adjust to, considering that now SNL comes on at 11:30 instead of 10:30. I mean, how am I to get used to that?! I can't even imagine how you get used to always switching back and forth!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was on a USAF missile crew everything we did in the ICBM control center was on Greenwich Mean Time, commonly known as Zulu. Rather than having to convert Local time to Zulu most crew members wore two wrist watches, one on one wrist set to Local and one on the other set to Zulu. Used to drive my first wife nuts when she wondered what time it was and looked at the wrong watch.


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I have admit, I was looking forward to this movie. An action pic with a female lead that doesn't depend on her being extremely slutty all the time. I suppose it helped that this was original a male lead with a rewrite (some parts rewritten more than others, I'm thinking), but still "strong female lead" applies.
The basic premise of "top agent revealed to be double agent" is pretty much all this movie needs to get going. There is the inevitable "is she/isn't she?" argument going on, although one suspects the truth right from the start (she's the lead!!!), and the answer is given about half-way through. That doesn't stop any of the action, and there's a lot of ass kicking to go around (that being what the movie is really about, not any spy/political rubbish).
Angelina Jolie is the leading lady in question, and she must have very tough feet. She is also more than capable of taking on the action without pausing for breath. Liev Schreiber is her superior, but remains type cast. Chiwetel Ejiofor gets the best non-action moments and would be lead contender for returning in any sequel (aside from Angelina of course), should there be one.
Go in and enjoy this movie, but don't expect deep plot. Not that anyone cares.
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Could you guys explain what might be knocking out my module inside my Hei vacuum advance distributor? Ive replaced about 5 the last few days. These were all used because Im not going to put in a new one until I find out why they are going out. The distributor is , I dont know what year model ! but I found out that my 85 truck is different than this one. The one Im working on is 1 wire going to my ignition switch ( I hooked it directly to key switch) the module and dist. are older hei tan my 85 truck because I was taking the mod out of the truck and it has 3 prongs on 1 side and 2 on other. Do I need a resister in the hot wire to switch?
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Thanks guys., Changed everything in distributor , still wouldnt crank, relaced it with old one I had , no crank , about to give up but tried one more cap with coil and its running. I was taking parts of of my 82 Chevy and trying them in the distributor , and new they were running and good but they never would crank it, then I would take them out put them back in the 82 and fire it up. So I new the parts were good. When I changed the whole dist. body and didnt crank ! well ,,, For some strange reoson I changed the cap and coil again and it worked . Why? I guess somewhere in the confusion I missed something. This is a 350 in a 91 Samurai jeep . Thanks it worked
1 - Coil was starting to layer short, overloading the modules to failure.
2 - Rotor has burned through to the mechanical advance under it, overllading the coil and/or modules to failure. 3 - Carbon brush damaged and/or incorrectly installed in the cap, overloading modules to failure. 4 - Bad ground between coil and yoke, small black wire from the coil. Coil yoke to bus bar ground bad, dirty, causing coils and/or modules to overload and fail. Bad coil ground at distributor body will also cause coil/module overloading and failure. Low voltage to the dist WILL NOT cause failures in an HEI. Resisted input sources have been maligned as the failure causes, but no, they aren't. OVERVVOLTING, as in a stuck regulator producing upwards of 18 volts will kill the coil/module in one quick hurry. The 5 wire HEI module functions EXACTLY the same as a 4 prong module, but has the 5th wire input for a stand alone knock sensor used on early non-fully computerized systems. If you had the small processor, sensor and wiring for the knock sensor, you could install it and have detonation protection. A regular 4 prong HEI module will interchange into that body, and eliminate the use of the knock sensor systems. |
Also An Alternator with VERY bad diodes will cause this..Infusion of AC into the module will kill it..Pull the wires, put in another good module and test it ..see if it lasts..(don't forget your not charging and let the battery go dead..) Water or other organic lifeforms in the coil well.. A bad or Shorted Tach, will reek havoc..If you have one, disconnect it.. Wires that short on advance... Major crossfires at the cap..inducing RFI sparks into the module.. That's about I can think of.. Doc
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I have found that the most common cause of ignition module failure, across all brands, is a faulty secondary ignition system. Basically, there is an open in the secondary circuit or a cross fire occuring. There are theories as to what the actual cause of the module frying is, but the root cause is the secondary ignition system. Coil, cap, rotor, wires, plugs. Some say that an induced inverse current is produced thereby giving the module a reverse polarity high voltage surge (same as bad diodes or faulty regulator or crossfire hitting the module inside the cap) and some say that the coil draws too much current through the module when producing maximum voltage to try to jump an open or large gap in the secondary ignition (like a shorted coil). I would check the aforementioned parts for any and I mean any defects, or just replace them all as they cost less than a handfull of quality modules.
Most common cause of module failure is still overheating of the in cap coil, and its layer shorting, causing increased resistance the coil trigger side of the module cannot handle. This can be from overvolting, rotor to carbon post issues, bad coil grounding, but mostly from the heat environment the coil lives in, in the cap.
I do this stuff EVERY day. I see all kinds of wierd, strange, voodoo, outer space and just plain levitating at the nuthouse theories, lots of bogus and wrong tech from stuff like magazine whizzbangs, but its the failed/failing coil in one of those nightmares that just about every time, takes the module right out. |
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Charlotte, N.C. - December 7, 2011-Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers is proud to announce their newest opening in the Ballantyne Village, in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday, December 12th. This Mellow, which marks the second location for Charlotte, is located at 14825 Ballantyne Village Way, Suite 150, at the intersection of Ballantyne Parkway and Johnston Road.
Owners, Jeffrey Small, Steven Small, Marc Kieffer, Nabil Boutros and John Fiske, are excited about their second location in the city. "We feel that the Ballantyne area is a vibrant, growing area that we need to get into, while being a great fit for Mellow Mushroom," states Kieffer.
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The Social Evil Ordinance
—More than a century ago, the city of St. Louis enacted a well-thought-out plan to legalize vice. What went wrong? Everything .
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A little over a century ago an ambitious woman named Kate Clark, who kept a house of prostitution at 112 South Eighth Street, St. Louis, decided to move her business to larger quarters at Sixth and Elm. In any other American city she would have kept her intentions secret or quietly arranged to pay off the police. But this was St. Louis; and on March 14, 1873, Madam Clark confidently wrote directly to the chief of police for "a permit to keep the house on the northwest corner of 6th and Elm Streets for bawdy house purposes. If permitted to occupy the house, I will comply with all the rules and regulations of the ordinance."
This extraordinary ordinance—commonly known as the "social evil law"—recognized a brothel as a legitimate enterprise that, like a saloon, had to be licensed by the city. Passed by the St. Louis city council on July 5, 1870, and patterned after the well-established regulations of several European cities, the ordinance required brothel keepers and prostitutes to register with the police and pay fees to the board of health. The money was to be used to pay city physicians who examined prostitutes for venereal disease and to aid the hospital where infected women were confined. Next door to the hospital a "house of industry" was planned for women who might choose to learn domestic skills, in hopes that they might pursue a more respectable line of work.
Other American cities prohibited prostitution in law while in fact tolerating it in wide-open vice districts. The prohibition reflected respectable opinion; the toleration, public acceptance of prostitution as a necessary evil. No less a figure than Queen Victoria's personal physician had argued that, without access to prostitutes, men would seduce or rape innocent women. Other doctors suggested that prolonged sexual abstinence for men might lead to physiological disorders and insanity. Then, too, prostitution was big business from which a great many "respectable" people—real estate agents, landlords, lawyers, doctors, and bail bondsmen, as well as police and politicians—derived a handsome income.
St. Louis based its licensing ordinance on the fundamental premise that, as one prominent local doctor said, prostitution was the "inevitable accompaniment of city life." By abandoning the legal prohibition against it, which had been feebly enforced at best, the city fathers hoped to bring prostitution under real control. While the regular medical examinations checked the spread of venereal disease, open police surveillance would substantially reduce the crime and disorder that accompanied life in bawdy houses. Finally, licensing brothels in certain designated locations could help protect neighborhoods where their presence would depreciate the value of homes and property.
When the St. Louis city council passed the social evil ordinance by a vote of sixteen to five, it won broad support. The Missouri Republic acknowledged that the ordinance "practically legalizes immorality … [but] the evil cannot be suppressed and therefore the wisest course is to regulate it with proper bounds." The St. Louis Times congratulated the city council on "the first step taken by any legislative body in this country toward regulating by law that 'social evil' which for ages has engaged the attention of moralists." The clergy generally withheld comment, either because they supported the ordinance or were too embarrassed to mention it. The public by and large seemed to think that the new law should be given a fair trial. Even the Reverend William G. Eliot—grandfather of T. S. Eliot—who hated the law and would prove to be its most steadfast opponent, privately confided to his son in 1871 that the law is established here and so far as visible present results go, it is working satisfactorily to the public."
One of the most enthusiastic backers of the social evil law was James McDonough, the St. Louis chief of police. In October, 1871, he invited police from across the country to come to St. Louis and see the system in operation. Both McDonough and Mayor Joseph Brown proclaimed it a great success, telling their visitors that streetwalking, the number of brothels, and the number of men visiting them had been greatly reduced. Some visitors were much impressed, but others remained skeptical: one from Washington, D.C., said, "Never have I seen so open and undisguised an exhibition of bawds … exhibiting themselves at every door and window.… We went into one of these institutions where, of all the diseased women I ever saw, there was the most disgusting.…" On the other hand, a Kansas police officer who had visited St. Louis many times reported that he saw fewer streetwalkers than ever before.


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It's finally time to take down Bertrand. This would be easy if he just stayed in his "old man" form, but he transforms into his "giant monster" to make things difficult.
Jump down to Zeke's truck and sap some power from its reserves. When you see a volley of green missiles, use an Blast attack (X) to ward them off.
Occasionally the monster's mouth will open and its pink weak spot will be exposed. Target the pink maw with your Bolt attacks until it closes. This goes on for some time.
Eventually the truck will stop. Get off and charge up before attacking Bertrand. Once again, the pink weak spots above Bertrand's knees will glow. Instead of shooting these with your weak Bolt attacks, try to get in close for a Grenade attack.
The many swamp monsters can actually aid you in this scene if you have the Ultra Drain power, which refills your energy when you use an Ultra attack in melee combat.
After doing some damage to the monster's knees, a helicopter will pick you up in a cutscene. At this point you can do nothing but defend yourself from another barrage of green missiles.
Use copious Blast attacks to redirect the missiles. Soon, a missile will be fired into the beasts side. Aim some Bolts at the burning spot on Bertrand's side to detonate the missile. Remember to charge up using R2 while hanging from the helicopter.
Now all that's left to do is survive until the second missile is deployed and blow it up in the same manner. Once you touch down on the ground again, fire a Bolt at the gas tanks to blow them up and stop Bertrand in his giant tracks.
The battle that ensues is similar to previous Bertran encounters: Aim for pink spots on the monster's knees and watch for the chest cavity to open and expose even more pink. Use Grenades (Sticky Grenades are good, Cluster Grenades are the best).
Retreat to street lights to suck up some power between attacks or use the Ultra Drain power on swamp monsters. Kuo and Nix should keep these pests at bay, allowing you to focus on Bertrand. His attacks are easily avoided -- except for the breath attack that merely pushes you back -- so focus on offense. With his life bar depleted to zero, Betrand will eventually go down.
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POSSOM GIBLET, Georgia, US -- Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has urged the Security Council to "do sumfin' good fo' them Sudanese blokes, bring in summo' peacekeepas, and get them Muhajadings or whatever they's callled te stop killing folks." Mr. Richards' three options for the UN, with Sudan's approval, would "bring sum bloody peace to these coco chums." One charity concert scheme would involve 18,600 American and U.K. rock bands, making it the world's most happenin' love-in since Woodstock, which the Stones missed.
However, Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir has vowed to never allow a rock band into Darfur, much less 18,600 of them. The Stones cannot hold their show without the government's consent.
"Securin' the consent of the gummint o' Sudan'll require a whole lotta whiskey, for me and the rest of the Stones, as well as by the United Nations," Mr. Richards said after his fourteenth pint of Jack Daniel's. "No effort should be spared to send the simple, powerful message: the Stones' involvement will increase the chances of peace and love takin' root in Darfur, strengthen our public image after that bollocks show in the Super Bowl last January, give these chums a good place to party, and most of all, bring the people of Biafra or wherever the hell we're doin' this some bitchin' rock n' roll!" Richards went on to mutter incomprehensibly for a few minutes, then dropped his gob into his soup.
Bandmate Mick Jagger warned that the window of opportunity created by the Darfur peace agreement signed in May would be lost if there was no extra effort to implement it on the ground (but not in those words). The current number of rock bands in Sudan's war-torn west is 21, even lower than that of prudish Utah.
Some two million people have fled their homes in Darfur since conflict began in 2003, and tens of thousands of people are reported to have been killed in ongoing violence. When informed of this, Jagger replied "It's kinda like that whole Bangladesh thing George Harrison was always whinin' about," and consumed a record twenty-fifth shot of vodka, then promptly also dropped his gob into his meal.
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- Ariel Sharon "Richards more drunk than Jagger, sources claim". BBC, August 2, 2006
- Some idiot who hasn't heard the Beatles "Rolling Stones are the Best Band on Earth". Rolling Stones, August 1, 2005


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Intercept Assassination Plans is a mission in the Taipei hub.
Find the package with the assassination plans and obtain it at all costs.
Available intelEdit
Intel Type | Source | Cost | Description |
CSP Dossier | Grigori | $5,000 | Dossier information on the Chinese Secret Police. Purchasing this Intel will expand your dossier on the CSP - a militant bureau of the People's Republic of China intent on enforcing and protecting China's interests. |
Fire Support | Heck Enterprises | $3,100 | Heck is available as a gun-for-hire should you need backup during your mission into the subway tunnels. |
Added Handler Support | Albatross | $2,400 | Given your good standing with Albatross, you could hire G22 to monitor your mission and provide support. |
NOTE: Added Handler Support is only available if you either bluffed Albatross or agreed to delete the bugs during Investigate Warehouse District Data Trail. Fire Support seems to be available regardless of standing with Heck.
Objectives and walkthroughEdit
Please note, this guide is intended for stealth-based characters, as run-n'-gunners have virtually no need for strategies.
Heck will contact you at the start of the mission.
- Eager Heck +1
- Friendly
- Professional Heck -1
If Heck joins you on the mission you will recieve a +1 reputation with him.
Mandatory objectivesEdit
Access Subway TracksEdit
As you wait for the transaction to take place, Mina will get cut off and a mysterious man will step from the shadows. this is of course the legendary Omen Deng, and after an exchange of words (the second professional response will net +1 reputation) he will lock you in a maintenance closet.
- Professional (second Professional node) Deng +1
Once inside you will regain communications with Mina and two guards will rush into the room. You can either drop down the gaping hole in the floor or hide behind the generator-type machine. One will guard the doorway, while the other will investigate the opening in the floor. After a few seconds the one in the door will turn away, giving you the opportunity to break cover and silently take them both down. Move along the hallway and hide behind the pillars until the third guard stops watching the exit to the hallway beneath and turns away. Eliminate him and continue to the Save Point.
In the next room there are four guards, one is on the bottom floor, two on the middle floor and one on the top. Mike himself mentions that the sound of the trains will hide those of gunshots, meaning you can wait for a train to take a shot (or shots) or do the following. Wait where you came in until the first guard moves behind the pillar, where you can get behind him and take him down. Wait for the second guard to turn away from the ladder before moving up and taking him out. The third guard is almost always hidden behind some pipes and very easy to sneak behind him. The fourth is usually down the ladder at this point and easy the get behind. once up the second ladder immediately move onto some horizontal pipes and behind some vertical pipes. Two guards will enter through the door and very slowly make their way along the catwalk once the second is far enough along, sneak behind them and take them out.
Money: $1,000 (on second level of catwalk)
The hallway leads to more catwalks overlooking the tracks and a checkpoint. It is at this point that a G22 operative will tap into your comms and begin to speak with you. The first agent walks right by the exit and is easy to take down. The second requires observation, careful timing, and for the impatient a use of the Shadow Operative Skill as he often turns around even though he stays in one spot. Go down the ladder, through the door, collect the money ($1500) and follow the hallway.
Money: $1,500 (after ladder, just past the door and around the corner)
Reach stationEdit
There are four CSP in this room, two on the catwalk you enter on, one on the floor below it in the first part of the room, and the final further in. Next to the last guy there is a duffel bag of money ($2000). Opposite the exit is a locked door with some money, ammo, and a weapons mod. Exit the area, cross the tracks and reach your next objective and checkpoint.
Money: $2,000 (on lowest level near some pipes)
Money: $2,000 (in locked room to top level)
Open GatesEdit
Once in the actual station, you will be facing several cameras and four civilian security guards. Take down (Non-lethally of course) the first who is on your left, then hug the tracks to sneak behind the second. Bypass the keypad to gain entrance to the security office. Crack the safe, then move up the stairs and subdue the remaining two guards as they exit through the door. Pick up the Ammo and weapon mod, hack the computer, then head out the street level entrance. While here, bypass the keypad, then head down to the second level.
Weapon Mod (in locked safe on first floor of security room)
Money: $2,000 (on second floor of security room)
Armor Mod (on second floor of security room)
Acquire assassination dateEdit
Once down stairs you get a checkpoint and a nice cut scene of Mike stupidly announcing his presence and your target fleeing behind a locked door(At this point the CSP are unavoidably alerted to you for the rest of the level). If you purchased the "Fire Support" intel, simply duck behind cover and wait as Steven Heck Mows down your opposition in the game's most potent display of Bad-Assery. If not, just use the Shadow Operative Skill to stealthily take out the CSP or just shoot/CQC them.
Money: $3,000 (on platform)
Armor Mod (on platform)
Dossier: CSP (on platform)
After getting past the door and going down the stairs you are now on the tracks. You can take out most of the CSP from this starting point(especially using grenades), which will make things easier. A train should whizz by as you step onto the platform taking two CSP with it. There is a bag of money ($4000) on the left side of the platform, though it may be hard to spot at first. At the end of the platform your target will run out and jump onto the tracks. Follow him and allow the cutscene to play out.
Money: $4,000 (on raised platform next to tracks)
Evade the trainEdit
There's a train coming at you now. Dodge the incendiary bomb, eliminate the target, hit the switch, and watch the cut scene.
Alternatively you can run back and pick the locked door on the same wall as your target. Two CSP agents will run at you and might try to harass you. This provides you an alternative cutscene.
After the mission you will debrief and go over the intelligence. You will have the chance to influence your relationship with Mina and are forced to make a choice about your next and final Taipei mission.
- Insulted (first Aggressive node) Mina -1
- Flirtatious (first Suave node) Mina +1
- Professional (first Professional node)
- Sarcastic (second Aggressive node)
- Joking (second Suave node)
- Logical (second Professional node)
- Angry (third Aggressive node)
- Frustrated (third Suave node)
- Cool (third Professional node)
- Riots (fourth Suave node, lets you prevent the riots)
- Assassination (fourth Professional node, lets you prevent the assassination)
Following this you will again flashforward to a conversation with Leland.
- Threatening (first Aggressive node)
- Sarcastic (first Suave node)
- Curious (first Professional node)
- Aggressive (second Aggressive node) Leland +1
- Dismissive(second Suave node) Leland +1
- Regret(second Professional node) Leland +1
Or, depending on if civilians were killed during the Retrieve NSB Data from Grand Hotel mission:
- Callous (second Aggressive node)
- Joking (second Suave node) Leland -1
- Protective (second Professional node)
- Cocky (third Aggressive node)
- Joking (third Suave node)
- Funding (third Professional node)
- Cocky (fourth Aggressive node)
- Dismissive (fourth Suave node) Leland -1
- Respect (fourth Professional node)
- Threat (fifth Aggressive node) Leland +1
- Sarcastic (fifth Suave node) Leland -1
- Innocents (fifth Professional node)
Or, depending on which data you chose to save:
- Sacrifice (fifth Aggressive node) Leland +1
- Sarcastic (fifth Suave node) Leland -1
- Cost (fifth Professional node) Leland +1
Optional objectivesEdit
Disable surveillanceEdit
Turn off the cameras in this area by hacking the keypad outside of the security office (on the right side of the building when coming from the starting point of this area).
Get past Secret PoliceEdit
If you bought the "Fire Support" intel this is very easy: just crouch behind the cover you spawn in front of for a few seconds, and Heck will simply mow down all of the CSP; you may then resume chasing after your target.
Choices and consequencesEdit
Consequences of previous missionsEdit
Consequences in following missionsEdit
You have to choose between saving the information on the assassination or on the riots after this mission is over:
- Select the assassination info and Sung will not die but the riots will kill people.
- Select the riot information and Sung will die but the riots aren't going to happen.
Killing Taiwanese security personnel will get you a -1 Reputation with Mina Tang. Chinese Secret Police, on the other hand, are fair game: killing them will not reduce your Reputation.
In the ending cutscene (in which you choose which data to save), if you have a great enough Technical Aptitude Skill you will de-encrypt the disc instead of Mina.
After cutscene with Mina there is one more cutscene with Henry Leland in which you can get -1 Reputation with him if you choose sarcasm (fourth Suave node). The Second Suave node and the Fourth Aggressive node or fourth Professional node will give you +1 Henry Leland Reputation. The Fifth Suave node will gave you -1 Reputation with Leland.


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