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Weekly Jobless Claims Drop a Bit in Latest Tally
WASHINGTON -- The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell marginally last week, but continues to point to steadily improving labor market conditions.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits slipped 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 312,000 for the week ended June 21, the Labor Department said Thursday.
The prior week's claims were revised to show 2,000 more applications received than previously reported.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast first-time applications for jobless aid dipping to 310,000 last week.
A Labor Department analyst said there were no special factors influencing the state level data.
The four-week moving average for new claims, considered a better measure of underlying labor market conditions as it irons out week-to-week volatility, rose 2,000 to 314,250 last week.
With the labor market normalizing, there is probably little room for claims to drop much further. The declining claims suggest a recent streak of payroll job gains is likely to be sustained.
Data on job openings has also pointed to strengthening job growth. The economy has experienced four straight months of job gains above 200,000, a stretch last seen in early 2000.
The claims report showed the number of people still receiving benefits after an initial week of aid rose 12,000 to 2.57 million in the week ended June 14.
That covered the survey period for household employment from which the jobless rate is calculated.
So-called continuing claims fell 52,000 between the May and June survey periods, suggesting scope for the unemployment rate to decline from a 5½ year low of 6.3 percent.


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Jeep Liberty Starting and Stalling Problems
caribou1 Posts: 1,354I once had a similar problem with a set of ignition points & condenser on a FIAT. We are allowed to mention the word "FIAT" now
The wire connecting the ignition coil to the distributor was oily and not tightly crimped inside it's connector (the wire providing contact to the points).
I was able to find what was causing the problem by manipulating the wire harness while the engine was running because this stopped the engine every time. In your case I think the same approach could be applied.0
smoothnd Posts: 1When trying to start my 2002 Jeep Liberty, it stalls about 2 seconds after turning over. I can rev the engine to 3000 rpm's but it still dies after the 2 seconds.
Approximately 3 seconds after the car dies, the light for the wrong key illuminates. However, I have tried to start it with both original keys, so I do not believe it is the key recognition system.
The check engine light is also illuminated, but it has been illuminated for about a year with no problems. When the check engine light first illuminated, we had a mechanic take a look, and he found no problems.
Has anyone encountered a similar problem?0
johnhayworth Posts: 16There are positioning sensors that align the camshaft and crankshaft magnetly. If some substance as grime or grease & oil durty up this sensor the auto or aircraft will srart and then stop until the sensor is cleaned or until replaced. I had this happon on a Buick and a Hellercopter.jdh;-)0
I have a 2003 Jeep Liberty Renigade and about a month ago it died while I was driving it, I took it into the dealership, they replaced my radiator and my cam shaft position sensor under warranty it cost me $150. The day after I got it back it died again. So they towed it back and returned it saying they couldn't find anything wrong with it. They said that the check engine light was reading something wrong with the transmission but since they could not get it to duplicate the problem they weren't going to fix that. Then last night it died again. Each time it dies I am only 2-3 miles away from home and going no more than 40 miles per hour. Some times it will start back up and sometimes it takes overnight before it will. The dealership has it again. My lawyer says that they have four chances to fix it then they get hit with lemon law.
I think Jeep needs to know everyone is having the same problem, also I am going to contact consumer advocacy groups for help. This is nonsense that everyone is having the same problem. I have two small children that should not be subjected to endangerment due to an unsafe car that dies without notice. Id like to take my family on a summer vacation but am too scared to drive very far away. That's sad.
I owe $10k on the car still, anyone have suggestions? Trade-in value is only around $6500. I don't want to sell it privately cause I would not sell this vehicle to someone else to have them go through what I've gone through.0
slyt1 Posts: 5Hi, I'm sorry to hear about your issues, it sounds a lot like the problems I had with my 2003 Jeep Liberty. Mine actually stalled on the highway at over 60 MPH a couple times so its a HUGE safety issue! I wound up having the Cam and Crank sensors replaced. It stopped stalling after the last install but the check engine light still came on, the codes referred to leaks that are normally associated with a bad gas cap. I changed the gas cap and the car has been fine ever since. I would check that one just to see if it helps. I would still love to get rid of my car too, though, because I am worried every time I get behind the wheel that its going to stall. I thought lemon laws only applied to newer cars?0
agreenfield Posts: 2So, my boyfriend and I went 4 wheeling in tall grass in his 96 Jeep Grand Cherokee Lardeo 4.0, I know, NOT a good idea. The next morning we left to drive about four hours and forgot to check the undercarriage, REALLY not a good idea. We were about 2 hrs in and the transmission started slipping on the highway at about 70 mph. We stopped for gas, it started up fine, and on we went. Transmission was acting up over 70, but seemed fine at 65. He told me to pull off so we could check the fluid, I exited, turned left, and the Jeep died at about 45 mph. Just shut down, no gauges working at all. Cranked but would not turn over, but you can hear the fuel pump come on. We looked under and found grass around the drive shaft that had ripped out the downstream O2 sensor. Of course it was late, no parts stores were open, and we left the repair manual at home... He tried to stick the wires back in the sensor but that didn't work. We got towed home, replaced the sensor, and nothing changed. Checked for fire at spark plug, nothing. We tried to get the check engine light to flash the codes manually, and that didn't work either. No check engine light at all. We went to checking sensors with the volt meter, trying to make the check engine light come on. Nada. Very low (about half of normal) readings on major sensors. We had it towed to a shop, they said it was reading crazy and must be the PCM. We have tried two different ones programmed for the vehicle and they didn't change a thing... Still cranks, no start, no gauges, any ideas? Thanks so much!0
I guess, Lemon Law also applies to when the service department has had 4 chances to fix your vehicle but they don't do it correctly. I have a warranty on the vehicle - maybe that's why lemon law applies. I'm not sure. Thanks for the advice. My car is still in the shop I'll keep you posted as to what they decided to fix. Feel bad for the dealership if this is a JEEP issue that should be a recall.0
The accident may have yanked really hard on the wiring harness.0
My '03 Jeep Liberty Renegade ran great as usual this am - but I let my hubby drive it today...he filled up and now black smoke, stalling, etc...oil was low - added more - only about 4,000 since last change?...I have 173K on it with no major problems until now...(unless you count mirrors not working, on & off A/C & CD player issues).... any ideas?...bad gas?...he got her home finally and their she sits....0
Black smoke is usually a sign of one or more cylinder misfires. I'd read the codes and see which cylinders are misbehaving. These symptoms could be lots of things. Bad gas is rare but it does happen.0
Hi - the codes say crankshaft sensor is bad?...I'm hoping this is an easy fix...anyone?0
Looks like .6 of one hour + the part, so can't be very hard to do.0
i had to change the sensors on my jeep and it wasnt that hard at all me and my husband did it ourselves.0
Im driving a Jeep Liberty Sport 2003 manual transmission 4x4, while stopped at a stop sign my Jeep stalled. I started it back up again and the check engine light came on. I was able to drive it to house after buying a can of throttle body cleaner from the hardware store. I exposed the throttle body assembly and ejected the cleaner on to the walls of the throttle body. After doing that for 20 minutes I drove my Jeep around the block a few them. I thought i was done with it, while driving down the road to go to work the next morning, traveling about 60-65mph my tachometer was starting to spike. I quickly pulled over and stopped my vehicle, when I came to a complete stop the car stalled and not only did my check engine light come on but also my check oil light as well. I cleaned my throttle body so I have determined that the problem is not that simple. I'm broke and running out of solutions. If any one has more helpful advice Im all ears. thanks. :mad:0
Does anybody know what trouble code p0320 ignition/engine is supposed to represent, my car keeps stalling and i have no idea why its reading me that code. Any thoughts/ :confuse:0
That happend to me..I have the same jeep as you except mine is automatic. We had to change two sensors on the car, that have to do with the mph on your car. At this moment I do not remember what they are called but tomorrow I will look them up and I will reply to you again with which ones I had to change0
you can always just look it up online to see what the codes mean0
the sensors I was talking about was the camshaft position sensor and the crankshaft position sensor. And since then my jeep has been fine. Me and my husband changed them ourselfs, they really are not that hard to do.0
Finally got it to the shop - bad crankshaft & camshaft sensors ....hoping that is it...thought perhaps bad gas because we had just filled up w/the Liberty and a few days later I was using my dad's car, filled up at same station and it blew up too...I guess just weird coincidence...thanks for all the help!0
hockeyspy Posts: 1Sounds like my scenario exactly...I was about to post:
"I have 2002 Jeep Liberty (Sport).
I drove my vehicle home with no problem. I stopped home for about 20 minutes and then went to drive my Jeep again. It wouldn't start.
- The engine is not turning over.
- The keyless entry (remote) device doesn't seem to be working, ie will not lock doors, but did open the hatch on one occasion.
- First, when I turned the key back, nothing happened at 1st and then gradually the odometer display came on and then the radio.
- As well, at first I could here a continuous "activation" of the lock in the hatch for no reason. It gradually stopped.
- I turn the key forward and the various lights display. First, as normal, but now the (MIL - malfunction indicator light) blinks for 10 seconds. The battery light is also coming on after initially going off.
- Again, when I turn the key the whole way to start, no response from the engine.
What is happening??
- Fuses?
- Computer (ODB) problem?
- Need to boost battery?
- other?
Thanks in advance!"
Anyone else with similar experience?0
I'm at my wits end. :confuse: Hopefully i can get some advice here.
Ok I have a 2003 Jeep Liberty v6 3.7l renegade 72000 miles on it. About 1 week ago, It stalled out on me on the freeway doing about 65. i pulled it over and waited about 5 mins and started it again...it started then stalled again about 30yards later. I had it towed. I had a friend of mine come and put his code reader on it and we came to the conclusion that it had something to do with spark. So I began to take off the plugs and coils. I found that 4 of my coils were cracked and one was so bad it was bulging...ok bad plugs and coils..got it. I went and bought all 6 coils and plugs and replaced them. Started it up and it ran for about 10 mins then stalled out again. Now the code read that there was a sensor bad. We couldnt figure out which it was so I had it towed to a mechanic shop. He diagnosed it as the cam and crank sensors and he replaced them for me. He said it still had a small lag on take off but that could be fixed by putting in the correct plugs. Apparently me and my BRILLIANT thought process bought bosch 4-spark plugs (@6bux a pop) and the mechanic suggested regular Champion plugs. so I went and took out a bosch plug and measured it up to a regular champion one. turns out that the champion plug is a little shorter than the ones I put in. so I figured that might be the problem. I raced back to my car and began replacing the plugs. Upon removing the coils, i found that another coil (yes its a new coil) was popped out bulging at the side like the other one was. I attributed this to maybe "bad luck bad part" deal. I went to the parts store and they gave me another new one. I put it in and turned ont he car. It started perfect and ran great!...for the first 10 mins...after that, there was a very small "stutter" in the engine that was intermittent. I didnt think much of it figuring that maybe the engine is just a litle old and may have developed it over time. That was yesterday afternoon. I drove the car across town with my kids and everything in it (thinking my jeep was fixed) and it ran great. Today, i woke up and went to church and ran some errands. the jeep was running fine and still had that minor "stutter" int he idle at the stoplights. but it would take off fine. I didnt think anything of it. I got into a scenario where I had to give it gas so that it would doenshift so I can pass someone. It shifted fine but during the pass, the engine stuttered again. after I [assed, i had t get off the freeway because now the engine was exhibiting signs that it wanted to stall out and die. The check engine light was flashing slowly as I pulled it into the driveway of my parents house (they were closest to where I was at) i had to let it cool down so I left it there and got a ride to my house. My thought is that when it lost power again this time, it felt like it was missing fire on a cylinder which made me think about "what if another coil went bad?" but what are the odds on that? If it is the case, i still need to find out why my coils are going bad? I'm going to have to go and check the coils and plugs (to see what one wasnt firing right). Any suggestions? I bought a main filter for the fuel (for the filter thats on the outside right in front of the gas tank) so i'll be replacing that one.
need some advice. please let me know.
thanks guys (and gals) :sick:0
This same thing happened to me - drove to store - came out - dead!!....try a new battery0
Cam Shaft and/or Crank Shaft sensores need to be replaced, also as a precation take a can of "trottle body" clearner and douse your throttle body with it. I changed both of my sensors on my liberty and thar car runs like new. Sensores are about $30 bucks each, the "trottle" clearer is only about $10 bucks. Also when you replacing the sensores check the old ones you take out to see if there soaked in oil, That could be the reason your sensores died to begin with. Best of luck.0
Ok update.
Got home from work went to where my Jeep was at. Turns out the code was flashing "misfire on cylinder 3" so i swapped the coil of cyl3 with the one on cyl1. I reset the code and let it idle.. sure enough after 5 mins of idle, it registered "misfire on cyl1" So i took one of my old original ignition coils (the onlyone that was in decent condition) and placed it in cyl1. The misfire was not apparent anymore. as it was the misfire was barely noticeable however now it was gone. so my conclusion is that maybe i had 2 bad coils? talk about bad luck. Outman, I saw what you had put in there about the throttlebody cleaner. i'll be doing that once i get paid next (this freakin breakdown sucked me dry just about) im sure that will help with keeping things in shape. I'm going to drive it around a bit and update in about a week (or sooner if theres another issue). Anyone think maybe the pcm is shorting the coils? i guess i'll have to see...if it does, that will be bad coil #3...i must really have super bad luck if thatw as the case! i'll still troll the forum in case anyone has anything else to look out for. I love my jeep...but was contemplating trade in for a 4door truck if it kept breaking on me0
I, as like most in here have had the same problem with the vehicle staling out. I first came to this site this past weekend and did a little research before panicing. After reading 50 or so posts on the internet about this issue, I came to the conclusion that it may not be sensors but fuel line and vacuum issues. I purchased a fuel line additive to clean injectors for $2.99 and a can of gum cutter spray for $2.49. I began the process of cleaning up the fuel system and air intake system, My goal was to get to the intake manifold, Grabbing a flat head screw driver, I began disassembling the air intake apparatus. Still using the flat head screw drive. I loosened the clamps, loosened the plastic securing bolts on the main intake housing and pulled the main collection housing off the intake manifold. Using the gum cutter. I liberally sprayed the intake flapper while holding it open and was amazed at the amount of filth that was there. Upon closer inspection, as I was beginning to reassemble the parts, I noticed several of the vacuum hoses, connected to this unit, were cracked wide open. Further investigation left me with the conclusion that the hoses (rubber tubes) connecting to the main air intake were all cracked which caused unfiltered air to leak into the fuel combustion chamber ( IE:the dirty air intake flapper). The breakdown of these lines evidently lead to moisture being introduced into the fuel chamber causing the vehicle to run rough and stall out. As a quick fix for now . I used black electricians tape and sealed up the cracks in the hose lines. I will need to order all new lines for the vacuum system. After I taped each line, I re-assembled everything, having to remove the overflow tank for the radiator to get the hoses back on (you'll need a number 10 metric wrench for this, it is held by two (2) nuts to the fire wall). I tightened all the connections again with the flat head screw driver (use a long thin headed one). Next I un-hooked the battery cables, cleaned as needed and re-connected them. This reset the computer and the sensors allowing the motor light on the dash to go out. Knock on wood, it has been running without staling for two days now and it seems to have more power than before. My theory is that these cracks in the hose lines were allowing moisture and dirty air to get into the combustion chamber which messed up the fuel richness causing it not to ignite properly and miss fire hence the sensor failure. If I have any further problems I will post but for now everything is back to normal except for replacing the worn our air hoses.1
thats really good info to know! i'd also like to point out to be careful once an ignotion coil goes out. In talking to several jeep mechanics (after my incident) it turns out that they go out like dominoes..basically if one goes out, the others are soon to follow. they are very testy when it comes to this.. thats what i'm gathering about the coils as well whoci would explain me getting 2 bad coils in the bunch.
Knock on wood so far my jeep is running fine.. i'll be checking the hoses as you did this weekend.0
Ok my theory has a few issues although the cracked hoses were a problem and it seemed to run better afterwards. It stalled again for my wife last evening and she had the heater on. I again unhooked the battery terminal and reconnected it to reset the computer. Everything was back to normal. Today I turned off the heat control and ran it close to 30 miles and no stalling. My next venture is to go with the heater on to see if it is drawing down on the battery. My battery is over two years old and may be getting week. If this is the case, it may have some affect on those sensors malfunctioning and causing a disruption in the ignition chamber. I'm off for a test drive with the heater on to see what happens.0
Ok finally back from my road test. Had the heater on and boom there it went again. There are a number of things that it could be but have no idea why it stalled only while the heater was on. It has been backfiring. running rough. I left it sit for 15 minutes and it fired right up ran two miles and shut down again. Can't be the battery at this point or it would have been dead an hour ago. It is still cranking. here are possible answers: 1 bad batch of gas 2. fuel filter needs changed. 3 fuel pump is malfunctioning. 4, needs tuned up. Needs to be traded in, I've searched about every place I can think of for an answer. Any suggestion will help at this point. The vehicle is now unreliable.1
pktechgirl Posts: 1My 2005 Liberty Renegade (manual trans) just started having the same stall/idle issue, same symptoms over the last few days. It's got 61k miles. Day before I'd just finished a 600 mile drive and was using the defrost. I'd left the defrost on when I got out and thought maybe it wore out the battery. Swapped battery and jeep restarted but stalled over and over, especially while turning and braking. It's at the dreaded dealership so I'm seriously following potential solutions and outcomes here. I would really like to hear what happens to your jeep. I absolutely love my jeep and need it back! thanks.0
mfitzyk Posts: 6A $7 can of throttle body cleaner ought to do it. The Jeep diverts exhaust back through the intake to decrease emissions which clogs up the throttle body with carbon deposits and decreases air flow. Your Jeep probably only stalls @ stop signs and red lights or while slowing down and not on the freeway because it is getting enough air plus has the forward momentum of the engine/transmission. Ours was filthy when we cleaned it. The dealer will tell you that there are all these error codes including "crank" and "camshaft" sensors that they will want to replace for $100's. Try the throttle body cleaner first, $7 is better than a $300 sensor that will just give you the same problem as soon as you drive it out of the service garage, which will just make them keep replacing more.0

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Yesterday, Gotham. Before that, The Flash and Arrow. Now NBC has ordered a full pilot for a series based on Constantine, a.k.a. Hellblazer, and suddenly Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and in-development Netflix series are looking more than a bit anemic.
On the plus side for Marvel, at least, is: 1) a pilot doesn't mean the series will get picked up, and 2) Gotham still sounds terrible. But on the plus side for DC, Constantine sounds like a good thematic match for Grimm, whose Friday night ratings make it one of NBC's most-viewed shows (which is both a testament to Grimm and to how completely incapable NBC is at making entertainment large groups of people want to watch).
Another plus on the DC side is that the pilot is being written developed by The Mentalist's executive producer Daniel Cerone, along with screenwriter David S. Goyer, and Cerone knows his way around popular TV procedurals. On the plus side for Marvel, the Constantine pilot script had a commitment with penalty, meaning if NBC didn't order the pilot, they were going to have to pay Cerone and Goyer a lot of money for nothing. It's entirely possible that NBC, who was on the hook no matter what, decided to order tje pilot even though they have no intention of picking it up.
But that's all speculation; what we know now is that a Constantine TV series is getting at least one episode made. Who's excited? Furthermore, who believes that someone British will be hired to play the role of John Constantine? I would have said no chance in hell, but the success of CBS's Elementary may have helped turn the tables...
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I LOVE it. Frankly, I have no idea about how to explain why there is no "-s" on "come". I am guessing that it is some kind of relic from a "future subjunctive". There is such a mood in Portuguese and it changes the verb.
As far as the diagram is concerned, I would simply treat "When" as understood. "If" might be better to be understood because it, at least, would call for the conditional mood.
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...but my writing has moved some time ago to Media Influencer. It is my own blog that covers much more than blogging. So below are the posts from my other blog for those interested in what I still have to say.
Last Wednesday I spent most of the day at Online Information, the world's no.1 event for online content and information management solutions, in Olympia, London. Alright, that's a receipe for corporate-style boredom but I got to me meet and talk to several interesting people.
In the morning, I was chairing a panel with an impressive line up of people talking about Social Software - Delivering value to 21st century organisation. Alex Bellinger, Ewan McIntosh, Rob Scoble and Ben Edwards were discussing pretty much anything related to that.
My intro was simply deconstruction the title of the panel. What does social software mean? What is a 21st century organisation? What kind of value are we talking about? And can it be 'delivered'? Perhaps it is no longer about 'delivering' but about enabling, introducing, optimising, sharing, innovating and gasp, inspiring…
The main focus for me was value and the objective was to give the audience ideas of where to look for the value of social media/software within their organisations. It may be that the value they bring is not vague or hard to identify but that it is multi-dimensional. Perhaps it manifests itself in several areas which do not correspond to the silos so beloved of business structures.
How about the following framework for where to find the value social media and social software brings?
Individual empowerment - helps individual employees with their tasks and everyday job; easier information managenent via RSS, tagging, social bookmarking for example, awareness of people within the organisation via their blogs etc
Organisational empowerment - enables the organisation to do, connect, carry out functions that were not possible before; communications and information flow, exnternal engagement of markets, community, media, customers etc.
Specific level - projects that are easier and faster carried out, e.g. using a wiki to organise an event or collaboratively produce a manual, or using a blog to document a project etc.
Systemic level - processes that emerge as a result of extended use of social media/software. People making connections that speed up existing processes and/or give rise to new ones. Communication channels and networks that overlay the silos and dysfunctional processes. Innovation and creativity that would not manifest themselves otherwise.
There was another panel with the same people (plus Matt Locke who couldn't join us in the morning), this time chaired by Phil Bradley. Phil was a lot more strict than I as the moderator, especially needed as there were two more people in the conversation. I do prefer 'conversational' panels to powerpoint and it was good to see people thinking on their feet. I hope to talk to them again, there seem to be more and more people around who understand what will drive the changes inside organisations.
In between the two panels at Online Information I rushed off to another conference, Click Forum 2006 (Creative Review's 2nd Annual European Online Creative Advertising Forum). It was taking place in Parsons Green, not too far from Olympia. There I joined the panel about Blogs, online communities and interactive environments. I particularly enjoyed meeting Tim Ryan, director brand marketing at AOL. He very kindly gave me a lift back to Online Information, in the car we have frantically talked about the state of the media industry and the future of agencies and marketing. Suffice to say that we agreed, make of it what you will, dear reader.
After all the conferences, it was off to a London Girl Geek Dinner, where the Scobles were guests of honour. It was a long day with social media overload but well worth it.
cross-posted from Media Influencer
Here is the process, step by step.
This is what happens when marketers try to be trendy these days. The result is the most ill-considered banking product ever devised.
...a National Australia Bank (NAB) Visa Mini - confoundingly counter-intuitively, this card's most notable feature is that it's about half the size of a conventional credit card. Apparently this distinction alone will irresistibly and relentlessly reel in the target demographic - fashion conscious twenty-somethings (I think that might include me!) - but NAB has other slick devices in store to simultaneously deliver a KO in the coolness heavyweight championship of the banking world whilst obfuscating the somewhat steep interest rate levied on any transactions billed.
Well, perhaps all could be forgiven if the cool level was sufficient. But not when combined with plain dumb.
Why not hang your Visa Mini on your mobile phone using the purpose-built attachment, o budding sophisticate? Does it look cool, and it is also great for the person who finds your misplaced Nokia; if they exhaust your mobile credit telephoning Siberian astrologers, they'll be thanking their lucky stars because instant replenishment is quite literally on hand! Now that is convenience.
For the truly elite - the style aristocracy - why not subtly incorporate the Visa Mini into a piece of bespoke jewellery, like so? Yes, it probably would require less effort to don a prominent sign displaying "ROB ME" painted in large flourescent letters and then wander down the darkest, dodgiest backstreet alley in an effort to discover a smackhead suffering profound withdrawal symptoms so you can shove your Visa Mini between his chattering teeth. But that's simply not how they do it in Europe, philistine.
or it just plain don't work!
...what if the cardholder wishes to transact via an automatic teller machine or a manual imprint device or a vertical-loading swiper unsuited to such generation-NEXT Mini cards? Oh ye of little faith, those clever folk at NAB and Visa are one step ahead of the likes of you and I. If you are one of the select fashionistas who manages to successfully obtain a Visa Mini card, you will also receive a Visa Mini Companion Card, known in-house as Visa non-Mini Mini, which financially functions identically to your Mini card as it is linked to the same credit account. Instantly, it should be obvious to all that the inclusion of this extra card represents rare value - two cards from just one application! - but do not neglect to observe that the Companion Card has also been ingeniously designed to share the exact same dimensions of a conventional bank card!
Interestingly, there is a comment by a reader on one of the product review sites, which rings a bit, well, shall we say false. I just wonder to what extent Ms Caroline Liang's summer job is related to marketing… But let's not dwell on the detail. Let's go for the big picture.
This is where marketers 'lose it'. Blinded by the number of trends and deafened by the noise of the mouse-clicking, iPod-carrying, mobile-wielding Generation XYZ, their unerring instincts tell them that combining all that with a financial product AND accessories is a sure way to grab that desirable 'demographic'. Based on their fundamental misunderstanding of who creates and 'provides' for a growing number of 'consumers', their fate is looking less inspiring than this accesorising suggestions for the Visa Mini.
We like conformity. Sadly, sometimes we confuse it with teamwork. Or much worse, we assume noncomformity to be anti-team and disloyal. The Road to Ruin. This, despite all superficial commitments to the valiant efforts of the Myerses and Briggses and Belbins of this world telling us that diverse balanced teams are good.
In something approaching real tragedy, many organisations go through a painful process of attracting and hiring people with a difference to make a difference; then spend forever driving the difference out of the person. Immensely frustrating for all concerned. Blogs can help prevent this.
We should stop thinking of blogs as just individual soapboxes, it may be the way we learnt about them, but it's not the way we're going to learn from them.
They're very powerful conversation enablers; they help people express care and concern and dissent in non-threatening ways; they help avoid mutual-admiration-society selection bias; they build trust amongst teams; they exposes heresies and cancers; they prevent me (and people like me) from believing in our own propaganda.
Blogs are but one tool in helping us with those selections.
One tool. An important tool. One we did not have before.
Cass R. Sunstein in Why Societies Need Dissent
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I came across this gem earlier today and a classic example of what Jackie and I call 're-inventing the bandwagon'…
Eight O'Clock Coffee Co. is energizing coffee drinkers and its brand with a new blog that invites customers to share their gripes and thoughts about life, work and coffee.
The blog, called The Grind, follows the storyline of a working mother of two who writes about her daily life, and invites visitors to share their own experiences. The first blog entry begins with a quick recap of the weekend and talks about the blogger's boss, nicknamed "Snobicus," and asks advice on how the blogger can break the ice with the chilly boss.
The goal is to connect consumers to the brand in an interactive format, said Jeff Maloy, Eight O'Clock senior brand manager. The blog will run for six to eight weeks.
This is so bad. How shall I count the ways?
- Working mother of two - what's her name or is this just a target demographic that came highest? Doubt it so please, enlighten us… Hang on, I got it. Her name is Eight O'Clock Coffee, it sayz on the blog - posted by Eight O'clock Coffee.
- Interactive format - comments are good, but no need to asnwer every crank in the comments section, especially it is the first comment on the first post and the answer is the second post on the blog. Or is it someone from the agency who set up the blog trying to 'crank up' (sorry) the new interactive engine of the Eight O'Clock Coffee Co? Oh way, I can download a coupon and watch two TV spots. I take it all back...
- What's with the blogger.com used as blogging platform? It sucks. Really. The worst comments facility ever, even some more benighted blogger.com users use Haloscan to get away from indigenous comments (dis)functionality. But I digress.
- The blog will run 6-8 weeks? That's marketing-campaign mindset talking. Sigh.
Perhaps time to be constructive? A coffee blog I want to see tells me about coffee, its history, flavours, pictures, coffee-making tips (OK, there are some on the Grind blog buried at the bottom in small print), baristas, growers, geeky facts about espresso machines etc etc - themes and topics abound.
And then there is the Ristretto Roasters weblog, set up by Jackie Danicki and run by Nancy Rommelmann, the founder of Ristretto Roasters, an artisanal coffee roasting company with its own café in Portland, OR. I know which blog I'd rather read.
Update: Just noticed that the article in PROMO magazine says that Eight O' Clock handles the Web site and blog in-house. I take a shot at the imaginary agency back. It still leaves plenty to gripe about…
cross-posted from Media Influencer
We have to recognize the role of the consumer as creator. That's the first time this has happened in history.
-Ajaz Ahmed, AKQA, Red Herring article
First recognise that they are not 'consumers'!
This has to be blogged…
The one and only Hugh MacLeod.
When I was in San Francisco last month (with Adriana, who was speaking at Vloggercon on net neutrality), one of the best things that happened to me was meeting BrainJams' Kristie Wells and Chris Heuer. These are fiercely intelligent, open, unpretentious, generous people who are doing incredible things through the power of their own personal networks.
One such example of this is the Rent an Expert event which BrainJams is staging at CNET HQ today in San Francisco.
The format will follow the laws of open space as the 'how to classes*' offered will be determined by the participants. We ask that a small fee (average is $5) be given for each 'how to class' you sign up for, and all the money collected during the evening will be donated to a charity that will be decided by those in the room (majority rules folks).
Check out the Rent an Expert wiki if you can attend and want to share your expertise and/or learn from the expertise of others in attendance. If you go, tell them that I sent you - and thank me sooner or later, because you won't regret the experience or getting to know Kristie and Chris.
Last week I was at an Engagement Alliance event, What My Space means, which took place at a rather cool location, the Charlotte street hotel's screening room (as in private cinema) - from 2 to 6pm. There was an excellent and varied line up of speakers (yes, yes, I was speaking) and I thoroughly enjoyed the event. There vibe was different, somehow more intimate and relaxed. Congratulations to Jackie for organising it all.
I spoke about social networking and My Space in that context. I have been travelling and only had a chance to post my notes now.
Social networking and concept of community, powerful enough for corporations and businesses to notice.
I define community as a network with a purpose, theme, topic and with specific motivations behind individuals participation. Not just a fuzzy notion of a collective space, this may sustain the community but not kick-start it. So we have music, dogs (Dogster), teenage angst (MySpace) dating and socialising.
The blogosphere was the original social network, open and mutating. Several times the landscape shifted – political blogging, metablogging, business, marketing, PR, academic blogs etc.
I talked about three aspects of social networks – the physical or 'geographical' aspect; the human aspect and the business dimension.
- The sheer scale of the social networking phenomenon is has taken us by surprise. Online has been bridging physical locations. Technology makes it easier to do certain things – connect & publish and communicate on an unprecedented scale. This scale may be changing certain human and social behaviour – we have increased capacity to maintain large social networks. It is said that a human mind cannot handle more than 150 people as contacts at a given time. Social networking online may be increasing this limit or helping to reach this limit faster for more individuals. Similar to mobile phone – we are able to do more, have more meetings and conversations, managing to squeeze in more as ad hoc become a modus operandi.
- Human aspect – social networks are a very non-commercial and non-rational space. Emotional and oddly intimate – aspect of human psyche usually capture and catered for by families, tribes and religions. Another thing that is changing within this space is the nature of authority. Quote about checking out peoples MySpace pages to find out more about them. Teenagers are able to create their identity; they understand the discrepancy between the image and reality – learning out to filter out. Credibility and authority emerging differently, not through 'certification' by a third party.
- Business dimension – this fundamentally non-commercial space in contrast with the manner it is done (i.e. emotional and social) is fulfilling a market function when it comes to communication and information. As a place for conversations, it is where the demand side is supplying itself (Doc Searls), the media and marketing are not the sole sources of information. Also, the distinction between consumers – producers – distributors/agents/publicists is blurred. "Artists have become their own agents, musicians their own record labels, and video makers their own broadcasters. And everyone on Bebo and MySpace and Facebook has become their own publicist, shouting Me Me Me.
Finally, disruption is never expected/anticipated and cannot be prepared for in detail/specifics and using the old models to monetise social networking may be counterproductive. This is because the internet and online treats any control or censorship as damage and re-routes around it.
Alec Muffet has an interesting article about the clash between the human nature and the manner in which companies try 'secure' their networks. He says:
… the reflex I have seen in some City institutions which try to ban iPods, USB sticks and the like, from trading floors and other sensitive environments.
That won't work - as JP [Rangaswami] approximately put it, if you want [me] to do that, you'll need to give me the privileges to stop-search the employees and go through their briefcases, pockets, and check what their phone can do; the result will be oppressive chaos.
The proper response is one of embrace and control, that if employees are going to make use of whatever technology [USB, iPod, WWW, Instant Messenger, 802.11, ...], some facility needs to be made to filter and sanitycheck the means to which it can be put, and that you make the means and constraint transparent and well-advertised to your employees.
In short: be fair, and be wise. It might cost a little more in the short term, but will retain respect, employees and be more effective than the "ban everything" approach.
Amen to that.
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Last Wednesday came and went. I was good fun, both during the day and evening. Days before the conference were busy and Lloyd managed to do three podcasts with speakers - Euan Semple, Lee Bryant and me.
Jackie Danicki took some good notes and reproduce them in a meaningful way on her blog. Lloyd Davis has blogged on the conference blog about his impressions from Open Space session and put some pictures on Flickr. For more, there's Technorati.
When we heard that Shel Israel is coming to London to speak at the Content 2.0, Jackie and I thought of getting a few like-minded people to meet him and have a… conversation with one of the authors of Naked Conversations. And a drink or two, or three.
The party will take place on June 5th (Monday), in a private house where many a blogger bash has succesfully taken place. We do not mean to exclude but the number are limited, for obvious reasons. Jackie's organisational genius is just the thing to make it a fun evening, so if you want to join us email her at dynamist at gmail dot com.


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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Quick and dirty. Unfortunately.
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14 comments:
- Lisa said...
So glad that you tried the chicken divan and enjoyed it. I don't always use thighs either. At times, we've just boiled up boneless chicken breasts and used those. Chicken is chicken at our house. Those heart shaped doughnuts are so neat looking and that glaze, oh my that glaze looks chocolatey good.
- February 1, 2011 at 2:20 PM
- Lauren said...
All of this is making me so hungry!! :) Yummmmmy
- February 1, 2011 at 3:24 PM
- LambAround said...
I'm stopping by to let you know that you're featured on my blog tonight! Congratulations :)
(there are some kitchen cleaning tips there too tonight, by the way ;)
- February 1, 2011 at 9:09 PM
- Amy said...
Love the cute heart shaped donuts! :) so cute and pretty.
- February 3, 2011 at 2:31 AM
- Emily said...
Those donuts look AMazing!!! Oh my... I would make them, and eat them all!
- February 3, 2011 at 3:06 AM
- Katie @ This Chick Cooks said...
Those donuts are adorable and look so yummy! I'd be eating those up if I made them :) Thanks for sharing your recipe and have a great day.
- February 3, 2011 at 7:25 PM
- Maggie said...
Those donuts look gorgeous :)
Don't forget to link this at our weekly link party every Wednesday,
thank you,
- February 3, 2011 at 7:57 PM
- Angela said...
look great and yummy!! Please follow me back
- February 3, 2011 at 9:27 PM
- MrsJenB said...
GREAT idea for the donuts! I never would have thought to use the pizza dough for a quick treat. Meanwhile, I LOVE olives and cream cheese together but have never added almonds. Interesting. My favorite is chopped green olives and cream cheese between two slices of Jewish rye. OMG Heaven....!
Visiting from Somewhat Simple :-)
- February 4, 2011 at 6:22 PM
- Lilliedale said...
Yay! this is how I make doughnuts too!
- February 4, 2011 at 10:11 PM
- Michelle said...
I love the heart doughnuts.. seem super easy and so much fun :)
- February 4, 2011 at 10:41 PM
- Ms Bibi said...
Aww, those donuts look so cute. Perfect for little fingers.
Stopping by from Sweets For Saturday.
~Bibi @ Frugal WannaBe Cooks ~
- February 4, 2011 at 11:02 PM
- ktmar12 said...
what a good idea for making donuts!
i never want to make them cause they're such a pain, so i'm glad i found your site!
- February 5, 2011 at 5:28 PM
- Remodelaholic said...
Those donuts are adorable! I have done the same type of thing with the canister buttermilk biscuits. I learned it at girl's camp when I was a teenager, and it is one of my favorite camping treats (especially cuz you can just bring cinnamon and sugar to shake them in OR canned frosting!
Thanks for linking up to the party!
- February 5, 2011 at 10:56 PM


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You know it's Advent when the house smells like a German bakery! . . . Or better yet, like your Grandmas' kitchens at Christmastime!
We made two different lebkuchen recipes this week: One is my mom's current recipe, and the other is my Great-Grandma Thomas's.
We always have to collect a bunch of wonderful ingredients; local black walnuts, sorghum from the Mennonite store, candied fruits from the "holiday baking aisle" at Schnuck's, and more.
Mom's Recipe
The recipe my mom has used for the past several years always gets rave reviews by everyone who eat those cookies. "Best lebkuchen ever!" is the general assessment. No kidding—they're awesome. This is my first year to try making them. Why? Because Mom said she wasn't going to bake them this year!
Mom's recipe is based on one she found in a church-ladies cookbook: The Fruit of the Spirit: A Collection of Recipes by Heisinger Lutheran Home Auxiliary, Jefferson City, Missouri (Kearney, Neb.: Cookbooks by Morris Press, 2001). It appears on page 295 of that book and is named "Leb Cookies." It was contributed by Goldie Kirchner, who noted that it "was given to my son, Ray, by Herbert Ehrhardt when they worked together at Stockman Feed Store many years ago."
It's got butter in it, and the liquid "lift" is provided by buttermilk and baking soda, so it's got a good buttery richness to it. And who doesn't like that?
In addition to molasses, it uses brown sugar, while many other recipes call for white.
Mom adjusts the fruits per her own mom's way of making lebkuchen: It's about 50 percent candied mixed fruit, 40 percent raisins, 5 percent citron, and 5 percent candied cherries. No, I don't think these proportions have to be exact.
Here is something else that is a hallmark of both my mom's and her mom's lebkuchen: Grandma Renner always ground her mixed candied fruit in a small, hand-cranked meat grinder—the kind you clamp onto a table to use in making sausage.
I remember watching her push that sticky candied fruit into the grinder and turn the crank. What emerged was even stickier than before! But it had a nice, even texture, with much smaller pieces. Her idea, I think, was to distribute the flavors of the candied fruit more evenly.
Another plus is that by grinding the candied fruit, no one has to bite down on a big hunk of candied-whatever. Well—it's a plus for people who don't truly like candied mixed fruit.
Grinding the fruit, I noticed, also makes the dough easier to roll and cut.
Great-Grandma Thomas's Recipe
This was passed down from the mother of my paternal grandmother. Grandma Schroeder's mom's name was Wilhelmine Thomas. I've told you a charming story about her and her husband, Albert, in an earlier blog post. Albert and Wilhelmine emigrated from Germany in the late 1800s.
We have a lot of different versions of her recipe, since it was used both by my paternal grandmother (naturally) as well as—get this—by my maternal grandmother! Yes, they were neighbors, and Grandma Renner liked and used the recipe.
Grandma Renner was usually careful to credit it as "Mrs. Thomas's recipe," but whether or not it's marked as such, I can identify the recipe at a glance because, for the liquid rising agent, it calls for X tablespoons of baking soda mixed with Y cups of "cold black coffee."
Also, although Grandma Renner amended the recipe by substituting her own blend of mixed fruit, grinding it with her sausage grinder, Great-Grandma Thomas's recipe always only called for candied citron and lemon peel, and raisins and currants. No grinding required.
It never called for butter; early versions of it use lard, but most later renditions specify Crisco.
This recipe uses white sugar with the molasses—not brown.
The resulting cookies aren't as buttery and sweet as the ones my mom makes. They have a darker flavor, and the chunks of fruit are chunkier.
Despite the thoughtful and well-reasoned alterations made by Grandma Renner, as far as I know, Grandma Schroeder did not change her mom's recipe much . . . although she did write it down in English. Hmm: Maybe her biggest innovation was to decorate the leppies with stuff like candied cherries and colored sprinkles!
As a kid, I probably wouldn't have liked them without these additions. I'm glad she used them on some of her leppies, because it started me trying and liking lebkuchen at a young age. (Kids can be kind of dense about really good foods, can't they? I know I was.)
What Kind of Molasses?
When I started making lebkuchen, my first question on all these old recipes was, "Okay, it calls for 'molasses,' but what kind of molasses should I use?" I'm a late-twentieth-century gal; I'm used to having more shopping choices than I know what to do with.
I experimented with sorghum (presumably that's what they had back in the early 1900s), but also regular ol' Brer Rabbit, as well as blackstrap. (Wow, that batch was dark and distinctive! And the men in the family seemed to enjoy it, in particular.) I don't think you can go wrong, though I'm sure everyone will have a preference.
Recently, as I reviewed some handwritten versions from Grandma Schroeder, I found this on one sheet: "Be sure to use 'ripe' sorghum or else Brer Rabbit brand." There you go! Sorghum it is.
Then, from my Grandma Renner, I see in the ingredients list: "32 oz. jar Waconia molasses." (Which—I think—is either a popular cultivar of sorghum, or else a brand of sorghum molasses that is now long gone.)
After all my experimenting, I've pretty much decided that real sorghum is the best, for its rich, light flavor.
Did you know that in Germany, honey is the usual sweetener for lebkuhen? Apparently here in the United States, back in our great-grandmothers' day, sorghum was much less expensive than honey, so that's why our grandmothers used it. It's the same with the walnuts: In the Old World, they must have used English walnuts with their milder flavor, but here in Missouri black walnuts have become the tradition—they add a strong, distinctive flavor that we love but which would probably get our Missouri lebkuchen tossed out of a German bakery like so many inedible hockey pucks.
The Verdict!
Oh, come on. You don't honestly expect me to pronounce one of these recipes "superior" to the other! All I can say is, they are different, but they are more alike than they are different. And I feel rich indeed to have so many good recipes, from so many wonderful mothers and grandmothers, to bake at Christmastime.


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The week in review
Biggest school brouhaha– Charlottesville: According to reports in the Daily Progress, Mayor David Brown blames School Board Chairwoman Dede Smith's communication skills for escalating the current controversy over Superintendent Scottie Griffin, and UVA's dean of African-American Affairs, Rick Turner, calls for Brown to resign.
Biggest school brouhaha– Albemarle: After months of discussion and angst, the redistricting committee postpones its earlier recommendations that would have moved swanky neighborhoods like Farmington from Murray Elementary to a new, unbuilt southern urban elementary, the need for which will now be studied again.
Best idea to come out of local government: Charlottesville and Albemarle County look at consolidating fire and possibly rescue services– but only after paying for a study, of course.
Best news for flask-toting shooters: A Senate bill that would have limited the blood alcohol level of hunters to .02 was shot down in a House committee, so hunters can have a BAC of up to .08– the same as drivers– before they're considered intoxicated.
Most emotional sentencing: Former UVA student and convicted stabber Andrew Alston is formally sentenced to three years February 16 for the death of volunteer firefighter Walker Sisk.
Least contrite convict: Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Jon Zug plays recordings of Alston speaking with his mother back in November after he beat a second-degree murder charge in which Alston said, "Yeah, now we can say '[expletive] you, Jon Zug,'" Liesel Nowak reports in the Daily Progress.
Worst killing: The body of Anthony Lorenzo Johnson, 22, is discovered near Free Bridge Lane February 21 by a woman walking her dog.
Worst shot in the leg: Two UVA students are robbed on 15th Street at around 11:30pm February 18, and Fourth Year Josh Hailey suffers a shattered lower right fibula when the gun-toting thief fires before fleeing, the Cavalier Daily reports.
Worst alleged misbehavior by a microbiologist: UVA's John Eugene Myers is arrested February 18 and charged with assaulting two students who tried to intervene when he became irate at a University Transit Service driver who wouldn't let him off the bus, which was stuck in traffic. Myers is also charged with assaulting a police officer.
Biggest bust: A pound of pot, $2,100, and 10 jars of moonshine are discovered February 15 in the car of Keith Leon Smith Jr., 27, a construction worker at UVA's John Paul Jones Arena.
Worst– worst– Valentine's gift: A male asking to see engagement rings snatches three rings from the counter at Glassner Jewelers February 11. On February 14, his unsuspecting fiance asks to have two of the purloined rings sized. Raymond Rayshawne Carter is charged with grand larceny February 16 and he returns the third ring.
Worst loss to gonzo journalism: Legendary bad boy writer Hunter S. Thompson, who invents "gonzo journalism" by inserting himself into coverage of events such as the 1972 presidential campaign, and who wrote the classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, is found dead, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, February 20 in his Aspen home at age 67.
Most annoying stoplight: "Twaffic Tweety," a temporary fixture on Water Street by the new amphitheater construction.
Best chance to pick up a film studio: Tim and Daphne Maxwell Reid's New Millennium Studios they built in 1997 in Petersburg is on the market for $1.495 million.
Best sign spring is in the air: Outdoor tables start reappearing on the Downtown Mall February 15.
Best sign the downtown amphitheater will be finished before August: Loretta Lynn's website shows her scheduled to perform there July 30.


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XLink WG, The current XLink 1.1 WD doesn't indicate clearly how conforming XLink 1.1 applications should treat a simple link when the 'show' or 'actuate' attributes are omitted (at least not in section 5.6 alongside the description of the attributes where clarification would be most useful). For example, what behavior should result from: <foo xlink:href="picture.gif">bar</foo> Should it be treated as if it had xlink:show="replace"? Or as if it had xlink:show="embed"? Or perhaps it's intended to be unspecified and left up to the XLink application to decide how to behave? I think the expected behavior should be made clear, even if just to say explicitly that it is unspecified by the XLink specification, and XLink applications may behave differently. However, what I'd actually prefer, and what I think it would be most helpful, is if some text along the following lines were to be added to section 5.6. If the show or actuate attributes are not specified, the behavior of conforming XLink applications can be determined by the specification, if any, governing the namespace of the element. In other words, when omitted, conforming XLink applications should behave as if the value "other" were specified for these attributes. If the behavior is not specified by any other specification or by some other governing rules, then the behavior is unspecified. In this case XLink applications may differ in their behavior. I think text along these lines would be helpful for two reasons. Firstly it will allow some of the conflicts between the SVG specifications (and existing SVG content) and XLink to be resolved. For the following elements in the SVG namespace: <a xlink:href="foo">bar</a> the desired behavior is as if xlink:show="replace" and xlink:actuate="onRequest" had been specified. But for: <image xlink:href="foo"/> the desired behavior is as if xlink:show="embed" and xlink:actuate="onLoad" had been specified. However there is very little (if any) SVG content that explicitly specifies the XLink 'show' and 'actuate' attributes. Although the SVG 1.0 and 1.1 DTDs make these attributes #FIXED, not all UAs load the DTD, and the next versions of SVG won't have DTDs. As well as resolving some of the problems with the use of XLink in SVG, the requested change to the XLink 1.1 WD would explicitly allow other specs to use XLink without requiring authors of their content to know a great deal about XLink, and without requiring them to repeatedly specify the same attributes (show and actuate) with the same values on the same elements over and over. I think both of those would be a good thing. Best regards, JonathanReceived on Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:51:28 UTC
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One of the questions that I get asked all the time is how do I store/organize my digital products. By digital products I mean Digital Brushes, Papers, Templates, Journaling cards, ect.
I am not sure that my way is any different than anyone else's. But I wanted to show you how I have it all organized. By all means, if you any of you have any other ways of organizing, please share !! I am always looking for ways to simply things.
Before I begin I want to start by saying that I have two parts to my organization. The first one is all on the computer, everything organized in their respected files. The first one is what I am going to talk about today. I will share the "physical" part of how I can keep a "visual" tab on some of my digital stuff in another post.
The first thing that I have done is to put them all in one spot. I have a file labeled "Digital". It looks like this. I apologize for it being so small. If you click on the photo you can see it better.
In the "Digital" file itself I have broken it down into categories. They are as follows. I will go further into detail on some of them later in the post.
1. Journaling Cards
2. Filler Journaling Cards - These are the quote cards, ect.
3. Disney - Anything to do with Disney.
4. Christmas - I used to keep all the brushes together but whenever I needed to find a Christmas one, I had to go looking through all the Digital Brushes to find them. So I have separated them for easy access. ** This file is all things Christmas. Brushes, Journaling Cards, Templates, ect. **
5. Templates
6. Paper
7. Extra Elements. This one is anything other than brushes. For example - Digital embellishments.
8.Clementine Kit
9. Cobalt Extra Elements
11. Turquoise Journaling Cards
12. Seafoam Kit
13. The word week for my 2013 Title cards
14. Turquoise Extra Elements
15. Digital Brushes
16. Kits
Now let's take a closer look at what is inside some of these files. I am going to start with The Journaling Cards File. In the beginning I had them separated in their own file, the ones that came in a set. But that wasn't working out to well because there were so many that I couldn't remember what they all looked like. So I would have to open up all the different files and look through it to find the one that I wanted. I decided to separate them all so that way I could see them all by scrolling up and down. It is working out great !!
Here is what the Journaling Cards File looks like.
All of my cards are now in pretty rows, all visible, all easily accessible with the scroll of my mouse. To achieve this all you need to go through your files and copy all of the cards and paste them into the journaling cards file. And then delete the file that contained the journaling cards. For example, let's say you downloaded some free cards. They would come all in a seperate file with their name on it. Simply go into the that file and copy all the cards in that file. Make sure you don't copy the preview file that comes with most of them. Then go out into the journaling cards file and paste them in there. I hope that makes sense.
This method continues throughout my other files as well. For example, the filler cards. They are all like this for easy access.
The last one I want to show you is my Digital Brushes. Here is what it looks like. I have chosen to keep them all contained in their own seperate files. If I were to separate these, I don't think that would be the best solution.
** Stay tuned for the next installment of Digital Product Organization to explain what I have done with my digital brushes to make a "physical copy". It will show how you can be able to see them all.
That is all I have to share with you today. If you have any questions about anything please don't hesitate to leave a comment and I will get back with you.
And again, If you have any other ways of organizing your digital files, please share. I would love to hear them.
Have a wonderful Monday everyone !!


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Batting Around: Baseball must embrace modern technology
Many professional sports are now openly embracing instant replay technology that allows close calls to be reviewed and, if necessary, corrected. Professional football has even implemented instant replay in the form of a challenge system, which actually adds an element of strategy to the game.
Unfortunately, America's oldest professional sport continues to pretend that the umpire's eyes are the final word in precision when it comes to split-second calls on the base path, down the foul line, or at home plate. But if you've ever watched a televised baseball game, in which replays are broadcast after every close play and "K-Zone" graphics show which pitches fall in the strike zone, you know that umpires have nothing on slow motion, high definition cameras.
Nor should they be expected to. Putting an ump behind home plate and scattering three in the infield was the best way to get correct calls at every base and on balls and strikes — in 1900. Over a century later, does it make sense to treat an umpire's call as not only infallible, but irrevocable? Here are some reasons why it might not:
1. Baseball is better when the calls are correct. If we can all agree on this, it will make the discussion much easier. There is no more frustrating feeling in sports than losing a game as the result of a blown call, but being on the other side isn't much better. What true competitor wants to win as the result of an umpire's mistake? Correct calls make for better baseball, period.
2. Physical limitations of human eyesight. Have you ever considered what it takes to make a call at first base? Since it's impossible to watch the bag and the ball at the same time, most 1st base umpires listen for the ball to hit the 1st baseman's glove while keeping an eye on the runner's feet. Close plays can come down to a fraction of a second, and while umpires are trained professionals, they aren't superhuman. Mistakes at first base can be harmless — or they can be devastating, like Jim Joyce's blown call on the would-be last out of the 9th inning to rob Armando Galarraga of a perfect game last summer. Not even the remorseful Joyce could pretend that it wasn't a travesty. Unfortunately, nor was he able to reverse his call, even after viewing the indisputable evidence of his mistake. Think about this: do we rely on a referee to tell us who hits the wall first in an Olympic swim race? Of course not — we build sensors into the walls, because this is the 21st century, and we can do that now.
3. Fairness to the players. Now imagine you're the runner who legs it down to first base like your rear end is on fire, and you're called out. Or, you're the shortstop who tosses a cannon from the outfield grass, or the first baseman who scoops a ball out of the dirt, and you don't get the call. Your professional effort is rewarded with the best human judgment can offer, while a dozen cameras trained on the base cannot be consulted for any reason. Frustrating? You better believe it.
4. Player/manager outbursts. Professional competitors are passionate — it comes with the territory. But the temper tantrums professional athletes and coaches are capable of throwing are an ugly mark on baseball. Does it teach our children good sportsmanship to watch a player return to the bench spewing curse words at an umpire who called him looking on strike 3? How about a manager literally stealing 3rd base and walking off the field after his player gets called out stretching a double into a triple? Sure, we can blame the player, not the game for any unsportsmanlike conduct, but instant replay would allow for a measure of finality — closure, if you will — on any call that might inspire such conduct.
5. The stakes are too high. With some baseball players earning 8 figures per year and the World Series champs receiving a sizeable cash prize — not to mention the exorbitant prices fans now pay to come to the ballpark — there is too much money riding on the limited ability of human eyesight. Even the Little League World Series, in which the coaches and umpires are volunteers and the kids are playing for the love of the game, employs a replay challenge system similar to professional football. If they can acknowledge the importance of getting close calls right — or at the very least, getting the chance to review them — why can't the most valuable professional sports league in America?
6. They already review home runs. Whether or not the ball cleared the fence is already subject to review by instant replay. Why is this the only play in baseball worthy of review? Sure, it's a potentially game-changing play, but in the post-steroids era, teams are hitting fewer home runs and winning more games by playing small ball — base hits, sacrifice bunts, stolen bases, hit and runs. These plays can be game-changing, too. In fact, baseball is such a mental game that any play — any pitch, for that matter — can be change the complexion of the game. It doesn't need to make a highlight reel to be worthy of review.
Of course, I understand the counterarguments. Self-proclaimed "baseball purists" are loathe to discuss major changes to the game they grew up loving. I'm not disputing that the umpire is an ingrained part of baseball, as much as peanuts and cracker jacks. But I'm also not arguing that we eliminate the umpire and replace him with a robot, simply that we give managers some form of recourse for contentious calls other than huffing and puffing and threatening to blow the stadium down. Respecting the call made by trained professionals is one thing — pretending that they're impervious to error is quite another.
Others acknowledge the need for instant replay, but are hesitant to slow down and prolong an already sluggish and lengthy game. This is an understandable concern, but I question how often plays would actually be reviewed — there are always those calls managers roll their eyes at in disagreement, but there is rarely more than one per game that makes them storm onto the field in fury. Moreover, the MLB could strictly control the use of replays — say, give each manager one challenge per game. Let them choose when to use it. That would add no more time to the game than two prolonged bouts of screaming between manager and umpire, and ultimately be more productive for both parties.
For all the reasons listed above, we have got to stop pretending that questioning an umpire's call is somehow a breech of gentleman's conduct or an insult to the umpire himself. What is un-gentlemanly about saying, "Mr. Umpire, sir, I acknowledge and respect that from your angle, you feel that I was out. But, perhaps if you saw the play from another angle, slowed down, you might feel differently"?
If the officials in professional football and hockey can admit that they don't always make the right call, maybe we — and Bud Selig — need to start asking what makes an umpire so much more immune to error.
Ian Trombulak is a rising senior at Middlebury College, and is interning at the Addison Independent as a news reporter and member of the online team this summer. He likes sports — a lot — and, as with most things he likes, he spends a lot of time thinking about them. He hopes that you enjoy the cathartic weekly release of those thoughts, and that you will share yours as well in the comments below.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — AutoZone Inc., Workday Inc. and JinkoSolar Holding Co. are among the shares likely to see active trading on Tuesday, with all three companies on tap to report quarterly results the day after Monday's Memorial Day holiday.
Shares of Durata Therapeutics Inc. US:DRTX may also actively trade Tuesday. The company said late Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the company's Dalvance antibiotic to treat adults with certain skin infections. Trading in shares of the pharmaceutical company were temporarily halted ahead of the announcement Friday.
AutoZone AZO, +0.56% is scheduled to report financial results for its third quarter before the market opens. The automotive replacement parts retailer is expected to report earnings of $8.46 a share on sales of $2.33 billion, according to consensus estimates from FactSet.
"We see more upside than downside risk for shares" into the company's third-quarter earnings report, said Seth Basham, an analyst at Wedbush, in a recent note.
Basham said Wedbush believes "the weather benefits into the summer may be larger than expected based on the hot forecast, the low-end consumer's health is likely to weaken from poor levels and car demographic headwinds can be partially mitigated by the benefits of industry consolidation."
Also before the stock market opens on Tuesday, JinkoSolar JKS, +0.25% will issue its first-quarter report, with analysts expecting the China-based solar-panel maker to post earnings of 40 cents a share on revenue of $289 million. Earlier this month, the company kept its first-quarter and full-year 2014 guidance intact.
After Tuesday's market close, Workday Inc. WDAY, +0.25% will report first-quarter results, with analysts expecting the business-software maker to report a loss of 15 cents a share on revenue of $152 million.
Qihoo 360 Technology Co. US:QIHU will also report first-quarter results late Tuesday. Analysts predict the Chinese Internet company will post a profit of 31 cents a share on revenue of $230 million.
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Sarah Read (1746 – 1804) & Joseph Rose (c1750 – 1796)
This is the line of descent from Cozens Read's daughter Sarah. She is one of four of his children who married into the very large Rose family.
Descendants of Sarah READ (1746 – 1804)
Generation No. 1
1. SARAH4 READ (COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1746 in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, and died 1804. She married JOSEPH ROSE 30 Jul 1775 in St. Mary Magdalene, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, son of JOHN ROSE and MARY ADAMS. He was born Abt. 1750 in Cuddington, Buckinghamshire, and died Jun 1796 in Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.
More About JOSEPH ROSE:
Baptism: 20 May 1750, Cuddington, Buckinghamshire
Probate: 28 Jan 1797, Will proved
Will: 25 Mar 1796, Will dated
Children of SARAH READ and JOSEPH ROSE are:
2. i. WILLIAM5 ROSE, b. 1777, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.
3. ii. JOSEPH ROSE, b. Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.
iii. MARTHA ROSE, b. 1776, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire; d. 1776, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.
Generation No. 2
2. WILLIAM5 ROSE (SARAH4 READ, COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1777 in Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. He married HANNAH ELLIOTT1 08 Jan 1799 in Wing, Buckinghamshire1, daughter of DANIEL ELLIOTT and ANN HARRIS.
Children of WILLIAM ROSE and HANNAH ELLIOTT are:
4. i. SARAH6 ROSE.
ii. JOSEPH ROSE, d. 1802, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.
5. iii. MARTHA ROSE.
iv. WILLIAM ROSE.
v. SOPHIA ROSE, b. 1806.
vi. GEORGE ROSE.
vii. HENRY ROSE.
viii. ANN ROSE.
ix. ELIZABETH ROSE, d. 1815, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.
x. HANNA ROSE, d. 1814, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.
3. JOSEPH5 ROSE (SARAH4 READ, COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born in Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. He married ANN WEEDON1 04 Jan 18021.
Children of JOSEPH ROSE and ANN WEEDON are:
i. JOSEPH6 ROSE, b. 1803, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire; d. 1823.
ii. GEORGE ROSE, b. 1804, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire.
iii. THOMAS ROSE, b. 1806, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire.
iv. WILLIAM ROSE, b. 1809, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire.
v. ANNA ROSE, b. 1811; d. 1815, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.
vi. SAMUEL ROSE, b. 1813, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire.
vii. SUSANNAH ROSE, d. 1816, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.
viii. JAMES ROSE, b. 1817, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire.
ix. JOHN ROSE, b. 1820, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire.
x. FREDERICK ROSE, b. 1822.
xi. JOSEPH ROSE, b. 1825, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire.
xii. CAROLINE ROSE, b. 1828.
Generation No. 3
4. SARAH6 ROSE (WILLIAM5, SARAH4 READ, COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) She married THOMAS WILLIS1 18 Jan 1825 in Wing, Buckinghamshire.
Children of SARAH ROSE and THOMAS WILLIS are:
i. SARAH ANN7 WILLIS.
ii. ELIZABETH HANNAH WILLIS.
iii. GEORGE WILLIAM WILLIS.
5. MARTHA6 ROSE (WILLIAM5, SARAH4 READ, COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) She married JOHN STEVENS1 23 Jan 1826 in Cublington, Buckinghamshire1.
Children of MARTHA ROSE and JOHN STEVENS are:
i. JANE ANN7 STEVENS.
ii. ANN STEVENS.
iii. EMMA STEVENS.
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One of the best parts about doing a weekly mixtape is hearing suggestions from readers on which composer to cover next (PS: keep 'em coming). Out of all the suggestions, nobody has been more requested than Yoko Shimomura. So this week on the Kotaku Mix Tape, we celebrate one of gaming's most moving composers.
Even though she cut her teeth on Street Fighter II and other Capcom titles, Yoko Shimomura is probably best known for her work with SquareEnix. Need somebody to write a piano ballad that'll make you cry your eyes out? Yoko's got your back, and the themes from Xenoblade and Kingdom Hearts are proof of that.
Beware the Forest Mushrooms - Super Mario RPG
Dearly Beloved - Kingdom Hearts
Primal Eyes - Parasite Eve
Tension Rising - Kingdom Hearts II
Somnus - Final Fantasy Versus XIII
Elder Princess Shroob Battle - Mario and Luigi Partners in Time
Guile's Theme - Street Fighter II (with Isao Abe)
Title Theme - Legend of Mana
Manifold Irons - Front Mission (Dramattica Arranged Version)
Main Theme - Live-A-Live
Main Theme - Xenoblade Chronicles


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We'll fill up your glass at The Black Horse with some of the best offers & drinks deals around. Whether you fancy a mellow Monday pint of real ale, something to add sparkle to your weekend, or a relaxing glass of wine on a Sunday evening… you're sure to find everyone's favourite refreshments at great value.
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Color-Based Segmentation Using K-Means Clustering
This example shows how to segment colors in an automated fashion using the L*a*b* color space and K-means clustering.
Read in
hestain.png, which is an image of tissue stained with hemotoxylin and eosin (H&E). This staining method helps pathologists distinguish different tissue types.
he = imread('hestain.png'); imshow(he), title('H&E image'); text(size(he,2),size(he,1)+15,... 'Image courtesy of Alan Partin, Johns Hopkins University', ... 'FontSize',7,'HorizontalAlignment','right');
Step 2: Convert Image from RGB Color Space to L*a*b* Color Space
How many colors do you see in the image if you ignore variations in brightness? There are three colors: white, blue, and pink. Notice how easily you can visually distinguish these colors from one another. The L*a*b* color space (also known as CIELAB or CIE L*a*b*) enables you to quantify these visual differences.
The L*a*b* color space is derived from the CIE XYZ tristimulus values. The L*a*b* space consists of a luminosity layer 'L*', chromaticity-layer 'a*' indicating where color falls along the red-green axis, and chromaticity-layer 'b*' indicating where the color falls along the blue-yellow axis. All of the color information is in the 'a*' and 'b*' layers. You can measure the difference between two colors using the Euclidean distance metric.
Convert the image to L*a*b* color space using
makecform and
cform = makecform('srgb2lab');
lab_he = applycform(he,cform);
Step 3: Classify the Colors in 'a*b*' Space Using K-Means Clustering
Clustering is a way to separate groups of objects. K-means clustering treats each object as having a location in space. It finds partitions such that objects within each cluster are as close to each other as possible, and as far from objects in other clusters as possible. K-means clustering requires that you specify the number of clusters to be partitioned and a distance metric to quantify how close two objects are to each other.
Since the color information exists in the 'a*b*' space, your objects are pixels with 'a*' and 'b*' values. Use
kmeans to cluster the objects into three clusters using the Euclidean distance metric.
ab = double(lab_he(:,:,2:3)); nrows = size(ab,1); ncols = size(ab,2); ab = reshape(ab,nrows*ncols,2); nColors = 3; % repeat the clustering 3 times to avoid local minima [cluster_idx cluster_center] = kmeans(ab,nColors,'distance','sqEuclidean', ... 'Replicates',3);
Step 4: Label Every Pixel in the Image Using the Results from KMEANS
For every object in your input,
kmeans returns an index corresponding to a cluster. The
cluster_center output from
kmeans will be used later in the example. Label every pixel in the image with its
pixel_labels = reshape(cluster_idx,nrows,ncols);
imshow(pixel_labels,[]), title('image labeled by cluster index');
Step 5: Create Images that Segment the H&E Image by Color.
pixel_labels, you can separate objects in
hestain.png by color, which will result in three images.
segmented_images = cell(1,3); rgb_label = repmat(pixel_labels,[1 1 3]); for k = 1:nColors color = he; color(rgb_label ~= k) = 0; segmented_images{k} = color; end imshow(segmented_images{1}), title('objects in cluster 1');
imshow(segmented_images{2}), title('objects in cluster 2');
imshow(segmented_images{3}), title('objects in cluster 3');
Step 6: Segment the Nuclei into a Separate Image
Notice that there are dark and light blue objects in one of the clusters. You can separate dark blue from light blue using the 'L*' layer in the L*a*b* color space. The cell nuclei are dark blue.
Recall that the 'L*' layer contains the brightness values of each color. Find the cluster that contains the blue objects. Extract the brightness values of the pixels in this cluster and threshold them using
You must programmatically determine the index of the cluster containing the blue objects because
kmeans will not return the same
cluster_idx value every time. You can do this using the
cluster_center value, which contains the mean 'a*' and 'b*' value for each cluster. The blue cluster has the smallest cluster_center value (determined experimentally).
mean_cluster_value = mean(cluster_center,2); [tmp, idx] = sort(mean_cluster_value); blue_cluster_num = idx(1); L = lab_he(:,:,1); blue_idx = find(pixel_labels == blue_cluster_num); L_blue = L(blue_idx); is_light_blue = im2bw(L_blue,graythresh(L_blue));
Use the mask
is_light_blue to label which pixels belong to the blue nuclei. Then display the blue nuclei in a separate image.
nuclei_labels = repmat(uint8(0),[nrows ncols]);
nuclei_labels(blue_idx(is_light_blue==false)) = 1;
nuclei_labels = repmat(nuclei_labels,[1 1 3]);
blue_nuclei = he;
blue_nuclei(nuclei_labels ~= 1) = 0;
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Meeting and Event Schedule
Our meetings are held at Fisher College at 116 Beacon Street, Boston. The meeting room varies so please look for the posted signs or ask the front desk staff.
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Fisher College is between Arlington and Berkeley Streets. Close to both the Green Line (Arlington) and the Red Line (Charles Street), it is roughly a 10 minute walk from Downtown Crossing. Please enter at 116 Beacon Street (may need to use 'call' button to gain access to the building).


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National Theatre Live: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS
Featuring a Tony Award-winning performance from host of the The Late Late Show, James Corden, the uproarious ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS was a runaway hit both in London's West End and on Broadway. Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancée's dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who's been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Holed up at The Cricketers' Arms, the permanently ravenou..More info


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james hoffmann's el salvador finca la fany bourbon used in his competition blends.
with james safely in the world barista championship finals, it falls to this blog to make wildly unwarranted performance extrapolations based on a single component of his competition blend.
stunning, really, how a crashing hoffmann had the time to share some greens with an amateur junkie an ocean away. (Wild CI Extrapolation: he manages time well!) the international parcel arrived shortly after the el salvador trip, and constitutes, as i recall, one of that country's two contributions to a competition blend that consists entirely of central american coffees. (WCIE: he can take a risk!) the roaster, a u.k. stalwart if i'm not mistaken, even sent roasting notes so that this home-bound hack in the southeastern u.s. wasteland mightn't overly abuse said gift. to say this blog was uber-stoked to be playing with such coffee would be an understatement. (WCIE: that hoffmann can enamor an audience!)
cooked 'em to a stout full-city plus, one batch just after second crack, another about 15 seconds in. the beguiling result on the buds was a strong sour cherry up front, and an easily marked lingering hickory on the back end … which was fine and good — intriguing even — but not the sweetness our u.k. champeen had noted or the caramel his roaster had suggested. hoffmann's response: "nitwit! be ye daft?"
actually, no. recommended a longer roast profile, he did, and a hearty updose (17 grams in the double basket) brewed at about 200F. (WCIE: he's entrenched himself in roasting theory!) this blog, not being a fool, did as it was advised. today's result, after a dozen or so good shots: ahhhh, intense light-toasty sweetness. a rather resilient light syrupy linger on the palate, and a never-ending subtle dance of secondary notes and flavors. (WCIE: if this be but a single component, that blend must be a nuanced whirlwind!)
ended with a double macc on the porch, reflecting on the soil conditions that must have contributed to this very not-african crisp sweetness, and the u.s. and u.k.'s first-time status as wbc finalists. also: how hoffmann's height must affect his tamping method. (WCIE: he overcomes challenges! genetic challenges!)


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New technologies are often gauged by their ability to break new ground. By that measure alone, offshore wind has arrived.
The fledgling stepsister of land-based wind power faces its own set of hurdles, including, but not limited to, environmental concerns. In Great Britain, one development has managed to avoid some of the same pitfalls that have beleaguered other offshore farms in the United States.
In July, the international power and gas company E.ON, the Danish energy company Dong and Masdar, and the infrastructure fund of the Kingdom of Abu Dhabi officially inaugurated the London Array, a collaborative project in the waters off the Kent coast in southeast England. The 630-megawatt offshore wind farm has been in operation since April with the capacity to meet the demand of about half a million homes.
Offshore construction on the project began in March 2011. After the first foundations and the two 1,250-ton offshore transformer stations were installed, 175 wind turbines were then erected along with more than 200 kilometers of cabling laid at a water depth of 25 meters. Each wind turbine reaches a height of 147 meters above sea level. The two offshore transformer stations bundle the electricity generated by the wind farm and feed it to the power grid on the mainland.
E.ON is also building offshore wind farms in Sweden and the North Sea off Germany's coast.


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Q. Is it true that if you want to lose weight you should cut your food in small pieces? I mean, you burn more calories in the cutting, and in the chewing (as you have more pieces to chew on...)
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In the Crosshairs
As you've done several times up to this point in the game, head over to Broker and pay Bulgarin a visit. He's located, as always, in a house off of Stillwater Avenue, near the airport. When you arrive there, Bulgarin is toting his AK-47 as usual, but his associate is nowhere to be found, and appears to be out on a job. Bulgarin tells Luis that he has some business to take care of, and after shooting multiple rounds through the ceiling at his screaming sister, Bulgarin sends you on your way.
Your destination is back in Algonquin. Head to Columbus Avenue and Denver Avenue, as your destination is more succinctly tucked in that area of the borough, south of Star Junction. When you arrive, you'll be forced out of your car to reach the mission's start arrow. Before you know it, you'll find Luis climbing some stairs to a nearby building's roof. It's at this point that Bulgarin gives Luis a call, and tells him to be on the lookout for a box on the roof. When Luis opens the box, he finds the severed head of the man who sold Luis those diamonds earlier in the game. Indeed, it appears that those rocks were stolen from Bulgarin, and assuming you're in on it, he wants you dead. Why he planned this elaborate setup to kill you when he could have offed you in his house without much consequence is anybody's guess, but nonetheless, this is the situation you find yourself in.
The first thing you're going to need to do here is take care of the snipers trying to take you out. The snipers are fairly well-hidden, and all four of them will take shots in sequence, only revealing themselves for a moment before you have to wait for them to be revealed again. Stay crouched down and keep an eye on your HUD, since red dots will appear and then disappear each time a shot rings out. Use this as a worthwhile tool to triangulate the location of each sniper, and take them out accordingly. Unfortunately, once the sniper threat is downed, your situation becomes even more precarious than it was.
A helicopter appears on the scene, as well as multiple enemies lining the rooftops adjacent to your position. The idea here is to kill as many enemies as you can as you jump from rooftop to rooftop in order to escape. The enemies in the helicopter can actually be downed, but because the helicopter will still be able to shoot rockets at you (which will kill you instantaneously if they hit you), you'll want to keep moving, and be as quick as possible in jumping from rooftop to rooftop. Be sure to toggle away from the sniper rifle and to an automatic weapon for this leg of the battle, since you'll be dealing with plenty of enemies in close quarters as you move forward. When you finally get to the fire escape with the pink arrow over it, you're almost home free. Make your way down to street level, jack the car nearest you, and get the hell out of there. Doing this successfully will end this mission. Damn you, Bulgarin!
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