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Cadmiums get their names from the Latin word cadmia meaning zinc ore calamine, and the Greek word kadmeia, meaning Cadmean earth, first found near Thebes, the city founded by the Phoenician prince Cadmus. Metallic cadmium was discovered in 1817 by Friedrich Strohmeyer, but Cadmium Red was not introduced until 1907 in Germany.
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Cadmium Yellow is a known human carcinogen. It can be hazardous if chronically inhaled or ingested.
Cadmiums get their names from the Latin word cadmia meaning zinc ore calamine, and the Greek word kadmeia, meaning Cadmean earth, first found near Thebes, the city founded by the Phoenician prince Cadmus. Metallic cadmium was discovered in 1817 by Friedrich Strohmeyer. Oil colors were first made from Cadmium Yellow pigments in 1819, replacing toxic Chrome (lead) Yellows. However, their production was delayed until 1840 due to the scarcity of cadmium metals. Landscape painters, such as Claude Monet, preferred Cadmium Yellow to the less expensive Chrome Yellow because of its higher chroma and greater purity of color.
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Reforming a Mean World: Hero Reports/
"In times of terror, when everyone is something of a conspirator, everybody will be in
the position of having to play detective" --Walter Benjamin 1938
In the research on media effects, one of the most fully developed findings is what is known as the "mean world syndrome." Research finds that the average citizen grossly over-estimates how dangerous her neighborhood is because she reads the newspaper and assumes that the crime reports are actually a sample of the whole and thus amplifies them accordingly. In practice, a higher portion of violent crimes get reported than most people assume, although there are statistical biases as a result of the under-representation of crimes based on the race and class of the victims.
A larger problem is created by the over-representation of crime and the under-represented of everyday acts of kindness and generosity. The news often shows us people acting at their very worst without allowing us to see those moments where people help each other out. How might this under-reporting of good deeds also contribute to the mean world syndrome?
This is a question which is guiding a new research initiative being launched by Alyssa Wright, an MIT Media Lab student who is affiliated with the Center for Future Civic Media. The center is a collaboration between the Media Lab and the Comparative Media Studies Program and has been funded by the Knight Foundation. As one of the co-Directors of the Center, I've listened to lots and lots of proposals for projects that might enhance civic engagement and community consciousness, some good, some bad.
Alysa's project, Hero Reports, is among one of the very best I've heard. It's practical enough that she's already begun to implement it in New York City. It's provocative enough that it's already begun to attract media interest. It was featured several weeks ago on WNYC The Takeaway. And it is suggestive enough that it has generated great conversations with everyone I've mentioned it to.
Wright says the project was inspired by New York's "See Something, Say Something" Campaign in the wake of 9/11. The campaign sought to solicit everyday citizens in New York City to be on the look out for suspicious activity. They became, in effect, agents in the war on terror. Maybe playing this role left them feeling more in control over their situation. Or perhaps, the act of performing this role left them in a permenant state of alert and anxiety, depending on your perspective. Given how broad the mandate is, it is no surprise that the city received many many reports. One recent advertisement boasted that the government had received 1944 such reports. The New York Times found, however, that very few of these reports resulted in arrests and that the bulk of the reports were directed at brown people whose suspicious activity mostly consisted of being brown in public.
Often, we see what we are looking for and our cultural biases literally color what we see. A campaign that invites us to look for suspicious behavior forces us to scrutinize our neighbors for signs and symptoms of terroristic activity. So, Wright wants us to reverse our lens and look for people who are doing things that are socially constructive. She wants us to find evidence of the good conduct that surrounds us all the time and bring it to greater public attention - the person who goes out of their way to help someone else, the people who intervene to stop a domestic dispute or a violent act, the people who give up their seats on the subway to accommodate a passenger with special needs, the person who cares enough to contribute to the homeless or give directions to someone who seems lost.
She is collecting these reports via her website and she's investigating news reports of everyday heroicism that she reads in the newspaper trying to flesh out a portrait of the ways that her fellow New Yorkers are making life better within their communities. She is also deploying state of the art mapping tools to construct accounts of "everyday heroicism" in different neighborhoods, hoping that they can be read alongside maps which show crime rates and other negative factors, to give us a fuller sense of the places where we live. Ideally, such maps can become a source of local pride as people work to improve the perceptions of their communities by doing good deeds.
What follows are some of Wright's reflections about the project:
Hero Reports was inspired by the "See Something, Say Something" Campaign in NYC. What disturbed you about that campaign and how do you see Hero Reports as responding to that concern?
I was in New York on 9/11, and I was very scared. In its wake, I saw myself start to evaluate safety with different checklists. And it's still "different" than it was before. Just today, I was on a subway car and there were all these men with luggage. The trigger goes up. "Why are there so many attended packages on the train?" but then I pieced together another, probably more likely, story. It's the end of a 4th of July weekend and a lot of people travel at the end of a 4th of July weekend. and ohh right. i'm on the subway that goes to the airport. It's all about context but after 9/11 and after the anthrax scare in particular, the only context I absorbed was fear.
What got me thinking about a project, were 3 rather contemporaneous events:
1) how people responded to cherry blossoms. when i walked around with cherry blossoms, I was under the radar. i was a girl, white, wearing makeup. and yet i was walking around with a backpack that looked like a weapon. people didn't "see something" let alone "say something."
2) i went to Madrid and learned about March 11 bombings. and i rode their metro. and
guess what. they still had cans to throw away garbage (the MTA got rid of most garbage
cans, the few remaining are supposedly "bomb proof") AND they weren't surrounded by
instructions to say something. i'm not sure when it happened, but i left that trip CONVINCED that because of its history, Spain can recognize the encroaching signs of
but then there's 3) --> the followup in the See Something series. "Last Year, 1,944 New
Yorkers Saw Something and Said Something." I can't recall the first time I saw the
initial 'See Something, Say Something' campaign, but I do recall the first 1,944. It was
a bus. and as i watched it go by, I turned and said something to the effect of: "what
the fuck is that? what the hell does that number mean?"
And that's when things became a bit comical. Like the farce was over. I mean, are we
supposed to be impressed by that number?
These three combined with another lesson from Cherry Blossoms, the power of the Iraq Body Count (IBC) database. I am forever in debt to Hamit Dardagan who started keeping count of _news reports_. Now that was a number I wanted to see. And that was a number that gave context. They took what already existed and aggregated. Together these left-to-the-archives reports found new "life." A life whose range included my exploding backpack and a Bush speech citing IBC as his body count reference.
I see Hero Reports akin to IBC. Essentially Hero Reports starts with collecting what
already exists--the stories of everyday heroes. That aggregation holds the possibility
of for social change, and the seeds for many other projects. Artistic, academic,
political, economic. ..
But back to my thoughts about See Something: The campaign makes me feel caught in the role of civilian detective. In its most dramatic version, they tell me I can be a hero
no different than the army solider, engaging with the monster on the ground. But even as I reject that version, my vision and behavior is effected. I'm caught in a dichotomy.
Having grown up in the 80s, all of this feels soooooooo much like the war on drugs.
I believe that the MTA had best intentions. If there was ever a time when New Yorkers needed to know that they had agency in the city's security--that they weren't helpless--it was after 9/11. Whether intentional or not, the campaign has nonetheless been proven ineffective and most activism done in response has been critical in nature. Its important to have critical work, it has a strong place in the dialog. but because this is a formula that we have been doing for much longer than the war on terror, we also need to build another formula. So Hero Reports offers an alternative approach.
You've used the suggestive phrase, "Everyday Acts of Courage," to describe what you hope to find through your project. Give us a sense of what you mean by this concept?
Everyone can be a hero -- cape and all. At its beginning, I was very much inspired by the battles of Terrifca and Fantistico, dueling real life superhero and villain, that roam the streets of New York. They were not waiting around in silence or stirring in anger. They were taking matters into their own hands, and bringing the extravagance of camp into a dialog with the civilian detectives.
In my opinion, the term "hero" has been co-opted by institutions like Hollywood and the government. The firefighter is the hero. Iron Man is the hero. Because these her stories are so enrolling, the everyday person does not need to be heroic. Our myths
set it up so that its a loss and not a gain, to get involved. Our misinterpretations of
equity (e.g., should I help the old lady across the street, or will she be offended), our
laws (e.g., the Seinfeld Good Samaritan Law) and our technologies (e.g., the iPod) create an attention span where we select not to see others. And if we do see, we decide it is someone else's responsibility to help in an accident, someone else job to put out the
fire; someone else's good nature to return the wallet.
We are constantly trained not to get involved, and this is gendered and classed in
particular ways. And we continue to build systems that support this lack of involvement.
It helps explain, why I find myself pissed off at people---and at myself---all the time.
Why the hell does this man need to spread his knees three feet wide while we're all
packed in like sardines? Why the hell does this woman on crutches have to stand against a pole? And why doesn't anyone say anything? Why don't I say? And why when I saw an accident on 14th street, why was my instinct not to help?
Hero Reports proposes to value the opposite.
What is a Hero Map? What do you see as the value of mapping where "everyday acts of courage" occurs?
In its present iteration, a Hero Map is the positioning of a Hero Report to a GPS location, and correspondingly a neighborhood. This mapping gives the heroic moment a collective memory, which in turns gives the Hero Report political and economic weight.
Typically an heroic moment, particularly an everyday heroism, has a very narrow frame.
These moments are not connected to each other, but appear as disconnected blips on the radar. When they do appear, the attention is on the self and the individual. What did
it take for said person to take that risk? Would I do the same? It does not reflect other
cultural factors like race, gender, and class. This focus on the individual stops any
possibility of these moments gaining a larger perspective, and cultural impact. By
aggregating them, and mapping them, we give the heroic moment weight. This weight can be placed back onto a community, a cultural bias, and a neighborhood.
For instance, consider the power of the Hero Map in how we evaluate real estate. In the
search for a home (aka apartment) one might look at crime rates, school systems,
transportation access AND hero statistics. How would this inclusion change our
priorities? And our economy? The perspective fits into a more general trend of
aggregating neighborhood specific, qualitative data. Rottenneighbors' search for local
dirt is directly relates to potential power of Hero Reports. But also sites like
Outside.In and Everyblock illustrate this trend of filtering importance through
geography. It's as if ranking systems are no longer as useful.
You are hoping to present 1944 reports of civic heroism to the transit authority. What's the significant of that number and how far along are you towards meeting that goal?
The significance of this number is still being investigated by conspiracy theorists. The MTA claims that 1,944 New Yorkers Saw Something, and Said Something. It's an objectless number that can easily translate into racialized forms of perception. But this objectless number, also makes it useless. And comical. What does 1,944 number mean? In a city of 8 million?
I'm fascinated by the number's lack of context, its classified nature, its broadcasting
with pride and perhaps most circuitously its connections to D-Day. (read here the letter
Eisenhower wrote to the troops.
Because of this fascination, one goal of Hero Reports is to collect the same number of
reports into a book and present it to the mayor. How such a book will be curated/edited
is still unclear, but at its heart, it would be a transparent narrative of security.
We are 300 into this goal number, but much more are needed, before we being to edit.
(And editing here being akin to what the MTA did. About 4000 New Yorkers actually said
What is the most interesting story you've received so far? What kinds of incidents are
you hearing about the most?
Actually, I find what I'm hearing the most to be the most interesting. A LOT of things happen with taxi drivers. This is significant because the majority of taxi drivers are the skin color (brown) most targeted by this campaign. That means, that while only brown people were arrested in this See Something campaign, brown people are the city's most consistent heroes. This reinterpretation of a community bias I extremely powerful.
Another recurring theme is "proof" that a personal hero story wasn't as impossible as it
seemed. From my personal archives, there are two examples of this.
The first is a story about the stones of my engagement ring falling out and the women
who dropped on their knees to help find it. For me, this incredible moment is re-enacted with a story from taxi driver and his finding of a passenger's ring.
The second is when on a cold winter night transfer, an out of service train gave myself and a friend a subway ride home. This illegal moment of courage was verified when a transit worker told me of the time when he was out of uniform, and a train picked him up. (not written up yet). He concludes with: "See! We're not so mean. We're people too."
Besides the patterns, there are some amazing stories. A number of the more dramatic are covered in the press, and I've taken the content from such news articles. The latest in this category is someone giving birth on a subway platform. Here, the media did cover
how strangers came together to make it happen. (Though I suppose something would have happened regardless) Most times, however, the media coverage of these dramatic stories neglect the heroes. For instance, the other week there was a pitbull attack. When I interviewed him, the man had a story about police incompetence and expressed amazement towards a neighborhood. When this man screamed "Help!" it wasn't a Kitty Genovese moment. People came pouring out of their home to help. "And Louis was amazing." Now there's no mention of Louis in the news coverage. Louis doesn't sell. Part of Hero Reports is to spin Louis's story so that he sells. Turning the ordinary into the extraordinary. That's what Hollywood does, when Hollywood does it well. It is at the heart of novels, theater and comedy.
Its about the framing. Tackling how this sort of everyday heroism can sell is the
challenge of Hero Reports. ("Sell" here not being synonymous with "make money", but
rather sell meaning, create cultural weight and urgency.) Hero Reports is more likely to
fail than succeed. But personally I think technologists (especially at the lab) should
be taking on such challenges and such risk. We're so afraid it's not going to work, that
we don't play with failure. And when it comes down to it, not only do most things not
work, but by not tackling these questions we contribute to this society of suspicion and

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The left-wing Lessig, founder of FixCongressFirst.org, sought to galvanize a left/right/libertarian alliance in favor of convening a constitutional convention (Con-Con) for the purpose of repealing the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision and the influence of money in elections, but he made few — if any — converts on the right.
"I think we have some things in common. I think we discovered we don't hate each other," Tea Party Patriots Founder Mark Meckler told the audience during the concluding session of the ConConCon.
Meckler told The New American magazine there were "areas of commonality," and along with his Tea Party compatriots expressed mutual opposition to corporate influence buying toward preferential government contracts and Wall Street bailouts.
Meckler and leftist Coffee Party co-founder Annabelle Park even agreed they could meet in the future to discuss issues. "But we shouldn't try to gloss over our differences," the California attorney said in the conference's closing minutes, stressing that neither the Tea Party Patriots organization nor he personally had a position on a constitutional convention. Nevertheless, Meckler indicated he wouldn't be backing Lessig's solution. "We have different ideas of how to fix our problems.... I have a fundamental disagreement with what I saw."
Specifically, Meckler noted that the biggest money problem in politics was government money, not corporate money, which Lessig had called the "root" of the problem in the political system. "I think he [Lessig] did find some of the roots, because he found the surface roots," Meckler stressed, "The tap root of this problem is the size and scope of government today."
Meckler's comments echoed that of the Tea Party Patriots' Constitutional Coordinator, who also stressed he was speaking for himself and not for the organization as a whole. "I don't think now is the time to do it," Bill Norton, the Constitutional Coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots, told conferees, stressing that a Con-Con would not remedy the nation's ills without first producing a core of informed patriots who would properly guide the Con-Con. "We are not educated enough.... We have got to educate ourselves."
The ConConCon featured speakers from many sides of the political spectrum, both opponents and supporters of a modern-day Article V convention, as well as a fair share of people who were indifferent or undecided. Former Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb ranted that "the United States of America is racist, it's sexist, it's oppressive." Rob Richie of FairVote.org told the conference he would consider using a Con-Con to promote his pet cause of promoting proportional representation in Congress (though his website also promotes voting rights for convicted felons). Shane Larson of the labor union Communications Workers of America said he was open to considering a Con-Con as he complained that "our issues aren't even on the agenda," such as socialized medicine, though his union is part of the national AFL-CIO (which has strongly opposed a Con-Con for more than a generation).
Leftist University of Texas Law School Professor Sandy Levinson openly favored "a no-holes-barred, everything is conceivably on the table, convention," reigniting fears of many on both the right and left that a Con-Con could become a runaway convention that would be used to change our form of government and undermine the Bill of Rights.
Con-Con skeptic and noted liberal Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Tribe told the conference that a Con-Con could not be limited to a single issue if convention delegates decided to pursue other agenda items. "The stakes in this institution are much greater because you are putting the whole Constitution up for grabs," Tribe told the ConConCon audience in the opening forum. He added that in 1787, "there was at least agreement on the direction we should move ... we don't even agree what direction we should move." Tribe stressed that in 1787, America had a treasure of enlightened leaders such as James Madison, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson. "I don't know how you feel about the current cast of characters," he quipped. Tribe also noted that a runaway convention could even change the rules of ratification, as the 1787 convention did, and make them ratifiable by national vote or some other method. (The Articles of Confederation required unanimous ratification by all 13 state legislatures, but delegates at the 1787 convention recognized this might not be accomplished, so they changed the ratification rules to three-fourths of the state legislatures or state ratifying conventions.)
The ConConCon did have some right-leaning advocates of a Con-Con, such as North Dakota State Senator Curtis Olafson of RestoringFreedom.org and Nick Dranias of the Goldwater Institute. Both promoted the idea of a "National Debt Relief Amendment" and loudly complained about the influence of The John Birch Society in blunting calls for a Con-Con. The John Birch Society has been a leader of organizing conservative opposition to a Con-Con for more than 20 years, and has been part of a longstanding left-right coalition that has gotten 16 states to rescind (withdraw) their Con-Con calls since the late 1980s.
The "National Debt Relief Amendment" is a proposed constitutional amendment that reads in its entirety:
An increase in the federal debt requires approval from a majority of the legislatures of the separate States.
Dranias told The New American magazine that he believed restoring limited government under the constitutional "status quo" was all but hopeless. The Goldwater Institute official argued that despite the obvious hunger of left-wing groups to attach their radical agenda onto a Con-Con, the Article V process offers sufficient protections from a runaway convention. Dranias notes that the states had 10 conventions of one kind or another before 1787, and none of them exceeded their mandate. Moreover, he argues that the requirement that three-fourths of the state legislatures in Article V would be a check, discounting Prof. Tribe's fear that the convention delegates could reset the ratification rules. "You have to think of it in terms of relative risk," he said, noting of a con-con, "Relative to your influence on your congressman, it's not perfect, but it's a little better."
But local John Birch Society leaders remain unconvinced that citizens would have any reason to believe their influence would be greater on Con-Con delegates chosen by politicians rather than congressmen chosen by the people directly. Moreover, they charged that state dependence upon federal aid dollars would make the "National Debt Relief Amendment" a hollow protection even if adopted. "I don't think we should play Russian roulette with the Constitution with five bullets in the chamber for a toothless gimmick," John Birch Society Northeast Regional Field Director Hal Shurtleff told The New American magazine. "The Goldwater Institute seems to think that this one amendment is going to solve our woes. It is a gimmick that they think will galvanize conservatives and give them the impression that they're accomplishing something."
Indeed, the conservative Pelican Institute points out that federal aid amounts to more than half of the state budgets of Louisiana and Oklahoma, and averages more than a third of state budgets nationwide. Robert Higgs, a senior fellow with the Independent Institute, told the Pelican Institute that "Fearing the loss of such a large part of their funding, state authorities become nothing more than puppets of the federal authorities."
Other conservative officials remained skeptical of Con-Con proposals as a panacea for the nation's ailments. "It seems to me that with government already exceeding parchment barriers," Arizona State Senate Republican Majority Leader Andy Biggs told the conference, "you would be putting faith in something that hasn't already worked, that is, parchment barriers." Biggs noted that his arguments in the Arizona state senate convinced four or five other state senators to switch to oppose a ConCon.
While the ConConCon failed to cement a left-right coalition to promote a Con-Con, it served to highlight the opposing and powerful left-right coalition that has worked together on an ad hoc basis for more than 20 years to oppose a constitutional convention. This longstanding anti-Con-Con alliance has included organizations and individuals on the left such as the AFL-CIO, the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg, Professor Tribe, and Citizens to Protect the Constitution. Even the Rhode Island branch of the ACLU testified against a constitutional convention in 2010.
On the right, the anti-Con-Con alliance includes the John Birch Society, the American Policy Center, Eagle Forum, Daughters of the American Revolution, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, National Rifle Association, and virtually every other Second Amendment organization, among others.
The powerful anti-Con-Con coalition of left and right organizations defeated the establishment of both the Republican and Democratic parties in pursuit of a clearly-set common cause, the sincere desire to preserve the U.S. Constitution.
Ironically, had Professor Lessig invited more establishment Republican officials to his conference, he would have received more constitutional convention support. The move toward a Con-Con has been led for decades by the establishment, Republican-leaning organizations American Legislative Exchange Commission (ALEC) and Lew Uhler's National Tax Limitation Committee. Of course, it's the ALEC crowd against whom Lessig's anger and agenda is directed.
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I've been trying to pack in as much cooking with tomatoes as I can before the official end of summer.
Yesterday I was browsing through my friend Chitra's blog The ABCD's of Cooking for inspiration and came across her wonderful-sounding post for paneer with sun-dried tomato curry, which used both fresh and dried tomatoes. I had eaten a ton of curries in my life but never tried one using sun-dried tomatoes (to my knowledge), an ingredient I buy twice a week in bulk and can't get enough of. Needless to say, I was quickly sold.
You may remember Chitra from some of my earlier blog posts. She was my co-conspirator for Tangra Summer, an Indian-Chinese pop-up dinner we put on in August in Brooklyn. She was also the wiz behind the naan breakfast pizza I made back in June, and just an all-around great resource for ideas for vegetarian meals with tons of flavor. So it goes without saying that I was immediately excited to try out this curry.
I love that this recipe can be made with either paneer or tofu. Since I was headed to the Indian grocery store for shopping anyway, and because I'm a cheese addict, I decided to pick up a block of paneer cheese. Though I'm definitely going to try this with tofu soon when I feel like a lighter dish.Read More


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LONDON — European air officials accused the United States of imposing useless and overly intrusive travel security measures, calling Wednesday for the Obama administration to reexamine policies ranging from online security checks to X-raying shoes.
LONDON — European air officials accused the United States of imposing useless and overly intrusive travel security measures, calling Wednesday for the Obama administration to reexamine policies ranging from online security checks to X-raying shoes.
British Airways' chairman made the first in a wave of complaints, saying in a speech to airport operators that removing shoes and taking laptops out of bags were "completely redundant" measures demanded by the U.S.
He was joined less than 24 hours later by British pilots, the owner of Heathrow airport, other European airlines, and the European Union. The EU submitted formal objections to a program that requires U.S.-bound travelers from 35 nations to complete online security clearance before departure. It called the system burdensome and said it could violate travelers' privacy.
The EU said the U.S. Electronic System for Travel Authorization would process some 13 million registrations from Europeans in 2009 alone. The program applies to Europeans who don't need visas to travel to the U.S.
The EU said it was "inconsistent with the often repeated commitment by the U.S. to facilitate trans-Atlantic mobility and legitimate travel and trade in a secure environment."
British Airways chairman Martin Broughton told the annual conference of the U.K. Airport Operators Association that measures like separate examinations of shoes and laptops appeared to be unnecessary and were inconsistently applied in different airports.
"America does not do internally a lot of the things they demand that we do," Broughton said, calling on British authorities not to "kowtow to the Americans every time they wanted something done."
"We shouldn't stand for that. We should say, 'We'll only do things which we consider to be essential and that you Americans also consider essential,'" the Financial Times quoted him as saying. BA confirmed that the report was accurate.
In Washington, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration said it "works closely with our international partners to ensure the best possible security. We constantly review and evolve our security measures based on the latest intelligence."
Colin Matthews, chief executive of BAA PLC, which owns Heathrow airport, says security on trans-Atlantic travel was subject regulations by European and U.K. authorities and the United States, and that led to some redundances.
"We could certainly do a better job for customers if we can rationalize them," Matthews said in an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. radio.
"There are some aspects which have been frustrating to everyone, but equally everyone understands we have to keep the passenger safe," Matthews said.
BA's rival, Virgin Atlantic, joined in complaints about the safety regime.
"We have said for many years that new technology is urgently needed to ensure that security checks in airports are effective but quicker and less intrusive on our passengers," Virgin Atlantic said in a statement.
Alan West, the security minister in the last British government, said a multinational agreement could make the checks "much less onerous."
"We have had requirement on requirement laid on top of each other, and certainly I need to be convinced about all these various layers," West told the BBC.
"I do think it does need to be rationalized because I think we have gone too far. There are too many layers, too much inconsistency," West said.
Germany's Lufthansa was more circumspect.
"I understand what he (Broughton) is saying, and it's true that we've had more and more regulations since 9/11," said Lufthansa spokesman Jan Baerwald.
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On Tuesday night, a vehicle carrying two adult females and two young children attempted to make a left turn on Route 113 at Whaleyville Rd. when it failed to yield to an oncoming car and was struck on its passenger side. According to witnesses, the female passenger attempted to get out of the vehicle before collapsing on the ground and falling in and out of consciousness.
Ocean Pines resident Don Stifler was traveling in the area and stopped to render some assistance to the Hispanic victims, but another local resident, Krista Brooks, whose husband John Brooks owns the Crabcake Factory in Ocean City, was already on the scene and taking charge of the situation.
"This young girl gets out of the car and collapses on the ground," he said. "I pulled over and was heading to help in any way I could, but Krista took control over everything. She was caring for the poor girl on the ground while speaking to her and the other people in the car in Spanish. The whole thing was a little surreal, almost like a movie."
Stifler said Brooks likely helped save the young girl, whose mother and children appeared to be shaken up but not otherwise injured.
"A lot of people see these things and don't want to get involved, but she jumped right in and saved the day," he said. "There really ought to be some kind of Good Samaritan award in Worcester County because if there was ever a case for it, this was it."
Brooks said it was simply a case of being in the right place at the right time, along with having some basic emergency medical training and the ability to speak Spanish. She had just dropped off her own daughter at a babysitter's house and was heading home to the Pines when she witnessed the accident.
"I had just dropped off our daughter and I stayed for 10 minutes or so to have a cup of coffee with the babysitter, which I don't usually do," she said. "If I had skipped the coffee and headed straight home, I would not have been in the right place at the right time."
After the accident, Brooks said the girl's mother was attempting to revive her and was moving her around before she intervened.
"It was a little chaotic at first," she said. "The grandmother was trying to move her around and get her back up, but I knew you're never supposed to move a victim in a crash and I was able to relate to her the importance of keeping her still. I got them to get jackets and whatever else they could find to keep her warm because she was slipping in and out of consciousness and appeared to be going into shock."
Brooks intervened on the call to 911 and translated the dispatcher's instructions to the Hispanic victims until emergency services arrived. In the meantime, she continued to speak Spanish to the victim, consoling her and keeping her alert.
"It was pretty bad," she said. "She was complaining of abdominal pain and it appeared she had internal injuries because there was a blood spot on her stomach with no apparent injury. I was just able to get her to stay calm and I spoke to her in Spanish and told stories about trips to Mexico and asked her stories about her kids, etc."
Brooks stayed with the victim and assisted the first-responders while continuing to reassure the victim with the language barrier.
"I was just thankful I was able to help," she said. "I like to think anybody else in that position would do the same thing. I just hope they're okay."


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I've implemented a openlayers bbox strategy on a vector layer. I have my server return a nice jsonp object wrapped in the callback given by the request.
The problem is that during normal use of the map I get al lott of errors like:
TypeError: OpenLayers.Protocol.Script.registry.c18 is not a function
where c18 is the number of the request. The map keeps working, but these show up as actual errors in Firebug. This happens very often just playing around for a minute results in a dozen or so of these errors. In the 'NET' tab I can see that it seems to happen every time the map interface issues two requests for data.
GET poi?bbox=-0.597037...cript.registry.c18, 200 OK, localhost, 101.8KB, 127.0.0.1:80, 250ms
GET poi?bbox=-6.831778...cript.registry.c19, 200 OK, localhost, 102.3KB, 127.0.0.1:80, 421ms
I guess the callback corresponding to the first one of the set of two gets deleted by the second request, so when the first bit of data returns, you get the error. So, why does it fire two requests? and how to fix this. My guess is that it has something to do with resizing the map and zooming at the same time and both events result in a request??
Here is how I configured the layer. It's the only layer with a BBOX strategy:
var in_options = {
'internalProjection': config.projection,
'externalProjection': config.displayProjection
// add a layer to the map
this.layer = new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector("POI",{
strategies: [
new OpenLayers.Strategy.BBOX({
resFactor: 2,
active: false,
autoActivate: false,
ratio: 1.3
new OpenLayers.Strategy.Cluster({
distance: this.clusterDistance,
threshold: this.clusterThreshold
protocol: new OpenLayers.Protocol.Script({
url: 'http://localhost/tests/poi',
callbackKey: 'callback',
format: new OpenLayers.Format.GeoJSON(in_options),
styleMap: new OpenLayers.StyleMap({
"default": style,
this.layer.strategies[0].calculateBounds = this.myCalculateBounds;
I've looked at the layer properties, there are two listeners registered. One for the BBOX strategy and one for the cluster. None of these invoke each other. So I looked at the source of the BBOX strategy. The TriggerRead Method of the OpenLayers.Strategy.BBOX class has one argument: options. If you console log this one, it's just the event object send by the layers eventHandler. It's not an opion object associated with the BBOX instance. That also explains why the setting
noAbort wasn't working.
I changed this line:
if (this.response && !(options && options.noAbort === true)) {
into this:
if (this.response && !(this.noAbort && this.noAbort === true)) {
and ofcourse set the noAbort: true in the layer strategy
new OpenLayers.Strategy.BBOX({
resFactor: 2,
active: false,
autoActivate: false,
ratio: 1.3,
noAbort: true,
Did I discover a bug in OpenLayers?


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It's crunch time at many colleges and universities. Some students reach for stimulants to help them pull all-nighters studying for tests-and to party afterwards. And we're not just talking about coffee.
Dartmouth College has changed its academic calendar this year, so students will end the first term at Thanksgiving. Exam week, for some, means taking amphetamines known as "study drugs"-with trademarks like Adderall and Ritalin.
Taewon Chang is a junior from South Korea. Taking a break outside the library, he said he doesn't take study drugs. But he has at least ten friends who do.
"Because they can't concentrate," Chang explained. "Or they have a lot of work to do-they just want to stay up, I guess."
Some have prescriptions for these stimulants, which are used to treat attention deficit disorder. But others don't, they just get them from friends. Natalie Colanari graduated from Dartmouth last year. She did an independent study on this trend. She wasn't able to interview drug users, so she asked participants to estimate the abuse of study drugs on campus. Varsity atheletes guessed about 70 percent of the campus used illegal stimulants, while minority and Christian students estimated much less usage.
"So it seemed like it was specific communities where there was a lot of use," Colanari said.
Colaneri's study was not a scientific survey-it measured perception, not reality. But it concludes that this kind of socially acceptable drug use is a big problem, especially at academically competitive schools like Dartmouth. Ben Nordstrom agrees. He's a psychiatrist specializing in addiction at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
"You know the risk to any one person getting addicted is relatively low but when you have lots of people doing it, all of a sudden you are definitely going to get some people who are addicted so even if it's 10 percent of the population, 12 percent of the popuulation, enough people do it, all of a sudden you are talking about real numbers, you are talking about a number of people who are really going to get washed up on the rocks of this thing," Nordstrom said.
Nordstrom says addiction to amphetamines can cause psychosis and other serious mental problems. Dartmouth spokesman Justin Anderson says the school is aware of the problem, and has added a second drug and alcohol counselor to its staff.
"We have staff in place that are not going to spot everybody, that don't have a silver bullet soution to this particular issue but we have to put the people and resources in place that when this issue presents itself that Dartmouth is prepared to respond and to act," Anderson said.
So far, Anderson said, no one has been arrested or disciplined for using illicit study drugs. But he concedes that in addition to being a health threat on campus, such drug use raises questions of academic honesty among students who depend on the medications as a way to help them focus on their studies.


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CEZA Suspends Operations of 3 Cryptocurrency Exchanges
September 20, 2019
Cagayan ecozone authority in the Philippines ordered the suspension of three cryptocurrency exchanges. How is this related to offshore gaming operations?
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Eastern Washington running back Taiwan Jones will visit the San Francisco 49ers, Oakland Raiders and Miami Dolphins, a source with knowledge of the situation said Sunday.
Jones' meeting with the 49ers is set for Wednesday. The exact dates of the Raiders and Dolphins visits aren't known, although they will be this week.
Mock Draft Central.
Jones already has met with the Philadelphia Eagles, Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals.
The speedy Jones has generated a lot of attention in the past few weeks and helped himself at his pro day last week in Northern California after he ran 40-yard dash times in the 4.3- to 4.35-second range, according to a source who attended.
Twenty-seven NFL teams watched Jones, who couldn't participate in any postseason bowl games or the NFL Scouting Combine because of a broken foot sustained during the season.
"I like to think that I'm a first-round back," Jones said at his workout, according to Comcast SportsNet Bay Area. "I feel like if I was in a bigger program, I could be that. I wanted to come out here and put up the numbers like a first-round back and compete like them. If a team feels the same way, the sky's the limit."


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BeatTips "Setups in Action": Akai MPC 1000, Fantom Xa, and Propellerhead Recycle
Profile of Pat King's Hybrid (Hardware/Software) Setup
|By PATRICK KING
Complete Setup:
Akai MPC 1000, Roland Fantom Xa, M-Audio BX5 monitors, (2) Technics SL-1200MK2 turntables, Vestax PCV-002 mixer, Vestax Handytrax turntable (Portable), Sony MDR-7506 headphones, iMac G5 PPC (Tiger OS 10.4.11, 1.8 GHz, 2 gigs of RAM), Digidesign Mbox with Pro Tools, Waves plug-ins, Propellerhead Recycle 2.1, Record collection.
Signal flow:
MPC stereo out to TRS inputs on the M-Audio BX5 monitors. I keep Auralex MoPads on stands beneath the speakers in order to decouple them from the surface it rests. I use the Roland Fantom Xa mainly for sounds like bass, or melodic strings to layer on tracks in the MPC. Whenever I want to use the Fantom Xa, I route the Fantom's output A mix into the MPC record in. This gives me standard audio quality (44.1KHz, 16-bit). When I'm not sampling from the Fantom, the way that I audition (listen to) sounds through is that I listen through my headphones. As for my Vestax DJ mixer, when I want to get a vinyl record sample into my computer for editing, I go from the turntable to DJ mixer. I route from the L/R record output of my Vestex DJ mixer to the Mbox source 1&2 line inputs, then I record sample on to a stereo audio track.
Though my production setup consists of several pieces of hardware and software, the main unit and sequencer that I use is the Akai MPC 1000. I transfer drum sounds and samples, (that I usually edit on the computer), to the MPC through a USB connection. I store everything on a 1GB compact flash card.
Method & Process:
When I get new vinyl records I start off by sitting down and listening to them on one of the turntables through the Vestax DJ mixer, with everything set to zero, no EQ frequencies accentuated initially. The minute I hear something that catches my attention I make a note of it on paper. I write down things like the instruments I want to use and what part of the song its located at, then continue listening for more parts to assemble a new arrangement. If the sample is complex I record it into Pro Tools and (bounce it to disk). What I mean by "complex" is that to me, it's a sample that has a lot of nuances. In order to control those nuances I use Recycle to chop them up and manipulate those sample more precisely, then I export the results a WAV. files to the MPC.
For me, the advantages to editing on the computer rather than on the MPC is that it's less time consuming, and that increases productivity. But I can see how it could be the reverse for someone who does edit on the MPC, especially older MPC models, like the MPC 60 II or even the 2000. Another reason that I like to edit on the computer rather than the MPC is because I like seeing the waveform of the sample on a 17-inch screen, versus the small screen on the MPC. To me, its easier to work with and break down. If its a simple sample like a one bar drum break, I just record into the MPC; maybe use the slice feature and some filters. I should point out that the MPC is not limited in editing capabilities, it's just not as efficient as a computer is in my production process.
Sequencing, Tracking and Rough Mixing: The first track of the sequence I start off with is usually the sample, then the drums, then the bass, I just continue to build sequences and tracks until the beat is complete. When I finish all of my sequences, its time to get them into the DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). First off, I disconnect the MPC stereo out from the speakers inputs. I use the Mbox source 1&2 line inputs and connect to the MPC stereo out. I connect the line outputs on the Mbox to the speakers. I then record into Pro Tools, two tracks at a time. I can then control the dynamics of each track. Depending on what I want to achieve, I use different Waves plug-in's. Before I finish the session I record a 2-channel stereo track of the entire beat to Pro Tools from the MPC. When I'm mixing I use headphones to get closer to an accurate mix. Stereo imaging is essential, it's is how the audio image is placed and meshed during mixing for the listener's ears. After I sequence my drums I leave the kick and snare centered, add some reverb to the snare for depth and pan the hi hat to the left to give off that feel that a real drummer is in that position on the stage. The contrast between mono and stereo instruments is important to understand. Panning and balancing the levels allows room for all of the instruments to breath and have their own space in the mix.
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So I find some cool things, I bought little golden books for my nephew, I found a cute little antique wood plant stand, and I even came across a postcard of the ship "Kronprinz Wilhelm" which is the ship one of my ancestors came over on at the beginning of the 20th century. I put it in a little frame and hung it - voila, instant history!
And all the transactions were pleasant, and the bidding process went easy.
BUT....when it comes to genealogy/history books....there are some RUDE people out there! Or maybe it just proves again why I am not cut out to be one of those shoppers that bargains with people or cuts other people out of the bargaining process. (Explains why the first car I ever bought was a Saturn - no bargaining process - thanks Saturn!!)
A couple months ago I found this book about New Haven Connecticut and since I have a lot of ancestors from there I thought it would be nice to have. I put in my bid, waited patiently and literally, literally with less than one minute to go, some person out of nowhere bids higher and I lost it!
I was SO upset!! How rude! You swoop in here at the last moment and steal my book? If you had any kind of manners you would have put your bid in like a normal person and waited patiently.
I know, this just shows how much I am not cut out for this kind of thing. But I don't do that!! I don't swoop in on other people's bidding and suddenly steal it out from under them!! I mean, there should be rules or something.
Of course, I just went to Alibris.com and found the same book there (signed by the author by the way) and got it for CHEAP, so THERE!
Last night the same thing almost happened again!!! I found this set of books on genealogy in New England - very helpful to have as a book, since when you buy these old books on CD you end up just printing it all out anyway because you have to make notes on it. Or you end up not being able to read the CD, thank you so much whatever dumb company did that to me. I have these CDs from the late 90s - unreadable. And this set of books was on one of them.
So I put a bid in - and I made it painfully high for myself. So the bidding continues, I'm in the lead and THEN, with less than a MINUTE to go, someone tries to swoop in and STEAL MY BOOKS!!! That I waited patiently 2 days for!!!
But, HAHA, my high bid was higher than yours jerk-o. The books are mine (and still for a reasonable price, all things considered).
I hope all you swoopers out there get the karma that is coming to you. AND, don't think I don't know it's just friends of the seller out to raise the price and if it backfires they just put it back out for sale. I didn't fall of the turnip truck yesterday buster.
Meanwhile though I'm going to go gloat over my win. Mwuah-ha-ha-ha-hah!!!!!!


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It's a bit ironic that the first post on this blog after I have left for my New York/Toronto vacation is one that has to do with the Hawaiian islands that I left behind. Aloha Army is a local brand that is based out of Honolulu Hawaii. Their flagship store is located on Waikiki beachwalk and "aims to distribute new and different surf brands to Hawaii, the mecca of Surfing."
What is Aloha?
"The word "Aloha†has several definitions in English. Hello. Goodbye. Love. Beloved. Sweetheard. Loving. Furthermore, "Aloha†can aslo be defined as warm-hearted emotions like, kindness, grace, charity, sympathy and compassion."
According to Wikipedia, Aloha is:
"Aloha in the Hawaiian language means affection, love, peace, compassion and mercy. Since the middle of the 19th century, it also has come to be used as an English greeting to say goodbye and hello. Currently, it is mostly used in the sense of hello; however, it is used as the above."
Aloha is a a good thing. Aloha permeates throughout Hawaii and its people.
If you live in Hawaii, you can stop by the Aloha Army shop on Lewers Street in Waikiki and if you live away from the islands then you can also get a taste of Aloha by checking out the Aloha Army website and online shop. T-Shirts are priced from $15 to $30 a piece.


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If anything as embarrassing as what follows occurred at a Republican presidential contender's website, including the follow-up ridicule by the opposition, the press would never be able to resist covering it.
A mythical (I hope) ecard created at the Obama-Biden campaign site call purports to be from a daughter to her mother, and asks about the most ridiculous question you can imagine.
Here it is:
I have no idea how the Obama campaign came up with $18,000.
As I noted over six months ago in March, $9, 28-day supplies of birth control pills can be had at Target (which now appears to be down to $4), Walmart, and in the Midwest, Kroger (Kroger link no longer works).
Howard Portnoy at Hot Air's Green Room notes that it would take 166 years to burn through that $18,000 at $9 a month -- so I'll quibble and note that there are 13 four-week periods in a year, and that it would take 154 years to burn through that 18 grand at $117 per year.
Some snide answers to the daughter's plea for $18,000 can be found here (HT Ed Driscoll at Instpundit).
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Karen DeYoung of the Washington Post reports that Adm Michael Mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs, "felt very good, very positive" about his initial meeting with Barack Obama. That one-on-one encounter lasted 45 minutes.
Mullen has every incentive to give a positive report about the meeting, but I take at face value his statement that he found Obama to be pragmatic and a good listener. Obama's reputation for listening to everyone extends back to his days as head of the Harvard Law Review. Moreover, unlike Bill Clinton circa 1992-93, Obama and his circle have made it a point to show their respect for the military.
It's more difficult to take at face the claims of DeYoung's sources that they were the victims of the "ideological certitude" of the Bush administration. This sentiment would seem to represent the attempt of some in the military leadership to evade responsibility for the poor advice they offered regarding Iraq. Even DeYoung acknowledges that "few in their ranks voiced misgivings over the Iraq war." But her sources blame George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld for not "encouraging" them to air misgivings and somehow requiring them to "drink the Kool-Aid."
This tired line is simultaneously a cop-out and an admission of the failure of those who invoke it to have done their duty. Fortunately, Gen. Petraeus did his duty and President Bush's alleged ideological certainty proved to be no barrier.
But all of this is in the past. It's honeymoon time now, and the military brass seems willing to ignore Obama's prior dovish pronouncements, which helped cause him to lose the military vote by an estimated 3-1 margin according to a Military Times poll cited by DeYoung. And Obama is probably happy to overlook the revisionist tendencies and self-confessed spinelessness of elements of the brass. But he should make a mental note of them.
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The LOGO version as well can be used for cards, letterhead or web page could have some colour but it should also work without the colour.
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When Hurricane Sandy struck Long Island on Oct. 29, power outages were to be expected. But no one expected them to last more than two weeks, which was the case for thousands of East Meadow residents.
On Nov. 9, approximately 3,700 Long Island Power Authority customers in East Meadow were still without power, having braved the darkness for 10 days. Local officials and residents alike had grown irate with LIPA, and were calling East Meadow the "forgotten town."
By Nov. 10, their impatience reached a breaking point. Joined by Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray and Councilman Gary Hudes, roughly 100 residents rallied in Levittown, demanding the restoration of power to homes in central Nassau County. At the time there were still more than 8,000 outages in East Meadow, Salisbury and Levittown.
Their voices were heard. Over the following two days, LIPA trucks finally began arriving, and as of Monday evening, the number of East Meadow customers without power dwindled to 1,252. As the Herald went to press on Tuesday, the number had shrunk to 374.
State Assemblyman Tom McKevitt, who lives in East Meadow, said he was told by U.S. National Grid Executive Director Tom King that the storm caused more downed electrical poles to fall on residential properties in East Meadow, Salisbury and Levittown than anywhere else — including the South Shore. "So certainly it's more labor-intensive and requires more man-hours to repair broken poles in East Meadow than it will in most other places on Long Island," McKevitt said on Monday.
"But the response was still unacceptably too slow," he added.
County Legislator Norma Gonsalves, who also lives in East Meadow, told the Herald on Monday that after speaking with LIPA and National Grid officials, she believed that all of the power in her district would be restored by Tuesday. "I think it's coming to an end," Gonsalves said.
But still, she added, "The lack of communication for the past 12 days was enough to kill you."
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Borgia Flags - List
Flag Location 01[edit]
On a beam overhanging a rectangular courtyard in the middle of a building. Can easily get to it from the rooftops.
Flag Location 02[edit]
On the rooftop of Ezio's hideout, right next to a pigeon coop.
Flag Location 03[edit]
On a beam overhanging a square courtyard in the middle of a building.
Flag Location 04[edit]
Midway up a tall tower. To get to it, cling onto the western face of the tower and jump right onto the beam.
Flag Location 05[edit]
Atop one of the stone columns supporting nothing.
Flag Location 06[edit]
In the middle of an arch structure, one level up.
Flag Location 07[edit]
The flag is on top one of the largest remaining sections of pillar in the area.
Flag Location 08[edit]
On top of the southwestern pillar in the area. First jump to the pillar north of it via the adjacent broken building.
Flag Location 09[edit]
Midway up the eastern face of an ornate building.
Flag Location 10[edit]
It's on the rooftop of an easily-climbed building.
Flag Location 11[edit]
There's a convenient walkway among the rooftops where you'll find the flag.
Flag Location 12[edit]
From the water, jump onto a nearby gondola so you can jump onto the pole with this flag.
Flag Location 13[edit]
In an alley between two buildings, look for a beam overhead that connects both buildings. The flag is on the beam.
Flag Location 14[edit]
The flag's on a beam on the northwestern side of a building overlooking the water. You can either climb down to the flag from above, or wall run adjacent to it and jump sideways to grab onto the beam.
Flag Location 15[edit]
Adjacent to a ladder, on a balcony overlooking the water from the west face of the building.
Flag Location 16[edit]
On a beam over a doorway on the west-facing side of the building, overlooking the water.
Flag Location 17[edit]
The flag is on a beam spanning the alley between two buildings.
Flag Location 18[edit]
You'll find the flag on some lattice work facing the road between a building and a tall rock wall.
Flag Location 19[edit]
Behind a rooftop gazebo on a platform overhanging a road below.
Flag Location 20[edit]
The flag is at the top of a massive stone aqueduct. Climbing the western side of it is a cinch.
Flag Location 21[edit]
On top of a rectangular platform supported by three massive stone columns. Use the wall to the south to reach the lower column and from there jump to the high column with the flag.
Flag Location 22[edit]
Climb the building north of the location, jump from the chimney onto the columns south of it and onto a floating rock platform. Shimmy and jump to the column with the flag.
Flag Location 23[edit]
Climb the adjacent building, jump from the chimney onto a column and turn west. Jump onto a taller column, climb up, and from there you can reach the lower column to the north with the flag.
Flag Location 24[edit]
Someone put another flag on top of a large stone column. To get to it, start on the plateau north of it and jump along a series of columns, heading south.
Flag Location 25[edit]
The flag is on a beam just off ground level in this triangular-shaped cul-de-sac.
Flag Location 26[edit]
Yet another flag on top of stone pillars. Start from the lowest pillar and jump south to the highest.
Flag Location 27[edit]
On top of a pillar in the southeast corner of a stone square.
Flag Location 28[edit]
Atop a tower attached to a short building.
Flag Location 29[edit]
The flag is at the top of a short tower.
Flag Location 30[edit]
This flag is on top of one of two rooms jutting out from the wall. To get to it, first climb the short building that's up against the wall to the north. You need to wall-run up the massive wall and jump backward at the peak of your jump to grab onto a jutting beam. From the beam, you can climb onto the northern room and hop across some more beams to reach the southern room with the flag.
Flag Location 31[edit]
Easily grabbed from the top of a building, next to a flag pole.
Flag Location 32[edit]
Flag is simply on top of a building.
Flag Location 33[edit]
You'll have to get wet to get this. The flag is on the base of an island, north side.
Flag Location 34[edit]
Look on the decking of the building constructed into the northern wall of the crater with the lake.
Flag Location 35[edit]
On top of the church in the center of a walled courtyard.
Flag Location 36[edit]
It's on a building. That's all you get.
Flag Location 37[edit]
On a rooftop, near a ledge.
Flag Location 38[edit]
The flag is on top of a low building.
Flag Location 39[edit]
Look on a beam connecting two buildings in a tight alley.
Flag Location 40[edit]
Look on a beam connecting two buildings in a tight alley. Yes, we just said that.
Flag Location 41[edit]
It's on some wood decking midway between the rooftops and the street.
Flag Location 42[edit]
Look for this flag on top of a cross, mounted on a building west of the Pantheon.
Flag Location 43[edit]
On top of the Rosa in Fiore brothel. Where your sister works. With your mother.
Flag Location 44[edit]
On a beam in a tall alcove on the east wall of the courtyard. Drop onto it from above.
Flag Location 45[edit]
Midway through a small alley of stairs, look overhead for the flag on an archway.
Flag Location 46[edit]
Look for a wooden platform midway up the west side of a building.
Flag Location 47[edit]
The flag is on an archway overhanging a narrow path on the east side of the church.
Flag Location 48[edit]
From a wall behind some buildings, jump onto an L-shaped platform supported by columns to get the flag.
Flag Location 49[edit]
Get to the top of a very tall, red-brick structure to find the flag near the ledge.
Flag Location 50[edit]
Climb to the top of the tall, rectangular platform north of the column with the flag. From this tall platform, which is supported by three pillars, you can jump south to the lower column to get the flag.
Flag Location 51[edit]
The flag is on top of a memorial made of three arches. You might need the climb leap ability to get to the top of it.
Flag Location 52[edit]
On top of an L-shaped platform just north of the end of the aqueduct. You need to ascend the shorter columns to get to it.
Flag Location 53[edit]
Start from the top of the brick wall northeast of the flag and jump onto a series of column platforms to reach the flag.
Flag Location 54[edit]
Another flag on top of another tall column that you have to get to by climbing more shorter columns.
Flag Location 55[edit]
On top of a pillar on the south side of a ruined fortress.
Flag Location 56[edit]
There is a stone column on top of which is the flag. Seriously.
Flag Location 57[edit]
The flag is on top of the tallest column in the area.
Flag Location 58[edit]
To even get to the plateau where the flag is, you need to jump a horse (you read right) across the broken bridge connecting the plateau to the hillside village north of it. Once there, you need to use a series of pillars (starting from the south) to jump to the pillar with the flag.
Flag Location 59[edit]
The flag is on top of a tall, red-brick building. You can climb to the top easily.
Flag Location 60[edit]
On top of a short column on the east side of the area.
Flag Location 61[edit]
It's on top of one of four columns to the west of the area. Get to the top of the columns by jumping from the top of the ring wall east of them.
Flag Location 62[edit]
The flag is easy to spot, on top of a short wall. However, it's on a plateau that's difficult to get to. Approach the plateau from the south to climb some short "steps." From there, head northwest around the rim of the plateau to find an inlet to the building where the flag is.
Flag Location 63[edit]
Climb a ladder to the top of the aqueduct and look below to spot the flag on a tall column. You can jump to it from the aqueduct.
Flag Location 64[edit]
Jump from the aqueduct onto the tall column with the flag. The nearest ladder to climb the aqueduct is to the east a bit, south side.
Flag Location 65[edit]
On top of the highest tower in the village.
Flag Location 66[edit]
Flag is on top of a short building, near a chimney.
Flag Location 67[edit]
There are a bunch of columns in the area. The flag is on—you guessed it—the tallest one.
Flag Location 68[edit]
On top of the tallest columns which form an L-shaped platform is where you'll find the flag.
Flag Location 69[edit]
The flag is on top of the tallest tower in the area, which is easily climbed.
Flag Location 70[edit]
You have to get to the top of the highest columns in the area in a roundabout way. First, climb onto the arches to the south. From the top of the arches, jump across a series of column-supported platform to make your way to the flag. Note, you'll need to tap the grab button to catch a platform on the longest jump.
Flag Location 71[edit]
The flag is on top of an L-shaped platform supported by four columns.
Flag Location 72[edit]
Another L-shaped platform is home to the flag, but to get to it you'll need to climb onto the column-supported platform west of it and use the chain of platforms to run around the courtyard and to the final platform.
Flag Location 73[edit]
You'll find the flag at the top of the very end of the aqueduct. You can climb the narrow western face of the aqueduct to reach the top.
Flag Location 74[edit]
The flag is at the very top (well, almost) of the outer wall of the Colosseum.
Flag Location 75[edit]
On a beam jutting out from the face of a building that's overlooking the water.
Flag Location 76[edit]
There are a bunch of columns in the area. The flag is on one next to a tree.
Flag Location 77[edit]
On top of one of the many archways over the water.
Flag Location 78[edit]
The flag is on top of one of three stone columns in the middle of the road.
Flag Location 79[edit]
Inside the top floor of the ruined slum building is a lonely flag that needs you.
Flag Location 80[edit]
The flag is at the very top of a pole at the very top of the Castello. It's easiest to get there by loading a previous memory from the DNA. Starting from the mission Femme Fatale is a good idea.
Flag Location 81[edit]
Jump from the shorter pillars to the east only the lower of the two pillars with platforms. From there, jump to the higher platform pillar to get the flag.
Flag Location 82[edit]
The flag is on a beam jutting out from the northeast side of the building.
Flag Location 83[edit]
The Halls of Nero. You'll find this after completing the first room and diving into water. Run through the open passage to the south and turn left at the fork. The flag is on top of a short column.
Flag Location 84[edit]
The Halls of Nero. After crossing the fire pit and moving into the next room, climb the eastern wall so that you can get on top of the sculpted stone blocks to the north. From there, climb the western wall and sidle left to get to the flag.
Flag Location 85[edit]
The Halls of Nero. This flag is in the southeast corner of the last part of the mission. Make platforming progress the same as you would normally until you reach the eastern wall. Instead of climbing north to the stage's exit, climb south to reach the flag.
Flag Location 86[edit]
Wolves Among the Dead. Early in the mission, before climbing down the tall well, you'll find an alternate route via an upper platform (if you continued on the main path at this point, you'd immediately hit one of those automatic lifts). The alternate route leads through some tunnel and finally to a large, open cavern. Some platforming here will bring to you to the flag.
Flag Location 87[edit]
Wolves Among the Dead. After climbing down the long well and going through some tunnels guided by torches, you'll do some platforming in a largish room to go up one level to another tunnel heading west. At the first fork in the path, take a right (there are some tools scattered on the ground nearby) and follow the tunnel around a couple of turns to find the flag.
Flag Location 88[edit]
Wolves Among the Dead. Near the end of the stage, you enter a very large room and need to do some running around the east wall before heading west via some pole swinging. Before you do the pole swinging, from the top of the confession booth in the northeast corner of the room wall run up the eastern wall. You can get to an upper level swinging poles that'll bring you to the flag.
Flag Location 89[edit]
Thrown to the Wolves. In the very first room of the mission, climb up the wall on the east side of the hall and onto a beam that'll let you jump into a room on the west side of the hall to grab the flag.
Flag Location 90[edit]
Thrown to the Wolves. When you get to the party scene, go upstairs and drop over the railing like normal. But instead of chasing after the target immediately, look for a curtained-off room to the west. Walk through the curtain to get the flag.
Flag Location 91[edit]
Thrown to the Wolves. Very early in the chase scene, look for the flag on an overhead platform. You can jump off the horse and onto the platform to grab the flag.
Flag Location 92[edit]
Leader of the Pack. In the middle of the chase scene, you're stopped to fight a bunch of enemies in a small room. After the fight, look for the flag overhead on the southern side of the room.
Flag Location 93[edit]
Leader of the Pack. The chase ends a second time in a room with another fight. After climbing to a platform (with more enemies) on the west side of the room, look south into a long hall with more enemies at the end...and the flag behind them.
Flag Location 94[edit]
Leader of the Pack. In the last room of the lair, you'll fight a bunch of dudes and then finally fight the leader of the, uh, pack. When everyone's dead, look for the feather behind a gate to the south. You have to jump in the water and dive under the gate to reach it.
Flag Location 95[edit]
The Sixth Day. Early in the stage, after first climbing to the second level of the first area, you'll cross a gap via climbing over some open doors. Just after hopping over the doors, turn left to find the flag in the southwestern corner of the second level.
Flag Location 96[edit]
The Sixth Day. This flag is in the same room as the statue of the begging woman. Climb on top of the statue and use a few poles to jump south to the flag on an upper level.
Flag Location 97[edit]
The Sixth Day. In the next large room where you run on posts along the southern wall and then shimmy northward, make your behind to the northern wall and instead of turning left to continue the stage, turn right to find the flag.
Flag Location 98[edit]
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. When you start chasing the cardinal, early on you'll climb to the top of a tower. Step out the window to the east to spot the flag on top of a marble spire. To get to it, wall run up the brick wall to the north and jump to the right at the peak of your wall run. Ezio will cling to the spire so you can climb up to the flag.
Flag Location 99[edit]
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. Near the end of the chase, you'll swing on a second series of three lanterns, all back to back. Immediately after landing from the third swing, grab the flag on your left.
Flag Location 100[edit]
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. After killing the cardinal, walk through the curtains to go out the window to the west but don't take the leap of faith. Instead, hang from the jumping point and drop onto a beam below to grab the flag.
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text: What is Allergic Rhinitis? Known to most people as hay fever, allergic rhinitis is a very common medical problem affecting more than 15 percent of the population, both adults and children. Allergic rhinitis takes two different forms — seasonal and perennial. Symptoms of seasonal allergic rhinitis occur in spring, summer and /or early fall and are usually caused by allergic sensitivity to pollens from trees, grasses or weeds, or to airborne mold spores. Other people experience symptoms year-round, a condition called "perennial allergic rhinitis." It's generally caused by sensitivity to house dust, house dust mites, animal dander and /or mold spores. Underlying or hidden food allergies are considered a possible cause for perennial nasal symptoms. Some people may experience both types of rhinitis, with perennial symptoms worsening during specific pollen seasons. As will be discussed later, there are also other causes for rhinitis.