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Escape (Desmond's Journey)

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Desmond Miles explored the Animus, wandering through abstract recreation of the path he took upon leaving the Assassins .

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• Animus: Memory sequence archived. Recalibrating Animus idle parameters.
• Desmond: I wanted out . I wanted my own life. To live my own way. Sixteen years old. And where was I going? No idea. Just away. That's it. That was the plan. Not much of one. They never guessed what I was doing, because I didn't know what I was doing. I just walked right out. Someone realized I was gone. They shouted. I started running.
• William : Desmond! Desmond!
• Desmond: I just ran and ran and ran. All that training was finally worth something. God, it was so dark when I left. And the forest... endless. I didn't dare take the roads.
• Mother : Desmond, where are you?
• Desmond: Mother, calling out. Begging me to stay. But I wouldn't. I followed the hills down. Down until I hit a stream. I followed that to a river, and from the river to an old access road. I walked for hours that day, the summer sun keeping me warm well into the evening. Found a clearing after dark. Fell asleep beneath the stars. Never had a quieter night. Not before or since. Walking, too scared to hitch a ride. What the hell was I doing? Lost in the badlands for a day. Felt like a week. Endless ocean of wrinkled earth. Can't believe a place could look so dead.
• Desmond: I'm gonna die, aren't I? I'm gonna die here.
• Desmond: Finally met some girls from Illinois. So bubbly. So kind. One day drive to Omaha . Another to Chicago . Then, somewhere, someone said to me...
• Man: If you got nothing, you go to New York . That way, if you leave with nothing, people don't ask why. And if you leave with something, you are one lucky son of a bitch.
• Desmond: So that's where I went. New York City. Into skyscrapers and subways. Into filth and folly. Into the maddening crowds.
• Access to this memory was unlocked after collecting 15  Animus data fragments or through installing The Lost Archive .
• When Desmond reached the badlands, an eagle's cry could be heard.
• The achievement " Escape to New York " was unlocked after completing the memory.

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• By  Douglas Shepard (Editor in Chief, RarityGuide.com)
• Published 11/17/2011
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‘It was a one-way journey’: the couple whose flat changed with their life

Form follows function in this sensitively remodelled London flat, where every stick of furniture was made by its creative inhabitants

A rchitect Mike McMahon and optometrist Jewlsy Mathews have built every piece of furniture in their home. There’s a papier-mâché dog sitting on top of the first shelving unit Mike designed to make the most out of a nook in their London flat. The ornament ran the Dalston Derby, a remote-control car race the couple organised to celebrate Mike’s 30th birthday in 2011. “Before we started making art together and selling pieces of furniture, we put on events like these,” Jewlsy explains. “The pace at which Mike comes up with ideas is dizzying and he actually brings them to fruition.” Combined with a pub crawl, the Dalston Derby ran for four years.

These activities began to wind down when the couple’s son Milo, now nine, was born. “Our life used to be very outward-facing, but when he arrived we started to spend more time indoors,” Jewlsy says. She owned the two-bedroom second-floor flat in London’s King’s Cross before meeting Mike, who moved in in 2012.

After the arrival of Milo they split the larger of two bedrooms in two with one of the new spaces serving as an office for their new architecture studio. The other is their son’s room, a calm, yet playful space. “We designed and built the bed, deliberately choosing atypical awkward dimensions for the steps,” Jewlsy explains. “Children stretch their limbs in a way that adults don’t, jumping down three steps at a time, so it made more sense than using standard half stair-height steps.”

Made from birch plywood, the bed also features built-in shutters that can be opened and closed for privacy. The upper half of the room, designated as the sleeping zone, has been painted in Little Greene Aquamarine Mid , with the lower dado, the play area, in Little Greene Tea with Florence . The gloss finish helps reflect light around the room. In their own bedroom, lights bought from Jewlsy’s ancestral home, Kerala, feature the kind of geometrical shapes that Mike is passionate about and which are reflected throughout the property. “You can also find CNC geometric patterns on the fronts of the wardrobes that we made,” he says.

The couple’s own bed adopts the form of an inverted pyramid, which they designed to be space-saving, with the base sections neatly sliding out to provide further storage.

Back in the living area, another of the couple’s built-in furniture projects is a Mondrian-inspired nook, which serves as seating and storage space. It’s a private retreat that all friends and family enjoy, and each section has been configured to contain useful household items such as an ironing board. “I adore sitting there and having a cup of coffee looking out at the balconies,” Jewlsy says. It’s easy to understand why, with the space opening out on to a verdant oasis that’s been 10 years in the making. Dubbed a “junglette” balcony, the outdoor space is impressive and features a naturally filtered pond that oxygenates and cleans itself: “We just need to feed the fish,” Jewlsy says.“And if it gets really cold, we add a tennis ball in there, which stops it from freezing over.” Mike adds Jewlsy says. Mike adds, “I love gardening and we have 80 different species out there. They provide a good buffer and keep the apartment cooler in the summer with solar shading.”

Opposite this nook area is the more communal space with a sofa made from 40mm thick Dinesen Douglas fir. It sits on concrete legs that were cast in recycled rainwater pipes. It was upholstered by Jewlsy using fabric they bought from India and is complemented by the coffee table they’ve crafted from the same wood, but set atop undulating cork legs.

The seating is modular: “We realised that we’ve been creating furniture that’s built-in and if we ever decided to leave, we wouldn’t be able to take it with us,” says Jewlsy. The chairs were made after the couple had finished one of the most time-consuming projects in the property, their kitchen revamp. “I absolutely love cooking and we had a tiny kitchen, which was awful,” says Jewlsy. The space is bigger now with hidden appliances and design features that help them maintain a clutter-free zone. Smart additions include a Finnish drying rack which is great for keeping Tupperware hidden away, and dropdown plug sockets from Evoline . “We have exceedingly tactile porcelain tiles by Vicalvi . They were made by pressing folded paper in the porcelain to imprint the pattern on the tile backsplash and we didn’t want to break them up with electrical outlets,” says Jewsly.

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The framework for the new kitchen is made from concrete they cast in their dining room. “I did a lot of research before we made it as it is a one-way journey and if you mess it up, you’re stuck,” Mike explains. “We created our own shutterwork [a wooden frame to pour the concrete into] using waste timber panelling from a previous scheme.” The concrete frame was sanded to produce a polished finish and then left to cure for three-four months. Whitewashed spruce timber cabinet doors soften the utilitarian material for a neutral pared-back look.

Repurposed materials from the kitchen were used in the bathroom, with timber offcuts made into panelling. Mike and Jewlsy have made a conscious effort to maximise what is already there. “With the effects of climate change, designers have to be clever – we can’t just rip everything out,” says Mike. “So we used tile paint to refresh the space.”

Inspired by the natural fractal geometry of an unfurling fern, the Unfurl dining chairs are sculptural but also structurally sound. “We made a model first to make sure the chair would actually stand,” says Mike. “It is based on the way a person sits and curves so that a person can sit comfortably.”

The spaces Mike and Jewlsy have designed for their family home consider the user first – and this usefulness makes their efforts all the more beautiful.

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Rebecca Chopp has done a lot. She was chancellor at the University of Denver and before that, at Swarthmore College and Colgate University. In 2019, Chopp stepped down as DU's chancellor after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

But the diagnosis hasn't stopped her.

Since resigning from DU, Chopp has written a new book called " Still Me , " serves on the national board of the Alzheimer's Association and co-founded " Voices of Alzheimer's ," an advocacy group for people with the condition.

We've been following Chopp in recent years as she navigates Alzheimer's.

Excerpts from Rebecca Chopp's Interview with Colorado Matters' Andrea Dukakis :

On how she was first diagnosed with Alzheimer's:

"I went in for my annual physical. My doctor asked me how I was doing. I said, "Great," and she said "Anything different?" And I said, "Yeah, I'm sleeping a lot." I had only slept four or five hours a night my whole life. I also got lost on the way to her office, so she put those two things together and asked me if I would take a mini-cognitive exam. Now I have to say that is extraordinary because primary care physicians don't always know that any change in behavior, even a change in sleep patterns, could be due to a neurological disorder."

On changes in her memory and cognition in the last year:

"My short-term memory is definitely worse. Everybody has memory problems as they age, but this is way worse than I see most people have. (My) long-term memory is still very good. Now, my long-term memory was phenomenal. I could quote paragraphs from books I've read. I can't do any of that anymore, but I still can remember more than many of my friends can about the same experiences. My cognition is good. I can read a book and discuss it, but if it's been six weeks, say, since I've read a book and I'm headed to one of my book clubs, I have to review it. My verbal ability is weakening a little bit."

What Chopp has learned about Alzheimer's research and how to delay the onset of symptoms:

"The research ... is pretty definitive that with exercise, diet, sleep, social engagement, intellectual engagement, especially learning new things, you have a very good chance of delaying the onset of your symptoms. Some research is indicating that even if you have been diagnosed, you may have a good chance of slowing down the progress of your symptoms. I like to say build your body to prolong your brain."

On foods to eat that enhance memory and cognition and those that can be harmful:

"The Mediterranean diet, a version called "MIND" is the one they recommend. So this is lots of blueberries, lots of walnuts, salmon, mackerel, anchovies, sardines, herring, those SMASH fishes , (and) lots of legumes, green vegetables. The important thing is to avoid inflammation. Ultra-processed foods contribute to the inflammation in your brain and the inflammation can hasten the progress of the plaques and the tau -- the correlates that we know comprise Alzheimer's. So for me, that has meant giving up things like my beloved ice cream except for once or twice a year because one does have to have joy and fun."

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On living in the present after her diagnosis:

"I think it makes it easier to enjoy the present. There's something about that knowledge of what will happen that makes you decide, at least it made me decide that I was going to enjoy the present. I wanted to spend more time with my family. I wanted to give back. I wanted to make sure that things were prepared for my family and my community. I wanted to do the things I didn't have time to do when I was chancellor, so now I paint. I enjoy music. I have a dog. I walk, I hike."

On the growing number of people with Alzheimer's:

"A tsunami is facing us of Americans who will develop Alzheimer's and (those) who will have to care for their loved ones with Alzheimer's. It is a huge cost. It's a cost of opportunity for people who have to quit work. It's an enormous burden for Medicare. Medicare doesn't cover all the costs right now, but assume they will, and it's going to be a trillion dollars or so in the next 20 years. And then the emotional cost. I mean, many of my friends who are care partners can barely leave their homes."

This story is a part of Aging Matters , a series from Colorado Matters about the Centennial State's aging population. Read more stories here .

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Family forced to camp, miss school, and meet farmer's labour demands, mother says

A family who travelled thousands of kilometres across Australia after becoming homeless say they were forced to do free labour for several weeks to keep a roof over their heads.

Mother-of-six Samantha Carey said the distressing episode started last year when her family moved from St Helens on Tasmania's east coast to Geraldton in Western Australia.

On arrival, the family immediately started looking for private rentals and joined the social housing wait list, but found no available accommodation.

Ms Carey said they were travelling from campsite to campsite when momentary relief came from a local farmer who offered the family a place to park their caravan in exchange for 10 hours of farm work each week.

However, she said the farmer began demanding additional hours of work until the parents and some of the children were working a combined 100 hours a week.

"He took advantage," Ms Carey said.

"He literally told us: 'You've got nowhere to go. There's nowhere to rent. You've got no choice'."

The Carey family managed to find alternative living arrangements with the help of Regional Alliance West (RAW), a local non-profit organisation that offers free community services to vulnerable people.

Corporate manager Leanne Robertson says there is "no doubt" other people are facing similar situations across Australia as a lack of accommodation gives property owners more opportunities to exploit people.

"It can't be a one-off," she said.

"People don’t know where they can go. They just think that they have to put up with being treated the way that they’re being treated.

"Businesses exploiting people who are vulnerable and suffering extreme hardship should be ashamed of themselves.

"I just wish there were stronger laws that we could take [action] against the people that are treating the vulnerable people like this."

Now living in a crisis unit in Geraldton, Ms Carey says she jumps for the phone when it rings, hoping a call will end the family's plight. 

She and her partner Nathan packed up their lives and six children in 2022 when the rising cost of living forced them out of regional tourist town St Helens.

Ms Carey had been a voluntary ambulance officer and both parents were carers for some of their children who have neurological disabilities, but their future in St Helens had become unviable.

"There was no opportunities. Everything was very expensive" Ms Carey said.

The family made the 4,000km journey to Geraldton to be closer to Ms Carey's grandfather and hoped it would be a more affordable place for them to put down roots.

Travelling for four months, they lived in a tent and pop-top caravan, and arrived in Geraldton in April last year.

Despite submitting endless rental applications and immediately joining the list for social housing, the family has been unable to find permanent accommodation.

"With six kids, that private rental just doesn't happen. People don't like renting to big families," Ms Carey said.

"And the price of private rent is just astronomical. Like, it's just outrageous. We couldn't afford it.

"We looked at caretaker roles. We contacted real estate agents to see if people that were selling their houses would be willing to rent until they sold."

Ms Carey said her children had to go eight months without school as the family moved from town to town searching for a caravan park site they could afford but "all their permanent spots were taken because of the rent crisis".

"There's that stress of, 'Is Child Protection going to take my children?'," Ms Carey said.

"You can't enrol them in school if you've got nowhere that you're actually settling.

"We did homeschool for a little while the best we can. It's hard when you got no internet."

Late last year RAW connected the family with the local Salvation Army branch, which provided a small three-bedroom crisis unit.

What was meant to be a three-month stay has grown to five and a half months.

"Salvation Army told us they will not put us back into homelessness," Ms Carey said.

"But while we're here, another family can't come, so we are just waiting for the phone call."

'Ripple effect' of women's homelessness

Grassroots advocacy group Women Without Homes was recently formed in Geraldton by women from different organisations in the community.

Western Australian Centre for Rural Health Associate Professor Monica Moran, a member of the group, said it surveyed 39 homeless women in the community and found more than half of them had children.

"Repeatedly in their responses they talked about their concerns for their children's wellbeing and the difficulty of maintaining regular school attendance," she said.

"That [homelessness] has a ripple effect into education, into health, into youth justice.

"So it's not just about supporting women."

The collective has also found that women who are homeless often have large families and are the primary carers for children or grandchildren.

"Those women are struggling because they work less because of the caring responsibilities," said Ms Moran.

"They may have dependents with disabilities, they may be caring for an older member of the family.

"So they're less attractive within the housing market and there are fewer properties available to them."

Call for solutions catering to women

Women Without Homes has published a report on women's homelessness in the Geraldton area with recommendations it says can be applied to communities across the nation.

Among the recommendations is the development of short-to-medium term accommodation for women and their children arriving in town, as well as the provision of more and larger public housing.

Ms Moran said the collective also wanted firm pressure on landlords and real estate agents to adhere to anti-discrimination laws.

"There are so many women and their children who get eliminated [from housing] along the way," Ms Moran said.

"The decision about who's offered accommodation [should be] based on who meets the requirements, not the perfect tenant."

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