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Brothers and Enemies
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Our enemies are brothers from whom we are estranged. Here is the fundamental truth that explains and justifies our hope of re-establishing a real patriotism among all parties in Ireland, and a final peace with our ancient enemy of England. It is the view of prejudice that makes of the various sections of our people hopelessly hostile divisions, and raises up a barrier of hate between Ireland and England that can never be surmounted. If Ireland is to be regenerated, we must have internal unity; if the world is to be regenerated, we must have world-wide unity—not of government, but of brotherhood. To this great end every individual, every nation has a duty; and that the end may not be missed we must continually turn for the correction of our philosophy to reflecting on the common origin of the human race, on the beauty of the world that is the heritage of all, our common hopes and fears, and in the greatest sense the mutual interests of the peoples of the earth. If, unheeding this, any people make their part of the earth ugly with acts of tyranny and baseness, they threaten the security of all; if unconscious of it, a people always high-spirited are plunged into war with a neighbour, now a foe, and yet fight, as their nature compels them, bravely and magnanimously, they but drive their enemy back to the field of a purer life, and, perhaps, to the realisation of a more beautiful existence, a dream to which his stagnant soul steeped in ugliness could never rise.
On the road to freedom every alliance will be sternly tried. Internal friendship will not be made in a day, nor external friendship for many a day, and there will be how many temptations to hold it all a delusion and scatter the few still standing loyally to the flag. We must understand, then, the bond that holds us together on the line of march, and in the teeth of every opposition. Nothing but a genuine bond of brotherhood can so unite men, but we hardly seem to realise its truth. When a deep and ardent patriotism requires men of different creeds to come together frankly and in a spirit of comradeship, and when the most earnest of all the creeds do so, others who are colder and less earnest regard this union as a somewhat suspicious alliance; and, if they join in, do so reluctantly. Others come not at all; these think our friends labour in a delusion, that it needs but an occasion to start an old fear and drive them apart, to attack one another with ancient bitterness fired with fresh venom. We must combat that idea. Let us consider the attitude to one another of three units of the band, who represent the best of the company and should be typical of the whole; one who is a Catholic, one who is a Protestant, and one who may happen to be neither. The complete philosophy of any one of the three may not be accepted by the other two; the horizon of his hopes may be more or less distant, but that complete philosophy stretches beyond the limit of the sphere, within which they are drawn together to mutual understanding and comradeship, moved by a common hope, a brave purpose and a beautiful dream. The significance of their work may be deeper for one than for another, the origin of the dream and its ultimate aim may be points not held in common; but the beautiful tangible thing that they all now fight for, the purer public and private life, the more honourable dealings between men, the higher ideals for the community and the nation, the grander forbearance, courage and freedom, in all these they are at one. The instinctive recognition of an attack on the ideal is alive and vigilant in all three. The sympathy that binds them is ardent, deep and enduring. Observe them come together. Note the warm hand grasp, the drawn face of one, a hard-worker; of another, the eye anxious for a brother hard pressed; of the third, the eye glistening for the ideal triumphant; of all the intimate confidence, the mutual encouragement and self-sacrifice, never a note of despair, but always the exultation of the Great Fight, and the promise of a great victory. This is a finer company than a mere casual alliance; yet it makes the uninspired pause, wondering and questioning. These men are earnest men of different creeds; still they are as intimately bound to one another as if they knelt at the one altar. In the narrow view the creeds should be at one another's throats; here they are marching shoulder to shoulder. How is this? And the one whose creed is the most exacting could, perhaps, give the best reply. He would reply that within the sphere in which they work together the true thing that unites them can be done only the one right way; that instinctively seizing this right way they come together; that this is the line of advance to wider and deeper things that are his inspiration and his life; that if a comrade is roused to action by the nearer task, and labours bravely and rightly for it, he is on the road to widening vistas in his dream that now he may not see. That is what he would say whose vision of life is the widest. All objectors he may not satisfy. That what is life to him may leave his comrade cold is a difficulty; but against the difficulty stand the depth and reality of their comradeship, proven by mutual sacrifice, endurance, and faith, and he never doubts that their bond union will sometime prove to have a wise and beautiful meaning in the Annals of God.
But the men of different creeds who stand firmly and loyally together are a minority. We are faced with the great difficulty of uniting as a whole North and South; and we are faced with the grim fact that many whom we desire to unite are angrily repudiating a like desire, that many are sarcastically noting this, that many are coldly refusing to believe; while through it all the most bitter are emphasising enmity and glorifying it. All these unbelievers keep insisting North and South are natural enemies and must so remain. The situation is further embittered by acts of enmity being practised by both sides to the extreme provocation of the faithful few. Their forbearance will be sorely tried, and this is the final test of men. By those who cling to prejudice and abandon self-restraint, extol enmity, and always proceed to the further step—the plea to wipe the enemy out: the counter plea for forbearance is always scorned as the enervating gospel of weakness and despair. Though we like to call ourselves Christian, we have no desire for—nay even make a jest of—that outstanding Christian virtue; yet men not held by Christian dogma have joyously surrendered to the sublimity of that divine idea. Hear Shelley speak: "What nation has the example of the desolation of Attica by Mardonius and Xerxes, or the extinction of the Persian Empire by Alexander of Macedon restrained from outrage? Was not the pretext for this latter system of spoliation derived immediately from the former? Had revenge in this instance any other effect than to increase, instead of diminishing, the mass of malice and evil already existing in the world? The emptiness and folly of retaliation are apparent from every example which can be brought forward." Shelley writes much further on retaliation, which he denounces as "futile superstition." Simple violence repels every high and generous thinker. Hear one other, Mazzini: "What we have to do is not to establish a new order of things by violence. An order of things so established is always tyrannical even when it is better than the old." Let us bear this in mind when there is an act of aggression on either side of the Boyne. There will not be wanting on the other side a cry for retaliation and "a lesson." We shall receive every provocation to give up and acknowledge ancient bitterness, but then is the time to stand firm, then we shall need to practise the divine forbearance that is the secret of strength.
But with only a minority standing to the flag we cry out for some hope of final success. Men will not fight without result for ever; they ask for some sign of progress, some gleam of the light of victory. Happily, searching the skies, our eyes can have their reward. We shall, no doubt, see, outstanding, dark evidence of old animosity; we shall hear fierce war-cries and see raging crowds, but the crowds are less numerous, and the wrath has lost its sting. Men who raged twenty years ago rage now, but their fury is less real; and young men growing up around them, quite indifferent to the ideal, are also indifferent to the counter cries: they are passive, unimpressed by either side. Rightly approached, they may understand and feel the glow of a fine enthusiasm; they are numbered by prejudice, they will become warm, active and daring under an inspiring appeal. Remember, and have done with despair. Think how you and I found our path step by step of the way: political life was full of conventions that suited our fathers' time, but have faded in the light of our day. We found these conventions unreal and put them by. This was no reflection on our fathers; what they fought for truly is our heritage, and we pay them a tribute in offering it in turn our loyalty inspired by their devotion. But their errors we must rectify; what they left undone we must take up and fulfil. That is the task of every generation, to take up the uncompleted work of the former one, and hand on to their successors an achievement and a heritage. Youth recognises this instinctively, and every generation will take a step in advance of its predecessor, putting by its prejudices and developing its truth. Every individual may know this from his own experience, and from it he knows that those who are now voicing old bitter cries are ageing, and will soon pass and leave no successors. Not that prejudice will die for ever. Each new day will have its own, but that which is now dividing and hampering us will pass. Let the memory of its bitterness be an incentive to checking new animosities and keeping the future safe; but in the present let us grasp and keep in our mind that the barrier that sundered our nation must crumble, if only we have faith and persist, undeterred by old bitter cries, for they are dying cries, undepressed by millions apathetic, for it is the great recurring sign of the ideal, that one hour its light will flash through quivering multitudes, and millions will have vision and rouse to regenerate the land.
Happily, it is nothing new to plead for brotherhood among Irishmen now; unhappily, it is not so generally admitted, nor even recognised, that the same reason that exists for restoring friendly relations among Irishmen, exists for the re-establishing of friendship with any outsider—England or another—with whom now or in the future we may be at war. Friendliness between neighbours is one of the natural things of life. In the case of individuals how beautifully it shows between two dwellers in the same street or townland. They rejoice together in prosperity; give mutual aid in adversity; in the ordinary daily round work together in a spirit of comradeship; at all times they find a bond of unity in their mutual interests. Consider, then, the sundering of their friendship by some act of evil on either side. The old friendship is turned to hate. Now the proximity that gave intimate pleasure to their comradeship gives as keen an edge to their enmity; they meet one another, cross one another, harass one another at every point. The bitterness that is such a poison to life must be revolting to their best instincts; deep in their hearts must be a yearning for the casting out of hate and the return of old comradeship. Still the estranged brothers are at daggers drawn. Sometimes the evil done is so great and the bitterness so keen that the old spirit can apparently never be restored; but while there is any hope whatever the true heart will keep it alive deep down, for it must be cherished and kept in mind if the whole beauty of life is to be renewed and preserved for ever. It is so with nations as with individuals. Once this is recognised we must be on guard against a new error, which is an old error in new form, the taking of means for end. The end of general peace is to give all nations freedom in essentials, to realise the deeper purpose, possibilities, fulness and beauty of life; it is not to have a peace at any price, peace with a certain surrender, the meaner peace that is akin to slavery. No, its message is to guard one nation from excess that has plunged another into evil, to leave the way open to a final peace, not base but honourable; it is to preserve the divine balance of the soul. It may be further urged that we are engaged in a great fight; that to try to rouse in men the more generous instincts will but weaken their hands by removing a certain driving bitterness that gives strength to their fight. Whatever it removes it will not be their strength. In a war admittedly between brothers, a civil war, where different conceptions of duty force men asunder, father is up against son, and brother against brother; yet they are not weakened in their contest by ties of blood and the deeper-lying harmony of things that in happier times prevail to the exclusion of bitterness and hate. When, therefore, you teach a man his enemy is in a deep sense his brother, you do not draw him from the fight, but you give him a new conception of the goal to win and with a great dream inspire him to persevere and reach the goal.
If, then, beyond individual and national freedom there is this great dream still to be striven for, let us not decry it as something too sublime for earth. It must be our guiding star to lead us rightly as far as we may go. We can travel rightly that part of the road we now tread on only by shaping it true to the great end that ought to inspire us all. We shall have many temptations to swerve aside, but the power of mind that keeps our position clear and firm will react against every destroying influence. In the first stage of the fight for internal unity, when blind bigotry is furiously insisting that we but plan an insidious scheme for the oppression of a minority, our firmness will save us till our conception of the end grow on that minority and convince all of our earnestness. Then the dream will inspire them, the flag will claim them, and the first stage in the fight will be won. When internal unity is accomplished, we are within reach of freedom. Yes, but cries an objector, "Why plead for friendship with England, who will have peace only on condition of her supremacy?" And an answer is needed. If it takes two to make a fight, it also most certainly takes two to make a peace, unless one accepts the position of serf and surrenders. But this we do not fear; we can compel our freedom and we are confident of victory. There is still the step to friendship. Many will be baffled by the difficulty, that while we must keep alive our generous instincts, we must be stern and resolute in the fight; while we desire peace we must prosecute war; while we long for comradeship we must be breaking up dangerous alliances: literary, political, trades and social unions formed with England while she is asserting her supremacy must be broken up till they can be reformed on a basis of independence, equality and universal freedom. While we are prosecuting these vigorous measures it may not seem the way to final friendship; but we must persist; independence is first indispensable. Here again, however, while insisting among our own ranks on our conception of the end, it will grow on the mind of the enemy. They may put it by at first as a delusion or a snare, but one intimate moment will come when it will light up for them, and a new era is begun. In such a moment is evil abandoned, hate buried and friendship reborn. There is one honest fear that our independence would threaten their security: it will yet be replaced by the conviction that there is a surer safeguard in our freedom than in our suppression; the light will break through the clouds of suspicion and a star of stars will glorify the earth. For this end our enemy must have an ideal as high as our own; if thus an objector, he is right. But if in the gross materialism and greed of empire that is now the ruling passion with the enemy there is apparently little hope of a transformation that will make them spiritual, high-minded and generous, we must not abandon our ideal: while the meanness and tyranny of contemporary England stand forward against our argument and leave our reasoning cold, we can find a more subtle appeal in spirit, such an appeal as comes to us in a play of Shakespeare's, a song of Shelley's, or a picture of Turner's. From the heart of the enemy Genius cries, bearing witness to our common humanity, and the yearning for such high comradeship is alive, and the dream survives to light us on the forward path. We must travel that path rightly. We can so travel whatever the enemy's mind. More difficult it will be, but it can be done. That is the great significance and justification of Nationalism: it is the unanswerable argument to cosmopolitanism. If the greatness and beauty of life that ought to be the dream of all nations is denied by all but one, that one may keep alive the dream within her own frontier till its fascination will arrest and inspire the world. If this ultimate dream is still floating far off, in its pursuit there is for us achievement on achievement, and each brave thing done is in itself a beauty and a joy for ever. For the good fighter there is always fine recompense; a clear mind, warm blood, quick imagination, grasp of life and joy in action, and at the end of day always an eminence won. Yes, and from the height of that eminence will come ringing down to the last doubter a last word: we may reach the mountaintops in aspiring to the stars.


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CASSOA engaging Aviation stakeholders across the region
4th April 2019. EAC CASSOA Team has just concluded four missions in Partner States aiming at engaging Aviation stake holders on the matter of Agency's sustainable funding mechanism. Republic of Burundi was the first country to host CASSOA Team followed by the Republic of Kenya, United Republic of Tanzania and the Republic of Uganda. Republic of South Sudan and Republic of Rwanda will be the next countries to be visited by the team.
The Board directed the Secretariat to undertake stakeholder consultations which would inform the final decision on the amount of the levy to be approved by the board. Civil Aviation authorities of a host country is expected to organize stakeholders who come from CAAs, Airport Authorities, Air Operators, Association of Air Operators, Consumer Protection council and Ministries (responsible for EAC/Transport/Treasury).
Article 15 of CASSOA Protocol States that the funds of the Agency shall be derived from;
a) Contributions by the Partner States through their respective Civil Aviation Authorities;
b) resources mobilized by the Community;
c) grants from regional and international bodies;
d) revenue from the activities of the Agency; and
e) any other sources as may be approved by the council.
The Agency is mainly funded by Partner States through their respective CAAs (85%) with additional minimal funding from the Development Partners funding (10%) and miscellaneous income from Agency Activities (5%).
The financial requirements of the Agency to implement the Strategic Plan effectively cover both the activities to be implemented and staffing costs which are based on proposed Staff Terms and Conditions of Service to be implemented as soon as possible to curb the high rate of staff turnover at the Agency
The Agency has considered various contribution mechanisms and proposes a contributory Funding Mechanism based on a passenger levy charged to all domestic and international embarking passengers in the Region's airports. The passenger levy will be a minimal charge that will be levied at the point of sale of the ticket and collected by the Partner States and remitted to the Civil Aviation Authority for purposes of transmission to the Agency
EAC CASSOA Board which is the governing body of the Agency Considered and approved the proposal by Technical Committee (Finance & Administration) for the Agency's sustainable funding mechanism to be funded through a passenger service charge and directed the Secretariat to undertake stakeholder consultations which would inform the final decision on the amount of the levy to be approved by the board
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Again, only a handful of prominent Republican cartographers and lawmakers were aware of the mapping process as the lines of Congress were drawn over about a month.
Despite voter-approved changes to the Ohio Constitution to curb partisan gerrymandering and improve transparency, Republicans were able to create maps outside of the perspective of the public – and many other officials, according to depositions and the legal records in the final card prosecution of Congress.
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This map is the first test of reforms that voters in Ohio overwhelmingly passed in 2018 to prevent or limit politicians from drawing ridings that favor their political party over the other. Voters also approved changes to the way the state House and Senate maps are drawn in 2015.
Two lawsuits – one filed by voting rights groups and another affiliated with former Democratic attorney general Eric Holder – accuse GOP cartographers of drawing lines for Ohio's 15 congressional districts in a way that unfairly favors Republican candidates.
The map, conservatively, creates 10 congressional safe districts for Republicans, two safe districts for Democrats and three "arguably competitive districts that will favor Republicans," according to a lawsuit.
The depositions in those lawsuits underscored how the card came together.
Senate Republicans' chief cartographer Ray DiRossi told lawyers he started work on the congressional map in mid-October – a month after the state's legislative maps were approved. His computer with line drawing software resided on a six-foot folding table in the William Green building of the Ohio office.
His House GOP counterpart, Blake Springhetti, also worked in this room. But unlike the maps for the Ohio House and Senate lines, the two cartographers worked on separate proposals for the Congress map, which included 15 districts due to Ohio's low population growth.
On the Senate side, DiRossi worked with Senator Rob McColley, R-Napoleon. On the House side, the lawmaker who introduced the card – Rep. Scott Oelslager – has had little influence. The end product, signed by Gov. Mike DeWine on Nov. 20, was a product of the GOP-controlled legislature – not the seven-member Ohio Redistribution Commission.
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There appears to be a conscious effort on the part of cartographers to communicate in person, rather than exchanging information via text or email.
Lawyers asked DiRossi if he was working on maps with John Morgan, a Republican redistribution consultant who a Virginia lawmaker described as a "mastermind of gerrymandering." DiRossi's attorneys advised him not to answer questions about Morgan, saying it would violate attorney-client privilege.
"Mr. Morgan has been retained by an outside lawyer for the president and the president," said Gregory McGuire, one of the lawyers for the GOP legislative leaders.
Senate Republicans had a plan to address voter concerns about past cards. This plan was competitiveness.
"There haven't been any competitive elections in the last decade, and that's what we're trying to rectify," DiRossi said in his testimony.
The Senate GOP decided on a measure for competitive constituencies: plus or minus 4 percentage points, based on the last decade of federal elections.
By this metric, the GOP map created seven competitive districts. If mappers had also used statewide election results, that number of competitive districts would have shrunk by a couple.
"We focused on the federal election results for federal districts and thought this was the most appropriate and reasonable approach to using and promoting competitive districts," said DiRossi.
Lawyers for Republican lawmakers have also included an analysis by Brigham Young University political science professor Michael Jay Barber. He pointed to the competitiveness of the Senate GOP card and that it combined the fewest cardholders.
"Compared to the 2011-2020 district plan, the adopted plan creates more competitive districts and is on par or more competitive than the plans of the House and Senate Democrats in five of the six comparisons," Barber wrote.
However, analysis by Harvard University professor Kosuke Imai revealed that the map adopted by the GOP was unfair to Democratic voters. The efficiency deviation, which measures settlement and cracking, is 15% for the enacted map – well above 5.7% in the simulated designs.
"This implies that the adopted plan wastes about 219,000 more Democratic votes on average than the sham plans, and about 219,000 fewer Republican votes," Imai wrote.
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How the sausage was made
McColley unveiled the Republicans' first Senate card on November 3. House Republicans created their own map, without consulting the Senate GOP, which they presented on the same day.
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Then negotiations began between Republicans. DiRossi attended a meeting with President Bob Cupp, R-Lima and House Cartographer Blake Springhetti on November 9. Governor Mike DeWine joined a meeting with Republican legislative leaders and cartographers in the coming days.
"I know there were changes made to this card until November 13 or 14," DiRossi said. "So the map was changing, you know, almost until the very last minute."
At the end of November 15, GOP cartographers shared the second and ultimately the final version of the Congressional maps with state lawmakers and the media. Over the next few days, the card was approved and signed by DeWine. No Democrats voted for the bill, meaning it will last four years instead of 10.
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The Ohio Supreme Court is currently reviewing the congressional map. The lawyers will present their arguments at a later date.
Editors Anna Staver and Laura Bischoff contributed to this report.
Jessie Balmert is a reporter for the USA TODAY Network Ohio Bureau, which serves Columbus Dispatch, Cincinnati Enquirer, Akron Beacon Journal, and 18 other affiliated news organizations across Ohio.
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Multiple signs are placed in front of house under construction, in Oxford, Miss. on Wednesday, February 3, 2016. The board of aldermen tabled a discussion on signs at its meeting Tuesday night.
Aldermen take temporary sign changes off the table — for now
By Alyssa Schnugg
Published 12:00 pm Wednesday, February 3, 2016
After local Realtors took notice of a proposed ordinance amendment to the city's sign ordinance, they sent more than 50 letters of opposition to Mayor Pat Patterson.
The second reading and public hearing for the amendment was scheduled to be held during the Oxford Board of Aldermen's regular meeting Tuesday night; however, Patterson pulled the item from the agenda prior to the meeting to give city staff and aldermen more time to review the proposed changes.
"We decided earlier (Tuesday) to take if off the agenda, review it and see where we stand," Patterson said after holding up the 50 letters he said were mostly from local Realtors.
Aldermen Janice Antonow said while the second reading was taken off the table for now, the temporary sign subject wasn't going away.
"We will likely take out the time restraints," she said. "We will have size restrictions and limit- ing the number of signs. But we will not dictate what's on the sign. It doesn't matter what is on it.
After reviewing the changes as written it's not workable. We are targeting the signs that say 'weekend rentals' or 'rent by the week or month' that stay up all year. Those are not temporary signs because they never go away. But we'll keep working on it."
Antonow said the subject came up after a large sign on a South Lamar home caused several residents to complain to the mayor and Board of Aldermen.
Alderwoman Robyn Tannehill said earlier Tuesday that there was a lot of misinformation circulating about the ordinance after an article ran on a local news website.
Temporary signs often are used for polit- ical campaigns, to advertise property for sale or lease or advertise new construction or remodeling, but are not limited to those uses.
Under the suggested ordinance, temporary signs would be allowed without a permit but could not be displayed for more than 180 days in any consecutive
12-month period. Signs could not exceed 6 square feet in surface and 4 feet in height in areas zoned Agriculture, Country Estate and all residential areas, or in historic preservation districts.
Temporary signs in other areas could not exceed 32 square feet in area and 8 feet in height. One sign would be allowed per lot but a second temporary sign may be displayed on any lot during an election season, which is defined as 60 days before any local, state or national election and ending three days after the election.
New commercial and residential developments consisting of three or more primary structures could have one temporary sign that is no more than 64 square feet in surface area at the primary entrance to the development. Residential subdivisions and developments containing multi-unit dwellings could display one monument sign not to exceed 8 feet in height and 24 square feet in sign area. In addition, developments containing multi-unit dwellings may have one wall sign not to exceed 20 square feet in sign area.
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On Oct. 25, 2017, Life Care Center of Leominster, Massachusetts, associates brought in 18 decorated pumpkins for the annual pumpkin-carving contest.
The gourds were displayed in the dining room for residents, family members, associates and guests to view and vote on.
The competition was fierce this year, but Patrick Griffin, speech therapist, won for the second year in a row. He contributed a Charlie Brown pumpkin. Second place went to Samantha Hutt, physical therapist, assistant, who carved a Halloween-themed yard scene into her pumpkin. Third place went to Raymond Perales, maintenance director, for his Lawrence Welk pumpkin that sang and sprayed bubbles. The top three winners received trophies.
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Sister Rafela – Urszula Nałęcz, a Polish missionary and teacher, founder of missions in India, Republic of South Africa, and Rwanda. In her work, she focuses especially on the aid for the orphans and the visually impaired children. Born in Warsaw, she joined the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters Servants of the Cross in 1954. From the beginning of her operation, she was especially involved in working with the visually impaired, which she found her life's vocation. In 1954–1976 and 1986–1989, she was a teacher at the Hospital and School for the Visually Impaired in Laski near Warsaw. In 1974–1979, she worked at a vocational centre. During the martial law in Poland (1981–1983) Sister Rafaela was involved in the work of the Primate's Committee for Aiding Prisoners and their Families.
Sister Rafaela began her preparations to begin missionary activity in the late 1960s, and had not received a formal permit from the superiors until 1981. Due to the introduction of the martial law, she had, however, not left Poland until 1989, when she left for India, and opened there the first mission of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters Servants of the Cross. During her seven years' stay in India, Sister Rafaela established a centre for the visually impaired children: initially an orphanage, later expanded into a primary school with a dormitory. The pupils of the school recruit from poor families living in nearby villages and slum areas, mostly Hindu, with Muslims and Christians being minorities. Children are admitted to school irrespectively of their denomination. The school continues to develop, and in its operation falls back on local staff.
In 2002, after a few years' stay in Poland, Sister Rafaela embarked on another missionary trip. This time, the destination was the Republic of South Africa, where she worked at the Siloe School for the Blind. Founded by a Belgian congregation, the centre sought a leader to continue its operation. A task embarked on by the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters Servants of the Cross, who entrusted Sister Rafaela with the management of the centre.
In 2006, Sister Rafaela went on a trip to Rwanda, which resulted in the decision to initiate efforts aimed at opening of a centre for the visually impaired children in the country. Thanks to the great involvement of the sister, and the support of the government of the Republic of Poland, and institutions and individuals from Poland and abroad, the first Educational Centre for the Visually Compared in Rwanda was instituted in Kibeho. The first group of the visually impaired was admitted in 2008, yet the centre had not been officially opened until 2009. Currently, it provides education for over 90 children of various religions and denominations. Sister Rafaela is canvassing for the expansion of the centre, which provides those in need not only with education and medical aid, but also opportunity of leading a normal life.
In her activity, Sister Rafaela focuses on aiding the visually impaired hailing from the poorest regions of the world. The three centres founded by the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters to provide education and conducive environment for hundreds of visually impaired children, teach not only self-sufficiency, independence, and coping with the daily routines of life, but show also how to regain self-confidence. Most of the students come from the very poor families that were incapable of providing children with appropriate level of care, while some children were rejected by their families due to their disability. Now they can regain faith in their own humanity in the centres for the visually impaired.
The activity of Sister Rafaela was recognised by the President of the Republic of Poland Bronisław Komorowski, who decorated her with the Officer Cross of the Order of Poland Reborn (Polonia Restituta) for eminent achievements in missionary work and involvement in the organisation of aid for children of Africa in 2011. Moreover, for her achievements Urszula Nałęcz was decorated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the Bene Merito Honorary Award (2009). She is also a recipient of the PONTIFICI – Builder of the Bridges, awarded by the Club of Catholic Intelligentsia (KIK) in Warsaw for "merits in spreading the appreciation of common good, dialogue, and devotion to the neighbour".
People in Need (PIN) is the oldest non-governmental organisation in the Czech Republic, and one of the largest in Central Europe. For 20 years, it has cared for the protection of human rights and carrying humanitarian aid in the most sensitive regions of the world. It was established in 1992 as an initiative of war correspondents and rapporteurs of international events. Soon after its establishment, the organisation expanded its operation to become in this way a professional humanitarian organisation. Today it carries out tasks in the area of humanitarian aid, joint development work, promotion of human rights, civic integration, and educational and outreach activities.
The organisation becomes involved in providing immediate relief in the context of natural disasters and armed conflicts. At the same time, it delivers long-term assistance to people living in the poorest regions of the world. It conducts developmental programmes in Africa, Asia, and Europe that aim at increasing access to education, healthcare and potable water, improvement of the hygienic conditions, and independence from external assistance. The organisation becomes also involved in humanitarian aid in the territory of the Czech Republic and the neighbouring countries of the region in case of emergencies resulting from natural disasters including e.g. floods. During the 20 years, representatives of PIN provided assistance and relief in more than 40 countries of the world, working both at a time of peace and during wars, supporting those in need, and protecting their rights and personal dignity.
The organisation based its operation on the support of the idea of civil society, especially in countries undergoing system transformation and repressing their citizens. People in Need organises long-term programmes in support of human rights and aiding dissidents, which are currently conducted in Cuba, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Burma, and Moldova.
Moreover, People in Need further also the increase of social integration and improvement of the situation of the poorest. Collaborating with local and regional authorities and non-governmental organisations, the organisation provides consulting and organises education and training for families in danger of exclusion. In this way they support communities in Czech and Slovak republics.
An exceptionally important element of operation of PIN is education and information provided to the Czech people and concerning human rights, the problem of poverty, migration, tolerance, and xenophobia in contemporary world. The organisation conducts outreach and educational programmes adjusted to various groups of recipients, including students in higher education, academic teachers, and school youth. Moreover, they develop information programmes (e.g. Rozvojovka, stop child labour and Migrations), which are aired by local media.
People in Need is also the organiser of the international annual One World festival of documentary films devoted to the subject of human rights. Presented during the festival is the Homo Homini award for people who have significantly contributed to development of democracy in the world, and to individuals especially merited in furthering human rights. This year marks the 20th anniversary of establishing People in Need.
A citizen of the United States, Arnold Wellman for many years held the post of Vice President for Corporate and Public Relations at American UPS (United Parcel Service) Corporation. Currently, he is a member of the boards of US Council for International Business, US ASEAN Business Council, the American Trucking Association, the National Center for APEC, and the National Bureau of Asian Research.


DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Feb. 19, 2006) -- Bill Elliott, driving in his first Daytona 500 since 2003, finished 19th Sunday in NASCAR's Super Bowl race at Daytona International Speedway.
Driving the No. 36 Ginn Clubs & Resorts Chevrolet for MB2 Motorsports, Elliott managed to avoid the numerous wrecks during the 200-lap race, but was unable to get to the front due to a tight-handling racecar.
"This was our first race together and everyone did a great job," offered Elliott, a two-time Daytona 500 winner. "We were hoping for a better finish, but we had a tight car and just couldn't free it up. It was tough out there today. A lot of crazy things happen on this track and I was happy that we didn't wreck any equipment."
Elliott started the 500-mile event from the 33rd position and was never able to mount a charge. But by using his savvy driving skills and staying clear of late-race accidents, he managed to gain in track position to finish 19th in his 26th career Daytona 500.
"We knew we had a handling issue, but we stayed patient," said Elliott. "The guys kept on making adjustments and we were able to come away with a decent finish and our racecar in one piece. I had a great time with the MB2 team and all of the folks at Ginn Clubs & Resorts."


Two months ago, OPEC took the market by surprise by saying that it 'agreed to agree' on a deal to cut production to between 32.5 and 33.0 million bpd in a bid to reduce oversupply and lift oil prices. Two months later, exactly to the date, the cartel has not yet reached any agreement on the specifics of a possible deal. A marathon meeting of OPEC experts on Monday failed to reach an agreement for OPEC ministers to discuss on Wednesday.
For two months OPEC officials and non-OPEC producers such as Russia have been vague on details and grand on hollow comments, hints, suggestions, and optimism that a deal will be reached.
Analysts are a bit more optimistic now than they were in late September. However, it seems that the rift between OPEC's biggest three - Saudi Arabia on the one hand, and Iran and Iraq on the other hand - is just as wide as it was two months ago.
The chances of OPEC ministers reaching a deal on Wednesday are still pretty much 50/50, Amrita Sen, chief oil analyst at Energy Aspects, said in an interview with Bloomberg on Monday. Should a deal fail, however, the oil market will see a "sharp correction" and oil prices may plunge to US$20, Sen noted. A no-deal would be met with a very negative perception by the market, and the impression OPEC would be leaving is that this is the end of the cartel, the analyst said.
Essentially, all want to cut but there are no details, the analyst went on to comment on OPEC's bumpy road to the Vienna meeting.
The Saudis would like to see oil at US$60, but this time around, they seem firm in their stance that they won't do all the cutting, as they have traditionally done, and as Iran and Iraq are probably expecting them to do again. Saudi Arabia needs higher oil prices to shore up the budget gap that has opened with the oil price crash. Iran and Iraq are digging in their heels and are pleading exemptions, hoping to put the Saudis in a corner and expecting them to do the cuts, again.
The Saudis, on the other hand, are not having their bitter regional rival Iran staying exempt from OPEC actions and reaching pre-sanction levels.
According to a ZeroHedge tweet from Monday, the Saudis have reportedly offered Iran to freeze at 3.7 million bpd, below Tehran's ask of 3.97 million bpd.
The internal OPEC discord is not that there isn't lack of will, or lack of logic, it's about the "political baggage of those countries", according to Energy Aspects' analyst Sen.
Saudi Arabia, which has been trying to get all OPEC members on board on a collective action, changed the rhetoric two days ago, with its oil minister Khalid al-Falih saying that OPEC does not actually need to cut production to rebalance the markets.
The Saudis, however, need higher oil prices, with their budget revenues shrinking due to lower prices. The question is: will they be able to overcome regional and political differences in the name of the higher oil price? Will an OPEC-only cut (if member countries agree to and stick to it, that is) help rebalance the oil market? Will the cartel need a little helping hand from Russia, for example, to tip the supply-demand fundamentals? Will Russia go beyond just 'joining efforts' to reduce supply only after it sees a real OPEC deal?
The bad news is that there are too many conundrums left to solve less than 24 hours before Wednesday's meeting. The good news is that we'll only have to wait for one day - not two months - to see if OPEC can get things done this time around.
The deal is already done. They are just messing with our heads! Go Loooonnnngg!
Will the price of oil fall if there is no agreement? Yes, most likely. Will it fall to $20 as suggested in the article above? Of course not. The demand/supply picture is very different now from the beginning of 2016 and the price is unlikely to fall much below $40 before recovering again in the coming months.
History should show us that the Saudis are more than willing to flood the market if other players don't want to cooperate. They also have the cash to hand to wait out low oil prices for another 4-5years, which is far longer than many countries can last.
Cartels are an act of war. Trump can use the US Navy to good effect and burn a few of them and take all of their oil forever. Governments should stay out of commodity trading and suffer the consequences for manipulation. Governments should stay out of the oil business completely if they want to know what's good for them.


After leaving shoppers spellbound with its Gold Christmas tree and mesmerizing football fans with the solid gold left foot of football ace Messi, Japanese jeweler Ginza Tanaka is now set to woo Star Wars fans with a solid gold Darth Vader mask. Displayed at the yearly Disney Expo in Tokyo, the mask of the most iconic villain of all times is sure to turn heads. Unfortunately for deep pocketed collectors the mask is not for sale, but considering Japan's love for Star Wars we can expect to see more of such fancy creations in the future.
READ: Would you shell out $70,000 for these gold plated golf clubs?


Hiding in My Craft Room: HIMCR #162 Winner!
Well, by now you all know that I took my son to college last week!
This is right before taking the little kids to school the morning before we headed out! The sun was in everyone's eyes!
My baby's in the purple!
All the new fresmen got a drawstring BYU backpack!
He's in the bottom right!
Can't see him? I don't know why not? LOL!
He took all his instruments!
I miss the sound of music in my home!
That was the last one! I promise!
I can't believe how grown up he is and how super fast the time went by!
Okay, enough pictures and me reminiscing, now on with this week's winner!
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Great photos. Reminds me of when my daughter first went off to college. Now she has graduated from college.
Great pics of your kids.. they look cute all ready for school... Hope your son has a great time in College!!!
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In Ron we trust
Updated on: 26 November,2022 08:36 AM IST | Mumbai
Ashwin Ferro | ashwin.ferro@mid-day.com
Goal-scorers Felix and Leao hail Cristiano Ronaldo despite his lacklustre show in Portugal's 3-2 win over Ghana
Cristiano Ronaldo. Pic/Getty Images
When a superstar player heads into the twilight of his career, it's very important for his teammates to rally around him and even step in to perform, in case he fails, with the common goal of winning the ultimate prize. It happened in the case of Sachin Tendulkar and Team India at the 2011 ICC World Cup and it seems to be happening to Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal at this ongoing FIFA World Cup here.
Skipper Cristiano Ronaldo during Portugal's match against Ghana on Thursday. Pic/Getty Images
Interestingly, Sachin Tendulkar was 37 then, the same age as Cristiano Ronaldo now. Tendulkar had a talented bunch of younger players around him, just like Ronaldo has currently and which is why it didn't really matter that he kicked off his World Cup here against Ghana on Thursday night in lackluster fashion. Tendulkar continued to be supported and praised by his players throughout the tournament, and Ronaldo's colleagues are doing the same.
Also Read: Cristiano Ronaldo to leave Manchester United "with immediate effect"
A dream-come-true moment
Moments after Portugal's 3-2 win over a gritty Ghana at Stadium 974, Ronaldo's striker partner Joao Felix, 23, said he was grateful for being able to simply share a dressing room with the six-time Ballon d'Or winner. "It's a dream-come-true to just be able to play with Cristiano. We [players of the Portugal team] have been watching him since we were kids and always dreamed of playing with him. And to represent the national team at the World Cup with him is the most special thing for us. He is our hero," said Felix, who doubled Portugal's lead from close range (78th minute) after Ronaldo scored following a questionable penalty (65th min) when he went down after coming in close contact with Ghana's Mohammed Salisu. This is not the first time Felix has hailed his senior strike partner. Two month before the World Cup, when asked about Ronaldo's behaviour with fellow players, Felix had said: "Cristiano always greets all the players. He is always willing to offer tips and help players with whatever they need not only on the pitch but also off it. He is a role model to all of us in the national team and always gives us good advice and we like to listen."
Joao Felix and Rafael Leao
'I gave him a very special hug'
Substitute forward Rafael Leao, 23, who scored the third goal for Portugal (80th min), also spoke of his love for Ronaldo. "I gave him a very special hug [after Ronaldo scored off the penalty spot]. It was the warmest hug. It's a bonding thing that we share," he said. Portugal coach Fernando Santos also hailed his star skipper. "He is one of the best players in the world and one of the finest goal scorers of all time. Fifty years from now, we will still be talking about him just like we do about Pele and Maradona," Santos said at the post-match presser.
Ronaldo began the night with a poor first touch even as the 42,663-strong crowd yelled in anticipation. He continued to be unimpressive and did not just fail while trying to dodge a few Ghana players now and then with his trademark stepovers, but also saw his passes easily intercepted by the opposition. His fear, however, among the Ghana defenders was constant, with deep defenders Daniel Amartey and Alexander Djiku constantly reminding each other of his presence inside the box during Portugal's corners.
Also Read: Neymar's ankle wrangle!
Finally, to sum up a none-too-impressive night, Ronaldo even missed a one-on-one against Ghana custodian Lawrence Ati-Zigi. The athletic forward tried to chip the ball over an onrushing Ati-Zigi, but failed to get enough elevation on the ball and it was palmed away followed by a collective "ooooooh" from the crowd. Despite everything, however, the talking point among Ronaldo fans is the new record he set on the night, becoming the first player in history to score in his fifth consecutive World Cup.
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But that was about all you could do with the last version–the basics. Below is a list of the major changes incorporated in this version.
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Customize Questionnaire You may start with the identical Question Sets (Q-Sets) that were in Version 2.0. At any time, however, you may remove Q-Sets you don't need, or choose new Q-Sets from the growing list of available ones to construct the Questionnaire you wish to use.
Edit questions If you wish to fine tune the wording of a question for your situation, or even completely change the question's direction, it is easy to edit specific questions.
Instructor Feedback Questions Version 2.0 had Peer and Team categories of questions (Peer questions request responses for each individual team member; Team questions address the entire team.) A third category is now available. The "Other" questions only share responses with the instructor. These can be used for instructor or course feedback, for confidential response questions, or even for quizzes and tests.
Customize and personalize emails The emails are personalized by inserting mail merge data ( eg. name, due date, link) into the messages. A full set of default email messages are provided that should work as-is in most situations. But you are also able to easily customize the email messages.
Flex-Teaming If you keep teams together across the term, the system will default to keeping students in the same teams from assessment to assessment. However, between assessments you may also need re-organize team members for minor team adjustments, or for completely new team assignments. Likewise, individuals can be removed from all teams during an assessment, and hence will not participate in that assessment.
Extend Assessment Sometimes students are slow to complete an assessment. You are able to easily extend the assessment period, adding a reminder notification.
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Grade Report The new Grade Report is a grading spreadsheet with key grading data and calculations filled in for you to apply your own final grading scheme.
Hold and Review Usually you will prefer to just automatically distribute student reports upon the assessment end date. However, "Hold and Review" will let you delay distribution in order to review student comments first. If you find inappropriate comments, you may edit them out of the feedback before distributing to students.


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NEWS: Sciver, du Preez & Nielsen To Star For The Stars
The Melbourne Stars WBBL team have announced a star-studded trio of overseas recruits – England all-rounder Nat Sciver, South African captain Mignon du Preez and New Zealand spinner Morna Nielsen.
Nat Sciver, who had a very good international summer winning two Man of the Match awards in the Women's Ashes, was a surprise omission from the original list of England players set to play in WBBL. Back in September CRICKETher revealed that she was still keen to join the party over in Oz, and her signing is also a big boost for England in terms of getting her match-fit and cauldron-tested for the World T20 in India early next year.
Mignon du Preez is the 26-year-old skipper who is leading South Africa into the professional era from the front, with over 2500 international runs to her name, including a century in her first (and only) Test against India last year.
Morna Nielsen is a left-arm orthodox spinner, who made her international debut in 2010 and has taken over 70 international wickets, with best figures of 4-10 against England in 2012.
The three will compete for Melbourne Stars alongside Emma Inglis, Anna Lanning… and of course The Megastar herself – Meg Lanning, leading what is now looking like a very strong line-up which could go all the way to January's final.
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Great news – and I agree that Melbourne stars look to have one of the stronger lineups…some crossover with Victoria in WNCL, and they are top.


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Apple Inc. plans to build a $1 billion office campus in North Austin and construction is expected to take until 2021. The new campus will be less than a mile from the existing one and will be spread across 133 acres. The current Apple campus located off of West Parmer Lane and Riata Vista Circle employs approximately 6,200 people.
Apple's expansion is expected to make Apple the city's largest employer which means an additional 5,000 to 15,000 Apple employees will be looking for housing in the coming years. Jobs at the new campus will include engineering, research and development, operations, finance, sales and customer support.
The Affect:
Many believe the expansion will have a positive impact on the Northwest Austin housing market. The area and neighborhoods that most likely will experience the 'Apple Affect' will be along the Parmer Lane corridor into Cedar Park, Leander, Round Rock, Pflugerville, Georgetown and Hutto.
It is likely prices will increase but like anything else, the best way to prevent home prices from skyrocketing is to increase supply. With new development, new construction and some redevelopment, the city will keep up with the population boom.
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With the new campus located near the intersection of Parmer Lane and McNeil Road, neighborhoods and developments will be directly affected by the campus that is projected to employ about 15,000 people. There will be a ripple affect starting with the neighborhoods located closest to the new campus and will continue out to areas including those along Parmer Lane like Davis Springs, Avery Ranch and Ranch at Brushy Creek to name a few. Also, Cedar Park/Leander, Liberty Hill, Round Rock West and East will likely see property appreciation rise as more and more transferees look for homes within a reasonable distance to reduce commute time as much as possible.
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A common purpose: Go, get it!
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Two thoughts that speak different words yet convey the same idea: Keep Going. Look out for the good. Let disappointments prove to be a hurdle to jump over, a mere road bump, not a roadblock! Pick up the shiny pearls that reveal themselves when you unlock the oyster. Lift the veil of disappointment, to see the beauty and promise of brightness and glorious sunshine that awaits. Your goal is positioned beyond what you see! What are you waiting for? Go, get it!
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Brandon Hudgins Looks Ahead to New Season of Competitive Racing
Three years ago, professional runner, Brandon Hudgins, beat the challenges from his granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA, formerly Wegener's) to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Trials in the 1500-meter run.
Although he didn't make the Olympic team, Brandon hasn't lost his determination to race competitively and is keeping a hopeful eye on the 2020 Olympic Games.
In this exclusive interview with the Vasculitis Foundation (VF), Brandon talks about some serious health setbacks, and why he's optimistic about his goals this year.
VF: Talk about the past few years and how you've overcome some serious health setbacks due to your vasculitis.
BH: For those that aren't aware, I suffered a severe relapse in 2017 that nearly cost me my kidneys. It was by far my worst year of health since my initial diagnosis in 2008. After two rounds of four rituximab infusions in 2017, my disease activity seems to be calming down.
VF: How would you summarize last year, in terms of training?
BH: In 2018, my body never seemed to soak up the training, no matter how hard I trained. I was running times 10 to 15 to 20 seconds slower than my best marks. Now that might not seem like a lot to the average runner, but often the gap between first place and 12th place in professional races is only 4 or 5 seconds. I received the last of my four scheduled infusions in October (now only down to one each time instead of four thankfully) and have set my sights on 2019! While 2018 brought a lot of disappointing results, I continued to keep putting myself out there and competing without fear. I can hold my head high and look towards the future.
VF: What's ahead for this year?
BH: For 2019, the main goal is to get healthy, and do the training we know is required for me to be in the shape I need to be to race at the professional level. Ultimately, this year is about getting in as much work as possible and finding a few opportunities to race at a high level again.
VF: What about the next Olympics? Is that something on your radar?
BH: With the Olympic Trials and Olympic Games on tap for 2020, I have to make sure that everything we do this year is in preparation for next year. We can't cut any corners this year that will affect us down the road. By late April or May, I should have some concrete race plans for June and July. If things continue to progress at the level I'm currently training, I could see another trip under 4 minutes in the mile this summer!
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A two-player animatronic diorama game contained entirely inside of a briefcase. Players control a pair of robots who, rather than fighting, dance with and talk to each other, in an exploration of awkwardness, intimacy, and queer relationships.
There weren't really any dressup doll games in existence that helped us feel at home in our bodies, so we made one of our own! Featuring a huge pile of clothes to rummage through (including an octopus costume that I own in real life and a cat who's suspiciously amenable to being worn as clothing) and a MIDI version of "Vogue" by Madonna to strike a pose to. Made for Global Game Jam 2019 with Jess Marcotte.
It's about that time of year when people like to start making year-in-review posts of various kinds, and I have to admit: while I did have a lot going on in 2018, I feel like I have very little to show for it, especially in a game-making sense. So, in the spirit of queer failure, here are some games I started working on in 2018 but didn't get around to finishing.
Yesterday, I learned that the first game studio I ever worked for shut down.
Admittedly, I've been paying little attention to Telltale's output over the last several years. I stopped buying their games around the time their incredibly mediocre Back to the Future adaptation came out, though I did once get to present a trophy to some of my former co-workers when their critically acclaimed zombie game won awards at GDC.
But back in 2006, as a young computer science student with an obsession with a special interest in point-and-click adventure games from the nineties, working for Telltale, the new studio where the people who used to work on adventure games at LucasArts all went, was kind of a dream job. So, I cold-emailed asking for an internship, showing off a game I made for fun back in high school, and they were impressed enough with my enthusiasm that they actually hired me.
You are a trans person hurtling through space in a tiny spaceship and listening to a radio. Follow the trail of broadcasts from T.R.A.N.S. (the Trans Radio Artists' Network in Space) to find them and join them. Made for Global Game Jam 2018 with Jess Marcotte.
You don't really believe it. This has got to be a dream, right? Your game wasn't THAT good, was it? Oh no, your Twitter's blowing up. All your friends are congratulating you. You feel momentarily self-important, but the feeling then gets overshadowed by how guilty you feel for your self-importance.
You struggle to figure out who to invite to your VIP table. You have all these seats to fill, given that tables like these are meant for actual games studios with actual teams. In the end, you put out an open call on social media, so as not to hurt anyone's feelings. The people who take you up on it are grateful, sometimes effusively so. Some of them even bring glowsticks.
You have no idea how long it's been since you last set foot outside your cramped little apartment. You don't really talk to anyone. You can't focus on work. You barely have any appetite to speak of, literally and figuratively. Even casually reading Twitter makes you anxious.
A picture-taking toy where you take snapshots from a bedroom and post pictures to an Instagram clone with randomly selected captions and hashtags. Made for GAMERella 2017 with Jess Marcotte, Serena Fisher, and Diana Lazzaro.
The following is an essay I wrote for a graduate seminar I am currently taking called "Performative Dramaturgies". I thought it would make for an interesting blog post, so I'm reposting it here.
This year is the 375th anniversary of Montreal — the number alone being an indicator of the centring of white European settler-colonialists rather than the First Nations people who lived on this land for considerably longer — and with it comes a great deal of funding for celebratory installations and performances around the city. Among these are guided walking tours taking place in particular neighbourhoods of Montreal, two of which I have experienced for myself. The first, "Paul à Montréal", is set in the Plateau-Mont-Royal, and the second, "Cité Mémoire", is located in Old Montreal.
you used to be someone is a work in progress about my experiences with depression. It entails going for a solitary walk at night in an attempt to alleviate restlessness and agitation, frequenting the kinds of spaces that stay open late: bars, convenience stores, laundromats, fast food restaurants, etc. while at the same time feeling unable to meaningfully interact with others in these spaces.
This game, contrary to my other works, is a first-person 3D game, but one that features a collage art style wherein cut-out pieces of public domain photographs on 2D planes are assembled in 3D space. Combined with the first-person camera, this creates a distorting effect when moving around the space: from certain angles, objects look three-dimensional, but from others, it becomes obvious that they are actually flat. The effect is intended to convey feelings of disorientation and distance, invoking a sense of dreamlike hyperrealism.
Additionally, the use of the first-person camera and controls is a very deliberate choice on my part. As a player, I have found that first-person shooter interfaces in particular are very disorienting — they are likely to make me motion sick, and the frequent experience of looking down and seeing body parts that belong to a white cis man (i.e. what society sees as a "default human") is also very strange to me. However, as the standard first-person game interface is seen as intuitive for players who are accustomed to the control scheme, I find it important to deviate from it somewhat. In you used to be someone, the camera is only controlled by directional input (WASD or arrow keys) whereas "mouselook" is disabled; instead, the mouse behaves as it would in a 2D point-and-click game. I am additionally interested in experimenting with different control peripherals, such as an arcade joystick and trackball, or completely custom controls, in order to fine-tune a balance between slight disorientation vs. complete inaccessibility. My end goal is to create a user interface that is equally unfamiliar to most players, in the sense of not giving seasoned first-person game players an advantage, but one that is at least navigable for those who don't normally play games.
As this is a game based on my lived experience, I would consider it autobiographical, but in a more abstract than representational sense. For instance, the architecture of the cramped apartment and city street in this game are not directly modelled after any actual apartment I have lived in or any street through which I have walked, so much as they are designed to represent my feelings in these kinds of spaces. I have dreams in which I am in familiar spaces but the architecture is very different: there are extra rooms, the layouts are all jumbled, and even the building materials and lighting are different. A major depressive episode, in its own way, can be a state of un-reality with dream-like qualities, in that it is different from one's "normal" state of being.
Finally, I want to stress that you used to be someone is not going to be "a game about depression", but instead a game about how I, personally, experience depression. Unlike works such as Depression Quest, which aim to generalize the experience of clinical depression, I aim to be very specific. I am interested in eventually comparing and contrasting audience reactions to specificity vs. generality in experience when it comes to autobiographical games, but that may be a forthcoming project for when I have a more established data set to draw from.


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Dog the Bounty Hunter Suspects His Store Robbery May Have Been an 'Inside Job'
His late wife Beth Chapman's personal items were among the things stolen.
By Megan Stein
Dog the Bounty Hunter's store was burglarized in August.
The incident reportedly amounted to thousands of dollars of damage.
He's now speaking out about if he'll pursue the suspect himself, and who he thinks may be behind it.
Here's a message to whoever stole from Duane "Dog" Chapman—he's coming for you.
The Dog's Most Wanted star has been pummeled with multiple heartbreaking controversies as of late. He's mourning the loss of his wife, Beth Chapman, who passed away in June. But he's also dealing with several money scams, as well as a burglary that took place at his Colorado store earlier in August.
The thieves stole not only retail products, but personal items that belonged to Beth, as well. Dog was understandably "distraught" by the situation, and recently opened up about the experience to TMZ.
To answer the most common question on any Dog fan's mind: No, Dog will not immediately be getting involved in the investigation, per the chief of police's request.
"[He] made us swear we'd stay out of it," he said. "We're going to stay out of it."
Still, he has his own suspicions about who it may be. In fact, he recently heard that it could be someone he knows.
Examples of popular merchandise at the store, photos of which were captured during a press release about the robbery in August.
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"A psychic called, and said that she was contacted by Beth that said it's an inside job," he explained, adding, "What does that mean? It wasn't one of my kids."
Though he's following the police's suggestions, Dog will take matters into his own hands if, "the warrant goes national."
"When they put him on NCIC, and he becomes a felon wanted," he said. "In the United States of America, you may do a citizen's arrest to any wanted felon. If that happens, he's property of Dog."
You've been warned!
Megan Stein Megan Stein is the executive editor for The Pioneer Woman, and oversees entertainment, features, and news for the website.
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Where To Buy The Disney x Coach Collaboration If You're A Diehard Mickey Mouse Fan — PHOTOS
By Alexa Dragoumis
If you're anything like me, chances are you're a still a child at heart, which means that Coach's new collaboration will make your head spin — in a good way! Diehard Mickey Mouse fans, I'm about to tell you where you can buy the Disney x Coach collaboration before it's too late.
First of all, in case you missed the details, there's a lot to look forward to. According to Refinery29.com, the collaboration features graphic tees, sneakers with Coach's signature redesigned in the shape of Mickey's ears, a studded, leather biker jacket, and oversized Mickey dolls and shearling beanbags. So whether you want to wear it, carry it, or display it in your home, there's an option for everyone.
Click here to shop.
According to a Coach press release, the full collaboration, which is set to globally launch on June 17, will be available on coach.com.
But if you're itching to buy it right now, I have good news! According to the Coach Instagram account, items are available right now in New York City's Soho store. I also gave the store a call to check up on exactly which items are available and they confirmed that you will be able to shop the entire collaboration. Yes — early!
How cute is this handbag?
Need these key chains, stat.
Coach's press release also points out that the collaboration is also available today at Colette, the iconic store on rue St. Honore in Paris.
Here's a preview of a few items on display in the store now:
Josh Silverman, Executive Vice President, Global Licensing, Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media, says, "This collaboration brings together two iconic brands in fresh, yet timeless designs that celebrate the heritage and style of both Mickey and Coach. This incredible collection is sure to delight the fashion world and Disney fans alike."
So get excited, and hop a subway to Soho... if you haven't already!
Images: Courtesy of Coach


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Terry Funk vs. Chris Candido vs. A Horse
Terry Funk Vs. Chris Candido Vs. A Horse - No Really, A Live Horse!
Text by RD Reynolds
I don't know why, but sometimes I still find it hard to believe that WCW has been dead and buried for over sixteen years. Maybe it's because I have fond memories of the promotion, especially the early years of Nitro when the company pushed not only Vince McMahon and the WWF but the entire business to be better than it was. Maybe it's because I was able to parlay its demise into a couple of successful books (which you can buy here and help out this site). Or maybe, and honestly this would be the most likely scenario, it's due to the fact that I can still dig into the archives and unearth more crap to induct even after doing that for over a decade and a half.
God bless you Thunder. You will always be my favorite wrestling show of all time for this very reason. You were the dirt worst of the dirt worst, with horrible angles and characters that showed up and disappeared on a regular basis, all wrapped up in delightful production gaffes that were never bothered to be corrected. Y'all can bellyache and whine about wanting more episodes of whatever on the WWE Network, but the fact that there are zero episodes of Thunder is perhaps the greatest crime Vince McMahon has ever perpetrated.
I mean, c'mon – you're not going to be getting the entirety of this classic we're inducting tonight in 1080p off the Roku while sitting on your rump eating Cheetohs on the couch. That's just wrong.
The match in question would be a legendary encounter between Terry Funk and Chris Candido. Funk was by this stage of his career more or less an elder statesman, doing everything he could to elevate the talent around him. Candido…man, Chris Candido was one of those guys I always thought would wind up bigger than he was. He was very technically sound, and could cut a pretty good promo.
At times, I've often looked at him and wondered if perhaps the original gimmick he was saddled when he first hit the WWF was his undoing, as it was seemingly designed to focus more on his girlfriend, Tammy "Sunny" Sytch, than himself.
Also didn't help that his first high profile feud was with a guy who was designed from the ground up to be a first class nerd, complete with pocket protector. Yeessh.
Anyway, at this point the two men were feuding over the coveted WCW Hardcore Title. What a 1990's product that was, those hardcore matches. The theory was that guys hitting each other over the heads with cookie sheets and garbage cans was cool, what made ECW so popular, and thus every wrestling show on planet earth featured them. So it should come as no surprise that both the WWF and WCW had entire divisions booked around a junky looking belt as its grand prize.
For this encounter, Candido was promising to put Funk out of his misery once and for all, going so far as to dress just like him. While part of me thinks, "I bet he and Terry are roughly the same size, so he just borrowed those trunks from him", another, more logical portion of my brain is saying, "No no, this is WCW, so they probably had those custom made just for tonight, likely by a former WWF seamstress they had under a $500K annual salary for whatever reason."
Candido would proceed to explain that Funk was just like an old horse, and when they outlived their usefulness, you took them out back and put a slug in their noggin. As much as I hate to say this, that's foreshadowing, kids!
Funk of course answers the challenge, meeting Candido on the ramp and hitting him with about a half dozen chair shots to the head. It doesn't take long for the action to spill backstage as the announce team attempts to explain what may be happening back there.
Or in the case of Tony Schiavone, just kinda shrugs and gives up. Then he identifies himself as Mike instead of Tony. You want to know a man who has mentally checked out of a job? It would be the guy in the middle right there. And he's admitted that on more than one occasion. Can you blame him really?
I mean seriously, what do you expect him to say as these two go behind the curtain and start waffling each other with plastic totes? Is he supposed to imagine he's back calling Flair-Steamboat matches?
Through the backstage area they go, with Funk clocking Candido with another chair, and tossing him into the back of a flatbed truck. Funk then hurries to jump in the driver seat and attempts to start the vehicle and take off.
This being WCW, the truck does not immediately start, so the ref has to stand there with his arms out, looking like a complete moron.
Finally, the truck does turn over and the ref takes off running after it. Dude, it was sitting right in front of you. You knew what Funk was attempting to do. Why didn't you just hop in the back?
Somewhere, Tommy Young is shaking his head at your incompetence.
Man I miss Tommy Young. He was great. In fact, I miss referees having names. What's the deal with that, Vince?
After Tony tells us WCW is attempting to dispatch a camera to follow the action, we immediately get a shot of the truck zipping about a mile out in front of the Idaho Center. For all I've bagged on the company for being incompetent, major kudos to them for having the foresight to have a camera positioned there, just in case something like this may happen right at this very location.
Funk stops the truck in what appears to be the stables of the fairgrounds, a move that makes Candido so thrilled he throw a trashcan into his opponent's skull. As the pair move ever closer to the corrals, a horse looks on in abject boredom. Right there with you, kid!
Wait, no, that's a goat. Sorry.
Out in the stables for no good reason is a table. Even Tony calls out the idiocy here, asking, "Of course, why wouldn't there be a WCW table in the stable?" This causes Tenay to utter, "A table in the stable?!" Man these poor guys were doing everything they possibly could to entertain themselves.
After throwing Funk headfirst into the table, he proceeds to throw him headfirst into a big trough of water, until finally…
…throwing him headfirst into a bunch of manure.
"Great," Tony muses, "now he'll be able to grow tomatoes in his beard."
All of this leads up to perhaps the most idiotic idea ever conceived in wrestling (and consider the ground that covers), as Candido unlocks the stable door and the pair continue wrestling inside.
Now keep in mind, this isn't some prop animal. It's a real, live probably 400 pound horse.
And it's not tied down or anything!
And it goes just as well you'd imagine, with the horse kicking at Funk, plowing right into his arm. That was bad enough, but seriously, had that thing gone like 10″ higher he could have legit decapitated Terry.
I know I've completely overused this phrase on the site in the past 17 years, but WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA????!!!!
Still, it did lead to a classic moment in which Funk cuts a promo as he told the horse he was going to kick his @$$.
This being WCW, it all got bleeped. Sigh.
Eventually, the two get out of that mess and Candido climbs the stable.
For what reason, I have zero idea.
And it ends basically just like you'd expect, with Funk yanking him down through the table.
Sorry, I mean the WCW table.
At this point, the referee has shown back up, just in time for Funk to get the pin.
Instead, he hits him over the head with a trash can.
Don't ask, I don't know.
I do know that The Brain comes up with the best idea – have the horse make the count.
Sadly, that does not happen as Funk grabs a bucket of water and throws it on the poor guy to revive him, which finally, mercifully…
…gets a three count to successfully retain his prized championship.
Man, I feel like I could keep talking about this for an hour. Lucky for you, I did just that! Here I am on Wrestling with the Dawg, discussing this match and a whole lot more. Check it out by clicking rightchere!
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Esi Edugyen Wins Second Giller Prize in Another Powerhouse Year for the Canadian Author
Giller Prize
Jack Rabinovitch
Last night in Toronto, Esi Edugyan won her second Scotiabank Giller Prize for her acclaimed novel Washington Black (Patrick Crean Editions). It is her third novel, following her first, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, published as part of Random House Canada's New Face of Fiction Program, and her second, her 2011 Giller Prize winner Half-Blood Blues, which was also shorted for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Orange Prize for Fiction.
It's an astonishing achievement for an author to win two Giller Prizes in her career, but for two novels in a row (Edugyan also published a non-fiction title, Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home, in 2014) is downright sensational. Washington Black has been making big waves since it was published - it also landed nominated for the Man Booker Prize, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Suffice to say, it's been a very good year for Edugyan, and last night's win more than cemented her at the pinnacle of CanLit achievement.
The announcement came at a gala dinner hosted by Canadian comedian, television personality and author Rick Mercer and attended by nearly 500 members of the publishing, media and arts communities. The evening also marked the 25th anniversary of the venerable prize, which was founded by Jack Rabinovitch, who passed away in August 2017. The Scotiabank Giller prize comes with a $100,000 prize purse.
The full 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist included:
Patrick deWitt for his novel French Exit, published by House of Anansi Press
Eric Dupont for his novel Songs for the Cold of Heart, translated by Peter McCambridge, published by QC Fiction
Esi Edugyan for her novel Washington Black, published by Patrick Crean Editions
Sheila Heti for her novel Motherhood, published by Knopf Canada
Thea Lim for her novel An Ocean of Minutes, published by Viking Canada
Canadian writers Kamal Al-Solaylee (Jury Chair), Maxine Bailey and Heather O'Neill, together with American writer John Freeman and English novelist Philip Hensher selected the longlist, shortlist, and winner.
Of Washington Black, they wrote: "How often history asks us to underestimate those trapped there. This remarkable novel imagines what happens when a black man escapes history's inevitable clasp – in his case, in a hot air balloon no less. Washington Black, the hero of Esi Edugyan's novel is born in the 1800s in Barbados with a quick mind, a curious eye, and a yearning for adventure. In conjuring Black's vivid and complex world – as cruel empires begin to crumble and the frontiers of science open like astounding vistas – Edugyan has written a supremely engrossing novel about friendship and love and the way identity is sometimes a far more vital act of imagination than the age in which one lives."
Congratulations to Esi Edugyan, all the nominated authors, and the publishers!
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Alleged killer of Mississauga teen Jack Meldrum held in custody
By Wendy Gillis Crime Reporter
Tues., Aug. 21, 2018
Visibly injured, a bandage wrapped around his hand, the 15-year-old boy accused in the weekend killing of another teen appeared briefly in a Toronto courtroom Tuesday.
The boy, who cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, is charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Jack Meldrum, 15, on Saturday near Sherway Gardens mall.
Jack Meldrum, 15, was stabbed to death near Sherway Gardens mall on Saturday. (Toronto Police Services)
Wearing a hooded black Nike sweatshirt, the boy appeared to have difficulty moving within a glass prisoner's box when briefly brought into the court. He was remanded in custody pending a bail hearing.
His lawyer, George Aristos, said his client's back was injured and he was hospitalized after the weekend incident.
At the time of Saturday's alleged murder, the accused was out on bail after he was charged in an April incident where it was alleged he attempted to steal from another youth while armed with a knife. He was released on $500 bail.
The boy's father was in court Tuesday but left without speaking to reporters.
Police have said they were summoned to Sherway Gardens Rd., near The Queensway and The West Mall, just before 10 p.m. on Saturday by a report of a stabbing. Officers on scene found a man and two boys suffering from trauma, and all were taken to hospital.
According to a Facebook post by Steve Meldrum, his son Jack was "robbed and killed ... in a senseless act of violence near Sherway Gardens."
Americo Eduardo Quiroz told the Star his nephew, Kristopher Quiroz, 19, was injured in the incident. In a Facebook post, Quiroz said his nephew was pronounced dead and revived minutes later, and as of Monday night was in intensive care.
Investigators are appealing to anyone who may have seen Meldrum or who has information about his whereabouts on Saturday to call police at 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).
The accused boy is scheduled to appear back in court next month.
With Star files
Wendy Gillis is a Toronto-based reporter covering crime and policing. Reach her by email at wgillis@thestar.ca or follow her on Twitter: @wendygillis
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Peanuts are light and are a good source of protein to nibble as you walk.
Please leave only your footsteps along the trail, NOT your wrappers & containers.
It is important that the food you select is quick & easy to prepare, yet nutritious. Since you probably don't want to carry a fridge on your back, it needs to be lightweight, nonperishable and non-bulky.
However, you don't need to be limited to peanuts & pasta!
You can still enjoy cooked food that at least resembles home cooking.
We will provide a wide range of interesting recipes for your edification and your delight that won't break your back, spoil or force you to use a giant's backpack.
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Q: Restrict "Look Up" feature to dictionary alone in High Sierra In previous versions of macOS, there was an option to show the dictionary definition of a word by tapping it with three fingers. In High Sierra this was replaced with the Look Up feature, which pulls suggestions from sources outside of the local dictionary, opens mini windows when used on links, etc.
Is there any way to restrict this to showing dictionary definitions alone?

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First vice chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Bono region has berated the economic prowess of Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolgatanga Central, Mr Isaac Adongo.
Mr Adongo, while delivering the true state of the economy at a forum organised by the 'Coalition for Restoration' on the theme: 'The State of Ghanaian economy: Myth sand Truth,' criticised the government for borrowing carelessly.
"In 2018 we went to borrow $750 million and only $119 million was spent on capital expenditure and 631 million dollars on consumption. Our children will have to pay for this and they have nothing to show for it," he noted.
Reacting to Mr Adongo, Mr Baffoe on Accra-based Oman FM monitored by Adomonline said the supposed economic guru offered no solution to resuscitate the supposed ailing economy under the NPP.
Rather, he claimed Mr Adongo was just throwing invectives at Dr Bawumia for exposing the NDC's incompetence while in power.
"Adongo's economic analysis is only fit for selling dog meat at Bolgatanga market. I will beat him in any debate," the NPP man stressed.
Mr Baffoe said by the conduct of Mr Adongo, it is obvious the NDC lacks the men to manage Ghana's economy should they win power.