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- Greenwich Pathway: Central Cluster
Depaul helps people who are homeless, vulnerable and disadvantaged.
Greenwich Pathway: Central Cluster
|Who we help
|London, Royal Borough of Greenwich
|Homeless young people between the ages of 16-25.
|How we help
|How to volunteer or get involved
|Providing housing and support to move towards independent living.
|To get involved, check out the volunteer pages or help us support young people by donating.
|Contact details
|About us
|We can be contacted on: 0203-728-1150/51 24 hours a day seven days a week.
|Temporary housing, long-term support, practical day-to-day support, referral to partner agencies.
Greenwich Central Cluster comprises of 28 bed spaces, a mixture of self-contained flats and rooms.
We work together with the Royal Borough of Greenwich, helping young people who are referred to us by the Local Authority. Our primary objective is to provide temporary housing for young people aged 16 to 25 who have become homeless. The young people we work with can become homeless for many reasons, including family or relationship breakdown, leaving care, leaving a young offenders institution or prison, having been a victim of domestic abuse and many others.
We support young people in our project to help them into employment, education or training, assisting with things like benefit applications, GP and dentist registration and other life-skills. We may also make referrals to specialist agencies to help young people manage issues around drug and alcohol abuse, domestic abuse, anger management, gang affilation and others.
Our aim is to help young people develop their life skills and move through the Pathway, making sure that they are ready and able to move on to long-term, permanent accommodation and live independently.


text: Ok Well HAPPY NEW YEAR, and I Got some Good News!! Yesterday I Saw... Maze Runner: The Death Cure, FINALLY OUT, AND FINALLY SAW IT and... MY DOOMSDAY THOUGHTS DID NOT COME TRUE!!!!!!!! This Film IS AWESOME!!! Pretty much 75% of the Film has Taken On the Action Film, it's pretty much a Full Fletched Action Film now. It was GREAT! A-

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Delicious food is like heaven in your mouth. And to reach it you just have to come to our top floor where you'll find Suba, our Restaurant.
Feel very welcomed here, our table is always ready to surprise your senses with some exquisite recipes, new creations or the best of these two worlds. Also at lunchtime, our team prepares tasty Portuguese Cuisine with a contemporary twist made from fresh and local ingredients. Because we like to please more than just your palate, all is served with a wonderful view over the Tagus River. As you can see, heaven is really all around you.
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When you have one of the best views of Lisbon it's a privilege, but a great dilemma will arrive sooner or later: staring at the hills, the river and the city or gazing at the dishes conceived by our team? Don't worry, at Suba we advice you not to choose, just let those two pleasures complement each other.
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Don't lose this opportunity! Come and visit us!
To go up, we have a minimum deductible consumption of 10€ per person paid in the Front Office
Our rooftop bar is open everyday from 12:00 until 00:00.
Feel at home with our tailor made breakfast experience! Besides the buffet facilities, the chef is available for a la minute orders with your preferred morning treats! Breakfast is served everyday until noon and may be shared on a community table, or by the pool.
Besides breakfast, our Winter Garden offers light snacks and beverages throughout the day.
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In my previous post I spoke about how to make curl fields to quickly approximate the effects one would see during a fluid sim. The effect works good enough if you're only looking to sim around a second or so into the future, but it quickly breaks down after that. In order to create something a bit more realistic, we have to take two important properties of a fluid sim into account: Viscosity and Diffusion.
Viscosity is actually really simple. You just have to blur the vector field that you're warping your image by. In our case, it's the curl field that we learned how to generate in the Curl Fields post. Diffusion is also a blur, but it's applied to the areas of the warped texture based on the intensity of the vector field we're using to warp the image. To achieve a good result, we run about 6 iterations, blurring the textures every step. The strength of the blur that is applied to the vector field is the Viscosity value, and it is multiplied by the "Warp" strength. Diffusion is the strength of the blur that is applied to the image we're warping, which is also applied every step. In the GIF below, you can see how the portions of the texture that are being warped gets blurred out a bit - this is the Diffusion in practice. Later in the GIF you'll see the curls and warping "relax" a bit - this is the effect of viscosity.
Below is a break down of the node, which you can now download for free on substance share.
So yeah this node is cool for generating some organic swirly things which is just another tool in the tool belt. Enjoy a couple quick examples below.
Thanks for reading, and Happy Holidays!


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Now that RANGER is on pre-sale (check it out here) we took five minutes to quiz bestselling author Chris Allen on how he likes the high-octane cover design.
Do you like the cover design for RANGER?
I absolutely love the cover for my latest Alex Morgan adventure, right down to the vibrant, jungle green of the new title.Read More


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Word of the Year 2012
UK Word of the Year
A common misconception about the work of a lexicographer is that we sit around in the manner of a cabal each week and argue about what words to include or reject. The fantasy is that we each suggest a word or two and then, after a heated debate, vote, with the result that some words emerge victorious and begin the journey to the dictionary page, while those that are blackballed are consigned to lexical oblivion. Nothing could be further from the truth.
However, we lexicographers do do something approximating this when we meet to choose the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year. We sit round a table, reviewing words which have made a big impact on the English language over the past year, and try to pick the stand-out one.
The refreshing element from a lexicographer's point of view is that we don't have to try and gauge whether the word will be a flash in the pan, a one hit wonder, sticking around for a short while before fizzling out, or whether it might have some lasting currency. These words won't necessarily find themselves in an Oxford Dictionary anytime soon – many will be far too new or ephemeral – but that isn't really the point. Instead, we are able to focus on the new additions to our vocabulary each year that have been influenced by popular culture, sport, politics, and other current affairs.
Without further ado, though, let's look at 2012's UK Word of the Year.
Ta da! And the winner is. . .
Omnishambles! Coined by the writers of the satirical television programme The Thick Of It, an omnishambles is a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, and is characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations.
Why omnishambles? Well, it was a word everyone liked, which seemed to sum up so many of the events over the last 366 days in a beautiful way. It's funny, it's quirky, and it has broken free of its fictional political beginnings, firstly by spilling over into real politics, and then into other contexts. If influence is any indication of staying power, it has already staked its claim by being linguistically productive in its own right, producing a number of related coinages. While many of them are probably humorous one-offs, their very existence shows that the omnishambles itself has entered at least the familiar parlance, if not quite the common parlance. And for every Romneyshambles (coined in the UK to describe US presidential candidate Mitt Romney's doubts that London had what it took to host a successful Olympic Games) and omnivoreshambles (detailing the furore over the proposed badger cull in England and Wales) there is the far more sober adjective omnishambolic.
Not just a one-horse race
One thing that became apparent quite early on in our decision-making process was that 2012 has been a year of contrasts, which meant that our decision was no foregone conclusion. There were lots of candidates that made our shortlist, and there were plenty of lows for the language to accommodate as well as highs. Eurogeddon, for example, referring to the potential financial collapse of those European countries that have adopted the Euro. Or the military phrase green-on-blue denoting an attack made on one's side by forces that are seen as being neutral.
But it was also a great year of celebration and sheer joy at the exploits and achievements of elite athletes who wowed us with their skill and dedication. Arguably the event of the year in the UK, it is unsurprising that the Olympics also left its mark on our language. Where would the event have been without the Games Makers, those volunteers who ensured that the games progressed smoothly and all those attending were able to do so with ease? People up and down the country (and perhaps throughout the world) were Bolting and doing the Mobot as they celebrated the victories of those eponymous athletes.
The Olympics even gave greater prominence to two words which are not new, but which manage every few years to cause furious debate: the verbs to medal and to podium. In the sporting sense, medal has been around since the 1960s; podium is not quite so old. In Olympic contexts, both have very similar meanings. After all, if you podium, you are winning either a gold, silver, or bronze medal. Which is the same as medalling. It's only when you get to other sporting events – where medals aren't awarded – that podium comes into its own (and has a meaning akin to being placed). Tempting as it was to choose one of the Olympic words, it remains to be seen whether (m)any of them will have a wider application, although they helped embellish the story of the year.
Same themes, different words
Where would neologists be without the old favourites of politics and popular culture? In addition to the aforementioned, -gate continued to be as productive as ever in politics with Liborgate (the scandal surrounding some banks fixing their LIBOR rate) and pastygate (the scandal surrounding the discovery that UK Prime Minister David Cameron falsely claimed to have eaten a pasty). Another old word, pleb, became unexpectedly ubiquitous and honourable mentions must go to devo-max (an alternative to full independence whereby Scotland could get increased fiscal autonomy) and Grexit (from Greek and exit, the hypothetical scenario whereby Greece leaves the Eurozone and readopts their previous currency, the drachma).
It was hard to ignore the publishing phenomenon that was Fifty Shades of Grey, not least because it created a whole new genre: mummy porn, erotica written for or read by women. The term itself is somewhat disparaging, but has its linguistic predecessors in terms like chick lit, twit lit (novels written on Twitter), and others. We also saw the evidence of the term e-rotica, a rather apt nod to the fact that the phenomenon was fuelled by a surge of sales on e-readers.
Multitasking made easy?
No discussion of candidates for Word of the Year would be complete without considering how technology informs our language. We saw the emergence of second screening, the activity of watching television whilst simultaneously using a smartphone, laptop, etc., often so as to be able to use a social media site to post about what was happening. This particular method of preserving and recording the moment for posterity seems to run slightly counter to another shortlisted word from the world of social media: YOLO (you only live once).
US Word of the Year
GIF verb to create a GIF file of (an image or video sequence, especially relating to an event): he GIFed the highlights of the debate.
The GIF, a compressed file format for images that can be used to create simple, looping animations, turned 25 this year, but like so many other relics of the 80s, it has never been trendier. GIF celebrated a lexical milestone in 2012, gaining traction as a verb, not just a noun. The GIF has evolved from a medium for pop-cultural memes into a tool with serious applications including research and journalism, and its lexical identity is transforming to keep pace.
Highlights of the year in GIFing
January 2012
The New York Public Library launches the stereogranimator, a tool enabling users to make GIFs of vintage stereographs in the library's collection to create an illusion of the 3D experience of viewing through a stereoscope.
February 7, 2012
First post on the GIFtastic tumblr whatshouldwecallme
June 15, 2012
25th anniversary of the GIF
July 2012
20th anniversary of first GIF (and first photograph) ever posted to the World Wide Web
July 2012
GIFs contribute to the viral ubiquity of Gangnam Style.
August 2012
The GIF vaults to prominence as a tool in covering Olympic events, marshaled into use both for serious analysis and humorous effect. Blogging for the New York Times, Jenna Wortham called GIFs "the perfect medium for the Olympics."
October 2012
Tumblr and the Guardian team up to live-GIF the presidential debates.
Origin, pronunciation, and spelling
GIF is an acronym from graphic interchange format, coined as a noun in 1987. The recent development of verbal GIF is an example of a linguistic process called conversion, or zero-formation. Verbs are often created from nouns in this way in English, ranging from venerable words such as to blanket and to forkto other recent technology neologisms like to Google and to Photoshop.
GIF may be pronounced with either a soft g (as in giant) or a hard g (as in graphic). The programmers who developed the format preferred a pronunciation with a soft g (in homage to the commercial tagline of the peanut butter brand Jif, they supposedly quipped "choosy developers choose GIF"). However, the pronunciation with a hard g is now very widespread and readily understood. Whichever pronunciation you use, it should of course be the same for both the noun and the verb.
GIF is usually spelled in all capitals in its uninflected form, but the addition of verbal endings presents problems. The examples of verbal GIF collected by Oxford's lexicographers represent a dizzying variety of forms, including such infelicities as GIFfing and .giffed (with a period prefixed as in the file extension .gif). The most common form features GIF in capitals but the inflected endings in lowercase (GIFed, GIFing), so that is the spelling we have chosen to use here. However, there is also very strong evidence for an all-lowercase spelling with the f duplicated (giffed, giffing), perhaps by analogy with the verb riff. With such a new word, it isn't surprising that a single spelling hasn't yet become established; Oxford's lexicography team will be watching to see which version ultimately wins out.
Other words on our 2012 shortlist
GIF had strong competition this year from some other words that our team felt captured the zeitgeist of 2012:
- Eurogeddon: the potential financial collapse of the European Union countries that have adopted the euro, envisaged as having catastrophic implications for the region's economic stability [from euro + (Arma)geddon]
- Higgs boson: a subatomic particle whose existence is predicted by the theory that unified the weak and electromagnetic interactions
- MOOC: massive open online course; a university course offered free of charge via the Internet
- nomophobia: anxiety caused by being without one's mobile phone [from no + mo(bile) + phobia]
- Super PAC: a type of independent political action committee which may raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, and individuals but is not permitted to contribute to or coordinate directly with parties or candidates
- superstorm: an unusually large and destructive storm
- YOLO: you only live once; typically used as rationale or endorsement for impulsive or irresponsible behavior


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I can say, without bias, that my seven-year-old niece is the best. She invents words like "jingle-spook," has a healthy amount of sass, and the most fun family picture poses I've ever seen (the secret is varying degrees of surprise in the face and drama in the hands). She's a dang glitter-laser igniting dusky skies, and now, with much whoa and awe, she's cracked the world open: she's learned to read.
For some time now, my curmudgeonly feelings have been receding alongside my hairline, but still, watching my niece read is a way greater experience than I anticipated. She sounds out each letter until BOOM—there's a whole word, then another, then an entire sparkling diamond of a sentence. And it's already jumped to another amazing level: she's started reading comics. Comics!
I find myself evaluating every comic book I read or read about to see if it's something I can share with my niece. I can't remember if my brother-in-law asked me for comic recommendations or if they spewed forth without my control upon learning that he and my niece visit comic shops on a regular basis, but I have a running list of niece-comics based on a few criteria:
- Female protagonist(s). I want to introduce my niece to positive female role models, to women who can do the impossible while being emotionally rich and relatable. I want my niece to feel like she can do anything, and I think that dipping into worlds with boss women who can punch walls on fire or toss around space jerks all while dealing with human emotion and conflict can help instill that belief.
- Kid-friendly, of course. While I'd love to be able to talk about "The Wicked + The Divine" or "Rat Queens" with my niece, there's the issue of all the blood and cursing that I enjoy but may not need to be absorbed into this child's grade-school chatter or nightmares. Maybe she could handle books intended for adults, but it's not my call as her uncle.
- Pacing. Anyone who's hung out with a seven-year-old can tell you that keeping their interest can be difficult. Comic books have the benefit of (often) containing a lot of action and motion despite being a static medium. A good chunk of comics are made with the intention of being exciting. This doesn't mean explosions or laser sprays have to be in every panel, but, you know, a good helping of exciting things, please. Hopefully a somewhat fast-paced book will promote the idea that reading can be fun. If there's one thing I'm okay with using the slogan "Hook 'em while they're young" for, it's reading.
- Keeping adults in mind. My brother-in-law reads to, and now with, my niece, so I wanted to keep him and the other adults in my niece's life in mind with my recommendations. I want her parents to enjoy these comics too, the best-case scenario being that comic books serve to become an activity that might lead to even more activities, like going to comic shops, maybe even conventions, writing, art, making comics, etc. I guess I'm hoping that the many facets of comic book fandom become options for my niece and her family that lead to some sort of fulfillment for everyone involved, whether it's personally, professionally, or both.
- Diversity. It's a great time to be a comic book fan who's longed for more inclusion in the comics industry. So many comics series on the racks today feature protagonists who are POC, LGBTQA, body diverse, and gender diverse, and from it the industry is surging with new life. I want my niece to have the opportunity to learn of, and from, other perspectives, and comic books are providing such opportunity in a way they haven't before, with the bonus of using both art and prose to do so.
- (Optional) An ongoing series. If my niece can follow an ongoing series, she might be attracted by the excitement of the release of a new issue or a story arc. Following an ongoing series adds an extra dose of fun, I think, that can enhance the experience of reading a great comic book.
I tried to cater my recommendations to my niece's specific interests and personality in addition to the above criteria. The Disney princesses have been a big deal to my niece since she was old enough to form interests. She's got the princess Barbie dolls, princess costumes, costume jewelry, and has requested, on one occasion, that her hair be styled like the character Elsa from "Frozen." A fascination with pop stars is growing as well, so my niece generally likes all things fabulous and glam. But she likes being tough, too.
Her father practices jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, other mixed martial arts, teaches mixed martial arts to children, and her stepmother is in the U.S. Air Force. It's a tough family. When she was old enough to want sparkly dresses and faux jewelry, she was also tugging at kettle bells and trying get a successful armlock in on her dad. The girl's a warrior princess—slash aspiring pop star, and in a few years, probably, a lifestyle brand maven—and we (her family) all love to encourage it. Comics are the perfect contribution to this encouragement, with universes full of women from all over the glam-tough spectrum.
I limited my comic recommendations to ten different series. This list is not intended to be comprehensive and is affected by my personal biases. Again the list is ever-growing as well. Here are 10 comics recommendations for my niece:
"Jem and the Holograms" – Written by Kelly Thompson, Art by Sophie Campbell, Colors by Victoria Robado, Letters by Robbie Robbins
First, SO GLAM. "Jem and the Holograms" is a glittery pink singularity, and for a little girl who's into princesses, pop stars, and fairies, this series has strong appeal with its mix of the the fantastic world of pop music with flecks of sci-fi for added flavor. Campbell's art, with the characters' sense of style, exaggerated hair, and touches of the fantastic is mega fun. And behind the pop-star flash and glamour, the characters in "Jem and the Holograms" are diverse in their body types, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. The series shows how effortless it can be to write comics that pass the Bechdel test as well.
"Unbeatable Squirrel Girl" —Written by Ryan North, Art by Erica Henderson, Colors by Rico Renzi, Letters by Clayton Cowles
Who could be a better influence on a seven-year-old than Doreen Green, a.k.a. Squirrel Girl—a superhero with a can't-stop-won't-stop attitude and a mountain of confidence, who in her secret identity is going to college to pursue her STEM dream. Squirrel Girl is kind, is supported by an international network of squirrels, takes on huge, earth-threatening foes, has fun little catchphrases, and manages to somehow work in the word "nuts" whenever possible in a totally non-annoying way. As a series "The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl" has a great sense of humor, ethnically diverse characters, body positivity, and, again, easily passes the Bechdel test (see, it's not hard, you can do it!).
"Ms. Marvel" —Written by G. Willow Wilson, Art by Adrian Alphona, Colors by Ian Herring, Letters by Joe Caramagna
The "Ms. Marvel" series has been a shining force for good in the comic book industry and beyond (you saw those bus ads, right?). Kamala Khan, a.k.a. Ms. Marvel, is one of the most relatable comic book characters I've ever encountered. She's smart, funny, nerdy, hero-worshipping, and shows that with determination people can do great things, even if they make some mistakes along the way. Ms. Marvel is the perfect "do what's right no matter what" type, and I don't think I've felt so emotionally invested in a superhero since I was a kid watching the "Spider-Man" cartoon every Saturday morning.
Writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Adrian Alphona have created a series that has shown the industry how financially profitable POC female protagonists can be, in addition to creating an incredibly endearing superhero. The series' profitability didn't influence my recommendation, but it has had me fist-bumping this series for all the positive ripples it's generating.
"Princeless" —Written by Jeremy Whitley, Art by Emily Martin, Colors by Kelly Lawrence, Letters by Dave Dwonch
"Princeless" is all about princesses who are tough, go on adventures of their own, and don't need to be rescued by some puffy-sleeved dream-fail with dead eyes and stunted emotional depth. Take note, Disney! "Princeless" fits my niece's tastes to a T, as the series parallels Disney princess movies with its fantasy settings, fantastical characters, princess protagonists, and fun, magical supporting characters. Thankfully the premise of "Princeless" adds a key ingredient those movies lack: a sense of agency in the princesses, the main characters. The "Princeless" princesses get things done on their own, they do them, and that's exactly how I want my niece to be—as boss as it gets.
"Adventure Time: Bitter Sweets" —Written by Kate Leth, Illustrated by Zachary Sterling with Chrystin Garland, Inks by Jenna Ayoub and Brittney Williams, Colors by Whitney Cogar with Fred Stresing, Letters by Aubrey Aiese
"Adventure Time," whether in the form of comics or the TV series, is always good for some weird fun. A great thing about "Adventure Time" comics is that the line contains arcs exploring the female characters of the show, such as Bubblegum Princess and Marceline the Vampire Queen. The book shown above, "Adventure Time: Bitter Sweets," follows Bubblegum Princess as she journeys to three other kingdoms righting wrongs and making people be better people. Kate Leth's dialogue is real fun and interesting, keeping in line with what I think is the reason the TV series appeals to audiences across age demographics.
Again: princesses? Check. Agency? Check. Super fun lands of enchantment and hijinks and also lessons on being a good person? Check and mate… your play, children's ever-changing interests.
"Terrible Lizard" —Written by Cullen Bunn, Art by Drew Moss, Colors by Ryan Hill, Letters by Crank!
"Terrible Lizard" is about a girl who befriends a tyrannosaurus rex transported from the past on accident by her scientist dad. If that premise doesn't appeal to you, we don't even get each other, man. What kid doesn't want a giant, loyal monster as a friend (like, after the terror wears off)? What adult, even, wouldn't be psyched for the same (ignoring the real-world drawbacks of taking care of large animals that probably need to be walked, like, 10 miles a day, and the vet bills for check-ups alone plus feeding costs, ugh, amiright)? It's like getting a dog, but you can ride around on its head and hero around with it and reenact scenes from "Jurassic Park" with it in a realistic manner.
I could go on for days or weeks about the joys of having a T-Rex as a friend. Aside from the premise, Jess, the main character, is gutsy, compassionate, and instantly relatable. Wrex the T-Rex acts like a lovable, protective pup who also fights monsters, so it's a pretty killer character combo.
"Gotham Academy" —Written by Becky Cloonan and Brenden Fletcher, Art by Karl Kerschl, Colors by Geyser, Dave McCaig, John Rauch, Serge LaPointe, and Msassyk, Letters by Steve Wands
I believe that Batman is one of the coolest comic book characters there is, so a series connected to that guy but about characters closer to my niece's age and experience? Win! Though I'm a fan of Batman, I think that the characters in "Gotham Academy" are far more relatable than a brooding billionaire. It's great fun getting to know Gotham from another angle too, and seeing familiar characters under a fresh light.
I think that "Gotham Academy"'s target demographic might be a little older than my niece, but since I don't get to be around her every day, it's difficult to have a clear idea of how how fast her reading ability is progressing, and I don't think "Gotham Academy" would be totally inaccessible to her even if she is a bit young for it.
"My Little Pony" ("My Little Pony Annual 2014: Return of the Mane-iac" pictured) —Written by Ted Anderson, Art by Ben Bates, Colors by Heather Breckel and Lauren Perry, Letters by Neil Uyetake
If you feel hesitant about reading a "My Little Pony" comic, chances are you just haven't given them a chance, because they tend to be great. Typically they're fun, self-contained stories that arrive at sentimental notes or moral lessons by the end. These notes and lessons sometimes arrive without warning, and even as an adult reading a "My Little Pony" comic, I found that at the end of the story, a strange mist arose grasping at my steely gaze. Tiny halos of sprinkling dust formed above each of my eyelids and probably the pollen index was nuts that day, so a lot of things were affecting my eye-water levels, so don't even try to make me disclose the feels brought forth from my abyssal core by "My Little Pony."
Since the stories in "My Little Pony" comics are self-contained, you can pick up any issue without worrying about continuity. As a side note, never has there been such a utopian catchphrase as "friendship is magic." It's just genuine goodness with joy frosting, and I would also like to propose that all political events across the globe, private or public, be required to include a glittery banner of said catchphrase. It just might be the one missing ingredient needed to achieve world peace.
"Spider-Gwen" —Written by Jason Latour, Art by Robbi Rodriguez, Colors by Rico Renzi, Letters by Clayton Cowles
I've been a Latour fan for awhile, of both his writing and art, but when this series was first announced, I knew I'd hitched my fan wagon to the right horse. "Spider-Gwen" takes place in an alternate universe where Gwen Stacy is bitten by a radioactive spider instead of Peter Parker. She becomes Spider-Woman and fights crime, is the drummer for the band The Mary Janes, and has a way hip look thanks to Robbi Rodriguez making for a nice update on a well-known character. This series feels like a good bit of justice for the Gwen Stacy character, and for long-time fans of "Spider-Man," the series takes advantage of the fun that can be had reimagining familiar characters for an alternate universe.
"Lumberjanes" —Written by Noelle Stevenson and Grace Ellis, Art by Brooke Allen, Colors by Maarta Laiho, Letters by Aubrey Aiese
Ah, "Lumberjanes." The series revolves around five girls at a summer camp who encounter supernatural animals and magical mystery. There's plenty of girls being strong and cool, great humor, and endearing characters with fun dialogue (Stevenson makes it rain with fun dialogue). All of the girls in "Lumberjanes" are funny, compassionate, smart, and if they were real girls they'd be the kind of crowd I'd hope my niece would fall in with. The series gets bonus points for almost making me want to camp. If only I could count on magical mysteries to be afoot I might find camping to be a worthwhile activity instead of some strange masochistic promise that never pays off.
Have some recommendations of your own for my seven-year-old niece? Great! Wanna tell me about them, talk about them, get a conversation going? Please do! I'm always looking to expand my comics radar, especially in regards to books for my niece, so any help would be much appreciated.
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Triatoma infestans is one of the vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of human Chagas disease in South America. It's estimated that about 6-8 million people, mostly in Latin America, are infected worldwide and approximately 10,000 deaths per year were reported (Medone et al. 2015). T. infestans has high anthropophily, high colonisation capacity and high rates of infection. Because of these features, this triatominae is the main vector in the countries where it occurs, Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay (Silveira 2002, Coura & Dias 2009), where T. infestans populations that are resistant to pyrethroid insecticides have been a problem for the Chagas disease control (Vassena & Picollo 2003, Audino et al. 2004, Picollo et al. 2005, Toloza et al. 2008, Germano et al. 2010, Lardeux et al. 2010, Gomez et al. 2015). In order to obtain the transcriptional profile of T. infestans, a total of seven samples from two Bolivian populations (Chaco and Bolivian Valley) were used. Each sample was a pool of twenty heads from nymphs on the third instar and was sequenced separately. Heads were chosen with the intention of obtaining transcripts that could be related to the neurotoxicity of the insecticides. The RNA was extracted using TRIzol® Reagent kit (Invitrogen) and measured in Nanodrop® (Invitrogen). To the cDNA synthesis it was used 50 µg of RNA. The sequencing of the paired end mRNA enriched libraries was performed on Illumina MiSeq platform. A total of 11,731,170 reads were generated, and the quality control was performed with PRINSEQ (Schmieder & Edwards 2011). Data filtering and trimming was performed with Trimmomatic (Bolger et al. 2014). Sequence artifacts such as sequencing adapters were removed using data available at Trimmomatic software package. Using a cutoff of Phred quality ≥ 25 and a minimum read length of 100 bp, a total of 10,335,132 reads from all samples were assembled together using Trinity (Haas et al. 2013) and for reduce the transcripts redundancy Cap3 (Huang & Madan 1999) was also applied. The detailed information about de novo transcriptome assembly is reported in Table. The Trinity package identified a total of 65,043 transcripts with a median length of 313 bp and a N50 value of 466.
The functional annotation was performed using BLAST (Altschul et al. 1990) searching tool against non-redundant (NR) protein from NCBI and Swiss-Prot databases. The functional annotation results revealed that 58% and 72% of the proteins presented no hits to known sequences in the NR and Swiss-Prot databases, respectively. Regarding the NR comparison, among the proteins assigned with biological functions, ~38% (9,111 proteins) have high sequence similarity (≥ 70%) with Cimex lectularius and ~23% (5,390 proteins) with Halyomorpha halys. Only 275 (~1%) proteins could be assigned for Triatoma spp and 163 (~0.7%) proteins to Rhodnius prolixus. None of the transcripts obtained was related to the cytotoxicity of pyrethroid insecticides.
Summarising, this work has the potential to contribute to a better understanding of the transcriptional profile linked with one of the most important vectors of the etiologic agent of human Chagas disease, T. infestans.
Accession codes - The BioProject accession number is PRJNA348445. The data used in this project has been deposited at SRA under the accession numbers SRR4427078, SRR4427079, SRR4449814, SRR4449815, SRR4449939, SRR4449940, SRR4449941 and BioSamples codes: SAMN05908558 and SAMN05908559.
GCDP, ACLR, MGB, CJB and LGD - Conceived and designed the experiments; LOG, LMO, DMR and JCR - conceived and designed the bioinformatics analyses; LOG and LMO - analysed the data; LOG, LMO and CJB - wrote the paper; JCR, DMR and LGD - revised the paper final version.
LOG, LMO, LGD and JCR contributed equally to this work.
Altschul SF, Gish W, Miller W, Myers EW, Lipman DJ. Basic local alignment search tool. J Mol Biol. 1990; 215(3): 403-10.
Audino PG, Vassena C, Barrios S, Zerba E, Picollo MI. Role of enhanced detoxication in a deltamethrin-resistant population of Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) from Argentina. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2004; 99(3): 335-9.
Bolger AM, Lohse M, Usadel B. Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data. Bioinformatics. 2014; 30(15): 2114-20.
Coura JR, Dias JCP. Epidemiology, control and surveillance of Chagas disease - 100 years after its discovery. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2009; 104(Suppl. 1): 31-40.
Germano MD, Acevedo GR, Cueto GAM, Toloza AC, Vassena CV, Picollo MI. New findings of insecticide resistance in Triatoma infestans (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from the Gran Chaco. J Med Entomol. 2010; 47(6): 1077-81.
Gomez MB, Pessoa GDC, Rosa ACL, Echeverria JE, Diotaiuti LG. Inheritance and heritability of deltamethrin resistance under laboratory conditions of Triatoma infestans from Bolivia. Parasit Vectors. 2015; 16; 8: 595.
Haas BJ, Papanicolaou A, Yassour M, Grabherr M, Blood PD, Bowden J, et al. De novo transcript sequence reconstruction from RNA-seq using the Trinity platform for reference generation and analysis. Nat Protoc. 2013; 8(8): 1494-512.
Huang X, Madan A. CAP3: a DNA sequence assembly program. Genome Res. 1999; 9(9): 868-77.
Lardeux F, Depickère S, Duchon S, Chavez T. Insecticide resistance of Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) vector of Chagas disease in Bolivia. Trop Med Int Health. 2010; 15(9): 1037-48.
Medone P, Balsalobre A, Rabinovich JE, Marti GA, Menu F. Life history traits and demographic parameters of Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) fed on human blood. J Med Entomol. 2015; 52(6): 1282-90.
Picollo MI, Vassena C, Orihuela PS, Barrios S, Zaidemberg M, Zerba E. High resistance to pyrethroid insecticides associated with ineffective field treatments in Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) from Northern Argentina. J Med Entomol. 2005; 42(4): 637-42.
Schmieder R, Edwards R. Quality control and preprocessing of metagenomic datasets. Bioinformatics. 2011; 27(6): 863-4.
Silveira AC. El control de la enfermedad de Chagas em los países del Cono Sur de América: historia de una iniciativa internacional 1991/2001. OMS; 2002. 316 pp.
Toloza AC, Germano M, Cueto GM, Vassena C, Zerba E, Picollo MI. Differential patterns of insecticide resistance in eggs and first instars of Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) from Argentina and Bolivia. J Med Entomol. 2008; 45(3): 421-6.
Vassena CV, Picollo MI. Monitoreo de resistencia a insecticidas en poblaciones de campo de Triatoma infestans y Rhodnius prolixus, insectos vectores de la Enfermedad de Chagas. RETEL. 2003; 3: 21.


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The spirit of community - part 2
by Teresa Ann Pearson
Editor, Advance Yeoman
WICKLIFFE - In last weeks paper I done an article on the spirit of community in Ballard County about the storefront murals that Lana Bisson painted in Wickliffe. I enjoyed doing that article because Lana Bisson and her husband Henry (Chip) were so excited about community that a little rubbed off on me. So in the spirit of community I have decided to continue this article and talk more about the wonderful things happening in Ballard County.
This week we will go into more about things happening in Wickliffe and then more on to each of the citys in Ballard County.
As I said in the last article, Chip and Lana bought the old Anderson House in Wickliffe and then the house across the street and several buildings along the main street in Wickliffe to fix up and rent out for businesses. First business will be the Butcher Block.
The Butcher Block is a meat market or butcher shop located out of Fancy Farm. They will be opening soon hopefully by the end of the month and will carry a variety of beef, pork, poultry and seafood.
You can find them on Facebook at Fancy Farm's Butcher Block/ Stahr Foods.
They do meat bundles and great weekly specials.
Chip Bisson says they have the freezers in and work is moving along quickly to get them in.
Bisson says he has two other possible businesses coming in, one being a craft shop that Lana wants to start that will have craft and scrapbooking classes. She plans to call her place Crafty Hollar.
The other building is being looked at for a coffee shop. More details as they become availabile.
Another great community spirit venture that is taking place in Wickliffe is the Ballard County Society of Historical Preservation.
The Historical Preservation group is a non-profit organization that is restoring the old Methodist Church in Wickliffe by the Courthouse.
This group has cleaned and restored a lot of the old church but they are having huge issues with the roof. The roof is leaking and needs to be replaced. They have raised some money for the roof but need a lot more. They are having fundraisers and need volunteers.
The group plans to do other Ballard County restorations after the church is complete.
Ballard County Society for Historical Preservation meeting is held on the 2nd Thursday at 2 p.m. Find them on Facebook.
If you find your self with a little Community Spirit please get involved with a local group and volunteer a little of your time for our county. Ballard County is growing and moving forward, we need everyone to be on board for a better community.
Please pitch in where and when you can and donate what you can to help!


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Will coupling either traditional and/or novel internet-based
influenza surveillance signals with astrategically focused response
plan result in significant improvements in ability to match care
demands with resources?
Our rationale for the work: In spite of billions of dollar
invested there is a conspicuous absence of studies demonstrating
improvedoutcomes in medical systems as a result of syndromic
surveillance. Internet based surveillance offers multiple
advantages overtraditional surveillance including real-time, easy
to access data, improved geographic details due to a wider
population base, and mostimportantly, earlier warning (Ginsberg et
al, Nature 2009); applications are particularly relevant to acute
care settings such asemergency departments (EDs) where unplanned
surge negatively impacts patient and public health outcomes.
Year 1: We achieved the following: established working
relationship with Google Flu Trends (GFT); developed infrastructure
for datacollection from multiple complex systems; conducted
first-time ever study demonstrating local validation of GFT
including association withED crowding indices. GFT strongly
correlated (with near real-time) with both ILI and confirmed
influenza and preceded select crowdingmeasures (Dugas et al CID
2012). This work sparked multiple high level press releases
(including NPR and TIME) and invitations toconferences (including
Intl Conference on Digital Disease Detection at Harvard
Year 2: We conducted an expert panel with key regional and
institutional stakeholders to develop a feasible strategic plan to
link withinfluenza surveillance data thereby operationally
integrating advanced warnings to manage ED surge and improve public
health outcomes(Dugas et al PLOS Currents Disasters 2013).
Additionally, we built on the findings from year one to demonstrate
GFT's predictive (vs.correlative) capacity for both influenza and
ED crowding through the use of Generalized autoregressive moving
average (GARMA)modeling (Dugas et al. PLoS One 2013)
Year 3: We consolidated findings from years 1 and 2 to create a
prototype web-based tool for hospitals to help anticipate, plan,
and respond to the surge associated with both seasonal and pandemic
influenza. This web-based tool automatically interfaces with GFT
dataand permits individual EDs bot regionally and across the United
States to input their personalized data and forecast future
influenza surge attheir institution. We built the key federal
relationships necessary to expand the validation of GFT and the
corresponding GARMA model to multiple cities, via the Healthcare
Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) database through partnership
with leadership at the Agency forHealthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ). Additionally, we enrolled 300 patients in a study to
evaluate the accuracy of current surveillancemethods, such as
confirmed influenza cases from routine clinical testing, number of
patients presenting with ILI, and GFT, relative to theactual rate
of influenza positivity among ED patients determined by systematic
influenza testing.
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When I was 17 I was asked if I wanted to go to Hawaii with my best friend and her family for Spring Break. Of course I said YES and the rest is history. We went, and I fell in love with the world. I had never seen anything more beautiful or magical in all my life. Hawaii completely blew my mind and I was hooked. I quickly realized that the world had endless possibilities for adventures and I needed to see as much of it as I possibly could. Travel became a priority in my life and I have been lucky enough to see some pretty incredible places and to experience some amazing, once-in-a-lifetime kind of adventures.
Budget has always been a major factor in my travel plans. Travel is not always cheap - especially when you're a poor college student working part-time as a waitress - but I have always been able to find ways to really stretch every dollar of my travel budget. If you're a fellow travel nerd that wants to explore the world but doesn't want to spend a small fortune, then look no further. Mary Kate Navigates is here to help.
I hope this blog can provide some insight, knowledge, or inspiration to someone else out there hoping to see the world one adventure at a time.
When I was a child we lived at my Grandma's house on the Fox River in a small town Northwest of Chicago. We had family that all lived relatively close to each other, so on the weekends the house became the setting of impromptu family reunions quite often. On one particular evening when I was about 7 years old, there were a lot of people over - some were socializing on the back patio, some were inside, and some were on the deck fishing. Being the strange little planner that I was, this was inconceivable to me. I could simply not understand what was going on because there was no schedule or plan - it was so confusing to me. Feeling very flustered, I went to my Aunt Anne and asked her, "Are we fishing OR having a party?" because obviously, it was not possible that we could be doing BOTH. Needless to say, my entire family thought this was hilarious.
To this day when we don't know what's going on with any kind of situation, we say "Are we fishing or having a party?" It has become somewhat of a family motto for spontaneous (or sometimes confusing) gatherings.
Now that I am a "grown up" (I use that term very loosely), I've lightened up a little. I can occasionally go with the flow. But this story always reminds me of the kind of person I was just born to be - I'm a planner to my very core and I knew it when I was 7. When I see a baby or a kid that gets crabby when their schedule is thrown off, I just say "I hear ya kid - I don't like it either."
Adventure Always.
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Special Use Permit to allow removal of nine ordinance-size trees and four non-ordinance size trees on-site, three off-site trees, and the construction of three data center buildings totaling 579,000 square feet on 18.56-gross acre site.
Santa Teresa Substation.
The Initial Study also evaluates the construction of a new electrical substation to serve the data centers. This substation is proposed at the existing Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) Edenvale Service Center, located at 6402 Santa Teresa Boulevard and northwest of the data centers site. The proposed substation site would be approximately 1.9 acres and bound by an existing paved storage area to the south, undeveloped land to the east, VTA light-rail tracks to the north, and undeveloped land to the east. The substation portion of the project would include installation of four tubular steel poles and conductors that would provide a connection to the existing 115 kV Metcalf-Edenvale transmission line to the west. Two electrical 21 kV distribution feeders would also be routed underground along Via Del Oro to connect the proposed substation site with the proposed data center site.
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Alright pixels, you know the deal. I play the music and you make the pretty pictures dance, make the magic real, and make the impossible happen right before my very eyes! Here's a review of some of my best work from 2014 and before.
This includes my film work from Noah, The Leftovers, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Trophy Kids, as well commercial and television work from Framestore, Psyop, Dive, Animal and Method studios.
You can find my Linkedin history here: www.linkedin.com/in/danisnotshort
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We proudly welcome the latest member of the JWM Acoustics family!
Karen 12
About a year and a half ago we introduced the KAREN series of turntables and accessories. A series driven by the quest for a sound almost forgotten from my youth. Since then, it has become the most popular product at JWM Acoustics.
In May of 2015, JWM Acoustics introduced the KAREN 3 at Lone Star Audio Fest. A hand built, solid wood turntable based on the REGA platform. Completely designed and manufactured in Hawaii. The idea was to show people that our $1,500.00 turntable could easily perform with tables 3 times the cost. And we did.
Later that month at T.H.E. SHOW NEWPORT we introduced the next step, KAREN 6. A $2,400.00 analog solution that floored each show goer who entered the room. All agreed that this table pushed way above its price range and had little to no competition in this range period. A constant stream of show goers agreed. In only a few months, this table has now built its own cult following. From the solid handmade hardwood plinth, to the hand tuned power supply it is not hard to see why.
Now, once again, we decided to take KAREN to the next level. An all new concept with parts sourced from all corners of the globe. A collaborative piece that represents our finest table yet. In October 2015 at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest you will see and hear what is possible when things are made to be simple, by hand and purpose driven.
Beautiful, Elegant, KAREN 12
The KAREN 12 plinth is made from a single large and rigid piece of wood. Alone it weighs 30lbs. The KAREN 12 is indeed a large turntable with a tremendous amount of mass for its size. As with all the tables in the KAREN series, the edges are cut at a specific angle to reduce surface vibration. The original vibration damping shape of the KAREN design has been also utilized here, but to larger scale bringing the noise floor even lower than previous models. The signature curved front also serves a purpose in diffracting internal vibrations.
As with the KAREN 6 we addressed the motor and controller in the usual JWM Acoustics manner. With further simplifications and refinement to the vibration damping mechanism and power consistency, we have increased the accuracy and dropped the noise floor even further for the entire table. The motor and electronics are recessed into the underside of the table and treated to isolate from the bearing assembly and quiet the table further.
The bearing assembly, sub-platter and spindle has also been addressed with a handmade system sourced from Argentina and built by Tango Spinner. This polished drive mechanism and bearing has extremely tight tolerances and has proven to add accuracy, pace and depth to the presentation. The three belt pulley system provides copious amounts of torque and drives the two layer glass platter sourced from REGA with command.
The stock arm for the KAREN 12 was carefully chosen to extend the same powerful signature sound the KAREN series is becoming known for. We chose the ORTOFON TA-210 12" static tonearm. We feel this arm/table combination possesses an elegant balance between analytical and soulful. Paired with most any cartridge on the market and you have a machine that will bring musical bliss to your home for many generations to come.
As with all JWM Acoustics products, you may customize your KAREN 12 to suit your own tastes. We have a large assortment of woods and finishes to choose from as well as the desire to build your dream table exactly as you wish. Should you have an idea for something you don't see on our website, feel free to ask if we can custom tailor your deck for you. It's what we do.
We are taking pre-orders for the KAREN 12 now, so feel free to contact us for further details, or a consultation on what we can do for you. We truly believe this playback machine will breathe a new life into your collection and reveal even more information locked in the grooves of every record you play. The KAREN 12 and her sisters should be on your short list of new tables to hear and we can't wait to share them all with you.
Please join us in October for Rocky Mountain Audio Fest as we introduce the newest member of the JWM Acoustics family.
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Music video by The Beatles performing "Words Of Love"
(C) 2013 Apple Corps Ltd. On Air - Live at the BBC Vol. 2 out now.-
"Words of Love" is a song written by Buddy Holly and recorded by him on April 8, 1957. Holly harmonized for himself, by tape-recording each part and combining them. The song was not a notable hit for Holly, although it is regarded as one of his important recordings, and is available in most standard Holly collections.
The song was also covered by The Beatles on the album Beatles for Sale. In the United States, it was on the album Beatles VI. It was also on Beatles for Sale No. 2, a 7" extended play released in 1965 on Parlophone/EMI. The Beatles' version was recorded on October 18, 1964. John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who were fans of Holly, harmonized on their version, holding to the vocal and instrumental sound of Holly's original as well as they could. When they had played this song in their early days at the Cavern Club in 1961 and 1962, Lennon and George Harrison were the vocalists. Ringo Starr played a packing case on this song as well as drums, to achieve a similar sound to Holly's "Everyday.
-This year's holiday-timed Beatles release On Air – Live At The BBC Volume 2 — the sequel to 1994?s Live At The BBC — is focused exclusively on the teeny-bopping, moptopping 1963-64 era. So the video for Buddy Holly cover "Words Of Love" naturally zeroes in on the peak of Beatlemania, before psychedelics and facial hair entered the picture. There's also some zany animation. Watch above and marvel that this stuff happened 50 years ago.-- Stereogum
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President Trump to Donate a Small Personal Grant of $1 Million to Harvey Relief
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White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Thursday that President Trump will be donating one million dollars of his own personal money to to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.
The specific charities and organizations to benefit from these funds were not mentioned, however Sanders asked the press corps for ideas on where to give.
"He would love some suggestions from the folks here and I would be happy to take them," the press secretary stated. Previously, the president has mentioned that he would not be taking a salary, and has thus far donated the entirety of his first and second quarter salaries.
Leftists and Democrats have been constantly suggesting that President Trump has been doing nothing at all to help Texas in their time of need, even though he has. This YUGE donation hasn't stopped them, as well as the mainstream media, from suggesting that this donation is meaningless and doesn't do enough.
A $1M donation from Trump, who claims net worth of $10B, is equivalent to a $100 donation from someone with a net worth of $1M. https://t.co/k9KCElPxqS
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text: A special edition of Hip Hop Karaoke is right around the corner, just in time for the holidays. From humble beginnings at the Common, these nights have grown exponentially into one of our most anticipated nights. A bit of courage and a true love for hip hop is all thats required if your looking to perform, just remember there are no teleprompters!


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Photographing my kids for Halloween is fun, but isn't without challenges. One of the biggest issues is that it is so dark that the camera can't focus. Another challenge is that the kids move so fastrunning from door to doorthat it's hard to get them in focus! In the past I've used manual focus with a higher aperture which worked okay. I've also used the flash pulse to light up the scene so the camera can focus. This also worked okay, but overall I wasn't that happy with it.
This year I used my Surefire flashlight to light up a scene so the camera could focus and it worked great. What I like about the Surefire flashlight is that the light only stays on while the button on the back is pressed. When I let go of the button the light turns off instantly. This makes it easy and fast to turn the light on just long enough for the camera to focus. It is no surprise that this precision flashlight is what police officers carry.
It was convenient to be able to hold the light just under the lens and point it where I needed focus rather then have it mounted on the camera. Without the flashlight the photo above would have been completely out of focus. And for the record, I chose the photo above as an example simply because no faces are visible. I have more interesting shots, but not with usage permission of all the trick or treaters.


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As the U.S. government continues to intensify its controversial immigration enforcement programs, our Trans and Gender Non-conforming immigrant community has become increasingly vulnerable. The evening will consist of hearing the personal experiences of TGNC immigrants, followed by a Know Your Rights presentation by folks from the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. There will also be space for discussion and brainstorming around how we can further strengthen our communities around these issues.
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Darkness to Light
of Sufism
Sufic Haqqu
Sherif Baba
Divan-i Hilkati
(from the divan of Hilkat)
The ruined slave of ashks possessions wails in despair, the great cry.
One hundred thousand intelligent ones are running towards that goal; in
fact, theyre crushing each other. What can you say? Those who run with
their intellects, because they always see faults in the road, get stuck on
obstacles. It is in the place where the mild ones who have come to the
awareness of their nothingness come together that the Beautiful One is
kept secret.
Protect the plant that you have planted in your field from the weeds of
separation until you can get its seeds. When the heat of ashk has killed
the germs you will be a pure tongue. The purpose is to live this essence.
You cannot go to the door of the Beloved with strangers or foes. Come
pleasantly, heart. Come empty, heart.
To this gathering come quickly, heart.
I will never be fooled if you come in front of me with hypocrisy. I will
take you and wrap you in the decree of authority, in the life force of my
life. Oh, one beautiful misfortune is worth a thousand pieces of advice!
On your path the fox and lion have become kings next to you and fallen
into the the painters jar just like a buffoon.
The oppression of the night is lit up in the rose garden of my Beloved.
The surroundings of Nur are circled with oppression, because He is ruh
ul-kuddus, the Holy Spirit.
On the beaten path, this head of mine has become a throne. The bloody
tears of my eyes have turned to dust and smoke in the desert of Kerbela.
When He came neither was I left, or you.


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I know, I should have posted this as the 250th post, but I kind of got distracted by dice. Can you blame me?
So, 251 posts here at Dispatches From Kickassistan in the past two years. I owe the vast bulk of the fact that I've gone this far to the encouragement of all the fantastic folks out there. You've pushed me to keep going, to turn my ramblings about "you know what would be cool in a game?" into a remarkably successful ongoing campaign (well, three, really; I kind of owe the community for the Iron Coast and Quasquetherion as well as Metal Gods) and then into a critically-acclaimed fanzine (if you count everyone who says nice things to/about me as critics) and into whatever comes next for Kickassistan.
I'd like to thank the Spellburn guys +Jim Wampler, +Jeffrey Tadlock & my old pal +Jobe Bittman for the kind words they've had for me and the Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad zine, most conspicuously in the latest episode of Spellburn (though the various manglings of my last name for the past few episodes have been fun). In case you've missed that episode of Spellburn, check it out here.
I feel like every time I hit one of these milestones, it's my instinct to just start thanking folks, to give shout outs where I feel shout outs are due. This time, my list of potential shout outs is so crazy huge that I can't even wrap my head around it. Here's the TL;DR version: If I've met you, gamed with you, had meaningful discourse with during/about/(some other preposition) gaming with you, hung out at a con with you, threw ideas back and forth with you, argued about gaming with you, then I owe you my thanks and know it. Thank you.
As for what's next here in Kickassistan, be advised that the second issue of Metal Gods is shaping up and could really benefit from an "Adam sits down and just hammers shit out" session that should be coming this week. No, that does not mean that the zine is coming this week. It should be out before the end of May, but give a brother some time. The whole Metal Gods tornado has been a fun ride and on behalf of +Wayne Snyder, +Edgar Johnson and myself, thanks for making it possible. I've yet to crunch the numbers, but it looks like you'll have helped raise a decent chunk of change for StandUp For Kids.
The Kickassistan Ministry of Tourism is gearing up to produce a few non-zine things as well. Edgar's cooked up an adventure that we're in the process of fine tuning into a serious release. There's a strong chance we'll be turning some modules I've been running at cons into real products as well. There have also been some rumblings about +Jason Hobbs and I collaborating on some form of Western game. That'd be cool.
I think my next Kickass Milestone post will be either 300 posts or 100k views, whichever comes first. Personally, I'm hoping it's the views.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Another Kickass Milestone I Nearly Missed: Our 251st Post!
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