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On her trips home to visit her parents in Los Baños, California in the Central Valley, where the land is studded with tomatoes and cattle farms, 2L Liliana Garcia often lends a hand to her parents.
Both retired agricultural workers from Zacatecas, Mexico, the Garcias benefit from their second daughter's fluent English, her sharp analytical mind, and her generous heart. "I always want to give back to my parents. We might have had less growing up," she said, "but I actually had more support emotionally, and that is what people need to get through anything." Garcia is inspired by her father, who set up a refuge in his house for arriving farmworkers when he first came to the country. "He would always help them find housing and employment," she said, as she talked about how, decades later, people still came to her house to ask for her dad.
Garcia graduated valedictorian from her high school, and went on to complete a Bachelor's in Sociology from UC Santa Cruz in just three years. Her path is now institutionalized as the UCSC/UCHastings 3 + 3 accelerated law degree program. Even though she didn't know much about legal practice, a professor's challenge encouraged her to consider applying to law school. Ultimately, a long, heartfelt conversation with her boyfriend, Dominic, also a UCSC graduate, gave her the courage to apply to Hastings. "I met my first lawyer when I came to law school," she said. "I had never gone to court and had never thought about the law as an academic subject. I just wanted to make sure I didn't break it!"
At UC Hastings, Garcia has enjoyed serving as treasurer for the student Latino organization, La Raza, and helping out with its Day at Law school program, which brings low-income students from area schools onto the UC Hastings campus for a taste of legal education. Garcia has also taken advantage of the many professional resources of the UC Hastings community. Last summer, she had an externship with Judge John S. Salazar in Santa Cruz County. She shadowed the judge, observed trials and even got to work on some briefs. She got the position after meeting Judge Salazar at a Bar Association event. "The externship was such a great experience! Not only did I learn about every aspect of the criminal law, from arraignments to jury trials, but also received mentoring that will be invaluable in my future legal career."
Now she works part time as a legal assistant at a boutique immigration firm where she helps a solo practitioner with family-based immigration, removal proceedings and some asylum cases. "My favorite part is actually talking with clients," she said, and explained how delighted she was to finally meet a man whose DACA application she had been laboring over for weeks. "It's a stack of papers to request a delay on deportation for childhood arrivals, and after you complete and file one of those, you feel like you know the person." She saw her client walk in to the office: "My soul lit up! I was really excited to meet him in person and see who I was doing it for. Here was the face behind all my dedication," she said.
These practical experiences in combination with her classes have helped her discover what she likes and doesn't like about legal practice. She isn't cut out for criminal law, and moot court, despite her great performance, didn't inspire, mostly because she sees herself as a collaborator, not an adversary. But she loved a recent course of Professor Hadar Aviram's on criminalization and social control. Garcia is driven to build her career in public service law, since she is driven to see social change happen. "What fascinates me isn't the black letter law, but the theoretical concept and how it plays out in the real world," she said.


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Auditioning For Lovein Ms Aya's Papers
Initially, I wanted to use this free time to laze around and be accompanied by a book throughout this night that is sightless of people. <^v^>
To only listen to my own voice narrating and visualizing a fiction from an old novel, in my little head. <u_u>
However, I don't know how long this free time is going to last and how soon can I blog to everyone so — with this intention, this is Ms Aya the sheep, writing to her dear readers. <^x^>lll (Laughs nervously)
I've mentioned in my Twitter that currently, I'm reading The Tale of Genji~. ↓
(Yea, finally bought the book and am reading it!)
This version that I'm reading is translated in English by Kencho Suematsu. The original author is Lady Murasaki Shikibu, master of writing in her period which dated back in the early years of 978 thereafter[?].
Well, if you want to know more about the book itself, please Google for the information because this entry is not a review. Besides, I'm still in the midst of reading it. <´•ω•`>
But so far in this book, I learned that love in the early days is rather similar to today's version of love. Though we don't response to one another in verses of a poem or song, the similarity lies in the way we prospect for love or a companion.
Your grandparents might have told you many a times that today's love is no match to theirs in terms of commitment and loyalty. My mother has been nailing me about love in her time and that they are more sacred than the younger couples/weds.
"Mum, if that is true — why don't I have a dad, then?"
Anyway, my point here is: The game of love has always been the same!
We can go all over this subject because it's so broad but let's stick to one small area for a start, that will be — Looking for THE ONE.
THE ONE~ The one and only special soulmate whom you want to spend your entire life with.
As we all know, it's not easy to find THE ONE. The process is like finding a needle in a haystack. So what we do is we try out every being in order to find out if he/she is the one who creates an oath in your heart — The one whom gives you the butterflies in the stomach. (By the way, I know jacksquat about this butterfly effect. I'm using it in this example only because I discovered from books that people have such feelings..Well…My stomach feels weird only when I need to use the toilet)
With that, we prospect for our potential partners.Vice versa, we audition ourselves.
Wow…Just when you think you are treated specially by someone whom you adore much, you feel great and have confidence in fate to take its tow. However, you later discover this person to be giving the same 'exclusive' treatment to a few more, which you may refer them as 'Rivals'.
It sucks. But if you truly want this person — you have to standout and prove yourself worthy. Hence, the auditioning becomes fierce. <`A´>
I was just thinking, in my shoes — how could a guy have a tray of 'Potential girls' at his disposal?
How could somebody like so many, in that area?
This reminds me when I was in high school, perky and rather loquacious I was. Sometimes, I would chit-chat with this particular group of girls of my age. They had crushes on our seniors; so did I. (Titters) With this common interest, we talked among ourselves. The funny thing I learned from them was — They could like so many guys in one shot and could divulge the same puppy love for each and every one of them. <OAO>
While I only had 1 crush, who happened to also be in their list of crushes. Knowing this, one girl had the cheek to tell me that her feelings for him grew more than the others. <OAO>
That day marks the first time I came to know that a person can love so many people in that intimate area. Not 2 prospects but up to 5 or more. These girls were just admiring from afar. However, in the adulthood — it exist alright.
Anyway, the olden days were no different. Emperors in China had so many mistresses. All in which struggled to win his heart, wanting the man only for themselves.
And then in The Tale of Genji, man — I feel like slapping this Prince for going to one woman after another, even though he has a wife. Loyalty, my finger!
But as I read the story, I realized that — This is a necessary step in this game of love. <T_T>
Without trying out with people, you'll never know if that person is meant for you. In addition, you'll also learn what are your needs in a partner and what's missing in your life.
I heard (or was it read?) that even though the Emperors had many women, there was always only 1 they loved and held dearly to their hearts.
Sure, it sucks to have to go through this filter…But this is really how love is born, I guess.
(Laughs) I'm guessing some of you are raising your hands in the air, saying to the screen, "Now only you know about this!?" whereas foul-mouthed readers would say, "WTF!?" <OAO>{!!!]
For sheep's opinion, it sucks to be one of the many contestants. The thought of a queue in front and behind me is a put-off. (Laughs)
Baa…Don't ask what's my strategy to jump queue. It's a secret. (Laughs)
For now…
Those of you who has been in this position of being auditioned by your crush…How does it feel like?
I'm quite oblivious about all this as they have never happened to me. So, kindly tell me, how does it feel to be among his/her favorites but never getting any further than that?
And do you have a few try-out partners? <.__.>{?]
Note: This entry is blogged by an ordinary O type girl sheep, who is slow in love affairs and people's well-being. Pardon her for her ignorance and stupidity, please. <x_x>


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A few weeks ago my weather station had a breakdown. It was a few years, and I decided to buy a new one. The weather station was a WH1080. It is not the best one on the market, but it is cheap and sold under many brands so spare parts are easy to get.
Today I am starting a new project: A camera in a birdbox.
We have a birdbox at the cabin the two years we have owned the cabin. I have dreamt of a camera in the box a while. There are several ready made cameras out there, but they all are based on composite video with a cable. I wanted a wireless solution which could be read from a computer.
I all things that can be logged and automated. For a while I have been monitoring the inside and outside temperature at home, at work and at the cottage.
A few weeks ago, I showed a colleague of mine my temperature graphs. She is no stranger of logging, and showed me a bunch of graphs from her weather station. It was pretty obvious what would happen: I just had to get a weather station. With a bunch of sensors, there would be endless possibilities of logging 🙂 As I live in an apartment in Oslo, it is placed at hour cottage. We have mobile broadband there, so I can still get live data. Actually, the weather station is attached to the mobile broadband antenna we already had.
Yesterday I got a note from the post office that told me that a package could be picked up. I could see that the package was from China, but that was all. I buy all kinds of stuff from China that costs a few bucks, so this could be anything. When these packages arrive three weeks later, I have often forgotten about it. So what could this be? This was kind of like Christmas 🙂
As a hobby photographer using Linux, I have been quite frustrated with the color profiles of my screens. More than once, I have adjusted the colors of an image manually, only to be surprised when I get a print back and the image is way too red. Last week a ColorHug arrived at my post office, the solution to all my color frustrations.
Finally I got the labeling right on my work laptop
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I dag kjøpte jeg enda et spill fra Steam: The Secret of Monkey Island, dvs. ikke den gamle, men den oppussede utgaven.
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Monday, November 2, 2009
I guess its been decided
we will no longer be dancing on water. off they go to school.
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- Adoption Adventure said...
I went through the exact same scenario when I homeschooled. After I sent them to school I had peace in more ways than one. I often wanted to bring them home again and even now I envy those that can do it but for us at that time in my life I knew that was the only way it was going to work for me to keep my sanity. Just know that I understand what you are going through. Rhonda
- December 13, 2009 at 8:19 AM
- WhisperingWriter said...
I hope they enjoy it!
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CLARK—The Clark chapter of Unico will host the third annual Italian American feast this fall. The event will be held for three days during the Columbus Day weekend, Oct. 9-11, in the parking lot on the recreation side of the municipal building and also in front of the tennis courts.
The feast will consist of many of your favorite Italian foods including sausage, pizza, zeppole, eggplant, calzone, pastas, seafood and much more. There will also be beer and wine. There will be game trailers for everyone to take a chance to win prizes, plus a money wheel, 50/50, and an LCD flat screen television raffle.
Children will be entertained by taking a spin on various rides, having their face painted or receiving animal balloons. Of course cotton candy, popcorn, ices and ice cream will he on hand. Clark residents will be entertained by live music each day. Various crafters and retailers will also be on hand.
If you would like to volunteer to help with the feast or partake in the festivities, call Ralph Bernardo, Clark chapter president at 732-388-3600.
Unico is the largest Italian American Service Club in the United States, non-profit and non-sectarian. Last year, Clark Unico used the proceeds from the event to donate over $15,000 to academic and sport scholarship awards for high school students, underprivileged and handicap children, charities, community and civic activities.
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Windows 7 means that even companies that have been sitting out the cloud transition are now a few short steps away from relying on the cloud each and every day. Most organizations, though, have already adopted the cloud, usually in a slow, application-by-application fashion.
Of course, many industry watchers consider many of the new features in Windows 7 as a direct response to the rise of Google.
Until Google started giving out gigabyte mail boxes through Gmail, everybody was still stuck with their 10 MB inboxes. Google really understood the flexibility in online storage of documents, which can be shared easily with others. It is this very idea which is being repackaged by everybody, including Microsoft, said Puneet Yamparala, a product manager with Apptivo, a provider of SMB-focused SaaS solutions.
What this means for U.S. businesses is that the cloud is coming, if its not already here. If you dont develop your own in-house initiatives, the tech vendors you rely on will slowly but surely push you into the cloud.
Today, most of us sync data in an easy, yet somewhat problematic way: through USB drives. Thats great if you are the only person working on the document, and if you never misplace the USB drive. All it takes, though, is losing that one thumb drive that contains sensitive corporate IP for your sync method of choice to give you serious headaches.
One of the main benefits of cloud-based applications is that they remove the need for manually synching data between various devices, folders and files, while also making it possible for various employees to collaborate on the same files with data always up to date. The reality, though, is that cloud-based apps will only solve some of the average knowledge workers sync needs. Device-side data will be around for years to come, and keeping that information in sync is no easy feat.
One of the strengths of Windows 7 is that it makes synching easy. Windows Live Mesh lets users keep folders and files in sync via the cloud or through P2P connections. Where Windows 7 drops the ball, though, is with mobile. Synching Windows 7 files to a smart phone still requires a workaround (many of us turn once again to Google, using Gmail for synching email, contacts and calendars and Google Docs for other files) or third-party solutions.
Mac users benefit from having MobileMe sync to both iPhones and iPads, but MobileMe was buggy in its early versions, driving away many early adopters, and at $99/year, many will opt for the manual process or for more affordable third-party sync tools that offer broader feature sets like DejaOffice from CompanionLink Software or Good CloudSync from Good Technology.
Clearly, the cloud doesnt solve sync problems. Far from it. However, if your organization doesnt have a data synchronization plan with an emphasis on mobile in place now, it will need to get one quickly in the coming year, or risk security breaches, non-compliance and document sprawl.
It is obvious the velocity and disruption of mobile adoption (iPhone, Android, etc.) has been greater than the velocity of cloud adoption, said David DSouza, CEO of Moprise, a provider of mobile collaboration solutions. DSouza compares Apple to salesforce.com to illustrate his point. In three years, with the iPhone and iPad, Apple has generated $200 billion in stock market valuation, whereas salesforce.com has managed about $20 billion.
In this economy, $20 billion in market valuation is pretty darn good, but the cloud simply doesnt generate the excitement, nor does it have the broad consumer appeal, of mobile. In the cloud space, things are evolving differently. In the enterprise space, people are reluctant to throw away existing business processes and tend follow their existing vendors into the cloud. For example, they are waiting for Microsoft to provide on-premise infrastructure in the cloud instead of going elsewhere. This is why many more enterprise companies have moved to cloud-hosted Exchange instead of Gmail, DSouza said.
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Albert Camus Quotes About DoubtQuotes about: Doubt
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.
Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.
The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not even the simplest man can have the slightest doubt about what they are saying. Further, the world expects of Christians that they will eschew all fuzzy abstractions and plant themselves squarely in front of the bloody face of history. We stand in need of folk who have determined to speak directly and unmistakably and come what may, to stand by what they have said.
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NEW YORK >> Toys R Us, a nostalgic favorite even as many shoppers moved to Amazon and huge chains like Walmart, plans to close up to 182 stores - including nine in Pennsylvania - or about 20 percent of its U.S. locations.
One of the stores targeted in Pennsylvania is in Exton. The only other store in the Philly region is in Horsham.
Here is the full list of Pa. stores that will shut their doors:
Horsham, 100 Welsh Rd.
Erie, 6680 Peach St.
Monroeville, 3700 William Penn Highway
Exton, 104 Bartlett Ave.
Ross Park Mall, 2003 Cheryl Dr.
Washington, 301 Oakspring Road
Beaver Valley, Rt. 18
The company that once dominated toy sales in the U.S. has been operating under bankruptcy protection since last fall, when it filed for Chapter 11 under the weight of $5 billion in debt. Toys R Us operates about 900 stores in the U.S., including Babies R Us stores.
Loyal fans lamented the closing of their hometown stores. Many said they liked to shop at Toys R Us because of the atmosphere and the variety of toys they found.
"It's an experience," said Brian Likins of Indianapolis, who takes his 4-year-old daughter there. "She likes to walk through the store and point to different toys she liked."
Likins says he remembers playing with the video games and trying out bikes with his brothers at Toys R Us, and liked continuing that with his child. He said he shopped on Amazon only for specific items that he wasn't sure if other toy sellers carried.
The store closings will begin in February and the majority of locations including Babies R Us stores identified for closure will go dark by mid-April. At some other locations, the retailer is combining its Toys R Us and Babies R Us stores. The bankruptcy court still must sign off on the closings.
Toys R Us wouldn't say how many jobs will be cut. It said some employees will be moved to other stores and those who cannot be will get severance. Chairman and CEO Dave Brandon said Wednesday that tough decisions are required to save Toys R Us.
He acknowledged "operational missteps" during the critical holiday shopping season when shopping at its stores and online wasn't as easy as it should have been.
"The actions we are taking are necessary to give us the best chance to emerge from our bankruptcy proceedings as a more viable and competitive company that will provide the level of service and experience you should expect," he said in a letter to customers.
Toys R Us, based in Wayne, New Jersey, has struggled with debt since private-equity firms Bain Capital, KKR & Co. and Vornado Realty Trust took it private in a $6.6 billion leveraged buyout in 2005. The plan had been to take the company public again, but weak sales have prevented that from happening. With such debt levels, Toys R Us has not had the financial flexibility to invest in its business. Meanwhile, other stores like Target have been increasing their assortment of toys.
Toys R Us closed its flagship store in Manhattan's Times Square, a huge tourist destination, about two years ago. While its sales numbers have been shrinking, Toys R Us still sells about 20 percent of the toys bought in the U.S., according to Stephanie Wissink, an analyst at Jefferies LLC.
Competitive pressures will force the company to examine all its stores, and more will likely be shuttered over the next year or two, Wissink said. Moody's lead retail analyst Charlie O'Shea says the closings will let Toys R Us "focus all of its operating efforts on only its best locations."
Ryan McLaine, mother of a 4-year-old boy, is disappointed that her favorite Toys R Us store in Exton, Pennsylvania, was on the list of closures.
"We would always like to reward him. It was always fun to take him to the big store to see what he would like," she said. "Now, we have to figure out what to do next."
She said the next closest Toys R Us location is in King of Prussia, and it's not well maintained. And she doesn't like to shop for toys on Amazon.com because she likes to get a reaction from her son before she buys.
Toys R Us reigned supreme in the 1980s and early 1990s, when it was one of the first of the "category killers"— a store totally devoted to one thing: toys. Its scale gave it leverage with toy sellers and it disrupted general merchandise stores and mom-and-pop shops. Children sang along with commercials featuring the mascot, Geoffrey the giraffe.
Now Toys R Us and other category killers like the now-defunct Sports Authority, Borders and Circuit City, are being upended by Amazon and online shopping. More than three dozen retailers sought bankruptcy protection last year, due in large part to radical shifts in where people shop, and what they buy.
GlobalData Retail estimates that nearly 14 percent of toy sales were made online in 2016, more than double the level five years ago.
Jonathan Cordell, the father of an eight-month-old boy, said he does a lot of price comparisons online, jumping back and forth between Babies R Us and Amazon. But he likes to buy baby clothes at Babies R Us in Queens' College Point section, which is on the list of stores to be closed.
"I usually take advantage of the price matching. I could find clothing at 50 percent off. You can't find that on Amazon," he said.
Toys R Us has been hurt by the shift to mobile devices taking up more play time. Some toy makers have struggled as well, with talk last year about the possibility of a merger between Mattel and Hasbro, the nation's largest toy makers.
Wissink estimates that Toys R Us accounts for about 11 percent of Mattel's annual sales and about 9 percent of Hasbro's annual volume. Shares of Mattel Inc. fell while Hasbro Inc.'s stock was up in afternoon trading.
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At a dry waterhole, Rincewind is frustrated that some idiot has put beer in hard-to-open tin cans. He is happy that there is no sign of Scrappy in this utterly dry country, where nothing is as it seems. He is also happy to have a potato to eat, something that had always passed him by at UU and, by inspiration, combines it with other items that Remorse has provided him: carrots, onion and salt. In the absence of water he uses beer to make stew and, considering the medicinal value of salt, adds quite a lot. After a nap he finds sheep trying to open beer cans, desperate to drink. The brown, gooey soup does not quench his own fierce thirst and he cannot bear to kill a sheep for food. Flattening a beer can...
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Julia Allison of 'Miss Advised' Does Yoga to Stay in Reality
Julia Allison, 31, approaches appearing on a reality television show similarly to how she embarks upon practicing yoga.
Before Allison started shooting "Miss Advised," a Bravo series about three women hunting for boyfriends, Allison set her intentions. Which are, she says: "Be authentic"; "Don't take yourself too seriously"; "You can make a lot of mistakes and still be happy."
It has long been Allison's intention to get famous, as she herself would tell you, or at least to get a reality show. Living in New York after graduating college—she went to Georgetown University and while there wrote a dating column for the student newspaper and built a website about herself so her family could read her columns–there was nary a media-industry party she didn't attend or wish to and hardy a camera she wouldn't smile for. "I was active in social media before social media was called social media," she says. She parlayed it all into a career as a writer (Cosmopolitan magazine) and TV spokeswoman (Star magazine).


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Inbound marketing is a clear trend in B2B marketing. In fact, Sirius Decisions, a research firm focused on B2B markets, predicts more than 75% of leads will be sourced through inbound channels by 2015.
What are the key challenges to B2B inbound marketing, how does inbound marketing change the type of content B2B marketers need to create and what tools are critical to inbound marketing?
These are some of the questions discussed during #B2Bchat on March 15, and I had the privilege of moderating. Here are my key takeaways from the discussion.
1. Content is the Core Challenge
This conclusion does not come as a surprise, content has been identified as a leading challenge in multiple B2B marketing surveys in recent years. The discussion highlighted three specific areas where content is challenging B2B inbound marketers.
- Content Development Resources. Multiple participants said getting the right people to create content was a key challenge, either internal or external.
- The New Inbound Marketing Content Requirements. Rallying an organization accustomed to producing product information sheets, webcasts and white papers around creating content that is optimized for search, easy to consume, timely and worth sharing is a difficult organizational change.
- Timely Content is a Key Opportunity. Many content development practices are moving towards an editorial calendar, however it is critical to maintain flexibility and continue to encourage publishing timely content.
2. Marketers Have Only Tapped the Surface of Inbound's Potential
Steve Cassady (@stevecassady) shared a great example of using targeted social media to trigger conversations (his example is included in the chat summary below).
I believe marketers are only beginning to tap the potential of applications like this. As the tools that are available become more powerful, we will continue to hear of new ways marketers are applying inbound marketing.
3. Tools have not been Standardized
Particularly in social media, there are a plethora of tools with significant potential, directly as an element of an inbound marketing program or as tools for management. However, HubSpot is the only provider that is widely recognized as a provider for inbound marketing.
Tools like IFTTT, Hello Bar, Scoop.it, GetCurata and many more offer interesting applications for inbound marketing, but awareness and adoption of any individual tool is so low that many inbound marketers are not even aware of the things tools make possible today.
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Lets move on at Union Sq.
To The Editor:
In response to Eadie Shanker and Carol Greitzers letters regarding the redesign of Union Sq.s north end (Union Sq. process still distasteful, Shanker, June 8, and Who cooked up pavilion changes? Greitzer, June 8), Gail Fox, co-chairperson of Union Sq. Community Coalition, and I applaud their ability to devote themselves to the single issue that they so passionately care about, which is eliminating the concession in the pavilion (and increasing play space). Eadies choosing to create her own group to address this issue in the manner in which she felt was most effective is to be commended.
However, U.S.C.C. is not a one-issue organization. Gail and I, as volunteers, must devote our time wisely so that we can address the other important issues affecting the square, such as increasing pedestrian safety, traffic calming and controlling the out-of-control vendor situation on the southwest plaza.
Whom the Parks Department chooses to thank in The Villager article is certainly not in our control. However, Gail and I have consistently maintained, much to the disagreement of many of our members, that it is easier to change the plan by working with Parks and the Union Sq. Partnership, than against them. So now that the playspace has been increased dramatically, which was the original impetus for the plan, I would hope that most of us, including Eadie and Carol, who have been working so hard to improve Union Sq., will be very pleased. Lets agree to agree this time and get on with getting the shovel in the ground for the new playground.
Susan Kramer
Kramer is co-chairperson, Union Sq. Community Coalition
The case for uppercasing E. E.
To The Editor:
Will someone inform Tyler Pray, who edited The Villager Community Handbook 2005, that E. E. Cummings always used capital letters when spelling his name.
The Villagers letters to the editor recently featured a signed letter Cummings once sent to me, along with composer David Diamonds quote that the Cummings family is furious when anyone lowercases his name. The latest edition of the Columbia Encyclopedia stopped making the mistake, possibly because of my complaint.
Pray on Pages 6 and 55 repeats the error, making one hope the handbook has been checked for factual errors.
Warren Allen Smith
No to grassification and mold
To The Editor:
Dissent is rising against the Washington Sq. Park redesign being foisted on all Villagers, the dreadful plans for moving the fountain, the building of a fence and the ultimate grassification. Ive seen Gramercy Park destroyed, cleared and prissed up; its been ruined. Villagers are ever and always on the barricades. We must remain vigilant. We cannot let this happen. We need to hang tough.
Not only is our Village green under attack, so too is another jewel. Our signature building, the 1874 Venetian gothic Jefferson Market Courthouse Library remains enshrouded with a scaffolding which has skirted the entire building for more than two winters. Im told the city has not budgeted funds for repair and has no plans to do so. Aside from the dreadful appearance the sidewalk shed gives the building, it is actually harming this architectural treasure. The inherent message of neglect has encouraged vandalism and use as an outdoor toilet. With the addition of trapped moisture from snow and rain there is damage being done to the exterior of the building. Indoors the problems have become quite noticeable with a detectable odor of urine and mold. Imagine a mold infestation taking hold, the unimaginable costs to a building full of paper.
I find it ironic and horrible that the city wants to spend millions of dollars on a renovation of Washington Sq. Park that no one seems to want, while the symbol of Greenwich Village, the gothic treasure that is the Jefferson Market Courthouse Library sits and rots.
Margot Gayle saved the building years ago by saving the clock. The bell, too, was brought to life. Now we must save the building one more time. Demand action on the things we really want.
Cynthia Crane Story
Crane Story is president, Mulry Angle/W. 11th St. Block Association
Brando was wet, not crying
To The Editor:
A friend of mine from New York sent me Jerry Tallmers article on Marlon Brando (Marlon Brando and the birth of American acting, reflections, July 7, 2004). I was in the Truckline Café that Mr. Tallmer writes about. I was 26, Marlon 23.
The actress who told Mr. Tallmer about Marlons entrance (weeping) was incorrect. It was in Act III, after he has carried his wife into the Pacific area, and drowned her. He comes back in, soaking wet and physically and emotionally bereft.
In Baltimore, during previews, he broke a large table from fury. He used to stand backstage before that entrance, and the head prop man would empty buckets of water over him.
My scene was with Karl Malden. It was an episodic play, and all the characters did not necessarily interact with others.
Harold Clurman directed. He used to work with Marlon when others went to lunch. I used to stand in the back of the theater and watch. He had Marlon all the way upstage, saying: I love you, over and over, getting it OUT. I went up to Marlon one day at rehearsal and said: Dont mind when the director gives you notes, I think youre really very good. Oh, naivete!
Irene Dailey
Dailey, a highly regarded acting teacher, had a distinguished career on stage and in film from the 1940s into the 1980s, notably as the mother in Frank D. Gilroys Tony-winning The Subject Was Roses.
Crowded school is Dickensian
To The Editor:
Re Soho student rampage (police blotter, June 15):
For nearly 30 years I have maintained my Soho studio just up the street from Chelsea Vocational High School. In that period of time I have witnessed and experienced many incidents with the students from the school. Some were positive, many were not.
However, when one considers the conditions inside the school, it is not surprising this sort of thing occurs it is surprising that it does not occur more often.
I invite anyone to please contact the principal of Chelsea Vocational, and make an appointment to walk through the building while class in session. Anyone who takes the time to do so will be shocked to see the dismal and totally out-of-date conditions in which these students are forced to try to shape their future. The building is not only an insult to the kids who go there, it is a disgrace to the city. It seems to me that if Charles Dickens were alive and writing he would be doing his research at Chelsea Vocational High School.
One huge problem is that the school has no cafeteria or gathering place where the kids can hang out or exercise under supervision. Their gym is little more than four walls and two hoops. Without the appropriate gathering space, the kids are forced out of the confines of the school and directly into the flow of the neighborhood traffic, where they wander unchaperoned and uncontrolled. This is a failure in design of the school much more than it is a failure in the makeup of the kids.
If nothing is done to modify the school and provide these kids with a supervised space to eat and hang out, they will simply keep running the streets of Soho where mischief will continue to be a form of recreation.
It seems to me that the only way to improve the situation at Chelsea Vocational is to improve the school itself. If we will give the kids a break and provide them respectful learning conditions, we will give the local Soho neighborhood a much-needed break at the same time.
Lawrence White
Shades of Prohibition
To The Editor:
Regarding Allen Bortnicks letter (The war on drinks, June) in response to my letter of May 18, all I can say is this is just what Im talking about. Blame the bars for all the evil in the world. Mr. Bortnick, have you ever heard of Carrie Nation, the axe-wielding activist who used to go around attacking bars with axes? Her actions brought about Prohibition, which ushered in an era of speakeasies, bootleg gin and, of course, organized crime. When I hear people like you it makes me shudder. In addition to your fanatical ranting you twist my words. A well-run bar can add vitality and a safe haven to the community. They can serve as a gathering place for the community just as they have since the inception of the idea of a tavern. It gives locals a place to unwind and relax. It can allow local artists and musicians an outlet for their art.
My own experience in helping to control the drug dealing on the street is not my solution to the drug problem as Mr. Bortnick so glibly states. It is however a fact that since Raven has opened on the corner of E. 12th St. and Avenue A in 1998, the incidence of dealing on that corner has sharply declined. Dont believe me? Ask the officers of the Ninth Precinct (http://www.ninthprecinctcouncil.org/). And while youre at it, you can ask the members of the 12th St. Block Association. Ask these people what they would rather have on their corner, a bodega that sold drugs or an honest business run by community-minded people.
Heres the quote that really scares me: No amount of toys and goodies can change the evil effects that alcohol has on people. This is precisely the rhetoric that Ms. Nation would spew against the demon alcohol. To paint with such a broad brush does nothing to get at the truth. You can go ahead and blame all the ills of society on alcohol and I expect you, Mr. Bortnick, will not be happy until you see every bar on your street shuttered. We, in the hospitality industry will fight tooth and nail before we see a return to the days of Prohibition. As for the toys and goodies every year our toy drive brings in more donations and every donation we get means a happier Christmas for some underprivileged child. Im sorry, Mr. Bortnick, if this doesnt fit in with your worldview of bars being the source of evil.
At last weeks bar owners meeting of the Ninth Police Precinct, Commanding Officer James McCarthy ran down a list of bars for whom he has received complaints over the past year. In a precinct with over 500 bars, only 13 bars were named. Not exactly an overwhelming amount of renegade bars. And most of the complaints cited noise coming from patrons forced outside because of the smoking ban, something Im sure Mr. Bortnick applauds.
Substituting one addiction for another, eh? Get a clue, Mr. Bortnick. Im not denying that alcoholism is a problem. Im not saying drunks dont get loud. But to say that every patron who enters every bar is an alcoholic and a raging drunk is the talk of a fanatic with no real concept of reality. And in this age of the nanny state, that kind of talk really scares me. Whats that I hear? The sound of axes being sharpened? Never underestimate the fanatic.
Harold Kramer
Kramer is co-owner, Raven Bar
Bicyclists are run amok
To The Editor:
We are all for the safety and benefits of biking but what about the safety of pedestrians when trying to cross streets and on sidewalks?! What about the liability when delivery people are the worst offenders?
Ron and Sue Elvena
Dont forget Dorothy Day
To The Editor:
Re: Housing of the holy: Church to be luxury residences (news article, March 30):
Not to put too fine a point on it, but, in fact, Peter Maurin was not the founder of the Catholic Worker, but its co-founder, with Dorothy Day. Indeed, Maurin was not even on hand on the day this monthly journal of opinion came out, May Day 1933, because he and Dorothy disagreed on what to call the paper. Maurin wanted it to be called the Catholic Radical. Obviously, Dorothy got her way, she usually did.
The last time I was in St. Anns was for the memorial Mass for Marjorie Crowe Hughes a few years ago. She was a writer and was for many years part of the Catholic Worker. The Mass, sung in Latin, was beautiful.
John Stanley
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The fool says in his heart, "There is no God."
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I would like to share with you some of the teachings of St. Seraphim of Sarov, a Russian Orthodox monk who was born in 1759 in the city of Kursk and died and went to Heaven on January 2, 1833, while kneeling before an icon of the Theotokos (Mary, the Mother of God).
(Excerpts from a conversation of St. Seraphim with N. A. Motovilov)It is fashionable to say that God does not exist, or God is not necessary. And it is especially fashionable to say that organized religion is not necessary. And even that organized religion is a force of evil.
Prayer, fasting, vigil and all other Christian activities, however good they may be in themselves, do not constitute the aim of our Christian life, although they serve as the indispensable means of reaching this end. The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ's sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.
At the present time, owing to our almost universal coldness to our holy faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and our inattention to the working of His Divine Providence in us, and to the communion of man with God, we have gone so far that, one may say, we have almost abandoned the true Christian life.
More than once in other passages of Holy Scripture the appearance of God to men is mentioned. That is why some people say: "These passages are incomprehensible. Is it really possible for people to see God so openly?"
But there is nothing incomprehensible here. This failure to understand has come about because we have departed from the simplicity of the original Christian knowledge. Under the pretext of education, we have reached such a darkness of ignorance that what the ancients understood so clearly seems to us almost inconceivable.
Those who believe these things may be disappointed to know that these ideas are not particularly new or modern. The quotes above from St. Seraphim are from 1831. And the passage from the Psalms is obviously much more ancient than that.
Those seeking novelty, or revolutionary thinking, or profound spirituality have no further to look than the Christian faith. Its message is still new and refreshing, profound and life-changing, deep and mysterious two thousand years after the birth, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
The message of Christianity is still relevant in an age of scientific idolatry. In fact even more relevant as science challenges the very essence of man's humanity. No better basis for a moral system has ever been discovered than the teachings of Our Lord Jesus Christ. But as St. Seraphim emphasizes, doing good deeds alone is not sufficient.
But mark, my son, only the good deed done for Christ's sake brings us the fruits of the Holy Spirit. All that is not done for Christ's sake, even though it be good, brings neither reward in the future life nor the grace of God in this.Here is what is missing in the common morality of this generation. Without the guidance of the Holy Spirit, "good intentions" turn the gifts of God into forces for destruction. Science reverts to paganism.
The only solution is to truly trust in Jesus. Christianity has been battling barbarism since its inception. Nothing has changed.


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Fitting that the last day of this series gets a little weird. You may not think that is the case, until after you read this. Dream settings are fickle for many. Countless times we speak about what our dreams tell us, and many of those factors are based on the setting of the dreams. I have listened to scores of people talk about their dreams. It is part of the nature of who I am, you know, the safe guy. All of these conversations surmise to a simple point that I have always held close.
Why does my constant dream setting have to be so different?
Ever since my accident, when I lost control of a four-wheeler and it ran me over, ripping open the back of my head, my dreams have changed. I have a verbose memory of… things. I know that when I was younger, even just a few days before the accident, things were vastly different when I slept. There was light, darkness, color, faces, trees, and all the things that the rest of you are graced with.
For the first few nights after the accident, I did not dream. I think that this is more than understandable. I was seven, and recovering from a VERY traumatic experience. However, once I started dreaming again, things were different. No longer was there shapes, people, or any of the cool stuff. My dream setting took a dramatic and exhausting change, forever.
The setting of every dream since that moment is a chalkboard. Or, at least I assume it is a chalkboard due to what it looks like. I see my dreams written out. Colors depict emotion, my writing style changes based on the age I am in the dream. There are sometimes sounds (thanks PTSD), but that is it. Gone are the movie like spectacles that many of you enjoy. The more that I dream, the more tired I am when I wake up. After all, I am reading ALL NIGHT.
When there are others in the dream, friends, wife, children, and even random people, I am given their name in the narrative that is being written. But, the funny thing is, the writing is often what I 'think' the person may write like. I know, I am strange, but at least my love of reading has persisted since childhood. Else, this would be more exhausting.
What is your most common dream setting?
Just like that, the month is over. This was a fun exercise and I may do it again. But not for September. September is Cranio Facial Acceptance Month. This is a big deal for our family. My wife and I will be posting a new video each day on our vlog where we answer a different question that we are often asked about our daughters Craniosynostosis. Most of the blogs this month will follow suit.
I hope that we can teach you a lot about what our life is like, and help you to know more about the world of cranio. We have learned that for as scary as it was to first hear, it has shown us we are stronger than we think.
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The oil refining sector in Europe is suffering from over-capacity, restructuring and planned closures, and the European Commission held a second conference on the oil refining sector on 26 November. Leading energy journalist, Hughes Belin, met Richard Howitt MEP (S&D), to discuss the European oil refining crisis.
"So everyone here buys the argument about energy security in relation to gas, what about refined oil? Do we really want to allow the people who refine our oil to be in those unstable countries and to be able to hold a pistol to our heads? The same argument applies and it's about time that people in this place woke up to it".


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They sold like hot cakes…
Sheep and wool? Ostensibly it's all about the fiber? The market baskets – fair trade – sold like hot cakes. Everywhere you looked someone was carrying one. We got one. They have great utilitarian use. Plus, they are good for you and for the makers. Win win. Bonus. I got a good image. This lady was just dressed this way. She wasn't there to be picturesque.
My camera (the "big one") took a hit in October and has been in repair for a couple months. Yeah, it was a major injury to body and lens. Major surgery was done and the cosmetic damage repaired as well. And it works like a top again. Yay!
What I Shot
There are questions that have no safe answer. Try, "Do I look fat in this dress, honey?" Try to answer, 'Yes (you are)," or "No (you were, but not now)." Get my drift? I realize that there are a lot of people in my audience who are not attuned to American humor. In fact maybe I don't have humor at all. Do you see the glass "half empty?" or "half full?"
I shot a moose once. (Yes, it's obvious. I photographed it.) And someone in the audience asked me if I had really "shot" it. Seriously, he was very impressed (that I shot it)! No, dopey! I don't shoot animals. I photograph, but I do not shoot. Actually, I shoot whatever is there. Get it? Well, try to understand that I am not working with a full deck and American slang humor can sail right over your head. Sorry.
As long as we are on the subject (vaguely) I was called out by my daughter. "Did you play with the puffer?" Caught! She immediately knew that the puffer was only puffed because I had provoked it. Smart cookie, that kid of mine. I deny that any fish were injured in the making of this photo. However, she contends that I have shortened its life by scaring it. Go figure!
With the very long preamble, I ask, "Do you like your photo portrait with direct or indirect gaze?" Subtle, but definitely different, it's a matter of choice or taste. For me, I like a direct view straight on. But it's definitely disconcerting to look straight away into someone's eyes. It's much more intimate. Hey! It's a cat. Lulu's my cat at the moment I don't exactly ask her to look at me. I try to get her to look in my general direction and then get my camera into her face. She's tolerant. She doesn't get it. But she is occasionally in one place long enough for me to get a couple shots. The portrait is a success based on dead on focus on the eyes. After that composition and the rest are up to you. There are so many bad pics out there. Try harder. And it is affirmative, "a good fish photo has the eye looking toward you!" Mooses too!
HB – Happy Happy
Happy Birthday. I just remember the day. Eric was born on the last day of third grade for me. That would be Elkins First Ward School. Lot of memories there. I awoke and mom had delivered overnight. Dad was getting us breakfast. John and me. He had left us alone overnight. We slept and never knew it. I barely remember when John was born. All I remember is that they kept acting like I might be jealous of someone new in the house. He did not affect me in the least. We were expecting a girl (Eric). Hoping for a girl. I don't know why. It seems ok by me that I got another brother. His name is closer to the front of the alphabet. And he got a middle name.
Me? My mother used a baby name book. She bailed at V. WXYZ not too much further to go. And no middle name. "T" it was on my birth certificate. No, I did not know till I was sixteen. My first summer job as a waiter in a camp and when they returned our birth certificates someone pointed it out. "Oh, well, I didn't have a first name for you. So I just saved a spot." Great story. And each brother got a letter closer to the front of the alphabet.
My mother was one of seven children. The last three were sisters. The youngest sister my dear Auntie Fu Ching told me after my mother had passed away, "Your mother lied on your birth certificate." Huh? The older sister Emily told her she was too old to have a baby (me). So she told my mother, "Lie about your age." Great! I have looked and I know that I am not a girl.
You'd be surprised but a lot of Chinese guys have my name. I can't get my name alone as an identifier for email or username. The most fun I had was entering Hong Kong after I visited China. I was separated from my group and placed in a room with a very nice man with a rifle. It was clear he was guarding me. I, of course, did not have a guilty conscience. But I cooled my heels for a while. And when released (I was released with a smile) my friend informed me that the customs folks thought they had just caught one of the big drug smugglers with my same name. Geez!
I hide out in an alcove of the hospital. No office. Nowhere to hide. There was an area on the second floor…but they told me people would hide out and have sex. Damn, why do I always miss out on stuff like that. So I am being harassed by my buddies. They make fun that they see me sleeping when they walk by. I know it's not true because they have never complained about my snoring. Faisal is on the right. He is from Yemen and is my gym buddy. He calls to wake me when I pass out on the gym mat. Rida is my neighbor in the compound and the chief of eye surgery. The whole body – and all he cares about is 2 square centimeters of eye. Yeah, pretty funny. Obviously I was not sleeping. I took the picture! Right? Yes, it's not much of a portrait, but then again this was not a beauty contest.
There's been a clamor in the family for a picture of Lulu. It's a silly but has Arabic roots because it means pearl. Had I known she would adopt me I would have picked another name. But now I call her Squeaky. It doesn't matter. She doesn't respond to either name. Maybe it's my poor Arabic. Or, she doesn't speak human. For sure she doesn't follow commands – simple or complex. But she squeaks. No meow. No howl or whine, it's squeak. And she does it and it works because I come when she squeaks. Yes, I'm getting my star as a trained human.
When she adopted me I was ok. And I waited to see if she really wanted to stay. This morning she tested me. She went on out the door and sat under the hedge and munched grass. She did not respond to my call or my offer to let her back into the house. Later when I got home from work, no Lulu. I whistle and the other cats in the compound come around to eat for free. No Lulu. Went to lunch… and upon return I found a cat meowing – not Lulu. But after a minute of whistling, along she came. And she squeaked. She's got a streak of dirt along her nose. I was good. I was going away for a couple weeks. Now I have to engage the care giver to look in on my new found cat. It's never boring in my house. Did I mention that she chases her tail?
Yes, Happy Birthday Dave. Big one! Thirty years ago. His obstetrician showed up sleepy eyed. She was a member of a group so I met her for the first time in the delivery room. Her name was Ida. Hey! Get it? Ida Ho. The state, the potato, one of the names I wanted for my kids. Or Ivan… She was not too comical at 4AM. And poor Aunt Audrey was there at home taking care of Jules, his sister. She had asked that Dave not be born in the wee hours. She was sweet. She came from the Bronx to watch Julia in the middle of the night. And, my chief resident had last said to me, "Don't go into labor, we got a big operation in the morning." And, it was a terribly difficult vertebral artery aneurysm. And of course, we postponed the operation. In order to assuage the poor patient, I told him that I had named my son after him. A year later he appeared for his post op visit and asked how his boy was. My puzzled look was followed by, "You know! Vincent! Vincent Pallazoto Jr." Oh, yeah!
This is wedding weekend again. You just gotta love the shot. We had a muscle car courtesy of the rental upgrade in Los Angeles. A Dodge Challenger! Yes, it's a fast car. We never did get to drive it fast. But the boys looked cool sitting on it.
And for Susan, here's another shot of the kids as they are today. And for those who want to see the dad, here I am again.
Got your attention , huh? As a photographer, I'm usually not in my own pictures from my camera. Dave and I did a selfie. And then I shot Jules and Dave. I'm glad they grew up and are healthy and have jobs and … Yes, wedding for a day, a return to the event and a look back. I should retire. But then again I like what I'm doing. I still have skill. I was fortunate enough to have found a job in which I actually enjoyed the work. I don't like the side stuff.
No, indeed! But on the whole I never dreaded going to work. So as long as my skill is good and my judgment is sound… There are those who might protest, but I have pulled off some spectacular saves. There are still a few left for me to do. I'm hanging in. Besides, who else is issuing checks to pay the bills. Yin and yang. There is a balance to life. Good and bad, happy and aggravated. Oh! Never let'em see you happy; someone will want to mess with your serenity. Grrrr….
It's that same trip to Africa. We were camping. Gee, all the sudden I got camp memories. I've been a Boy Scout. Tent, no running water, no shower, open fire, sleeping bags… This was not too shabby at all. The tents had a floor and a cot and blankets and screens and a porch…. The Masai escorted us to and from the dining tent. In the dark it was a possibility to be attacked… by lions. Oh my! The morning we departed I shyly motioned for a picture. Soon enough these guys all rushed to be in the picture. All smiles and delighted to have their picture taken, I was surprised. I usually am not so straightforward to impose upon strangers. And their enthusiasm charmed me. I was searching for that African jump image. This smile one always brings a fond memory and smile to me. Yup, a highlight image!


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UK residents affected by fracking could receive cash payments
UK prime minister Theresa May has said some tax proceeds from shale gas development in Britain could go directly to local residents affected by the projects.
The plan is an attempt to alleviate local opposition to fracking projects that has consistently hampered the industry for years.
Britain is estimated to have substantial amounts of shale gas trapped in underground rocks, yet fracking applications have struggled to find approval from local communities concerned about noise and environmental impacts.
Last year, then chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne said the government would create a shale wealth fund that would receive up to 10 per cent of tax revenue from shale gas developments for investments in communities affected by the projects.
May, who took over as prime minister last month in the wake of Britain's 23 June vote to leave the European Union, said she wanted to look at the option of this money being paid directly to residents rather than to local authorities.
"The government I lead will be always be driven by the interests of the many, ordinary families for whom life is harder than many people in politics realise," May said.
"This announcement is an example of putting those principles into action. It's about making sure people personally benefit from economic decisions that are taken, not just councils, and putting them back in control over their lives."
The government said the new fund could deliver up to £10m per eligible community. It did not say how much each household could receive, but local media reported it could be as much as £13,000 in some areas.
Only one shale gas well near Blackpool, in Lancashire, has so far been fracked in Britain but was later abandoned when some of the work undertaken triggered an earth tremor. That resulted in an 18 month ban on the hydraulic fracturing technology used to extract gas from shale rock.
A report from the Committee on Climate Change last month found that large-scale fracking would make it difficult for the UK to meet its climate goals without carbon-capture technology to alleviate its CO2 output.
But carbon capture was abandoned by the UK last year due to the high initial cost of setting it up although the National Audit Office, Whitehall's spending watchdog recently said that its removal could increase the costs of climate change overall.
In May, Third Energy received the first planning approval for a shale gas fracking well since 2011. It says it will start hydraulic fracturing at its Kirby Misperton site in North Yorkshire in northeast England before the end of the year.
The British pound's weakness since the Brexit vote has made it more expensive to import gas, helping the case for shale gas which had been hurt in the past by weak oil prices and by opposition to planning approval from local campaigners.


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I have been using this build since Vlad was introduced. I've tried the 9/0/21 route, but wasn't satisfied. With my current build I've been able to stay alive early game allowing me to get some much needed kills early on.
I always start with the Ruby Crystal since it gives me a nice +180 boost at the beginning putting my HP ~735+ @ lvl 1, which is great for pre-game battles. From there I'll continue to build Warmog's. I'll buy basic Boots of Speed to help out with his slow movement speed. I normally won't upgrade to Sorcerer's Shoes until after i get 1 Rylai's Crystal Scepter since i feel his Sanguine Pool is an excellent get away ability when needed.
I like this build, but I'm sure it can use some fine tweaking. I'd like to replace the Magic Penetration Quintessences with some HP ones. As well as try to stack more AP, early game. With most champions i feel Warmog's is a waste of money as it costs too much for the bonus it gives you. I still feel it costs way too much, but Vlad seems to benefit from it more than any other champion. I'm going to try a build that works away from it depending on whether or not he'll be nerfed in the next patch.
I've been able to get top kills on my team with this build. With no more than 4 deaths in game. I've even managed to stay alive against a 4-man gank using Hemoplague, Tides of Blood, and Sanguine Pool rotation. Allowing my team to run clean-up with me walking away with some kills. We normally win by the time i have 4k HP, but I've had as much as 5.4k+ HP for the longer games.
Please use this build as a guideline and not a hands down build. We all play differently and this matches my play style perfectly. This is my first build so please feel free to give some constructive criticism. There's a Nuke Build created by SmartxAxBSH for those who wanna try it. It looks pretty stable and I'll probably give it a try.


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Diversity Of The Universe is a project of an (astro)photography that emerged in summer 2016.
During this summer I made a lot of astrophotos, mainly nebulae :
I'm always looking for new objects to photograph, preferably large nebulae as I often use a small refractor with a short focal length.
I'm using Aladin Sky Atlas which is a fabulous software for science but also for choosing a target. It lets you draw the field of view of your telescope and overlay it on different images of the sky, giving you a perfect preview of what you can expect for a future image.
In this quest for a new target, I noticed that a particular and large region in the Cepheus constellation had a interesting characteristic : In a 7° field of view, there's 6 different deep sky objects : An open cluster, a galaxy, a dark nebula, an emission nebula, a planetary nebula and a reflexion nebula.
That's it : This will be my next goal, but It'll be a tough one.
7 degrees in the sky is a quite large area (14 times the size of the full moon), and despite the tiny 310mm focal length that I'm using, a mosaic was the only way to achieve my goal. I have mixed feelings about mosaics. I made a 9 panel mosaic of Sadr region in 2015, and to be honest it's been a true challenge and a lot of work to get what I had in mind. In this case a 6 panel mosaic would be sufficient.
As I'm living near a big city (Paris, France), there's a lot of light pollution in my area. I'm now doing Narrow Band Imaging. It's useful in polluted areas like mine, but you can only take photos of emission and planetary nebulae. I'll have to use narrowband and common LRGB filters then combine the images.
One of the objects, the planetary nebula Ou4, is very faint. So faint that it's been discovered only 5 years ago, in 2011. I wasn't even sure if I could take a decent picture of it.
So there was those constraints :
- A 6 panel mosaic
- Combine LRGB images with Narrowband images
- At least one very faint object
Firts lights
Late august 2016 I started imaging the mosaic, and decided to start with the hardest part : The Ou4 Planetary Nebula.
This type of nebulae and this one in particular are rich in Oxygen and emits in a particular wavelength.
I'm using an Astrodon 5nm wide OIII filter.
In order to get a maximum of photons, I used (for the first time) 20mn subframes.
But you can barely see the Ou4 nebula in subs ( 1 x 20mn exposure):
In order to increase the Signal To Noise (SNR) ratio, I made a lot of images during 5 nights for a total of 19h20m of exposure only for the OIII filter on this nebula.
Then Ou4 became visible on the stacked image (58 x 20mn exposure) :
The Ha filter was used to capture the Sharpless 129 emission nebula. A single night with 36 x 10 mn subs for a total of 6 hours gave me plenty of signal (36 x 10 mn) :
This was the first panel of my image (total exposure 25h20mn), and I published it the 14th september 2016 :
There are two interesting articles about this image (many thanks to the authors):
- An Article on AstroSpace(in french)
- A G+ Post by Pierre Markuse(in english)
This was also choosen as the Image Of The week on Photographing Space.
The others panels
This successfull first image gave me the motivation to continue working on the mosaic.
I made the acquisitions of the Barnard 150 Dark Nebula the 23 september 2016.
22 subs of 10 mn of luminance :
The next image I made was the duo NGC 6939 (an Open Cluster) and NGC 6946 (the Fireworks Galaxy) on 28 september 2016.
The mosaic was ok, but I had 5 of the 6 objects that I wanted :
A galaxy, an open cluster, a dark nebula, an emission nebula and a planetary nebula. But the reflexion nebula VdB 140 wasn't there and I had to make the 3 other panels.
The 4th panel has been made using LRGB and Ha filters. VdB is a reflexion nebula but is also an emission nebula. This panel has been made over two nights (29 sept and 02 oct 2016).
The 2 others panels with "only" stars have been made in LRGB in a single night (3 oct 2016).
In the morning of the 4 october 2016 I had all the images I needed to make my mosaic.
I used PixInsight and Photoshop to make the final image.
9 days later the image was finished. I'm not very pleased with the edges of the panels and there's a lot of distortion in the image but here it is.
The final image
This image is made of 294 subframes for a total of 46h53mn of exposure. This has been shot over 11 nights.
The gear used was :
- William Optics ZenithStar 66 refractor
- William Optics Flatenner II 0.8x Reducer
- AZ-EQ6 GT mount
- Guiding with a Skywatcher 9×50 finder scope
- Guiding with a QHY5L-IIc camera
- CCD : Moravian G2-8300 with external filter wheel
- Astrodon filters : L,R,G,B Tru-Balance, Ha 5nm, OIII 5nm
This is to my knowledge the first time those 6 objects appears in a single picture.
Those 6 deep sky objects are :
- An open cluster : NGC 6939
- A Galaxy : NGC 6946 , the Fireworks Galaxy
- A Dark Nebula : Barnard 150
- An Emission Nebula : Sharpless 129
- A planetary Nebula : Ou4
- A relfexion nebula : VdB 140
It was my greatest challenge so far.
I'm happy to share it with you and hope you'll like it.
Want to contact me ?
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Want to see more of my images : nebulae, galaxies, planets, the sun or even the ISS ?


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