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The growth chart is led by the largest financial institution LIC, which has paid 10% more at R1,297 crore in advance tax payout for the third quarter compared to R1,166 crore in the same period a year ago.
However, the largest lender, State Bank of India, has paid marginally lower advance tax in the third quarter at R1,701 crore against R1,730 crore in the same period last year.
A statement from the State Bank said its total advance tax outgo this fiscal touched R4,694 crore against R4,484 crore paid in the corresponding period last fiscal, which is a growth of 4.5%.
Similarly, housing lender HDFC said it has paid R560 crore in advance tax against R475 crore in the year-ago period, a growth of 18%.
Advance tax is a staggered way of paying income taxes through the year. It is generally taken as a barometer of a companys earnings for the period.
Mumbai contributes over a third of the overall direct tax collection. The I-T department is targeting to collect R1,78,453 crore from the city this fiscal, a 13.5% jump over last year.
Leading private sector banks like ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank have seen their tax payouts increasing.
While ICICI Bank has paid 35% more at R675 crore, up from R500 crore, the second-largest private sector lender HDFC Bank has paid R1,000 crore in the third quarter of this fiscal against R900 crore in the same period last fiscal. Bank of Baroda paid R550 crore compared to R525 crore last quarter while Central Bank of India paid R120 crore against R104 crore in the year-ago period.
Software major TCS has also seen a major spike in its tax outgo at R810 crore compared to R530 crore, which is a growth of over 50%, while Tech Mahindra has paid R60 crore, which is the same amount it had paid in the year-ago period.
However, the largest steel maker Tata Steel has seen its outgo more than halving to R529 crore against Rs.1,090 crore.


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December 3, 2012
When President Obama won re-election last month by a larger margin than even his most fervent supporters had expected, though with fewer popular votes than he received in 2008, most commentators initially opined that not much had changed in Washington. The president would remain in the White House for another four years, the Democrats would keep control of the Senate, and the House would stay in Republican hands. Most Republicans re-elected to both houses of Congress had publicly pledged not to vote to raise taxes under any circumstances. And most of those Republicans have adhered to that promise—until now.
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, the false congressional fiscal conservatives in the Republican Party began to reveal their true selves. Led by the Republican presidential standard bearer in 2008, Arizona Sen. John McCain, at least a half-dozen Republican members of Congress have renounced their public promises never to vote to raise taxes. In the case of Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Congressman and Senator-elect Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., they had restated their promises, directly or indirectly, as recently as last month during their successful campaigns. Did they blatantly dupe the voters? Did they genuinely change their minds? Did they ever sincerely accept the pro-freedom anti-tax logic?
The Founders certainly embraced the pro-freedom anti-tax logic, as they gave us a Constitution that barred the federal government from imposing any direct tax on any persons. That was part of the genius of the document. If the feds really needed cash, they'd need to tax the states. If the states were feeling over-taxed, they could block federal taxes in the Senate, where for 135 years senators were chosen by state governments as delegates to the Senate, rather than elected by voters. This procedure, too, was part of the Founders' genius. It came about in order to assure a place at the federal table for the states, many of which were older than the federal government and all of which retained their sovereignty when they voluntarily joined the union. This procedure for choosing senators was also a check on the growth of the federal government.


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It came down to the 99 factor last night.
Sidney Crosby is touted as the Next One, the next player to follow in the footsteps of the Great One, Wayne Gretzky.
No. 99 made an appearance at the John Labatt Centre last night and while it inspired Crosby and the Rimouski Oceanic, it was a bad omen for the Kelowna Rockets.
The defending Memorial Cup champion Rockets were playing their 99th -- and what turned out to be their final -- game of the season.
The Oceanic won 4-3, sending the Rockets home without a win in their third straight Cup appearance after they had won as host team last year.
Crosby had a goal and an assist for the third straight game to take over the tournament scoring lead.
Tuesday night, he played in front of NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, who took a day off from labour talks to come and see his league's next superstar.
"It's good to see some people like that here, but we're not going to worry about it too much," Crosby said last night.
"I don't know if they had come to see me. You'll have to ask them about that. This is a pretty big tournament and I don't think they were just coming to see me."
Wherever Crosby goes, comparisons to Gretzky are made. Throw Mario Lemieux into that mix and the 17-year-old Crosby almost blushes.
But it's Gretzky himself who predicted Crosby will break his scoring records.
"I'll be the first one to tell you I don't think anyone is ever going to break his records," Crosby said. "But if he's going to say that about me, I'm going to continue what I'm doing and for sure it's flattering.
"Those are guys (Gretzky and Lemieux) that made a huge difference in the game, that I don't want to compare myself to. I've got a long ways to go before I can think about being in those guy's shoes.
"For me, I just try to stay level-headed and think about improving. And if I get comparisons like that, obviously I'm doing something right."
Crosby is happy with his play here.
"A goal and one assist in each game -- I think I've done well," he said. "There's not as much space out there as people think there is. I'm just trying to battle through it."
The Rockets fell behind 4-1 after two periods but made a game of it on Blake Comeau's back-to-back goals in the first six minutes of the third.
Comeau missed his hat trick when he shot wide on a breakaway two minutes after his second goal. But the Rockets wasted energy chasing Crosby in the first period. Tyler Spurgeon got into it with him prior to a faceoff three minutes in, then Canadian junior teammate Shea Weber moved in to give Crosby a shove.
"They were trying to shut me down and that's what teams are going to do," Crosby said. "I didn't even know it was (Weber), to be honest. We're good buddies. . . . There wasn't anything cheap. We were just two guys trying to fight hard for our team.
"I just spoke to him (after the game) and he's taking it pretty hard. I feel for him, too. I don't think anyone expected for them to come through this tournament like that."
Weber spent four seasons with the Rockets and will be on the Nashville Predators' blue-line next season.
"I don't know what went wrong," Weber said of his team's quick exit. "This is not what we expected. It's not the way we wanted to go out."
Comeau, who also played four years with Kelowna, was kicking himself for missing on the breakaway.
"Right as I was about to shoot it, the puck rolled on me and I didn't get any wood on it, so I think that was the turning point. Last year we came out on the right side of all the one-goal games and this year we didn't."
Now, as someone on the outside looking in, Comeau was asked to handicap the rest of the tournament.
"I think London is a really good team, Rimouski is a good team and so is Ottawa. In this tournament, anything can happen. Everyone can win on a given night. It's that close."


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Is China (Still) Propping Up the Bond Market?7/8/2014 5:00AM
There's a strong bid under Treasuries, which some analysts attribute to Chinese buying. Does that mean the Fed is not in control?
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From 1971 until 1973, President Richard M. Nixon recorded everything that was said in his White House Oval Office, eventually filling more than 3,000 hours of tape. You'd think such a resource would provide historians, journalists and the public with a unique opportunity to study and understand Nixon's presidency. Instead, the tapes continue to reveal the chasm between those who love Nixon and those who hate him, each side hearing what it wants. It's a common problem. To this day, detractors of Martin Luther King Jr. contend he was not saying, "I have a dream" but rather, "I love whipped cream," "I'm Martin Sheen," or "I have two spleens," while others contend he was in fact saying, "Kick whitey in the ass, and carry his head around on a sharp stick." We've compiled a few of Nixon's choicest witticisms in the latest 445 hours of tapes released by the National Archives. We've also taken the liberty of imagining how Nixon library executive director--and chief Nixon apologist--John Taylor would interpret each of the dead president's statements.
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African-Americans NIXON SAYS
"We're going to [place] more of those little Negro bastards on the welfare rolls at $2,400 a family. . . . I have the greatest affection for them, but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years." WHAT JOHN TAYLOR SHOULD SAY
What the president meant was, "They're not going to make it for 500 years; they're going to make it by the end of my presidency." As the transcript suggests, the president had great affection for African-Americans, which is borne out by his close relationship with such pioneering black leaders as Sammy Davis Jr., Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Al Jolson. SUBJECT
Latinos NIXON SAYS
"The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time, they steal; they're dishonest. They do have a concept of family life. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like." WHAT JOHN TAYLOR SHOULD SAY
Yes, the president compared blacks to dogs, but one must remember that, as his "Checkers" speech made clear, the president loved dogs. Anyone who really knew President Nixon knew that the greatest compliment one could receive from him was to be compared to a dog. He used to call Beebe Rebozo "Rover." As for seeming to call Mexicans "dishonest," this is clearly a transcription error. One must imagine the president stretching his arms out wide and saying of Mexicans, "At the present time, they're this honest." The president admired and was friends with many Mexicans, including Charo, Burt Lancaster and that guy who did the "Jose Jimenez" bit on Ed Sullivan. SUBJECT
Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black NIXON SAYS
"Senile old bastard." WHAT JOHN TAYLOR SHOULD SAY
Yet another transcription error. I happen to know that the president had invited Black to accompany him on a White House trip to Egypt. Here he was merely speaking of his excitement that he would "see the Nile with the old barrister." It's understandable that someone might misunderstand this; the president spoke softly but carried a big, um, big thing. SUBJECT
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall NIXON SAYS
"An old fool and a black fool." WHAT JOHN TAYLOR SHOULD SAY
The president wasn't saying "fool," he was saying "fuel." As you know, the president was the original Environmental President, and here he referred to upcoming constitutional rulings on fuel rationing and the importance of the "old fuel"--that is, fossil fuel, vis--vis "black fuel"--or oil, which is a fossil fuel. You can see how the mistake might be made. SUBJECT
Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan NIXON SAYS
"A jackass Catholic." WHAT JOHN TAYLOR SHOULD SAY
The president and Brennan were good, good friends--they had nicknames for each other. The president called the justice "Jack," and Brennan called him "Mr. President, sir." The president was simply stating a fact: "Jack is Catholic." Besides being a soft talker, the president was a fast talker. SUBJECT
Homosexuality NIXON SAYS
"I don't mind the homosexuality; I understand it. . . . Nevertheless, goddamn, I don't think you glorify it on public television--homosexuality --even more than you glorify whores. We all know we have weaknesses. But goddamn it, what do you think that does to kids?" WHAT JOHN TAYLOR SHOULD SAY
What the president was saying was that he favored a laissez-faire attitude when it came to gays and whores, who till his administration were relegated largely to ballet specials and kids' shows on the Public Broadcasting Network. The president favored their wider inclusion on network TV. In many ways, his comments prophesied the coming of the Fox Network. SUBJECT
Ancient Greece NIXON SAYS
"You know what happened to the Greeks! Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates." WHAT JOHN TAYLOR SHOULD SAY
The president's disdain for Greeks was well-known--a Greek married JFK's former wife. Here Mr. Nixon displays his admiration for the intelligent gay men who brought the Greeks to their knees. SUBJECT
Ancient Rome NIXON SAYS
"You know what happened to the Romans? The last six Roman emperors were fags." WHAT JOHN TAYLOR SHOULD SAY
The president was a learned man, and like all learned men, he knew that the first definition of "fag" in the dictionary is someone who works himself to exhaustion. The president had great admiration for hard workers. SUBJECT
The Soviet Union NIXON SAYS
"Let's look at the strong societies. The Russians, goddamn, they root 'em [homosexuals] out. They don't let 'em around at all. I don't know what they do with them. Look at this country. You think the Russians allow dope? Homosexuality, dope, immorality are the enemies of strong societies." WHAT JOHN TAYLOR SHOULD SAY
The president hated communism and admired anybody who could bring the communists down--including homosexuals, who, as we have seen, were responsible for the destruction of ancient Greece. The president loved homosexuals. SUBJECT
The Catholic Church NIXON SAYS
"You know what happened to the popes? They [had sex with] the nuns. That's been goin' on for years, centuries. But the Catholic Church went to hell three or four hundred years ago. It was homosexual, and it had to be cleaned out. That's what happened to Britain. It happened earlier to France." WHAT JOHN TAYLOR SHOULD SAY
Here again, it's all in the transcription. He's saying of the popes, "They [had sex with] none." SUBJECT
San Francisco NIXON SAYS
"But it's not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time . . . It is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine with that San Francisco crowd. I can't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco." WHAT JOHN TAYLOR SHOULD SAY
I think what we hear in this clip is a man yearning to reach out and embrace his fellow Americans but being frustrated as his friendship is refused. This is really an expression of his desire to reach out to the common man. It's all about the yearning. And dogs. And African-Americans and Latinos and homosexuals. He really was an awe-inspiring man. SUBJECT
TV networks NIXON SAYS
"We have to screw the networks. They've got to be screwed. They're terrible people. They're a bunch of bastards. I don't want you [Attorney General John Mitchell] to do anything right now. But I want you to screw them and screw them good." I think this clip proves once and for all that the president invented cable TV. SUBJECT
The Peace Corps NIXON SAYS
"Goddamn that Peace Corps! Goddamn that Peace Corps! What in the hell are they doing there [the Marianas]? I don't care where the hell they send them. Send them to the Congo, any place, but get them the hell out of that region. . . . They're protesters! They're against the United States. . . . Go get them the hell out of the Marianas!" WHAT JOHN TAYLOR SHOULD SAY
Transcription error. Like George Bush--and this is funny; true story!--the president was a notorious hater of vegetables. What he's actually saying is, "God darn these peas, corn." He was a man of passion, a man who was especially passionate about pasta. Knowing that, you can understand his outrage that peas and corn could possibly be in his spaghetti sauce. I think it's totally appropriate that he wants "them the hell out of the marinara." SUBJECT
Jews NIXON SAYS
"Generally, you can't trust the bastards." WHAT JOHN TAYLOR SHOULD SAY
At this point, the president was busy arranging his daughter's wedding. He had been put in charge of getting the flowers. Tricia had her heart set on an arrangement of roses and sweet peas, but the florist kept trying to sell the president carnations. Now, anyone who knows anything about flowers knows that carnations are the whores of the floral kingdom--easy, pandering, cheap, they are a low and lascivious plant. The president resisted, but the florists persisted and started to try and sell him tulips, which, as everyone knows, come from Holland, and there were some Dutch who collaborated with the Nazis. You know who controls the florist industry, don't you? The Jews. And generally . . .


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I started out not knowing much and didn't know what to expect, but wow was I very impressed with Thailand. The beaches were beautiful, the culture and friendliness of the Thai people was amazing and always make you feel welcome. I am a food lover and have never experienced food like it, especially a particular dish called Khao Sai Gai which I definitely recommend. Riding an elephant through the forest was a highlight of the trip, along the way we saw lots of the beautiful landscape and saw how the local people live. Thailand is now in my top three countries and I will definitely be going back in the near future!!
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WASHINGTON -- Openly gay D.C. Councilman David Catania introduced the long-anticipated same-sex marriage bill to little fanfare Tuesday.
The bill is expected to pass the council easily but face some intense public opposition. Catania introduced the bill with nine cosponsors, almost guaranteeing its passage later this fall after a required public hearing, which promises to be much noisier than the packed council chamber was Tuesday.
"It's quiet outrage in the city," said resident Kathryn Pearson-West. "People don't want to come across that they're antisocial or not nice or whatever, but there's a lot of concern, there are lot of people who are saying they do not want same-sex marriage."
Mayor Adrian Fenty has said he will sign the bill, but it could be opposed in Congress, which has the right to overturn it. Opponents want Congress to either block the bill or require a referendum.
Catania is confident Congress won't interfere.
"Can I predict what will happen? No," he said. "We have been in contact with the White House and with the speaker's office and we're going to work to do our best to preserve this. There are a whole host of ways in which those who are opposed to marriage equality can create mischief, and it's our job, once we get it through council, to try to play defense."
The bill protects religious freedom by not requiring houses of worship to perform or allow such marriages while granting full legal recognition in the courts and other civil places, supporters said.
However, opponents say houses of worship would be required to allow such services if they routinely make their facilities available to the general public, as many do. The opponents say that is a big "loophole" in the religious freedom part of Catania's proposal.
"This is not a personal issue," Catania said. "If it were a personal issue, then only Councilmember Graham and I would be supporting it. The fact of the matter is that there are 10 members of the council -- gay and straight -- that support this. This is about the next evolution toward human rights in the District of Columbia."
Earlier this year, the council passed a bill recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states, despite very vocal opposition.


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Here's something you already know: Congress is a mess.
Lawmakers will spend years avoiding a thorny subject because they are afraid of getting flak from constituents. Then, suddenly, they are in a huge hurry and can't wait for an idea to grab hold.
That's the case with immigration reform, which some lawmakers want us to believe has miraculously risen from the dead. You remember when it died. In the House, the bipartisan group that had tried to forge a compromise disintegrated. Congress quietly went on to other business.
Now immigration reform is back, or so we're told. House Democrats recently unveiled their own comprehensive bill. This one is a kinder, gentler version of the one approved by the Senate in June because it backs off the half-baked ideas of adding 700 miles of border fencing and doubling the size of the Border Patrol to 40,000 agents.
Instead, it requires Homeland Security to draft a plan to apprehend 90 percent of illegal border-crossers in high-traffic areas within two years and across the entire U.S.-Mexico border within five years. But let's remember that the original hard-line language was inserted into the Senate bill to attract Republican votes. The fact that it is gone means that House Democrats have given up on getting support from across the aisle. This is all for show.
Some people are figuring it out. A group called the DREAM Action Coalition, sensing that the new bill is dead on arrival, has said it hopes Democrats are not "just playing immigration politics."
Meanwhile, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, Republican Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, is pushing what you might call "amnesty lite." Young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents and go to college or join the military would get a pathway to earned citizenship. Those who don't meet those specifications would get a pathway to legal status without citizenship.
I still think immigration reform is dead, because neither party wants it to live. I also think both parties have an interest in pretending this isn't the case.
Republicans know they're facing a demographic firing squad with Latinos, who will account for one-quarter of the U.S. population by 2030. Republicans don't want to give every illegal immigrant in America a path to citizenship because citizenship means voting. And voting means payback for every dumb thing that a Republican official has ever said about immigrants, which is a long list. But the GOP doesn't want to get punished for doing nothing, either. The trick is to figure out how little they can offer Latinos and still get them to take it.
Meanwhile, Democrats are having way too much fun watching the GOP implode over the issue. So every time Republicans seem ready to throw in the towel, Democrats pick it up and throw it back at them. This is the sort of immigration politics the DREAM Action Coalition is rightfully worried about. It's not about improving the lives of immigrants as much as making miserable the lives of Republicans.
The DREAMers and other immigration reformers need to come to their senses and take the half loaf that Goodlatte is offering. It's not everything, but it's better than nothing.
At this point in the immigration debate, Republicans appear to want to make headway. Democrats just want to make mischief.
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Photographer's Note
Yerevans Blue Mosque
Yes, there exists a second Blue Mosque in the world !
Smaller than its famous namesake in Istanbul and much lesser known. But also very beautiful !
Although the entrance to the complex is in one of the main streets of Yerevan (in Mesrop Mashtots Poghota) and the gate is a fairly remarkable construction (please, have a look in the workshop), the mosque itself is located and a little hidden in the back of a garden.
Believing that the name Blue Mosque would attract every tourist in the Armenian capital, we were very surprised to find out that we were the only two visitors that afternoon.
I also looked for other pictures of it on TE and I found no. If I am not mistaken, here you find the first presentations on TE of this historical mosque in Yerevan.
Have also a look at the details of the facade in the workshop.
The mosque was built in 1765 by the Persian Governor Hussein Ali Khan as a place for Friday sermons and features a medrese (religious college) built around a garden courtyard, a 24 m high minaret and a brightly tiled turquoise dome. This information comes from the Lonely Planet guide.
During the Soviet era it didnt function as a mosque but it was a museum. After the independence of Armenia and with the support from the Iranian government, the Blue Mosque became again an Islamic prayer house.
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ikeharel (85022) 2014-03-19 22:54
Good morning Paul,
A fantastic pastel colors of the impressive edifice, view from a good POV through the green trees.
Inspite of the backlight on far left side, the stunning colors shown beautifully.
Fine photojob, and presentation.
rychem (49297) 2014-03-19 23:15
You have found a natural framing for this mosque, a nice photo of a pink/blue mosque with rich decorations, clear photo with nice color palette
jhm (167788) 2014-03-20 5:23
Dag Paul,
Wat voor ons de kerken zijn/of waren zijn de Moskee voor deze landen, hoelang nog in België of we zien deze ook in alle steden.
Dit doet niets af van uw schitterend foto, en een heel goede beschrijving.
Opnieuw een uitgerekende foto de moskee netjes in het frame van de bomen.
Heerlijk om naar te kijken.
Opnieuw goed foto werk Paul.
Groeten uit een zon overgoten Oost-Vlaanderen,
williewhistler (16606) 2014-03-20 5:29
Hello Paul,
I do like the natural frame provided by the various shapes and colours of the foliage which is in contrast to the gorgeous pink and blue tones of the Mosque.
The photographs and comprehensive note provide some very interesting information of this little known location.Thank you.
Regards Les.
Sergiom (96725) 2014-03-20 5:51
Bonjour Paul,
Tu dois avoir eu très envie de couper cette feuille au centre de l'image avant de prendre ta photo, car le cadre de verdure est superbe autour de ce superbe dôme. La lumière est spectaculaire.
Cricri (133272) 2014-03-20 6:35
Bonjour Paul
Très joli le feuillages qui cadre ce magnifique dôme, merveilleuse décorations et couleurs, les WS sont aussi très intéressant
Belle journée
adramad (52526) 2014-03-20 9:13
Hi Paul.
Wonderful POV well chosen to frame the beautiful mosque, surrounded by vegetation, the dome looks perfect with this intense blue color, both sensational job with this image, as with the two precious details that show us in the WS, where we see the bright colors of the tiles and beautiful design.
Gorgeous color, which gives a lot of strength to the image.
Very good brightness and perfect sharpness.
Well done. I love it.
Have a nice day.
Best wishes.
holmertz (64616) 2014-03-20 11:55
Hello Paul,
Seeing this mosque in a neat composition like this I am surprised that I didn't have a look at it myself. I was staying just one or two blocks away, but I was more anxious to see the Sergei Paradjanov museum in the same area. Maybe it was because I had been to Istanbul less than two weeks earlier, or that the key had to be picked up at the Iranian culture centre. I don't remember, but anyway I was the only tourist almost wherever I went in Yerevan, and all of Armenia.
This really looks delightful and you used the trees very cleverly for a good frame.
Kind regards,
Fis2 (115069) 2014-03-20 13:28
Witaj Paul!
A very curious building.
Excellant composition and POV.
Good colors and light.
I like natural frame.
Good evening
abmdsudi (63605) 2014-03-20 13:46
Hi Paul
Beautiful sense of perspective and composed with lots of attractive elements bundled in; the trees are like an invitation - providing the best framing, yet do not in any way distract from an appreciation of this unique standout mosque with its fine detail, the glorious colour scheme and architectural style. Blessed with Light and the shadows bring them all together in harmony, what more could you ask for I wonder? What a fabulous view and infor notes. Congrats and tfs
Best regards
elenimavrandoni (0) 2014-03-20 14:54
Paul, your very special point of view, the very interesting architecture and the intriguing colors, compose a beautiful image!!
take care
chrislo (4097) 2014-03-20 16:13
Dag Paul,
Mooie foto van een prachtig stukje architectuur vanuit een goed standpunt genomen. De moskee laat zich mooi fotograferen door het gebladerte dat een schitterende omlijsting vormt. Opvallend zijn uiteraard de kleuren en de motieven die het gebouw versieren. Alles steekt mooi af tegen de helblauwe lucht. Samen met de workshop foto's weer een mooi stukje reportage van je reis in Midden-Azië.
Vele groeten,
lousat (103153) 2014-03-20 16:18
Hi Paul,an excellent choice of point of view despite the leaf shadow that cover a piece of the mosque,i like the natural frame create by the trees,the details and the colors too are truly the best,magnificent example of architechture,i like it! Have a nice day and thanks,Luciano
photoray (13981) 2014-03-20 18:55
Howdy Paul,
Yerevan's Mosque is not only blue but also primary pink and gold accents. And the art details are also attractive.
Thanks for sharing,
emka (114805) 2014-03-20 19:48
Hello Paul,
This Blue Mosque as ot course on my bucket list. I love all types of mosques and I have never seen any of Persian type like this one. Beautiful composition with the turquoise tiled dome against the bright blue sky. (btw, I haven't realized that "turquoise" comes from Turkey, from blue tiles that were favorite there). The ornate facade is also fine. Nice composition with the framing of the trees - chestnut, I suppose.
Warm regrads MAlgo
krzychu30 (15512) 2014-03-21 1:03
Hello Paul,
I see,next to Georgia you´ve also discovered another less known country.That´s great-for you and of course for us as we can learn about these new places from your photos.
This one is superb!I enjoy not only architectural splendor of this Mosque,but also your concept to frame the scene and the use of the tree to build a natural frame around the picture.
Beautiful and full of rich colors shot!
Have a nice day
claudeD (43418) 2014-03-21 5:01
Hello PAul,
very fine view from Armenia showing this very interesting architecture. I like your framing and the perfect sharpness of the picture.TFS.
With regards from Luxembourg
mkamionka (42513) 2014-03-21 10:01
Hi Paul,
this is so beautiful.
You must have had a great feeling on this trip: a world which is so close and so different and most importantly so little known. It is like traveling unknown worlds. And what you say about few numbers visiting the mosque confirms that again. I am really looking forward what you will show next. This is a promise of a really exotic trip similarly to Georgia, but you do need to hurry up before emka sets her foot there :)
Great framing, beautiful work, thanks for the workshops as well,
Romano46 (18472) 2014-03-21 12:50
Ciao Paul
l'azzurro del cielo e le maioliche della moschea creano una bella continuità di colori che si arricchisce dei motivi geometrici della bella facciata.
Una bella architettura da te inserita in una bella cornice di verde creando una composizione molto piacevole.
Ottima anche la nitidezza.
Ciao e buon fine settimana
pajaran (71683) 2014-03-22 1:37
Dobar dan.
Interesantan i dobar tekst o staroj dzamiji sa opisom ...
Lep pogled na Plavu dzamiju ...
Dobar snimak, ostrina i kontrast, lepo pokazana arhitektura i detalji na fasadi, lepe boje.
Dobar rad i kompozicija, lepa arhitektura.
Imajte lep dan, sve najbolje za vikend, srecno.
Good afternoon.
An interesting and good article on the old mosque with a description ...
Nice view of the Blue Mosque ...
Good shot, sharpness and contrast, beautiful architecture and details shown on the facade, beautiful colors.
Good work and composition, beautiful architecture.
Have a nice day, all the best for the weekend, good luck.
dip (23892) 2014-03-22 2:03
Hello Paul,
I like the way you framed the mosque between the branches,
it looks really amazing and impressive,
very well captured and composed,
Kamilutka (8107) 2014-03-22 6:32
Hello Paul,
very unique piece of architecture and very nicely presented. The green bushes and branches of the tree frame it in natural and pretty way adding very much to the composition. Well saturated colors and properly balanced sharpness.
Thanks for sharing
Kind regards
mesutilgim (98560) 2014-03-22 12:41
Hello Paul,
Very nice capture from Yerevan's Blue Mosque . A beautiful competitor to our famous Blue Mosque in İstanbul.
Many interesting notes.
TFS and have a nice weekend
Subhogen (4067) 2014-03-23 0:47
Hello Paul,
Beautiful view of the blue mosque. Excellent natural framing all around with the trees. Magnificent specimen of Islamic architecture and artwork. I like the colour contrasts between the clear blue sky, the mosque and the trees. Nicely done, thanks for sharing.
m (0) 2014-03-23 12:46
Hi Paul,
wonderful composition! Besides the stunning architecture it's the charming green framing with the tree branches repeating the shape of the dome that I especially like here. Looks amazing, great job!
Thanks and best wishes!
nikkitta (17068) 2014-03-24 15:27
Hola Paul,
First congrats for taken the first capture of this mosque posted in TE
How good to be alone without crying guides to visit it
Well presented and framed with vegetation
Like the mix of soft colors orange and blue, never sse them in an islamic building
Well done
jemaflor (108570) 2014-03-25 0:30
Salut Paul,
Superbe cadre de feuillage pour valoriser la vue de cet architecture très colorée, la lumière est bien gérée. On aurait quand même envie de couper cette feuille et tige qui dépasse au centre le la vue !
ChrisJ (126767) 2014-03-26 6:17
Hello Paul
Nice use of the fg vegetation to frame the bg mosque. Good warm cold colour contrasts between the salmon pink and the blue sky. Good shadow detail and well managed lighting. I like the parallel arching branches matching the shape of the cupola. Tfs!
Angshu (56760) 2014-04-01 21:56
Dag Paul
Indeed I see from this nicely framed image that the tiles are beautiful! You've got a fantastic location to frame this shot beautifully. The pink and blue tiles contrast well...strong light, yet the beauty is easily seen! Fine work!
Best Regards
eldancer1 (36343) 2014-04-03 7:32
Awesome use of the trees to frame this beautiful mosque and it even enhance the beauty of the building. Good lighting and sharp details with wonderful colors. Well done, tfs.
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- Copyright: Paul VDV (PaulVDV) (36744)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2013-07-30
- Categories: Architecture
- Camera: Canon PowerShot S1 IS
- Exposure: f/4.5, 1/500 seconds
- Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
- Date Submitted: 2014-03-19 21:32
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• Gerardo Chacon, 17, a Vista High School student. Gerardo was a passenger killed in a single-car crash at 2 a.m. yesterday north of Vista.
• William Wardrip, 16, a Santa Fe Christian High School student. William was a passenger killed in a single-car crash at 3:30 a.m. Oct. 25 in Fairbanks Ranch.
• Alex Capozza, 17, a Torrey Pines High School student. Alex was a passenger who died in a single-car crash at 1:30 a.m. Oct. 4 in Rancho Santa Fe.
• Michael Pyper, 17, of Vista, a driver who was killed at 10:25 p.m. Sept. 25 in a single-car crash in Oceanside.
A 17-year-old Vista High School junior was killed in a rollover crash early yesterday, the fourth North County teenage boy to die in a crash since September and the second involving a suspected drunken driver.
Gerardo Chacon, a studious teen who talked of becoming a Marine, was a passenger in a 1990 Ford Mustang heading north at an unknown speed on East Vista Way just past Mason Road about 2 a.m. in an unincorporated area north of Vista.
The car drifted to the right and hit a guardrail, then crossed into the southbound lanes and struck a bus-stop shelter, ripping it from its footing before rolling over several times, said California Highway Patrol Officer Eric Newbury. The car came to rest in an open field about two blocks south of Gerardo's home.
Gerardo, who was not wearing a seat belt, was partially ejected from the car and died at the accident site from multiple blunt-force injuries to his upper body, officials with the Medical Examiner's Office said.
The driver, Reyes Miranda, 20, of Oceanside, did not have a license. Miranda suffered moderate injuries and was taken to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, where he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, Newbury said.
When Miranda is released he will be booked into jail on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter and felony driving under the influence, Newbury said. Miranda told officers he does not remember the crash.
Jack Drummond, an assistant manager at the IHOP restaurant in Vista where Gerardo worked as a host, said the boy was a solid young man who was good with computers and had a great sense of humor. Gerardo's father and 19-year-old sister also work at the restaurant.
"We're talking about a real good family," Drummond said. "I don't know why God chose to take him home."
Drummond said Gerardo wasn't into partying and focused on his studies.
The Chacon family declined to comment yesterday when contacted by a reporter.
Vista High School Principal Larry White said he was gathering information about the accident and didn't want to discuss specifics. White acknowledged the slew of recent fatal accidents involving teenagers in North County, saying his heart sinks every time he hears it is a local high school student.
"This is devastating anytime we lose somebody," White said.
That devastation seems to be recurring often of late.
In the early hours of Oct. 4, 17-year-old Alex Capozza, a popular student at Torrey Pines High School, was killed in a rollover crash on La Granada, a winding road in Rancho Santa Fe. Alex was riding in a car with four other boys when the driver lost control and crashed.
Alex, who was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown from the car, authorities said.
The 17-year-old driver was arrested and has been charged with one count of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence while intoxicated and two counts of drunken driving causing injury. He is being held at Juvenile Hall and entered the equivalent of not-guilty pleas at a hearing Oct. 7.
Three weeks later, a 16-year-old boy was killed in a crash in Fairbanks Ranch.
William Wardrip, who attended Santa Fe Christian High School, was riding in a sport utility vehicle with four other teens on San Dieguito Road near Circa del Norte when the driver, who had recently been licensed, lost control of the vehicle on a curve and the SUV rolled several times.
William was the only person not belted in and was ejected, the CHP said. Investigators determined that drugs and alcohol were not involved in the accident.
A fourth crash with some of the same characteristics of the other wrecks occurred Sept. 25. Michael Pyper, 17, of Vista was killed in Oceanside after he was ejected from his vehicle. Oceanside police Sgt. Kelan Poorman said the boy was using a passive restraint — a belt that runs over the shoulder and is automatically engaged by closing the driver's door in some vehicles— but did not have a lap belt secured.
Michael had just left a football game at Rancho Buena Vista High School and was heading west on Lake Boulevard about 10:25 p.m. when he lost control of the car. It hit a tree and went airborne, Poorman said. He was thrown from the vehicle and died on the roadside, two days shy of his 18th birthday.
Newbury of the CHP said Vista High School conducted an "Every 15 Minutes" program last year that demonstrated the dangers associated with driving while impaired. He said it is frustrating that the message does not seem to reach everybody.
"I couldn't believe it happened again," Newbury said.
He cited peer pressure, complacency and lack of parental supervision as factors in such accidents.
"Kids want to experience life, they overlook the dangers," he said.
Newbury also said that if the boys killed in the recent accidents had been wearing seat belts they may have survived.
"Seat belts always make a difference," he said.
Newbury conducts "Smart Start" classes intended to educate teen drivers on several things, including seat belt usage. He is teaching a class Friday at the Carlsbad Police Department and hopes parents will take an interest and bring their children.
Anyone interested in the class can call (760) 757-0824.
Gerardo Chacon is survived by his parents and two sisters. The IHOP is gathering donations to help the family pay for funeral costs. Call (760) 727-9642 to contribute.Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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Chelsea have not been the nation's darlings for quite some time. The country has had a soft spot for them now and again but it is 39 years since the public was so indulgent that it swept Blue Is The Colour to No5 in the charts. The degree of fondness for a club can often be in inverse proportion to the wealth of the owner, so people at large will not be doting on them in the foreseeable future.
Nonetheless, the Premier League needs a side who believe they can grapple successfully with Manchester United. There is a chance of Manchester City taking that role but the inability to win after holding the lead against Fulham suggests Roberto Mancini does not yet have a lineup with enough consistency.
The manager knew perfectly well that it was essential to be more adventurous if the major trophies were to be pursued but it is still important to exercise control. At Liverpool, the sense of resurgence has vanished in the past couple of weeks. Arsenal are in distress. It would seem that Chelsea are best placed to ensure that there are still the occasional twinges of anxiety at Old Trafford.
The reputation of the Premier League would suffer if an entire season had to be spent in nothing more than contemplation of the finesse and thoroughness with which Sir Alex Ferguson has reshaped United so swiftly. André Villas-Boas, his opposite number at Stamford Bridge, is therefore an even more important figure than he would have been simply for the prominence that comes with the job.
Since José Mourinho left Chelsea in September 2007, only one person has held the post for an entire season. Indeed, Carlo Ancelotti has the distinction of surviving two complete campaigns. Chelsea seem more measured in their policy at present. The proprietor, Roman Abramovich, can surely not have settled on Villas‑Boas without steeling himself to be slightly more patient.
At 33, the Portuguese is both phenomenon and, to an extent, novice, although his time on Mourinho's backroom staff at Porto, Internazionale and Chelsea would have been educational. His expertise was confirmed more through the victories in last season's Europa League ties with Villarreal and Sevilla than in the final itself, where Braga were beaten 1-0.
Villas-Boas now undertakes a larger project. It is a task that calls for delicacy. He cannot adopt drastic measures when a degree of continuity is vital to any bid for honours. However, the manager may have no choice but to make headlines in some areas. There is, after all, an inherent difficulty in counting on a box-to-box midfielder who has turned 33.
Frank Lampard did not last beyond the interval in the 3-1 defeat at Old Trafford. He will have noticed a trend. Fabio Capello allowed him the closing 10 minutes against Bulgaria and then substituted him against Wales, when it was deemed that Scott Parker was necessary to see out a 1-0 win. The fact that Nicolas Anelka, Lampard's replacement in the match with United, is just a year younger underlines the nature of the project before Villas‑Boas. Had Didier Drogba, 33, not been sidelined since his concussion in the match with Norwich, the mature tone could have been even more marked.
The new manager, with all his youth and hope, will have been given the post because he looks equipped with the freshness and energy to restructure the squad. That mission is already in process, with Juan Mata, 23, starting against United, the 18-year-old Romelu Lukaku coming on, and Oriol Romeu, 19, among the unused substitutes. Villas-Boas has acted as if he expects to be shown patience but such a sensible approach is always likely to be abandoned if results go too far wrong at a club with grand ambitions.
Chelsea need someone to lift the spirits. Oddly enough, Fernando Torres may have to be press-ganged into the role. He might have notched only his second goal for the club since the £50m transfer from Liverpool in January but it was taken with an efficiency at Old Trafford that very nearly made the shot he later put wide while looking at the unattended posts an aberration rather than a sign of continuing fragility in the Spaniard's mind.
Torres seems to embody Chelsea to an uncomfortable degree at the moment. Each of them have the potential to impress but it is still to be demonstrated that they can regain the reliability of old.


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A newspaper article in today's Daily Mail (July 11th 2011) 'Hotels 'bribe guests for online reviews' compels me to add a comment. And to give some advice to those seeking to use tripadvisor in order to find a good hotel or bed and breakfast/guest house.
Firstly, I consider tripadvisor to be a useful tool for enabling guests to give objective and honest feedback and for it to be shared with fellow travellers. At Polraen, we have encouraged feedback via tripadvisor for a couple of years now, by displaying a tripadvisor stand close to our visitors book and in a simple email to our guests, thank them for their stay and provide a link to the review page, assuring them "What you write is totally up to you." We offer no incentives. Which is why there is some cause for concern that the system is being abused by some hoteliers, and sadly by a Cornwall hotel. I'm glad that tripadvisor reviews of Polraen Country House Hotel are overwhelmingly positive BUT…….. stories like today's will regretfully undermine the perceived impartiality of the tripadvisor site. So for those seeking to use tripadvisor as a source of information to help make the right decision on where to book, here are some points to bear in mind.
Tripadvisor Reviews – Six Top Tips
- Be sceptical of any establishment which has 5 star reviews – exclusively! The saying 'You can't please all of the people all of the time is true'. So if there is nothing negative at all under a rave review listing, consider that only 'safe' guests (or friends) are being invited to submit reviews.
- Don't be put off by the odd negative review about a place you like the look of. Read several reviews to understand the trend over time. And for a poor review, always read the management response if there is one, giving the 'other side of the story'. If however, no management responses are shown against poor reviews, consider that this reflects a complacent attitude by the hotel management – ie not taking the time to respond to a guest complaint.
- Remember, some guests can be 'bad guests' with malicious intent who set about finding fault. If a guest makes the initial mistake in booking a hotel not suited to their needs, a complaint will frequently result but…..Is this the fault of the hotel or the guest? If a guest expects to use a gift voucher on a Sat night in peak season for a one night stay, and can't, so submits a negative review out of frustration, tripadvisor still accept this as a customer service experience, yet the rating might only reflect the misunderstanding of terms and conditions/frustration/disappointment and not necessarily the hotel's customer service performance during the phone enquiry.
- Note that sometimes, tripadvisor gets it wrong and unfairly upholds a bad review (disputed by the hotel owner) because the tripadvisor 'dispute' email is limited to 200 characters which occasionally does not permit a proper understanding of the issue. (We had an experience of this ourselves when a guest posted a picture almost 2 years after their stay, posting it as NEW! when it was in fact 20 months old since when our bathrooms had been refurbished! It took nearly 6 weeks to get the misleading and defamatory photo taken down.)
- Don't let the rather offputting privacy policy dissuade you from submitting a review. One of our guests recently drafted an excellent review * but declined to submit it, as they were concerned for their privacy when confronted by a lengthy opt-in policy regarding Facebook sign in. I raised the issue via the tripadvisor forum, and received this explanation. 'There is no requirement to sign on through FaceBook. It is an option. And there is no requirement to share your reviews. You can say No. TripAdvisor has options to: (a) disconnect completely from FaceBook if you had at some point connected; (b) disable instant personalization.' Other advice also highlighted that it is incumbent upon Facebookers to review their own privacy settings on Facebook to control the level of access which others have to their Facebook posts etc. (My own view? When tripadvisor is seeking to have access to your profle information and to access your friends information, I certainly have sympathy with my guest who was concerned "about potentially being bombarded with their adverts, or subjecting my family to the same." From a marketing perspective, if something appears off putting and intrusive and therefore acts as an obstacle to travellers undertaking the desired outcome (ie submitting a review) then I would argue that the onus is on the marketing gurus at tripadvisor to consider this. I have found that it has only been the relatively recent development of the Facebook sign in option that has escalated the issue – as the level of text dedicated to the opt in approval prior to submitting a review has become overcomplicated and lengthy – a potential turn off to our guests. I will be monitoring how comfortable our guests feel about this going forward.)
- Remember, regardless of how attractive the incentive is, don't accept a bribe! However well dressed up it is! And consider reporting any establishment which, in your opinion, is coercing you to submit a biased review.
Businesses like Polraen over the last couple of years have contributed hugely to building tripadvisors community of travellers by encouraging the practice of posting reviews. Regretfully, it does seem that the independent review site appears a little 'less independent' now tripadvisor is charging for business listings to feature contact details and special offers, earning revenue from selling third party ad space to online booking agencies and sadly being manipulated by some accommodation owners in this way.
*And here is the review about Polraen that never got posted: "
"This is a great little Hotel with very friendly owners who go out of their way to make their guests welcome. Our room was small but very comfortable and spotlessly clean. The free Wi-fi was useful. The food is locally sourced and beautifully cooked by Martin. The menu is varied, the food well presented and everything was delicious. Gill is queen of the raspberry pavlovas!
The setting is very peaceful, with a lovely garden and ample parking. We found it convenient for exploring with and without the car. There are many exciting places of interest within a reasonable distance. We visited Eden, Tintagel, Heligan and more. We wouldn't hesitate to recommend Polraen and we would love to go again."


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Charlie: No, I was talking about . . I didn't say . . what'd you hear?
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Frank: Like people getting ass raped?
Charlie: What? Oh my God, no one's getting ass raped, Frank! Come on, man!
Mac: No, it's just that people don't wanna be here, because they feel like...
Frank: Because they're getting ass raped!
Dennis: Some gay guys are twinks, and others are bears. This gay guy's a bear. By the way we're totally cool with that. To each his own.
Frank: Wait, I'm a little confused here. What's a twink?
Dennis: A twink is small and slender, like Mac.
Mac: Oh no, I'm too muscular, I would be a bear.
Dennis: Ohh don't think so bro. Not hairy enough.
Frank: Smooth. I would be a bear.
Dennis: No no, see I don't think you'd be a bear either. As a matter of fact I don't know what you would be because you're definitely not a twink.
Frank: I'd be a top, that's for sure.
Mac: Can a twink be a top, or is that reserved for bears?
Dennis: I'm sure there's a great deal of switching back and forth, but I think more often than not bears are tops, unless they happen to be power bottoms.
Frank: What's a power bottom?
Mac: A power bottom is a bottom that is capable of receiving an enormous amount of power.
Dennis: Actually Mac, you got it backwards. See a power bottom's actually generating all the power by doing most of the work.
Frank: Does the power have to do with the size or the strength of the bottom?
Mac: Now Dennis, I've heard that speed has something to do with it.
Dennis: Speed has everything to do with it. You see the speed of the bottom informs the top how much pressure he's supposed to apply. Speed's the name of the game. Right buddy?
Dennis: My nose was chiseled by the gods themselves, Frank. My body was sculpted to the proportions of Michelangelo's David. You, on the other hand, well, you're a pit of despair. Frank, you disgust me. You disgust everyone, and you will never EVER be on that billboard.
Artemis: Deandra, you wanted in on this poop war from the start!
Dee: No, I didn't.
Artemis: ...The outcast. The slut. The *****. The whore. The lonely, sad, slutty, *****y whore. You sat on the sideline while these four titans battled it out. You were jealous that a few pieces of poop got more attention than you. That's why when the lights went out you unleashed some thunder of your own. Thunder of the...chocolate variety!
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It's *Brendon Urie
don't feel bad I misspelled his name in my review as well :3
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffGive it a few more listens. It's better than average that's for sure!
Album Rating: 3.0Disappointed by the lack of mention of The End of All Things
Probably one of the best PatD songs
Album Rating: 3.0Nicotine is still the best song off this album.
Album Rating: 3.5hahahahaha your review is off a shitty quality Youtube rip that ripped the video cut of Miss Jackson,
the actual album cut is a bit over 3 minutes long. Make sure you have the actual album before
reviewing. I agree the album is pretty average though
Album Rating: 2.5not good album, me sad.
Album Rating: 2.5 It's *Brendon Urie
don't feel bad I misspelled his name in my review as well :3
whoops. thanks.
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffThis and ADTR are the best albums this month for me
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text: Traugott Buhre was a German actor. Buhre was born at Insterburg, East Prussia, Germany the son of a Lutheran Pastor. His parents divorced in his childhood and after World War II he started his actor's education at the stage school of Hanover. Buhre appeared at the Frankonian Theater of Wetzhausen. He was a member of the ensembles of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Schauspielhaus Bochum, Thalia-Theater Hamburg, Deutsches ...... more on Wikipedia


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More than 60 family and friends of the late University of Nevada, Reno human development and family studies professor Judy Calder gathered Oct. 9 in the Sarah Fleischmann Building's Sandra Neese Room to celebrate the life of their fallen colleague.
"This is our way of saying goodbye to Judy," friend and University colleague Jeanne Hilton said. "For those of us who could not make it to her service at Arlington National Cemetery, this is our opportunity to remember the woman Judy was and express our feelings."
Calder, a longtime faculty member, died Aug. 18. Police, who found her body in Elko County, are investigating her death as a homicide. She was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
The College of Health and Human Sciences has been strongly impacted by Calder's death.
"Because we have faculty members in more than 10 buildings across campus, it has been difficult to bring everyone together, at one time, to remember Judy," said Charlie Bullock, dean of the college. "It was devastating when we learned of Judy's tragic death. She was a friend to all of us and we miss her dearly."
Several special guests will be present at tonight's Celebration of Life, including her husband, Jim Calder; their daughter Kim Calder; and Judy's sister, Carolyn Conger. Bullock will also announce the establishment of the Judy Calder Memorial Scholarship.
The annual scholarship will be awarded to an undergraduate or graduate student who best exemplifies Calder's vibrant and enduring spirit of scholarship, research and commitment to the "Building a Healthy Nevada" framework she helped establish in the College of Health and Human Sciences.
"Jim Calder was extremely supportive of establishing this scholarship," Bullock said. "Judy was so supportive of the 'Building a Healthy Nevada' initiative in the college. We wanted to honor her and keep her spirit alive."
The initiative is a faculty-driven concept to improve the quality of life for people around the globe by addressing some of Nevada's most pressing social and health needs. Faculty, staff and students work as a team with community partners and others on campus to discover and implement ideas that will make a difference for individuals and communities. The college is addressing several key areas within that concept, including physical health, social well-being, behavioral health, public safety and resourceful communities.
Calder was born Nov. 1, 1942, and had been a faculty member at the University since 1992. Her employment at the University in recent years included as associate professor in the human development and family studies department. Calder had also directed survey research for the former Alan Bible Center for Applied Research.
Calder's lifetime contributions and accomplishments are many. Noteworthy are her 15 years working with the Centers for Disease Control's Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance Study in Nevada and her research on family and domestic violence. Additionally, Calder forged relationships with the State Department of Health and Human Services. She was a strong advocate for students, using innovative teaching methods to enhance the classroom experience. She was highly respected among her students and peers for her intelligence, willingness to stand up for what she believed in and for caring passionately about people.
Calder received all of her higher education degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles. She earned her bachelor's degree in English in 1967, a master of arts degree in 1970 and her doctor of education degree with an emphasis in research methodology in 1977.
"Judy's death has pulled us together in a number of ways," Bullock said. "We are still saying goodbye and grieving."


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This is a no-kill shelter. I am a volunteer and I walk dogs and spend time playing with the dogs. I also try to help these animals to find new homes.
There are really great animals that have been at this shelter for a very long time. I really enjoy working with the staff and the other volunteers. The shelter does not receive any state or local funding so it totally depends on donations. There is a need for money to spay and neuter some of the animals and to keep the shelter going.
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Since I have retired I decided to spend some time volunteering at the shelter but I find myself going there 5 or 6 days a week. I love the dogs and the people are so easy to work with.
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I would love for the shelter to have more money for spaying and neutering the animals and I would love to have agility equipment for the dogs. Some of the animals have been severely abused and the confidence they could gain with this equipment would really help them.


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The 2011 print edition of the AP Stylebook is available today, and while the focus is on a brand new "Food Guidelines" section, the "journalist's bible" has updated their social media guidelines section as well to include some new tech terms.
Last year, the AP Stylebook added a bunch of new social media guidelines to their rules for journalists. Among those guidelines was a change from "web site" to "website," hyphenating "e-reader," and allowing fan, friend, and follow to be used as verbs.
They also added social media terms "trending," "retweet" and "unfriend" to the Stylebook. The latter settling the debate once and for all that "unfriend" is more acceptable than "defriend."
In March, the AP added some notable tech terms to their online edition of the Stylebook. They decided to officially go with "email" as opposed to "e-mail" and they took the spaces out of "cellphone" and "smartphone," making them one word entities on their own.
In the newly revised 2011 print edition, the AP has added some more social media / tech terms to the Stylebook. Among them - geolocation, geotagging, link shortener, stream and unfollow. I've been guilty of hyphenating geo-location in the past, so I'm now glad to have one less character to deal with. They announced these changes via Twitter last night:
As I said before, tech word additions aren't the focus of the fully revised Stylebook. The focus is food. FYI, the AP added words such as locavore as the preferred term for a person who strives to eat locally and "blind bake" to describe the action of baking a pie crust before filling it. They also added "huitlacoche," a fungus also known as "corn smut" that grows on corn and is considered a delicacy in Mexico. Mmmmm...corn smut.
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Now that Joe has been through a vasectomy surgery and is on the mend, all systems go, right? Wrong. Did you know that a man is not 100% sterile after a vasectomy? I didn't! If you thought that he was sterile right after surgery you might experience a vasectomy failure. A man is as sterile the day after a vasectomy as he was before. Make sure you get the facts straight on this one, ladies, or you could be the victim of a vasectomy failure.
As much as I hate that our birth control method of a vasectomy is so permanent, I know I don't want to be pregnant right now. I'm not looking to risk a vasectomy failure so I made sure to know how to proceed now that Joe has been "snipped". It can take up to 2 months or a couple dozen ejaculations before a man is considered "sterile".
Just because they cut the tube doesn't mean there still aren't ninja sperm hanging out in the plumbing. After a while the idea is those die-hards should be cleaned out. But who wants to take the chance? Just to be safe, Joe's urologist (and I assume most urologists that perform vasectomies) asked Joe to bring in a sample in one month to be examined for rogue sperm. A second sample needs to be brought in in two months. They aren't taking any chances with vasectomy effectiveness.
The urologist explained that even though they do their best to ensure vasectomy effectiveness by snipping out a whole section of the vas deferens, stitching both ends, one of those ends being folded back on itself and stitched, that no vasectomy procedure is 100% fail proof. There are cases, rare cases, but cases nonetheless where the vas deferens has reconnected and resulted in a vasectomy failure. Now that is seriously amazing! If a sperm can sneak past all that, that resulting baby is a bona fide miracle baby.
Is it wrong to admit that I wouldn't mind if that happened one day? I'm saying it loud and clear: I would be shocked, but I would not be heartbroken if Joe's vasectomy effectiveness proved to be other than effective. With a two month old newborn currently cramping my sleeping style, I'm not saying I want a vasectomy failure any time soon, but who knows? Maybe in a couple of years I wouldn't mind a ninja sperm kicking the trash out of the urologist's efforts. Not likely, but you never know.
Here's the thing…If it did happen that I ended up pregnant despite Joe having a vasectomy, guess who is going to look like a first class hussy? Vasectomy failure equals instant marriage counseling or at least a paternity test while pregnant. Yikes!