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Anthony Straeger
Actor – Voice Over Artist
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I am an Englishman hailing from what is often referred to as 'Gods County' – Yorkshire. I was born in the industrial town of Bradford and my first thought as a young man was; 'How the Hell do I get out of here?' As a result I completed my 'A levels' and went off to study English and Drama at York University where I gained my BA. From there I had a choice: a six months Theatre Tour or join a Rock Band touring around Europe… No contest, after all who can resist 'Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll' – That's Armed Forces playing somewhere in Germany in 1980! The touring was long… The fun it waned… And the success was limited! So the band broke up and I moved to London.
Endless auditions for casting directors, agents and theatre companies slowly began to pay off and work started coming theatre included; Rocky Horror Show (Brad) in Germany, Sting in the Tale (George) UK Tour, Oliver (Sykes) at the Plymouth Theatre Royal. But my first major TV break through was as Judge Jugular in the BBC's 'For Amusement Only' a thirteen week children's entertainment series. ( I even found this old image from the BBC promotional archive – You have to love a man in a uniform!)
Time passed and I had some good, bad and downright ugly years, but eventually I reached a point where I need to change, so I moved to Berlin – Why? Katrin (my wife) said so! I Now find that I'm a veteran with over 40 years of experience in Film, TV, Theatre and Commercials. I'm also a seasoned Voice Over artist with my own home recording studio. And as we know it is a multimedia/transmedia industry these days and have (like so many) diversified and built up a reputation for script writing and editing.
Recent work includes: The series 'Mission Backup Earth' that has proved to be a successful venture and won a total of 12 awards at festivals around the world. 'Land of Mine' (Denmark) directed by Martin Zandvliet has been acclaimed around the world and won several major awards. 2019 saw the release of 'Zyntrax: Symphony of Flesh' a Sci-fi horror. with 'Beyond Fury' featuring the Italian horror star Giovanni Lombardo Radice being released in 2020 (Here's a good article in Fangoria) premiering in 2020.
I'm currently developing a documentary on one of Germany's best kept secret, Wilhelm Busch, satirist, artist and poet. Plus my delightful horror movie 'Surviving the Maze' – A story about political corruption and greed, is in development.
I'm always interested in new works and feel free to drop me a line for further information or even to let me know what you think of the site.
Email: anthony@straeger.co.uk
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We asked three of our contributors to name a stock that he or she believes would make a great investment for a child. Find out below why American Water Works , Synaptics , and NextEra Energy could be tickets to your grandkids' financial head start in life.
American Water Works is not a stock you or your grandchild will have to closely monitor. While many things will change in the decades to come, it's a certainty that your grandkid will grow up in a world where water remains the most essential commodity on the planet.
You'll be hard-pressed to find a stock that offers this type of stability while generating superior long-term gains. Since its April 2008 IPO, American Water Works stock has returned (including dividends) 320% through March 29, crushing the S&P 500's return of 77%. Moreover, this so-called "stodgy" utility also beat the returns of many stocks commonly recommended for kids, such as Walt Disney (245%), McDonald's(173%), Mattel (144%), andCoca-Cola (96%) over this period. There are some potentially attractive stocks among this bunch (I'm partial to Disney), but none of them sell a product guaranteed to be in demand -- or even in existence -- decades from now.
American Water Works has solid future growth potential, which should lead to continued market-beating long-term returns. It's the 800-pound gorilla in a very fragmented industry, which provides it with the resources to continue to grow through acquisitions. Moreover, it has pricing power in its nonregulated business.
Tim BruggerA great stock to take advantage of your grandkids' long time horizon for investing, and to get in on the Internet of Things (IoT) -- a multitrillion-dollar market opportunity -- is Synaptics.
Synaptics develops displays, touchscreens, and fingerprint security solutions primarily for mobile devices. Of last quarter's record $471 million in revenue, approximately 87% was mobile-related, and the balance was from Synaptics' PC-related products. Now, Synaptics is ready to grow its mobility business via one of the fastest-growing areas of IoT: connected cars.
How big is in-car technology? According to a recent study, new car buyers are more interested in an automobile's infotainment system than actual driving performance. Synaptics boasts a suite of solutions to win the connected-car wars, and it has already inked deals with some of the world's largest auto parts manufacturers.Better still, despite Synaptics' early wins, it's only scratched the surface of a market that will become as commonplace as a radio by the time today's grandkids become adults.
Synaptics was recently the recipient of a rumored $110 buyout offer earlier this year, its second in four months. The inquiry was notable because Synaptics was trading at just $62.05 a share at the time. It may fly under many investors' radars, but pundits certainly recognize the potential Synaptics offers.
Synaptics is an absolute bargain, too. Trading at just 10 times future earnings compared to its current 23, the Street clearly expects Synaptics' impressive revenue growth to continue. The grandkids of today already live in an IoT world, and Synaptics gives them an opportunity to grow their portfolios right along with the next trillion-dollar market.
Sean WilliamsIf you're looking for a "set it and forget it"-type stock for your grandchildren, my suggestion would be to consider utility giantNextEra Energy.
NextEra Energy supplies power to more than 4.8 million residents in Florida and is best known for its subsidiary Florida Power & Light Company, or FPL. What makes FPL unique is that it's one of the largest rate-regulated utilities in the country. While rate regulation might give shareholders the desire to pull their hair out from time to time since rate hikes require permission from regulators, it also means less exposure to wholesale electricity cost fluctuations, and very predictable cash flow.
More important, NextEra Energy is the United States' utility kingpin when it comes to alternative energy investments. Although investing in wind and solar isn't cheap -- through 2014, NextEra had shelled out $20 billion to develop its wind business -- the long-term rewards could be huge. As the U.S. government begins pushing cleaner emissions standards on electric utilities, NextEra looks primed to be in great shape, with 32 million megawatt-hours of wind generation and approximately 700 MW of solar-power generation in 2014. Both figures are tops in the country for electric utilities. As the cost to provide alternative energy drops, it means NextEra could have a clear cost advantage over its peers. As a bonus, it also means FPL's customers could see smaller price hikes since FPL's costs remain under control.
Despite its heavy investment in alternative energy, the company is also paying out a market-topping 3% yield. With EPS growth looking to remain steady in the 4%-7% range for the foreseeable future, and NextEra selling a basic-need product (electricity), investing in this stock could be a smart way to give your grandkids' savings accounts a jolt.
The article 3 Top Stocks to Buy Your Grandkids originally appeared on Fool.com.
Beth McKenna has no position in any stocks mentioned. Sean Williams has no position in any stocks mentioned. Tim Brugger owns shares of Walt Disney. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Coca-Cola and Walt Disney. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


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Walks Like a Telco, Yalks Like a Telco… Must be a Telco
By Alec Saunders Vice President, Developer Relations, BlackBerry
Vonage's latest woes are written up by Om Malik in Vonage: How Low Can You Go. More interesting than Om's reportage (Sprint wins case, Vonage ordered to pay damages, stock drops to $1.30) is the commentary afterward, in which one reader takes Om to task for the "gleeful" way in which he reports the demise of the VoIP companies.
VoIP companies are dying because they're undifferentiated. In most cases, the early success stories have been built on the idea that they could simply clone the phone company's service and offer it at a lower price. Boosters made the argument that VoIP was fundamentally cheaper than the TDM systems that phone companies deploy, and so therefore they enjoyed a price advantage in the market place.
Anyone in the business of supplying telecom equipment, however, will tell you that the argument is flawed.
VoIP companies like Vonage must build out networks of gateways and softswitches, or outsource those requirements to third party suppliers like Level 3. That's a capital cost. The incumbent telcos don't have that cost. They have existing working systems that are, in many cases, paid for. Moreover, the incumbents are using the profits from their existing networks to fund the build-out of more technically advanced VoIP systems. The benefit Vonage offers the customer is cheap calling, but the incumbents have the advantage. We've seen that as, here in Canada, Bell Canada has responded to VoIP pricing pressure by offering a $25/month unlimited North American pricing plan.
To get to free phone calls requires a fundamental change in architecture which Vonage et al have not embraced. It requires pushing the core calling functionality to the edge of the network, which implies turning off the "minute meter". Voice, in this scenario, is nothing more than an undifferentiated stream of bits, charged at the bandwidth rate of the network operator. The profits must be made from the services surrounding the call—before and after—not during.
The SIP standard anticipates this model by allowing for both peer-to-peer calling models, and calling models which pass through a centralized proxy. While no VoIP "operator" has ever embraced the peer SIP model, Skype has delivered peer calling on their proprietary protocol. Skype understands that the money isn't in transporting the bits, but rather in all of the ancillarly pieces that can be offered around that bit transport—ring tones, voice mail, phone numbers, and protocol licensing to third parties who wish to attach equipment to the Skype peer network. Similarly, by embedding conference calling in Facebook, at iotum we're trying to create a better experience before and after the call, rather than during simply focusing on the cost of the call (although free is pretty compelling, I would argue…)
That's the fundamental difference between the success of Skype and the failure of Vonage and SunRocket. Skype doesn't look like a telco. Vonage, however, walks like a telco and talks like a telco… without a telco's deep pockets.
By Alec Saunders, Vice President, Developer Relations, BlackBerry
Dan Campbell – Jan 8, 2008 8:58 PM
Well, Vonage is (a.) still very cheap, (b.) provides good service and (c.) supplies service that even non-computer / non-Skype people can use. Aside from the $25/month flat rate for US calling, which is cheaper than I was getting before between my LEC and IXC, I get very cheap rates when calling the UK, which is where my wife's folks and friends are. Better yet, for a mere $5/month I get a London phone number so that calls made to us from my wife's London friends and family appear to them as cheap local calls within London and are free to us. That is an unbeleivable thing and totally win-win. And it's no different than any calling they already have been making their whole lives. Also, the features they offer, particularly the control you have through their web-interface, are awesome. Skype is also great and we use both the voice and especially the video conferencing between the US, London and other places. But it hasn't replaced Vonage for us and won't unless Skype comes out with an external phone-like appliance that eliminates any computer dependence, both literally and in terms of know-how. (If Skype has such a device, I'm not aware of it. We use it through our PCs.) Overall, Vonage has been great and I will be really in a bind if the lawsuits cause them to go under.
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Russian officials move to shut Navalny's foundation
People walk past a pre-election poster depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin in St.Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. The sign on poster reads: 'Strong president-strong Russia'. On March 18 presidential elections will be held in Russia. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Justice Ministry said Monday it has filed a lawsuit to shut down a company used by opposition leader Alexei Navalny that is being used to finance his political campaigning.
The Justice Ministry said it has asked a Moscow court to close the Fifth Season of the Year foundation, which rents premises for Navalny's headquarters and employs campaign workers, over unspecified violations. The court is set to consider it next Monday.
Navalny has unofficially campaigned for the presidency despite an implicit ban on his candidacy due to a fraud conviction seen by many as politically driven. Election officials last month formally barred him from the March 18 vote.
While President Vladimir Putin is set to easily win the vote, his strategists want to make his performance as strong as possible and are worried about voter apathy.
Navalny has urged a boycott of the election, and tweeted Monday that the ministry's move reflects authorities' fear of what he dubbed "voters' strike."


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Q: Issue rotating bitmap in Android I'm having a problem getting a bitmap to rotate properly.  I have a SurfaceView with multiple bitmaps on it.  These bitmaps exist within an arraylist and using a for loop I call canvas.drawBitmap for each one in the onDraw method.
@Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
    super.onDraw(canvas);
    canvas.drawColor(Color.BLACK);

    for (int i = 0; i < jumper.size(); i++) {
        canvas.drawBitmap(jumper.get(i).getGraphic(), jumper.get(i)
                .getCoordinates().getX(), jumper.get(i).getCoordinates()
                .getY(), null);
    }
}

I am attempting to have the user select a specific bitmap (one of many) and then have that bitmap rotate while the user drags his finger across the screen.  So here is the rotation code.  For now I'm just using the default android icon (72x72px) existing at a random position somewhere near the center of the screen.
private void rotateJumper(int direction) {
    Matrix matrix = new Matrix();
    Bitmap source = jumper.get(selectedJumperPos).getGraphic();
    matrix.postRotate(direction, source.getWidth() / 2,
            source.getHeight() / 2);
    int x = 0;
    int y = 0;
    int width = 72;
    int height = 72;
    Bitmap tempBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(source, x, y, width, height,
            matrix, true);
    jumper.get(selectedJumperPos).setGraphic(tempBitmap);
}

The integer direction is either +1 or -1 depending on the direction of the finger drag.  So the image should rotate 1 degree for every MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE event.
Here are the problems:

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*The image doesn't rotate about the image center.  CW rotations center about the bottom left corner.  CCW rotations center about the top right corner.

*Since it isn't rotating about the center, the image rotates outside its initial bounds and eventually disappears.

*The image gets blurry as it rotates.

Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

A: Pardon me for rather offtopic answer, but your for -loop caught my attention. It might be possible to write it in 'more readable' format;
for (YourJumperItem item : jumper) {
    canvas.drawBitmap(
        item.getGraphic(), item.getCoordinates().getX(),
        item.getCoordinates().getY(), null );
}

Where YourJumperItem is the class type your jumper -array contains. Unfortunately can't say much about rotating Bitmaps, am just promoting this handy way of writing for -loops.

A: Use the matrix to draw the existing bitmap to the canvas rather than creating a new bitmap:
@Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
    super.onDraw(canvas);
    canvas.drawColor(Color.BLACK);

    for (int i = 0; i < jumper.size(); i++) {
        canvas.drawBitmap(jumper.get(i).getGraphic(), jumper.get(i).getMatrix(), null);
    }
}

private void rotateJumper(int direction) {
    Matrix matrix = jumper.get(selectedJumperPos).getMatrix();
    if(matrix == null) {
        matrix = new Matrix();
        matrix.setTranslate(jumper.get(...).getCoord...().getX(), jumper.get(..).getCoord...().getY());
        jumper.get(selectedJumperPos).setMatrix(matrix);
    }
    Bitmap source = jumper.get(selectedJumperPos).getGraphic();
    matrix.postRotate(direction, source.getWidth() / 2,
            source.getHeight() / 2);

}

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Fears about overtonnaging, and continuing uncertainty about the global economy, were the main reasons for the decline in confidence. The rising cost of marine fuels was also a cause for concern.
In August 2011, the average confidence level expressed by respondents in the markets in which they operate was 5.3 on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high), compared to 5.6 in the previous survey in May 2011. This is the lowest figure recorded since the survey was launched in May 2008 with a confidence rating of 6.8, which remains the highest rating achieved thus far.
Confidence over the three-month period covered by the latest survey fell most noticeably on the part of owners, down from 5.8 to 5.1, the lowest owner rating recorded during the life of the survey to date. Confidence levels among charterers were even lower at 5.0, but the fall in comparison with the previous survey (from 5.4) was less than that for owners. Confidence on the part of managers fell from 5.8 to 5.6, while brokers held on to their already comparatively low rating of 5.1. Geographically, confidence remained lowest in Europe, falling from 5.5 to 5.0, its lowest level since the survey was launched. Asia, meanwhile, held steady at 5.7.
One respondent observed, "Until recently, things looked quite optimistic, but recent doubts over US loan credibility and EU financial worries have severely dented confidence." Others referred to "the most unpredictable period since the beginning of the global financial crisis" and suggested that the market was "back to levels last seen in 2001". Few could see a short-term solution to the difficulties.
Overtonnaging was a recurrent theme throughout the comments. "Markets are at rock-bottom," said one respondent, "and will stay there for some time because of the large number of new vessels due to come into service. Older vessels and speculative investors, as well as low-grade operators, will have to disappear before the situation can start to improve." Another respondent noted, "The situation looks pretty grim, given the massive amount of over-ordering."
Expectations on the part of respondents of making a major investment or significant development over the next twelve months fell, on a scale of 1 to 10, from 5.6 to 5.1 - the lowest level since the same figure was recorded in November 2009. Just one year ago, in August 2010, respondents recorded the highest figure (6.0) in the life of the survey to date. This time, owners recorded the biggest drop in this regard, while managers and charterers were also less confident. Geographically, expectations of making a major investment were down across all the main regions covered by the survey.
Having dropped out of the top three for the first time in the last survey, finance costs returned as one of the top three factors which respondents expected to influence performance most significantly over the coming twelve months. Demand trends and competition, meanwhile, maintained their ever-present record in the top three.
Overall, 22 percent of respondents (down from 23 percent last time) cited demand trends as the most significant performance-affecting factor, while 17 percent (19 percent) identified competition in this regard. Meanwhile, 16 percent of respondents, (14 percent), opted for finance costs. The percentage of respondents overall who identified fuel costs as having a significant effect on performance was down by 4 percentage points to 12 percent.
For owners, demand trends continued to be the dominating factor, despite a fall from 28 percent to 24 percent in the number of owners who put it in first place overall, ahead of finance costs and tonnage supply. The top three performance-influencing factors for managers were competition and demand trends - both cited by 17 percent of respondents in that category and both up by two percentage points on last time - followed by operating costs. For charterers, meanwhile, demand trends and competition made up the top three, ahead of fuel costs.
Geographically, demand trends emerged as the most significant factor for operators in Asia, Europe and North America (19 percent, 23 percent and 30 percent, respectively), with competition and finance costs making up the remainder of the top three.
Fewer respondents expected an increase in finance costs over the coming year - 52 percent compared to 59 percent in the previous survey. This was the case across all categories of respondent and in all geographical areas covered by the survey. Meanwhile, the number of charterers who were anticipating finance costs to fall over the next year was up from 9 percent to 15 percent, the highest figure since May 2009. Geographically, the biggest change was to be found in Asia, where the 50 percent of respondents anticipating higher finance cost was twelve percentage points down on the 62 percent recorded in May 2011.
In the dry bulk sector, the number of respondents expecting rate increases over the next twelve months was down from 37 percent to 27 percent, an all-time low in the life of the survey. The number of owners who shared this opinion also hit an all-time low, while the 8 percent of charterers of like mind was easily the lowest in three-and-a-half years.
The container ship market saw the biggest shift in opinion. In May 2011, there was a 28 percentage-point difference between the numbers anticipating higher rates and those who thought that rates would go down. Now, the gap has closed completely. Just 28 percent of respondents overall thought that rate increases were likely over the coming year - the lowest figure since November 2009 - and 28 percent expected rates to come down. Charterers were the only category of respondent recording an increase in expectations of higher rates. Owners and managers recorded the lowest figures in this regard since August 2009. In Asia, expectations of container ship rate increases were down from 41 percent to 26 percent, while in Europe the fall was from 44 percent to 27 percent.
Moore Stephens shipping partner, Richard Greiner, says, "The drop in shipping confidence to a record low is a disappointment. But it has been coming. Given what has been happening in the world, and in the industry, confidence remained surprisingly high last year, but it has started to slip in 2011. Indeed, in many ways, it is back to the levels of two years ago.
"We are starting to see now what many had predicted would happen much earlier. Banks are calling in their loans, shipping companies are filing for bankruptcy protection, ships are being arrested and auctioned around the world, and the courts and arbitration tribunals are starting to see an increase in their workloads. Financiers wants their money, and are ready to take what they can get now rather than wait in the hope that the markets will recover and enable them to achieve a return on their investment. This results in a situation in which everybody loses something. Financiers need to continue to work together with shipping companies and external financial advisers to find a way forward for viable long-term businesses, perhaps exploring the opportunities offered by independent business reviews.
"Meanwhile, costs are going up all the time. Bunker prices are the big worry. The cost of fuel has to be met and passed down the chain, at a time when money is tight for everybody. After a lull, the indications are that operating costs are once again likely to increase. The cost of raw materials also continues to rise. At the same time, freight rates are tumbling through the floor, stock markets are falling around the world, the US and European economies continue to stutter unsatisfactorily, political unrest in the Middle East shows no sign of abating, and the general economic gloom deepens.
"Our survey revealed, unsurprisingly, that the industry is much less confident now of being in a position to make a major investment over the next twelve months. With access to credit very tight, you cannot spend what you do not have. Most respondents to our survey were adamant that we do not need any more ships, and indeed that we already have too many to carry the level of trade on offer. The survey also showed, however, a fall in the number of respondents who expected finance costs to increase over the coming year. So, despite all the difficulties, now is a good time to buy, for those with access to money and a sound business plan. No industry can grow without continuing investment.
"There could be some nasty surprises, and some tough decisions, in the months ahead for operators and investors alike. But those who are in shipping for the long term will ride it out, and many will have had previous experience of doing just that. The international nature of the industry may be working against shipping at the moment, but it will once again prove to be its strength in less troubled times."
The Moore Stephens Shipping Confidence Survey includes responses from key players worldwide in the international shipping industry to a targeted, web-based survey by the Moore Stephens Shipping Industry Group. Responses were received from owners, charterers, brokers, advisers, managers and others.


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Members of CCRDA underlined the need to forge collaboration with the private sector. During a panel discussion held on the premises of CCRDA on December 4, 2015, participants of the discussion underscored that there is a need to work together with the private sector.
While presenting his presentation entitled, "Collaboration between the Private Sector and CSOs", Getachew Asfaw said, "The shrinking donor support necessitates the civil society to build partnership with a non–traditional partner, the private sector." And he underlined the need for the private sector to carry out is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by providing a certain amount of its profit to the CSO sector. He said a private business needs a healthy, educated and well developed workforce and sustainable resources. CSOs also stand for socio-economic development. "These mutual shared values bind them together," said Getachew.
He mentioned as principles to maintain collaboration the need to recognize each other's values and expectations, the roles and responsibilities of each partner, the mechanisms for coordinating actions and the accountability lines within the initiative, develop communications mechanism for information flow, have legal agreements to enforce adherence.
In his presentation, Abeje Tefera, a consultant, underlined the need for CSOs to understand the private sector, its motivations and the pros and cons of having partnership with the sector.
At the conclusion of the half day discussion, the participants recommended that CCRDA shall organize exhibition outside its compound to promote the activities of its members. They also suggested the need to organize a taskforce to strengthen CSO-Private sector collaboration to a higher level. The taskforce will be engaged in research and image building activities.
The participants also recommended as a way forward the need to strengthen partnership among CSOs themselves. They also emphasized that the CSO and private sectors should share experiences by organizing various events.
The participants of the panel discussion also stressed the need to invite the private sector and other stakeholders to attend annual, bi-annual or monthly review meetings to help them share first hand information about the engagements of the NGO/CSO sector.
The participants formed a taskforce at the end of the panel discussion that has eight members that were voluntarily elected.
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Dead Body Transport Service In Guwahati
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India is a country of 130 crore people and Guwahati is one of the major cities of the country. With such large numbers, the city sees thousands of deaths every year. With such a vast population, the city has seen over 1000 accidental deaths in the past year according to the statistics. During an unfortunate and untimely death, there are several things that anyone might think. During this tough time, Anthyesti understands the pain and mourning of the family and simplifies the process of dead body transportation in Guwahati. But first, let's find the answers to some common occurring questions during the unfortunate event.
What is the procedure to transfer a dead body by air From Guwahati?
There are situations when the deceased needs to be airlifted to a different city or country to his family and friends. While death in itself is a shock, finding a dead body transport service in Guwahati to airlift to another city can be difficult if one isn't aware. Many brokers will approach you and ask for an outrageous amount of money which is not needed.
But before you can transport the body, you need to get the body embalmed (the technical term for preservation) and get it packed in a coffin. You also need to present the death certificate, the embalming certificate, the local police NOC and the post mortem report to the airlines. The airlines will book the cargo based on complete documentation and will transport the body.
What to do immediately when someone dies in Guwahati?
Death is something one can never be prepared for. Especially when our loved ones are concerned, we tend to lose sight of our actions and act based on emotion. But, in case of death, the first concern has to be the preservation of the victim. After calming down our senses, we should ensure that the last rites of the person should be done in a clean and preserved environment. Immediately after death, one needs to contact a dead body transport service in Guwahati and get it in a safe place.
Dead Body Transportation by Road from Guwahati
Anthyesti advises people to avail of a dead body transport vehicle in Guwahati and uses a roadway if the distance is less than 500 Kms. Above this distance, the time of travel can increase and airlift is a better option. Guwahati is well connected by roads and a dead body ambulance in Guwahati can be used along with a freezer box to carry the body to the deceased's home.
How do you bring a dead body on a plane from Guwahati?
After securing all the required documents including identification and medical certificates one can avail of a dead body transportation service in Guwahati like Anthyesti to take them to the airport. In a plane, dead body transfer is accomplished through air cargo and one needs to connect with the airline's cargo department and get it transferred in a coffin. A dead body ambulance in Guwahati will help you transfer the body to the airport. The following step-by-step process is followed:
Obtain a death certificate, and/or disposal order certificate (in case of a post mortem, if applicable) and transfer the body to a mortuary for freezing.
Obtain an NOC from the local police authorities.
The mortuary will then issue a packing and embalming certificate for the remains of the body.
The documents are then submitted to obtain an airway bill to book the cargo and need to be done 4 hours prior to departure.
Can we take the dead body in a train from Guwahati?
Transporting dead bodies is a complex process and at times, cities with better access to trains are better suited for train transfers. The entire process of documentation is similar to that of a plane for train transfers as well. Once approved, one can approach the cargo department of the train which will help put the coffin in the cargo section and accomplish the transfer.
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Murder (LAWS50106)
February - Online
Murder is one of the most prominent crimes in the legal calendar, and it has provided a recurrent reference point for literature, cinema, television, photography, the arts and the humanities more generally. Using examples from legal and public culture, this subject examines in depth the ways in which we make sense of law, crime and killing.
The subject begins with the doctrinal history of murder and allied crimes in order to present the central concepts of the law of homicide and of this subject. It then moves to consider the processes of proof and punishment of murder, before turning to an in-depth study of a variety of specific legal and cultural forms of murder.
The overall themes of the subject are three: encounters between legal and cultural responses to the crime of murder; the nature of the difficulties that murder presents for criminal law and public culture; narratives of community, memory and responsibility constructed by responses to murder and its aftermath.
These themes will be explored through an in-depth treatment of the complex problems and forms of knowledge from a range of illustrative topics. In any given year, topics will be chosen from amongst the following:
The public culture of murder, law and homicide;
serial killing, public trials and pre-trial publicity;
history and the changing patterns of homicide law;
mercy, infanticide and child homicide
literary representations of unlawful murder;
proof, intention and circumstantial evidence
defences such as self defence and provocation, mental impairment and diminished responsibility;
family violence and conjugal homicide;
sentencing and homicide;
homicide, coroners and deaths in custody
corporate killings and workplace deaths (including environmental disasters); and
law reform of homicide.
Examples will be drawn from legal texts and judgments, and from podcasts, literature, film, and the arts more widely. In this way, the subject compares and integrates the responses of criminal law and public culture in making sense of law, crime and killing.
A student who has successfully completed this subject should have an advanced understanding of the law of murder, as well as be able to critically analyse, engage with, and evaluate to a high standard the forms of representation, bodies of knowledge and practices that compose this specialised area of legal study. This specifically includes an expert understanding, analysis and evaluation of:
A variety of representations of murder in criminal law and public culture, together with the complex concepts, knowledge-sets and values used in understanding them;
Interdisciplinary approaches to law, specifically to the criminal law of homicide.
The limits and difficulties of the concepts and categories of the law of homicide and allied offences, with specific reference to their various histories;
The integration of and disjunctions between various contemporary and historical representations of murder;
The distinctive shape of a variety of social genres and legal forms of murder, such as conjugal homicide, infanticide, murder and manslaughter;
The complex interactions between the responses to murder by criminal law and in public culture; and
In addition, a student who has completed the subject will have obtained:
A specialised and integrated knowledge of crime and the law of murder, and its intersections with other legal areas as well as public culture;
In-depth knowledge of and research on at least one specific response to the crime of murder;
A rich and nuanced appreciation of the complexity and variety of the current scholarship on murder, and its contribution to the current criminal law and public culture;
The ability to analyse complex problems of criminal law from a variety of perspectives, as well as the capacity to exhibit a well-developed judgment on the worth of those perspectives for scholarly understanding; and
The capacity to independently conduct further specialised research in criminal law, whether in higher education or in professional practice.
On completion of the subject, students should have developed and demonstrated their skills in the following areas:
Specialist interdisciplinary knowledge of the representation of murder in law and public culture;
Iinvestigation, analysis and evaluation of the institutional, representational, and ethical issues that are engaged by murder;
An ability to respond to and effectively communicate – in both oral and written forms - cogent and nuanced arguments concerning the variety of ways in which law and culture intersect in particular substantive responses to murder;
Conducting in-depth research independently and at a high level, including the ability to generate complex ideas and form well-developed judgments as to the worth of those ideas for thinking about and understanding the law and culture of murder;
Carrying out interdisciplinary analysis based on jurisprudence and the humanities of a particular problem or topic that is germane to the legal and cultural understanding of murder;
Writing up research which presents an extended argument that is informed by and integrates current scholarship in criminal law and the humanities; and
Exercise professional judgment in responding to the questions of law raised by the legal and culture life of murder.


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I have been MIA. I know. I wish I could say I have been jet-setting around the world or vegging on a beach and got a killer tan. Alas, I have been jet-setting between Oklahoma and Texas and as for the tan…I am fish belly white (unless I use St. Tropez tan-in-a-can). But I do come baring news!
As you remember from my past (long time ago), Momma was diagnosed with Bladder Cancer. Well, her 3 month check up showed significant positive response to the chemo! She is doing better, walking more and no more oxygen! She still has her days, but overall better news equals better spirits!
We are still making the trek to Oklahoma almost every weekend. We were blessed they came to Texas for Thanksgiving, and boy did we have a lot to celebrate.
I wanted my blog to be about showing how to make the best of your situation and stay positive. Don't sit down and let things happen to you, you need to make them happen. Most importantly, knowing whatever happens good or bad, you really do got this.
But I feel like I have let you down in a way. I have been overwhelmed with mom's diagnoses, taking care of and settling in our parents, juggling family dynamics and loving on LT and Gavin. Because of that, I have neglected my blog (and other areas of my life). Sometimes it doesn't feel as I "got this".
A good example is every time, and I mean every time, I forget something at Oklahoma. Once it was a pouch of power cords. Last week, I left my only power cord to my phone. Topping off this week, I left my watch. I am so scatterbrained!
But I am going to try to get on more of a schedule and do better at blogging. I sure do miss it and y'all! I have a few posts marinating in the old noggin' so be ready!


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Ghosts … (The Coliseum and the Arena)
Where the 20,000-seat Richfield Coliseum once stood is now a field in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. This view (top) is from Rt. 303 looking north from what used to be (approximately) the east driveway entrance to the Coliseum. Top: Chris Stephens / The Plain Dealer. Bottom: Gus Chan / The Plain Dealer
From Vintage Cavs, by Terry Pluto
Someone once said, "You know you've reached a certain age when you remember a sports venue being built, and then see the same building torn down."
I think of that when driving down Route 303 in Richfield, at the exit off Interstate 271.
Now, there is nothing but a field bumping up against some nearby farms and barns. Staring at it, there's a sense it has been and will always be like this—a quiet spot that time forgot.
But once upon a time, a great arena rose up among the trees and squirrels and deer and prairie grass. For a while, it was a sports palace right next to a guy's farm with sheep grazing on it.
The Richfield Coliseum.
Long gone.
But I close my eyes and I hear the booming voice of the late Howie Chizek proclaiming: 'WORLD . . . BEE . . . FREE . . . FOR THAA . . . REE!!!"
I'm sure there have been better pro basketball public address announcers than Chizek, but I never heard one.
How about: "WHAM WITH THE RIGHT HAND!"
Maybe there have been better pro basketball radio broadcasters than Joe Tait, but I never heard one.
And while there is no denying the LeBron James teams were the best in Cleveland Cavalier history, I don't find myself drawn to them the way I am to earlier Cavs teams.
I think of World B. Free, who averaged 23 points a game for the Cavaliers from 1982 to 1986. We became friends when I covered the Cavs for the Akron Beacon Journal in 1985–86, his final season. After practice, we would play a game of 3-point H-O-R-S-E.
You had to take 3-point shots from different spots behind the arc. If Free made a shot and I missed, I got a letter. An H . . .
Every time that happened, another letter. To make it fair, Free said I only needed to hang one letter on him. In other words, if I made one shot and he missed, he had all five letters—H-O-R-S-E.
Some of our games took a half-hour, but he never lost. He could make 10 in a row from 5-to-10 feet behind the arc. This was long before the 3-pointer became the favored shot as it is today.
But that court and those baskets are long gone.
So is the time when writers could watch practice and then be invited by a player to shoot around after it was over.
All that's left is a field. Not a field of dreams—just a memory on the edge of a national park between Cleveland and Akron.
Once, on a visit to Cleveland, Free had a cab driver take him from downtown to where the Coliseum once ruled. He stood and stared at the field. So many memories, so lost in time.
Sometimes, I'm the same way.
Staring . . .
Thinking . . .
Hearing the squeaking of the shoes over the roar of the crowd—because sports writers sat near the court in those days.
The wind blows through leaves, the prairie grass bends in the breeze . . .
Mark Price . . . Austin Carr . . . Larry Nance Sr. . . . Brad Daugherty . . . Hot Rod Williams . . . Ron Harper . . . Lenny Wilkens . . . Bingo Smith . . . Campy Russell . . . Nate Thurmond . . . Jim Chones.
They hung no title banners. Some seasons, they lost far more than they won.
But they were my Cavaliers.
I've been writing about sports long enough to know there never was an age of innocence. What seems like small change now, looking in the rear view mirror of life, seemed like big dollars at the time.
The love of the game and the love of money have always been in a spiritual tug-of-war for those involved in pro sports. There have always been deal makers, liars, egotists and cravers of publicity involved with the Cavaliers.
That said, it was a different game when the Cavaliers were born in 1970. They played at the smoky, dumpy old Cleveland Arena on Euclid Avenue for their first four years.
And it was a different game when the team moved to Richfield in 1974.
And I maintain, it was a better game—or at least more of a game than what we see now in the NBA.
I write this knowing none of the Cavs teams playing at the old Cleveland Arena or Richfield Coliseum even reached the NBA Finals, much less won a title.
I write this knowing the Cavs did win the 2016 title—with LeBron James—at what was then called Quicken Loans Arena in downtown Cleveland.
For many Cleveland sports fans, recalling Fathers' Day of June 19, 2016, will bring tears to their eyes as they remember dancing in the streets of downtown Cleveland after the Cavs came back from a 3-1 deficit to beat Golden State in Game 7 of the NBA Finals.
It remains the greatest comeback in NBA Finals history. It is the most amazing sports event that I ever covered, keeping in mind the game was played at Oracle Arena in Oakland.
But I also write this knowing a lot of the details of what it took to deliver that title—the first for a major Cleveland sports franchise since the 1964 Browns.
It was a marriage of convenience between two men who couldn't stand each other. It was like a major corporate merger, two of the most powerful people in the NBA.
No NBA player had made more money or had more influence than LeBron James, when he left the Miami Heat for the Cavaliers in the summer of 2014. And no Cleveland sports owner was willing to spend more money to win a title than Dan Gilbert.
While the two men barely spoke in those four seasons (2014–18), the Cavs went to the NBA Finals four times. It was purely a cold-hearted, bottom-line business proposition that paid off for both parties—and for Cleveland sports fans.
But that also was a different game, as I wrote in my book "The Comeback." I used to think Michael Jordan was the greatest player I've ever seen—and that included Jerry West, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
Now, LeBron James would get that vote from me because of all he did to win a title in Cleveland. And Dan Gilbert deserves credit for putting things in place to make that happen.
So none of what I write here is meant to diminish the accomplishments of those two men and the Cavs from 2014 to 2018. In sports, the bottom line is winning—and they won more than anyone else in Cavs history.
Yet, I'm drawn to the Cavaliers before LeBron James . . .
Before Quicken Loans Arena . . .
Before so much of basketball was about who was leaving as a free agent and where that player would land in the summer . . .
It was Lenny Wilkens drawing up beautiful in-bounds plays . . .
Bill Fitch screaming at Jim Chones . . .
Mark Price and Brad Daugherty giving a clinic on pick-and-roll plays . . .
And the memory of an arena long gone, but so alive in my mind.
From the book Vintage Cavs, © Terry Pluto. All rights reserved.
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Kriton was impatient to see Walt again.
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Eddie took a big bite out of Marcos's sandwich.
Conrad isn't in the mood for this.
Scot added a room to his house.
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Emma and Mahesh are both at work.
Elias didn't let Robert go out in the rain.
It was Straka's, wasn't it?
I want to take Terrence home.
Varda told us a sad story.
Nils didn't want the job.
Clarence is a good kid.
Vishal divorced her husband and married Ti.
Tahsin believes that as long as you speak English, you'll have no problems going anywhere in the world.
Damone didn't like my suggestion.
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Did Olof buy your story?
Tigger is a tough negotiator.
Lynnette has a date with Vidhyanath this afternoon.
Nhan teaches the third grade.
I take it you like Gigi.
Terry stays up until after midnight almost every night.
Nancy just told me that he doesn't plan to help us paint our house.
I'll play tennis with Ronald later this afternoon.
I wasn't even in Boston the night Cory was murdered.
Did you, or did you not, tip Harv off?
Francois was elected queen of the prom.
Briggs just did that for spite.
Rolfe told Bob that it was too cold to go outside without a coat.


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Shah Rukh Khan is a gentleman: Vijay Sethupathi
Sethupathi has signed a slew of Hindi films even before the release of his Bollywood debut film, Mumbaikar. He is also working on Amazon's streaming show Farzi with Shahid Kapoor and Raashii Khanna
Shah Rukh Khan; Vijay Sethupathi
CHENNAI: Actor Vijay Sethupathi says Shah Rukh Khan was a gentleman who never let his stardom come in the way of their collaboration in Atlee's film Jawan. The south superstar said they often discussed scenes together and had a great time.
"I had a good time working on Jawan with Atlee and Shah Rukh sir. He (Shah Rukh Khan) is a gentleman. He doesn't display arrogance about being in the industry for so many years and that he is the superstar.
"I was able to discuss scenes with him like I would with my other co-stars. Whenever I felt I was bothering him I would say, 'Sorry sir, if I'm disturbing you' and he would say, 'No Vijay, do it'. I was very comfortable with him and he is also very sweet," Sethupathi.
Jawan is produced by Shah Rukh's production company Red Chillies Entertainment.
The film will release across five languages, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada, in theatres across the globe on June 2.
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After seemingly years of on-again-off-again reunion rumors, it looks like the Spice Girls are about to announce a world tour.
Even last week, when the five members held a business meeting, the word was that it would be for TV and merchandising but a tour was out because Victoria Beckham didn't want to take time away from her fashion lines.
According to TMZ, whatever the hurdles, they've evidently been overcome as Mel B, Beckham, Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton and Melanie C put together a "rough plan" for a world tour that will start towards the end of the summer.
The source also told TMZ that the tour would start in the U.K. and come to the U.S. although there were no plans for a Las Vegas residency. There are also no plans for new music.
The group's debut album sold 31 million copies worldwide and established them as the best selling girl group in music history. All told, they sold 85 million albums and were the biggest selling band out of England since the Beatles.
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One of the key assets of EU is its spatial diversity. EU is rich of diversity of its cultures, landscapes, and nature. However in the same time EU pursues an ambitious goal to diminish discrepancies between different parts of the Union in order to allow all citizens fair level of living and development opportunities. The same can be observed at national level. For pursuing such a policy of maintenance of diversity while promoting socio-economic convergence the territorial measurement of both phenomena (i.e. main aspects of diversity, socio-economic well-being and prosperity) in space is of key importance.
One of a main vehicle for doing that are regional typologies. Conventional socio-economic and ecological data (accessibility, poverty, prosperity, soil sealing etc) when analysed together for different types of EU regions reveal fascinating trends, development mechanisms and prompt different policy mixes. Here the focus is not on policy territorialisation (as in the case of thematic scope) but rather on bringing together different policies in a right proportion in order to install necessary synergies and achieved more integrated public intervention. One of the outcomes might be installing comprehensive development programmes for specific types of regions requiring particular attention of decisions makers. Such type of regions are listed under Art. 174 of Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Coastal zones, islands, including island states, mountainous areas, plains, river valleys and lake basins and other types of territories have special – often cross border – features, or suffer from severe and permanent natural or demographic handicaps such as low population density, which influence their development potentials.
For instance diminish peripherality of border regions (described by us more in depth) is one of the key policy concerns of many BSR countries in particular. Numerous cross-border programmes of EU have been installed in order to stimulate development of border regions and turn borders into development assets. Thus territorial measurement in such a case provides relevant information for establishment cross-border programmes, assessment of their overall consistency and allocation of financial needs to the areas demonstrating the most negative trends or offering the biggest opportunities in terms of activating their development potential.


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Personality and Our Muslim Identity
Life is a forward assimilative movement and in humans the center of life becomes a Person. Personality is strengthened by Love. Although the word 'Love' is used in a very wide sense, it means the desire to assimilate, to absorb. Its highest form is the creation of values and ideals and the effort to achieve them. The whole gamut of art, religion, philosophy and ethics is based on the human desire to create values and ideals.
Personality is a state of tension and can continue only if the state of tension is maintained, otherwise relaxation will ensue and damage the structure of human personality. For the state of tension to continue requires a continuous creation of values and ideals. We must criticize our values, perhaps change them and, if necessary, create new worths; since the immortality of a people, as Nietzsche put it, depends upon incessant creation of new worth.
Throughout the history of humanity it seems that the process of creation of ideals and values in every culture has taken some form of Naturalism peculiar to its own worldview, and in some sort of 'ism'. Thus, the modern humanity fondly hopes to unravel fresh sources of energy that results in the creation of new loyalties such as nationalism, patriotism, atheism and communism.
These we might call the 'new religions of earthly salvation.' Unable to continue believing in God, the Moderns invented substitute religions, godless spiritualities professing a radical atheism and clinging to the notion of giving meaning to human existence and, in some cases, justifying why we should die for them.
No wonder then that Nietzsche described patriotism and nationalism as 'sickness and unreason' and 'the strongest force against culture.'
Since Personality is the most valuable achievement of humans, it becomes extremely important for us to see to it that it does not regress. Thus, our Personality gives us a standard of value; that which strengthens Personality is good, that which weakens it is bad. All values and ideals must be judged from the point of view of Personality.
It is in view of the fortification of his or her Personality that a Muslim sees Islam as an enterprise to harness this ultimate principle of value and thereby reintegrate the forces of one's own Personality.
However, no doubt we live in an era of Islamophobia. Islam is under attack from the forces of Criticism and Scientific Specialism. Indeed, all faiths are under such attack. Muslims are in a strange predicament. Islamophobia is robbing us of faith in our own future.
Says Dr Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Indian poet-philosopher, 1877-1938):
'…….It is the future which must always control the present; to the species taken as a whole, its unborn members are perhaps more real than its existing members whose immediate interests are subordinated and even sacrificed to the future interests of that unborn infinity which slowly discloses itself from generation to generation.' (The Muslim Community-A Sociological Study. Lecture delivered at the MAO College, Aligarh, India in 1910).
Now, it is from this standpoint – from the standpoint of the future that we need to test the worth of our Muslim personality and identity.
The basic difference between the Muslim identity and other identities is in our unique conception of nationality. It is not the unity of language or country or any specific economic interest that forms the basic principle of our nationality. We all believe in a certain view of the universe and we participate in the same historical tradition. It is because of those factors that we are members of the society founded by the Prophet of Islam.
Our nationality is based on a purely abstract idea. Its life-principle is not dependent upon any particular people or country. In other words, with us nationality is purely an idea; it has no objective basis which means that our only rallying-point as a people is a kind of purely subjective agreement in a certain view of the world.
This point of universal agreement on which our Muslim identity depends has basically a national rather than intellectual significance for us.
Islam has a much deeper significance for us than merely religious; it has a peculiarly national meaning for us.
Our communal life is unthinkable without a firm grasp of the Islamic Principle. The idea of Islam is, so to speak, our eternal home or country where we live, move and have our being. To us it is above everything else, as England is above all to the Englishman and Deutschland uber alles to the German.
The moment our grasp of the Islamic Principle is loosened that our identity is gone and we become an abstract, disembodied universality like a chemical or mathematical formula, a nameless nothing.
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A Brief History Of American Steel
by Fedsteel | Jun 10, 2015 | Our Blog
The history of steel in America dates back to the mid 19th century when the country was still forming its character and laying the foundation for what would become a major world economic power player.
The Industrial Age which was credited with developing the American economy throughout the 19th century was propelled in large part by the advent of the country's railroad systems. The durability, strength and overall quality of the railroads' physical infrastructure was enhanced by the replacement of iron tracks with those made from steel.
Here is a brief history of how steel became a widespread building material in America and how the wealth gained from the steel sector continues to strengthen the country today.
Benefits of Steel Over Iron
Iron has been a part of human society for over 4,000 years; even Biblical writings note the powerful iron chariots that were employed by ancient military powers based near the Mediterranean Sea.
Iron is a common element that is found throughout the earth, and it has been mined and smelted to produce all types of items for many years. Mined, raw iron ore is melted at high temperatures to produce malleable iron that has a carbon content of .08 percent. Iron that is further heated at higher temperatures produces a very brittle, hard metal called cast iron that has a carbon content of about 4.5 percent.
Early metallurgists created steel that was stronger than the malleable iron but more flexible than the cast iron variety; its carbon content was about 1.5 percent.
Industrial America's Steel Magnates and Associates
The discovery of a new way to mass produce the beneficial steel by an Englishman named Henry Bessemer was not lost upon the young railroad superintendent Andrew Carnegie.
Carnegie eventually invested in a new Pittsburg steel plant with the help of early finance experts like J.P. Morgan. Steel did indeed change the face of the railroads, and it also revolutionized many other building projects in the country.
Social Strife Amid Great Wealth
Andrew Carnegie leveraged his knowledge of railroads and his contacts within the industry to build an empire that mass produced steel rails for the railroads. The Scotsman who was known for his untiring work ethic apparently expected much the same from his steel workers even though he frequently stood up for worker rights.
As Carnegie and his peers continued to amass fortunes many industrial workers like those in steel lost their lives fighting for reasonable work hours, fair wages, the elimination of child labor and safer working conditions. Many of the workers achieved their goals when labor unions joined the industry.
Widespread Legacy of Steel
The Eads Bridge in St. Louis that was built in 1868 still stands as a tribute to the quality of Carnegie's steel.
Andrew Carnegie also founded Carnegie Mellon University to ensure that America maintains its tradition of scientific research and innovation. He gave away most of his fortune to institutions that were known for helping others to help themselves.
The Information Age that began in the 20th century has all but eclipsed industrialization and manufacturing as far as the national economy is concerned.
However, one can still see the accomplishments of the early American steel industry within nearly every commercial construction project conducted today.
For more steel facts, check our our post on the History of Steel.


Almost four years ago Portland, Oregon CZT Billie Lauder shared her delightful Tangle Folk with us, showing how simple it is to draw these continuous line Zentangle®-inspired figures in just six easy steps.
Last week I received the sad news that Billie passed away. To honor Billie and her sweet Tangle Folk, today we are revisiting her original post – please give Billie's Tangle Folk a whirl and give thanks for the charming gift Billie shared with all of us. Our condolences to her family and friends.
Think of this as your tangle Challenge, if you're so inclined. TanglePatterns String 181 is from tangler Nancy Eaton and was originally posted here.
So sorry to lose Billie. Every creative person is of so much value in our sometimes frustrating and troubling world. Art gives joy to others and brings joy to the creator. This is its wonderful magic. Thank you, dear Billie for giving us your splendid folk. They have given me much joy and laughter.
I didn't know that we had lost Billie. The Tangle Folk are amazing and I have spent hours giggling over the magic they brought to the times I have been with my granddaughters. Thank you Billie and Thank you Linda for letting us know of her passing and honoring her.
Such sad news. Yet Billie lives on within her clever and whimsical tanglefolk. She'll be remembered. Thank you Linda for letting us know.
Sad news at the start.
But a great string with beautiful patterns. As you wrote it's a challenge-of-the-day encouraging me to take my zentangle material and to draw.
I only just saw this and I'm so sad to hear it. Met Billie a couple of times and she was always very nice to me. My mom was in ICU and Billie gave me one of her quilting books with her own notes written all over it to give to my mom, who is an avid quilter. I'll never forget that she was kind and helpful to me when I needed it most.


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Ever since Hindi film music fans heard the first notes of Dev. D, they have loved the amazing and incredibly cool music of composer Amit Trivedi. Trivedi has created some of the greatest songs in the modern age of soundtracks, including tracks on Aamir, Wake Up Sid, Aisha, I Am, Kai Po Che, Lootera, Queen, Udta Punjab, Dear Zindagi, and Secret Superstar to name just a few. He always brings a new sound, a different flavor or interesting vibe full of sound and feeling. His songs enhance the movies and our playlists. His albums always receive rave reviews and his songs are on many lists of the best of Bollywood.
For his newest film, he has taken on the sound of the story and world of Pad Man. Directed by R. Balki and starring Akshay Kumar, Radhika Apte and Sonam Kapoor, the film is a fictionalized account of Padmashri Arunachalam Muruganatham, the man who revolutionized the manufacture of the low cost sanitary napkin in India.
The composer talked with Stacey about his excitement and challenge of creating the music for the film, his love of music and all things gaane! Check it out!
What inspires and drives you to make music?
I have been a huge, huge fan of music ever since I was a kid. Anything to do with music inspires me. I love music, whoever makes it. Whoever makes great music in the entire world I am their fan because I love music so much. I am each and everybody's fan who is putting their music out there. That really, really inspires me and keeps me going where I breathe, eat, and sleep music! Totally!
What was your first thought when you heard the story of Pad Man?
R. Balki, who is the director of the film, he called me and he gave us, to me and Kausar Munir the lyricist of the film, the narration of the story. The story was so amazing, so moving and absolutely inspiring that I was jumping! 'Wow! When will I start?! It is going to be amazing fun doing music for this'. Mainly because it is based on this true character. He invented a sanitary napkin machine and the entire story revolves around this particular person. So in a way we can call it a biopic. Creating music for this was a very challenging thing, actually, in the first place, because it is not very easy to create songs that will resonate with the entire audience. See you are creating for a particular character in a film, every song, every piece of music is revolving about that particular person. So yes, it was a challenge but Balki sir made it very, very easy and very comfortable for me and for Kausar. We jammed together, all three of us, for all of the songs and we created this album. When you watch the film, you will be able to relate to the songs even better because they are so glued to the entire screenplay.
For you, what is it to like have a song or melody or phrase start to run through your head? Is it sort of always that you have music playing in your head?
It happens all the time, it could happen right now as we speak. (Laughs) Thanks to technology these days and thanks to the iPhone, it has made life much easier. I have my phone with me 24/7 even when I am sleeping because most of the time I get tunes when I am sleeping. (Laughs) So I keep it right next to me. Whenever it comes, I just go to record mode and record it.
When you begin composing a song, how does that start for you and what instrument do you begin on? How does that all work?
So, once I hear the narration and once I know the vision of the director and that this is what he is looking at and this is the world he wants me to go in I go into that world. Now there are song descriptions in the screenplay. Sometimes we go linear, but often times we just go random. It depends on the mood – whatever strikes first, whatever excites first, I just go behind that and I subconsciously start thinking about the tunes. I usually compose about 10-15 for myself until I am convinced – Oh this is the one – this is not the one – this is the one. Okay, got it (laughs) – so that is the way I select the tune for myself. So, then I make a scratch on the computer and then I play it for the director. If he likes it great, if he doesn't back to the process.
For Pad Man, the songs have some with the grounding of the percussive Indian beats with a very rural sound that I love but then later the songs change to a more modern tune, what went into the creation of the vibe and style of the songs? For example, you have the more rural songs since he is from a rural village like 'Aaj Se Teri' to the more modern tunes – tell us about the process of creating the different sounds of Pad Man.
So for like the first song, 'Aaj Se Teri', since the film is set in the state of Madhya Pradesh and in a small little village where this couple lives – I thought the entire soundscape was to do it very earthy, very Indian-Desi and that would be the right approach for these characters because it will go absolutely well. The characters of Akshay Kumar and Radhika Apte, these are small town characters, very simple people and that is why there is simplicity in that track. It is their wedding song, it's their love song; the film opens with this song when they are getting married. It is the whole journey after the marriage – the beautiful moments between the couple. So lyrically Kausar wrote it in such a way that it is like you are exchanging wedding vows. That kind of thought. I kept it very earthy and if you hear the song that is one dholak, Arjit Singh's voice and there is a mandolin. I have not filled it too much. I thought keeping it sparse; keeping it simple would be the right thing for these characters.
In India, when a girl gets her first period all the women in the village they get together and celebrate that young girl getting her first period. Sayaani means now she is growing up. From a girl she is going to turn into a woman and it is a celebration of that.
Yes, 'Saale Sapne' is how we say in Indian context 'these bloody dreams – they don't let me sleep'. He is saying these bloody dreams they won't let me sleep because of this mission I have started and the approach I have towards creating this machine – a pad-making machine. See the entire song is about how he goes about the process of making the machine. How he goes about chasing his dreams, trying to get it right, he fails and he fails but he is at it until he gets it right. The song is about chasing his dreams.
Now with 'Hu Ba Hu', here you have an urban influence into Pad Man's life. Sonam Kapoor enters into his life. A little contemporary urban style is what I tried for their song. It is actually a friendship song. Because she is urban I thought of giving it a little bit more of the urban touch.
'The Pad Man' song with Mika Singh is a celebration of sorts for Pad Man when he achieves great things in life. It is right towards the climax when you hear it. It is about celebrating this man who has done some unbelievable things. It has got full energy and full power and it has an absolute celebration vibe to it. We call the song the Super Hero song because there is phrase called Superhero – Superhero – Superhero. You must have seen the trailer, Amitabh Bachchan sir's voice is there and he says, 'America ke pass Superman hai, Batman hai, Spiderman hai lekin India ke pass Pad Man Hai!'. In a way it was celebrating Indian superhero.
How did you choose the singers for the songs?
Ah, that is another mad process! For me, most of the time whenever I compose a song the lyrics are written because I jam with the lyricist. When we arrive at a song we all like, most of the time, the song itself speaks and actually shouts I need this singer! (Laughs) This voice will do justice and only this voice will do justice! Nobody else. So, for example when I created 'Aaj Teri', I couldn't think of anybody but Arjit Singh, he was the first and the last choice. 'Pad Man' – Mika Singh was first and only choice because when that song got created I thought that madness needed a mad guy and who is all about celebration, happiness and being joyful. I think Mika is the right guy. Let me get that guy and let's work. In fact, all the films and all my songs this is how I approach them. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
You sang 'Hu Ba Hu' and many other songs on your soundtracks, so how do you decide which song you are going to sing?
Yes, here is the catch. I do not decide! I don't ever! At the beginning of my career, from the first film until now, all the directors have decided that this song – only you will sing. I don't hear that. I only think about the singer. Being a composer that comes naturally to me. That is what comes first to my mind – who will sing this song. But the director has a different perspective and a different way at looking at things and they say nobody else will sing this but you. I always say, are you sure and they yes I am sure. So that is how I have become a singer.
What are your thoughts on the music of films today?
Well, the honest answer will put me in trouble, but it is better to be honest. I think we can do much, much better. There is a little dullness and lull in terms of overall music, I personally feel. We are not trying anything new. There isn't much experimentation happening. Going back to old songs and recreations, the last year was full of that. Taking old songs, recreating them, remixing them that was the only thing that was happening so the original ideas are not taking off in a good way. It is a little dull time. It will slowly gradually come up. InshAllah one day! I am not happy in totality in the ways that things are going.
Next is Raid with Ajay Devgn, which releases 16th of March and Blackmail, which is coming up in March 30th with Irrfan Khan.
Oh! I think everything! The entire process of creating a tune out of nowhere, out of a blank space and then executing that idea into making a full fledged song, arranging them with the instruments and seeing it grow as you see a child grow. Seeing it grow right in front of your eyes. Nurturing it. Doing the best that you can do to help the child grow. Honestly that process is to die for. It is the most beautiful, most satisfying thing ever. It beats everything! It is beyond everything!
It was an absolute thrill and a completely facinating conversation with Mr. Trivedi and I would like to thank him for his fabulous answers and for all the great music he has brought to the world. I cannot wait to add more songs to my favorite song lists because I know I will!
Pad Man is in theaters on February 9th!


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The home page today leads with another account of another failed budget meeting between political leaders at the White House. We also get some analysis on why firing Cathleen Black (or hiring her in the first place) does not bode well for third-term New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. But the best thing in today's paper is the census coverage in the national section, a couple of highlights of which are noted below.
World: Protests rage on in Egypt, months after Hosni Mubarak's ouster, as the nation tries to figure out its new politics. In Libya, rebels say an air strike hit their tanks, not the government's. But our top pick is this report that Scottish police have finally met with top Libyan defector Moussa Koussa about the Lockerbie bombing. It'll be interesting to see how that shakes out.
U.S.: The national section has a big batch of coverage on the census, including urbanization in Alaska and food trucks in Orange County, California. But the big, nationwide census story is how the count has led to some fierce redistricting battles.
Business: The two most interesting stories here are Motoko Rich's look at potential economic ripples of a government shutdown and Stephanie Clifford's report on retail stores using clutter to sell more. There's also news of a Shanghai Disney park, but you can save a click and read about that elsewhere.
Technology: The story to read here is this report on the Aurasma iPhone app, which blurs virtual and actual realities, on your phone at least.
Science: This section leads with a report on plans to safely demolish the Fukushima nuclear plant, but similar coverage is available here. We wish there was another cool insect slide show, but today you probably have to get serious and read about water pollution in Pennsylvania.
Health: New doctors are getting more down time to keep them better-rested. Pauline Chen asks if that's a good thing for patients. Also, if you want a scare, there's a report on the uptick in CT scans and the questions surrounding their safety.
Sports: It's fairway fever as the Masters gets underway in Augusta. Skip the main tournament coverage, which you can get, literally, everywhere, and refer instead to this quirky coverage of the dastardly 10th hole.
Opinion: Olivia Golden lays out a case for systemic fixes to the child welfare system, using the data analysis tactics of other massive systems, like airlines and hospitals.
Arts: Read this surprisingly interesting review of the "Rooms with a View" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — a show of paintings depicting naturally lit interiors.
Travel: Previewing Sunday's section, check out what you can do for 36 hours in Abu Dhabi.


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Eagle Scout project expands church activity area
By Andy Fillmore Correspondent
May 29, 2018 at 2:00 AM Jun 25, 2018 at 11:28 AM
Roberto Vera received his Eagle Scout award in a ceremony May 20 at Ocala West United Methodist Church, where he completed his required community project.
OCALA — Roberto Vera is the most recent Eagle Scout soaring with Boy Scout Troop 707.
Roberto, 18, received his Eagle Scout award in a ceremony May 20 at Ocala West United Methodist Church, the troop's sponsor and the site of his required community project. An area separated from the church building by a parking lot is now the site of a covered barbecue pit and 42-by-28-foot open-sided pavilion with a roof and 12 foot long wooden tables.
A large barbecue pit under a second similar structure, measuring 15 feet by 12 feet, was created through projects by three prior Troop 707 eagles
Roberto's project also included installing about 100 feet of gravel walkway to connect the pavilion and barbecue pit. He also spearheaded the construction and placing of a six foot diameter stone and concrete fire pit, with three five foot long benches, and a running water outlet, to add another element to the outdoor recreation and fellowship center.
Roberto began his project in December 2017 and fellow troop members, family and friends joined in to help. He said the cement "topper" or upper part of the fire pit was cast from "hand-mixed" concrete at the Scoutmaster's home near the church. The 500-pound topper is a solid ring about 2 1/2-inches thick and 6 feet in diameter, with a 4-foot-round inside opening. It has the symbol for the Methodist church, consisting of a cross and red flame, painted onto the concrete.
The project took a combined 457 hours by 20 volunteers. Roberto logged 119 hours on the project.
The multiple Eagle Scout projects combine to provide a place for outdoor meetings, barbecues and relaxation for the church members and can accommodate dozens of guests.
The Rev. Michael Sims said he appreciates the generosity of the Scouts in providing a meeting place for church members. He said their projects "complement each other."
Jim Salmon, Scoutmaster for Troop 707, said "Roberto is a leader and a fine young man."
The National Eagle Scout Society website states that the first Eagle Scout was Arthur Rose Eldred of Oceanside, New York, in 1912. About 50,000 Scouts earn Eagle rank annually.
Roberto has been in Scouting for seven years and has enjoyed camping trips to Georgia and North Carolina. He has earned 33 merit badges. He found the swimming badge to be a challenge. He won additional trophies for his knowledge of horsemanship and animal science in tests when he earned both of those merit badges.
Jean Vera, Roberto's mother, said Scouting has been the "best thing" for her son and praised the "values and morals" taught by the troop.
"Scouting is a fantastic program," she said.
Roberto, a graduating senior in the Class of 2018 at West Port High School, was in the Army JROTC program for four years and served as a sergeant in Alpha Company.
Jean Vera said her son has learned "great leadership skill" and feels the values held by the troop reflect those in JROTC.
Roberto has a 1997 Ford F-150 Flairside Ford pickup styled by Mark III, which he calls it his "project truck." He said he plans to join the U.S. Navy and has already visited a recruiter.


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