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Moto Ohtake teaches furniture design, three-dimensional design and sculpture at De Anza College. With 20 years of full-time professional experience, his teaching experiences extend as far back as 1992 in campuses such as Cabrillo College, Monterey Peninsula College and UCSC.
"Art-making is my passion. Making things is just me. I love making things," said Ohtake as he inspected one of his student's wood pieces. "I love using my hands."
After receiving a degree in design from Nihon University in Tokyo, Ohtake moved to San Francisco to attend The Academy of Art and The Art Institute.
Ohtake graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree in fine arts in sculpture, and moved to Santa Cruz with his wife.
There, he learned wood-working techniques from his job as a racing yacht designer.
"It's not like making cabinets or boxes. Nothing is square. You have to work with curved surfaces all the time," Ohtake said.
His work expanded to interior architect, cabinet design and drafting designs.
"I learned all types of skills from my job," Ohtake said. "And the materials I used were the materials that were available for my art work."
This encouraged his early static sculptures of wood and layers of polyester enamel.
Ohtake then enrolled in bronze casting classes at Cabrillo College and became a technician.
"It was very beneficial and I met a lot of local artists who provided feedback for my art," he said.
It was here that he began his main process of art creation: tungsten inert gas welding.
With this technique, Ohtake elevated his work to wind-driven kinetic structures.
The artist found himself waiting for the structure to move.
His wife was also an influence, asking him why didn't he make his structures move.
"It captured my attention to stay there and see it move," he said. "There is a pattern to it, but it's also unpredictable."
He then started to expand on his pieces' structural complexity and size.
"I created a system to respond to nature, in a larger sense," Ohtake said.
His first public art piece, a commissioned for De Anza campus, is titled "Stellar Motion #10," found in the art quad.
Other work by Ohtake can be found at Fulton Playground in San Francisco, Atlanta Botanical Gardens and in Stockton, Ireland and Japan.
Ohtake initially taught when he was still only a technician, when professors were unavailable or on sick leave.
"It was gradual from my job as a technician," Ohtake said.
He started instructing during summer sessions and integrated to full-time teaching in 1995.
"It's fulfilling to see students respond positively to me sharing my knowledge," Ohtake said. "I appreciate their originality. I am fed by it."
His current project in the SOMA district of San Francisco, will be installed on a 45-foot-high pole at a surface station for a future subway.
"The area is very windy, and I have to work with two structural engineers, one from San Francisco Municipal Transportation," Ohtake said.
The projected finish date is January 2016.
Ohtake said he has intentions to create kinetic sculptures that are hand-activated, not wind driven. This would make the works accessible in an exhibit, and not be limited to the outdoors.
"My sculptures are a form of self-expression but are non-representational," Ohtake said. "You can look at the work and it means something different for each individual."
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NHS Digital set up the service in 2016 after the PIP (Poly Implant Prothese) breast implants scandal.
Poor record-keeping at the time of the scandal meant many of the thousands of women affected were unable to find out if they had been given faulty implants.
Women in England who have had breast implant surgery are being urged to make sure their details are added to the Breast and Cosmetic Implant Registry so that they can be easily traced if something were to go wrong with any brand of implant.
PIP breast implants were withdrawn from the UK in 2010 after it was found they had been fraudulently made in France with unapproved silicone gel and were far more prone to splitting and leakage than other breast implants.
It's estimated about 47,000 British women had PIP implants fitted, and most are still living with them.
A UK report in June 2012 concluded the implants had double the rupture rate of other implants, but were not found to be toxic or carcinogenic (cancer-causing).
Setting up the Breast and Cosmetic Implant Registry was one of the recommendations of that report, by Sir Bruce Keogh.
As at the end of January 2018, 231 providers had submitted data to the registry for 12,301 patients – 38% of the submissions were from NHS providers and 62% were from the independent sector.
But 39% of NHS providers and 24% of independent providers in England had not yet submitted data for the patients they had treated since the register was launched in October 2016.
All providers of breast implant surgery are expected to offer this service to their patients.
Patients need to sign a consent form to join the secure, confidential register.
It is not clear if patients treated by certain providers refused consent or were simply not asked.
Patients who had surgery before October 2016 can still be included as long as their provider remains in business and retains their notes.
Health Minister Jackie Doyle-Price said: "It's vital that patients undergoing breast implant procedures encourage their surgeons to record their details on the registry, to safeguard their health.
"The confidential record allows patients to be contacted if their safety is at risk and will hopefully give people the confidence they need when making decisions on surgery."
Rajiv Grover, of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, said it was quick and simple for health professionals to register their patients' records.
And he hoped more women would be happy to join the register.
"The PIP scandal underlines the importance of having a national register," he said.
"Had there been one at the time, tracing the people who might need to be assessed and treated would have been much easier."


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How Close Are We to Successfully Cloning the First Human?
"I think no one realized how hard cloning would be in some species though relatively easy in others. Cats: easy; dogs: hard; mice: easy; rats: hard; humans and other primates: very hard."
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When Will We Clone a Human?
Human cloning may endure as one of the go-to science fiction tropes, but in reality we may be much closer to achieving it than our fictional heroes might imply. At least in terms of the science required. On of the most prominent hurdles facing us may have less to do with the process and more to do with its potential consequences, and our collective struggle to reconcile the ethics involved. That being said, while science has come a long way in the last century when it comes to cloning a menagerie of animals, cloning humans and other primates has actually proven to be incredibly difficult. While we might not be on the brink of cloning entire human beings, we're already capable of cloning human cells — the question is, should we be?
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The astoundingly complex concept of cloning boils down to a fairly simple (in theory, at least) practice: you need two cells from the same animal — one of which is an egg cell from which you've removed the DNA. You take the DNA from the other somatic cell and put it inside the devoid-of-DNA egg cell. Whatever that egg cell goes on to produce for offspring will be genetically identical to the parent cell. While human reproduction is the result of the joining of two cells (one from each parent, each with their own DNA) the cellular photocopy technique does occur in nature. Bacteria reproduce through binary fission: each time it divides, its DNA is divided too so that each new bacterium is genetically identical to its predecessor. Except sometimes mutations occur in this process — and in fact, that can be by design and function as a survival mechanism. Such mutations allow bacteria to, for example, become resistant to antibiotics bent on destroying them. On the other hand, some mutations are fatal to an organism or preclude them coming into existence at all. And while it might seem like the picking-and-choosing that's inherent to cloning could sidestep these potential genetic hiccups, scientists have found that's not necessarily the case.
While Dolly the sheep might be the most famous mammal science has ever cloned, she's by no means the only one: scientists have cloned mice, cats, and several types of livestock in addition to sheep. The cloning of cows has, in recent years, provided a great deal of knowledge to scientists about why the process doesn't work: everything from implantation failure to those aforementioned mutations that render offspring unable to survive. Harris Lewin, professor in the UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology, and his team published their findings on the impact cloning has on gene expression in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences back in 2016. In the study's press release Lewin noted that the findings were certainly invaluable to refining cloning techniques in mammals, but that their discoveries "also reinforce the need for a strict ban on human cloning for any purposes."
The creation of entire mammals via reproductive cloning has proven a difficult process both practically and ethnically, as legal scholar and ethicist Hank Greely of Stanford University explained to Business Insider in 2016:
The cloning of human cells, however, may be a far more immediate application for humans. Researchers call it "therapeutic" cloning, and differentiate it from traditional cloning that has reproductive intent. In 2014, researchers created human stem cells through the same cloning technique that generated Dolly the sheep. Because stem cells can differentiate to become any kind of cell in the body, they could be utilized for a wide variety of purposes when it comes to treating diseases — particularly genetic diseases, or diseases where a patient would require a transplant from an often elusive perfect match donor. This potential application is already well underway: earlier this year a woman in Japan suffering from age-related macular degeneration was treated with induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells created from her own skin cells, which were then implanted into her retinas and stopped her vision from degenerating further.
We asked the Futurism community to predict when they think we'll be able to successfully clone a full human, and the majority of those who responded agree that it feels like we're getting close: nearly 30 percent predicted we'll clone our first human by the 2020s. "We have replaced, and replicated almost every biology on earth," said reader Alicja Laskowska, "[the] next step is for cures and to do that you need clean DNA, and there's your start."
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Carlsberg's new Beer Beauty range is made up of two products – a body lotion and shampoo – and come as a set for £19.99.
If you're a bit confused as to why a leading beer brand is entering the world of men's beauty products, then you'll be pleased to know there is a very valid explanation. Beer is rich in proteins and vitamins and it does contain nutrients for helping to develop healthy hair.
Intriguingly, these products even have a whiff of the Carlsberg scent, which we're struggling to work out if that's a good thing or not. One thing's for sure, you won't fall short on the masculinity scale when using this stuff.


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Engineering fibrotic tissue in pancreatic cancer: A novel three-dimensional model to investigate nanoparticle delivery
Hitomi Hosoya, Koji Kadowaki, Michiya Matsusaki, Horacio Cabral, Hiroshi Nishihara, Hideaki Ijichi, Kazuhiko Koike, Kazunori Kataoka, Kohei Miyazono, Mitsuru Akashi, Mitsunobu R. Kano
Pancreatic cancer contains both fibrotic tissue and tumor cells with embedded vasculature. Therefore anti-cancer nanoparticles need to extravasate from tumor vasculature and permeate thick fibrotic tissue to target tumor cells. To date, permeation of drugs has been investigated in vitro using monolayer models. Since three-dimensional migration of nanoparticles cannot be analyzed in a monolayer model, we established a novel, three-dimensional, multilayered, in vitro model of tumor fibrotic tissue, using our hierarchical cell manipulation technique with K643f fibroblasts derived from a murine pancreatic tumor model. NIH3T3 normal fibroblasts were used in comparison. We analyzed the size-dependent effect of nanoparticles on permeation in this experimental model using fluorescent dextran molecules of different molecular weights. The system revealed permeation decreased as number of layers of cultured cells increased, or as molecule size increased. Furthermore, we showed changes in permeation depended on the source of the fibroblasts. Observations of this sort cannot be made in conventional monolayer culture systems. Thus our novel technique provides a promising in vitro means to investigate permeation of nanoparticles in fibrotic tissue, when both type and number of fibroblasts can be regulated.
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Tissue Engineering Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
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Hosoya, H., Kadowaki, K., Matsusaki, M., Cabral, H., Nishihara, H., Ijichi, H., Koike, K., Kataoka, K., Miyazono, K., Akashi, M., & Kano, M. R. (2012). Engineering fibrotic tissue in pancreatic cancer: A novel three-dimensional model to investigate nanoparticle delivery. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 419(1), 32-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.01.117
Engineering fibrotic tissue in pancreatic cancer : A novel three-dimensional model to investigate nanoparticle delivery. / Hosoya, Hitomi; Kadowaki, Koji; Matsusaki, Michiya et al.
In: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Vol. 419, No. 1, 02.03.2012, p. 32-37.
Hosoya, H, Kadowaki, K, Matsusaki, M, Cabral, H, Nishihara, H, Ijichi, H, Koike, K, Kataoka, K, Miyazono, K, Akashi, M & Kano, MR 2012, 'Engineering fibrotic tissue in pancreatic cancer: A novel three-dimensional model to investigate nanoparticle delivery', Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol. 419, no. 1, pp. 32-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.01.117
Hosoya H, Kadowaki K, Matsusaki M, Cabral H, Nishihara H, Ijichi H et al. Engineering fibrotic tissue in pancreatic cancer: A novel three-dimensional model to investigate nanoparticle delivery. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 2012 Mar 2;419(1):32-37. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.01.117
Hosoya, Hitomi ; Kadowaki, Koji ; Matsusaki, Michiya et al. / Engineering fibrotic tissue in pancreatic cancer : A novel three-dimensional model to investigate nanoparticle delivery. In: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 2012 ; Vol. 419, No. 1. pp. 32-37.
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McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) released its full year results on January 30, 2019. The company beat the consensus earnings but missed slightly on revenue for the 4th Quarter. This is primarily due to the refranchising of its restaurants that the company has been undertaking for a couple of years. The company's long-term goal is for 95% of McDonald's restaurants to be owned by franchisees, and at the end of FY 2018, this figure stood at 92.7%. Overall the company posted revenue of $21.03 billion with earnings of $7.50, up 18% year on year as the strategy has also helped them in cutting down costs and thus improving margins. Global comparable sales also improved by 4.5% YOY.
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Refranchising Restaurants: This strategy has been afflicting the company's revenues for a number of quarters now. Although, as mentioned, it has had a positive impact on the earnings. Another benefit of the franchise model is that the company can take advantage of the significant real estate portfolio it has built up over the years, and collect rent and royalty income.
Technology Initiatives: McDonald's is revamping its stores to create "Experience Of The Future" restaurants which will have self-serve kiosks and table service. This is expected to be substantially complete by the end of 2020. The mobile ordering and payment system are expanding at a rapid pace and they are also effectively using the data captured via this platform for personalized marketing and customizations. The company has also partnered with UberEats and introduced delivery services. CFO Kevin Ozan has stated that the delivery check size is generally one-and-a-half to two times the in-store check. Consequently, an effective use of technology is another key growth factor for McDonald's, as it can drive the average check higher. The delivery momentum has continued with 19,000 restaurants already providing delivery services.
New Launches: The company has also launched its premium burgers in other countries, such as Gourmet Creations in Australia and Mighty Angus in Canada. Increased sales of these products can help to increase the average revenue per consumer. The U.S. is following up by offering Bacon Big Macs and Quarter Pounders as well as cheesy bacon fries. In December the company also announced that they are partnering with suppliers and beef producers to reduce the overall use of antibiotics in the beef supply chains.
Positive Industry Environment: According to insights provided by TDn2K's Black Box Intelligence, year-over-year restaurant same-store sales increased 2% in December which is the best monthly performance in over three years. On the other hand, the guest count metric continued to be weak, with store traffic declining 0.9% during the month, and 1.6% in the quarter. Although the average guests checks grew by 3.1% during the fourth quarter year over year. McDonald's enjoyed a second successive year of growth in the number of guests.
In conclusion, McDonald's has had a strong Fiscal Year 2018 and is expected to continue to build on the momentum in Fiscal 2019. 'Experience Of The Future' restaurants and higher Delivery equipped restaurants will be the forefront in the next fiscal year.


The Rock Island Light website is a photo gallery and store for the photography of Bruce Parker. The name derives from the island located near the family cottage, adjusted to imply the nature of the site: a celebration of the visual richness of the Thousand Islands region, located in northern New York.
Bruce can't remember a summer that didn't involve time spent in Fishers Landing, NY, on the shores of the St Lawrence river and in the midst of the Thousand Islands. Growing up, Bruce's family would leave for the river the day school got out and didn't return home until the day before school started. In adult life, work has all too often demanded that the amount of time spent at the family cottage be more brief. Nevertheless, there has always been vacations and long (never long enough) weekends spent at the river.
Bruce has over 25 years of professional photography experience in advertising and industrial photography. Clients over that time have included companies such as; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cole Hersee, Corning Glass, Dennison Corp, Dunn and Bradstreet, Garden Way, Matthew Bender, Lojack, Onondaga Water Authority, Troy-Bilt, Welch Allen, etc.. Bruce has also taught advertising photography at the College of St. Rose in Albany, NY.
In addition to the original photographs offered in the store on this site, Bruce is also available to make photographs of your Boat or Cottage. Please contact Bruce to discuss your project.


Awww…Teddy. I am so glad you found Speranza again. How could you not, when she lives within you? Hugs.
I am glad that you kept writing and never gave up. May Speranza spring eternal for you.
Teddy I am so glad you were able to find your way back to Speranza. Your story brought tears to my eyes and thoughts of another young man who I wish could have found hope in his life and a way to vent what he experienced . Praying for you my friend and sending Hugs your way.
Hey Teddy! Hope you are okay! It's been a long while since you have posted anything. You are missed my friend!
This is great Teddy. I too had a mother who started me writing early and I think it's what helped me keep centered, learn about myself and dream bigger. Also it's so good to have those pages from the past to look back on because although I don't think we should ever be cemented in our past we should never forget it and those pages help to see how much we grow as people. Thanks to much for sharing! It made me want to dig out my old journals and see where my life has taken me.
What an awesome idea, naming your journal! Going back and reading your entries, do you see where you have grown as a man in your feelings & thoughts to your years of abuse? This is such as sad, yet, sweet post at the same time!
i think its that fact you care enough to ask about my thoughts on myself as i read some of those entries..
that means a lot to me tela..
Thank you for sharing, Teddy. My mom didn't give me a journal, notebook, or much of anything. Yet, at age 14, I knew if I didn't find an outlet for the anger and hopelessness, I would be another statistic.
I started writing in a journal my wonderful late Grandma gave me. It was always in my purse or backpack. I never let it out of my site. A few days before I married, I sealed and buried my journals on my Grandma's property. It was symbolic to me.
May God bless you as you continue your journey of healing.
Once was lost, but now you've found your ground. One day at a time yet so profound. You have a Passionate blog. Big hug babe.
I'm sorry for all that happened to you and with Speranza. Yet, I am glad you found the courage to write again and this time to a wider audience.
That is the exact same effect that journaling has on me, and, writing in my journals had helped me come to senses and make sense of what had actually happened to me, so, keep on journaling, because when you look back, you'd know, that you'd gone through the fires, and you'd realize your own strengths.
Beautiful. That's exactly how I feel about writing. I have my journals in a drawer in my room. From time to time I read them and remember that I was sad, even as a teenager, and that not much has changed at all.
Why are Your still sad?
Great blog! Your mom had a wonderful idea!
Speranza was with you, and in you, all along 🙂 Such a great reminder to never lose faith and hope in ourselves.
That's the stuff with diaries/journals. I used to keep one too but the day I would forget to lock my cupboard, I would have a heart attack just thinking someone might read it. So I started writing online. On Open Diary. And even that closed down. Bums.
But thank you. For being so brave and sharing all your thoughts with us. Of all the people who's blog I follow, you're one of my top favorites. And the reason behind it is that you're so true in whatever you say. I have never felt like you have changed anything. It's like what's in your heart, is in your mouth and written here. I don't think everyone is as brave as you to just tell everything to everyone.
So thank you for your honesty. And thank you for being vulnerable and broken here as well. A bit if not completely.
I know i would freak out as well thinking someone might see all thoughts, but i dont care much anymore..
This is the greatest piece of writing I have read! So good!
I'm really glad that you found your way back because there's nothing else like it. I believe it's the writer's canvas and our words are the paint and it's important to be able to express whatever it is we're feeling.
And yeah, like many above me have said, it takes a lot of courage to do this on a public platform.
Oh, this was such a lovely read! Speranza, eh? Thanks, that's new to me.
Teddy, thank you for writing, for finding hope again, for rallying support through your blog. Bravo. Job well done.
"… it would seem like at some point someone has to violate you" I felt these were some of the strongest lines that ever resonated with me. It is crucial to know that I have had this happen to me in so many ways in my life that it hurts. People want to hurt you if you are happy or feeling good and I don't understand why.
Hope doesn't die easily that is why abusers try so hard to be cruel to you so they think they can kill it; you only hurt that one thing that you are scarred of — abusers, at the end of the day are afraid of your hopes so they try so hard to make it go away. God is always with you Teddy and I am happy you are hopeful again.
Thanks for visiting earlier! I'm glad you came back to Speranza and that she has given you back your voice. Sometimes, to know where we are, we must first know where we came from.
I'm glad you were able to find refuge in your journals. It's a shame your family didn't respect your privacy, but since they didn't respect you as a person, not surprising. I'm very glad you found writing again, and a safe place to do it.
My mother and my sister both read things I wrote and were cruel… My crafty Irish girl page is an outlet at the moment but it's public and sometimes I refer to friends and although I don't name them, they could easily out two and two together and know my thoughts … Hmmmmm … Maybe write under a false name?
Oh my goodness. You were so violated. I can understand your retreating for a while. But it's so great that you returned to Speranza. I knew the meaning of this word as soon as I saw it. In Portuguese it's Esperança.
Speranza, sweet of you to name your journal. I do feel the same way when I was a kid and I'm sure is glad you found her back and started writing again.
I am so glad I read this, Teddy. It gave me the goosebumps. I too wrote in a notebook (s) as a child, writing to "God" about all the traumas I experienced as a child. In moving one year, I found those notebooks, and instead of keep all those sad memories, I threw them out. Some days I wish I still had them. Other days I am glad I no longer have the words of my child self crying out for someone to help her.
Thank you amy, that means a lot to me… i know what mean, as i read mine i thought "wow" ..
did you read the sad ones before you threw them out?
I still have my journals from when I was nine and ten. I take them out once a year in trying to always keep me grounded. I like the name of your journal.
Wonderful. I'm glad you found her again. Spoken as someone who has lost her 'Speranza' several times and had to find her way back.
Speranza, is such a fitting name for her. I am so glad that you have taken journal entry back up because it is amazing how just putting your feelings out there eases the ache, if only just a little.
I kept a journal for many years and had my privacy violated by someone reading it. I was really hurt and angry and stepped away from it for a number of years, but then came back to it. I found that I tended to harbor more hurt and anger inside when I stopped writing and that anger or hurt would overwhelm me at times. When I went back to writing, I felt release. Just knowing that everything I felt at that time was recorded helped me to let go of the feelings and move through them. I felt validated and no longer alone.
Love love love this post. Amazing and beautiful. You are a true inspiration to many!!
Thank you. It doesn't compare to this. Journaling is so important to the healing process. It can so so much for a dark soul. You are living proof of that. Thank you for sharing.
while journaling is important, so is having a positive outlook on life..
you left me speechless i dont even know what to say, thank you couldn't ever be enough..
im sorry to hear that, i can only imagine the pain felt in doing that… do you have anything you wrote when you were a kid?
There you go – it's a sign :). You definitely have a book in you to write :). You have a big audience already and it will only grow. You have lots of material to write about too. I didn't keep any journals from when I was really young – only kept them from 17 years and older. I did keep some of my poems from when I was 14 though.
i just know how to go about with the whole thing..
thats good Merryn, i bet its strange looking over them… did you publish any of your work?
Thanks Teddy :). I have so much to learn about how to publish etc, but it would be cool to try it!
I managed to upload some jazz to a free program tonight if you want to listen – one of my other hobbies is singing :).
We only had time for one practice ha ha! I was learning some of the songs from scratch – a spectacular botch up when changing key on "They Can't Take That Away From Me" lol but otherwise, it worked ok :). I liked "Georgia" the best.
i thought you did great, where were you guys singing at?
Teddy, I really enjoy your writing. You make those reading it a part of it…feel it! You're AWESOME! Digging those shades to dude. 🙂 Thanks, again for reading my blog post.
You havn't posted in a while..
well, a lawyer told me to be careful with certain things because people well sue for slander and defamation of character..
Is this another way of saying you're going to blog a bit less then? If it is, then you really shouldn't say that.
I was just going through my reader (I get ONE off in a week so I was just going through to make sure I haven't missed anything) and I didn't say any of your posts. So I thought I might drop by and say heeeeeeey.
I had something similar happen with my mother. She gave me a journal then would read it. Even worse she would put notes in it telling me why I shouldn't have such thoughts. It took me a long time to write again.
email wordpress, im trying to look it up on google for you.. its saying something about deleting because someone might have spammed you..
ill let you know when i find something to help you alright..
Wow, I have no idea how I found your blog but I'm so glad I did! This is so beautiful and I can relate to it. I remember leaving my journal at a friends house. I called and ask her to bring it to school and not to read it, but that was a big mistake. She read it with another friend and they picked on me because of what they read. I felt so horrible and ashamed that I stopped writing for a long time. But I'm so glad I began writing again.
I don't mean to write so much, but this post was so inspiring.
I'm glad you have your Speranza.
Hoping life has been good. You haven't blogged in a while.
Glad to hear. Ok mostly. Been thinking and writing stuff out.
what have you thinking about?
Thank you. I appreciate having a non judgemental ear. You and a few others have touched my heart and I do wish well for you. Enjoy the concert it sounds fun!
I know that it felt and feels like a violation, when Speranza was read by your abuser…but I thought, YES! You were given a voice by your writing that had not been heard yet!!
I'm so glad that Speranza, your writing, and your voice is returning. Your story is an important one.


Ragini Nayak originally came from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, and was only brought from there.
During her studies at the University of Delhi she became active in policy and she joined the National Union of Indian students NSUI as an activist.
After studying a law under the Law of the Legislative Center at Delhi University, she joined the University of Delhi in Lakshmi Bai College in 2012 as assistant professor of English literature.
She married Ashok Basoya, former vice president of DUSU University of Delhi, and they met eight years before they got married.
He is a lawyer by profession and is also a member of the Congressional Committee of India. She was one of the ten best members of the committee, which was appointed for the revival of the Indian national conference in Delhi's legislative elections in 2015.
She also successfully assumed responsibility to be a national media panel member for the Indian National Congress.


I follow you because I know you and want to keep up with what's going on in your life. I'm glad you're on Twitter (especially if you joined in response to my arm-twisting). I have a problem, though. My friends' tweets are getting to be too much for me to keep up with, and I need your help.
Please be judicious in your use of the @ reply. So many times, I see tweets like "@username yeah, me too!" which are of no interest to me or anyone other than the person you're addressing. A direct (d) message is a much better choice for most messages addressed to a single person. If you're going to write an @ message, please include enough context and/or information to make it interesting to all your followers. I beg you.
My only other option is to un-follow you, and I'd really hate to do that.
p.s. I'm aware that I have the option to globally turn off all @ messages that are addressed to someone I don't follow. But many of my friends use the @ message properly and have interesting tweets that are @ someone I don't know. I don't want to miss those.
It's not @ replies to me that I'd miss; just @ replies to users I don't follow. But as I said, many of those are interesting when done right. I don't want to have to follow your friends (that I don't know) just to know what you're talking about.
It's like hearing one side of a loud cell phone conversation on the bus. It takes up your time and mindspace, but you don't get enough meaning out of it for it to be interesting.
I stumbled upon your blog accidentally while trying to get to the other My Name is Kate's site. Heh, I bet you get that a lot.
This post is really interesting, but I'm going to have to respectfully disagree. Everyone uses Twitter in a different way, and you just can't ask someone to change how they use it because it's overwhelming to you. The point of Twitter isn't to keep track of everything that is happening on the site. It was designed to enable you to jump in and out of conversations when you have time to do so.
I completely understand your frustration, but what you're saying just isn't fair. What is and isn't interesting is entirely subjective.
Hi Rayanne! Thanks for visiting, even if it was accidental. I actually do keep track of everything that's tweeted by my friends. That's why I keep my friends list to just people I know (and a few low-volume bots, like @cnnbrk).
a_user: @username Check your archives.
otheruser: @username 🙂 nice to hear!
otheruser: @username ok, sorry about that.
Imagine if your whole twitter page were filled with that garbage! Can we all agree that these tweets are much better suited to a direct message?


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Rocket Mortgage Classic Preview: 'Should Be A Shootout,' Says CBS Sports' Colt Knost
Filed Under:Bryson DeChambeau, Detroit Golf Club, Norm Elrod, Rocket Mortgage Classic
(CBS Detroit) — The PGA Tour returns to Detroit for the third instance of the Rocket Mortgage Classic. This year's field will face a Detroit Country Club course where the previous two winners went low. With the course largely unchanged and some recent weather to soften things up, this year's Rocket Mortgage Classic should be another birdie-fest.
The field set to take on the club's North Course is solid. The highest-ranked player is last year's champion, Bryson DeChambeau, at sixth. He shot 23-under in the debut of his new, bulkier physique. And that added strength helped him overpower the course. Can he do it again?
"This was kind of the first look at Bryson DeChambeau and his new power game he's brought in, the change in his body," says CBS Sports on-course reporter Colt Knost. "And he just absolutely destroyed the field last year, winning by three shots. And he's a heavy favorite again this week. So it'll be interesting to see if he can back that performance up that he had here last year."
Patrick Reed, ranked ninth, is the only other top-10 player showing up this week. Reed has four top-10 finishes since his win at the Farmers Insurance Open in January. Webb Simpson, the world's 15th-ranked player, has only played in four events since the start of April, and three of those were majors. He'll look to improve on last year's eighth-place finish. Hideki Matsuyama, ranked 18th, has also found limited success since his April Masters win.
"There's a lot of big names," Knost points out. "You have Phil Mickelson, Hideki Matsuyama, Rickie Fowler. Bubba Watson is in the field, along with Matthew Wolff, Max Homa. I think it's a very, very solid field, pretty top-heavy, but definitely a week where you could see maybe a lesser name really make a big splash and turn his season or career around."
The field will face a Detroit Country Club track that has yielded its fair share of birdies over the last two years. The Club's North Course, originally designed by Donald Ross, was updated in preparation for its inaugural event in 2019. A par-72 stretching to 7,370 yards, the Tour's oldest course is a bit of an anachronism on today's PGA Tour. It's a classic course in an age when venues are modernizing to counter the power game.
The North Course's front nine, lined with trees, is a little more challenging than the back nine. Any course will reward distance, but accuracy off the tee helps here as well. The opening hole, a 397-yard par-4, is original to the course, and tees off near the base of a bent oak that marked a Native American trail between Detroit and Saginaw. The fourth hole, one of two par-5s on the front nine and the course's longest, extends to 635 yards. The green is still very reachable in two shots.
On the back nine, the 14th, 15th and 16th holes came together a couple years ago to form 'Area 313,' where birdies can fly. Fans will be on hand again this year to create a festive atmosphere for a set of holes that provides some scoring opportunities. The series starts with a 555-yard, risk-reward par-5, depending on how it's approached. The 15th hole is a par-3 that plays longer than its 160 yards might suggest. The 16th hole, a 446-yard par-4, offers scoring opportunities for those who can navigate the green.
"It really sets up well for the guys that can bomb it, because they can cut a lot of the doglegs," notes Knost about the North Course. "They take the fairway bunkers out of play. And with the unfortunate weather they've had here in Detroit the last week, the golf course is going to play extremely soft, which makes these players just absolutely throw darts at these pins, and they're gonna make a lot of birdies. So, unless the wind blows, a lot, this golf course isn't going to have much defense. It's going to give up a lot of low scores and should be a shootout."
Here are the favorites:
Bryson DeChambeau (15-2)
DeChambeau is the defending champion at the Rocket Mortgage Classic. He torched the field last year, in his only event at Detroit Golf Club. And he remains possibly the Tour's longest driver, leading in Strokes Gained: Off-The-Tee. His last win came at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, which he followed up with a tie for third at the Players Championship.
Hideki Matsuyama (14-1)
Matsuyama has only one top-10 finish this year, and that was his Masters win back in April. He's never cracked the top 10 at the Rocket Mortgage Classic either. In 2019, he finished 13th, and in 2020, he finished 21st. But Matsuyama has been relatively consistent on this course and played well on other courses designed by Ross.
Patrick Reed (14-1)
Reed has five top-10 finishes in his 15 events this year. That includes a win at the Farmers Insurance Open back in January. He's also playing relatively consistently, particularly around the green, where he ranks eighth in Strokes Gained: Putting. He missed the cut at last year's Rocket Mortgage but placed fifth the year before.
Watch the Rocket Mortgage Classic Saturday, July 3 and Sunday, July 4, 3:00 – 6:00 PM ET on CBS.


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- There are two basic categories of land tenure: lands under state control and land under private ownership.
These two can be further sub-divided into the following main categories:
Private lands with freehold titles which the owner has to right to transfer or dispose of.
State lands which the government and the provincial councils may alienate and regulate.
State leaseholds where the government retains absolute titles, such as lands under the Land Development Ordinance (LDO).
Lands in custody of state corporations and departments, the tenure condition of which is neither private nor state.
Jayaboomi, which are lands given as state grants under certain conditions (13).
- Agricultural land may also take other special forms of tenure to meet specific needs:
Thattumaru: the co-owners of a piece of land take turns in cultivating it.
Kattimaru: land is subdivided into plots which are cultivated in rotation by co-owners.
Bethma: it is a sub-division scheme used in the dry zone to meet an ad hoc lack of water contingency in the village tank.
Ande: a land owner who is not able to cultivate by himself land under paddy gets another person to help him and pays him with a share of the crop (13).
The Ministry of Lands and Development is responsible for the formulation and implementation of land policies and land development programmes. The Ministry is also responsible for: the management of land settlement; land acquisition; surveying; land use planning and alienation of land and development of settlement projects (23).
The following departments are part of the Ministry: Departments and Statutory Institutions; Department of Land Commissioner; Department of Land Settlement; Department of Surveyor General; Land Use Planning Division; Institute of Surveying and Mapping (23).
Within the Ministry of Lands and Development, the Land Commissioner General's Department's is responsible for formulating policies pertaining to land matters and implementing them. The department collaborates with several other units at administrative level in the implementation of land policies.
The Commissioner also collaborates with the Provincial Land Commissioner regarding administration of lands situated within the areas of authority of the provincial councils, in order to implement a common land policy throughout the country (24).
- The Land Commissioner General's Department controls and administers lands belonging to the State. The department also issues these lands to various individuals and institutions for various purposes.
The Land Commissioner General's Department's comprises: the Land Division; the Development Division; the Legal Division; the Administrative Division and the Accounting and Finance Division.
The Land Division has the following tasks:
issue and transferring of Long Term Lease to various parties for the purpose of Residence/Commerce/Agriculture;
issue of state land for public purpose;
release of lands to State Departments;
issue of vesting orders of lands to local government administration; assignment of lands on long term leases or grants for special economical development projects.
The Development Division attends all matters regarding lands in the Inter Provincial Irrigation and Land Development Schemes.
The Legal Division provides legal advice and takes relevant action regarding the execution of rules in the administration of the department (24).
The Provincial Land Commissioner administers lands within the area of authority of the Provincial Councils.
The Deputy Land Commissioners, who are regional officers, administer the lands within the Inter-Provincial Irrigation Schemes, under the Land Commissioner General (24).
- The Government Agent (GA) or a District Secretary is the administrative head of public services in the district, appointed by the central government to govern a certain district of the country.
The GA is the custodian of state land in the 25 districts of the country. The GA also maintains a variety of registers including the plans prepared by the Survey Department in respect of state lands. Records pertaining to the Registration of Deeds are maintained in the Land Registries under the Registrar General (25).
- The country has a deeds registration system, which records transactions and serves as evidence of rights, but does not provide guarantee of rights (25). As of 2007, three Land Titles Registry offices had been established to function under the Registrar General's Department (19).
- Private Licensed Surveyors handle cadastral surveys for private lands, except for the areas declared under the 1998 Registration of Title Act. According to the act, the Surveyor General is responsible for the preparation and maintenance of all cadastral maps (25).
- The Women's Bureau (WB), through the Revolving Funds for women's societies, grants low-interest credit facilities to women who wish to commence micro enterprises (17). The Economic Empowerment Programmes of the WB provides rural women with credit facilities through the State Revolving Funds Scheme and State banks (17).
- Commercial banks make rural credit and saving schemes available to women who are in need of credit and financial security. The Bank of Ceylon in collaboration with the Women's Bureau has launched a credit scheme called Isuru Naya, enabling women to borrow Rs. 5 000-10 000 for self employment (5).
- The Anti-poverty Lending scheme (APLE) offers credit to members of the Agromart Production Societies, mainly women with low or no income, to start-up income generation projects (26).
- Under the North East Irrigated Agriculture Project (NEIAP) of the World Bank, women have access to credit for starting micro enterprises, poultry keeping and grinding mills among other activities (21).
- Due to the fact that training and extension services do not specifically address women and projects usually target the head of the household, women participate in few programmes. When projects identify women as beneficiaries, they generally target widows and women heads of household, leaving out the overwhelming majority of rural women (21).
- Agriculture extension services lack a gender focus and are not regular; therefore, spread of agricultural information to women farmers is limited. Furthermore, government officials and project personnel, mostly men, are not gender sensitive (21).
- The lack of information prevents rural women from accessing credit for the development of their activities (17). Furthermore, male heads of household tend to benefit from resources allocation and asset distribution in the case of land and financial assistance (17).
- The credit restrictions of the New Comprehensive Scheme of Rural Credit, which require that lenders be owners of the land, make it nearly impossible for women to receive loans for productive purposes. Consequently, women obtain agricultural inputs from informal sources that they repay in kind post harvest, eroding much of the profits (21).
- The poor condition of access roads and minimal transport facilities also affect rural women's access to information and resources (21).
- The members of most Community Based Organisations (CBOs) are men. Women's membership is limited in farmers' organizations or other agro-economic based organizations. Furthermore, women members rarely hold positions of authority (21).
- Women rarely have the resources to enforce their land rights before a court. Morevover, disputes over land often take years to resolve in the courts, partly due to the fact that the system of deeds registration provides for evidence but not security of rights (19).
- In areas affected by the conflict, women are more vulnerable due to the lack of documentation, inability to prove ownership, inability to dispose of land in the absence of their husband's death certificate and the non-recognition by officials of women's altered status (21).
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One of the elevated sections of the high-speed rail under construction in Fresno, Calif., in 2017. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo
California's high-speed rail fail could pay off for other states
$1 billion in federal grants might be up for grabs as Golden State fights with Trump administration over fate of train project.
By CHRISTIAN PAZ
This story was published as part of a POLITICO Journalism Institute special section. PJI is a journalism training program in partnership with American University and the Maynard Institute, that allows student participants to report and produce news stories.
When California's governor announced in February his updated plan for one of the state's most ambitious transportation projects, the Trump administration saw an opportunity to deal the Golden State a political blow, canceling nearly $1 billion in federal funding for what could be the country's first European-style high-speed rail network.
Now, as California struggles to preserve its two grants from the Federal Railroad Administration, analysts and advocates of passenger rail service hope that the Golden State's loss provides opportunities for other rail projects in the Midwest and Northeast.
For now, California's original $929 million in funding, allocated through the FRA's High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail Grant Program, exists in administrative limbo as California challenges the Department of Transportation's decision to remove the funds—a decision California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called "illegal" and "political."
"The Trump administration is trying to exact political retribution on our state," Newsom, who has clashed with the president on immigration, said in a May 16 statement. "This is California's money, appropriated by Congress, and we will vigorously defend it in court."
An FRA spokesperson confirmed to POLITICO that California no longer has access to the grant funds, but also said the agency is not actively considering whether to reallocate the money. Still, advocates of passenger rail hope that projects in the Midwest see a chance to scale up their transit plans with new funding. Michigan transportation officials confirmed to POLITICO that the state has a laundry list of projects and stands ready to submit applications if that California money becomes available.
An original recipient of both funding through the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the FRA's grant program, the Michigan Department of Transportation said it has been applying for competitive grants to fund rail projects and would consider submitting new applications should California's money become available.
Al Johnson, the MDOT rail operations manager, said Michigan's handling of federal funding has produced concrete improvements in passenger rail service.
"We're pretty proud of the fact that we already have trains running at 110 mph on a portion of our high-speed rail corridor." He added that MDOT is working to extend that speed now on the 135-mile line between Kalamazoo and Dearborn. "And that can't be said for a lot of corridors in the country." MDOT also said its state and federal investments into the rail corridor between Chicago and Pontiac have increased ridership.
Analysts have also suggested additional investments in Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, which runs from Boston to Washington, D.C., and turns a profit. Aaron Renn, a transportation analyst at the Manhattan Institute, a free-market, urbanist think tank, said it makes most sense to improve the efficiency of corridors that have proven their value with higher ridership than other parts of the country. He cites one project in particular—the so-called Harold Interlocking in Queens, N.Y., the nation's busiest rail interchange. The FRA has already provided $294.7 million to improve the interchange, but Renn said it could use more.
"It's a conundrum: Amtrak makes money in its Northeast Corridor but in the rest of the country it loses a lot of money, forcing the federal government to spend more money on the entire system" Renn said.
In this Nov. 17, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump talks with then Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom, left, and as California Gov. Jerry Brown listens during a visit to a neighborhood impacted by the wildfires in Paradise, Calif. California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the Trump administration is engaging in "political retribution" by trying to take back $3.5 billion granted for the state's high-speed rail project. The Democratic governor says President Donald Trump is reacting to California suing over Trump's emergency declaration to pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo
But he also emphasized that the Midwest's approach to upgrading passenger rail could continue to be effective with more federal funding, since incremental improvements are cheaper to fund than a system built from scratch.
"For a long time, there have been a group of people in the Midwest, promoting a Midwest high-speed rail network, and the way they have approached it was very different from how California had approached it," Renn said. "There have been project ideas in the Midwest that have been around for a long time but are incrementalist and doable."
But some advocacy groups like the Midwest High Speed Rail Association, warn that while Midwest projects in Michigan and Illinois are good investments, the federal Department of Transportation's track record on rail does not bode well for the future of California's funds—in California or anywhere else.
"It's difficult for me to imagine Secretary [Elaine] Chao, given how this administration has blocked planning, and [has] really slowed down the progress on transit projects … would reallocate this money," MHSRA Executive Director Rick Harnish said. "The fact that Trump is trying to kill California high-speed rail is unacceptable."
Renn also said California and Trump's political tit for tat could work to the benefit of states that don't politicize issues.
"There is a good chance that the Trump administration would look more favorably on states that are not trying to actively obstruct his agenda compared to ones who are," Renn said.
Harnish said he hopes for additional funding of rail improvements along the Chicago to St. Louis, Chicago to Detroit and Northeast corridors, but said the federal government's willingness to politicize transportation infrastructure suggests a larger disregard for rail.
"I would hope that the administration would fund projects that are ready to go. There are a bunch of little projects that don't get headlines. I could find three projects that are ready to go that would have impact and invest the money," Harnish said. "But the effect is that we don't have good trains here. While our economic competitors continue to invest heavily in this highly efficient, very productive form of transportation, we continue to invest in a broken system."
CORRECTION: This story has been updated to make clear that Michigan is working to extend the speed of its high-speed rail along a 135-mile line between Kalamazoo and Dearborn.
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Cantwell Says Action Needed to Stem Tide of ID Theft, Ransomware, and Security Breaches
US on track for record number of data breaches in 2021
Cantwell: "We know that a stronger FTC will help, but we need to give the FTC the resources that they need to do their job."
Former FTC leaders, experts in ID theft, cybersecurity say it's key for the FTC to have first time civil penalty authority
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the second in a series of hearings on the urgent need to protect consumer privacy and data security, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, reiterated her call to create a data security and privacy enforcement bureau at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). She has also called on Congress to ensure it is equipped with the resources, first time civil penalty authority, and clear digital security standards needed to stem the tide of data breaches, identity theft and ransomware assaults that are harming millions of Americans.
"Earlier this year, a hacker took Colonial Pipeline offline, causing fuel shortages across the East Coast," said Senator Cantwell. "Ransomware attacks on hospitals have put patients' lives at risk. We heard yesterday about Facebook going offline globally due to faulty configuration. There's word out this morning that Amazon may be facing its own situation today. So part of the problem is that we live in a more connected world. And what we know now is that when there is a data breach that consumers are the ones that pay the heavy price."
Cantwell spoke about the devastating impact of data breaches in Washington state, pointing out that the Washington State Auditor's Office, which had obtained claim forms in a review of the incident, "had been receiving unemployment fraud claims had its data compromised due to that vulnerability in the legacy system that was provided by a third party. Accellion systems were breached throughout the country, and we still don't know the extent of that breach. But in Washington, the personal information of 1.6 million residents was stolen."
"…We know that the identity theft can have a devastating impact on individuals who can't obtain unemployment benefits because a criminal has already applied for them," Senator Cantwell said. "40% of these victims were not able to pay their bills. 14% were evicted for not paying rent, 33% did not have enough money for food and utilities, 13% were not able to get a job. So while most identity theft victims lose less than $500, 21% of these victims report losing more than $20,000."
During questioning of experts, Sen. Cantwell asked each witness if they "support an FTC Privacy and Data Security Bureau." All four expert witnesses agreed, including James E. Lee, Chief Operating Officer, Identity Theft Resource Center; Jessica Rich, of Counsel at Kelley Drye and Former Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); Edward W. Felten, Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs at Princeton University and Former Chief Technologist at the FTC; and Kate Tummarello, Executive Director of Engine.
"Do you support first time penalties?" Cantwell followed. Again, all four witnesses agreed.
Video of Senator Cantwell's opening statement can be found HERE, the first round of Q&A with the witnesses is HERE, the second round HERE, and the final round and closing remarks HERE.
The full transcript can be found HERE.
https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2021/10/cantwell-says-action-needed-to-stem-tide-of-id-theft-ransomware-and-security-breaches


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Made In Britain - The World Record
1. Best Years
2. Give Me All Your Love Tonight
3. Love Ain't No Stranger
4. Is This Love
5. Steal Your Heart Away
6. Forevermore
7. Love Will Set You Free
8. My Evil Ways
9. Fare Thee Well
10. Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City
11. Fool For Your Loving
12. Here I Go Again
13. Still Of The Night.
1. Bad Boys
2. Slide It In
3. Lay Down Your Love
4. Pistols At Dawn
5. Snake Dance
6. Can You Hear The Wind Blow
8. One Of These Days
9. The Badger
10. Deeper The Love
11. Soldier Of Fortune
12. Burn/Stormbringer
David Coverdale: vocals
Doug Aldrich: guitars
RebBeach: guitars
Michael Devin: bass
Brian Tichy: drums
With Michael Ruedy: keyboards
Trouble (1978)
Lovehunter (1979)
Ready an' Willing (1980)
Come an' Get It (1981)
Saints & Sinners (1982)
Slide It In (1984)
Whitesnake (1987)
Slip of the Tongue (1989)
Restless Heart (1997)
Good to Be Bad (2008)
Forevermore (2011)
Live at Hammersmith (1980)
Live...In the Heart of the City (1980)
Starkers in Tokyo (1998)
Live: in The Still Of The Night (DVD 2006)
Live: In The Shadow Of The Blues (2006)
Whitesnake - Live at Donington 1990 (2011)
Made in Japan (2013)
Produced by David Coverdale, Doug Aldrich & Mikey Mac
Review: 2013-08-11
whitesnake.com
This is without a doubt the most unnecessary album of the year, if you ask me. It's not that it's bad or anything and I've said before that if you should pay Whitesnake your attention - do it live as they are a live band first hand and best seen and heard there. However, lately it's been plenty of live releases and this is actually their third live album in three years and that could have been acceptable if they'd also released one or two studio albums in between but they haven't. This album even have recordings from the same tour as their last live album and a staggering 14 tracks are the same on this album as that with seven tracks even coming in the same order.
To me it really doesn't matter too much whether this album is good or not - it's still unnecessary. Either this or the 'Made In Japan' album released a few months before this - pick one for yourself! But perhaps the most unnecessary album of them all, at least when we look back at it today, is the 'Live In Donnington' album from 2011 because if it hadn't been for that album I think two new live albums wouldn't be as bothering as I feel it is now when the last album released before them was a live album. And one with 20 years old material.
But let's foresee the issue with yet another live album for a second or so (I'll definitely return to it in a moment, be assured) and let's say I'm actually accepting this commercial deceit of their fans money. What do you get from 'Made In Britain - The World Record'? Well, as the name on the thing suggest it's made in Britain, but we also get a second disc that wasn't. The two takes well over two hours to play through and once you're done it and have a similar taste to mine, you'll feel that "hey - this is much better than 'Made In Japan'!". And that makes me feel even more that something was seriously wrong when Whitesnake started to release live albums lately because one is a 20 years old recording, one is from the same tour as the last released live album and one then is worse than the other - unnecessary - album released from the same tour (but released earlier). But would I chose one of the three to listen to it would definitely be this one because not only is Whitesnake sounding the best here of the three albums, the audience and the sound does too. And I can't really see why they released 'Made In Japan' and then this one so close by because they must have known they were about to do this one as well when they released 'Made In Japan' and when you compare the two - that one is pretty much shit! Sure, that had a DVD and this doesn't but why couldn't they wait a couple of years before releasing this? Why not make a new studio album in between? Why not combine the two? There were numerous alternatives but instead of choosing something intelligent they did numerous live releases instead. This is not only the third live album in three years but also the fifth live release in eight years!
I do like Whitesnake (and especially live) but I wouldn't say I'm a fan even though I've kind of liked all these three live releases and their latest studio album too. Even though I think Whitesnake should be heard and seen live rather than on album I still withhold they should have released something new from the studio before releasing more live material. It's not that I'm saying they don't have the right to do it, just that with more material to chose from you can always get something better out of it. They wouldn't have to use the new songs, not even the material from the new tour - but if they had such great material from this particular tour, why not wait just a bit with one of them? It couldn't harm them...
'Made In Britain - The World Record' is a good album and it portraits Whitesnake well: full of energy, killing one liners by David Coverdale in his speaches and really good live versions of some of their better songs. If you ask me in a few years I'll probably don't care it's the third live album in three years and fifth live album in eight years. But in this moment of time, right here right now I just feel that it is okay - it's good but I just feel like I've done with ELO lately - come up with some new songs instead!
Three similar bands: Magnum/Fair Warning/Pretty Maids
Rating: HHHHHHH (3/7)
Reviewer: Caj Källmalm


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Why Is It Beneficial To Invest In A Home?
When you tend to invest in a residential property, you get many advantages. Some of them are here for your consideration.
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You get an option to expand or add additional units.
Besides, you can rent it out partially or sell it.
Apart from that, you can have a shop or the retail outlet.
Additionally, you can set up an office at home.
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You get various incentives when you invest in a residential property.
The above-mentioned points are some of the advantages you get when you invest in a residential property. You need to check on these aspects along with various other factors such as rental rates, the income you expect from the rents and other such factors play an important role in the residential property loan.
Hence, you can invest in your surplus cash in the residential property. Recently, this trend is high in the financial market. The residential properties are a good gain and profitable. They come with various benefits. In addition to that, you tend to borrow the loan against your equity thus, by doing so you will be able to deduct the interest payment on the loans. Besides, you can make a profit by selling it in the future.


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Homes in Mays Landing, NJ – Small Town Charm next to Big Town Excitement | Schaeffer Family Homes
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - $108 billion in new funds for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved by the U.S. Senate yesterday is not likely to help developing countries counter the world recession, according to economists at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). Contrary to remarks by IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn that rich country contributions to the IMF make "this…the most coordinated stimulus ever," the IMF has been mandating economic conditions for countries receiving new loans, including deficit reduction, monetary tightening, and inflation-targeting measures that run counter to the worldwide need for an increased economic stimulus.
"The only reason that the IMF is getting this money is that no one in the House of Representatives is going to have to vote for it," said economist and CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot, who also noted that given the IMF's track record and recent loan agreements, "Throwing $108 billion at the IMF without any reforms is a mistake, and one that Americans will later regret."
In what media reports and observers see as an effort to limit debate and scrutiny, the White House has attempted to obtain the new money for the IMF through back channels by attaching it to the war supplemental bill in the Senate. The House version of the bill does not include the IMF funds, and attaching the IMF funding in conference is likely to face strong opposition from many representatives.
Yesterday, thirty-three Democratic members of the House sent a letter to Appropriations Chair David Obey and Foreign Operations Subcommittee Chair Nita Lowey outlining legislative language that should be included to ensure the IMF uses the funds to facilitate economic stimulus in recipient countries, instead of pro-cyclical conditions. The letter also urges that transparency and governance reforms be required of the IMF, and that a portion of revenue from planned IMF gold sales be used for debt cancellation or grants for the poorest countries.
"There's little evidence that the IMF has actually helped boost GDP growth in developing countries over the past 30 years, and a lot of evidence to the contrary," Weisbrot said. "Giving the IMF this money without reform conditions is a mistake, and one that will come back to haunt us in the future."


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