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Olivia had never been tied up in any way before she shot her first video for me. This is another first for her as it's the first time she's been handcuffed and groped. I have Olivia standing up wearing nothing but panties, handcuffs, and a ballgag as I enjoy feeling up for tight young body. Olivia is a bit of a struggler, but her handcuffs keep her from putting up much of a fight.
Olivia is laid out across my bed with her hands cuffed to a chain on one side, and her ankles locked in leather cuffs chained to the other side. She looks cute in her matching underwear and red ball gag.
Olivia is handcuffed, ballgagged, and has her ankles locked together in leather restraints.
Olivia has never been tied up before in her life. In this video she is struggling barefoot in a pair of jeans, has her hands cuffed to chains secured to the bottom of my bed, and has her ankles locked to a leg spreader.
Amy finds herself sitting on my floor wearing nothing but her panties. Her hands are cuffed above her head and padlocked to a chain. Her ankles are locked in leather cuffs and secured to chains hanging from overhead. She is ball-gagged and left to attempt to struggle free.
Amy is standing beneath a metal frame. A pair of hinged handcuffs secures her hands in front of her. A leather belt is wrapped around her upper legs holding them together. A short chain runs from the belt on her legs to one of the belt loops on her shorts making it impossible for her to slip the belt down below her feet. She also has a collar around her neck that is padlocked to a chain hanging from the frame. A ball-gag planted in her mouth keeps her from complaining as I play with her body.
Amy Faye plays a naive girl who signs up to be a model in a documentary of some sort through craigslist. Amy is told she needs to get tied up and look distressed for some stock footage. Only interested in how much she's getting paid she doesn't ask questions and lets me handcuff her hands to the top of metal frame she's standing undermeath. I tie her feet together with rope as well as her upper legs. I then ballgag her and, as soon as she's nicely gagged, tell her there's no documentary and that she shouldn't be dumb enough to fall for something like this. I then teach her a lesson by groping the living shit out of her, lifting her shirt out of the way so I can get a nice look at her tits while I feel them up.
Amy Faye gets introduced to bondage with a simple struggle video. I handcuffed Amy's hands to short chains hanging from overhead. I also locked her ankles apart with a short spreader bar and ball-gagged her. This left her in a standing spread eagle position. I left Amy alone for a little bit to get used to bing in bondage.
In the final installment of the Vivian/Roxie series we see Roxie laying on a bed in a yellow bikini. Her hands are cuffed behind her back. Her ankles are locked in leather cuffs. A short spreader bar connects her ankle cuffs to her handcuffs keeping her largely immobilized. She also has a ballgag tightly in her mouth. Vivian completely lets her inner pervert out as she torments and fondled her captive blonde, rubbing their bodies together and fondling Roxie wherever she pleases. Vivian really gets demented towards the end and decides to wrap her arms and legs around Roxie and lock the in leg shackles and handcuffs so the two of them can be together forever ... or until the maid shows up to clean the room.
For the final installment of the Isobel/Brooke series we start out with Brooke wearing nothing but a pair of panties, a pair of handcuffs, and a ballgag. Isobel knows this is the last time she'll ever get her hands on Brooke's perfect body so she takes full advantage of it, grabbing the handcuffed girl's tits and ass repeatedly as well as fondling her body at will.
I have Fiona stripped down to nothing but a bikini bottom for this video. She has her ankles chained together, her hands cuffed behind her back, and a slave collar locked around her neck. Her handcuffs are chained to one side of a metal frame and her collar is chained to the other side keeping her in a restrictive and uncomfortable position. This leads to her squirming around quite a bit.
In this clip we see Anastasia Rose struggling in a pair of hinged handcuffs, a spreader bar, and a ball gag.
Ashlynn finds herself bound and gagged on my bed spread eagle in nothing but a tiny pair of denim shorts in this struggle video.
For the second video in the Alaina/Khloe series I decided I wanted to see these two girls get a little closer. Both girls are now topless as I have them each handcuffed behind the others back keeping them constantly hugging one another. I wrapped a chain around their legs keeping their bodies pressed together a little closer. I have Alaina's handcuffs locked to a chain hanging from overhead keeping them standing in one place. Finally, both girls are securely ballgagged as I grab my camera and get some nice shots of their shared bondage experience.
Raquel is on my bed wearing just a pair of panties. I have her ballgagged and I have her hands cuffed behind her back. Her ankles are secured in leather cuffs that are padlocked to leather cuffs wrapped around the opposite thigh. I leave her in this restrictive bondage position as I grab my camera and get some nice shots of her as she tries to squirm free.
I decided to try out a new bondage position on petite blonde Hope Harper. I have her kneeling on a bed with her ankles locked in leather cuffs. The padlock that holds those cuffs together is also attached to a chain and the end of a spreader bar. The chain is attached to the bed frame. The spreader bar is padlocked to a slave collar around her neck. She had a red ballgag secured in her mouth. Finally each of her wrists is handcuffed to a separate chain attached to fixed positions on the bed frame. It was very tempted to play with Hope while I had her tied up, but her position looked so hot that I knew it would make a better video if I simply captured some great shots of her from different angles. She looks really hot in this position.
Vivian has Roxie laying on a bed in a binkini at the start of this video. Roxie's hands are cuffed to chains connected to the upper bed legs keeping her arms spread and keeping Roxie roughly in the middle of the bed. Roxie's ankles are locked in leather restraints separated by a spreader bar. Vivian continues to get in very close to Roxie so she can feel up her blonde captive. Vivian keeps pressing her body very close to Roxie, who keeps trying fruitlessly to squirm further away from her only to be stopped by her chains. Vivian likes getting right on top of Roxie and wrapping her legs around her, pressing their bodies close together, while she gropes the cute Blonde. As for Roxie, a tight red ballgag keeps her from objecting.
Isobel has Brooke handcuffed and chained to a bed spread eagle wearing nothing but a pair of panties. Brooke is also ballgagged when this video starts. Isobel continues fondling Brooke and playing with her perfect tits in this next installment of the Isobel/Brooke series. The tone of this one is quite different from the other two however. Isobel plays to the camera a lot more this time around. This seems to pu Brooke more at ease as it makes it seem like the woman feeling her up is only doing so to make a good clip, even though Isobel's motivations are definitely mixed between business and pleasure. Brooke's comfort really starts to show early on when her nipples get hard right away from when Isobel starts fondling her.
Fiona is laying on her back wearing nothing but a pair of panties. I have her ankles locked in leather cuffs attacked to a spreader bar hanging from overhead. I have each of her hands cuffed to thick chains keeping her hands and arms to the sides. I have her gagged with a necktie. Finally, I padlocked a collar around her neck just because I wanted her to feel a little more helpless and submissive as she's left to struggle in her bondage position.
Anastasia Rose is laid out across my bed in nothing but a pair of panties and restrictive bondage. Her hands are cuffed behind her back. Her ankles are locked together in leather cuffs which are chained to one side of the bed frame. A slave collar locked around her neck is chained to the opposite side of the bed frame. Finally, she is ball-gagged and left to struggle.
I have the sexy Ashlynn Taylor laid across my bed in a cute outfit and a nice bondage position. Her hands are cuffed in front of her. She has cuffs on her ankles which are chained to the handcuffs. Another chain coming from her ankle cuffs runs over the side of the bed where it is secured to the frame. She has a slave collar locked around her neck which is locked to another chain securing her head to the other side of the bed. She is ballgagged and left to struggle. I've seen a lot of girls struggle in bondage positions, but there is something unsually sensual about Ashlynn's body movements in this clip. It's hard to describe exactly what it is, but she is definitely enjoyable to watch in this one.
This next video features two models. The first one, Alaina Rose, has appeared on this site before. She didn't hate the experience as much as some girls do and, since she needed some rent money, wanted to make another appearance on my site. To make things even better, she brought along her roommate Khloe Brooke who had never appeared in a video like this or even been in bondage before. Apparently Alaina thought it was only fair for Khloe to earn her share of the rent money too. I decided to do things completely different for this one. Since these girls seemed fun and Khloe had never been in bondage, I started them off by letting Khloe watch as I got her roommate nice and bound. I had Alaina stand under a metal frame and handcuffed her wrists together behind her back. I secured a ballgag in her mouth. Lastly I padlocked her handcuffs to a chain hanging from the metal frame. This made sure she wasn't able to go anywhere and it also kept her wrists held high enough that she would be bending over often to alleviate the stress on her arms. After watching Alaina get bound and gagged it was Khloe's turn. I put her in the exact same bondage position standing next to her roommate. Instead of working the camera I decided to try something a little psychological on Khloe. I put the camera on a tripod in a position where it could capture some good HD footage of the two girls and then I literally left the room for about five or six minutes. I wanted Khloe, and Alaina, to experience some true helplessness by being alone to deal with their predicament. Since the girls were securely gagged they couldn't comfort each other at all. Additionally there are no clocks in their view so they couldn't really tell how long I was gone, when I would be coming back, or exactly what I had planned for them.
Raquel finds herself on my bed wearing nothing but a pair of ripped up jean shorts and panties. I have each of her wrists handcuffed to the repsective ankle. Her upper arms are wrapped in leather cuffs and held apart by a metal bar only a few inches in length. This bondage on her arms severely restricts her movement while thrusting her nice big boobs further out. I capture some nice footage of this busty brunette struggling to get out of this bondage pridicament.
Hope finds herself on my bed in an unusual bondage position. Her ankles are wrapped in leather cuffs which are padlocked together. The padlock holding them together is also looped through the ends of two spreader bars. The longer spreader bar runs up behind her back where it is padlocked to a slave collar around Hope's neck keeping her feet in a fixed position behind her. The shorter spreader bar rins between her legs and is padlocked on the other end to a pair of handcuffs which are binding Hope's wrists. This position leaves Hope very immobilized with no chance to escape. I leave her in this bondage position with a ball gag shoved in her mouth so we can watch her squirm around.
I chained Emily to and gagged her so I could fondle her. Good idea? I think so.
French maid Paris gets tied up and XXXX by a masked man.
In this video I tried something completely different. I had Paris Kennedy and Isobel Wren strip completely naked. I then put handcuffs on both of them and locked them in a dog cage for one full hour. I left them room for that hour so they were completely alone (I was able to hear them from the next room, so I could have let them out if there was an actual emergency). There was nothing staged about this video and the girls were not given instructions on what to do in that hour. I was very curious to see what would happen and I hope you are too. Because of the extreme length of this video, the video file is not in full 720x480 resolution like the rest of the videos. I compressed the video to 428x240 resolution so you wouldn't have to download a several GB file. It still looks good and is definitely worth watching. If you like this video and want to see more like it, email me at email@example.com and let me know.
This clip features Martina Warren (2005 Penthouse Pet of the Year) and Charlie Laine (February 2006 Penthouse Pet of the Month). In what may be my favorite clip, I fondle the hell out of these two Penthouse Pets. They start off the video wearing handcuffs, ankle restraints, and ballgags.
I chained Emily Addison to a chair and played with her tits.
I don't normally stretch a series out for five videos, but these girls are super hot and Alexis definitely won't be agreeing to do any more videos so I wanted to get one last video in before I let these girls go. In this one I have the girls laying in bed in their panties. Both girls are handcuffed to the top left bed leg and both girls have one leg chained the the bottom right bed leg. I then chained each girls free leg to the bed leg on the other side of the other girl so their lower bodies are tightly intertwined and pressed together. I barely touch the girls at all in this one and opt instead to pan around quite a bit getting lots of different shots of these girls hot young bodies.
I knew Isobel was a kinky girl. When I did a shoot with Isobel I mentioned to her that I would be doing one with Candle Box later that day. She asked if she could stop by and XXXX her! Isobel was NOT paid for this scene, she showed up and did it because she wanted to. Candle didn't object either, but I usually keep girls gagged to make sure they don't.


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Crain's ChicagoBusiness.com Cites Circle Surrogacy in Article on Surrogacy Growth
The number of births through surrogacy nearly doubled between 2004 and 2008 and will continue to rise, according to a report cited in Crain's ChicagoBusiness.com. A significant part of the demand for surrogacy, according to the article. comes from male same-sex couples, who hope to have biological children. As society has become more accepting of gay couples with children, the demand has grown.
Same-sex couples often turn to agencies like Circle Surrogacy, which are gay-owned and have a history of and familiarity with working with the LGBT community, for help navigating the patchwork of laws and processes across the United States.
Read the full article here.
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I'm used to the world being polarized when it comes to politics. I've seen it ever since the hanging chad fiasco of 2000 when I voted for the first time. Moral disagreements have always been around, and especially since the sexual revolution of the 1960s. In the years following the legalization of abortion, Christians and their beliefs came into direct conflict with the culture. Some feel Christians have lost that battle, and it's time to move on. The past few years are the first time in my life that I've seen the religious beliefs of Christians directly in conflict with the culture, and that is in the area of gender and sex.
Last week a document called The Nashville Statement was released. In that document, the signers laid out their theological beliefs regarding sex, marriage, and gender. The document drew praise from those on the conservative side that agreed with the statements.
It also drew criticism, some from the LGBT community, some from conservatives, but mostly from the progressive Christian community. They're upset about how this will make LGBT people feel, and about some of the statements made regarding Christian doctrine and implications for disagreeing.
I'd love to address current events a little more currently, but for some reason working all day gets in the way. But there's value in not speaking too quickly, listening to different voices, and giving those initial emotions a chance to calm down. I read an awesome article by Benjamin Kerns that spoke to people on both sides of the discussion, and I knew I had to do one of my own.
Some Thoughts for Conservative Christians to Consider…
Theology Matters, But Not As Much As Knowing Jesus
The beliefs presented in The Nashville Statement regarding gender, sex, and marriage are important. It matters how we as Christians understand marriage, being male and female, and boundaries for sex. We should read our bibles and understand what's in them, but the Nashville Statement felt like a door was closed.
Even if you agree with everything in the statement, it doesn't invite people to sit down and talk. It draws a line in the sand, and says you're either with us or against us. Article 10 says "WE AFFIRM that it is sinful to approve of homosexual immorality or transgenderism and that such approval constitutes an essential departure from Christian faithfulness and witness." That is some really strong language. And while I might agree that we shouldn't approve of sin, I'm not sure we need to line-up and pat each other on the back and say, "You disapprove of that sin? Sweet! Me too! We disapprove of that sin good!"
People need to engage in discussions about what the bible says regarding these topics, and this document doesn't help people do that. Christians have believed these things for a very long time because there are theological reasons to believe them. The problem though is when you place your theology ahead of knowing Jesus. We need people to above all things know Jesus (John 17:3). That is more important than saying get all your sins straight, and then go know God. It doesn't happen in that order. The more we know God, the more he transforms us from the inside out.
Loving People in the Local Church Matters
We also need to talk about how LGBT people are treated in the local church. We want people at church. We want people in community, growing closer to God. I think a lot of that growing closer to God comes from within, from letting the Holy Spirit take over our hearts and squash our selfishness. Any sin I've struggled with has only been successfully dealt with by letting God work in me to overcome it.
Beating someone over the head with their sin doesn't produce lasting heart change. It might make people feel guilty, but truly overcoming sin is more about grace than guilt. If you believe LGBT people are living in sin, what's the best way to help them grapple with that sin? The same as everyone else: Provide a safe place where people can know Jesus, and let him change their hearts. We're here to support each other in our Christian walks, but we're not here to change each other. I think that responsibility falls on God living in us.
We all need God's grace to free us from our sin, no matter how big or small we might perceive that sin to be. No LGBT person should be shamed or marginalized by the church. They should be welcomed and loved. Will there be difficult conversations? Absolutely, but we all need to have difficult conversations, whether it's about divorce, pornography, pride, greed, or whatever sin we've let take hold of us.
Fighting the Culture Doesn't Provide Hope to the Culture
A lot of Christians see the culture moving away from Christianity, and one of the first emotions we experience is anger. It might feel righteous, because we want the best for others, and when you see them drift from how you view things, we want to fix it. More likely, I think that anger stems from feeling left out. Sort of like when a bunch of people are going to a party and you're not invited, it's hard not to feel small when you're on that side.
I've gone through periods where I see the culture changing, and it's upsetting. Instead of growing increasingly mad at what's happening around me, I've found that the more I worry about my own heart, and try to align myself with God's will, the less the culture wears on me. I still care for people and want to see them in love with Jesus, but I'm not perpetually offended by those who disagree with me. And when I'm not offended, I actually start listening, and that's half of a conversation.
The gospel should provide hope to the culture. Here's a way that is better than anything the world has to offer. Maybe it's just a matter of terrible marketing, but the writers sound a little tone-deaf to how The Nashville Statement will play out in the minds of young Christians and in the media. Was this really the best way to get people to engage on the issues?
Some Thoughts for Progressive Christians to Consider…
Theology Matters, Not Just How People Feel
I've been doing a lot of lurking on Twitter and reading the reactions of the more prominent Christian progressives. These are people who generally don't agree with the theology of The Nashville Statement, and embrace a view on gender and sexuality that is very different from the traditional Christian view.
And while there has been a lot of outrage at the statement, theology still matters. Understanding who God is, how he changes us, and how we flourish as his children matters. Reading the word and understanding it matters. Then I see tweets like this…
If the fruit of doctrine regularly & consistently creates shame, self-harm, suicide, & broken hearts, families, & churches, we shld listen.
— JenHatmaker (@JenHatmaker) August 29, 2017
Those things are terrible, but blaming it on "doctrine" is a really bad way to read the bible. If someone is upset by the belief that Jesus is the only way to reconcile with the Father, their rejection of that belief and their anger at Christians doesn't in anyway diminish the truth in the bible. We don't develop our understanding of God based on how people feel, but we develop our understanding of people based on the God that created us.
If the Nashville Statement has done anything well, it's that it has forced people to grapple with the issues. If you're fence-sitting and letting your favorite twitter personality determine what you believe, you can't really do that anymore.
The Nashville Statement Draws Lines for a Reason
One of the biggest knocks by progressives is that The Nashville Statement draws a line, and there's no room for disagreement. The problem is, progressives are doing the same thing.
In a way, The Nashville Statement is a reactionary statement to the culture. The theology presented isn't new, so it's interesting that people are shocked by it. As the culture has moved away from Christian teachings, the writers felt this need to react to the culture, and say very clearly what they believe. And not only is the culture moving, but so are some Christians. As well-meaning Christians begin to diverge on such big issues, it shouldn't surprise us that something like The Nashville Statement happens.
I was listening to the BadChristian Podcast episode about the Nashville Statement, and at a certain point, someone boiled the whole thing down to "caring about who you have sex with." The Nashville people are making a huge deal out of something as stupid as who you have sex with. There was no talk of theology, or wrestling with the scriptures. They turned the entire thing into a caricature that they could tear down.
Gender and sexuality matter because we're dealing with big issues. What does it mean to be created in God's image? Why did he make us male and female? In Mark 10, when Jesus himself goes all the way back to the original marriage between Adam and Eve, what does that tell us about God's design for marriage? How does the covenant of marriage reveal God to us? These are not silly matters where people only care about who you have sex with.
If our gut reaction is to argue against the Nashville Statement, but we don't have a theological basis to disagree with it, then maybe developing a theological belief about sex and gender should be a priority?
Deflecting and Distracting Doesn't Get Us Anywhere
These are the most important sins to talk about? What about divorce, pride, or gluttony? If you're not going to issue statements on other sins, you shouldn't issue one here.
Nashville doesn't prove that gender and sexuality are the most important "sins" to talk about, but that it's currently our most disagreed upon issue. You can call for a statement on pride, but there isn't much division on pride that I'm aware of. There's a lot of disagreement about gender and sexuality. I don't think we even fully understand how big this split will be. It needs to be a priority, both in our understanding of the theology behind the issues, and how we approach talking to each other and continuing to love each other.
Comparing gender and sexuality issues to other issues in an attempt to downplay the conversation isn't helpful. It's all trumped by the discussion of knowing God, but then as we seek to know God more, and let him change our hearts, it's OK for us to have these discussions.
We All Fall Short
The Nashville Statement was polarizing. Part of me says that's good, and that it forces us to understand what we believe. Fence-sitting isn't an option, both theologically and in how you love others.
Another part of me really hated how angry everyone got. It didn't draw people together. It didn't make people listen to each other more closely. It didn't help us love each other. It didn't bring LGBT people into the fold.
Christians are going to disagree with each other, but we need to stop judging each other (Romans 2:1-5). We should do our best to understand his perfect design, and how to live in his will so that we can flourish, but we can do all that without pointing fingers at each other. It's not easy, and I'll be the first to admit that I don't know exactly what that looks like, but I don't think it begins with being angry at each other. It begins with talking to each other and listening.


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Libbey's Approach to Innovation
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- Discusses Libbey's approach to innovation (operations and marketing ties) -include ruby glass, bottles, and flat.
- Answers how Libbey organized for innovation - such as automatic bottle making.
- Discusses the upside and downside of a 50 cent tariff on ethanol and the factors in making the company competitive.
- Discusses the factors making American manufacturing uncompetitive.
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1. Discuss Libbey's approach to innovation (operations and marketing ties) - including ruby glass, bottles, and flat.
The Libbey family became involved in the glass business in the 1870s. Libbey became an agent for New England Glass. The Libbey family felt they could make a go of the business and convinced the directors of New England Glass to lease the properties to them. In 1880, the company changed it name to W.L. Libbey and Son, Proprietors. William L. Libbey believed in quality in products. New England Glass was well-known for its high quality (Keefe, 1968).
The Libbey family was innovative when it came to trying to make the glass products sell. When Corning Glass was shut down due to a strike in 1892, Libbey was able to gain a contract from Edison General Electric to make hand-blown light bulbs. They built a factory at Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition. From a marketing perspective, this was a good move. They began enjoying the fruits of their work. Tours were given for a price and the money they made was phenomenal.
Moving forward, Libbey created the "safe edge" tumbler with a rim that was chip resistant. This was in the 1920s. Restaurants and bars were in need of glassware and Libbey was right there ready. Libbey hired A. Douglas Nash who was a sales executive for Tiffany's. He created a unique line of stemware. The line did not sell as planned and with the depression, Libbey Glass was bought out by Owens-Illinois.
It found new growth and did promotional work for Walt Disney creating ware for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Libbey Glass was profitable with Owens-Illinois but in 1993, they decided to free Libbey. With this move, Libbey was offered publicly. Libbey wanted to take on high adventures but was only forced to pull back from many good deals.
Keefe, John Webster. (1968). Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968. Toledo Museum of Art.
2) How did Libbey organize for innovation - such as automatic bottle making?
Edward Drummond Libbey was ahead of his time. He was one of the most innovative men born. Not only was he a great glassmaker, artist, and industrialist - he was also an innovator and art collector. He knew what people would like and he wanted to do it with quality ...
Solution Summary
Discusses Libbey's approach to innovation (operations and marketing ties) -include ruby glass, bottles, and flat.
291 Words about this topic and one reference.
Each question is answered separately and it answers about how innovation played a part in Libbey's plan concerning automatic bottle making. (200 words and one reference.) 179 words are utilized to discuss the tariff on ethanol and how the company became competitive with the outside world. The tariff affected businesses in a positive and negative manner.
There were factors that made the American manufacturing business uncompetitive and this also discusses these in 429 words and one reference. Productivity is covered and how on a national and company level it can be addressed.
180 words and 2 references.


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Battle of Plassy – -1757
Battle of Buxer —1764
1765: Company get the Diwani rights ( ie. right over revenue and Justice )
M.N Roy: A pioneer of communist movement in India and an advocate of Radical Democrat ism in 1934.
1935: INC First time officially demanded C.A (Constituent Assembly) to frame the Indian constitution.
A constituent assembly was formed in 1946 and Constitution came in to being fully on 26 Jan 1950. It was partially come in to being 26 November 1949 .
Company Rule (1773 -1858)
a- Regulating Act 1773 –
1- It recognized the first time political and administrator function of company .
2- Governor of Bengal became Governor General of Bengal.
3- Set up executive council of 4 member .
4-Lord Warren Hasting became first Governor General .
5- Governor of Bombay & Madras became subordinate to Governor General of Bengal.
6- Supreme court is established in 1774. It consist of 4 Judge ( 1-chief justice & 3- Judge)
7- Prohibited the company servant to have trade and bribes from the natives.
8- Appointment of Court of Director (COD) which will report to British government about all revenues, civil & military affairs. This was a major step towards snatching the power of the company .
b- Pitts India Act 1784 –
1- Known as Act of Settlement an effort to rectify the previous Act 1773 , 1781.
2- Initiated double government i.e COD & BOC.
COD (Court of Director ) – Commercial function
BOC ( Board of control ) -Political function and will look after civil military & revenue attains.
3- For the first time company territory was known as a British possession in India
c- Charter Act 1813 –
1 – Trade monopoly of the Company came to an end except in tea in India and trade with china .
2- The Christian missionaries were allowed to spread their religion in India
3- Local autonomous bodies were allowed to levy taxes.
d – Charter – Act 1833 –
1- Final step towards the centralization.
2- Ended company monopoly even in tea and trade with china .
3- Governor General of Bengal became the Governor General of India .
4- Lord William Bentick becomes first Governor of India. He was wasted with all power (civil military & legislative)
5- Deprived the Governor of Bombay & Madras for their legislative power from now new laws will be called Act & all old lows will be provisions.
6- It ended the company Activities as a commercial body which is now just administrative body .
It provided that company territory in India and in just trust for his majesty heir & its successor.
7- Open competition for civil servant but it was negated after the opposition from court of Director .
e – Charter Act 1853 —
1- It separated first time legislative and executive function of Governor General.
2- Provided new member, called legislative Councilors also known as (LC).
3- Legislative wing is like a mini parliament.
4- Open competition system for civil services.
5- Macaulay committee was constituted on civil services in 1854.
6- Extended the rule of company without any time limit unlike earlier.
7- Introduced first time local representation in C.L.C.
8- Of 6 member of C L C, 4 member were appointed by provincial ( local ) government of Madras, Bombay, Bengal & Agra .
The Crown Rule (1858–1947)
1- Govt of India Act 1858 – Highly centralized structure .
2- Act for good governance for India .
3- Viceroy of India replaced Governor General as a direct representative of British .
4- Lord canning first viceroy of India .
5- Ended the double Govt (B O D / COD ).
6- Created now office secretary of state (complete authority ).
7- 15 Member council of India to assist secretary ( member of British cabinet),
8- Secretary of state in council as a body of corporate capable of suing & being sued in India and Britain .
After Revolt 1861, 1892, 1909 Council Act seeks Cooperation Form India
Indian Council Act 1861 :
First time Indian associated with law making process: Nominated by viceroy as a non official member .
1862: '3' Indian to his legislation council .
1- Raja of Benaras
2- Sir Dinkar Rao
3- Maharaja of Patiyala
It initiated the process of decentralization by restoring the legislative process to Bombay & Madras presidency. It thus reversed the centralizing tendency which started from 1773 & reached it climax in 1833.
This policy of legislative devolution resulted in grant of almost complete internal autonomous to the province in 1937.
This also gave a recognition to the portfolio system in introduced by lord Canning in 1859.
Ordinance making power to Viceroy which remains for 6 months .
It provided establishment of new legislative council for Bengal (1862 ), N W F P (1866 ) Punjab( 1897).
Indian Council Act 1892 ;
Increased no of additional (non official) member In CLC & PLC but maintained the majority of official members.
Increased function of PLC to discuss budget & address the questions.
Nomination of non official member in CLC by Viceroy on recommendation of P L C & Bengal chamber of commerce and non official member for P L C by Governor on the recommendation of district Board municipalities, Universities and Zamidar etc.,
Indirect provision of election: Initially called nomination on the recommendation of certain bodies .
Note –
1- Charter Act 1853 —- 6 member added
2- Indian Council Act 1861 ——-3 member added
3- Indian Council Act 1892 ——–7 member added
Indian Council Act 1909 –
Morley Minto Reform ( Minto – Viceroy , Morley – Secretary )
It increases size of C L C / P L C ( 16-60 )
C L C has official majority while not in P L C
First time, Satyendra Prasad Sinha joined viceroy executive council ( Appointed as law member )
Introduced a system of communal representation for Muslim by accepting the concept of separate electorate. Under this, The Muslim members were to be elected only by Muslim voters .
LORD MINTO recognized as a father of communal electorate.
Now member ask supplementary questions on budget .
It also provided for separate representation of Presidency corporation, Chamber of commerce, Universites and Zamidar.
Government of India Act 1919;
Montague -Reform (Secretary: Chelmford Viceroy: Montague )
Relaxed central control over Provinces.
It authorized to make laws for their subjects (center list state/provincial list ) however government was centralized .
Provincial subject / state subject: Law made by PLC
Transferred Subject ; Law made by Governor General with aid & advice of Ministers.
Reserved Subject ; Law made by Governor General without responsible to legislative assembly .
Dual Scheme (Diarchy ) – Introduced but not successful
First time bicameralism & direct election in country.
Our Constitution : Our present constitution – The first constitution of India framed and given to themselves by the people of India was Adopted by the constituent assembly on 26 November 1949 This t came into full operation with effect from 26 January 1950.
The constitution as originally adopted had 22 parts 395 articles and 8 schedules.
Administrative & Legislative Reforms Before 1857
Regulating Act of 1773
- The Act was based on the report of a committee headed by the british prime minister lord North
- A supreme court was established in Calcutta ( now Kolkata )
- Governor general was empowered to make rules regulations and ordinances with the consent of the supreme court
- The governor of Bengal was nominated as governor general for all the three presidencies of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. Warren Hastings was the first such governor general.
Important Articles of the Constitution
Part- 1 Art -.1-4 The union and its territory
Part -2 Art- 5-11 Citizenship
Part -3 Fundamental Rights
Art – 12 Definition
Art – 13 Laws inconsistent with or in derogation of the fundamental rights
Right to equality
Art – 14 Equality before law
Art – 15 Prohibition of discrmination on grounds of religion race caste sex or place of birth
Art – 16 Equality of opportunity in matters of public employment
Art – 17 Abolition of untouchability
Art -18 Abolition of titles
Right to Freedom
Art -19 Protection of certain rights regarding freedom of speech etc
Art – 20 Protection in respect of conviction for offences
Art – 21 Protection of life and personal liberty
21 A Right to education
Art – 22 Protection against arrest and detention in certain cases
Right against Exploitation
Art – 23 Prohibition of traffic in human beings and forced labour
Art – 24 Prohibition of employment of children in factories etc
Right to Freedom of Religion
Art – 25 Freedom of conscience and free profession practice and propagation of religion
Art – 26 Freedom to manage religious affairs
Art – 27 Freedom as to payment of taxes for promotion of any particular religion
Art – 28 Freedom as to attendance at religious instruction or religious worship in certain educational institutions
Cultural and Educational Rights
Art – 29 Protection of interests of minorities
Art – 30 Right of minorities to establish and administer educational institutions


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The Two Deweys
You made a man of me. But for the thrashing you gave me, I would probably be a state prisoner.' a genuine whipping.
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The Issue:
The Basic Truths Of Life!
Everyone that ever walked on this planet must come to terms in this life with some basic TRUTHS. These will be the basic truths that no one can argue with, if they are sane. Of course, if you believe what God says in His Own BOOK about you, then you will have no problem with accepting these basic truths.
1. The Brevity Of Life
"For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." (James 4:14b) Our life is brief! like a vapor, or like smoke. "Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?" (Job 7:1) He is born, and then he will die! This is certain! (The exception being Enoch and Elijah, and also, those believers in Jesus Christ who are alive when He comes for His Church.)
2. The Brevity Of Your Remembrance
You will soon be forgotten. A man is remembered only a little while, and then he is forgotten. "He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him anymore. Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness." (Job 7:10 & 10:20-22)
3. The Sureness Of Trouble
Life is bale full of troubles. I have also found this very true!!! "Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." (Job 14:1).
4. The Verity Of The White Throne Judgment
"And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" (Hebrews 9:27). You will not miss this one unless YOU ARE HID in the CLEFT OF THE ROCK!
5. The Eternality And The Finality Of What You Do With Jesus Christ:
We will all be held accountable over this issue. It is a hard fact of life, my friend. Now will you take God's offer of eternal life ... purchased by His Son ... for all those who will put their trust in Him ... a thumbs down? You will everlastingly suffer the consequences!
6. That Men Never Learn From History
We learn from History That Men Never Learn From History! It is a heart problem! Men refuse to learn the "lessons" afforded by the light of HISTORY: the recorded historical events which occurred as fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Now, these are the basic truths with which we all must deal with one way or another!
7. What Should You Do?
"But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart:
that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved"; [Romans 10:8-13]
Believe The BOOK!
The King James Bible
This is God's Holy WORD to you and I! Do you believe it? The A.V.1611 (or The King James Bible) is God's word PRESERVED in the English language for you and me. It came from the English Reformation. This Bible declares that: "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." [2 Timothy 3:16] God's inspired word is preserved in the A.V.1611. The word "preserved" means maintained inspiration. "The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in the furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever." [Psalm 12:6-7] "PRESERVE." .
Home In The Hills:
[Or New Jerusalem]
Everybody is going home someday. Everybody is going to their LONG HOME. When you die, you are going to go to your "long home" whether, it be in "Heaven" or in "Hell". Do you realize that truth? "Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:" [Ecclesiastes 12:5]. Read More?
The Tale of The Two Deweys
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God In American History
Old Paths Bible Ministries © 2007 Richard St.James
America's early public schools provided a Christian education. In the public schools "absolutes" were taught and discipline existed. It is the reason why the first Dewey (George Dewey) could say to his teacher, "I never cease to be grateful to you. You made a man of me. But for the thrashing you gave me, I would probably be a state prisoner." The second Dewey (John Dewey) ruined our public educational system with his rejection of the Bible.
The First Dewey
"Admiral Dewey, the hero of Manila in the Spanish-American War, tells us that a good whipping kept him from being a criminal. An Indiana farmer, in 1898, published the following remarkable story telling how the boy who later became Admiral George Dewey, the hero of Manila in the Spanish-American War, was an unprincipled bully as a boy, headed for a life of crime and saved for society by a genuine whipping. The whipping was delivered by Z.K. Panghorn, Major in the Civil War and later Congressman.
Here's what it said:
"Major Panghorn, of Jersey City, the only man who ever whipped Admiral George Dewey, was nominated for Congress a few days ago by the Republicans of Hudson County District, New Jersey. Major Panghorn whipped Dewey while he was a student at a backwoods school near Montpelier, Vermont, one half a century ago. When Dewey was a boy, Panghorn, according to the story, being fresh from college, undertook the management of a district school in Montpelier.
The school had been in rebellion. Dewey was the leader of the 'Anti-teacher Brigade.' Several teachers had been removed, and one had been stood on his head in a snow-bank. It was generally said in Montpelier that nobody could govern that school. When Panghorn appeared the first day, he noticed Dewey up a tree throwing stones at small boys. 'Stop that!' the teacher said sharply. 'Go to blazes!' Dewey said from his perch. Panghorn provided himself with a rawhide which he tucked away over the schoolhouse door.
He placed several clubs of good hickory on the top of a pile in an old wood box. The following day, Panghorn was about to punish some unruly scholars when Dewey stepped up to his desk and said, 'Look here, teacher, we're gonna give you the best lickin' you ever had.' 'Take your seats!' ordered Panghorn. Dewey shot out his right fist and it landed dangerously near Panghorn's jaw. Instantly, the teacher seized the rawhide and Dewey was writhing under the lash!
When the other boys tried to go to Dewey's help, the teacher seized the hickory clubs and, with one piece in each hand, struck the boys around him with such vigor they soon ran. He gave it to Dewey hot and heavy and it wasn't long before the future conqueror of the Philippines was begging for mercy, for the first and only time of his life. That put an end to the rebellion.
Dewey and Panghorn have been warm friends ever since. Dewey recently said to the Major, 'I never cease to be grateful to you. You made a man of me. But for the thrashing you gave me, I would probably be a state prisoner.' Many another man, as with Admiral Dewey, was saved from prison by a good whipping. Many others are in jail who could have been saved to society as good citizens by discipline."
The Second Dewey
America's early public schools provided a Christian education. In the twentieth century this was changed. John Dewey, a "change agent", helped to remove from the United States of America the Bible as our foundation. John Dewey was that atheistic, immoral, evolutionist who can rightly be charged to have destroyed our educational system by excluding the God of our AV1611 Bible. It was John Dewey who taught that children should be critical of custom and authority. The man believed in "situation ethics", claiming that the morality of an action depended on the situation and not on the application of a law. For John Dewey there would be no absolutes (just relativity). What's more, he interpreted moral judgments as being dependent on values and evaluation, hence on a value theory. Hello out there! Have you ever heard of Values Clarification? Old John Dewey was steeped in "HEDONISM," believing that only pleasure is good as an end.
Here is the Creed John Dewey Had For America's Public Schools:
1. The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the test of
right and wrong.
2. One ought to do that act of all those available in the circumstances that would produce the most good.
3. The ultimate end is the full development or perfection of the self.
4. Moral principles cannot be proved.
5. There are no moral truths.
6. Morality has no rational basis.
7. The difference between right and wrong is merely a matter of taste or convention.
8. There is no one correct moral code for all times and peoples.
The sum of it is like this.
Gone are the old ways of our forefathers- a God-fearing people. "Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days. Some remove the landmarks." [Job 24:1-2a]
We have steadily, almost imperceptibly at times, removed one by
one the great principles that were part of the formulation of this
nation. We have been busy for generations removing the anchoring
landmarks that came as a result of the revivals God blessed this
country with in its early years with the preaching of the word of
GOD. We have disobeyed the commandment in Proverbs
22:28:"Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have
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Men Never Learn From History!
It is a heart problem!
Men refuse to learn the "lessons" afforded by the light of HISTORY:
the recorded historical events which occurred as fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Now, these are the basic truths with which we all must deal with one way or another!
Two Basic Reasons For Our Failing Our History Lesson!
The Removing Of The Anchoring Landmarks
We have steadily almost imperceptibly at times removed one by one the great principles that were part of the formulation of the United States of America.
We have been busy for generations removing the anchoring landmarks that came as a result of the revivals God blessed this country with in its early years by the preaching of the word of GOD.
We have disobeyed the commandment in Proverbs 22:28- "Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set."The Departure from the BIBLE
What was the catalyst or reason for this downward spiral? Are you ready! The eyes of men everywhere had been clouded over with cataracts because of our apostasy or departure from the BIBLE … God's word (and more exactly including the multiplicity of translations and corruption's to God's written word).
This apostasy began in America in the BIBLE SCHOOLS early in the last century (1901) when Philip Schaff (with other rank liberals who had rot-gut unbelief in God's word within their hearts) colluded with the English RV committee of 1885 (Westcott and Hort) to produce the American Standard Version (ASV), also known as "the Rock of Bible Honesty" by the scholars, or more accurately, by Bible believers, as a prime example of a new age version of a corrupted bible.
Baptist's HeritageIt is to the Baptist's ... that we owe primarily ... our religious freedom, and it is Roger Williams [of Rhode Island] in particular, that is the most important contributor of our religious freedom we enjoy in the United States of America.
The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience is the primary document, which provided the underlying principals for religious freedom, which in turn gave rise to the then future documents of The Declaration of Independence, The United States Constitution and The Bill Of Rights.


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Puja helps elderly to get over loneliness
With the rhythmic beats of the 'dhak' floating in the air, Durga puja has brought smiles on the faces of the elderly living in the old-age homes of Kolkata.kolkata Updated: Oct 08, 2008 14:14 IST
With the rhythmic beats of the 'dhak' floating in the air, Durga puja has brought smiles on the faces of the elderly living in the old-age homes of Kolkata.
Clad in new clothes, they move around with a new found happiness lighting up their lives, though temporarily, as they forget pangs of separation from their own families.
Seventy-year-old Jamuna Sarkar and Nirmala Chakraborty, 80, both inmates of The Refuge, an old-age home for destitute and old women at Bowbazar, admit the thrill they experience at the sound of dhak (drum) and chanting of Sanskrit hymns during Durga puja.
"Durga puja is being organised in the home premises for the past three years and new clothes are distributed to the inmates to make 300-odd inmates happy during the four-day celebration," said an official of The Refuge.
Most of the inmates are either physically or mentally handicapped and alienated from families for years since they came in the homes.
"Despite old age and acute arthritis in the knees, I look forward to the puja all through the year," Sarkar, a handicapped woman, said.
Before the puja started in the home here, festival days used to be painful for them when they would stay huddled in the home as thousands of others enjoyed hopping from one beautifully decorated pandal to another in the city.
"Though nobody from my family visits me nor would I be able to roam around with children and grandchildren, yet we look forward to the puja to soak in the atmosphere," Chakraborty, another resident of the home, said.
First Published: Oct 08, 2008 11:30 IST


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When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters: 危機
One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
I love wei chi. I don't actually know if this translation is accurate; I've read conflicting online reports. No matter. The concept of wei chi, as I've come to understand it, is more important to me than the actual word. It represents a way of looking at challenges and setbacks.
For a runner, wei chi represents a way to look at injuries. Several of my friends are currently dealing with injuries. Some of these injuries are directly related to running, though not all of them are; one of them is due to a freak accident. What they all share in common, however, is that these injuries have forced my friends into an unwanted layoff from running. All of them have made it very clear that they are very displeased with these turn of events. But they are also all ready to figure out how to make the best of the situation – how to find opportunity from the chaos of their running.
I'm reminded now of the boxer Larry Holmes. I was a big fight fan back in the late 70s to mid '80s, and I remember reading about this young fighter when he was just starting out. He was a big heavyweight with speed and a good right hand. He worked at one time as a sparring partner for Muhammad Ali, but he didn't seem to be skilled enough to break into the very top of the elite ranks.
Then he injured his right hand. When a right-handed boxer injures his right hand, sending him into the ring is a lot like sending a soldier into the field with nothing but the clothes on his back. Still, Holmes kept going into the gym while he was healing, spending all his time working on his left jab. Ultimately, he honed that jab into a lethal weapon, and it took him all the way to the heavyweight championship of the world.
Wei Chi.
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As I write this, Texas is bailing out of the devastation of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricanes Irma (said to be among the strongest ever) and Jose are barreling down on Florida having already left islands in the Caribbean in shambles. But Rush Limbaugh is telling his dwindling cult of dittoheads that reports of the magnitude of these storms are a "liberal hoax" to create fear and panic so people will run out and buy more bottled water and batteries.
In this case Limbaugh's lies aren't just preposterous, they're criminal. What if people living in the threatened areas believe this nonsense and decide not to evacuate because their portly pontiff of prevarication says the media is lying to them and the storms are not as bad as "they" want them to believe? People could actually die because of this.
What will it take for the conservative climate change deniers to finally wake up and admit that maybe, just maybe, climate change is not a liberal conspiracy led by Al Gore and that the smart people warning us that some of man's activities are compromising our planet's natural filtering systems, resulting in unusual and extreme weather the likes of which we have never seen before, are the ones telling them the truth? Why are they so quick to blindly believe ludicrous conspiracy theories from right-wing pundits trying to sell them products from their websites, yet stubbornly refuse to accept what every credible scientist and scientific organization on our planet is desperately trying to tell them? What will it take for them to concede to reality?
Ironically, many of the biggest climate change deniers, Limbaugh, Trump, Ann Coulter, the Koch brothers, have homes in the path of the hurricanes. But I'm sure that if their homes are damaged or destroyed by them, they'll find some way to blame it on liberals.
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The second largest city in the United States of America, Los Angeles, we are being told, is going to be a Sanctuary City to all illegal immigrants, 97 percent from Mexico. Mr. Gil Cedillo, a City Councilman, is a member of La Raza and MEChA, two Mexican hate groups whose only goal is to take back California for Mexico. I am not making any of that up. He stated: "Illegal aliens with invalid driver's licenses should be off the hook in regards to vehicle impound laws."
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As an American of Mexican/Dutch descent and a combat veteran, I know Californians and Americans will not allow this insanity to happen! We are a state and a nation of individual sovereignty and no foreign anything is going to throw their foreign language or form of government on any Americans!
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Columbus Day
So if "we" (white boys) acknowledge that Christopher Columbus was a horrible person who never actually set foot on the American continent and that "we" were directly responsible for the Native American Holocaust and the Trail of Tears we are part of a globalist plot to destroy American history and Muslims are coming to America to kill us?
Give me a break!
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The left has become fanatical in their determination to oppose President Trump. For them, any good idea becomes a bad idea if Trump endorses it. CNN's most knowledgeable immigration expert, Fareed Zakaria, dedicated an entire episode of his CNN show GPS to exploring Canada's skills-based immigration system. On Twitter, he said that "Canada has the most successful set of immigration policies in the world." In the pages of Time, he said America "is losing the best and brightest" to countries, like Canada, with an "immigration advantage."
Republican senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue are sponsoring the Reforming American Immigration for a strong Economy (RAISE) Act, which would take our U.S. immigration policy in the Canadian direction. President Trump has endorsed it. Now, led by CNN reporter Jim Acosta, in spite of the praise lavished on it by their own Fareed Zakaria, they are vehemently defending the dysfunctional immigration policies we have currently, exposing their liberal ideological opposition to a merit-based system for all to see.
Canada works on preserving its two official languages, English and French. In 2015, 76 percent of all permanent residents sell-identified as having proficiency in English, French, or both. In a survey of principal applicants in the economic immigrant stream, that number jumps to 96 percent. As a result, their immigrants assimilate much better into the culture in Canada. A 2012 U.S. census study found that only 44 percent of immigrants who have arrived here since 2000 report the ability to speak English.
In Canada's skills-based system, immigrants welcomed into the country through the economic stream collected social assistance at half the rate of the native-born population. In 2005, only 2 percent of Canada's economic immigrants used social assistance. In the U.S., welfare use for immigrant households is over 50 percent. The proclivity of the progressive left in this country to speak and act as if they have their head in the wrong place, are actually putting their agenda on display. They want to tear America apart so they can take over and institute a government of tyranny, just as Obama was doing, and just as Hillary wanted to do.
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Denise Bibro Fine Art, Chelsea, New York presents Carole Robb's first solo show at DBFA entitled Passionate Collisions. The show will run from February 5th- March 14th, 2015.
Robb's grandiose images coincide with the scale and theme of her work. She travels from New York to London and Rome to rediscover the romantic and aesthetic atmosphere of each of these Cities of Love. She catches couples embracing in the same locations that couples embraced centuries ago. Her work studies personal relationships and the romances and emotions that cohabit them. She replicates what it's like to be in love on canvas. As Robb says in her own words, "Every generation rediscovers passion…We can look back at the epic tale of the lover affair between Paris and Helen of Troy that started a war to see the moral complexities of love, but in its simplest form its to do with emotional connection… 27 centuries later we still feel the immediate emotional connection." Love or the lack of love is a base connection of what it is to be human.
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Carole Robb was born in Scotland. She studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art and earning an MFA at the University of Reading in England. She is the recipient of many awards including the British Prix de Roma, a Fulbright Award, and a British Arts Council Major Award. Her artworks can be found in several private and museum collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.


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MCALLEN, Texas–The ongoing dispute between factions of the Gulf Cartel over control of the area just south of the Texas Border resulted in the death of six cartel hitmen in various firefights.
The first firefight began in the Mexican City of Nuevo Progreso which is just south of Progreso, Texas. Rival factions of the Gulf Cartel set off a series of blockades to keep authorities out while the rival hitmen clashed throughout the city, Tamaulipas authorities confirmed.
Shortly after 8 p.m. five gunmen were shot in the parking lot of a convenience store after they were brought down in three vehicles driven by rival hitmen, government officials confirmed through a news release Wednesday afternoon.
Mexican marines, army, and federal police responded to the scene of the shootouts and were able to seize the three vehicles that the gunmen had used.As authorities increased their patrol of the border cities on Tuesday night, in the rural city of Valle Hermoso, less than 30 miles southwest of the Texas border city of Brownsville, a convoy of Mexican marines came under fire by a group of gunmen. The marines fought off the attack killing one hit man who is described as being between 20-25 years old. The man had been wearing military style fatigues and carried an assault rifle, authorities confirmed. In that shootout authorities retrieved vehicles, firearms and ammunition from fleeing gunmen.
The shootouts appear to be related to an ongoing dispute for control of the criminal syndicate known as the Gulf Cartel which is responsible for most of the drugs moved through South Texas. The criminal organization also controls most of the human smuggling and is also involved in kidnappings, extortion, murder for hire and other activities.
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The St. Thomas Aquinas softball team fell to Mercy College on Wednesday afternoon.
The Maverick's used a three run 7th inning to break open a 4-4 tie and set up the win. The Spartans rallied scoring two runs in the bottom of the inning but fell short, 7-6. STAC got off to a strong start behind a 2-RBI single from Caitlyn Francoeur.
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Toff-baiting, the dangerous sport that will hurt you too'Will you join me," Sir George Young (Con) asked the Rt Hon Harriet Harman (Lab) in the Commons last week, "in condemning the prime minister for launching a class war against those with aristocratic connections who were educated at a public school?" Answer, not surprisingly, came there none. For Ms Harman has aristocratic connections and was educated at a leading public school. She was therefore in an awkward spot: if she, with her toff cred, has been found acceptable at the highest levels of a Labour government, it is hard to see why that same toff cred must make David Cameron unfit for high office, as Gordon Brown sneeringly suggested last week. She wisely ducked the issue and sat down. The rest of us, however, are not obliged to duck the issue. We can join in condemning Brown for trying, with his demented smirk, to let slip the dogs of class war. He may well fail, as he did in Labour's ludicrous by-election campaign last year at Crewe and Nantwich, when party activists in top hats and tails mocked the Tory candidate as a Tarporley toff, until he won the seat with a huge 17.6% swing. But this does seem to be the beginning of another Labour onslaught on Tory toffs. An early salvo has been John Prescott's emotionally incontinent performance in a radio interview as he blustered and stuttered about background and education and money and unfairness. Eric Pickles, for the Conservatives, added to the fog of class war by going on about being working class himself, as if he in person could serve as expiation for any Tory toffery that cannot be denied. The only important question here is whether toffs — any toffs, of any party — are fit to represent us politically. Those who suggest not have to explain why. Is it that toffs have no right to represent us because of their class guilt or our class hatred? Or is it that they are not capable of representing us, because they are too limited by their background? Is there something about being rich, highly educated and well travelled that makes them unfit for office? To say so is not only mean and dishonest. It is dangerous as well. Snobbery is a two-edged sword. For what if the kettle turned on the pot? The posh toff kettle could say the prole pot from a sink estate or a bog-standard school, whose education is poor, whose experiences of the wider world are necessarily narrow and who knows little of commerce or culture or wider society, is surely limited himself or herself. These days, of course, it is unacceptable to say of a person of limited background that those limitations are a handicap. I shouldn't be surprised if it were illegal, under the rulings of some equality body. And yet it is acceptable to suggest, and to repeat all over the media, that people of a background that is far from limited are by virtue of that background unfit for public office. Brown's jibe at Cameron was that his tax policy proposal was "dreamt up on the playing fields of Eton". A rational person must ask what is necessarily wrong with a policy dreamt up on, or rather from, the playing fields of Eton. Whatever one may hold against Eton, nobody can deny that its playing fields have fostered hundreds of outstandingly talented, inventive men who have served this country outstandingly well. The only problem with the playing fields of Eton is that not everyone can play on them, and that is a feeble reason for denouncing the policies of those who have: what is at issue is the policy, not the person or indeed the fields. Everyone must know how, historically, inverted snobbery and toff-bashing became acceptable. Good manners and proper feeling have always demanded that nobody should patronise anyone of modest background, yet in the past toffs regularly did so nastily, without even bothering to disguise their feelings of superiority and entitlement. That was hateful and still is but that does not make it right to inflict the same wrong on the inoffensive toffs of today. I am not an apologist for toffs; my experience is that they vary hugely and some are dreadful. There were some unspeakable toffs at Cambridge when I was there. A group of them once tried to throw me into King's College fountain, objecting to my dishevelled leftie appearance, I suppose, and reminding me of the toff brutality described so mercilessly by Evelyn Waugh in Decline and Fall. Like every woman of my generation, I know what it is to be insufferably patronised by men. I sympathise with anyone who is condescended to, for any reason. Even so, I have no sympathy for the widespread desire to write toffs off as useless or to assume that they are all "out of touch", in the usual indictment. It comes, I think, from the much wider contemporary idea — a piece of contemporary cant — that only people who have experienced something personally can understand it. Perhaps this is a by-product of the 1970s feminist insistence that the personal is the political. According to this thinking, since toffs haven't, presumably, had the same experiences as most people, they cannot understand or speak for most people. This idea is surprisingly widespread and surprisingly important. In disability politics, in my experience, many people assume that you cannot understand what disability means unless you have direct personal experience of it. I discovered this when I found that if I said unpopular things in meetings I was shouted down, until it occurred to me to say that I did have close personal experience of disability — at which point I suddenly found it possible to get a hearing and to be taken seriously. This is all wrong. If human understanding were limited to direct experience we would still be living in caves. What humans have is imagination — the liberation of the imagination vastly extended by the power of education. Imagination means that men can write exquisitely about women, for instance, without the personal experience of being female. Scientists can dream up new things far beyond personal experience, and some have indeed done so from the playing fields of Eton. Slaves can dream of freedom, without knowing what it is. Even the poshest of toffs might have the imagination to see life as others see it, or the intelligence to come up with a coherent political policy, despite the grave disadvantages of an outstanding education and the best that a good background can offer. To pretend otherwise is to be a hypocrite, or else a desperate, dog-whistling politician.
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Your article is Very good!
I have 3 sons. When the last was arriving i left "paid job" and started as a dairy-farmer to be able to be at home and look after my children. I got lots of critics, from my sons who wanted me to earn more money. From my girl friends who told me to go out and "realize myself". I read a survey from the Soviet Union, where the mothers said they most of all wanted to go home and stay with their children.
Now my children have left home, i work some weekends as a bus-driver in a town to get extra money. (My husband has a job in weekdays). But if i go to full job Grandmother cannot live alone here in the farm.
Now, when female friends ask why i stay at home i point to the immigrant people from the East, they will never leave their old folks in old-people's homes.
In future the world will see how important it is to make a good home, and children upbringing.
We have wolves around our farm. The only wolves that is allowed to mate and get puppies is the Alpha she and Alpha he. All the other females are nannies, do all the upbringing and playing with the puppies. The alpha female only gives milk, then she leaves the puppies to go hunting. If the sisters of the Alpha she tries to mate she will expel her from the flock by fighting her.
Alpha woman is a good description.
Have a nice day.
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In 2010 The American Journal of Public Health published an interesting review of various studies that have been conducted on the effects of visual arts, expressive writing, and music movement on physical health.
Expressing yourself in artistic, musical or written ways can have a positive effect on your body, mind and social well-being. These activities can reduce stress and depression. The effects have been helpful in cancer battles and minimizing menopausal symptoms in women.
Your brain loves to create and the rewards are evident:
Creating art (painting, drawing, pottery, building, sewing, etc.) has been shown to release emotions often difficult to put into words.
Dance, or what scientists like to call movement expression, releases the mind to concentrate on nonverbal communication.
Music can calm brain activity and help restore the effective function of the immune system. This is especially helpful to cancer, HIV, and heart patients.
Expressive writing influences the immune system, stress hormones, blood pressure, and cognitive brain functions.
Medicine is taking notice. "Arts in Medicine" programs are being established across the country by Doctors and in hospitals. Why not start your own program? Don't worry that you are not an artist or musician, just create something. Go to the local hobby store and buy a kit that looks fun. Start writing a journal. Play your favorite music and shake a groove. Look for more ideas in future posts. Until then, be creative! Your brain and your body will thank you.


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As I've stated in earlier columns, I've worked in the field of real estate in Central New Jersey for the past 25 years. I've seen a lot of the mistakes people make in buying or selling homes, and no matter how much advice I offer I know, deep in my heart, people won't listen. Yet with each new client (a person who signs an agreement with me to sell their property) or customer (a person who comes to me asking for assistance in finding their dream home), I offer my wisdom garnered from my years in the field and then stand by and watch all my advice being ignored by the novices who indubitably know more than I about everything.
After years of imparting this knowledge one client or customer at a time I've decided to increase the number of people ignoring my advice by offering it here to the unwashed masses, at least some of you are unwashed, in hopes that some of it may sink in to someone somewhere. A lot of this may seem to some to be common sense. All I will say is that everything I mention here are situations I've encountered. I will try to generalize since every state and country has differing real estate laws. My specific real estate legal knowledge is centered on Middlesex County New Jersey.
This segment is for you, the homeowner looking to sell your property. Notice I call it property and not refer to it as your home. The first thing you have to do is separate yourself from the notion that you are selling your home. You're not. You are selling a commodity; a place to live. It is a product just like a hairdryer or lava lamp, or can of beans. Detach yourself from the emotions of thinking of your property as "home". Home is a state of mind, or where the heart is. I'm not sure which, I just know when you're selling it, it is reduced to a monetary value and when something is reduced to a monetary value it loses a great deal of emotional value.
When you sign a listing agreement with a licensed Realtor you are signing a legally bonding agreement with someone who will market your property with the objective of getting you, the homeowner, the highest and best price for said property. You are obligated to make this property presentable. "As is" does not mean you don't have to do anything to market your property, what it means is, if you want to get fair market value, and not short change yourself, clean your house.
That's right, you, the homeowner, are responsible for cleaning your own house. You are an adult; we assume that anyone who owns a house and has legal rights to sell said property is an adult. My advice when it comes to cleaning your house before your property is show is to clean it as though your mother or grandmother would be the person coming to view your home.
You read that right. What I'm saying here is, don't leave anything lying around that you would be embarrassed to have your mother or grandmother see. For the single guys this means no matter how neat the magazines look spread out like you would find them in a doctor's office, Maxim, Penthouse, Playboy, Hustler, Swank and M.I.L.F Monthly are not the magazines you want on your coffee table, end table or magazine rack. Those go in a box in the back of the closet where one would have to dig to find them.
Also it is not advisable to leave all your porn DVDs right on top or in front of the DVD player. Hide them. Put them away in a drawer somewhere and not the kitchen drawers because those get opened by the curious buyers. I recommend dresser drawers because those shouldn't be opened by anyone other than you.
To this end it is also advisable to hide the sex toys and the lube. Sometimes buyers have children with them, and most buyers don't want to hear their child exclaim, "Look mommy, they have one of those vibrating backscratchers just like you have in your nightstand." To put it bluntly, why was the dildo or fleshlight on the kitchen counter? Inquiring Realtors want to know.
Along these same lines, unless you work in law enforcement handcuffs are not a decorative statement. They do not belong on headboards, especially if they are fur lined. And while I'm at it, unless you are Hugh Hefner, a bra hanging from the dining room chandelier is also not a decorative statement. Take a minute and watch some Queer Eye for the Straight Guy decorating segments to learn what is appropriate.
While I'm at it, pick up your laundry. Dirty laundry belongs in hampers or laundry bags or baskets, not spread out on the floor of every room in your house. I'm not judging here, really, because I don't care if you want to live like a slob. All I care about is getting you the highest price for your property because I in turn get more money for selling the property.
One actual decorating tip I offer is this. If your taste in art leans toward Robert Mapplethorpe, Boris Vallejo, or Tom of Finland, or any other bizarre bondage, busty babe, or hunky leatherman art you might want to rethink it or take them down. Go to the local Wal-Mart, K-Mart, whatever-mart and invest in posters of kittens hanging from branches or cute puppies sleeping, or fish in bowls swimming in circles. Trust me, puppies and kittens sell properties better than sex.
Another thing to hide is the drug paraphernalia, bongs, pipes, leftover weed, mirrors and razors with cocaine residue and anything else that could get you arrested if the potential buyer happens to actually work in law enforcement. This includes getting rid of that marijuana plant in the back of your walk-in closet. Just because the buyer may not be on duty doesn't mean he won't report you to the local police and they will be watching you.
These are just some of the common sense things that are overlooked by many homeowners who are desperate to get their properties sold for the highest and best values. I will offer more advice soon, but for now realize these are some of the top problems I encounter in trying to market your properties, so don't blame me when the buyers hurry their children out of your houses and decide to look elsewhere.
Robert is the author of the novels Cool Mint Blue, Melba Ridge, and the recently released The Adventures of Homosexual Man and Lesbian Lad; and the creator of the on-line comix Impure Thoughts found at his web site
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, as well as having been an on-line staff writer for QBliss where he had a monthly humor column, Maybe A Yip, Maybe A Yap. In his non-writing time, when he's not studying the metaphysical or creating a tarot deck, he sells real estate in Middlesex County New Jersey, hangs out with his dog Zeus, and spends time at the Pride Center of New Jersey in Highland Park, NJ, where he is on the Board of Trustees.
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