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Cozy with Posey, Julia Petrus
Cozy with Posey is a unique online boutique that provides clients with a personalized shopping experience through design consultations with the owner. We know how challenging it is to find things you love when you're browsing online and can't talk about a product or feel the product. Cozy with Posey is here to make the experience as similar as possible to being in a physical store and being able to ask questions and understand what you are purchasing. We are looking to help our clients create a safe, peaceful, and cozy space to take care of themselves. There are other brick-and-mortar and online boutiques that sell similar products but lack the feeling of a personalized shopping experience – this is the key differentiator for Cozy with Posey. I have an extensive background in curating gift sets for different organizations and corporate events, as well as a love for items that create a cozy space. These attributes, mixed with an extensive business background lie in a passion for a well–run and successful online shop.
I have always really loved to travel. The idea for Cozy with Posey really came from a road trip through the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. While we were on this adventure we encountered so many fun and interesting brands and products. I knew that I wanted to feature them but I wasn't sure how. When Covid-19 hit and I lost my job I finally had the time to follow this passion. Plus I wanted to create something to help everyone cozy as they spent more time in their homes.
We really focus on partnering with other small businesses and empowering them. I work primarily with women and minority-owned businesses so it really serves to support these communities. Additionally, we like to provide a very personalized experience. We've set up what we call cozy consultations. Essentially, it's hopping on a call or a Zoom to really talk about what you want from your gift basket or experience. We're trying our best to bring our store to a virtual experience to keep everyone safe.
The highs are any interaction that I get to have with our clients or people that I meet throughout my travels. During the pandemic, I've been able to do a couple of outdoor fairs and talk with clients about the company in person, which is so rewarding. I also love doing our online consultations and virtual engagement to keep in touch with our customers and their needs.
The lows have been seeing how much people really need this right now. It's humbling and sad to know that we're still sheltering and not back to normal. Business-wise, the marketing aspect has been difficult. I didn't have any background in this area so there has been a lot of trial and error. There are days when it's incredibly difficult, and you don't see any movement, so you don't know if it's working or not.
My boyfriend actually found SCORE and he recommended that I reach out and find a mentor
Reach objectives, plan for the future, and launch the business.
Susan really encouraged me to start my business and taught me the basics. She made me aware of what I had to do and how to get there. It was great to be able to really lean on someone who had been there. She's always so excited and supports every decision I make. At the same time, she is willing to listen but always says when she thinks I should do something differently. She always comes to each meeting with a new set of ideas.
Go for it! There are so many barriers to entry, so many things that are difficult. Once you get started you find all of these resources, you find mentors, you find people that will help you and are on your side. Do baby steps. Lean on people, Get your idea rolling, start the conversation, and pick people's brains. All the people that are successful now started somewhere.
It's a great resource and you're actually going to learn a lot from your mentors. You're going to learn a lot from them and you're going to have them with you every step of the way. I wouldn't be where I am today without SCORE. It's all about setting small goals and enjoying every victory.
Recognize that some days are harder than others but you're still making progress. You're building this from scratch and you get to drive that and own that. I have to remind myself sometimes that I'm an owner. Just pick somewhere and get started from there.


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Old Delhi or Purani Dilli is a walled city of Delhi, India, founded as Shahjahanabad in 1638, when Shah Jahan, the Mughal emperor at the time, decided to shift the Mughal capital from Agra.
What is patangbaazi?
When in Delhi one can see Colorful kites of different shapes and sizes floating in the skyline. This looks very beautiful sight for the viewers reason being this can only be seen in India (mainly in Delhi). These two traditions have been very popular as open spaces and terrace were the perfect place act as meeting point for the crowd. Many competitions held time to time between various local teams. Your guide will take you to your hotel by metro. He will take you through the streets of Old Delhi exploring heritage buildings and witness the lifestyle and culture at its best. Walk through the Old Delhi lanes and bazaars where your guide will share some ancient stories with you. At the end of the trip, your guide will drop you back to your Hotel or you are free to explore the city on your own.
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Communication and Etiquettes:
To greet people in India fold your palms in front the chest and say "Namaste". While saying it bow your head slightly – in this way you will signify your respect to another person. The word Namaste comes from the Sanskrit words "Namah te" and means "I bow to you".Indians say that the real meeting between people is the meeting of their minds. They believe greeting each other with Namaste welcomes their minds to meet.
In India handshake is common among men mostly. Western woman may offer her hand to a westernized Indian man, but usually not to others. Traditional Indian women can shake hands with other women, but normally not with men.
Mysterious Indian head wobble is a non-verbal equivalent of a multipurpose Hindu word "Accha", which can mean anything from "Good" to "I understand". Usually head wobble is used by Indian people to respond in the affirmation. For example, if you ask if you can order taxi and a person will wobble his or her head in reply, that will mean "Yes". Sometimes head wobble could mean "Thank you" or simply be a sign of friendliness. The head wobble is more prevalent in south regions of India like Kerala; moving on the north you'll notice that this gesture is less common there.
In traditional Indian culture pointing footwear at people is seen insulting, or touching people or objects with your feet or shoes. If you occasionally do so, you should apologize straight away. On the other side, touching with a hand elder person feet is a sign of respect in India.
Head is considered as the most sensitive part of body in Indian culture, and it is recommended to avoid touching another person head to prevent offending him or her.
Indian people are not used to express their romantic feelings in public. Kissing and hugging outside could be misunderstood in traditional Indian society.
If you visit Hindu temples in India, dress in loose, covering your hands and legs, clothes. Women in this case are required to cover their hair. Remember to take off your shoes before entering temple or mosque. It is polite to take off shoes while visiting somebody's house or even somebody's shop in India too.
Try to dress modestly while travelling in India. It is recommended both for men and women to choose loose clothes covering shoulders and knees. It is generally known that India has very conservative dress standards, especially in rural areas. Here you can hardly find a man wearing shorts or a woman wearing skirt above the ankles. In urban places like Mumbai and Delhi western dress style, including jeans on woman, is prevailing. Liberal views on dress are typical for Goa too: it is all right here to wear anything you want for night party, but still, in day time it will be better to dress more suitable for Asian mentality. Anyway, if you'd like to show respect to Indian culture and to feel yourself comfortable, you might find appropriate to dress yourself "locally". Kurtas (loose men shirts) and cotton pants would be good option for men, and salwar kameez (tunic and loose trousers) for women.
Food and Drinks:
Indian food is amazing. It is literally exploding with millions of flavors. Hot, sweet, bitter, spicy, fresh, fragrant – it may lead you to one of the biggest culinary adventures in your life. Here are some of our "directions" on your way to it. First of all, we would recommend you to choose western customers oriented restaurants and cafes, because meals here would be less spicy than in the "real" Indian one. Here you may also expect high service and secure hygienic conditions. We would advise you to order well roasted or boiled dishes and to avoid dishes made from raw ingredients. Don't eat food or pass objects with your left hand. The left hand is considered to be unclean in Indian culture as it is using for some bathroom purposes.
Drinks. Drink only bottled water, such as Kinsley, Bisleri and Aquafin, and avoid adding ice into your drinks. Be careful with freshly squeezed juices: if prepared in a good restaurant or juice center, it can really bring you much satisfaction, but if you decide to buy it from street juice maker, it may probably cause some stomach upsets.
Money and Shopping:
The unit of Indian currency is the rupee; it is divided into 100 paise.24 hour banking facilities are available at international airports. Travellers cheques are exchangeable at most hotels; they are acceptable in sterling or American dollars.ATMs are common in most towns and cities in India. However, we recommend you to carry some cash or travellers cheques with you in a case the power goes down, you lose your plastic or ATM is out of order. To exchange currency you must present your passport. It is good to remember, that in India exchanging money except through authorized channels is illegal. It is also not allowed to take rupees out of India.
Bartering is part of shopping experience in India. The more touristy a place, the higher it's asking prices will be, and the greater it's price flexibility. Our advice would be "Bargain, bargain and, again, bargain while shopping in India".
Tipping is very common in India. If a person is offering a small service to you, he or she expects a tip for it. A service in a hotel might justify a tip of Rs20. In a restaurant a 5% tip is quite enough. Rickshaw and taxi drivers should be also tipped.
If you need transportation in India, contact your tour operator or your hotel stuff to hire a taxi or a car with private driver. Driving on your own could be uncomfortable due to intense traffic and typical Indian street chaos. Travelling in public transport could be also challenging in India: you will be really fortunate if you could get a seat there. Optionally, if you need to get on the market or on the beach you may use notorious Indian rickshaw.
India is not a violent country when it comes to robberies. However, in touristic places mostly could be a lot of thieves waiting for the right opportunity to make their profit on somebody's carelessness. To avoid this we recommend you not to flash your valuables around and make sure you carry them safety in your bag. It is better to leave your documents and jewelry in the safe of your hotel room. Wise decision will be not to put large denomination of money in the purse, but to keep them "close to skin" in a special little bag for money. Be careful with Indian monkeys too. Some of them may annoy you wishing to get your food or some attractive objects you hold in hands.
Despite rapid economic growth, India still faces poverty and begging. In every touristic place you will see beggars asking for your money and behaving very often in confronting and persistent way. The best thing probably would be ignoring them, as most of beggars simply do their business and prefer to beg instead of working. If you would like, you may give Rs10-RS20 to a child or elder person on when leaving the place, nor arriving, to prevent being mobbed.
At the time of confirmation of the booking we would require 50% advance of the total invoice.
Balance 50% will be paid 60 days prior to the date of arrival.
For immediate purchase or within 60 days purchase guest has to made full payment before bookings.
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As some say, travel in India (or anywhere else for that matter) is indescribable. Reading, or seeing is not good enough to make a strong believer, you have to experience in order to know what holiday or travel really feels like. To make such experience, our focus has been to help people travel better & memorably, especially in India. To achieve this we get into the minutest details of each holiday as per travelers interest. Be it any form of tourism – Yoga, Spa, Ayurvedic, adventure, romantic, historic, cultural, beach or religious etc., we will have one designed for you.


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The CIEMAT-FP group was recognized in 2015 with the María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence award.
The CIEMAT-FP Unit participates in large international experiments at the forefront of knowledge and technology in Particle and Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology, Detector R&D and Scientific Computing fields, achieving a very high scientific level and showing the highest international standing.
The Unit has unique capabilities in Spain, e.g. a cryogenic lab, a clean room, computing centres, and mechanical and electronic workshops. In addition, due to its participation in large experiments, it has access to special infrastructure, such as CERN, Fermilab, Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos, Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory, Kitt Peak National Observatory and ISS (International Space Station).
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Carnivorous plants, like the Venus flytrap, are apparently becoming less bug eating and more root-using because of the pollution humans cause. Nitrogen in the air is giving them enough nutrients that they don't need to eat as many bugs.
It's actually a logical transformation that us excess-loving humans might find a hard time relating to. The plants have cut down on eating bugs because they get enough nutrients from the soil. They don't need to eat more and get fat! They don't need a Super Size meal! How did this vegetarian trend start? Are naked celebrities covered in fur behind this? Not quite.
According to Dr. Jonathan Millet from Loughborough University, human activities like burning fossil fuels have upped the nitrogen in the air which gets dropped to the ground by the rain to be inhaled by the carnivorous plants' roots. Plants in more heavily polluted areas only get 22% of their nitrogen deposition through bug-eating, while plants who are, uh, planted in areas with light pollution snag 57% of their nitrogen from bugs. That's a big difference! What's crazy is that according to the study, the plants are turning off their bug-eating ways by making their leaves less sticky and changing its colors. Read more about the study here. [Chem.info via Inhabitat, Image Credit: Marco Uliana/Shutterstock]


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The sexuality of disabled people has long been suppressed and exploited. But in recent years, people with physical and cognitive impairments have been pushing back, fighting for sexual citizenship, and upending standard notions of gender, pleasure, and sexuality.
Top photo featured by kind permission of Sofie Middernacht and Maarten Alexande
Millie Dollar sashays onto the stage in a green, feathered dress to conclude the evening's entertainment with a sultry burlesque routine. The capacity audience at the ornate Epstein Theatre in Liverpool is enraptured by her sensual beauty.
Burlesque, she says in an interview, gives her a way of communicating through costume, routine and dance – which she does with panache. What the audience can't see though is the hearing condition that means she must work hard to follow the beat during her glamorous routine.
A number of disabled performers have taken to the stage to entertain mainstream audiences in recent years, although in her routines Dollar (unlike some) does not refer to either her hearing impairment or her depression, which she writes about with candour and insight.
The internationally famed multi-disciplinary performer Mat Fraser has long explored the relationship between disability, entertainment and sexuality. He is currently appearing in the popular US TV series American Horror Story. He said in a recent interview: "When you are disabled the two things people think you can't do are fight and have sex…so I've got a black belt and I'm really good at shagging. The physical pleasures in life are really important to me."
Research has shown that disabled people are less likely to have a long-term partner or marry than non-disabled people, although this is very dependent on impairment type. When a 2014 newspaper poll asked Britons if they had ever had sex with someone who had a physical disability, 44 per cent said 'No, and I don't think I would'.
So how can we shift the negative images of disability and sexuality that still dominate society's attitudes? Disabled people and their allies have been campaigning for change for decades. While it is not going to be easy, change is on the way, but with it comes new controversies.
A History of Suppression
Disabled people's sexuality has been suppressed, exploited and, at times, destroyed over many centuries. It has been seen as suspect, set apart and different from the sexuality of non-disabled people.
Dr. Tom Shakespeare, a disabled academic, wrote The Sexual Politics of Disabilitynearly 20 years ago. It remains one of the few evidence-based studies in the field. "I think images of disability and sexuality either tend to be absent – disabled people being presented as asexual – or else perverse and hypersexual," he says.
The key attitudes identified by Shakespeare appear as threads throughout myth and literature, from classical times onwards. Disabled characters and their sexuality appear relatively frequently in legends and texts but are usually harnessed to powerful negative metaphors.
Consider the myth of Hephaestus, born 'shriveled of foot' and cast out from Olympus by his mother. He is married off to the goddess Aphrodite, but she is unfaithful to him because of his impairment, which unmans him in her eyes, and he is cuckolded and scorned. This trope is repeated, much later, in D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, where Lady Chatterley satisfies herself with the virile gamekeeper because her husband is a 'cripple'.
This scenario, where a disabled man is judged to have lost sexual power because of his impairment and his sexual partner has carte blanche to seek solace elsewhere, has become known as the 'Chatterley Syndrome'.
As Shakespeare observes, disabled men (and, to a lesser extent, women), are rendered impotent and sexless by disability, and thus are seen as unattractive and vulnerable to mockery and exploitation. As Cicero wrote: "In deformity and bodily disfigurement, there is good material in making jokes."
This may explain an assumption often made in the past – that it was better to shield disabled people from reaching out for sexual relationships rather than risk the potential of being rejected. There was an expectation that disabled people's sexual desires should be set aside and ignored, because they should not – or could not – be satisfied.
The second trope is that disability is a punishment wreaked for committing a sin and, as such, the disabled person is a wholly unsuitable sexual partner because they are evil and, paradoxically, powerful. One of the best examples is in William Shakespeare's Richard III, who is written as twisted in body and mind or, as he says of himself, "rudely stamped" and rendered impotent by his physical limitations.
Disabled women have also faced this stigma. Many women with mental health conditions – along with older people showing signs of dementia, and people with benign and cancerous growths – were caught up in the European witch-hunts of the 17th century, for example. One observer at the time, Reginald Scot (a justice of the peace in Kent), noted that they were "commonly old, lame, blear-eyed, pale, foul, full of wrinkles…lean and deformed showing melancholy in their faces to the horror of all that see them."
Disabled people have also been stereotyped as being hypersexual – a claim used against women with learning difficulties in particular. This has led on to persistent abuse of disabled women, particularly in institutions, where they have been routinely raped and abused for centuries. Early 19th-century whistle-blowers gave evidence of such maltreatment – which extended to rape and murder.
Another powerful archetype, Tom Shakespeare says, is the unconscious – and sometimes conscious – attitude surrounding reproductive fitness that suggests having a disabled partner is potentially contaminating as it could pass the 'problem' on to the next generation.
Disabled people have challenged this on many levels: for example, sexual relations are not all about procreation, not all impairments are inheritable, and many disabled people accept their impairment and the possibility that it might be passed on. Deaf (with a capital D) people, for example, consider deafness to be a culture, rather than an impairment, and believe it should be embraced and celebrated.
With eugenics – a now-discredited social philosophy – Francis Galton pursued the theory of contamination to its logical end. He argued, along with others who took up his ideas, that people with disabilities (along with the poor and the generally 'unfit') should be prevented from breeding.
The eugenics movement, which started in the UK, was taken up with enthusiasm in the USA. By 1914 nearly two-thirds of US states had made it illegal for "feeble-minded" and "insane" people to marry. The so-called 'Ugly Laws', first passed in the 1880s, prohibited the "unsightly" from being seen on the street at all. Between 1907 and 1928 thousands of Americans were sterilised.
The legitimization of eugenic views throughout Europe and America ended in a logical, if horrifying, outcome: the systematic murder of thousands of disabled people in Germany after the Nazis came to power in 1933. By the end of World War II, it is estimated that some 200,000 people with disabilities had been murdered.
Asexual, hypersexual, perverse and contaminated: these four damaging tropes from history combine to form a bitter legacy for disabled people.
The Birth of the Disability Movement
The disability movement first started to challenge those attitudes in the USA in the mid-to-late 1960s. The first disabled American war veterans were starting to arrive back from Vietnam and pushing for inclusion. Students were also key to this new civil rights battle.
Ed Roberts was the first student with significant disabilities to attend UC Berkeley in California. In the early 1960s he and other disabled students formed a group, The Rolling Quads, to advocate for UC Berkeley to become the first truly accessible university. From that point onwards British disability activists have looked to UC Berkeley, and to the USA more widely, for inspiration in the civil rights struggle, including around the right to independent living.
Student activists wanted the right to have sex too. The nearby University of California responded by founding a sexuality and disability centre, where sex therapists could give advice and facilitate contact with 'sex surrogates', as they became known. Although prostitution was outlawed in almost all US states, the legal status of sexual surrogates was (and still is) undefined – meaning the sexual services they offer are technically neither legal nor illegal.
Disabled writer Mark O'Brien studied English and journalism at UC Berkeley and was commissioned by a magazine to interview disabled people about their sex lives in the 1980s. This led him to explore his own sexuality. He wrote in The Sun magazine: "I wanted to be loved…held, caressed, and valued. But my self-hatred and fear were too intense. I doubted I deserved to be loved… Most of the disabled people I knew in Berkeley were sexually active, including disabled people as deformed as I. But nothing ever happened."
O'Brien eventually saw a sex surrogate, Cheryl Cohen Greene, and lost his virginity with her. They became life-long friends. Two films were made about him – the Oscar-winning short Breathing Lessons and The Sessions. He had five years of happiness with the writer Susan Fernbach before his death in 1999. Mark O'Brien's struggle to affirm his right to sexuality has become iconic in the wider campaign for sexual rights for disabled people.
Towards Sexual Citizenship
"Supporting disabled people to find partners and enjoy sex brings me endless joy and satisfaction," writes Tuppy Owens, a sex therapist and the author of Supporting Disabled People with Their Sexual Lives: A clear guide for health and social-care professionals.
She's campaigned for 20 years to boost disabled people's confidence and access to sexual services. Among other services, she runs the Sex and Disability helpline, the TLC website (which connects disabled people to sexual services), and the Outsiders Club, a social club for disabled people looking to make friends and find partners. She also runs an online club for peer support and the Sexual Respect Toolkit website to support those who work in healthcare or social care to initiate conversations about sex.
The stories are genuinely moving. One woman used the help of a peer supporter to ask for her catheter to be re-sited. The woman is quoted: "My catheter was fitted so I could wear a bikini, but awkwardly positioned for having sex. When I pointed out to my consultant that I preferred sex to sunbathing, he said, 'OK, let's reposition it then.' As a result, my husband and I have had a lot more fun!"
Owens' book gives a sense of the vibrant emergent scene for disabled people, as well as providing practical advice about things such as sex toys suitable for people with different impairments. These include vibrating cushions, remotely controlled masturbation devices, and vibrators with long handles for people who could not otherwise reach.
Owens is one of many people across the world working to provide opportunities for disabled people who want to access sexual services. Rachel Wotton, a sex worker from Australia, is a founding member of Touching Base, a charity that has connected sex workers to disabled people since 2000. Similar schemes have since been set up in Canada and in New Zealand.
Above: 10 Myths and Misconceptions About Sex & Disability. Read the transcript at Mosaic.
Wotton mounts a strong defense of the sex industry and its role in providing services to some disabled people: "For some people with disabilities, they only have one life, and to wait around for society to say 'I will date someone with cerebral palsy'—well, when you see some of my clients, their prospects of getting a partner are limited, if not nil," she says. "If they choose to see me, that's OK. Society should change its ways, too, but people with disabilities should have all the rights that people without disabilities have. It's not an all-or-nothing thing."
In some countries where legislation around sex work is permissive (e.g. Holland, Germany, Denmark, and Switzerland), there is a flexible attitude towards services for disabled people. In Holland, as in Denmark, social workers ask disabled clients whether they need any support with their sexuality and may even fund limited numbers of visits by sexual assistants or sex workers.
The pioneer of the continental "sexual assistant" model is a Dutch woman, Nina de Vries. In a Skype interview from her home in Potsdam, she explained how physically disabled people started asking her to give them erotic massages in the 1990s (she does not offer penetration or oral contact). This work grew and grew. Eventually De Vries was asked to speak about her work to the media and at conferences.
In 2003, the Swiss charity Pro Infirmis asked her to train a more formal network of sexual assistants in Zurich, triggering considerable resistance from religious groups and some disabled people. The charity drew back from the work, although another organization does now offer a similar service in Switzerland, and others are available in France. A rather clinical masturbation service called White Hands has been available to some disabled men in Japan since 2008.
De Vries now works with people with learning difficulties and dementia, although she readily admits there are concerns about capacity and consent. "I work with people who are not able to communicate verbally, but they can say a clear 'no' or 'yes' by using their body, sounds, or facial expressions." She has turned down clients where she thinks that there is not a clear wish for her services.
In Australia, Touching Base works with dementia and disabled people's organizations to develop consent guidelines. "There is a lot of discussion around consent at the moment," Wotton says. "In terms of dementia, we are looking at what people used to do, when they are losing capacity."
"We talk a lot about informed consent, which is about understanding what you are consenting to, of your own free will. Our responsibility is to learn how people are communicating, whether it is with words, pictures or adaptive devices."
Nothing About Us, Without Us
The fight for so-called sexual citizenship is not confined to the disability-rights movement. Campaigners demonstrate how sexual minorities are marginalized, denied equal access, and even criminalized in particular nations. But while there is a common aim for sexual rights to be seen as fundamental, the means are in dispute.
Perhaps surprisingly, there appears to be little about sexual citizenship and the wider questions it brings up in medical-ethics journals, although ethicists do explore the issues around disabled people's access to paid sexual services.
The arguments include that because some people with disabilities cannot obtain sex without paying for it, they should be exempt from any penalties arising from prostitution—and that the state should even meet the costs. Others argue that sexual needs are not de facto a right and that, at best, volunteer organizations should meet people's need to have sex. Examining the potential harms of prostitution, one ethicist concluded that there may be a narrow benefit towards granting a right towards sexual pleasure.
But where are the voices of disabled people themselves in this? In the words of disability activists, who first coined the phrase, "Nothing about us, without us."
Some disabled people argue that the state should decriminalize sexual-assistance services for people who are not able to have sex independently, and even fund them to use these services. Others call for other forms of help, such as peer support on subjects like how to regain sexual confidence after acquiring an impairment. There is broad agreement that sex education should be more inclusive of disability. And disabled people would like to challenge the negative attitudes that mean that they are not seen as valid sexual partners.
In 2005, the magazine Disability Now found that 37.6 percent of disabled men would consider paying for sex and that 16 percent of disabled women would do the same—although a minority in both genders, these figures are higher than those seen in the general population. However, a number of prominent disabled British and American activists profess themselves uncomfortable with the idea of paying for sex per se.
Kirsty Liddiard, a disabled sociologist from Sheffield University in the U.K., recently interviewed a small number of disabled men who have paid for sex. Their reasons included gaining sexual skills and experience, invigorating the body, having something to chat to male friends about, and a sense of independence. Such reasons, she concludes, "take us far beyond the usual discourse of 'men—especially disabled men—need sex,'" adding: "Quite often men would conflate sex with intimacy, hence dissatisfaction and being left with the feeling of wanting more."
Although she believes that the legalization of sex work would make it a safer form of employment for women, she adds: "I think the focus on sex work is because we live in a patriarchal culture where men's desires are more nurtured. My research shows that disabled men, growing up, had more space to speak about their sexuality than young disabled women, who reported that they couldn't claim their sexuality."
Alex Ghenis, an American disability advocate and former dating and relationships columnist, is unconvinced: "It commodifies sex in terms of an action. It makes it so society can check this box that men are getting laid, so we don't have to have broader social change—we are giving them sex through a brothel, so we don't have to change our social attitudes around socially excluded people with disabilities."
"And it pities and coddles us, as if we are being given things that will assuage us ... rather than have society change around us," Ghenis adds.
Mik Scarlet, a disabled TV presenter and musician influenced by punk and Goth culture, is currently an advice columnist at the disabled people's organization Enhance the U.K. It runs Love Lounge, a website that offers advice on sex and relationships to disabled people. "Imagine this," he says. "I'm disabled, growing up in Luton, and it's now legal for me to go to a brothel—to have sex for money—because apparently that's the only way I'm going to lose my virginity."
"Instantly, my relationship with sex is distorted, and it means that everyone I meet afterwards is going to say, 'He's disabled, that means he's paid for sex; I don't want to go to bed with someone who's paid for it.' You've reinforced the fact that you can't give it away because you've paid for it."
"We are reinforcing the idea that some people are too hideous and too disabled to have sex like the rest of us, and so they have to pay for it. And why is it OK to oppress women, to make their bodies a commodity? It's not all right just because we are on wheels. I want to live in a world where I am perceived as viable a sexual partner as anybody else."
And he is concerned about consent issues around sex work for some disabled people, however benign the aim. "If someone is on a level of disability where they are not able to give consent, if they can't say yes—and there are many ways of doing so—then that's it."
"You have to protect people. I'm afraid whether you like it or not, it is not their right to have sex. Lots of people who are not disabled do not have sex. It is not a right."
Wider Issues
Most debates around sex and disabled people in the mainstream press mirror those of medical ethicists, by focusing on whether disabled people have the right to pay for sex. But this is just one small part of the overall picture.
Disabled academics and activists paint on a much larger canvas, writing about issues such as consent around mental capacity, the forced sterilization of disabled people, the rights of disabled people in institutions to have sex and be free from sexual abuse, and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) disabled people.
Sexual politics has only recently become part of the disability rights agenda, says Liddiard, who has also carried out groundbreaking research in the field of disabled women's sexuality. She points out that disabled women experience far higher rates of sexual violence than non-disabled women and that there are very few services for disabled people seeking refuge from abusive relationships.
Ju Gosling is a disability-rights activist and the author of Abnormal: How Britain became body dysphoric and the key to a cure, a book that exposes the treatment of those with "abnormal" bodies. "Most women we know are looking for a relationship, and disabled people are no different," she says. She has concerns that women with learning difficulties are prevented by those around them from having sexual relationships because they are vulnerable to exploitation.
She is also a campaigner for LGBT rights, and estimates that one-third of LGBT people have impairments. The barriers facing LGBT people with disabilities can be very different to those of LGBT people without disabilities, says Gosling—particularly when they depend on support from personal assistants or carers, some of whom will not approve of their sexuality and will even attempt to control it.
She gives the example of supported housing for people with learning difficulties where heterosexual partners are permitted to stay overnight, but gay or trans partners aren't. Later in life, people may move into care homes where their sexuality is also frowned upon. "This is about someone's right to be who they are," she says. "People should not have to hide their love anymore."
A Way Forward
Mik Scarlet thought, as many teenage boys would, that his sex life was over when his spine collapsed in his teens and he was no longer able to get an erection. Meeting lesbian friends soon after rescued him, he says. A few years later, he met Diane Wallace, and they've been together for over 20 years.
"I know that sex is so much more than penetration," he says. "Lots of disabled people have sex like everybody else, but for some of us our sex is not like everybody else—but that doesn't mean it's less. You can make somewhere else your erogenous zone, for instance, if you don't have sensation in your genitals anymore."
"There is so much ignorance," says Diane. "People assumed our sex life was over because Mik was disabled. But there was a raw sexuality about Mik; he was so easy and confident."
In 2003 Penny Pepper published Desires Unborn, a groundbreaking book of short erotic stories featuring disabled people. "I do feel I can talk about sex in an open and relaxed way that I don't see with many non-disabled people," says Pepper. "I think it's because we've had to confront these issues about body image and that's a good place to be."
She cites, for example, the fact that she was able to ask a former personal assistant to place her and her then-partner in a position for sexual intercourse: "It involved chairs, he was visually impaired, maybe it's a comedy sketch!" But, she adds: "Sex has a central role as a pathway to pleasure. There is so much pressure on everybody who is outside the body-beautiful stereotype [whether they are disabled or not]."
At UC Berkeley, the Disabled Students' Union is continuing to push boundaries and has hosted no-holds-barred panel discussions for students and academics, entitled 'Are Cripples Screwed?' They examine issues surrounding disability, love, and sexuality.
In a documentary about the panels, one student who had been dating a non-disabled woman was particularly touched, he said, when "she suggested we had sex in my wheelchair. It was an ultimate act of acceptance." A young disabled woman talked eloquently about sex being "anything that I can get off on. This brings us back into the human race."
And that's really the point. Disabled activists, patiently, are making some valid points about sexuality that hold true for everybody.
When Mik Scarlet says that penetration is not sex, he's speaking for older people, too, or for women who don't like penetration after sexual assault, or for men whose penises have been amputated or damaged after cancer or injury. The fact that some disabled people have developed erogenous zones in non-genital areas, such as the shoulders or inside the mouth, is knowledge of use to everyone who would like to extend their understanding of sexuality. Sexuality does not have to revolve around the genitals, or indeed around heterosexual norms of penetration.
Liddiard found this the most empowering part of her research. "Disability and impairment can invigorate sexuality, and disrupt our standard norms of gender and sexuality. Disabled bodies give us the chance to think outside of the box, outside the vision of penetration, the Hollywood view of sex."
Disabled people, by defying some of the damaging myths around sex, may end up liberating all of us.
This story first appeared on Mosaic and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


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By Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, July 20, 2007; A01
Bush administration officials unveiled a bold new assertion of executive authority yesterday in the dispute over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, saying that the Justice Department will never be allowed to pursue contempt charges initiated by Congress against White House officials once the president has invoked executive privilege.
The position presents serious legal and political obstacles for congressional Democrats, who have begun laying the groundwork for contempt proceedings against current and former White House officials in order to pry loose information about the dismissals.
Under federal law, a statutory contempt citation by the House or Senate must be submitted to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, "whose duty it shall be to bring the matter before the grand jury for its action."
But administration officials argued yesterday that Congress has no power to force a U.S. attorney to pursue contempt charges in cases, such as the prosecutor firings, in which the president has declared that testimony or documents are protected from release by executive privilege. Officials pointed to a Justice Department legal opinion during the Reagan administration, which made the same argument in a case that was never resolved by the courts.
"A U.S. attorney would not be permitted to bring contempt charges or convene a grand jury in an executive privilege case," said a senior official, who said his remarks reflect a consensus within the administration. "And a U.S. attorney wouldn't be permitted to argue against the reasoned legal opinion that the Justice Department provided. No one should expect that to happen."
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly, added: "It has long been understood that, in circumstances like these, the constitutional prerogatives of the president would make it a futile and purely political act for Congress to refer contempt citations to U.S. attorneys."
Mark J. Rozell, a professor of public policy at George Mason University who has written a book on executive-privilege issues, called the administration's stance "astonishing."
"That's a breathtakingly broad view of the president's role in this system of separation of powers," Rozell said. "What this statement is saying is the president's claim of executive privilege trumps all."
The administration's statement is a dramatic attempt to seize the upper hand in an escalating constitutional battle with Congress, which has been trying for months, without success, to compel White House officials to testify and to turn over documents about their roles in the prosecutor firings last year. The Justice Department and White House in recent weeks have been discussing when and how to disclose the stance, and the official said he decided yesterday that it was time to highlight it.
Yesterday, a House Judiciary subcommittee voted to lay the groundwork for contempt proceedings against White House chief of staff Joshua B. Bolten, following a similar decision last week against former White House counsel Harriet E. Miers.
The administration has not directly informed Congress of its view. A spokeswoman for Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), the Judiciary Committee's chairman, declined to comment . But other leading Democrats attacked the argument.
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) called it "an outrageous abuse of executive privilege" and said: "The White House must stop stonewalling and start being accountable to Congress and the American people. No one, including the president, is above the law."
Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) said the administration is "hastening a constitutional crisis," and Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) said the position "makes a mockery of the ideal that no one is above the law."
Waxman added: "I suppose the next step would be just disbanding the Justice Department."
Under long-established procedures and laws, the House and Senate can each pursue two kinds of criminal contempt proceedings, and the Senate also has a civil contempt option. The first, called statutory contempt, has been the avenue most frequently pursued in modern times, and is the one that requires a referral to the U.S. attorney in the District.
Both chambers also have an "inherent contempt" power, allowing either body to hold its own trials and even jail those found in defiance of Congress. Although widely used during the 19th century, the power has not been invoked since 1934 and Democratic lawmakers have not displayed an appetite for reviving the practice.
In defending its argument, administration officials point to a 1984 opinion by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, headed at the time by Theodore B. Olson, a prominent conservative lawyer who was solicitor general from 2001 to 2004. The opinion centered on a contempt citation issued by the House for Anne Gorsuch Burford, then administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
It concluded: "The President, through a United States Attorney, need not, indeed may not, prosecute criminally a subordinate for asserting on his behalf a claim of executive privilege. Nor could the Legislative Branch or the courts require or implement the prosecution of such an individual."
In the Burford case, which involved spending on the Superfund program, the White House filed a federal lawsuit to block Congress's contempt action. The conflict subsided when Burford turned over documents to Congress.
The Bush administration has not previously signaled it would forbid a U.S. attorney from pursuing a contempt case in relation to the prosecutor firings. But officials at Justice and elsewhere say it has long held that Congress cannot force such action.
David B. Rifkin, who worked in the Justice Department and White House counsel's office under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, praised the position and said it is consistent with the idea of a "unitary executive." In practical terms, he said, "U.S. attorneys are emanations of a president's will." And in constitutional terms, he said, "the president has decided, by virtue of invoking executive privilege, that is the correct policy for the entire executive branch."
But Stanley Brand, who was the Democratic House counsel during the Burford case, said the administration's legal view "turns the constitutional enforcement process on its head. They are saying they will always place a claim of presidential privilege without any judicial determination above a congressional demand for evidence -- without any basis in law." Brand said the position is essentially telling Congress: "Because we control the enforcement process, we are going to thumb our nose at you."
Rozell, the George Mason professor and authority on executive privilege, said the administration's stance "is almost Nixonian in its scope and breadth of interpreting its power. Congress has no recourse at all, in the president's view. . . . It's allowing the executive to define the scope and limits of its own powers."
Research editor Alice Crites contributed to this report.
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Fears are formed when we associate things with a strong, negative emotional response. Now, a team of scientists have developed a technique which lets them erase new emotional memories from the human brain—which could make it possible to wipe out your fears for good.
When the brain learns something, a memory is created through a process called consolidation: at first the memory is unstable, but proteins form in the brain to fix it in place. By disrupting the way that process is carried out, it's possible to affect the content of a memory. This new study, published in Science by researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden, shows that it's possible to erase emotional memories by interrupting consolidation processes in the brain.
The team of researchers showed participants neutral images—pictures of landscapes, everyday objects, those kinds of things—but simultaneously administered electric shocks. Basically, they were creating a "fear memory" by associating image content with pain. Shown the picture again some time later, the participants, unsurprisingly, exhibit some level of fear.
However, the team attempted to disrupt the consolidation stage in half the participants, by showing them the image repeatably—this time without any shock—during the period of time over which the brain fixes the memory in place. The results show that the groups whose memory-making process was disrupted weren't scared when they saw the image again: in other words, the scientists were able to wipe the fear memory.
While it's not a finding you can necessarily use in everyday life, the researchers are confident that they can develop the finding so it can be used in the treatment of anxiety issues like phobias, post-traumatic stress, and panic attacks. As a grown man with a long-standing fear of dogs, to me this sounds like great news. [Science via Uppsala]


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Tomb of Elendil
|Tomb of Elendil
|"The Oathraking of Cirion and Eorl" by Ted Nasmith
|General Information
|Atop Halifiren
|A low mound covered with alfirin on the summit of the hill
|Oath of Eorl
The Tomb of Elendil was the tomb of the first King of Arnor and of Gondor built by Isildur on Eilenaer, the mid-point of the Kingdom while the Kingdom endured. In an oval lawn upon the summit of the hill, on the eastern side, was placed a low mound which in time became covered with alfirin. Before the mound was a black stone with the letters lambe, ando, lambe engraved upon it.
Its location was a secret kept for many centuries among the Kings of Gondor and the Stewards. At Isildur's command, the hill would be a hallow and none would disturb it other than a heir of Elendil. The King should visit the hallow from time to time, especially when he felt the need of wisdom in days of danger or distress. It was also the place where he should bring his heir full-grown to manhood, and tell him of the making of the hallow and other matters that he should know.[1]
The Stewards were considered to have the rights and duties of the King, so they too followed this tradition even after the time of Kings, although they visited the place seldomly.[2]
On this site, Cirion made his oath of alliance between Gondor and the Éothéod with Eorl.[1]
When Rohan was founded, Cirion judged that the "Tradition of Isildur" was now made void: The hallow was no longer "at the midpoint" and Gondor was not the Kingdom as it was when Isildur spoke. Cirion removed the casket that Isildur had set within the mound and sent it to the Hallows of Minas Tirith.
The green mound remained as the memorial and even when the hill (now known as Amon Anwar) had become a Beacon hill, it was still a place of reverence to Gondor and to the Rohirrim, who named it in their own tongue Halifirien, the Holy Mount.[2]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan", (iii) Cirion and Eorl
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan", "(iv) The Tradition of Isildur"


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How To Take A Screenshot or Screen Capture on The Samsung Vibrant SCH-T959
How To Take A Screenshot or Screen Capture on The Samsung Vibrant SCH-T959
When you see very nice pictures on your Samsung Vibrant SCH-T959 , you want to screen shot and share with good friends , but you don't know how to do it with your Samsung Vibrant SCH-T959, then this tutorial method found on the Internet for everyone to share.
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Other methods:
Step One: Hold down the HOLD button and the BACK button for a few seconds. You can find that the HOLD button is on the front of the phone at the bottom, the BACK button is to the right of the HOME button.
Step Two: The phone will make the photo capture noise, and Screen captured. Saved as file image. should appear on the screen. The image will be stored in the Screen Capture folder on the phones SD Card.
StepThree: Some users have suggested that this brings up the task manager. If the above-mentioned does not work, another method is to hold down HOME and the POWER buttons at the same time, so you can have a try.
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: After seeing so many men keeping their jackets buttoned when standing, sitting to chat, forecasting weather, playing a musical instrument, lecturing a class, or sitting at dinner, and others leaving them completely unbuttoned in these situations, I have searched for your say. You once opined that buttoning a vest's bottom button is rebellious.
Should a conductor in black tie leave his jacket unbuttoned? Unbutton it to play piano? Keep it buttoned sitting at dinner? Does a vest make a difference? I wonder about a cummerbund.
GENTLE READER: All that fuss, just because Edward VII overindulged!
As a result of a fat monarch's inability to button the bottom button of his weskit or his jacket, here we are, a century later, with even trim gentlemen forced to do the same. Miss Manners would have thought that the London tailors who came up with this solution would have been better employed making their king a suit that fit him. Or at least consenting to move his buttons.
There is no use rebelling: From Edwardian times on, proper tailors have been making suits that hang right only with that last button unfastened, and that may require the jacket to be entirely unbuttoned when the gentleman is seated. Yet controversy still rages about whether the cummerbund or weskit that is worn with a dinner jacket allows, or even requires, the jacket to be buttoned when its wearer is standing.
However, a gentleman who is a musician should be immune from such unseemly debates. He ought to be in full evening dress -- white tie as opposed to black tie -- where the swallowtail coat hangs open over the pique waistcoat. Conductors are seen from the back, where the tails are fetching, or at least amusing. Pianists can throw the tails back over the piano bench with a flourish. Once a gentleman who was dressed to take Miss Manners to a ball had so much fun doing that, that he could hardly be persuaded to leave the piano bench and go to the ball.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have always believed that you should let those exiting go first, as in the case of an elevator. I am a male and was in the process of exiting the small copy room at the office. The doorway is big enough only for one person at a time.
A female was racing into the room and practically pushed me out of the way. I made a comment that she should let people exit before pushing into the room. She replied with an expected ladies-first comment.
Who is right? Should she have waited for me to exit or should I have backed up to allow her in?
GENTLE READER: Ah, yes, nothing says "ladylike" as much as pushing people aside and demanding precedence.
Your colleague is as wrong in theory as she is in practice. "Ladies first" is a social system that does not apply in the working world. But in any case, a lady or anyone else trying to enter a room should defer to someone who is halfway through the door. Yet Miss Manners must remind you that not doing so is no excuse for pushing back verbally.
(Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, firstname.lastname@example.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.)


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To run ufw at boot you can add the following code to rc.local file:
if [ -x /lib/ufw/ufw-init ]; then
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Rules can be added with ports, services or application names. To specify an
application you need a profile stored under /etc/ufw/applications.d directory.
To add a profile create a app_name.INI file as the following:
title=File/printer server for Unix
description=Samba is a collection of programs that implements the SMB/CIFS protocol for unix systems.
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3-D release steers 'Titanic' past $2 billion mark
LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Cameron has shored up his position as king of the worldwide box office.
Cameron's 1997 blockbuster "Titanic" sailed beyond the $2 billion mark in lifetime ticket sales, thanks to a 3-D re-release of the film that was timed to the centennial of the ship's sinking.
Only one other movie has topped $2 billion, and it's also Cameron's. His 2009 sci-fi smash "Avatar" earned $2.8 billion worldwide.
The "Titanic" reissue took in about $100 million this weekend — $11.6 million domestically and a whopping $88.2 million in 69 overseas markets. That included a $58 million debut in China and put the re-release total worldwide at $190.8 million.
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|Docket No.
|Op. Below
|9th Cir.
|Oct 3, 2012
|Feb 20, 2013
Holding: For purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), when a state court rules against a defendant in an opinion that rejects some of the defendant's claims but does not expressly address a federal claim, a federal habeas court must presume, subject to rebuttal, that the federal claim was adjudicated on the merits.
Judgment: Reversed and remanded, 9-0, in an opinion by Justice Alito on February 20, 2013. Justice Scalia filled an opinion concurring in the judgment.
|Proceedings and Orders
|Oct 10 2011
|Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 14, 2011)
|Oct 10 2011
|Appendix of Javier Cavazos, Acting Warden filed.
|Nov 1 2011
|Order extending time to file response to petition to and including December 14, 2011.
|Dec 9 2011
|Order further extending time to file response to petition to and including December 21, 2011.
|Dec 21 2011
|Brief of respondent Tara Sheneva Williams in opposition filed. (Distributed)
|Dec 21 2011
|Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent Tara Sheneva Williams. (Distributed)
|Dec 28 2011
|DISTRIBUTED for Conference of January 13, 2012.
|Jan 4 2012
|Reply of petitioner Javier Cavazos, Acting Warden filed. (Distributed)
|Jan 13 2012
|Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent GRANTED.
|Jan 13 2012
|Petition GRANTED limited to Question 1 presented by the petition.
|Feb 10 2012
|The time to file the joint appendix and petitioner's brief on the merits is extended to and including March 28, 2012.
|Feb 17 2012
|The time to file respondent's brief on the merits is extended to and including May 29, 2012.
|Mar 28 2012
|Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed)
|Mar 28 2012
|Brief of petitioner Deborah K. Johnson, Acting Warden filed.
|Apr 4 2012
|Brief amici curiae of Illinois, et al. filed.
|May 29 2012
|Brief of respondent Tara Sheneva Williams filed.
|Jun 5 2012
|Brief amicus curiae of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed.
|Jun 28 2012
|Reply of petitioner Deborah K. Johnson, Acting Warden filed.
|Jul 23 2012
|SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Wednesday, October 3, 2012
|Jul 24 2012
|Jul 27 2012
|Record from U.S.D.C. for Central District of California received from Chamber of Judge Reinhardt of the U.S.C.A. for 9th Circuit.
|Aug 7 2012
|Record received fro U.S.C.A. for 9th Circuit. (1 envelope)
|Oct 3 2012
|Argued. For petitioner: Stephanie Brenan, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, Cal. For respondent: Kurt D. Hermansen, San Diego, Cal.
|Feb 20 2013
|Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Alito, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan, JJ., joined. Scalia, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment.
|Mar 13 2013
|Petition for Rehearing filed.
|Mar 20 2013
|DISTRIBUTED for Conference of April 12, 2013.
|Apr 15 2013
|Rehearing DENIED.
|Apr 15 2013
|Jun 3 2013
|Record returned to U.S. District Court for Central District of California.


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By HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
Associated Press
BAGHDAD (AP) — Thousands of heavily-armed Shiite militiamen paraded through several Iraqi cities Saturday as Sunni militants seized two strategically located towns in what appeared to be a new offensive in western Anbar province.
The capture of the two towns — Qaim on the Syrian border Friday and Rawah along the Euphrates River on Saturday– dealt another blow to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government, which has struggled to push back against Islamic extremists and allied militants who have seized large swaths of the country's north, including the second-largest city of Mosul.
But while al-Maliki has come under mounting pressure to reach out to disaffected Kurds and Sunnis, the display of heavy weapons by the Shiite fighters indicated that forces beyond Baghdad's control may be pushing the conflict toward a sectarian showdown.
Sunni militants have controlled the city of Fallujah in Anbar and parts of the provincial capital of Ramadi since January. The vast Anbar province stretches from the western edges of Baghdad all the way to Jordan and Syria to the northwest. The fighting in Anbar has greatly disrupted use of the highway linking Baghdad to the Jordanian border, a key artery for goods and passengers.
In Baghdad, about 20,000 men, many in combat gear, marched through the Sadr City district with assault rifles, machine guns, multiple rocket launchers, field artillery and missiles. Similar parades took place in the southern cities of Amarah and Basra.
The parades were staged by followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who once led a powerful militia that battled U.S. troops and was blamed for some of the mass killing of Sunni civilians during the sectarian bloodletting that peaked in 2006 and 2007.
Police and army officials said the al-Qaida breakaway Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, along with allied militants, seized Qaim and its crossing, about 320 kilometers (200 miles) west of Baghdad, after killing some 30 Iraqi troops in daylong clashes Friday.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to journalists, said people were now crossing back and forth freely.
Chief military spokesman Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi acknowledged Qaim's fall, telling journalists that troops aided by local tribesmen sought to clear the city of "terrorists."
The mayor of Rawah, Hussein AIi al-Aujail, said Sunni militants captured the town Saturday. The local army and police force pulled out when the militants took control, he said.
He said militants ransacked government offices in the town, along the Euphrates River some 175 miles (275 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad.
Sunni militants have carved out a large fiefdom along the Iraqi-Syrian border and have long traveled back and forth with ease, but the control of crossings, like the one in Qaim, allows them to more easily move weapons and heavy equipment to different battlefields.
The fall of Qaim came as al-Maliki faces mounting pressure to form an inclusive government or step aside, with both a top Shiite cleric and the White House strongly hinting he is in part to blame for the worst crisis since U.S. troops withdrew from the country at the end of 2011.
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most respected voice for Iraq's Shiite majority, on Friday joined calls for al-Maliki to reach out to the Kurdish and Sunni minorities a day after President Barack Obama challenged him to create a leadership representative of all Iraqis.
Al-Sistani normally stays above the political fray, and his comments, delivered through a representative, could ultimately seal al-Maliki's fate.
Calling for a dialogue between the political coalitions that won seats in the April 30 parliamentary election, al-Sistani said it was imperative that they form "an effective government that enjoys broad national support" and "avoids past mistakes."
Al-Sistani is deeply revered by Iraq's majority Shiites, and his critical words could force al-Maliki, who emerged from relative obscurity in 2006 to lead the country, to step down.
On Thursday, Obama stopped short of calling for al-Maliki to resign, but his carefully worded comments did all but that. "Only leaders that can govern with an inclusive agenda are going to be able to truly bring the Iraqi people together and help them through this crisis," Obama said.
The Iranian-born al-Sistani, believed to be 86, lives in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, south of Baghdad, where he rarely ventures out of his modest house and does not give media interviews. His call to arms last week prompted thousands of Shiites to volunteer to fight against the Sunni militants.
His call to defend the country, and its Shiite shrines, has given the fight against the Sunni insurgents the feel of a religious war, but his office in Najaf dismissed that charge, saying the top cleric was addressing all Iraqis.
Al-Maliki's State of Law bloc won the most seats in the April vote, but his hopes to retain his job are in doubt, with rivals challenging him from within the broader Shiite alliance. In order to govern, his bloc must first form a majority coalition in the new 328-seat legislature, which must meet by June 30.
If al-Maliki were to relinquish his post now, according to the constitution the president, Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, would assume the job until a new prime minister is elected. But the ailing Talabani has been in Germany for treatment since 2012, so his deputy, Khudeir al-Khuzaie, a Shiite, would step in for him.
Shiite politicians familiar with the secretive efforts to remove al-Maliki said two names mentioned as replacements are former vice president Adel Abdul-Mahdi, a Shiite and French-educated economist, and Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite who served as Iraq's first prime minister after Saddam Hussein's ouster. Others include Ahmad Chalabi, a one-time Washington favorite to lead Iraq, and Bayan Jabr, another Shiite who served as finance and interior minister under al-Maliki.
Nearly three years after he heralded the end of America's war in Iraq, Obama announced Thursday he was deploying up to 300 military advisers to help quell the insurgency. They join some 275 troops in and around Iraq to provide security and support for the U.S. Embassy and other American interests.
Obama has been adamant that U.S. troops would not be returning to combat, but has said he could approve "targeted and precise" strikes requested by Baghdad.
Manned and unmanned U.S. aircraft are now flying over Iraq 24 hours a day on intelligence missions, U.S. officials say.
Meanwhile Saturday, two separate explosions killed five people and wounded 21 in Baghdad, authorities said. And in an incident harkening back to the peak days of sectarian killings in 2006 and 2007, two bodies, presumably of Sunnis, were found riddled with bullets in Baghdad's Shiite district of Zafaraniyah, police and morgue officials said.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to journalists.
Associated Press writer Sameer N. Yacoub contributed to this report.
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Through Meal Planning Monday I stumbled upon a recipe for pork chops. Since we buy in bulk (it's cheaper that way), and there's only 2 of us, we have at least 2 more meals of pork chops in the freezer, and I've been looking for ways (other than our traditional Italian Pork Chops and the mushroom/onion soup version) to enjoy them. Boy, did I stumble onto a keeper!
This recipe from the MotherLoad called for sage as a seasoning on the chops, but low and behold, when I went to make them tonight, I learned we actually don't have sage in our spice rack. Improv time. I modified the recipe a bit, and it turned out amazing (in my humble opinion)... my hubby thought so too (but he might be biased -- I invite you to try it out for yourself). As a plus, they were super easy to prepare!
Parmesan Italian Pork Chops - Modified by Snow White from The MotherLoad
3/4 bread crumbs (I made my own from our homemade wheat bread)
1/4 C grated Parmesan cheese
1 T Mrs. Dash salt-free Italian Seasoning
1-2 tsp. lemon juice
1 egg, whisked
2 heaping T flour, seasoned with pepper and salt (if desired)
2 T butter
1 tsp. olive oil
4 pork chops (we used thin sliced without the bone)
fresh parsley, if desired
In a bowl, mix together bread crumbs, Italian seasoning and grated Parmesan cheese.
Spoon flour onto a plate and season with salt and pepper, as desired (I used almost no salt, and a dash of pepper). Combine lemon juice and egg and mix well. Create an assembly line positioning the pork chops, flour, egg mix and bread crumbs next to one another (can you tell I'm a type-A?). Meanwhile, over a medium flame, melt butter so that it coats the bottom of a frying pan. Add olive oil.
Coat the pork chops in the flour mix, and then dunk the pork chop into the egg mix. Then, dip into the bread crumb mixture. Place the chops in the frying pan with the butter and oil, and brown the chops on both sides (about 3 min/side). While pork chops are browning, preheat your oven to 425 degrees F.
When browned, transfer the chops to the oven. If you have an oven-proof skillet, you can place the skillet directly in the oven, if not, transfer to a glass baking dish. Bake for about 20 minutes (depending on the thickness of the chops) or until a meat thermometer reads 150 degrees. Our chops, being super thin, were almost cooked before we put them in the oven... but we did anyway, and got a great baked-in flavor and tender chops!
mmm, mmmm, good.
The original recipe calls for lemon rinds to be grated and mixed in with the bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese, as well as for lemon juice to be squeezed over the top when they are done... we didn't do either this round (due to the fact that I didn't have a lemon), but I believe the lemon would be delicious!


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Asustek Computer Thursday showed off its latest collection of laptops made using bamboo material as well as a family of laptops with Bang & Olufsen sound systems.
The laptops made with bamboo casing material are not the company's first. Asustek debuted bamboo laptops a few years ago. They emphasized Asustek's commitment to the environment, said the company's chairman, Jonney Shih, at a news conference in Taipei. The use of renewable materials and attention to power-saving designs have been good for Asustek's brand, he said.
The material has been lauded as a good alternative to the plastics normally used in laptops because bamboo is tough, easy to find, and grows fast. But polymers added to the material to make it more heat resistant in laptops also mean it's harder for it to break down or be recycled.
The current family of U Bamboo laptops all feature the latest USB 3.0, use Microsoft Windows 7 software, Intel Core i5-450M microprocessors, Nvidia graphics cards, 500GB hard disk drives (HDDs) and 2GB of DDR3 (double data rate, third generation) memory chips. They differ mainly in screen size.
The U33Jc has a 13.3-inch LCD screen and an 8-cell lithium-ion battery and will cost NT$40,900 (US$1,290) in Taiwan, while the U43Jc sports a 14.1-inch screen and 6-cell battery for NT$42,900 (US$1,360), the same battery and price as the U53Jc, with a 15.6-inch screen.
Asustek will also sell two other bamboo models, the U35 and U45 that are nearly identical in component makeup to the others but are slightly less expensive because they use USB 2.0. The U35, with a 13.3-inch screen and 8-cell battery, is NT$37,900 (US$1,200), while the U45 is NT$39,900 (US$1,260) and has a 14.1-inch screen and 8-cell battery.
Pricing will vary by markets due to different tariffs and other costs in different countries, an Asustek representative said.
The company will also start shipping its N90 Bang & Olufsen wide-screen laptop in mid-June.
The laptop, which boasts an 18.4-inch high definition screen with 1920 x 1080 resolution and huge speakers on either side of the screen, was first shown off at the International Consumer Electronics Show in January.
It will carry an Intel Core i7-720M processor inside, as well as an Nvidia graphics card, USB 3.0, 8GB of DDR3 and a 1000GB HDD for the price of NT$84,800 (US$2,680).
The wide screen and massive speakers on the laptop give it a distinctive look because they are larger than the lower half of the laptop, so when closed look like an oversized lid.
The new Asustek laptops will all start shipping around mid-June and are aimed first at North America. Shipments to Asia will follow shortly thereafter, then Europe.


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Former New York Observer Editor Peter Kaplan Tells Charlie Rose He's "Evangelical"
Things To Watch Instead of Mad Men: the day Jared Kushner announced hiring Kyle Pope as the New York Observer's new editor, departed longtime Observer editor Peter Kaplan went on Charlie Rose. He gave some great quotes. Here's good storytelling.
Media junkies everywhere, young and old, this is crack-like goodness. Kaplan's supposed to be on the show to talk about a new compilation book from the New York Observer, but that's passed over pretty quickly for the good stuff. There's even a clip spliced in of former New York editor Clay Felker, who died last year, discussing what makes a great editor. Some of the more compelling lines:
- Sadly, his only swipe at the New York Observer's (Michael Corleone-esque) owner Jared Kushner was a passive-aggressive pawing: "(Jared's positioning it) a little bit different than where I live." Classy, but like Jared, I wanted more blood.
- On his departure: "I thought I had driven the car as far as it could go."
- "I have an evangelical mission to save the part of the print media that I love. Which is, to me, sophisticated, arcane, a little bit of a throwback to the 20s, but also a 21st century medium that the internet was a direct assault on."
- "All my mean friends on the internet say you can't put the genie back in the bottle..."
- "Tina (Brown) is a lot stronger than I am."
- "(The best New York editors) come from outside and bang on the door to try to understand it. The really great ones are desperate to understand New York City and are desperate to say what they don't know."
- On how long it takes him to spot a great reporter: "About a day."
- "I don't know what's going to happen. I have close friends who work in various (what I like to think of) as information supermarkets. Aggregation has undermined the American news process...It separates the news item from the news story. It's (by definition) a shallow landscape."
Interestingly enough, Kaplan at one point talks about the future of journalism returning to a pay model with a new medium—like, say, an Apple Tablet—that could shut out the broad sheet altogether and create a narrow outlet through which people would have to pay for something like, say, the New York Times (who are more or less cozying up with Apple in anticipation of the Tablet's 'impending' release).
I'd rather leave the futurism to someone else, but this kind of thinking seems a little reckless. Sure, the New York Times is pretty, and has great content, but isn't the information at the heart of every New York Times article—gathering it, compiling it, fact-checking and editing it—where a lot of the money is? And you can't charge people for information. A New York Times exclusive is only an exclusive for the minute or two before someone else has posted their Google-landgrab headline reporting on the New York Times' reporting.
Nevertheless! Kaplan's maybe-changing old-school methodology and the quality he put into his work is going to be interesting to watch as he tries to move whatever products he continues to move forward with as time goes on, which is to say nothing of whatever direction the New York Observer's going to take as well.


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Vista Spyder Helps Acheive Nirvana In Seattle's EMP Museum
Many seek nirvana but the Vista Spyder actually helps achieve it at EMP's exhibition Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses. To do this, integrator Advanced Broadcast Solutions (ABS) employed the Spyder X20 1608 video processor to feed the enormous new indoor LED screen, which features content of the band Nirvana at the Seattle pop culture museum.
Recently unveiled alongside the Nirvana exhibition - the most extensive collection of the celebrated Seattle grunge band's memorabilia - the 60-foot by 33-foot curved 7mm LED screen spans the width of the Sky Church live performance and exhibition space. Displaying concert footage, short films, and live feeds of museum events and programs, the screen also provides video support for after hours' private functions and live concerts.
"The Spyder feeds a giant multimedia presentation system," explained Mark Miller, sales and design specialist, ABS. "Throughout the day, the screen plays automated interactive museum content with moving lights, 5.1 surround sound, special effects, curtain drops, and more. The power of the Spyder and the size of the screen are making a huge splash in the Sky Church venue.
"The Spyder is pretty much plug-and-play and it works very well in the automated setting," Miller continued. "And for corporate events, it's easy to switch from full automation to having an operator run cues. You can easily make it widescreen, add logos and signage, and customize your settings to make it look like anything you want."
The giant screen receives four of the eight outputs while the other four outputs feed to additional 65-inch LED displays throughout the museum that list attractions, an event menu, and EMP's rotating logo. ABS uses all 16 Spyder inputs for the 2392 by 1300-pixel screen.
"We input a couple of router sources, four servers, several Hippo HDs, a switcher, signage, a couple of PowerPoint presentations, Blu-rays, and two wild cards for someone who brings a laptop or other playback device," Miller said. "There is also a 64 x 64 3G router in front of it displaying resolution up to 1080p 3G. The Spyder is working great. It is definitely the right solution."
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Let my son go. Hos. xi. 1.
Exod. iv. 23. Deut. xiv. 1. Ye are the children of the Lord your God. Isa. xliii. 6. Bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth. Ch. xlv. 11.
Ixiii. 16. Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not; thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer. Ver. 8.
Ixiv. 8. Thou, Lord, art our Father, we are the clay, and thou our potter, we are all the work of thine hands.
Jer. xxxi. 20. Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? Hos. i. 10. In the place where it was said, ye are not my people, there shall it be said unto you, ye are the sons of the living God.
Mal. ii. 10. Have we not all one Father? hath not one God created us?
Matt. vi. 9. Our Father which art in heaven.
xxiii. 9. One is your Father which is in heaven.
John xx. 17. Jesus said, I ascend to my Father, and your Father, to my God and your God
Rom. ix. 25. To us there is but one God the Father, of whom are all things.
2 Cor. vi. 18. I will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord almighty. Jer. xxxi. 1, 9. Hos. i. 10. Eph. iv. 6. There is one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all, and in you all.
XXXVII. How any of mankind come into the relation of children, of sons and daughters unto God, besides that of being created by God. John i. 12. To as many as received Christ, to them gave he power to be-come the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.
Ver. 13. Who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
John iii. 3. Jesus said, except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Ver. 5. Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Tit. iii. 5, 6.
Ver. 6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Ver. 7. Marvel not that I said ye must be born again.
Ver. 8. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, canst not discern whence it cometh and whither it goeth, so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Gal. iii. 26. Ye are all the children of God, by faith in Jesus Christ. -iv. 4. God sent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the law to redeem them that were under the law;
Ver. 5. That we might receive the adoption of sons.
Eph. i. 4. God hath chosen us in Christ before thé foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.
Ver. 5. Having predestinated us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ, to himself according to the good pleasure of his will.
Ver. 6. To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
! Pet. i. 22. Love one another with a pure heart fervently.
1 Pet. i. 23. Ye being born again not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever. James i. 8. Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
2 Pet. i. 3. God hath begotten us to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Luke xx. 36. The children of the resurrection.
1 John iii. 1. Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God.
XXXVIII. Blessings from God as a Father to his people, as his children.
Matt. vi. 6. Thy Father shall reward thee openly.
Ver. 8. Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Ver. 14. Your heavenly Father will forgive your trespasses.
x. 29. A sparrow shall not fall to the ground without your Father. Ver. 30. The very hairs of your head are numbered.
Ver. 31. Fear ye not, therefore, ye are of more value than many
xiii. 43. The righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the king. dom of their Father.
xviii. 14. It is not the will of your Father that one of these little ones should perish.
Luke xii. 32. Fear not little flock, it is your Father's good will to give you the kingdom.
John xi. 51. The high priest prophesied, that Jesus should die. Ver. 52. And gather together in one the children of God. Rom. i. 7. Grace to you and peace from God our Father. viii. 15. Ye have received the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba Father. Gal. iv. 6. Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying Abba, Father.
Ver. 16. The Spirit beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.
Ver. 17. And if children then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. Gal. iv. 7. If a son then an heir of God through Christ.
Ver. 19. The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the Sons of God. 1 John iii. 2.
Ver. 2. The creature shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
2 Cor. i. 3. God is to us the Father of mercies, a God of all comfort.
Eph. ii. 8. Through Christ we have access by the Spirit, unto the Father.
2 Thess. ii. 16. Our Father hath loved us, and given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace.
Heb. ii. 10. Bringing many sons unto glory.
Jam. i. 17. Every good and perfect gift, cometh from the Father of lights.
1 John i. 3. Our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
ii. 1. We have an advocate with the Father.
iii. 2. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not appear
what we shall be, but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
Jude ver. 1. Sanctified by God the Father, preserved in Jesus Christ, and called.
XXXIX. Marks and characters of God's children in the exercise of the graces, and practice of the duties of religion. Mal. i. 6. If I be a Father, where is mine honour, saith the Lord of hosts.
Mat. v. 9. Blessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be called the children of God.
Ver. 16. Let your light so shine before men, that they seeing your good works, may glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Ver. 44. Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
Ver. 45. That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven, for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just, and on the unjust. Luke vi. 35.
iv. 14. If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Luke vi. 36. Be ye merciful as your Father also is merciful. Ver. 48. Be ye perfect as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. John. iv. 23. The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth.
Rom. viii. 14. As many as are led by the Spirit, are the sons of God. Ver. 16.
Eph. v. 1. Be ye followers of God as dear children, and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us. Ver. 2.
Ver. 20. Giving thanks always for all things unto God the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. James iii. 9. With the tongue bless we God, even the Father. Phil. iv. 20. Unto God our Father, be glory for ever and ever.
Phil. ii. 14. Do all things without murmurings, and disputings. Ver. 15. That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.
Heb. xii. 5. The exhortation speaketh unto you as unto children, my son despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, neither faint when thou art rebuked of him.
Ver. 6. For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Ver. 7. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons, for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not.
Ver. 8. If ye be without chastisement whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons.
Ver. 9. Shall we not be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
Ver. 10. He chastened us for our profit that we might be partakcrs of his holiness.
1 Pet. i. 14. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance :
Ver. 15. But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation.
1 Pet. i. 17. Call on the Father, and pass the time of your sojourning here in fear.
Ver. 22. Love one another with a pure heart fervently.
Ver. 23. Ye being born again not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever.
1 John ii. 29. Every one that doth righteousness is born of God. • iii. 9. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin, for his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. Ch. v. 18.
1 John iii. 10. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
iv. 7. Every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. v. 1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Ver. 4. Whoscever is born of God, overcometh the world.
Ver. 18. He that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
Rev. xxi. 7. He that overcometh, shall be my son.
XL. The wicked are stiled the children of whatever evil principle reigns in them, and so are called,
Children of the devil. John viii. 44. Acts xiii. 10. 1 John iii. 10. Children of Belial. Deut. xiii. 13. Judg. xx. 13, 1 Sam. x. 27. 1 Kings xxi. 10.
Children of the wicked one. Matt. xiii. 38.
Children of transgression. Isa. Ivii. 4.
Children of disobedience. Eph. ii. 2.—v. 6. Col. iii. 6.
Children of this world. Luke xvi. 8.-xx. 34. 1 John ii. 15.
Children of the flesh. Rom. ix. 8.
Children of Ethiopians. Amos ix. 7.
Children in whom is no faith. Deut. xxxii. 20.
Backsliding children. Jer. iii. 14.
Rebellious children. Isa. i. 2. Jer. xxx. 1.
Lying children. Jer. xxx. 9.
Children of wrath. Eph. ii. 3.
XLI. Under God their heavenly Father, christians are brethren and sisters, and owe to each other the duties of that relation. Matt. xviii. 35. Forgive every one his brother's trespass. Rom. xii. 10. With brotherly love, preferring one another. xiv. 13. Let no man put a stumbling-block, or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
xvi. 17. I beseech ye, brethren, mark them which cause divisions, and offences, and avoid them.
1 Cor. v. 11. If any one that is called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one do not eat.
vi. 5. Is there not one among you able to judge between his brethren. Ver. 6, 8.
1 Cor. viii. 12. When ye sin against the brethren, ye sin against Christ. Ver. 11, 13.
1 Thess. iv. 6. Let no man go beyond, and defraud his brother in any matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such.
v. 25. Brethren, pray for us. 2 Thess. iii. 1.
2 Thess. iii. 6. We command you brethren in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly.
Heb. xiii. 1. Let brotherly love continue. 1 Pet. iii. 8. Love as brethren.
Jam. ii. 15. If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food;
Ver. 16. And one of you say unto them, depart in peace, be ye warmed, and filled, notwithstanding ye gave them not those things which are needful to the body, what doth it profit ?
1 Pet. i. 22. Seeing ye have purified your souls, in obeying the truth through the Spirit, unto the unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart, fervently.
ii. 17. Love the brotherhood.
1 John ii. 9. He that hateth his brother is in darkness. Ch. îîì. 15. He is a murderer.
1 John iii. 15. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.
Ver. 16. We ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
XLII. Christ is the elder brother. John xx. 17. Jesus said, go unto my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, to my God and your God.
Rom. viii. 29. Whom he did foreknow, he did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.
Heb. ii. 11. He is not ashamed to call them brethren.
Ver. 12. Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren.
XLIII. God is a Saviour. 2 Sam. xxii. 3. The God of my rock, iny Saviour.
Ps. cvi. 21. They forgot God their Saviour.
Isa. xliii. 3. I am the Lord thy God, the holy one of Israel, thy Saviour. Isa. Ix. 16.
xlix. 26. I will feed them, that oppress thee, with their own flesh, and they shall be drunken with their own blood, and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob. Zech. xiv. 12.
Jer. xiv. 8. O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof, in time of trouble, why shouldst thou be a stranger in the land?
Hos. xiii. 4. There is no Saviour besides me, saith the Lord. Isa. xliii. 11.-xlv. 21.
Luke i. 47. My spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
1 Tim. ii. 3, 4. God our Saviour, who will have all men to be sayed, and come to the knowledge of the truth.