text:
Canadian Politician Makes the Best Worst Campaign Ad
If you think the presidential campaign is entertaining here in the US (see: Trump, Donald), then you ought to get a load of what's going on north of the border.
If you think the presidential campaign is entertaining here in the US (see: Trump, Donald), then you ought to get a load of what's going on north of the border.
This kid gets a black belt in adorable.
The line between legitimate news and celebrity gossip is blurrier than images of Bigfoot, so it's refreshing when a journalist takes a stand.
As a matter of fact, he had several of them. Friends, foes, correspondents and a musical legend came together last night to pay tribute and say farewell to a man who has shaped the way people looked at news, politics and the world as a whole...
Roux the Pomeranian has a sneeze that's just...odd.
Although Amazon may not have made an official announcement yet on if Prime Day 2 will happen after some of the negative feedback received during it's launch, that hasn't stopped the internet from guessing how the next one will be.
Forget Freddy Krueger -- this is the reason you should fear going to sleep.
Liam Neeson has a particular set of skills: he can get kids to clean their rooms.
This is one cool dog, literally! We've been waiting for Summer and the heat to get here after all the rains. It finally shown up, with a vengeance. With temperatures in the 100's anyway you can cool off is welcomed. This pug has the right ideal, it found a bucket of water to lay in and from the snoring sounds I think it's found the perfect spot for a little nap. We could all learn something from this dog, cool shades too!
Forget photobombing. Move along, videobombing. The new trend may just be magic-bombing.
Drinking and driving is obviously no laughing matter, but somehow this guy turned it into a rather amusing event. Let us explain.
You may have heard that Donald Trump has a penchant for putting people down. Now, you can help him.


text:
Established as a collaboration between Florida International University and the National Tropical Botanical Garden to study tropical plants and the resources they provide, the International Center for Tropical Botany (ICTB) provides research-based knowledge and tools to preserve and sustainably use tropical plants, and will foster programs to educate future generations of tropical plant biologists.
6 billion people get most or all of their medicines from plants. By 2060, 60% of the world population will live in the tropics, deriving nearly all their food, medicine and shelter from tropical plants. Balancing the demands for plant resources – currently threatened by climate change, habitat loss, and over-harvesting – by a growing human population – predicted to exceed 9 billion by 2050 – represents a major contemporary challenge and a core mission responsibility for ICTB.
With a growing human population, balancing the demands for plant resources is a major challenge and a core mission of the Center.
The Center develops tropical botany research, education, and outreach programs by integrating faculty research with global presence in tropical regions.
ICTB will generate lasting global impacts through collaborations with a wide variety of partners including research, outreach, and training programs.
Education & Outreach
Your gift to the International Center for Tropical Botany allows us to fulfill our commitment to tropical plant and ecosystem conservation, scientific research, education and outreach.
Together we will generate lasting global impacts.
ICTB researchers have identified key genes associated with flowering time in the pigeon pea, a finding that could lead...
We are pleased to offer The Kampong Science Teachers Enrichment Program(K-STEP) 2017! Participants will learn from several botanical and environmental science...
In collaboration with the National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG), FIU's International Center for Tropical Botany at The Kampong will host...
The Kampong of the National Tropical Botanical Garden, in collaboration with Florida International University, the International Center for Tropical Botany,...
Copyright © 2015 International Center for Tropical Botany. All Rights Reserved.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
GraphicRiver Red Knitted Sweater with Deer Seamless Pattern 6130643
Stock Vector \ Decorative \ Patterns
Pattern \ Seamless \ Sweater \ Background \ Knitted \ XmasRed \ Woolen \ Surface
Stock Vector - Red Knitted Sweater with Deer Seamless Pattern 6130643 by svetolk @ GraphicRiver
Stock Vector \ Decorative \ Patterns
Red knitted sweater with deer seamless pattern. Can be used for wallpaper, pattern fills, web page background,surface textures
Layered: No; Graphics Files Included: JPG Image, Vector EPS; Minimum Adobe CS Version: CS.
Vector Seamless Retro Pattern; Vector Seamless Retro Pattern with Hearts; Vector Seamless Retro Bicycle Pattern.; Vector Seamless Retro Pattern; Geometric Seamless Pattern with Hearts Lines; Vector Seamless Retro Pattern; Seamless Retro Pattern.
Keywords: abstract, backdrop, background, christmas, closeup, decoration, deer, fabric, fashion, graphic, illustration, knit, ornament, pattern, red, retro, seamless, season, seasonal, snowflake, striped, sweater, texture, thread, vector, warm, white, wool, woolen, xmas.


text:
MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ +16 years-old ] TV Miniseries. Four chapters. The unfortunate story of Tess begins when her drunken father finds that her last name back to ancient Norman nobility. Young, beautiful and innocent, Tess Durbeyfield pushed to assert their kinship with the delicious D? Uberville and claim a share of the family fortune. However, it becomes the object of desire of Alec D? Uberville, manipulative son of the family. The fate of Tess seems sentenced, but then involved a very different man in the person of Angel Clare. This seems to offer love and salvation, but what opine of the secrets of the past of the young? As the relationship between the two flowers, beautiful Tess will be at the crossroads of opening your heart or retain silence. You can watch Tess of the D'Urbervilles online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2008.
Rating: 5 by 220 users./
Runtime: 240 minutes
Gemma Arterton, Eddie Redmayne, Ruth Jones, Hans Matheson, Ian Puleston-Davies, Christopher Fairbank, Jo Woodcock, Steven Robertson, Hugh Skinner and Jodie Whittaker.
240-minute film (full movie) directed by David Blair.
The original audio of Tess of the D'Urbervilles has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in UK.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2008.
Screenplay written by David Nicholls.
Wojciech Szepel.
This film was produced and / or financed by BBC, Coproducción Reino Unido-EEUU; BBC Drama Productions and WGBH.
Composed by Robert Lane.
Without commercial breaks, the full movie Tess of the D'Urbervilles has a duration of 240 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in EnglishDolby Digital in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
See the page of this full movie, Tess of the D'Urbervilles in FULLTV Movies.


text:
Red and Silver Central Texas Expos is hosting a back-to-school event from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday at B&K Pawn in Killeen.
Tim Ferch, business manager of the group, said the event will feature live music, a school supply giveaway and barbecue.
During the event, the Killeen Fire Department will recognize Staff Sgt. Lupe Maldonado, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. Maldonado was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in April.
"My hopes are to draw a good crowd and get Lupe Maldanado known in the Killeen area," Ferch said. "The fire chief is going to present him with an American flag and a certificate."
Ferch said this is the fourth event the group plans to host since it launched in May.
"It's going to be hot, so I want everybody to just enjoy themselves and have a good time," he said. "We are still trying to make our name and this is going to help us with that."
Ferch said he hopes residents have a good time during the "Smokn' Hot Back to School with Lupe" event.
"Every time that we (have) an event, we showcase something; we provide a theme and a cause (to support)," he said.


text:
The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements, where you're restricted to 2,000 calories of badly flavored soy every day. You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world, or you can join the service. With the colony lottery a pipe dream, Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces for a shot at real food, a retirement bonus, and maybe a ticket off Earth. But as he starts a career of supposed privilege, he soon learns that the good food and decent health care come at a steep price…and that the settled galaxy holds far greater dangers than military bureaucrats or the gangs that rule the slums.
The debut novel from Marko Kloos, Terms of Enlistment is a new addition to the great military sci-fi tradition of Robert Heinlein, Joe Haldeman, and John Scalzi.
We've sent an email with your order details. Order ID #:
Listen on the Audible app or these devices.Launch Audible App
-or-Download Free Audible App
To access this title, visit your library in the app or on the desktop website.
Listen on the Audible app or these devices.Launch Audible App
-or-Download Free Audible App
Audible does not currently have the rights to sell this title in your country.
Please consider another book.Continue Browsing
Please add a payment method to continue.Add a Payment Method
Please edit your payment details or add a new card.
If the problem persists, contact customer service at (888) 283-5051Review My Payment Method
If the problem persists, contact customer service at (888) 283-5051
Please add your billing address to continue.Add My Billing Address
Please select a default credit card to continue.Select Credit Card
It looks like you've already used the specified payment method for a free trial.
Please contact customer service if you think we have made a mistake. (888) 283-5051Start Your $14.95 Membership
If the problem persists, contact customer service at (888) 283-5051
If the problem persists, contact customer service at (888) 283-5051
- Jim "The Impatient"
Solid military sci-fi.
I enjoyed this book. It was a solid showing for a first book and a good lead into a series. The author has an interesting view point of humanity and the future. Kloos does a good job of balancing the tech. So many authors go over the top on tech to the point of drowning out the story. There is enough tech here to keep you interested. The characters were not over the top. I like books that make almost ordinary people into the center of the story. They were believable and I was able to relate to them easily. I enjoyed the boot camp part and it brought back a lot of memories for me. The narrator was easy to listen to and different characters were distinguishable. I would be interested in other books this narrator performed in.


text:
Bowy is Inside Trailer (2012)
29 September 2012 Drama 50 mins
Four friends visit an outdoor festival. In the queue mass panic arises. Their relationships inform the way the friends react during the chaos. One of them is killed, the remaining friends are seen as a hero, a victim and a villain. But aren't the victims guilty as well. And isn't the bad-guy also a victim?
Watch the official Bowy is Inside 2012 trailer in HD below or find more Bowy is Inside videos on Vidimovie.


text:
On Tuesday evening at 7:30 pm, Olin Theater was filled with jubilant circus music as The Roanoke College Jazz Ensemble and RC Wind Ensemble performed their spring semester concert.
Perhaps the most important part of the concert was the recognition of Graduating seniors, as this was their last concert with either the jazz or wind ensembles. The seniors recognized in the Jazz Ensemble were Ruth Trochim, and Dylan White. In the Wind Ensemble, Samantha Barker, Libby Compton, Leslie Schallock, Keisha Stoots, Ashley Stoots, Felicity Ratway, Reeve Aguayo, and Marcel Galiber II. Trochim and White also performed with the Wind Ensemble.
The Jazz Ensemble, directed by Dr. Joseph Blaha, entertained the audience with five selected pieces. Their selections included "Cantaloupe Island," a Herbie Hancock piece, "Riptide," "Moanin'," "Embraceable You," and they ended their performance with a fun rendition of "Summertime." Audience members enjoyed the performance and enthusiastically gave the performers a round of applause after each piece.
Following a short intermission to reset the stage, The RC Wind Ensemble filed in to perform their fun circus themed concert. Dr. Blaha introduced the band, and then handed over the conducting stage to assistant conductor, senior Ruth Trochim. Trochim conducted the ensembles first piece which included "The Battle Introduction" from Gladiator, and flowed into the lively selection of "The Circus Bee," by Henry Fillmore. Dr. Blaha took the conducting stage for the remainder of the sections for the Wind Ensemble.
The concert also included other notable circus themed selections. Other pieces included "Morning Noon and Night in Vienna," number IV from "The Planets," entitled "Jupiter" by Gustav Holst, and three movements from "Ballet Parisien." The three movements from "Parisien," included movement 1, "Overture," movement IV, "Valse," and the finale movement appropriately titled "Finale."
Rounding out the Wind Ensembles performance was the ever popular and fun tune of "Barnum and Bailey's Favorite," written by Karl King and then rescored for concert performance by Glenn Bainum. Â The final concert of the year ended with a standing ovation from the students, faculty, and family in the audience.
The Wind Ensemble will perform the music for Commencement on May 3, and the next concert will be announced in the fall semester of 2014.


text:
Looking for Payroll software developer programmer Workers or Work?
Need help with Payroll software developer programmer? Hire a freelancer today! Do you specialise in Payroll software developer programmer? Use your Payroll software developer programmer skills and start making money online today! Freelancer is the largest marketplace for jobs in the world. There are currently 17,764 jobs waiting for you to start work on!I Want to Hire I Want to Work
Payroll software developer programmer Jobs:
|Price (USD)
|Price (USD)
|MLM Software
|I need you to develop some software for me. I would like this software to be developed using PHP. MLM SOFTWARE - Binary compensation 1:1 pair Automatic gift tracker Manual button for payroll calculation
|PHP, Software Architecture
|Nov 21, 2017
|Today6d 19h
|Online Staff Payroll
|To develop a web based system to manage staff payroll for a security company. The system will help compute the pay for each employee and generate pay slips. Read "Project Management System [url removed, login to view]" to understand the full spec. TERMS, CONCERNS AND PREFERENCE ================================ 1. What is your most preferred programming language? 2. What is yo...
|PHP, Website Design, Software Architecture, MySQL, HTML
|Nov 21, 2017
|Today6d 11h
|Write some software -- 2
|I need you to develop some software for me. I would like this software to be developed for Windows . I need a payroll software for windows and desktop.
|Windows Desktop, Software Architecture
|Nov 19, 2017
|Nov 19, 20174d 14h
|Payroll System Created In Visual Basic
|I would like a complex payroll system created for me in visual basic for a workplace environment. It must be able to calculate wages, attendance etc. Time scale is up to 2 months
|Visual Basic, .NET, C# Programming, Software Architecture, VB.NET
|Nov 19, 2017
|Nov 19, 20174d 11h
|White label Odoo Multi-Tenant ERP solution
|We are looking for Multi-Tenant ERP solution with these modules: 1- Accounting UAE localization with VAT 2- Inventory 3- HRM 4- Payroll UAE localization 5- Project Management 6- Sales 7- Purchase 8- POS 9- Helpdesk Ticketing system Central Dashboard to manage the tenant, backup, user admin, Storage capacity for each tenant Mobile app for tenant to login to their account It will ...
|PHP, Python, Software Architecture, ERP, Odoo
|Nov 19, 2017
|Nov 19, 20174d 6h
|Logo design for CSBC Asia - Business Consultancy services - 18/11/2017 01:14 EST
|Site name: CSBC Asia Website: [url removed, login to view] Tagline (optional) Asia business consultancy Colour: red / white (represent Singapore colours) Background: white The logo should both: - represent corporate services - give a trusted business image Our service is focused on the Small and Medium Business sector. We provide business consultancy and accounting/bookkeeping ser...
|Graphic Design, Logo Design, Photoshop, Illustrator, Corporate Identity
|Nov 18, 2017
|Nov 18, 20173d 1h
|Payroll assistant
|Payroll assistant is needed asap reply if you are interested
|Data Processing, Data Entry, Accounting, Excel, Virtual Assistant
|Nov 18, 2017
|Nov 18, 20173d 1h
|Accountant - 17/11/2017 20:48 EST
|A new expand company is looking for Date Entry/Excel candidate someone who have ambition to work as a part time or full time payroll accounting the candidate must know how to perform those task listed below : Data entry for payable and receivable Disbursements for payable Reconciling various bank accounts Preparation of weekly payroll, administer direct deposit, manual checks and wage garnishment...
|Internet Marketing, Data Processing, Excel, Web Search, Copy Typing
|Nov 17, 2017
|Nov 17, 20172d 20h
|Payroll Clerk
|We are looking for a qualified Payroll Clerk to assist in all activities regarding the management of employee compensation in the company. You will undertake a variety of tasks such as entering payroll information, calculating wages and making payments. An excellent payroll clerk has great understanding of the concept of confidentiality. You will be experienced in entering data with attention t...
|Nov 17, 2017
|Nov 17, 20172d 18h
|Develop application using Knack
|I have created two Knack Data Objects by importing two separate csv files. One data object is Customer Information and the other data object is a series of measures taken at customer residences and collected through a mobile forms application. Daily, users need to download data, csv or xls files from the mobile forms database, and upload the data directly into Knack. There needs to be a rel...
|App Developer
|Nov 17, 2017
|Nov 17, 20172d 17h
|Help learning Workday ERP
|I need a freelancer who has access to Workday ERP. We are trying to decide if Workday is right for our company. I'm looking for someone to teach me the basics on the HR side. Here are some things I would like to understand: -How are new employees entered into the system -What kind of reports are available for employees (e.g. how can I pull an employee roster) -Is direct deposit informat...
|Human Resources
|Nov 17, 2017
|Nov 17, 20172d 16h
|Help learning how to use different payroll systems
|I need someone who can help me select a payroll system for my company. The freelancer MUST have access to at least one payroll system (e.g. ADP, Paycom, Gusto). I would like to learn the basics and also understand if it's possible to generate a few specific reports that I'll need to help run my business. These include: - Running an employee roster including contact information and di...
|Nov 17, 2017
|Nov 17, 20172d 11h
|Need Payroll listings
|I need USA payroll listings. must be not more than 60 days old and must have all data fields or I will reject it.
|Data Processing, Data Entry, Accounting, Excel, Finance
|Nov 17, 2017
|Nov 17, 20172d 10h
|UAE Payroll consultant
|We are HR software development company. we are planning to create a payroll module for UAE Market. We need a Payroll consultant who has great knowledge in Payroll Statutory details, Labour Laws in for UAE. Can someone work with our software development team to give functional inputs to the develop the Payroll module? Thanks, Vinod
|Accounting, Payroll
|Nov 17, 2017
|Nov 17, 20172d
|Do some data entry
|I have some work, in an Excel spreadsheet. Sales Report, encoding payroll, computing company expenses, etc
|Nov 16, 2017
|Nov 16, 20171d 9h
|Need a Payroll Officer to Handle Pay & Paycheque Queries
|Hi there, My name is Dmitri and I run a large tutoring organisation in a few different Australian capital cities. I am preferably looking for someone in the Melbourne area to handle our payroll on a weekly basis (every Tuesday) to our independent contractor (tutors). In addition, you will be required to pay our casual staff (just 2) through Xero. We use an independent tutor management syste...
|Accounting, Payroll, Bookkeeping, Xero, General Labor
|Nov 15, 2017
|Nov 15, 201722h 42m
|Payroll management system
|Should have a login... Where the admin is the only one who can access the system... The system should be able to generate salary... Do deductions such as tax... Pensions... Insurance... Print a receipt with employee details eg names... Department etc The system should contain employee information and the admin should be able to view this information.. The admin should also be able to register...
|Nov 14, 2017
|Nov 14, 2017Ended
|Write some Software
|I Have a Payroll Ready System I Need Some Customization in that Project. Need to create a Job card. Modules Required: Activity Master Article Master Job Card Master In The Article Master There is a Number of Activity Can Be Done. I Will Select From Activity Master For E.g I Have Created Activity Stitching , Cutting , Button Then I will Assign a Price Rate According to Article Number. For E.g Ar...
|PHP, Codeigniter
|Nov 13, 2017
|Nov 13, 2017Ended
|payroll assistant
|Summary: ------------------------------- Hands-on Payroll Assistant responsible for assisting Payroll Manager with full - cycle payroll function to include timesheet administration and processing, monthly and year-end close activities, audit support, and interfacing with employees and managers regarding all payroll and timesheet-related matters. Essential Duties & Responsibilities: ----...
|Accounting, Finance, Intuit QuickBooks, Payroll, Bookkeeping
|Nov 12, 2017
|Nov 12, 2017Ended
|Payroll System VB
|I need a payroll system to be created for me and for it to be coded in Visual Basic and sql
|Visual Basic, SQL, Software Architecture, Microsoft SQL Server, VB.NET
|Nov 11, 2017
|Nov 11, 2017Ended
Showing 1 to 20 of 120 entries
Hire the Top Payroll software developer programmer Freelancers:


text:
Offering 3 awesome stallions to choose from! Visit our site for more details! COLOR, COLOR, COLOR!
Triple B's Stallion Station in Godwin, NC!
Just minutes from Ft. Bragg, NC, 10 minutes from downtown Fayetteville, NC, We offer NRHA prospects in our AQHA & APHA horses and foals for sale, Triple B Horses, breeding intelligent minds & beautiful bodies for you to work with, train & enjoy!
Beginner, Ground, Halter, Lesson, Reining, Show, Trail Riding, Western Pleasure, Western Riding, Fqha, APHA, Painted, Painted Horses, AQHA, Quarter Horses, Champion, NRHA, NRHA Champion, Triple B Horses, Triple B, Boarding, Sonny Dee Bar, Qt, Champion, Zips Chocolate Chip
If so, you can update this page by editing your company information.


text:
Results 1 to 1 of 1
Thread: Issue with locks on SYSROUTINES
05-12-04, 12:11 #1Registered User
Provided Answers: 5
- Join Date
- Jan 2003
- Posts
- 4,310
Unanswered: Issue with locks on SYSROUTINES
I am having a issue with locks being created on the SYSIBM.SYSROUTINES when executing a simple query that has a UDF or calls a system function. For example if I try:
select udf_name(last_name,first_name,middle_name,name_suf fix) from member where last_name like 'SMITH%' and first_name like 'J%' for read only
select last_name,first_name,middle_name,name_suffix from member where ucase(last_name) like 'SMITH%' and ucase(first_name) like 'J%' for read only
I will get an "Intention Share" lock on the sysroutines table and several "Share" locks on some rows within the table. The locks hang around until a Commit or Rollback. Our application only issue Commits and Rollbacks when work (inserts, updates, and deletes) is being performed. This means that these locks are almost always in place by at least one user constantly. Normally, this would not concern me too much, but it is impossible to create a UDF or Stored Procedure while these locks are in effect.
Can someone tell me why the locks are being issued on a "For Read Only" select statement and how to prevent the locks in the first place?
DB2 UDB 8.1.5 Linux Intel


text:
Dallas, TX (PressExposure) October 20, 2008 -- Responses to Objections, Cold Calling, and Prospecting is available from Your Sales Leads, Inc. Please visit their website: http://www.yoursalesleads.com for more information about this product and their additional services which include sales leads generation and telemarketing services.
Wouldnât it be wonderful if every prospect were sitting by their phone waiting for your call? If that were the case, everyone would have the telemarketing skills to be an inside salesperson.
In today's economy, 84% of companies are focusing on acquiring new business â they are calling on the same prospects that you are. The bottom line is if your telemarketing efforts canât get you in the door to see your prospect, chances are that youâre not going to make a sale. The goal of good telesales is to set a meeting and get in front of that prospect â that will be your opportunity to establish a business partnership and generate revenue for your company.
This guide contains responses to common objections that you will hear over the phone. Your goal is not to answer every question that the prospect has in your initial conversation. Your ultimate goal is to set a meeting â you need to get in front of your prospect so that you can present the benefits that your product or service offers. The old adage remains true even today â âpeople buy from peopleâ. Learning good telemarketing skills can help you to be successful at increasing your sales and ultimately building your business through successful telesales.
These are simply tools in your toolbox; however, like any tools, they are only helpful when they are utilized. Learn them, use them, and live them. Allow yourself to be successful.
About Your Sales Leads, Inc.
LEADS works on a national basis and specializes in creating unique inside sales programs custom tailored to their clientsâ needs and target markets. Robin Bohbot, President and Owner of Your Sales Leads, Inc., is an inside sales expert with over 25,000 hours of cold calling and training inside salespeople in the area of telesales. This experience allows us to identify what works and what doesnât. These are telesales strategies that produce results. You can learn how to respond effectively to any objection you hear on the phone! LEADS has established long term relationships with their clients based on a foundation of quality of service and a high return on investment. Results are the measurement of LEADS success.


text:
Pardew: Ashton here to stay
By Simon Fudge
Last Updated: 01/01/70 1:00am
West Ham United boss Alan Pardew says he has no intention of selling Dean Ashton.
West Ham United boss Alan Pardew says he has no intention of selling striker Dean Ashton.
The former Crewe Alexandra hit-man has been linked with a big money move to Newcastle United, despite only joining The Hammers in a £7.25 million deal from Norwich City back in January.
Speaking after West Ham's 2-0 pre-season win over Trollhattan in Sweden, the former Reading manager stated he is looking forward to seeing Ashton perform for the East Londoners this season.
"All my players are here to stay," Pardew told Sky Sports News.
"I think what people are going to have to remember is that this group were all very young last year.
"They've got another year under their belt and they're going to be better this year.
"Dean Ashton will be one of them and he's looking like he wants to progress quickly.
"We're looking forward to seeing him in the West Ham and he'll certainly be running around against Charlton on that opening day, I assure you of that."
Fellow West Ham striker Carlton Cole, meanwhile, hopes his summer move to Upton Park will hand him the chance to become a first-team regular.
The 22-year-old struggled to break into Chelsea's first team and felt now was time for a fresh start.
"Since the (England) Under-21s, that's the only play I really got last season," Cole said.
"I had one start in the FA Cup, played well and scored, but games after that were scarce.
"I just thought from then, I had to go out and better myself and try and play more games and play and gain more experience in The Premiership.
"You never know. Maybe, in the future, I can get to a big club.
"Now, West Ham is the first on my list and West Ham has given me the opportunity to play and hopefully, I'm going to do well for them."


text:
Friday, February 4, 2011
AFTERTIME reviews: RTBookReviews Top Pick - and more!
I was thrilled to discover that RTBookReviews gave AFTERTIME a top pick in the March issue! Here's what they had to say:
4 ½ star, Top Pick
The first installment in a fantastic new dystopian series is driven by a tough, smart heroine with a dark past and a single mission: to find her daughter. The fresh, original worldbuilding solidly supports the unfolding narrative and Littlefield's compelling writing will keep readers turning pages late into the night to find out what happens next. Outstanding!
Cass Dollar wakes up to a pretty bleak state of affairs. She's scarred, wounded and alone, the only person ever to have survived an attack by the flesh-eating, zombie-like Beaters — without turning into one — though she doesn't remember what happened after they snatched her. California is a barren wasteland, thanks to biological weapons, and Cass doesn't know where her daughter, Ruthie, is. Accompanied by enigmatic outlaw Smoke, Cass sets off on a dangerous quest to find Ruthie while staying a step ahead of a ruthless militia, government scientists and a mysterious quasi-religious order of women.
And lots of other reviewers have been weighing in on the book as well. Here's a sampling:
"A fascinating protagonist and some of the scariest zombies I have ever encountered - a double-barreled salute." - Jess d'Arbonne, The Denver Examiner
"A gripping and emotional tale of survival that will keep any reader on their toes...I wanted MORE!" - Enchanting Reviews
"A stirring read that sincerely whetted my appetite for the next in the series ...I wait with bated breath" - Fiendishly Bookish
"Littlefield may be the new Zombie writer on the block but Atfertime holds it own...I am anxiously waiting the sequel." - Blood Rose Books
"The ending had my heart pounding." - Dirty Sexy Books
Posted by Sophie Littlefield at 11:47 AM
Labels: Aftertime, blood rose books, dirty sexy books, enchanting reviews, fiendishly bookish, rtbookreviews, the denver examiner
No comments:
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
President Nicolas Sarkozy is taking a beating in the polls as the French grow increasingly worried about their pocketbooks
PARIS, February 1, 2008 - President Nicolas Sarkozy is taking a beating
in the polls, his popularity dropping to its lowest level since he took office
as the French grow increasingly worried about their pocketbooks.
Eight months after he was elected on a promise to usher in sweeping
economic reform, Sarkozy's approval rating has dropped sharply to 41 percent,
down eight points in a month, according to a TNS-Sofres poll to be released at
the weekend.
The fall comes amid a gloomy economic outlook and ahead of municipal
elections in March that the opposition Socialists are casting as a referendum
on Sarkozy's presidency.
The latest tumble prompted the popular Le Parisien newspaper on Thursday to
proclaim "Sarkozy in a freefall" and that "the time for disappointment with
Sarkozy has come."
The TNS-Sofres poll to be published in Le Figaro magazine shows 41 percent
of the French still trust the president compared to 55 percent who have lost
faith -- pushing Sarkozy deep into negative ratings.
A second poll by the CSA institute showed 52 percent of those surveyed felt
Sarkozy's policies were "headed in the wrong direction" even though the
president gets high marks on international diplomacy.
Driving the drop is growing perceptions that Sarkozy is not delivering on
his promise to rev up the economy, in particular spending power which topped
surveys of the French voters' most pressing concern even during the campaign.
"Why is the president falling in the polls? Because the French people are
impatient, they want results," said deputy Frederic Lefebvre from Sarkozy's
governing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party.
Parliament on Thursday adopted a law on boosting spending power that
includes a measure that would allow workers to trade for cash holidays accrued
under the 35-hour workweek scheme.
Sarkozy earlier this month admitted he had little leverage to boost
consumer spending, saying the "state coffers are empty" and that the
government should not be expected to come up with a hand-out.
The remarks marked a climbdown for Sarkozy who had vowed to be the
"president who delivers on purchasing power" during his campaign as well as
promising to bring down unemployment and boost economic growth.
"When he was a candidate for office, the president exposed himself
personally on this issue," commented Mathieu Kaiser, an analyst with BNP
"There are expectations but it is also a situation that the government does
not completely have under its control," he said.
Economic growth, which the government had forecast for 2008 at two percent,
is expected to be limited to 1.4--1.6 percent, in line with the expected
slowdown in Europe, according to economists.
French consumer confidence meanwhile plummeted to an all-time low in
January while inflation went up.
As the French were fretting over their hard-won euros, photos of Sarkozy on
vacation with his new girlfriend Carla Bruni last month irked voters who felt
the president was more interested in romance than in the affairs of the state.
Over the past month, the hyper-active president has sought to seize back
the initiative, with a series of trips across France to discuss pocketbook
woes and show he is addressing the issue.


text:
User talk:Spartagus
From Diablo Wiki
Nice update on the Javelins[edit]
Hey Spartagus, nice pics you uploaded on the Unique Javelins. Articles are so much better with pictures! Is this your first experience with wikis? --Leord 13:27, 10 November 2008 (CET)
BTW, I couldn't find any forum profile of "Spartagus", what's your Diii.net name? Or do you hang out on some other D3 site? =) --Leord 13:29, 10 November 2008 (CET)


text:
..... i believe for any relationship to work, there should be "friendship and trust"
what keeps the fire burnin in a relationship?
..... i believe for any relationship to work, there should be "friendship and trust"
The fire keeps burning while both sides wants it to be in the way like this. There must be respect and a lot of wish to do/change something. From my own experience, i know that with only a big wish you can make a lot of things possible.
sometimes u need more than trust to keep the fire burning....
I had this misconception too that trust and friendship and love was all it needed...
But later realised that u should not let the relation get boring, there should be always something new and interesting. And never take ur partner for granted.
But it was too late when i realised it
While friendship, trust and love are the basis for a relationship, I believe that both parties need not shut down that communication channel so that you can iron out any differences.
I think renewal. There is always a beginning and ending to everything we say, do or have. Why should relationships be any different. I think the ones that last, the things we keep for a long time are those that we treasure because it is always something new we find in them. The fire keeps burning because we keep adding something else to it.
log on
Two people who are completely comfortable in one another's company to the point where they do not have to say much to be perfectly understood by the other. Also two people with their own interests that can contribute to their relationship. Love, trust, sense of closeness, a bond.
you need to do different things, go on adventures, do stuff so you dont get into a continuous cycle of whatever is normal for you as a couple to do. Don't stay in all the time!! Go out, go on dates even if its just trying a new restraunt its important! Oh, and trust, friendship, love. You know its the right person when you can be together and not say anything at all, and nothing is needed. thats just my experience! I've definatly found the man of my dreams <3
Little signs of love Don't let too much routine get between you. Bluedoll is right
Tell her/him straight what you think.
To keep the fire burning, and have a safe relationship is two different things. Both is nice to have in a relationship. Trust won't keep the fire burning. But flirting, great sex (hope I do not offend anybody) and nice surprises will keep the fire burning with passion.
i prefer new things.. such a baby or so
Traveling or doing anything else than staying at home day after day..
works for us. My son is 3 and half months old and he have been in plane 6 times already.
Honesty all the way, and being open. If you even have the slightest irritation with something you should let it be known, so you can talk it out and resolve it. never let an argument last. be passionate, be truthfull, be kind and caring, be romantic, make it known yo love them and never let me forget, do new stuff togethor, and never fall into a routine.
Common projects for the future. It's necessary to see yourself with someone in the future, building great things, to be strong enough to avoid routine killing the relationship.
The best thing to do is to never get married. Women expect men to change and men expect women to stay the same once married. I wish marriage upon my worse enemies. That's how cruel I am.
Some situations can't be avoided until a period of time has past. For instance. My wife and I had our second son on February 4th this year. We had sex for the first time last Thursday since his birth. I consider it pity sex since I had to complain for four months. I gave her the two month healing process as a default. But she got her tubes tied so it rendered her worthless. I can't believe I didn't cheat all that time. The farking tantrics started taking me over by itself and I would fall to the floor in spasms. Doesn't help that I'm a hypersexual either. Got quite painful some days.
And ladies, there's no such thing as Blue Balls. Just an excuse to get laid. The real pain is the withdraw of not feeding a sexual addiction such as with any hypersexual, regardless of it's male or female. There is a major difference. Sorry for getting off topic. Just ranting I guess.
Personally, my relationship is stable and well, but to keep it alive and fervent, I cook her dinner every week--I really know my stuff in the kitchen lol. There's nothing more that impresses a woman than a man who knows how to cook. Here's what I made the other night:
Cajun chicken pasta w/ a cream sauce
grilled garlic basil shrimp
double chocolate chunk cookies
Hell if you brought your girl over, I'd probably steal her away with that dinner. That is my suggestion to you, 'cuz a woman really likes a man who can take care of her lol.
Personally, I believe that being involved in each other's lives is what keeps the fire burning in a relationship. By that I mean to spend quality time and do stuff together.
Trust is a must because once he/she finds out you're not truthful, they will start to have suspicions. However, just like everything there's a bottom line to draw. Too much trust is risky and can lead to possible heartbreaks. Don't give in to too much trust too soon. You'll never know what will happen, even though you tell yourself that this is the person.
Yes, I also strongly agree with tapina. Communication is a key factor in maintaining a strong relationship. It's always nice to have someone to talk to - to share your interests, your pain, your thoughts. Without this, expect the burning fire to turn to an ice block pretty soon.
It's just from my point of view and from my past experience.
relationships need heat. if it isn't steamy enough it ain't gonna work.m i'm not talking dirty but relationships need mind games as a supplement. keeps things more exciting! clever comments and snide remarks and a touch of jealousy works just fine! i should know.
Nice advices you've got here. what keeps a relationship going strong is trust, respect, having common plans, never to fall in a routine, being yourself, open, making compromises sometimes too, be there for each other in good and bad times. there's a lot of tiny little things of everyday life that's important to do for your couple to work. it's indeed the little things that make the big picture.
I am married for a year now. trials and challenges are part on our everydays life. Sometimes we have misunderstanding when it comes to our likes and dislikes. In order for us to have a steady,meaningful, and a perfect couple, we swallow/lower down our pride, patience must be there, solve our problems and forget what happened yesterday.
love you partner,build trust and respect each other.
I say its yourself...... If you work on urself you'l be more tolerant towards ur partner and appreciate them more.
If your unhappy..... you will lose it to the most trivial of reasons.....
yeah, i believe renewal, because even if you are in 'love', times can get boring and this really makes the relationship die.
Laughter and good times are very important. If she's never smiling, chances are she's not happy.
Do whatever you can to make your partner happy. Life is simply a continuous quest for self-improvement. If you know you have found your partner for life, talk to them and figure out what you can improve to make her happier.
Go on vacation! Do things together! Even if you've been together decades, you're never too old to dress up and go out on a date, just like when you were a kid.
Most importantly, be impulsive. Look into her eyes randomly, and tell her you love her. Pull her to the side and whisper in her ear how sexy she is. Bring her tons of flowers, for no reason other than "Happy <insert day of week>!" Make her breakfast in bed. Surprise her with a full-body massage, fancy massage oils included. Take dancing lessons with her (girls LOVE to learn to dance).
The list could go on forever! The point is, keep her always on her toes. She should always get what she expects, and be constantly surprised with something new.
And the best part is, if she loves you back, she will return the favor(s).
communication keeps things going for us....
There's too much to say on this. But I would say that every relation has its own details. But, again, every relation needs some effort from both sides to succeed and make it go on. Both parties need to work on the relation to continue and last between these two parties.
So, whatever keeps you off or on, in a relationship, you can guess that there's something on the other hand that keeps the other party on and make him/her do the best to keep it going and keep it hot and burning up.
To me, the most important thing to do, is to keep your relation away and safe from routine and bordom. This, again, depends on your relation and its details and whatever you and your partner have in common.
Good luck for everyone...
Simple answer: Look everywhere (and at any girl) but "eat at home"
What keeps the fire burning is the constant addition of wood. My girlfriend is like the wood, and I am the fuel. One day there was a spark and we have been burning ever since. We've experienced so many thingst ogether that I just can't see myself with anyone else. I am 17 years old and she is 16.
Suspense, spontaneousness, caring and love, good food and the ability to not listen negative.
That's a good question. Having fun together is huge. Too many couples don't actually have fun... by fun, I mean... playing a sport together or just screwing around (not sexually). Couples often focus on drinking/sex. After that... there isn't much there.
You need more than trust and friendship, you need to believe in each other, show that you both care, no matter what people say about your relationship ignore them and keep fighting for what you believe. The main thing in a relationship is the will power to take care of your partner no matter what kind of hardship happens.
both parties trust each other and they should hold onto each other never gives up when trials will come...
Hmm...I would suggest petrol, but that can be dangerous to passers-by.
A solution of white spirit or meths could work - you would need to thoroughly dowse both partners in the spirit and have some sort of reservoir system to feed more spirit onto the corpses to keep the fire burning. Eventually, of course, you would run out of flammable material (flesh, muscle etc) at which point the fire would certainly go out...
Infidelity has been known to heat things up...
You not only need friendship and trust (a lot of both), but also compatibility, like being able to talk about anything, and never really having nothing to talk about. I stay up late with my girlfriend, we get on topics then we share childhood memories, it's cute ,
Well, you need to love each other in the first place and then you need to respect each other. And finally, you need to be patient and be able to support the other person when needed, no matter what. But for me there are certain deal breakers. If the other person is unfaithful, that is a deal breaker. I won't be able to trust that person any more and I will loose respect instantly.
Yeah, you need friendship and trust to make it work. But to keep it going you also need patience, kindness, reason and you must be able to maintain who you are as an individual.
in every relationship its love that builds it up. the word love has so much meaning to it. when u start as friends, and u trust each other and love each other, then there is the high rate of the relationship lasting. i believe its these things that keeps the fire burning a relationship. keep the relationship lively with new and adventerous things. its just like cooking. you cannot continue cooking the same old boring food. people get fed up of eating it. it becomes boring. you can spice it up differently today or change an ingredient or two. make it lively. u know life is good. travel, go out more, make the relationship work by working on it. nothing works unless you work it out.
Related topics


text:
|Neglecting your Online Reputation costs you new visits, admissions or more walk-ins. In fact, 80 percent of Americans read online reviews before they choose a new doctor, according to Software Advice. Online reviews have reshaped how healthcare providers are found, so it's critical to understand how positive reviews attract potential patients, how negative ones drive them away, and what you can do to turn satisfied patients into online advocates.
This guide will give you the fundamentals of Online Reputation Management, to help you:
Request Free!


text:
Man has ear bitten off during Donegal rally as 59 arrested in weekend of chaos
A NUMBER of people arrested during the Donegal International Rally at the weekend are due in court in Letterkenny later today.
Gardaí say 59 people were held for various offences over the three days of the rally, twice the number of arrests for the same event last year.
Gda Insp Goretti Sheridan said the number of incidents had left officers shocked.
The breakdown of the arrests included 21 people held for dangerous driving, 14 arrests for drink-driving, and 23 arrests for public order and criminal damage offences.
One of the suspected drink-drivers is just 17.
Another driver was arrested with the help of local taxi drivers in Letterkenny after he drove at speed on the wrong side of Pearse Road in the town.
The rally drew in its biggest crowd for years with an estimated 35,000 extra visitors to north Donegal.
In Carrigart a man from Northern Ireland lost part of his ear after it was bitten during a melee a number of other people from the North.
Insp Sheridan said many of those arrested over the weekend weren't even following the rally.
"Certainly when it came to a lot of the public order incidents in Letterkenny, we were dealing with people who were in the county for the rally weekend but who were not actually following the rally," she said.
"Some of the behaviour was disgraceful. The dangerous driving and drink-driving incidents were shocking."
Gardaí deployed extra motorbike officers, the Garda helicopter, a dozen unmarked vehicles as well as regular patrol vehicles. Road Safety Authority engineers were also on duty detecting modified cars.
The vast majority of actual rally fans behaved "impeccably" throughout the event which finished last night in Letterkenny.
But despite the resources, it was clear gardaí were under-staffed for the event, according to residents in Letterkenny who have taken to social media to complain today.
Residents in Manorcunningham claim up to 50 vehicles were involved in races on the main Letterkenny to Derry road at 6am on Sunday.
On Letterkenny's Port Road there were brawls between drunken youths.
"There just weren't enough guards around. This weekend is a nightmare every year," posted on irate resident.
Online Editors


text:
Body Contact Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987 Drama, Thriller, Music 75 mins
Rock musical set in the future, around Tottenham and Hackney. Taxi driver, Smiley, helps beautiful Dominique Renoir, who is on the run from her violent Mafia boyfriend.
Watch the official Body Contact 1987 trailer in HD below or find more Body Contact videos on Vidimovie.


text: The CONDOR HUASI project has been created to accomplish the conditional reintroduction of captive Andean condors of Ecuador into the wild. It also includes an educational objective of 'páramo' (high-altitude grasslands) conservation for the communities living in the area. The CONDOR HUASI is located in 'La Rinconada of San Pedro', in the property of Hacienda Zuleta, in the community of Zuleta, parish of Angochagua, county of Ibarra, province of Imbabura, Ecuador, South America. The initiative for this project was taken by Dr. Friedman Koster, zoologist and condor expert, and Heide Koster, biologist, with the support of the Galo Plaza Lasso Foundation. The planning, management and performance of the project are now under the supervision of the Foundation, with the technical support of Dr.Friedman and Heide Koster. Our condor of the Andes program main objective is the conservation of Ecuador through environmental education, which attempts to raise the level of consciousness of the children and the general population in the area in the importance of the conservation of Ecuador's wildlife and natural resources, with a focus on the conservation of 'páramos'. We hope to accomplish this through the following measures: 1. To keep in optimal conditions a group of Andean condors of Ecuador that have suffered human aggressions and come from various types of captivity and therefore face an uncertain future. 2. To have at least one couple of Andean condors that will be able to reproduce in the future, with the aim of establishing new colonies of wild Ecuador condors in specific Ecuadorian locations. 3. By means of educational activities in the communities surrounding Hacienda Zuleta, conservation of Ecuador efforts will be strengthened. CONDOR HUASI's condors will provide a focus of attention for visitors, to whom it will be easier to educate on the protection of wildlife in the Andes and in other regions of Ecuador. This measure complements the GPL Foundation's 'páramo' wildlife (e.g. spectacled bears) Ecuador conservation project. 4. To establish a group of semi-captive Andean condors. There is a high probability that this group will make contact with Andean wild condors. This will allow us to obtain valuable and detailed information on wild Andean condor colonies and to establish specific feeding sites for them near CONDOR HUASI. As a result, CONDOR HUASI will be able to support this wild condor colony away from the threat of hunters and poachers. The CONDOR HUASI project has been divided into three stages: • CONDOR HUASI (I) involved the preparation of the cages and the transfer of the condors to their new habitat. • CONDOR HUASI (II) includes the educational aspect of the project. The communities located in the surrounding area, with a specific focus on the children, will be educated in order to raise the level of consciousness of environmental conservation. • CONDOR HUASI (III) is the final stage of the project. The condors will become accustomed to flying freely around the area, returning each day to the area of 'La Rinconada of San Pedro' to spend the night and be fed. The infrastructure consists of a cage of the following dimensions: length=30m., width=30m., and heigth=8m., divided into three sections. Each section has a shelter against rain and sun and a small pool to provide a fresh water supply for the condors. Hacienda Zuleta and the Anhalzer chicken house are responsible for providing the food for the condors and controlling their diet. Currently CONDOR HUASI has five male condors and one female, ranging in age from 3 to 35 years old. These condors attract other condors to the area; we frequently see wild condors of the Andes flying about and food is provided for them. In addition, condors have been seen in the area performing their mating flight. Today, the situation of the Andean Condor in Ecuador has reached a critical point. There are a maximum of 75 wild condors in the country, which makes them an endangered species. The condors' food supply has also diminished in recent years, partly due to the decrease in the death rate of cattle (Condors are carrion eaters), which poses yet another threat to their survival. This is why the CONDOR HUASI project provides food for wild Andean condors in order to aid the re-population process and the basic survival of the Condor. Recently, ecological groups with a focus on Andean condor survival have joined together to create a common policy with regard to the protection of this spectacular species.


text:
Obama attempted to overhaul healthcare in the United States with hopes of covering a majority of American people by at least minimum healthcare coverage plans. However, since we have a political divide in the United States the political lobbyists (who are against Obama care) are able to use pressure to push the agenda of the party who agrees with them. The plan is supposed to offer an alternative to expensive work sponsored health care plans, however employers who's bottom lines are purely economic have used this opportunity to drop hundreds of thousands of Americans from work sponsored health care plans blaming the Obama Care plan as being the cause for this "Inability to compete."
I am reluctant to believe that these companies are unable to compete. I think they are unwilling to compete. It is rather embarrassing that the richest country in the world with the most resources and means for building the most advanced and universally stable society on Earth is fumbling to create a system to provide effective healthcare coverage to its citizens. The few embarrassing things I notice are: We are arguing over money, Our government has no clear authority to control what happens in regard to companies unwillingness to fall in line with the new plan, the way our political parties use this plan to either make or break campaigns. They do not care who gets healthcare. Its all about who pays for it.
My view is: You want to do business in the United States? We have a healthcare bill here that facilitates universal health care. This is the cost of doing business here. If they will simply crunch the numbers and drop employees from health plans because they view keeping them as a liablity, then we need to make it economically feasable to keep those employees on the roles by raising the penalties for dropping them. Otherwise they can get the fuck out of America. The capitalists may view this as a step toward socialism, and they are right. There should be a balance..... At least we are not killing them.....Yet.
It seems that the people in the US are panicking because they are being dropped from healthcare plans and being forced to rely on state run plans. I think this is a ploy by the big businesses to rally support against Obama Care. It should be illegal to manipulate the people in this way.


text: Since I have had numerous droids now (5) I have seen the droid gain and lose parts. Here is a picture of my latest two droids side by side. http://i44.tinypic.com/dqn1hv.jpg Notice how on the right the SD cards slot has changed the left phone has a date of 03/10 while the right has a date of 14/10 I have also noticed the inclusion of this full date sticker on the fight side of the battery compartment. My first few didnt have these. Anyone eles notice differences between theirs and others, or other changes?


text:
Good Machine Gun Sound Trailer (2014)
Make an RRRR sound. Then make small bursts of Ts that force themselves through the Rs. A good machine gun sound. Now go play. Arvid is eight years old when he encounters death for the first time. We float with him through the strange landscape of grief that now surrounds him.
Watch the official Good Machine Gun Sound 2014 trailer in HD below or find more Good Machine Gun Sound videos on Vidimovie.


text:
Home Special Sections Welcome to the GA
Welcome to the GA
Welcome to the GA!
IJN StaffNov 04, 2011
EVERY year, Jewish leaders from across North America – and guests from overseas too! – meet for the annual General Assembly (GA) of North American Jewish...
Jews in Colorado? Yes!
Andrea JacobsNov 04, 2011
HUMAN memory wavers like fickle candlelight across the mind, obscuring faces once adored, illuminating others hardly known. Kaleidoscopic images a favorite toy, a...
AJF's Doug Seserman not afraid to face changes in federation life
Chris LeppekNov 04, 2011
DELEGATES to this year's General Assembly will see lots of local Colorado faces during their Denver stay some more than others. One of those on the more...


text:
- Please select a date to see the proper prices!
- Meal can be requested on the spot
Best offer
66 € / person / night, no meal
Description of the accommodation:
Rooms, services Schweizerblick Bad Säckingen is pleased to host travellers looking to spend a few pleasant days in Germany. The hotel is offering 27 tasfefully furnished, nice rooms for those looking for a place to stay at in Bad Säckingen. Since the hotel has an own restaurant, you may also try fine local meals on the spot. Parking is availably nearby for those arriving by car. We recommend trying some of the relaxing wellness services available at the hotel, the steam room and indoor pool will also be at your disposal. The fans of actively spent leisure time may take the table tennis, bike rental, bowling, billiard, minigolf, curling and boat rental opportunities nearby. In the safe you can secure your valuables. In case you'd bring your laptop along, you may go online via wireless Internet connection (WiFi) available at the hotel. If you wish to learn more about the exact scope of services provided by Schweizerblick Bad Säckingen (including those available for an extra fee) or about the equipment of the rooms, you can find the complete list on the information sheet below.
Payment Credit card guarantee or advance bank card payment may be required for the reservation, depending on the chosen room, date and price.
Arrival, opening hours The earliest time of check-in is 13:00, the latest time of check-out is 11:00. The personnel is at your service in English and German languages.
Schweizerblick Bad Säckingen rooms Rooms
- Please select a date to see the proper prices!
Accommodation services
Free WiFi in shared places
Relaxation: Table-tennis, Billiard, Minigolf, Bowling, Bike rental at the accommodation
Curling facility nearby, Boat rental nearby
- Wellness section, relaxation
- Indoor pool
- Steam room
- Pool (Outdoor - seasonally open)
- Finnish sauna
Pet friendly, Garden, Elevator, Safe deposit box
Own restaurant
General Policies
On Saturday and Sunday: 8:00 - 17:00


text:
|Georgia Rags, Inc
Quick Details
- Product Type: Other
- Age Group: Adults
- Place of Origin: Georgia, United States
Packaging & Delivery
|Packaging Details
|we prefer buying/selling in bales of about 1000lb, with atleast 42000lb per container. We will also buy/sell loose based on the terms agreed. We are very flexible and are looking to work on volume. Please contact us at 1-404-452-1001. Thanks.
|Delivery Time
|local shipping 1-3 business days; intl shipping 30-60 days
SpecificationsWe buy and sell Used clothing. Mixed rags & Credential clothing in untouched original bags from all over the USA.
We specialize in buying and selling bulk used clothing.
We buy mix rags(institutional clothing) & Credential clothing from all over the US.
It is then sold to graders on the border or shipped to different countries of the world.
We also buy shoes,paired & single.
Please feel free to contact us with any product you have for sale or are in need of any specialized product for a certain price in this category. Feel free to call me anytime for further questions.
Transaction History of the Supplier
Below is the information about the supplier's transactions conducted via Alibaba.com. If you require further details regarding the transaction data, please contact the supplier directly.
Transaction Overview
Export Markets
Transaction Details
This supplier has completedtransactions with buyers from .
Shipping Destination
Transaction Value
Transaction Date
Email to this supplier


text:
Item: 517090
Brand: Generac
Model: 6436
Brand: Generac
Model: 6436
Generac® OneWash™ is four power washers in one. The OneWash features the largest, most powerful engine in its class. The innovative PowerDial™ provides total control at the turn of a dial, so you can easily adjust the intensity of the spray to clean a wide range of surfaces, all with a single, easy-to-use control. This pressure washer has a automatic system protection so if the oil or water runs low, the LED System Alert activates and automatically custs power to the unit to protect it from damage. The comfort-grip handle provides for greater comfort for ease of use and the Ergonomic Inverted Trigger reduces user fatigue. Rear hose connection on the gun provides better balance and comfort, and the horizontal axial camp pump makes hose connections a snap. The drainable detergent tank enables easy flush of chemicals from the tank after each use and folding/Nesting of handle makes for compact storage.
- Pressure Rating (PSI): 2,000-3,000
- Gallons Per Minute: 2.8
- Number of Spray Tips Included: 3
- Quick Connect Tips: QuickClick™
- Detergent Tank Options: Drainable tank
- Chemical/Detergent Injection: One 3/4 gal tank
- Hose Length (ft.): 30
- Warranty: 2 Year manufacturer's limited warranty
- Wheel Type: 2.5" x 11" Never Flat
- Wheel Material: PVC
- Start Type: Manual
- Fuel Capacity (gal.): .5
- Recommended Engine Oil: SAE 30 or 10W30
- Engine Oil Capacity (oz.): 20
- Package Contents: Quart oil, soap hose, tips, fully assembled unit
- Hose Diameter (in.): 4-Jan
- Hose Material: PVC
- Nozzle Type: Quick connect
- Adjustable Wand: No
- Usage: Residential
- Engine Brand: Generac® 212cc OHV engine
- Engine Displacement (CC): 212
- Pump Type: Axial Cam
- Model Number: 6436
- Assembled Weight (lbs.): 68.5
- Assembled Size (LxWxH): 20.6" x 21" x39.5"
- Ship Dimensions (LxWxH): 22.5" x 22.5" x 22.5"


text:
The Asp.Net team shipped a preview release of Domain Data Source control with .NET RIA Services toolkit. In this post I am going to cover some of the mainline features of the control. The post assumes that you know how to create a Domain Service and hook it up with the Domain Data Source Control. You can refer to the following walkthrough to cover this pre requisite .
Where to get it and install it?
The Domain Data Source control is shipped as part of the toolkit release of .NET RIA Services toolkit. You would need to install the following to use the control.
Visual Studio 2010
Silverlight 4
What is the DomainDataSource control?
The DomainDataSource control gives Asp.NET developers the ability to use .Net RIA Services in building Asp.Net applications. It also allows you to hook your validation logic to the MetaData attributes and allows easy integrations with Roles and Authentication features of Asp.Net
Why another Data Source?
Most of you must be wondering why another one after a long list of existing data source controls like (access, sql, xml, linq, entity etc). Well the goal was to make the data source control independent of the the underlying data technology being used(Linq/EF etc) and also to make use of the RIA Services pattern for writing a business logic layer.
What do you get in the release?
1. DomainData Source control
2. Dynamic Data project templates(VB and C#) that bring together DynamicData and .NET RIA Services.
Examples of doing custom operations with the Data Source
In this post I am going to cover custom operations that you can do with the Data Source control. For this sample I am using DomainService generated against a Northwind Entity Framework model.
Custom Sorting:
The Domain Data Source controls has a property called SortParameterName which passes in the header value from the data bound control to the query method.
<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" DataSourceID="DDS" AllowSorting="True">
<asp:DomainDataSource runat="server" ID="DDS" DomainServiceTypeName="DDS_Post.SimpleDomianService"
SortParameterName="sortBy" QueryName="GetProductsCustomSorting">
public IQueryable<Product> GetProductsCustomSorting(string sortBy)
if (sortBy.Equals("CategoryID"))
return this.ObjectContext.Products.OrderBy(p => p.CategoryID);
else if(sortBy.Equals("CategoryID DESC"))
return this.ObjectContext.Products.OrderByDescending(p => p.CategoryID);
return this.ObjectContext.Products;
Custom Paging
The DDS control has properties called MaximumRowsParameterName(rows per page) and StartRowIndexParameterName(start index). The DomainService needs to have a QueryMethod defined which takes in the above 2 parameters and returns a count of the the result set.
!--crlf--><asp:DomainDataSource runat="server" ID="DDS"DomainServiceTypeName="DDS_Post.SimpleDomianService"MaximumRowsParameterName="rowsPerPage"StartRowIndexParameterName="startRow"QueryName="GetProductsCustomPaging"></asp:DomainDataSource>!--crlf-->!--crlf-->!--crlf-->!--crlf-->!--crlf-->
public IQueryable<Product> GetProductsCustomPaging(int rowsPerPage, int startRow, out int count)
count = this.ObjectContext.Products.Count();
return this.ObjectContext.Products.OrderBy(p=>p.ProductID).Skip(startRow).Take(12);
Restricting access to certain methods of Domain Service to authenticated users
For this sample to work you would have to set up authentication in your website. After setting this up you can add the RequiresAuthentication attribute on your domain service method.
public IQueryable<Product> GetProducts()
return this.ObjectContext.Products;
When an unauthenticated user tries to access the page which has the domain data source hooked with GetProducts() then Domian Service would throw an exception. As a developer of the website you would have to catch the exception in the onQueried()/OnInserted()/OnUpdated()/OnDeleted() of the data source and write your custom logic of handling the error.
protected void DDS_Queried(object sender,Microsoft.Web.UI.WebControls.DomainDataSourceQueriedEventArgs e)
var exception = e.Exception as UnauthorizedAccessException;
if (exception != null){
Restricting access to certain methods of Domain Service to users in a certain role
For this sample to work you would have to set up roles in your website. After setting this up you can add the RequiresRoles attribute on your domain service method. The RequiresRoles takes in the list of roles names that are allowed to access the domain method.
public IQueryable<Product> GetProducts()
return this.ObjectContext.Products;
When a user who is not in the roles specified in the RequireRoles() tries to access the page which has the domain data source hooked with GetProducts(), then Domian Service would throw an exception. As a developer of the website you would have to catch the exception in the onQueried()/OnInserted()/OnUpdated()/OnDeleted() of the data source and write your custom logic of handling the error.


text:
Classic Children's Songs CD-Audio
"Classic Children's Songs" is a musical celebration of classic British children's writers.
The audio CD features songs to poems by Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Hilaire Belloc, Kenneth Grahame, A.
A Milne, Walter de la Mare, J. R. R Tolkien and Spike Milligan. The songs include much-loved favourites, such as "The Owl and the Pussy-cat", "Christopher Robin is Saying His Prayers", "The Lamplighter", "They're Changing Guard at Buckingham Palace", "Henry King (Who Chewed Little Bits of String) and Granny".
The songs are performed by three of the UK's leading musicians: baritone Roderick Williams (described by BBC Music Magazine as "a national treasure"), soprano Elizabeth Atherton and planist and BBC presenter, Iain Burnside.
- Format: CD-Audio
- Publisher: Just Accord Music
- Publication Date: 01/11/2006
- Category: Music: styles & genres
Free Home Delivery
on all orders
Pick up orders
from local bookshops


text:
Alright fellow HP fans get ready to geek out on the amazing package I received from Audiana1.
First and foremost the nummies!! I got acid pops and Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans in this adorable crocheted pumpkin.
Next up Molly's favorite tea!! Perhaps it was the secret of her sanity while raising 7 kids!
Next up my very own prophecy contained in a vial in a well protected wooden box.
A letter from Atticus Flemming explaining why I got it in the first place. Here's what my prophecy was:
What you've read and what you've dreamed
You've imagined, but yet to see
The time draws near for one to live
You know his story, what he will give
Though happiness will surely come
'Tis bittersweet, when said and done
A thrill will fill you at the apex
And sadness follow: nothing comes next
Truth be told, you will be fine
As long as you open up your mind
To read those words, or watch again
It will never truly be the end.
(Which is so true! HP FOREVER <3)
A Weird Sisters shirt that Tonks herself would be jealous of.
And finely the most epicly amazing bag anyone has ever seen!!!
Everything is hand stitched!!! Amazing! Not only the wolf but all the wording. Including all the words stitched as the border and on the shoulder strap. It must have taken her tons of time and patience!
Audiana1 you are truly talented! I was so lucky to be paired with you!! My package is wonderful and I can't wait to show off everything. I had such a great experience for my first swap and can't wait to do it again! Thanks again Audiana1 for such an amazing package.


text:
We recommend upgrading to the latest Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Firefox.
If you are using IE 9 or later, make sure you turn off "Compatibility View".
Handpicked brands for you
Make a scene without being seen in the all-new @truetimbercamo collection! Available in the Dega, General and the Farrah for women. Shop now through the link in our bio. #SEEHAPPY


text:
Posted on spraying deft
3722 posts in 2047 days
#1 posted 10-03-2013 11:49 AM
I have sprayed Deft exclusively once I experienced it. It is SO easy to work, easy to handle, quick, durable and ultimately the smoothest feeling finish I have ever worked with. It's just fun.
-- Dan Krager, Olney IL http://www.kragerwoodworking.weebly.com Any contact lens that slips from the eye will acquire the ability to camouflage itself as it falls to the ground.


text:
Want to get into the fall and winter season? Then try this recipe for Cinnamon French Toast Pita and Pumpkin Hummus.This is absolutely delicious, crispy, warm, decadent and nutritious all in one. It is the perfect vegetarian, plant-based recipe to make as an appetizer for Thanksgiving or Christmas, or to just enjoy on a chilly day.
Cinnamon French Toast Pita
Organic Whole Wheat Pita bread
1 organic, free-range egg
1/5 cup almond milk
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 all spice
1/2 tablespoon coconut sugar
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
pinch of unheated sea salt
coconut butter ( I like the brand Artisana)
1. Combine all ingredients in a bowl except for the coconut butter.
2. Beat until ingredients are mixed thoroughly.
3. Cut pita in half and soak both sides in the mixture (will get a little soggy).
4. Coat a frying pan with coconut butter (usually about 1-2 tbs).
5. Place pita in the pan and cook until it starts to get brown and a little crispy, flip.
6. Serve hot.
Now that we have the pita ready to go, let's get the hummus fixed up so we have something to dip it in!
Pumpkin Hummus
1 1/2 cups of dry garbanzo (chickpea) beans or 1 BPA-free can
1 can of pumpkin puree
2-3 lemons, juiced
1/3 cup Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
1/3 cup Raw Tahini
2 tbs roasted garlic, minced
1 tsp cinnnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp all spice
1 tsp dry ginger
unheated sea salt and pepper to taste
1.Let garbanzo beans soak over night in a bowl. Drain in the morning.
2. Place garbanzo beans in a sauce pan, bring to boil with enough water to cover a couple inches.
3. Reduce heat and simmer garbanzo beans for about 1 hour or until beans are tender.
4. Once cool, put garbanzo beans and about ¼ cup of water into a food processor or high-speed blender like a Vitamix.
5. Or, If you are using canned garbanzo beans, add them plus their liquid into food processor or blender and puree until smooth.
6. Add the rest of the ingredients into the food processor or blender and mix until creamy.
7. Add salt and pepper to taste.
8. Serve with warm cinnamon french toast pita bread.


text:
On my 40 GB disk, the first 15 GB is for XP after which I have my Linux partitions. I had read that due to BIOS limitations, you cannot boot if your linux root partition begins after the 1023rd cylinder. However, Linux seems to be booting perfectly without any problems. For a change, this is not a hassle, but I want to know the reason nevertheless.
Thanks in advance.


text:
Beatles 1965 ' TICKET TO RIDE ' NEAR MINT PICTURE SLEEVE! EC VERSION
Sold for:
Start Free Trial
or Sign In to see what it's worth.
- Sold Date:
- Source: eBay
VINTAGE 1965 U.S. " TICKET TO RIDE ' PICTURE SLEEVE IN GREAT CONDITION! VINTAGE 1965 ' TICKET TO RIDE / Yes It Is ' BEATLES PICTURE SLEEVE! (Capitol 5407.) THIS ONE IS A VERY NICE NEAR MINT- EXAMPLE! THIS IS THE EAST COAST MADE VERSION OF THE SLEEVE WITH THE STRAIGHT TOP ON BOTH SIDES! NO RECORD INCLUDED. (***Will be packed securely in strong boxing to insure safe arrival.***) Payment & Shipping We accept payment via PayPal - payment should be made within 7 days of auction end. Buyer must contact me within 4 days of auction end. $6.00 Shipping to the United States $20.00 Shipping to Canada $25.00 Shipping to other select approved locations $14 First Class Mail International Note about the higher fees for my overseas customers. The post office recently implemented the highest increase in their history at about 40% and mostly affecting export shipments. To help ease this cost, I've added the First Class Mail Option. Buy With Confidence Hello to my fellow Beatles fans and collectors, and to all other music collectors! As author and co-author of eight editions of the official Beatles records and memorabilia reference/price guides since 1983, my published works on the subject of Beatles collecting have become the standard reference throughout the world. I am recognized as one of the few leading authorities on the collecting of the ... read more


text:
So unless you've been locked in a closet for the last few years, you've probably realized that homosexuality has become a fairly hot-button topic in our country. From the recent Supreme Court ruling declaring it a right for same-sex couples to marry in any state, to many people changing their avatars to rainbows on Facebook to show support, to the recent news story of Kim Davis refusing to comply with the new law, everyone seems to be talking about it and everyone seems to have an opinion.
Christians, in particular, seem to be strongly against same-sex marriage and those who are for gay marriage don't seem to understand why (and frankly it seems like a lot of Christians don't know why they're against it):
Here are some of the questions I've heard:
- Why do Christians follow some outdated moral code from an old book about strange fairy tales?
- Why don't they get up with the times? Isn't it obvious we don't live in the stone ages where your silly institution was started to protect ancestrally land rites?
- Have you even read your own book? Because it seems like your just cherry picking which verses you like and don't like.
- The Old Testament has one verse about homosexuality in Leviticus, but you don't follow anything else from that book so seems a bit inconstant to use that verse.
- If gay marriage is such a big deal, why didn't Jesus say anything about it?
- Yeah, Paul did apparently say some things about homosexuality, but isn't it quite possible the idea of a committed loving consensual homosexual relationship wasn't even known to him? Couldn't the terms he uses for homosexuality be mistranslated do to a later bias in the reading when he was maybe originally talking about something more along the lines of pedophilia or male prostitution?
- Jesus talked about Eunuchs born that way from birth, he actually could've even been referring to that born gay couldn't he have?
- Didn't Jesus talk a lot about divorce, and Christians seem to get divorced a lot, why aren't they talking about that one?
First, let me give 3 reasons I am NOT writing this post:
- I am not writing to tell those who aren't followers of Jesus how to live. Whether or not you're a follower of Jesus we can both agree that it won't be me that will be judging you when you die. If you've felt judged and experienced hatred from other Christians for your sexuality, I apologize, Jesus said he didn't come to condemn the world but to offer it salvation. I hope to have the same attitude but know I often fail and am judgmental towards others
- I am also not writing to debate the validity of the recent Supreme court ruling. If you don't believe in my God I wouldn't expect you to follow his morals. I'd rather focus on telling people how awesome Jesus is then to try and force those who aren't Christians to live like one.
- I'm not writing to debate the above questions and tell you why your questions are dumb and show you 'what the Bible really says'. I actually think they are good questions, (especially the divorce one. We most certainly are being giant hypocrites in that area). I'd rather go a bit a deeper and address the fundamental beliefs that lead to differing viewpoints because otherwise, we will just go round and round in a debate that goes nowhere. If we establish that then we can fire away at questions like the above getting into specifics.
Why I am writing:
Why I am writing, though, is to answer the question as to why. Why is homosexuality a big deal to Christians and why do we disagree with the majority of American's viewpoint that a committed consensual romantic relationship between members of the same sex is morally acceptable?
My hope is that you may disagree still, but at least you'll be able to say okay I understand why they believe what they believe.
Because what I have mostly seen is heated debates that come down to Christians saying homosexuality is wrong because the Bible says so and you should listen to the Bible and those for same-sex marriage saying well I don't believe the Bible and your rules are outdated and don't make any sense. This generally turns into an argument that goes nowhere.
Okay enough of the long introduction here's the meat of what I want to say:
The reason that Christians and the majority of Americans differ on the moral acceptability of same-sex marriage is because we fundamentally have a different understanding of what the point of sex, marriage, and family is, why they exist, and what they are for.
Although I'm sure the answer to what the meaning and purpose of sex, marriage, and family would very greatly from person, if I could broadly generalize what I understand most of those supporting same-sex marriage to believe, it would go something like this (and please feel free to correct me if I misrepresent your views):
- Marriage is primarily about love and happiness and it is when 2 consenting adults decide to express their love by committing to exclusively be in a romantic relationship with one another. Robbing someone of the right to express their love to another in marriage just because they are of the same sex is cruel and imposing your preferences onto them and not much different than discriminating against another person because they are a different skin color than you.
- Consensual sex is a way that two people can both fulfill pleasure and express love towards one another. If both people are old enough to consent and enjoy it, it doesn't hurt anyone else it doesn't make any sense why this behavior should be deemed immoral or why you should care about what other people do in their own bedroom. Sex is a personal matter and each person should be free to do as they wish as long as it's consensual.
- A family is a place where kids are raised. The goals should be to provide a safe, loving environment where they are free to become who they want to be. Families can take all kinds of shapes and forms, the important thing is that kids are getting the above things.
(Again if you support same-sex marriage and this grossly misrepresents your view on sex, marriage, or family, please feel free to let me know, I in no way shape or form mean to mock, belittle or misrepresent your views or beliefs and I'd love to better understand where you're coming from and thank you for taking the time to read this and understand where I am coming from).
Now the conclusions of most people who support same-sex marriage make a lot of sense, in my opinion, if their foundational beliefs about sex, marriage, and family are true.
However, why I as a Christian can't fully agree with the above statements about sex, marriage and family are because I have a very different understanding of what those 3 exist for and are all about.
The meaning of life:
As a Christian, I believe the purpose of my life is to know and enjoy God and to make him known. This is true in every area of life.
The Bible says that God created us to be his image bearers. What that means is that we are created like God in a way that no other part of his creation is, and we are intended to give the rest of creation a picture of what God is like.
We work and create because God works and creates. We think, feel and act because God thinks, feels and acts. We make art and tell stories because God is an artistic storyteller creating the most magnificent or art like a beautiful sunset, the Grand Canyon, Mount Everest or Niagara Falls and telling stories through lives of peoples and rulers and civilizations.
And, most fundamentally to all of who God is, is he is a loving relational God. We are created to have a relationship with him and with each other.
Our human relationships both help us know God and help to make God known.
This is why Jesus said all of God's instructions and laws can be summed up by this: love God and love your neighbor as yourself. Relationships are (or should be) at the top of what is most important to Christians (first with God than with one another).
God's Purpose for Creation:
In his book, From Eternity to Here, b y Frank Viola, he tackles the question of what God's eternal purposes were for creating the world and creating us people.
2 of the reason he identifies for God's purposes in creation are this:
1)God wanted a bride for his son
2)God wanted children for his family
If this is true, we could say that marriage and family are the 2 most important types of relationship to God then because they are all about who He is and why he created us. Let me try and explain:
The apostle Paul wrote the following (which may sound odd and cryptic but hang with me for a bit) in his letter to the Ephesians:
This mystery [marriage] is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. (Ephesians 5:32 ESV)
What he is saying here is that marriage is a picture of the relationship that Jesus has with his covenant people (the church). Jesus is the husband and the church is his bride.
Through marriage, we both get to reflect (you could think of that as acting out who God is) and understand who God is and how we relate to him.
You see God created us to be in a deep committed loving relationship with him like a husband and a wife. He promises to be faithful to us and asks us to be faithful to him by loving him and putting him above all else.
We, however, have not been faithful to our side. We rebel against Him and worship created things rather than the creator.
There's a story in the Old Testament about a prophet named Hosea. God calls Hosea to marry a prostitute named Gomer. He tells him that Gomer is going to keep whoring herself out to other men but he wants Hosea to view her as a princess and to keep loving her, chasing after her and winning her over until she will become a faithful bride to him.
That story is really about Jesus and us. We keep running away and prostituting ourselves after other gods who are not gods but he keeps loving us and pursuing us as he seeks to woo us back to him.
He wanted us as his bride so much so that he came down and took on human flesh in the person of Jesus. Yet instead of receiving him, we crucified him.
Any guy that's asked a girl out or proposed to a girl and been turned down knows how bad rejection hurts, in fact, the fear of rejection alone paralyzes a lot of us guys from even approaching girls we like. Do you know Jesus knows more than anyone the pain of that type of rejection?
Yet death couldn't stop him, he rose from the dead and offers us forgiveness and new life in him. When we turn from our rebellion and trust in him, he makes us a new creation, cleansing us so that we can be a pure virgin bride to him.
Before Jesus left the earth he commanded his followers to practice something called communion where we share a meal together, break bread, and drink a cup of wine. The bread and wine remind us of his body and blood that was ahead on the cross for us. But it also represents his marriage proposal to us.
In ancient Jewish culture, if you were going to ask to marry a woman you would go the bride's house after talking with her parents and offer her a glass of wine. If she accepted the glass of wine it meant she was accepting your proposal.
This is what is being referred to in this verse in Revelations:
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me." Revelations 3:20
You can read more here if you're curious, but the entire Jewish wedding tradition from proposal to the wedding ceremony was completely acted out by Jesus in his death, resurrection, and return, and heaven is often compared to a giant wedding banquet in the Bible.
This is why men propose to women and not women to men because it is Jesus who proposed to us in the cross, not the other way around. He initiates and we respond.
I heard a pastor named Doug Wilson says that ever Saturday night he has a family dinner and asks his kids what's the story of the Bible all about, and they respond "kill the dragon, get the girl."
This is why our hearts resonate so much with the great love stories about Prince Charming coming and slaying the dragging and rescuing the princess. (You didn't realize that Zelda and Super Mario Bros were actually Christian video games did you!)
Through us, God wants to tell a beautiful love story. God doesn't want us for a one night stand, he doesn't want us to be his friend with benefits, he doesn't want us just while we're both experiencing euphoric highs of romance and then we can be free to pursue someone else when that wears off, he doesn't want us whoring ourselves out to other men, and God loves animals but isn't offering this type of intimate relationship to them. No God is jealous for us and won't settle for anything less than an intimate committed relationship.
This then, is why I believe all sexual relationship outside of a man and a woman in a marriage relationship is wrong, whether it be a man and a woman not married, two men or 2 women married, polygamy, or something as perverted as bestiality, because it misrepresents who God is and how he loves us, and through it we rob ourselves of knowing him deeper.
So for Christians, marriage isn't a right, it's a privilege and a calling. It's a privileged to display to the world who God is. To play out the love story that has been in process since the beginning of the creation of God wooing and winning over his bride. It's an opportunity to know God and make him known. It's not primarily about getting our individual needs of love and happiness met, although those things get thrown in as bonuses if we don't let them be our main focus.
And despite how much the church has talked about sex like it's something dirty and gross and exclusively for making babies, it's actually meant to be something deeply spiritual and helps us understand the deep joy and pleasures of our spirit fellowshipping with God's Spirit when we are in a loving committed relationship with God. It's meant to bring oneness and unity to a husband a wife. There's actually an entire book in the Bible called Song of Solomon all about sex that Jewish boys weren't even allowed to read until they were 13. So for Christians, we don't save sex for marriage because we think it's gross, we save it for marriage because we think it's something divine that needs to be protected and used in the proper context.
Now I'll just touch briefly on the family because I talked a lot about marriage and you probably already have the gist, but to a Christian God also reveals himself to us as a father and we are his children and God wants a big family with lots of children.
This is why Christians value (or at least should) value children and large families. It's why we believe in role distinctions in marriage. It has nothing to do with one gender being better than another it's all about who God is and knowing him and making him known and playing our part in His epic story.
Why Then Does God Make People Have Homosexual Desires?
Okay that sounds all good and nice you might say, but why then would God create me or others to be attracted to people of the opposite sex. What kinda god would be so cruel to create people to have desires then tell them there wrong?
Well, this was never his intention. Our first parents, Adam and Eve, had a choice to live by God's life or live apart from God, sadly they listened to the lies of Satan (the dragon) and chose to live our lives apart from God rather than by his life. It leads the human race to be filled with all kinds of desires in us that are wrong and we, as a result, don't reflect God the way we were intended too.
I never have experienced sexual attraction to another man, but I do experience desires and thoughts about women that aren't my wife, and before coming to Christ was a porn addict that treated women like an object to fulfill my sexual fantasy rather than children of God. That's just as wrong and distorts who God is as any other sexual sin.
You can think of sin kinda like darkness. You don't really create darkness, it's just the absence of light. Sinful desires aren't from God they come from the absence of God. Without God's life inside of us we get all kinds of desires that aren't of God, be it homosexuality, lust, greed, bitterness, covertness or any other sinful desire.
But God doesn't see us for that. He see us for the beautiful bride he created us to be, and he sent his Son to die on the cross to forgive our sins. And when we repent (turn from living apart from him and again live for him) and believe he then sends his Spirit to come live inside us. God makes his residence inside us again and our desires begin being transformed into His image so we can perfectly image Him as we were created to.
I can tell you first hand it's not a fairy tale, I've experienced it in my life. I don't have the same desires I once had. When I gave my life to him, he came into to me and my desires changed drastically.
And although this side of heaven we will always continue to struggle with sinful desires, if we trust in him and accept his marriage proposal. though, one day he will come back, slay the dragon once and for all and take us back to his castle to live happily ever after.


text:
Zimbabwe: Catholic bishops condemn Mugabe government
Leaders of the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe have condemned the "frightening" corruption, lawlessness and abuse of power of Mugabe's government. In an Easter pastoral letter, the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Conference said Mugabe had "failed to provide leadership that enables the creation of an environment that enhances truth, justice, love and freedom". Instead, they said, most Zimbabweans were "drowning in abject poverty", "suffering social and political violence" and being harassed by officials who "have placed themselves above the law". The bishops expressed outrage over the regime's practice of demanding that people in famine relief queues produce party cards before receiving food. "People's lives are at stake and the nation cannot afford to entertain the politicisation of food while people are starving," the bishops said. The government's "corrupt practices, poor planning and bureaucracy" were largely to blame for the famine, which is affecting seven million people. While Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo has consistently spoken out against Mugabe - until now most other Catholic bishops have said little about the human rights abuses of the government in Zimbabwe. Mugabe often attends Mass and could claim that the Catholic church supported him. In January, 260 Catholic priests denounced most of the Catholic bishops for "compromise with an evil regime". The bishops' statement endorses damning reports in the past week by the Commonwealth secretariat and the US State Department calling for "meaningful dialogue" and for "a balanced constitution that removes unjust structures". Both echo demands from civil society organisations and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. On Tuesday, Mugabe's government announced that a meeting was being planned to consider declaring Archbishop Patrick Chakaipa, the head of the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe, who died last week, a 'national hero'. Such a decision would be an embarrassment to the church. The Archbishop supressed a report by the Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe on the massacre of about 10,000 civilians in the western provinces of Matebeleland in the early 1980s. A close friend of Mugabe, he also succeeded in getting him a special dispensation from his first marriage and solemnised his marriage to his second wife. She already had two children by him while his first wife was alive. Archbishop Chakaipa was Zimbabwe's first black bishop. He was consecrated in 1973 and blessed Zimbabwe's new flag at the country's Indepdence ceremony in 1980. Source: NewsAfrica/CISA


text:
Check bookscouter.com to find out which online book buyer is paying the highest price, or list your books on half.com. Sell older books at your next yard sale.

Other options: used book stores, eBay

Sort out your best clothes, and sell them to a consignment store, at a consignment sale or through Ebay. Group the rest into lots, and post an ad on Craigslist or in your local classifieds. Sell anything you have left in a yard sale.

Another Option: List vintage pieces on etsy.com

Sell pieces of exceptional quality on consignment or at auction. List good quality pieces on Craigslist or in the newspaper classifieds. Sell everything else in a yard sale.

Sell your best pieces on consignment or at auction (online or off). List the rest on Craigslist or in the newspaper classifieds. If they don't sell, try an antique dealer.

Sell lightly used sports equipment to a used sports shop like Play It Again Sports or post sales flyers where your child/you go for practice. Sell all remaining items to a pawn shop, through Craigslist or through your local classifieds.

Sell newer electronic items on Ebay, through Craigslist, or through the classified section of your local newspaper. Sell old (but still useable) items through Craigslist, a classified ad or a yard sale. Sell obsolete or broken electronics through eBay (when there's a market for them), or look into recycling them through Best Buy or another retailer.

Sell newer releases on Craigslist, through a classified or on Ebay. List everything else on Half.com or sell them through a site that buys used media. Secondspin.com is one to try.

Another Option: GameStop

Sell highly-sought-after items on Ebay, on consignment, through Craigslist or through a classified. Sell everything else in a yard sale.

List working appliances on Craigslist or in the newspaper. Sell broken appliances to a recycling center for scrap, or part them out on eBay.

Have antique and good quality pieces appraised. Then, sell them at auction, through Ebay or to a dealer. Sell lesser pieces on consignment or through Ebay. Sell junk jewelry to a jewelry store for the scrap value. Sell low-end costume jewelry at your next yard sale.

Contact the band directors at area middle schools and high schools to let them know you have an instrument for sale. If that fails, advertise on Craigslist or through a classified ad. Sell your instrument to a music shop or pawn shop as a last resort.