The bed bugs are coming in on the clothing as these countries do not consider them a problem.
"He recommends that if you buy any new clothing, even underwear and socks, sheets, towels, etc. that you bring them into the house and put them in your clothes dryer for at least 20 minutes. The heat will kill them and their eggs. DO NOT PURCHASE CLOTHES AND HANG THEM IN THE CLOSET FIRST.
It does not matter what the price range is of the clothing, or if the outfit comes from the most expensive store known in the U.S. They still get shipments from these countries and the bugs can come in a box of scarves or anything else for that matter. That is the reason why so many stores, many of them clothing stores have had to shut it down in NYC and other places. All you need is to bring one item into the house that has bugs or eggs and you will go to heck and back (sic) trying to get rid of them. He travels all over the country as an advisor to many of these stores, as prevention and after they have the problem."
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Pakistani Muslims rape Christian Girls with Impunity. This is a global trend, even in Europe.
Already, Christians in Pakistan routinely face situations that ought to cause global outcry. On July 22 in the Rawalpindi district, seven students from the Jamia Islamia Madrassa gang-raped a 12-year old girl while their classmates looked on, shouting “We will teach these Christians a lesson they will never forget.” The day before, in Farooqabad, three men raped a 16-year old girl, the daughter of their Christian co-worker. When the girl’s father tried to file a complaint with the police, he was attacked by angry Muslims and tortured.
“Muslim landowners and their relatives see Christian girls or women as their chattel,” lamented the national director of the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement. He told Compass Direct News, “Such vicious incidents are not being stopped…day by day the rate of rapes of Christian girls is escalating instead of plunging.”
Same situation in Nigeria, Turkey, France ( if girl wanders into Muslim neighborhood) and in almost every other Muslim nation on earth. So much for a "religion of peace".
“Muslim landowners and their relatives see Christian girls or women as their chattel,” lamented the national director of the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement. He told Compass Direct News, “Such vicious incidents are not being stopped…day by day the rate of rapes of Christian girls is escalating instead of plunging.”
Same situation in Nigeria, Turkey, France ( if girl wanders into Muslim neighborhood) and in almost every other Muslim nation on earth. So much for a "religion of peace".
Thursday, July 22, 2010
YOU can Write a Book Webinar, July 10th at 9 PM East Coast Time, USA
Subject: Is it really possible?
=======================================
You can write a book. No, I mean it. You really can!
Like most everything else, you must know the secrets.
In fact, people are writing complete books in days or weeks,
and having the finished published copies in their hands
in a month or less!
Few people can provide those secrets for you as can my friend,
best-selling author, conference speaker and writing coach,
Eddie Smith. Eddie and his wife Alice have written and/or
co-written 18 books. One of their books, "Spiritual Housecleaning"
was number two on the Top 100 Christian Books list, behind
Purpose Drive Life for six months in 2004!
Eddie has taught hundreds of students in his private seminars
during the past three years. He's taught two of these for
Lakewood Church, in Houston, Texas where he lives.
Dozens of his seminar graduates have already written their
first books and are published; and some have written two or more!
If you don't have the tools and know the secrets Eddie teaches,
you could waste a lot of time and effort. He'll explain why he
never writes a book before he sells it; why he never outlines a
book before he writes it; and why he never researches a book
until he's finished it.
Great news! Eddie has agreed to teach a private, "f~r~e~e",
90-minute webinar for my subscriber base--that includes you!
Don't miss this unique Internet experience.
What is a webinar? A webinar is a seminar on the worldwide
web. You watch it on your computer monitor and listen with
your computer speakers or headphones. There's no file or
program to download. Just show up, with pencil and paper
in hand.
Eddie promises to share solid, fresh, information for you that
you've never heard and will never hear anywhere else! He will
offer an extended Q&A time at the end, so have your questions
on hand. And he has another major surprise that he'll announce
during the webinar. So....
Save the date! Mark your calendar! Set your alarm!
"How To Write A Book" Webinar
With best-selling author and writing coach, Eddie Smith
Tuesday, August 10th, 9:00PM Eastern
http://www.EddieSmith.tv
Eddie and I will see you there! I assure you, we're in for a treat.
=======================================
You can write a book. No, I mean it. You really can!
Like most everything else, you must know the secrets.
In fact, people are writing complete books in days or weeks,
and having the finished published copies in their hands
in a month or less!
Few people can provide those secrets for you as can my friend,
best-selling author, conference speaker and writing coach,
Eddie Smith. Eddie and his wife Alice have written and/or
co-written 18 books. One of their books, "Spiritual Housecleaning"
was number two on the Top 100 Christian Books list, behind
Purpose Drive Life for six months in 2004!
Eddie has taught hundreds of students in his private seminars
during the past three years. He's taught two of these for
Lakewood Church, in Houston, Texas where he lives.
Dozens of his seminar graduates have already written their
first books and are published; and some have written two or more!
If you don't have the tools and know the secrets Eddie teaches,
you could waste a lot of time and effort. He'll explain why he
never writes a book before he sells it; why he never outlines a
book before he writes it; and why he never researches a book
until he's finished it.
Great news! Eddie has agreed to teach a private, "f~r~e~e",
90-minute webinar for my subscriber base--that includes you!
Don't miss this unique Internet experience.
What is a webinar? A webinar is a seminar on the worldwide
web. You watch it on your computer monitor and listen with
your computer speakers or headphones. There's no file or
program to download. Just show up, with pencil and paper
in hand.
Eddie promises to share solid, fresh, information for you that
you've never heard and will never hear anywhere else! He will
offer an extended Q&A time at the end, so have your questions
on hand. And he has another major surprise that he'll announce
during the webinar. So....
Save the date! Mark your calendar! Set your alarm!
"How To Write A Book" Webinar
With best-selling author and writing coach, Eddie Smith
Tuesday, August 10th, 9:00PM Eastern
http://www.EddieSmith.tv
Eddie and I will see you there! I assure you, we're in for a treat.
Friday, July 16, 2010
DAVID WILKERSON Predicts Calamity on America ( Written in 2009)
March 23, 2009
I am compelled by the Holy Spirit to send out an urgent message to all on our mailing list, and to friends and to bishops we have met all over the world.
AN EARTH-SHATTERING CALAMITY IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. IT IS GOING TO BE SO FRIGHTENING, WE ARE ALL GOING TO TREMBLE — EVEN THE GODLIEST AMONG US.
For ten years I have been warning about a thousand fires coming to New York City. It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America will experience riots and blazing fires — such as we saw in Watts, Los Angeles, years ago.
There will be riots and fires in cities worldwide. There will be looting — including Times Square, New York City. What we are experiencing now is not a recession, not even a depression. We are under God’s wrath. In Psalm 11 it is written,
“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (v. 3).
God is judging the raging sins of America and the nations. He is destroying the secular foundations.
The prophet Jeremiah pleaded with wicked Israel, “God is fashioning a calamity against you and devising a plan against you. Oh turn back each of you from your evil way, and reform your ways and deeds. But they will say, It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart” (Jeremiah 18:11–12).
In Psalm 11:6, David warns, “Upon the wicked he will rain snares (coals of fire)…fire…burning wind…will be the portion of their cup.” Why? David answered, “Because the Lord is righteous” (v. 7). This is a righteous judgment — just as in the judgments of Sodom and in Noah’s generation.
WHAT SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS DO? WHAT ABOUT GOD’S PEOPLE?
First, I give you a practical word I received for my own direction. Lay in store a thirty-day supply of food, toiletries and other essentials. In major cities, grocery stores are emptied in an hour at the sign of an impending disaster.
As for our spiritual reaction, we have but two options. This is outlined in Psalm 11. We “flee like a bird to a mountain.” Or, as David says, “He fixed his eyes on the Lord on his throne in heaven — his eyes beholding, his eyelids testing the sons of men” (v. 4). “In the Lord I take refuge” (v. 1).
I will say to my soul: No need to run…no need to hide. This is God’s righteous work. I will behold our Lord on his throne, with his eye of tender, loving kindness watching over every step I take — trusting that he will deliver his people even through floods, fires, calamities, tests, trials of all kinds.
Note: I do not know when these things will come to pass, but I know it is not far off. I have unburdened my soul to you. Do with the message as you choose.
God bless and keep you.
In Christ,
DAVID WILKERSON
I am compelled by the Holy Spirit to send out an urgent message to all on our mailing list, and to friends and to bishops we have met all over the world.
AN EARTH-SHATTERING CALAMITY IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. IT IS GOING TO BE SO FRIGHTENING, WE ARE ALL GOING TO TREMBLE — EVEN THE GODLIEST AMONG US.
For ten years I have been warning about a thousand fires coming to New York City. It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America will experience riots and blazing fires — such as we saw in Watts, Los Angeles, years ago.
There will be riots and fires in cities worldwide. There will be looting — including Times Square, New York City. What we are experiencing now is not a recession, not even a depression. We are under God’s wrath. In Psalm 11 it is written,
“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (v. 3).
God is judging the raging sins of America and the nations. He is destroying the secular foundations.
The prophet Jeremiah pleaded with wicked Israel, “God is fashioning a calamity against you and devising a plan against you. Oh turn back each of you from your evil way, and reform your ways and deeds. But they will say, It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart” (Jeremiah 18:11–12).
In Psalm 11:6, David warns, “Upon the wicked he will rain snares (coals of fire)…fire…burning wind…will be the portion of their cup.” Why? David answered, “Because the Lord is righteous” (v. 7). This is a righteous judgment — just as in the judgments of Sodom and in Noah’s generation.
WHAT SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS DO? WHAT ABOUT GOD’S PEOPLE?
First, I give you a practical word I received for my own direction. Lay in store a thirty-day supply of food, toiletries and other essentials. In major cities, grocery stores are emptied in an hour at the sign of an impending disaster.
As for our spiritual reaction, we have but two options. This is outlined in Psalm 11. We “flee like a bird to a mountain.” Or, as David says, “He fixed his eyes on the Lord on his throne in heaven — his eyes beholding, his eyelids testing the sons of men” (v. 4). “In the Lord I take refuge” (v. 1).
I will say to my soul: No need to run…no need to hide. This is God’s righteous work. I will behold our Lord on his throne, with his eye of tender, loving kindness watching over every step I take — trusting that he will deliver his people even through floods, fires, calamities, tests, trials of all kinds.
Note: I do not know when these things will come to pass, but I know it is not far off. I have unburdened my soul to you. Do with the message as you choose.
God bless and keep you.
In Christ,
DAVID WILKERSON
Friday, June 18, 2010
Cry from Kyrgyzstan
Cry from Kyrgyzstan
We are in the epicenter of war (the city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan).
Something terrible and inconceivable is going on here! It’s amazing that the mass media don’t report even one tenths of what’s really happening here. It’s an ethnic cleansing, if it’s possible to say so. Many Uzbek settlements have been burnt to ashes. People are being slaughtered in whole families. There are many women and children, piles of dead bodies and wounded people in the streets who receive no help at all. The groups of young Kyrgyz people who are drunk or under drugs are wandering around the city with the guns, killing and burning everything on their way.
This whole situation has a political underpinning. This inner national conflict has been growing for a long time now and someone used it knowingly to attain their end. I think this is the reason why the government stands idle or keeps silent about what’s going on. It seems that this negligence is deliberate and planned.
Sergey, my son-in-law, went home at his own risk to get something to eat. There was a wounded old man lying in the street dying. Sergey tried to help him and turned him over to his back. At the same moment, a crowd of young people came running and they started beating up the old man with their feet. One of them said, “He is a Kyrgyz!”, the other said, “No, he is an Uzbek! Let’s burn him!” When Sergey was coming back, the old man was dead and all burnt.
Officially, there was issued a decree that the initiators of conflicts should be shot to kill but no one complies with this order. The violence continues!!!! The helicopters are in the sky only for show. And the cars with the flashing lights are out also only for show. There are no dynamic actions from the law-enforcement authorities. A militant group invaded a military base not far from our house today. There are guns, helicopters and armored vehicles on this base. They had so much weapons before (I don’t even know how ordinary people who are just having a conflict with each other, can have so much weapons). Now they have even more guns and also military equipment.
You should also add to all of this the fact that we can’t bye any food products and there is a real threat of hunger when the little food stock that we have is over. People say that the humanitarian loads of food and medicines are coming but it’s only a drop in an ocean. They brought us some bread now but they are not giving it to Russians for some season.
We don’t’ need the humanitarian aid! We just want to live! Why do all of the Russian news show that the situation is stabilized whereas everything has become even worse? There is only one answer to this question – someone doesn’t want other people to know about it. My aim is to share as much information as possible in order to attract the world’s attention to what’s going on here. We are afraid to be left alone, face to face with our own grief!!! The fact that the little remains of the Russian people are not involved in the conflict is only the matter of time. These people have felt the taste of blood, freedom and impunity. We have a serious fear for our lives. To say better, we are feeling a constant animal fear. Please, share this information with as more people as possible at all possible forums and web-sites. This is our cry for help – the cry of despair! Please, let’s be praying!!!!!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Tax Free Emergency Supplies this week: From May 25 through May 31
Virginia Department of Emergency Management
10501 Trade Court, Richmond, VA 23236
CONTACT: Laura Southard (804) 897-6510
laura.southard@vdem.virginia.gov
FOR RELEASE AT WILL - May 24, 2010
Atlantic low-pressure system has potential to become tropical storm
Virginians should take this opportunity to prepare for hurricane season
RICHMOND, VA -- A storm system now approaching the U.S. east coast has the potential to become a tropical storm and serves as a reminder to Virginia residents that the Virginia Hurricane Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday starting tomorrow can help them get ready for hurricane season while saving money.
Hurricane season formally begins June 1, and the General Assembly created the sales tax holiday to ease the cost of creating an emergency supply kit. From May 25 through May 31, the purchase of certain items is exempt from sales tax. Some retailers also are discounting items that are exempt from sales tax for additional savings. Customers can use manufacturer's coupons to lower the price of an item even more.
Among the items exempt from sales tax are: bottled water of all sizes and types, flashlights, battery-powered radios, batteries and first aid kits. Frequently asked questions about the tax holiday, a media kit and links to the Virginia Department of Taxation's complete list of tax-exempt items are available at this link.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Episcopal Church's Diocese's appeals April 13
VIRGINIA: State Supreme Court will hear Episcopal Church's, diocese's appeals April 13
By Mary Frances Schjonberg, March 30, 2010
[Episcopal News Service] The Supreme Court of Virginia has told the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia and the Episcopal Church that it will hear arguments April 13 in two cases concerning church property, according to the diocese.
Both the diocese and the Episcopal Church had asked the court nearly a year ago to review a Fairfax County Court judge's rulings in a series of church property lawsuits.
The appeal is based on a number of grounds, including a challenge to the constitutionality of Virginia's one-of-a-kind "Division Statute" (Section 57-9(A)), which dates to the Civil War and is triggered when there is a so-called "division" of a church or religious society, as well as the rulings of the circuit court in applying the law. The county judge's ruling has allowed former Episcopalians to claim Episcopal Church property as their own.
The litigation involves nine Episcopal parishes of the diocese which the majority of members and clergy left to form congregations of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA). The case originally involved members of 11 congregations of the Virginia diocese who left the Episcopal Church to form CANA congregations. The departing members of nine of those congregations then filed claims to parish property under the Division Statute.
The diocese and the Episcopal Church in September 2008 reached a legal settlement with two of the original 11 congregations, Potomac Falls Church in Potomac Falls and Christ the Redeemer Church in Chantilly, neither of which held any real property.
Judge Randy Bellows had previously ruled that the Division Statute applied to the case and overrode the Episcopal Church's and diocese's claims to the property. He also rejected the contention of the diocese and the Episcopal Church that his application of the law was unconstitutional.
The Virginia diocese and the Episcopal Church have opposed the congregations' claims and asked the courts to declare that the property must be held and used for the mission of the Episcopal Church and the diocese.
More information about the cases, including the Supreme Court filings, is available here.
The diocese said March 29 that it had asked the Supreme Court special arrangements to accommodate overflow seating for the April 13 hearing.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, located next to the Supreme Court building in Richmond, "has offered to serve as a gathering space for those who would like to come together as a community and spend time in prayer and fellowship" on April 13, the diocese's news release said.
-- The Rev. Mary Frances Schjonberg is a national correspondent for the Episcopal News Service and Episcopal News Monthly editor.
By Mary Frances Schjonberg, March 30, 2010
[Episcopal News Service] The Supreme Court of Virginia has told the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia and the Episcopal Church that it will hear arguments April 13 in two cases concerning church property, according to the diocese.
Both the diocese and the Episcopal Church had asked the court nearly a year ago to review a Fairfax County Court judge's rulings in a series of church property lawsuits.
The appeal is based on a number of grounds, including a challenge to the constitutionality of Virginia's one-of-a-kind "Division Statute" (Section 57-9(A)), which dates to the Civil War and is triggered when there is a so-called "division" of a church or religious society, as well as the rulings of the circuit court in applying the law. The county judge's ruling has allowed former Episcopalians to claim Episcopal Church property as their own.
The litigation involves nine Episcopal parishes of the diocese which the majority of members and clergy left to form congregations of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA). The case originally involved members of 11 congregations of the Virginia diocese who left the Episcopal Church to form CANA congregations. The departing members of nine of those congregations then filed claims to parish property under the Division Statute.
The diocese and the Episcopal Church in September 2008 reached a legal settlement with two of the original 11 congregations, Potomac Falls Church in Potomac Falls and Christ the Redeemer Church in Chantilly, neither of which held any real property.
Judge Randy Bellows had previously ruled that the Division Statute applied to the case and overrode the Episcopal Church's and diocese's claims to the property. He also rejected the contention of the diocese and the Episcopal Church that his application of the law was unconstitutional.
The Virginia diocese and the Episcopal Church have opposed the congregations' claims and asked the courts to declare that the property must be held and used for the mission of the Episcopal Church and the diocese.
More information about the cases, including the Supreme Court filings, is available here.
The diocese said March 29 that it had asked the Supreme Court special arrangements to accommodate overflow seating for the April 13 hearing.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, located next to the Supreme Court building in Richmond, "has offered to serve as a gathering space for those who would like to come together as a community and spend time in prayer and fellowship" on April 13, the diocese's news release said.
-- The Rev. Mary Frances Schjonberg is a national correspondent for the Episcopal News Service and Episcopal News Monthly editor.
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