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Called By God " I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: ’Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?’ Then I said, ’Here am I! Send me’ " —Isaiah 6:8 God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude. "Many are called, but few are chosen" (...

More than a decade after promising to end the practice, the University of California has given several top administrators lengthy paid leaves when they stepped down. In the past 13 months alone, at least three senior managers have received paid furloughs at their executive salaries before returning to teaching. Former UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berdahl received a 13 1/2-month leave at $315,600 a year. Former Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Directory Charles Shank is finishing a yearlong leave, during which he has earned $336,000. And Wednesday, UC said former Provost M.R.C. Greenwood had begun a 15-month leave with a $301,840 annual...

Illegal Alien Bill Called Discriminatory Bill Goes Before Senate Committee Thursday UPDATED: 7:58 pm CST December 13, 2005 MADISON, Wis. -- At the state Capitol more than 1,000 people are fighting against a bill that cracks down on illegal immigrants. Right now, illegal aliens can get a driver's license in Wisconsin. The pending legislation is trying to stop the practice in order to prevent terrorists from using the loophole. The bill already passed in the Assembly, and will go before a Senate committee on Thursday. Many people in the Latin community say the proposed bill is discriminatory. "I think the...

Heat May Have Killed Second Farm WorkerUPDATED: 11:10 am EDT July 26, 2005 ROXBORO, N.C. -- A migrant farm worker who was found dead near a Person County soybean field died of heart attack or heat stroke, the county sheriff said Tuesday. Pablo Ordaz was working at the Walker Farm, a tobacco and grain farm in Olive Hill, on Tuesday when he said he wanted to quit for the day because he didn't feel well, Person County Sheriff Dennis Oakley said. Ordaz left the farm and was last seen walking toward a mobile home at the farm. He never returned...

Sen. Clinton's former aide could be used against her By Kenneth R. Bazinet New York Daily News WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton isn't on trial in Los Angeles on Tuesday - but as far as her political adversaries are concerned, she may as well be. Her former finance director David Rosen has been charged with concealing the real cost of a star-studded Hollywood fund-raiser for Clinton in August 2000 - and if he's convicted, her enemies plan to exploit it to the maximum. ''If it was any other senator, it might not be an issue, but with her past it will...

Mystery surrounds costly spy programWASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress' new blueprint for U.S. intelligence spending includes a mysterious and expensive spy program that drew extraordinary criticism from leading Democrats, with one saying the highly classified project is a threat to national security.In an unusual rebuke, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, complained Wednesday that the spy project was "totally unjustified and very, very wasteful and dangerous to the national security." He called the program "stunningly expensive."Rockefeller and three other Democratic senators -- Richard Durbin, Carl Levin and Ron Wyden -- refused to sign the congressional compromise...

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Seattleites aren't going to pot — or jail — since voters passed I-75, the initiative that made marijuana the city's lowest law-enforcement priority. The number of people prosecuted for pot possession has plummeted, and despite predictions of naysayers, there is no evidence of widespread public pot consumption as a result of the measure, which voters approved last year. To Dominic Holden, spokesman for the I-75 campaign, that means Hempfest this weekend will likely be more fragrant than last year, as attendees at the annual pro-pot event will have yet another reason to whoop it up — and light up. Approved...

<p>No one is held accountable for budget overruns at the state Department of Corrections, which has already overspent its nearly $6 billion budget by more than $500 million this year, Department of Finance officials said Thursday.</p> <p>The troubled department, which has blown its budget every year since 1998, has been allocated far less than it needs to cover pay raises for correctional officers and mandatory policy changes that require more staff, said James Tilton, the Finance Department official in charge of the corrections budget.</p>

<p>SAN JOSE - In his final speech before Monday's inaugural, Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger told several hundred business leaders Friday night that the state's economy will not recover unless Silicon Valley's high technology-based economy does.</p> <p>Earlier in the day, the Republican governor-to-be also announced he would name a top aide in the administration of former Gov. Pete Wilson to the state's top health and human services post.</p>

5A. WHAT HAPPENED TO ME THE MOMENT I WAS SAVED? 1B. I became a child of God (John 1:12; 1 John 3:1-2). In 1 John 3:10 we learn that there are two groups of people: (1) children of ___________ and (2) children of _____________________ Read 1 John 3:12 and Genesis 4:1-8. Would you say that Cain was a child of God or a child of Satan? ______________________________ In John chapter 8 we read about the conversation between Jesus and the Pharisees (the religious leaders of the Jews). What did these men seek to do to Christ (verse 37)? ____________________________Who did...

It started with the mind-numbing reading of a 200-page pension overhaul bill, erupted into a remarkably bitter name-calling match between House Republicans and Democrats, and ended with a GOP lawmaker summoning Capitol Police to evict an outraged gaggle of Democratic colleagues from a congressional library. Ultimately, nobody was assaulted or arrested. But the brouhaha that exploded yesterday morning in the Ways and Means Committee marked the most bitterly partisan spat thus far in the 108th Congress, a place already known for unusually angry relations between the Republican majority and the Democratic minority, especially in the House. The Longworth building showdown...

Predestination: Are You Just a Pawn? Is every detail of your life already mapped out in advance? Are you just a preprogrammed figure in a cosmic game of chess, being moved from square to square by irresistible destiny? The truth may surprise you. by Tom Robinson Many individuals and groups think that everything that happens in life is inevitable and unavoidable. They believe that fate—the supposed force, principle or power that predetermines events —rules throughout the universe. A number even hold that a Supreme Being, the Creator God, is the author and controller of such fate. On the other hand,...

SEN. JOHN KERRY, D-Mass., was looking a little glum Tuesday night. Last week Kerry gave a speech saying: "Mr. President, do not rush to war!" Rush to war? We've been talking about this war for a year. It's been three months since Kerry duly recorded his vote in favor of forcibly removing Saddam Hussein. In 1991, Kerry voted against the Gulf War, saying the country was "not yet ready for what it will witness and bear if we go to war." Having been taunted for that vote and that prediction ever since, this time Kerry made sure to vote in...