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And presided over by a force so inherently evil as to terrify beyond all understanding, on contact! And without question that evil is abroad and spewing its mindless hate in our world, using who and what it can to trump our better angels? |
@progressive pat so you want to live under a theocrazy - like the taliban only a christian one and you think it would end well do you. We got to this point for a reason. |
@cobber, good point bro. Just seems like there's a lot of debt, gambling and divorces at the moment, and that's just in the Christian community lol. |
IN ''SINS OF the Father,'' at 8 p.m. Sunday on NBC-Ch. 5, a young lawyer on her second day at work takes off on a business trip with the head of her law firm. Kaboom! They`re in bed. A week later, she meets the guy`s son. Kaboom! They`re in bed. In TV terms, that means either trouble or a promotion to head of the tryst... |
Geez, what`s a girl to do? As NBC puts it: ''Torn between father and son, Kevan struggles with her values and ambitions before making a decision that affects each member of the unlikely triangle.'' The finale comes just in time. Along with the usual problems of beginning a new career, she has started to hyperventilate ... |
(''Eight Is Enough'') as her mother and craggy James Coburn as ''powerful, dashing attorney'' Frank Murchison. |
''Dashing'' is the operative word here. This crowd sees clients, cuts deals, does research, dashes around Los Angeles, entertains, makes love, fixes breakfast, schmoozes and gets back downtown by 9 a.m., pressed and ready for the next day`s workload. |
LaSalle Street operatives might raise a few eyebrows at the office hanky- panky and Coburn`s choice of language (''Touche, baby'') when he is outwitted by his ingenue staffer. But they`ll have to be impressed by one aspect of this grappling drama: efficient time-scheduling. |
It seems like artificial intelligence is everywhere these days - in our homes, in our cars, in our offices, and of course online. Government decisions, too, are being outsourced to computer code. |
i am afraid very soon there will not be ANY human to answer your call to a call centre ! |
Somewhere in the long list of topics that are relevant to astrobiology is the question of âEUR~intelligenceâEUR(TM). Is human-like, technological intelligence likely to be common across the universe? |
When UW-Eau Claire students go to the polls for the spring Student Senate elections starting April 15, they will have a choice to make for the first time in four years between two tickets for Eau Claire Student Body President and Vice President. |
The two tickets are Bryan Larson and Jason Rector, who are saying experience matters, and Mathew Riedel and Frank Heaton, who say it is time for Senate to see some changes in the way it behaves. |
Although the election has been publicized, freshman Nicole Allen had not even heard the elections were starting. |
Being unaware of the requirements of a Student Body President, Allen wasn’t sure what she looked for in a candidate. |
“I guess it would be somebody you could count on to do what is best for the university and the students,” Allen said. |
Larson and Rector said they are running because of their passion to serve on a strong student governance body. |
Riedel said he and Heaton are running because there are things they would like to see changed on Senate and the way it has functioned the past year. |
They said their ideas for further student outreach and inclusivity sets them apart from Larson and Rector. |
Larson has served on Senate for two years, chairing the Finance Commission in the current Senate session. Rector has been serving as a senator for just as long and is also the current director of the Intergovernmental Affairs Commission. |
Rector said through their previous experience, he and Larson are prepared to make ties with incoming Chancellor Jim Schmidt and had direct input during the search process. |
Riedel has no formal experience with the Eau Claire Student Senate, but served as student body president at UW-Marathon County and vice president of the UW Colleges. Heaton has been on Senate through three elections and served as the director of the Organizations Commission until he resigned from Senate in the fall. |
Heaton said at the president/vice president debate on April 9 the reason he resigned was that he was upset with the way the current Senate was functioning. |
“If there are concerns that I would quit in the middle of the job (of vice president), that is not something I intend on doing,” Heaton said. |
Potential reforms to Student Health Service, lobbying efforts on behalf of students and further outreach to students were some major areas covered at the Monday debate. |
Prioritizing student outreach is a primary focus for Riedel and Heaton. |
Riedel said walking around Davies and going to the residence halls as well as engaging diverse groups of students, are things that should be improved on in Senate. |
Larson and Rector also think student outreach could improve and said it is an important thing to accomplish as well. |
“This is one thing I particularly want to change … I feel like when you walk in the office and you’re walking around, it gets kind of silent,” Larson said, adding he would like to change this by challenging senators to be more inviting when students walk into the office, and for senators to actively engage in student c... |
Junior operations management major Jefferson Schmidtke attended the Monday debate and said he was interested in SHS and what both tickets thought of the issue. |
“Just to hear groups speak on that issue was big for me,” Schmidtke said, who has used the service before. |
SHS has been under an extensive review process for several years. There has been research done showing which services students most commonly use, listening sessions held and a Request for Information process. SHS is now currently under a Request for Proposal process. |
There is a possibility that the health services could be outsourced to an outside vendor if that is deemed the best option moving forward, or it could see minor reforms or not much change at all. |
Larson reassured students at the Monday debate there will always be a health service on campus, but the amount of student dollars being spent warrants a look into the services to see if something could be done to make it cheaper, but just as effective, at providing care. |
Riedel said SHS was an issue both tickets could agree on and it is an important service for students. He said he wants to include more student input on the issue too with more than just typical listening sessions. |
“My version of true outreach is meeting students where they’re at,” Riedel said, adding he would stress walking around Davies and the residence halls asking students questions about SHS. |
Something not yet covered, but an issue that interested freshman kinesiology major Adam Perento was the amount of parking on campus. |
Perento said he did not know there were even elections going on next week for Senate, but he plans on voting in the election after learning there was one being held. |
Elections begin April 15 and run through April 18. On Monday students can vote in the Haas Fine Arts Center and Hilltop, and Tuesday and Wednesday they can vote in W.R. Davies Center. |
Dear Roger: This plant was part of a dish garden that I received several years ago. |
I have managed to keep it all these years when, to my surprise, it bore beautiful red berries. |
Dear Lucille: This is Christmas berry, more commonly known as Ardisia crenulata. |
It is native to Japan and has escaped from cultivation in parts of Florida, where it is considered a potential aggressive weed. There are no natural predators to eat this plant in Florida, so it grows and multiplies rapidly there. |
Our winters are a little cold for it. I have kept it growing through several warm winters outdoors, but our normal cold winters here will kill it. There are a couple of hardier forms in the trade, but none is completely hardy here. |
A better plant for outdoors here is the slightly less showy Ardisia japonica, which is hardier. You can see it thriving on the shady side of the old farmhouse in the Cape Fear Botanical Garden. Both species bear beautiful red berries. The japonica species is slightly smaller and less vigorous, less glossy and does not ... |
Dirt Gardener Volunteers will sell plants April 13 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities at 555 East Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. |
Perennials, shrubs, trees, ground covers, vines and herbs, many of which attract hummingbirds and butterflies, will be sold at reasonable prices. Most of the plants are propagated from the gardens of the Weymouth Estate or donated by local gardeners. |
These plants can thrive in the harsh conditions of the Sandhills. |
Proceeds from the sale will be used to develop and maintain the gardens, which are open free to the public every day. |
Experienced gardeners, both Weymouth Center Dirt Gardener Volunteers and Moore County Master Gardener Volunteers, will be on hand to answer questions and to help load your purchases. Cash or checks accepted. |
Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has filed a grievance against the NFL, alleging the owners colluded to keep him out of the league because of his protests during the playing of the national anthem before games. |
The grievance alleges the league's owners "colluded to deprive Mr. Kaepernick of employment rights in retaliation for Mr. Kaepernick's leadership and advocacy for equality and social justice." |
Instead of filing the grievance through the NFL Players Association, Kaepernick has hired attorney Mark Geragos, who has represented several high-profile clients, including Michael Jackson, former NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield and musician Chris Brown. |
Geragos said in a statement given first to ABC News Sunday night that the grievance was filed "only after pursuing every possible avenue with all NFL teams and their executives." |
Kaepernick's goal, he said, was just to be treated fairly and to return to playing football in the NFL, "the league he performed at the highest level for." |
The NFL Players Association said in a statement that it had been in contact with Kaepernick for the past year about his options, but only today learned he had decided to file the grievance, through media reports. |
"Our union has a duty to assist Mr. Kaepernick as we do all players and we will support him," the statement said, adding that the union is scheduling a call with his advisers for early this week. |
Activists rally in support of NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick outside the offices of the National Football League on Park Avenue, Aug. 23, 2017, in New York. |
Kaepernick, who has not been with an NFL team since he severed his contract with the 49ers in March, began his silent protest of kneeling during the anthem in the 2016 preseason. He told the media he was protesting against the treatment of blacks in the United States. |
San Francisco 49ers outside linebacker Eli Harold (58), quarterback Colin Kaepernick (7) and free safety Eric Reid (35) kneel in protest during the playing of the national anthem in Santa Clara, Calif., Oct 6, 2016. |
But Kaepernick's most visible impact seemed to come at the start of this season, even though he himself had not been signed to a team, after President Trump at a campaign-style rally in Alabama slammed NFL players who participate in the protest. |
In his statement, Geragos did not name the president, but referred to Trump's call for protesting players to be fired, saying: "Athletes should not be denied employment based on partisan political provocation by the executive branch of our government. Such a precedent threatens all patriotic Americans and harkens back ... |
ABC News' Sunny Hostin and The Associated Press contributed to this report. |
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister has called the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at its Istanbul consulate a "huge and grave mistake", but said Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had not been aware. |
Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir spoke to US broadcaster Fox on Sunday and extended condolences to Khashoggi's family. |
"This is a terrible mistake. This is a terrible tragedy. Our condolences go out to them. We feel their pain," he said. |
He said the Saudis did not know how Khashoggi, a Saudi national and US resident, had been killed or where his body was. |
He also said that Prince Mohammed, de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, was not responsible. |
"This was an operation where individuals ended up exceeding the authorities and responsibilities they had," he said. |
The kingdom first denied his death before admitting it on Saturday amid an international outcry. |
The weeks of denial and lack of credible evidence have shaken global confidence in ties with the world's top oil exporter, Western governments say. |
US Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin said Saudi Arabia's admission that the Washington Post columnist had been killed in a fistfight was a "good first step but not enough". |
Three major European powers - Germany, Britain and France - pressed Saudi Arabia to provide facts to back up its earlier explanation of a fight. |
Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany would not export arms to Saudi Arabia while the current uncertainty over Khashoggi's fate persisted. |
Khashoggi went missing after entering the consulate on October 2 to obtain documents for his upcoming marriage. |
After denying any involvement in the 59-year-old's disappearance for two weeks, Saudi Arabia on Saturday said Khashoggi, a critic of the crown prince, had died during a fight in the building. |
An hour later, another Saudi official attributed the death to a chokehold. |
"Nothing can justify this killing and we condemn it in the strongest possible terms," Germany, Britain and France said in their joint statement on Sunday. |
A senior Saudi government official has laid out a new version that in key respects contradicts previous explanations. |
The latest account includes details on how the team of 15 Saudi nationals sent to confront Khashoggi had threatened him with being drugged and kidnapped and killed him in a chokehold when he resisted. |
A member of the team then dressed in Khashoggi's clothes to make it appear as if he had left the consulate. |
In a speech on Sunday, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he was getting ready to release some information about the Turkish investigation, and would do so at his weekly speech to members of his ruling AK Party in parliament. |
We are still in the midst of a challenging regional economic cycle, and many organisations, such as the property company you work for, have chosen to throttle back on non-essential spending in order to maintain their profitably or to survive. As you are experiencing, investing in staff training and development is often... |
Other than maintaining and developing skillsets, training and development are important to ensure that employees continue to feel satisfied, stimulated and supported within their roles. Employees who feel that their company is prepared to invest in them are likely to value their work, wanting to deliver with quality an... |
Fortuitously, economic downturns can often provide the impetus for organisations to review their business strategies and emerge stronger than ever. For example, there are some interesting lessons to be drawn from the worst economic downturn in history - the Great Depression of 1929. In response to the panic, many organ... |
However, what if sustained training investment is not a possibility? Thankfully, that does not mean the end of the road for your team’s performance, as there are still other effective approaches to ongoing learning and development. A research-based guideline for developing people says that you need to have 3 types of l... |
From Ashridge Executive Education’s regional Gen Y research, we know that millennials respond well to, and seek more of the 20 per cent coaching and mentoring approach from their leaders. As such, organisations would do well to invest their limited training budgets in developing their leaders in core coaching and mento... |
So where does that leave you in terms of your own development? Your manager and HR should still be able to provide support in terms of helping you identify what you need to focus on for your own success; your areas of strength and development as well as potential blind spots you may have. Once you have a clearer pictur... |
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Supernatural thriller Qayamat Ki Raat will go off air soon. The cast and the crew of the show are now wrapping up the shoot, and spending their last few days on the set. |
Vivek Dahiya, who is seen as the main lead opposite Karishma Tanna, shared in his recent post on Instagram that he wants to freeze time and relive the moments spent on the set. |
Alongside his picture, he wrote, "I think ahead but who knows what's coming up! Then I think back to relive the moments spent on these sets and realize, its soon going to be ending like all good things. Wish I could freeze time just for a bit.. #LastFewDaysofQkR" |
The show began last year on 23rd June as part of a finite series and will be off air soon. This is Vivek's third show with Ekta Kapoor's production house, after Kavach and Yeh Hai Mohabbatein. |
The show will be replaced by Divya Drishti, another supernatural thriller. The cast of the new show includes Sangeeta Ghosh, Mansi Srivastava and Sana Sayyad. |
While Vivek has not announced any new show, his wife Divyanka Tripathi has her hands full with Yeh Hai Mohabbatein, where she plays the role of Ishita. Besides, she is also seen as a host on The Voice 3. |
In early 2005, news came almost daily about starvation deaths in some parts of West Bengal. The majority of these deaths were reported from Jalangi, a part of Domkal subdivision of Murshidabad district. This was the time when Dr. Zafarul Islam Khan, Editor of The Milli Gazette, decided to help. |
In addition to mounting an international awareness campaign and legal intervention through a PIL in the Supreme Court of India, help in the shape of weekly ration packets to affected households was quickly organised and it continues to this day. |
To formalise this work, a trust called Charity Alliance was registered at Delhi. To meet the urgent needs of the people of the affected area in Murshidabad, Charity Alliance first made a list of persons in need of immediate help after a physical survey, and started distributing rice (2 kg per person per week) to 365 pe... |
2005-06: During the financial year 2005-06 Charity Alliance distributed 17,749 kg of rice, that is about 8,800 packets to an average of 170 persons every week. All these were starvation-affected people, mostly widows and elderly. Charity Alliance admitted 95 students to local schools and distributed study materials amo... |
2006-07: In the financial year 2006-07, Charity Alliance distributed 20,464 kgs rice worth Rs 2,24,209 among an average of 195 heads every week. These were extremely poor, aged people and widows. Medical aid of Rs 42,593 was provided for minor/major treatment to 93 persons. Educational aid of Rs 27,970 was offered to 1... |
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