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Chingon Taqueria Opens In Leland
Leland's Chingon Taqueria aims to bring the flavors of Mexico City to the area.
Alex Zaragoza opened the fast-casual Mexican restaurant, at 1132 New Pointe Blvd. in Leland, with his sister Estrella Zaragoza late last month. The siblings said their plan is to bring Chingon Taqueria to Wilmington in the future, but for now they found a niche to fill in Leland.
"Leland has been growing for three years," Alex Zaragoza said. "With the plans Brunswick County has for Leland, we just saw a lot of potential."
The restaurant features authentic Mexican fare such as fajitas, burritos, tacos found on the streets of Mexico City. Chingon Taqueria's dishes are prepared with homemade corn tortillas and many feature al pastor (marinated pork) that is slow roasted on a vertical spit. Zaragoza said the slow cooking technique was brought to central Mexico by Lebanese immigrants.
"There are a lot of people traveling these days," Alex Zaragoza said. "People are willing to try authentic Mexican food. They can tell the difference."
Alex Zaragoza started working in the restaurant industry when he was 17 years old. He graduated from the International Culinary Center in New York in 2009. Chingon Taqueria is his latest concept.
He opened Si Senior in Porters Neck in 2016 and Papi's Chicken, a Peruvian-style roast chicken restaurant in Leland, earlier this year with his brothers Eddie and Oscar Zaragoza. He has also worked as a chef/consultant for Myrtle Beach a restaurant chain, helping to design and open Taco Mundo Kitchen y Cantina in North Myrtle Beach.
In addition to al pastor, Chingon Taqueria's menu also features whole fried fish, beef tongue and Micheladas, Mexican beer-based cocktails garnished with cucumbers and/or shrimp. Chingon Taqueria's menu also features six margaritas ranging from the house with fresh lemon and lime juice to prickly pear.
"We don't offer the same menu," Alex Zaragoza said. "We're trying to be more fun and offer items that other restaurants aren't offering."
Chingon Taqueria is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week.
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Mohamed bin Zayed updated on Coronavirus containment efforts
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Published Tuesday, March 17, 2020
His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, has learned about the ongoing national efforts to curb the proliferation of the COVID-19 and contain its repercussions.
This came in a virtual communication meeting convened in the attendance of H.H. Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Chairman of Abu Dhabi Executive Council, H.H. Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan, National Security Adviser, H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, H.H. Sheikh Khalid bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of Abu Dhabi Executive Office, Member of the Executive Council, and a number of senior officials.
During the video conference, Sheikh Mohamed conveyed the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to harness all available resources in support of the coronavirus containment efforts.
"People's safety in the UAE is a paramount priority irrespective of any other considerations. Ensuring public safety is our top responsibility," said Sheikh Mohamed, doubling on the exigency that all measures being taken in this respect are efficient enough to address the ongoing daunting challenge.
"We won't hesitate to take any further precautionary steps if necessity arises over the coming period," he emphasised.
"The current circumstances we're going through entail maximum awareness and realisation of the necessity of following all precautionary measures and guidelines to contain the spread of the virus, he added, noting that " we all share a joint responsibility toward propagating a culture of an efficient societal response to the virus-containment efforts."
He hailed the efficiency of the government and private health sectors, terming them as the first line of defence against the novel virus. He also appreciated the efforts made by the medical and nursing teams along with the technical and administrative staff in the country as well the shared sectors contributing to protecting the UAE society and ensuring its safety.
Sheikh Mohamed underlined the importance of adopting a holistic approach to ensure a comprehensive epidemiological investigation mechanism linking together all stakeholders and competent bodies in confronting the proliferation of the virus.
He stressed the necessity of continuing the educational process in a way that ensures student safety and achieve the educational vision and mission at the same time by employing state-of-the-art technology and modern communication techniques.
He described the role played by media as key in combatting the virus by raising awareness and addressing rumours and fake news, while conveying the health status in the right manner and steering clear of overblown coverage of the developments.
The Abu Dhabi Crown Prince called for doubling efforts to combat the ongoing hazard and maintaining synergy and coordination with all national departments and multilaterals in this regard.
For his part, Abdul Rahman bin Mohammad bin Nasser Al Owais, Minister of Health and Prevention, revealed that most of the infected cases are in ''stable'' condition except for two cases who are still under intensive care.
''The capacity and readiness of all health facilities and labs in the public and private sectors have been upgraded to conduct high-efficiency virus tests,'' said Al Owais, adding that all passengers arriving in the UAE are subject to precautionary measures, including medical examinations and thermal scanning through 32 land, sea and air exit-entry points.
''The UAE has a sufficient strategic reserve of essential medical equipment to conduct advanced tests for COVID-19, in addition to other necessary medical supplies and facilities, such as airborne infection isolation rooms, in addition to 500-700 specialist medical teams working round the clock,'' the minister affirmed.
Addressing the video conference on the distance learning issue, Hussain bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi, Minister of Education, said most of the universities and schools are now applying the e-learning system after up to 1,196 training workshops have been organised on how to operate the system by launching pilots at a number of schools.
''Some 508 principals have been trained and now we have 620-e-learning enabled schools,'' he explained.
On school bus safety measures, the minister noted that more than 4,950 drivers and 5,171 attendants and escorts have been trained on safety protocols to handle emergencies and apply precautionary measures.
"We have also 667 highly trained nursing professionals to deal with any potential case in the school community,'' he concluded.

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Vanderbilt 41 Tennessee 18 - Epilogue on an Epitaph
The Vols burned in Nashville, but had already crashed long before kickoff.
By Will Shelton Nov 17, 2012, 10:48pm EST
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This is the part where I'm supposed to write that tonight was the most embarrassing loss in decades. It probably was.
But in the grand scheme of things, if tonight was anything, it was simply a fitting end, the icing on the cake. The weight of everything that went wrong in the very terminal Derek Dooley Era seemed to combine to bury the Vols tonight. In Nashville. Against Vanderbilt.
We could spend time talking about how a coach who won't go for it at the end of regulation against Missouri with the best offense in school history (which it won't be after tonight) because it's too risky will then fake a punt on 4th and 9 at his own 19.
But there's a reason this guy won't be coaching here much longer, and that decision was made before tonight.
It's the first win for the Dores over the Vols since 2005, the second win and the first in Nashville since 1982. But for the big picture, tonight really didn't change anything for Tennessee. Dooley was already done, tonight simply the closing argument before an already unanimous jury, unless we find a way to do something even more embarrassing against a much worse Kentucky team in Knoxville next week. Nothing would surprise me at this point.
It's not so much that the bamboo was a lie - I think this team had the talent to win nine or ten games in the hands of a capable coaching staff. But ours is absolutely not, and even the nice things you try to say in situations like this - Dooley's team fought hard, we caught a lot of bad breaks - were not true tonight.
For me and I think for many of us, we were long past denial, anger, bargaining, or depression before toe met leather tonight. We'd already reached acceptance long before tonight. Dooley is gone, this season is lost, and now only the future matters.
And this is not to say that Vanderbilt can't or won't enjoy tonight - they certainly don't need my permission to do so. Congrats to them. Enjoy it.
The next hire Tennessee makes absolutely has to be a home run. That's never been more true than right now.
And right now, the next hire is all that matters for Tennessee Football.
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NO CONCRETE EVIDENCE HAS TURNED UP TO VERIFY CADILLAC LEGEND
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People keep claiming that the legend of "The Solid Concrete Cadillac" stems from an actual incident. I hope someone eventually provides proof, but I'm not holding my breath.
Conclusive evidence would be a published article containing names and a photograph of a car that was filled with concrete because of jealousy. The article would have to be dated before the legend started to circulate.But so far, I've collected only legendary accounts, plus a single report of an incident that's obviously based on the story. I've also noted several films and TV sitcoms in which a car-concreting incident was staged long after the legend emerged.
Here's the basic story of "The Concrete Car" as folklorists began recording it in early 1960:
A cement-truck driver cuts through his own neighborhood and sees a new Cadillac convertible in his driveway. He parks his truck, sneaks up to the kitchen window and spies his wife inside talking to a strange man.
Suspecting that his wife is cheating on him, the driver backs his truck up to the Caddy and dumps the full load of wet concrete into it.
That evening he comes home and finds his wife hysterical, with the now-solid Cadillac being towed away. Through her tears she explains how that morning the dealer had delivered the new car that she was going to give her husband for his birthday.
In other versions the woman won the car in a lottery. Sometimes the wife really is carrying on an affair, and the story simply illustrates how the husband gets revenge.
"The Concrete Car" was widely told in the 1960s, and it reached Europe by 1970. In England, Scandinavia and Germany - as in the United States - the story is always told as something that happened to a local resident.
The actual incident that resembles this legend was reported in the Denver Post in early August 1960, several months after the legend itself appeared.
The Denver car was an old DeSoto, and there was no jealousy motive. The news stories describe a dispute between two cement-company workers, one of whom had evidently heard the legend.
One person wrote to me saying that he was certain that the original incident occurred in Warren, Ohio, during the early 1960s. He provided the name of the wrecking yard where the car was towed and of the local newspaper that published the vehicle's photograph.
But the paper never answered my request for a copy of this story, and other people in northeastern Ohio remember different "facts" about the incident.
One credible source from Warren wrote saying that he was certain he had heard the story during the summer of 1957 attributed to the town of Sharon, Pa., just across the Ohio state line.
This may establish an early date for the story, but it does not prove the incident happened, since this writer never saw the car. Later he heard the same story attributed to several nearby and distant sites, including Denver.
People in Salt Lake City frequently tell me that "The Solid Concrete Car" incident happened in one of the western suburbs of the city during the late 1950s. It was supposedly written up in a local newspaper, but I've looked fruitlessly for such a news story.
One Salt Laker told me that he remembered hearing the same story told with many local details when he was working in Southern California in 1952!
Then there's this item: A couple of years ago, Denver Post columnist Jack Kisling wrote that he had heard "The Solid Concrete Cadillac" told in Denver in the late 1940s by someone who claimed that the cement-truck driver was his brother-in-law.
Finally, a 1970 article in Small World, a magazine for Volkswagen owners, claimed that a prototype of the story, involving a garbage-truck driver emptying his load into a Stutz Bearcat, was told in the 1920s!
It seems that "The Solid Concrete Cadillac" has a long history, but we still don't have any concrete proof when and where the story got started.
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'Bring Out the Dog' takes readers into warrior's mind
By Alison BuckholtzFor the Times-Union
BRING OUT THE DOG
Author: Will Mackin
Data: Random House, 171 pages, $27
Warriors fight battles. Writers craft stories. But when the warrior is also a writer – like Will Mackin, author of "Bring Out the Dog," a short-story collection based on his multiple deployments with a Navy SEAL team in Iraq and Afghanistan – nothing is as it seems. In a landscape illuminated by the hazy, green glow of night vision goggles, familiar literary terrain feels as foreign and full of possibility as another language. In these inventive, perceptive and compassionate stories, that's exactly the point. And Mackin is just the translator America needs right now.
I opened the book confident I already had the vocabulary required to understand the impact of 15 years of combat tours on America's troops. As a Navy family (my husband flew the same kind of aircraft as Mackin around the same time), our most meaningful milestones are tied up with America's longest war. I've tracked the new generation of warrior-writers with great interest because the fiction, nonfiction and memoirs emerging from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts — "Redeployment," "Plenty of Time When We Get Home," "Fire and Forget," "The Yellow Birds," "Fobbit," "Thank You For Your Service" and "What Have We Done" among many other worthy titles — signal a shift in the way war is experienced and understood by combatants and civilians alike. That shift may eventually alter the way war is committed to and fought.
"Bring Out the Dog" isn't concerned with that, at least not explicitly. Its only agenda is to demonstrate that the real drama of war takes place far from the battlefield, in the minds of the soldiers readying themselves for the fight and processing its aftermath. The 11 stories here take place in Iraq and Afghanistan but also, importantly, in North Carolina, Utah and Virginia Beach, where the narrator's unit is engaged in pre-deployment workups. These are critical elements of the combat cycle, in part because of the way relationships among soldiers evolve when they're out of the war zone and yet still beholden to each other.
But Mackin presses beyond his own nuanced, moving portrayals of male friendships and battle buddies, and then past the deft and unexpected glimpses into his narrator's inner world. He starts to transcend the genre of "war writing" as his narrator describes the fleeting, searing moments that bond him to some Iraqi and Afghan civilians in the heat of battle. This is from "Rib Night," which takes place in Sharana, Afghanistan, after his unit's A-10s have strafed a home and a woman from inside "ran downhill into our ranks, her screams no different from laughter."
I saw her twisted face by starlight. I saw smoke rising from her house as an infrared blur on night vision. She reached out to me, which I shouldn't have allowed, because she could've triggered my rifle, or pulled the pin on one of my grenades. Instead, she touched my arm, and her grief transferred wholesale. I sensed the absence of her father and son, and I felt her wish that I could bring them back. Had I wished hard enough she might've felt me wishing the same thing.
Capturing this and similarly intense interactions, Mackin introduces the idea that a human experience, however foreign to one's own, can be conducted from one person to another — even in the most challenging circumstances — if one is receptive. Mackin and his narrator (he has spoken in interviews about the degree to which these stories are autobiographical) are both receptive. Even in the most morally ambiguous situations, Mackin crafts magical moments in which two people on different sides access each other's agony. These depictions don't offer hope; that would be incompatible with this particular war. But by allowing the warrior to connect with his civilian self, the civilian readers among us can connect with warriors. The experience of moral injury is transferred to us, who have never been on the battlefield, through reading.
Just as these stories alternate between locations stateside and in combat zones, mimicking the tempo of today's military service, some of the same characters reappear across the stories. As these soldiers get to know each other during successive deployments, we get to know them, too. Readers scouting the scene learn who's afraid of water, who dislikes a certain candy, whose ability to stay calm can salvage unit morale. While the soldiers store away each nugget of information to determine who will save or sink a mission, readers of "Bring Out the Dog" are also hoarding the intel. Because in a world where nothing is as it seems — war zone or not — today's warrior-writer may be our best guide in the dark.
Alison Buckholtz is author of "Standing By: The Making of an American Military Family in a Time of War."


Tyler Posey has established himself as a sought after young actor in both film and television. He has received awards for his television appearance on 'Teen Wolf' including a Teen Choice Award for 'Choice Male Summer TV Star,' as well as an ALMA Award for 'Favorite TV Actor.' Most recently he was named one of Variety's "Power of Youth" honorees. Some of his most recent movie features include 'Scary Movie 5,' staring Charlie Sheen and Molly Shannon, and the two shot films 'Taco Shop," alongside Eric Roberts ('The Dark Knight') and Laura Harring ('Mulholland Drive'), and 'White Frog,' co-starring Booboo Stewart ('The Twilight Saga') and Talulah Riley ('Pride & Prejudice'). His previous feature work includes films such as 'Collateral Damage' alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'Maid in Manhattan' with Jennifer Lopez, and the Independent WWE film 'Legendary' with Patricia Clarkson.
A dynamic young actor, Dylan O'Brien is quickly emerging as one of Hollywood's brightest talents. Dylan will next be seen on the big screen starring in the FOX feature film 'The Maze Runner.' Some of Dylan's past feature films includes, 'The Internship,' alongside Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, 'The First Time' starring with Brittany Robertson and Victoria Justice. Additionally, Dylan is one of the stars of the entirely improvised independent feature film 'High Road,' co-starring veteran comedic actors Horatio Sanz, Rob Riggle, Abby Elliott and Lizzy Caplan. Dylan has also developed an extensive YouTube following for a series of comic online shorts which he directed, produced and starred in.
Holland is no stranger to primetime television with roles on hit shows such as 'Lost,' 'Weeds' and 'CSI,' and guest starring appearances on shows such as 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'The Event,' 'Cold Case,' 'Community' and 'Criminal Minds,' as well as a lead in the cult classic franchise 'Bring It On: Fight to the Finish'. Even though Holland has been fulfilling her dream as an actor, she remained dedicated to her education and recently received her degree in Women's Studies from UCLA.
As a model, singer-songwriter, and actress, Arden Cho is an up-and-coming talent that is sure to impress. Following her background in theater from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Arden moved to Los Angeles to pursue her career in entertainment. Arden has appeared on major international campaigns for the brands Clinique Cosmetics, McDonalds, and Apple. Her most recent work in acting include roles on hit television series 'Castle,' 'Rizzoli and Isles,' 'CSI: NY,' and 'Pretty Little Liars.' In early 2013, Arden pursued her music career with the release of her self-produced EP, 'My True Happy,' currently available on iTunes. With an active and growing following on her YouTube channel, ardenBCho, Arden continues to showcase her creative and music endeavors. When she is not busy on set filming, Arden also participates in speaking engagements and musical performances across the country, encouraging younger generations to pursue their passion.
Originally from Texas, Dylan Sprayberry, began building an impressive array of credits, with recurring roles on Tracey Ullman's Emmy-winning "State of the Union" and "Common Law;" as well as a guest appearance on the ever popular series "Glee." He went on to land the role of a lifetime as the legendary young Clark Kent (aka Superman) in "Man of Steel," co-starring opposite Oscar winners Kevin Costner and Russell Crowe and Oscar nominees Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, and Diane Lane. Dylan also starred in "The Three Gifts" opposite Dean Cain and Reginal Vel Johnson, and "Shuffle" playing the young version of "Bones" actor T.J. Thyne's character.
Shelley Hennig, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, grew up as a dancer who aspired to perform on a larger stage. Her ambition and love for dance was a creative outlet for her, and served as a way to cope with the loss of her brother, who passed away in a drunk-driving accident that occurred when Shelley was just 14 years old. At the age of 16, her dance instructor convinced her to enter the Miss Louisiana Teen USA pageant with the hope of providing her with new opportunities. She won the title and went on to compete for Miss Teen USA, subsequently winning that crown as well. During her reign, she campaigned with M.A.D.D. and Buzz Free Prom to share her personal story with students across the United States.
After being crowned Miss Teen USA, Hennig was awarded a full scholarship to the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts where she fell in love with acting. Hennig worked relentlessly for two years to hone her natural talent. Two months prior to graduation, Shelley was vacationing in Los Angeles when she received a last minute audition and landed the contract role of "Stephanie Johnson" on NBC's long-running hit series "Days of Our Lives". She would go on to earn two Daytime Emmy nominations in the Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series category for playing the feisty character. In 2011, after departing "Days of Our Lives", Hennig entered into her first pilot season. Within a matter of weeks she landed a leading role on the CW drama, "The Secret Circle", from executive producer Kevin Williamson (Dawson's Creek, Scream).
She starred as "Diana Meade", the head of the coven, opposite Brittany Robertson and Thomas Dekker. Since wrapping "The Secret Circle", Hennig has guest starred on the critically acclaimed FX drama "Justified", as Timothy Olyphant's love interest, "Jackie Nevada" and on the CBS sitcom, "Friend Me", from executive producers Eric and Kim Tannenbaum (Two and a Half Men) alongside Nicholas Braun and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. This May, Shelley can be seen in MTV's highly anticipated comedy, "Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous", opposite comedian and creator Bo Burnham. In a multi-episode arc Hennig portrays "Christy Ackerman", the eccentric, camera-loving, high school "it-girl". This role was a nice change for Hennig, who has been looking forward to showcasing her comedic ability. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Jeff Davis was born on June 13, 1975 in Connecticut, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Criminal Minds (2005), Teen Wolf (2011) and War of the Worlds (2017).
MTV's Teen Wolf is a reimagining of the 1985 comedy film of the same name, which was itself a reimagining of the classic 1957 film, I Was a Teenage Werewolf. For nearly 60 years, it has become a part of pop culture. Unlike its predecessors, MTV's version brought more emphasis on horror, romance and the werewolf mythology. Debuting in August of 2011, it has become one of the most popular shows on the channel.
It was announced at the 2016 Comic-Con International that the upcoming Sixth Season would be the final one. JeanBookNerd was at hand at this year's Comic-Con International to get the first look and insight of the final season. We also had the opportunity to talk with Tyler Posey, Dylan Sprayberry and Khylin Rhambo to discuss about their time on the set, what to expect for this season, and what they have been up to since filming has stopped.
Posey, Sprayberry, and Rhambo talk about their time on the set and their relationships with the other cast members. They also touched on what to expect with their characters and how they've evolved over the years. Switching from actor to director, Posey discusses his love for directing and how it made him more appreciate acting and teases about his upcoming directorial endeavors.
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Sermons on NT Characters by Various Speakers - 8 Audios ('15)
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The Apostle Peter (46 min)
PART 8 – From Peter's 2nd epistle, Scott Dunn highlights four lessons that the author wants us to remember; the reality of our salvation; the resources in the Spirit; our responsibility; and the reward for our service. He makes the challenging point that, although Peter is often remembered for his failures, he was quickly restored and didn't repeat his mistakes (Message preached 28th May 2015)
Timothy (42 min)
PART 7 – Josh Jacob preaches on the life of Timothy, a man who knew the scriptures from childhood and was converted later in life through the labours of the apostle Paul. Paul took Timothy under his wing and in this message we relearn the principle of an older man working with a younger, and are reminded of some of the vital lessons that must be passed between the generations (Message preached 21st May 2015)
The Apostle Paul (38 min)
PART 6 – Michael Penfold preaches on the apostle Paul – his character, his conversion, his career and his coronation. Paul's authority as an apostle, his ministry as a preacher, his energy in gospel labour, his responsibility in caring for all the churches, his adversity in suffering for Christ and his loyalty to the truth of God, are all commented on and applied (Message preached 14th May 2015)
The Apostle John (42 min)
PART 5 – Mervyn Hall preaches on the apostle John – as a disciple, servant, brother and elder. Highlighting various incidents in the life of "the disciple whom Jesus loved", Mervyn draws out lessons in connection with John's separation, suffering and service. John's life and ministry teach us that truth without love is brutal, while love without truth is fatal (Message preached 7th May 2015)
John Mark (42 min)
David Castles
PART 4 – David Castles preaches on John Mark, the writer of the gospel of Mark, and the companion of Paul. Converted through the preaching of Peter, with a godly mother in Mary, John Mark went from failure to fruitfulness as a servant of God. He then wrote a gospel about the "perfect servant", the Lord Jesus Christ! The unique features of Mark's gospel are also helpfully spelt out in this message (Message preached 30th Apr 2015)
Mary, Martha and Lazarus (48 min)
Dan Rudge
PART 3 – Dan Rudge preaches on Mary the worshipper, Martha the worker and Lazarus the witness. He draws numerous thoughtful and pertinent lessons from the home in Bethany, which he helpfully portrays as a picture of the local assembly. He challenges his audience to spend time at the feet of Christ like Mary, rather than fall into the trap of "the barrenness of a busy life" like Martha (Message preached 23rd Apr 2015)
Joseph and Mary (31 min)
PART 2 – Tom West preaches on Joseph and Mary, the mother of the Lord Jesus. He outlines the lineage, the leading and the legacy of this godly couple in whose home the Lord of glory was raised. The Lord's links to King David through the two genealogies – Matthew Ch 1 and Luke Ch 3 – are traced and explained. Mary is given her proper place as a privileged woman, but nevertheless one who was a sinner in need…
John The Baptist (38 min)
PART 1 – Peter Scarsbrook preaches on the character of John the Baptist; an unusual man, with a unique ministry and an uncompromising message. Peter draws numerous insightful and pertinent lessons for his audience from various aspects of the life and labours of this faithful forerunner of Christ (Message preached 9th Apr 2015)


THE outdoor synthetic soccer pitch at Loftus Recreation Centre has been given the red card after extensive water damage.
City of Vincent is set to spend more than $41,000 to replace the turf, which accommodates about 18,000 users, after poor drainage issues at the facility and a broken pipe under the surface caused the pitch to last only six years.
Installed in 2012, the pitch was expected to last until 2022.
Complaints to management by users about the poor quality of the surface have been on the rise throughout the last 12 months.
Council will decide on the expense at the April 4 meeting.
Mayor Emma Cole said if approved, works would commence in April and would be completed "as quickly as possible to minimise disruption for Centre users".
The City has already throughout the past few months upgraded the drainage system by installing six new soak-wells and improving the stormwater collection drain that runs along its periphery.
"The quality of the playing surface had been gradually deteriorating over the two to three years, but we only discovered the cause of this being the broken pipework over the past 12 months," she said.
Centre manager Daniel Webb said "the vast majority of the teams" would play on the indoor soccer court while works are done.


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Gascón recall petition clears hurdle, will proceed to full verification
Caleb Lunetta
Recall "L.A. County District Attorney George Gascon" campaign volunteers and supporters show their support for recalling the county's top prosecutor during a demonstration held in front of the L.A. County Registrar of Voters office in Norwalk. July 6, 2022. Courtesy photo.
The petition to recall L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón cleared a hurdle on Thursday after the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk's Office announced it they had completed the random sampling for verification.
After completing the random sample of 5% of the total number of signatures, or 35,793 signatures, the registrar-recorder concluded that enough were valid and they could now begin the process of fully checking the remaining signatures.
"Based on the outcome of the random sampling technique, 27,983 petition signatures were found to be valid," read a press release from the Registrar's Office distributed on Thursday. "This result falls within the threshold that requires the RR/CC to verify all petition signatures submitted."
If the number of valid signatures had exceeded 31,179, the petition would have been certified as sufficient, officials said. If the number of valid signatures was lower than 25,510, the petition would have been certified as insufficient.
Because the number of verified valid signatures fell between these thresholds, a full check of all signatures submitted must be completed no later than Aug. 17.
The announcement comes a week after the recall campaign had submitted roughly 717,000 signatures to the L.A. County Registrar of Voters, meeting the July 6 deadline with well over the 566,857 required signatures.
The extra signatures, recall campaign officials said, were collected in order to ensure they exceeded the total number of signatures even after a number of them are invalidated during the L.A. County Registrar of Voters official count.
Gascón's supporters at the anti-recall campaign told The Signal on Thursday that they would refrain from commenting on the petition, waiting to see whether the required number of signatures are actually validated.
Since he assumed office in December 2020, Gascón's detractors have said that his policies — from the widespread curtailing of the cash bail system, to heavily restricting the use of sentencing enhancements, to the near eradication of life sentences in L.A. County cases — have allowed criminals, especially repeat offenders, to create more victims with fewer consequences.
The D.A.'s supporters have countered these arguments by stating that the district attorney is attempting to fix a judicial system that has been historically based on draconian and prejudicial processes, resulting often in inequity for minorities and a disregard for addressing the root causes of criminal behavior.
Those in charge of the process at the Registrar's Office are basing a signature's validity on a number of factors, including but not limited to: ensuring the signature is from a registered voter, that their signed address is the same as the one on their voter registration, and that the registered voter did not sign the petition more than once, among other criteria.
If the petition is ultimately verified, government officials will then need to determine when the referendum will appear on the ballot for L.A. County voters, whether it be in the upcoming November General Election or voted on during a special election held on a separate date.
Caleb Lunetta covers government, criminal justice, education and breaking news for The Signal. He joined in Nov. 2018 and previously worked as a supply chain engineer in Veterans Affairs hospitals. He is a graduate of Cal State University, Northridge and a proud College of the Canyons Model United Nations alumnus. Have a story tip? Message him on Twitter (@lunettcaleb) or at [email protected]
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The CIA's Worst-Kept Secret: Newly Declassified Files Confirm United States Collaboration with Nazis
Pried loose by Congress, which passed the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act three years ago, a long-hidden trove of once-classified CIA documents confirms one of the worst-kept secrets of the cold war–the CIA's use of an extensive Nazi spy network to wage a
By Martin A. Lee, May 1, 2001 .
"Honest and idealist … enjoys good food and wine … unprejudiced mind …"
That's how a 1952 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) assessment described Nazi ideologue Emil Augsburg, an officer at the infamous Wannsee Institute, the SS think tank involved in planning the Final Solution. Augsburg's SS unit performed "special duties," a euphemism for exterminating Jews and other "undesirables" during the Second World War.
Although he was wanted in Poland for war crimes, Augsburg managed to ingratiate himself with the U.S. CIA, which employed him in the late 1940s as an expert on Soviet affairs. Recently released CIA records indicate that Augsburg was among a rogue's gallery of Nazi war criminals recruited by U.S. intelligence agencies shortly after Germany surrendered to the Allies.
Pried loose by Congress, which passed the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act three years ago, a long-hidden trove of once-classified CIA documents confirms one of the worst-kept secrets of the cold war–the CIA's use of an extensive Nazi spy network to wage a clandestine campaign against the Soviet Union.
The CIA reports show that U.S. officials knew they were subsidizing numerous Third Reich veterans who had committed horrible crimes against humanity, but these atrocities were overlooked as the anti-Communist crusade acquired its own momentum. For Nazis who would otherwise have been charged with war crimes, signing on with American intelligence enabled them to avoid a prison term.
"The real winners of the cold war were Nazi war criminals, many of whom were able to escape justice because the East and West became so rapidly focused after the war on challenging each other," says Eli Rosenbaum, director of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations and America's chief Nazi hunter. Rosenbaum serves on a Clinton-appointed Interagency Working Group (IWG) committee of U.S. scholars, public officials, and former intelligence officers who helped prepare the CIA records for declassification.
Many Nazi criminals "received light punishment, no punishment at all, or received compensation because Western spy agencies considered them useful assets in the cold war," the IWG team stated after releasing 18,000 pages of redacted CIA material. (More installments are pending.)
These are "not just dry historical documents," insists former congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, a member of the panel examining the CIA files. As far as Holtzman is concerned, the CIA papers raise critical questions about American foreign policy and the origins of the cold war.
The decision to recruit Nazi operatives had a negative impact on U.S.-Soviet relations and set the stage for Washington's tolerance of human rights abuses and other criminal acts in the name of anti-Communism. With that fateful sub-rosa embrace, the die was cast for a litany of antidemocratic CIA interventions around the world.
The Gehlen Org
The key figure on the German side of the CIA-Nazi tryst was General Reinhard Gehlen, who had served as Adolf Hitler's top anti-Soviet spy. During World War II, Gehlen oversaw all German military-intelligence operations in Eastern Europe and the USSR.
As the war drew to a close, Gehlen surmised that the U.S.-Soviet alliance would soon break down. Realizing that the United States did not have a viable cloak-and-dagger apparatus in Eastern Europe, Gehlen surrendered to the Americans and pitched himself as someone who could make a vital contribution to the forthcoming struggle against the Communists. In addition to sharing his vast espionage archive on the USSR, Gehlen promised that he could resurrect an underground network of battle-hardened, anti-Communist assets who were well placed to wreak havoc throughout the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Although the Yalta Treaty stipulated that the United States must give the Soviets all captured German officers who had been involved in "eastern area activities," Gehlen was quickly spirited off to Fort Hunt in Virginia. The image he projected during 10 months of negotiations at Fort Hunt was, to use a bit of espionage parlance, a "legend"–one that hinged on Gehlen's false claim that he was never really a Nazi, but was dedicated, above all, to fighting Communism. Those who bit the bait included future CIA director Allen Dulles, who became Gehlen's biggest supporter among American policy wonks.
Gehlen returned to West Germany in the summer of 1946 with a mandate to rebuild his espionage organization and resume spying on the East at the behest of American intelligence. The date is significant as it preceded the onset of the cold war, which, according to standard U.S. historical accounts, did not begin until a year later. The early courtship of Gehlen by American intelligence suggests that Washington was in a cold war mode sooner than most people realize. The Gehlen gambit also belies the prevalent Western notion that aggressive Soviet policies were primarily to blame for triggering the cold war.
Based near Munich, Gehlen proceeded to enlist thousands of Gestapo, Wehrmacht, and SS veterans. Even the vilest of the vile–the senior bureaucrats who ran the central administrative apparatus of the Holocaust–were welcome in the "Gehlen Org," as it was called–including Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann's chief deputy. SS major Emil Augsburg and gestapo captain Klaus Barbie, otherwise known as the "Butcher of Lyon," were among those who did double duty for Gehlen and U.S. intelligence. "It seems that in the Gehlen headquarters, one SS man paved the way for the next and Himmler's elite were having happy reunion ceremonies," the Frankfurter Rundschau reported in the early 1950s.
Bolted lock, stock, and barrel into the CIA, Gehlen's Nazi-infested spy apparatus functioned as America's secret eyes and ears in central Europe. The Org would go on to play a major role within NATO, supplying two-thirds of raw intelligence on the Warsaw Pact countries. Under CIA auspices, and later as head of the West German secret service until he retired in 1968, Gehlen exerted considerable influence on U.S. policy toward the Soviet bloc. When U.S. spy chiefs desired an off-the-shelf style of nation tampering, they turned to the readily available Org, which served as a subcontracting syndicate for a series of ill-fated guerrilla air drops behind the Iron Curtain and other harebrained CIA rollback schemes.
Sitting Ducks for Disinformation
It's long been known that top German scientists were eagerly scooped up by several countries, including the United States, which rushed to claim these high-profile experts as spoils of World War II. Yet all the while the CIA was mum about recruiting Nazi spies. The U.S. government never officially acknowledged its role in launching the Gehlen organization until more than half a century after the fact.
Handling Nazi spies, however, was not the same as employing rocket technicians. One could always tell whether Werner von Braun and his bunch were accomplishing their assignments for NASA and other U.S. agencies. If the rockets didn't fire properly, then the scientists would be judged accordingly. But how does one determine if a Nazi spy with a dubious past is doing a reliable job?
Third Reich veterans often proved adept at peddling data–much of it false–in return for cash and safety, the IWG panel concluded. Many Nazis played a double game, feeding scuttlebutt to both sides of the East-West conflict and preying upon the mutual suspicions that emerged from the rubble of Hitler's Germany.
General Gehlen frequently exaggerated the Soviet threat in order to exacerbate tensions between the superpowers. At one point he succeeded in convincing General Lucius Clay, military governor of the U.S. zone of occupation in Germany, that a major Soviet war mobilization had begun in Eastern Europe. This prompted Clay to dash off a frantic, top-secret telegram to Washington in March 1948, warning that war "may come with dramatic suddenness."
Gehlen's disinformation strategy was based on a simple premise: the colder the cold war got, the more political space for Hitler's heirs to maneuver. The Org could only flourish under cold war conditions; as an institution it was therefore committed to perpetuating the Soviet-American conflict.
"The agency loved Gehlen because he fed us what we wanted to hear. We used his stuff constantly, and we fed it to everyone else–the Pentagon, the White House, the newspapers. They loved it, too. But it was hyped-up Russian bogeyman junk, and it did a lot of damage to this country," a retired CIA official told author Christopher Simpson, who also serves on the IGW review panel and was author of Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War.
Unexpected Consequences
Members of the Gehlen Org were instrumental in helping thousands of fascist fugitives escape via "ratlines" to safe havens abroad–often with a wink and a nod from U.S. intelligence officers. Third Reich expatriates and fascist collaborators subsequently emerged as "security advisors" in several Middle Eastern and Latin American countries, where ultra-right-wing death squads persist as their enduring legacy. Klaus Barbie, for example, assisted a succession of military regimes in Bolivia, where he taught soldiers torture techniques and helped protect the flourishing cocaine trade in the late 1970s and early '80s.
CIA officials eventually learned that the Nazi old boy network nesting inside the Gehlen Org had an unexpected twist to it. By bankrolling Gehlen, the CIA unknowingly laid itself open to manipulation by a foreign intelligence service that was riddled with Soviet spies. Gehlen's habit of employing compromised ex-Nazis–and the CIA's willingness to sanction this practice–enabled the USSR to penetrate West Germany's secret service by blackmailing numerous agents.
Ironically, some of the men employed by Gehlen would go on to play leading roles in European neofascist organizations that despise the United States. One of the consequences of the CIA's ghoulish alliance with the Org is evident today in a resurgent fascist movement in Europe that can trace its ideological lineage back to Hitler's Reich, through Gehlen operatives, who collaborated with U.S. intelligence.
Slow to recognize that their Nazi hired guns would feign an allegiance to the Western alliance as long as they deemed it tactically advantageous, CIA officials invested far too much in Gehlen's spooky Nazi outfit. "It was a horrendous mistake, morally, politically, and also in very pragmatic intelligence terms," says American University professor Richard Breitman, chairman of the IWG review panel.
More than just a bungled spy caper, the Gehlen debacle should serve as a cautionary tale at a time when post-cold war triumphalism and arrogant unilateralism are rampant among U.S. officials. If nothing else, it underscores the need for the United States to confront some of its own demons now that unreconstructed cold warriors are again riding top saddle in Washington.
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Family Dollar closing 390 stores; some remaining locations to sell alcohol
Gary Dinges gdinges@gatehousemedia.com
Family Dollar is the latest struggling retailer to announce plans to shutter stores.
The discount chain, which has been owned by Dollar Tree since 2015, said this week it will close 390 locations in 2019.
A list of the exact locations has not yet been released.
Another 200 Family Dollar stores will be converted to Dollar Tree locations this year.
"Our Dollar Tree business has continued to perform extremely well," president and CEO Gary Philbin said in a written statement. "It's a concept our customers love."
To help its Family Dollar operation turn things around, the company will introduce an assortment of Dollar Tree merchandise at many stores.
In addition, more coolers for frozen foods are being added at 400 stores and 1,000 locations will begin selling beer and wine.
"We are confident we are taking the appropriate steps to reposition our Family Dollar brand for increasing profitability as business initiatives gain traction in the back half of fiscal 2019," Philbin said. "Improving the consistency of execution and optimizing our real estate portfolio will contribute to a meaningful improvement in our shoppers' in-store experience and store traffic. We believe we are well-positioned to capture the significant opportunity ahead of us as we focus on creating and driving value for our shareholders."


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Osborne Executive
Osborne Computer Corporation
1982; 38 years ago (1982)
Introductory price
US$2,495 (equivalent to $6,405 in 2019)
1983 (1983) (bankruptcy)
Units sold
CPM, CPM +
Zilog Z80A @ 4.0 MHz
124 KB RAM
Monochrome built-in Monitor
Built-in Beeper
PSU built-in, 110 / 220 v
The Osborne Executive was the planned successor of the already commercially successful Osborne 1 portable computer by Osborne Computer Corporation. The Executive was a collection of the good features from the Osborne 1 and fixed some of its predecessor's flaws.[1]
The Osborne Executive, like the Osborne 1, came with application software. The WordStar word processor, SuperCalc spreadsheet, and the CBASIC and MBASIC programming languages—all software packages that were the leading applications in their respective niches at the time—had a retail value of more than US$2,495.
The disk drives and built-in 7 inch amber CRT were covered by the keyboard when snapped on to the main case for transportation. Like the Osborne 1, the Executive could be supported by the keyboard at a convenient viewing angle. The Executive included a cooling fan, unlike the Osborne 1, and a tiny air filter for it.
1.1 Compatibility
2 Use
3.1 Features
3.2 Size
3.3 Upgrades and Enhancements
Software[edit]
The operating system was CP/M version 3.0. A complete listing of the ROM BIOS was available in the Osborne technical manual. Unlike version 2.2, this edition of CP/M supported bank switching memory; this allowed compatible programs to use more RAM. An alternative OS, the UCSD P-system was also included.
Application and utility bundled software
Desolation B.C Software
Barry Campbell Game 1984 1
Wordstar 3.3 Application
Supercalc 1.12 Application
Personal Pearl Application/Database
Compatibility[edit]
The CP/M BIOS of the Executive could automatically detect and use single-sided disks formatted in the following systems:
IBM PC running CP/M 86
DEC VT 180
Commodore 128[citation needed][clarification needed]
Many CP/M systems of the time could not read diskettes formatted for any other brand (sometimes, for other models of the same brand) without using third-party special purpose interchange software. This built-in feature provided a useful amount of flexibility in exchanging data with other systems.
The Executive could also emulate certain models of computer terminal (which was useful for dial-up access to remote systems):
ADM-3A
Hazeltine from Hazeltine Corporation
Use[edit]
The Osborne Executive was useful for presentations and projects at client sites. Unlike static presentations, the portable computer could provide on-the-spot answers to numerical questions when working with consulting clients. This laid the groundwork for the kind of 'show me the money' ROI or TCO presentations commonplace today.
A number of Executives had custom ROM's which were personalized when booted, name plates were also etched onto the casing.[2]
The Executive was only produced in limited numbers compared to the predecessor Osborne 1, before the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The financial problems of the Osborne company were aggravated by early announcement of the Executive, which cut into sales of the Osborne 1.[3] This so-called Osborne effect has become proverbial as a mistake that can be made by companies trading in high-technology products.[4]
The company had announced yet another successor product, the Osborne Vixen, but went out of business before the Vixen could be established. An Osborne Executive II, using an 8088 processor, and providing MS-DOS and IBM PC compatibility, was announced but never produced.
Hardware[edit]
Dual half-height 5¼-inch, single-sided double-density 40 track floppy disk drives with 160 kilobyte capacity (Shugart Associates standard, unlike the Osborne 1)
4 MHz Z80A CPU
124 kilobytes main memory
Fold-down keyboard doubling as the computer case's lid
7-inch, 80 character × 24 line amber monochrome CRT display
IEEE-488 port configurable as a parallel printer port
Two RS-232 compatible 2400/1200 or 300 baud serial ports for use with external modems or serial printers
External Composite video monitor connection
Storage pocket for up to 8 5¼-inch disks
The Osborne Executive was powered by a wall plug, and had no internal battery, although an aftermarket battery pack offering 1-hour run time was available.
Size[edit]
Width: 20.5 inches (52 cm)
Height: 9 inches (23 cm)
Depth: 13 inches (33 cm)
Weight 28 pounds (13 kg) [5]
Upgrades and Enhancements[edit]
Despite having single-sided drives the Executive motherboard is wired to support double-sided drives, providing the SIDE signal from the disk controller socket to the drive connector but is unused by the shipped single-sided Western Digital FD1793 floppy-disk controller.[6]
An upgrade kit to 360K double sided, double density drives was briefly available from Future Systems, consisting of two new DSDD drives, a drop-in replacement FD1797 disk controller , ROM (1.3) upgrade and an upgraded CP/M BIOS (1.4) and utilities which provided backward compatibility for SSSD/SSDD disks as well as the newer format used by the Osborne Vixen.[7]
A 11 megabyte Hard disk drive option was available from Gard Micro Systems, installation required the removal of one floppy drive to accommodate the new drive, a new logic board and fitting a more powerful mains voltage fan.[8]
The motherboard also provides a pin header (P12) giving connections to the CPU, RAM and video memory and direct memory access for possible future internal expansion via a daughterboard.[6]
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Computer Museum Page
Computer Closet Page
Atari Magazine Review of the Osborne Executive
Rhode Island Computer Museum
Starring the Computer - The Osborne Executive can be seen in the 1984 film The Philadelphia Experiment.
Video Osborne Executive Retro Computer museum, Zatec, Czech Republic
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Osborne_Executive&oldid=934517985"
Computer-related introductions in 1983
Z80-based home computers


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The Iowa Hawkeyes travel to Value City Arena to play the Ohio State Buckeyes on Sunday, February 28, 2016.
The Hawkeyes come into this game with an overall record of 20-7 and a road record of 5-4. They are 13-11 against the spread and their over/under record is 12-11. The Buckeyes have an overall record of 18-11 and a home record of 13-5. They have an over/under record of 15-15 and they are 16-13 against the spread.
Jarrod Uthoff comes into this contest averaging 18.6 points per game while playing 30.4 minutes per night so far this season for the Hawkeyes. He pulls down 6.5 rebounds per game and dishes out 1.1 assists per game as well. His field goal percentage is 45% while his free throw percentage is currently at 81%. Peter Jok averages 16.5 points per game in 26.9 minutes per contest this season. He averages 1.4 assists per contest and 3.4 rebounds per game for Iowa. His field goal percentage is 45% for the year while his free throw percentage is 85%.
Marc Loving averages 12.9 points per game while playing 33.1 minutes per contest this year for the Buckeyes. He grabs 5.2 rebounds per game and has 1.6 assists per contest on the year. His field goal percentage is 40% and his free throw percentage currently is at 75%. Keita Bates-Diop averages 11.9 points per game this season and he sees the court an average of 31.1 minutes per contest. He also averages 6.6 rebounds per contest and 1.1 assists per game. His field goal percentage is 45% and his free throw percentage is 82%.
Iowa averages 79.3 points per contest this season which ranks them 31st in the nation. Their average scoring margin is 10.7 and their shooting percentage is 46% as a team which has them ranked 79th. Behind the arc they shoot 39% which is good for 23rd in the country. They average 38.4 rebounds per game and 15.9 assists per game which ranks them 60th and 33rd in those offensive categories. In the turnover department they rank 13th with 10.1 per game. The Hawkeyes allow 68.6 points per game to their opponents which ranks them 87th in the nation. They also allow a 41% shooting percentage and a 30% average from behind the arc ranking them 56th and 14th in those defensive categories. Opponents average 37.1 rebounds a game which ranks 246th and they give up 13.4 assists per contest which puts them in 188th place in the country. They force 13.1 turnovers per game which ranks them 139th in the Division 1.
Ohio State averages 70.6 points per game this year which ranks them 218th in Division 1 college basketball. Their average scoring margin is 3.9 and their shooting percentage is 44% as a team which has them sitting in the 140th spot in the country. Behind the arc they shoot 34% which is good for 197th in the nation. They average 38.4 rebounds per game and 11.6 assists per contest which ranks them 61st and 277th respectively. In the turnover department the Buckeyes rank 192nd with 12.9 per game. The Buckeyes allow 66.7 points per game to their opponents which ranks them 49th in the country. They also allow a 39% shooting percentage and a 34% average from behind the arc ranking them 17th and 115th in those defensive statistics. Opponents average 35.7 rebounds a game which ranks 164th and they give up 11.6 assists per contest which puts them in 64th place in the nation. The Buckeyes force 12 turnovers per game which ranks them 226th in college basketball.
The Hawkeyes average 76.8 points per game on the road this season and they have scored 69.7 ppg in their past 3 contests. They have an average scoring differential of 6 on the road and in their past 3 games their difference is -2.7 per contest. The Hawkeyes have an offensive rating of 113.9 and they assist on 57% of their shots. In terms of pace they average 69.4 possessions per 40 minutes and their effective field goal percentage is 53%. As a team they have a true shooting percentage of 56% and they shoot 3 pointers on 36% of their shots. Iowa turns the ball over an average of 12.5 times per 100 possessions and they get a steal on 9.8% of their opponents possessions. Their total rebound percentage is 50.9% while their offensive rebound percentage is 32.1%. The Hawkeyes give up 70.8 points per game on the road this season and they have surrendered 72.3 points per contest in their last 3 games.
The Buckeyes score 72.7 ppg at home and they have averaged 67.7 points per contest in their last 3 games.They have an average scoring differential of -2 in their past 3 contests and at home this season they have a difference of 10.4 points per game. The Buckeyes have a rating on offense of 102.7 and 46% of their shots are assisted. They possess the ball 67.8 times per 40 minutes and their effective field goal percentage for the year is 50%. As an offensive unit they have a true shooting percentage of 53% and they attempt 3 pointers on 33% of their shots. Ohio State turns it over an average of 16.4 times per 100 possessions and they steal the ball on 7.9% of their opponents possessions. Their total rebound percentage is 51.9% while their offensive rebound percentage for the season is 30%. The Buckeyes give up 62.3 points per contest at home this year and they have given up 69.7 points per game in their past 3 contests.
Iowa Hawkeyes Betting Trends
The Iowa Hawkeyes are 13-11 against the spread
The Iowa Hawkeyes are 12-11 against the over/under
Ohio State Buckeyes Betting Trends
The Ohio State Buckeyes are 16-13 against the spread
The Ohio State Buckeyes are 15-15 against the over/under
Iowa Hawkeyes Injuries
12/06/15 F Dale Jones Knee out for season
Ohio State Buckeyes Injuries
12/17/15 G Austin Grandstaff Personal has left team
02/26/16 F Jae'Sean Tate Shoulder out for season
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Shadow of a Doubt - May 2016
May 14 - "The Man who Stalked Einstein" - Presented by Bruce J. Hillman, MD
July NCAS Lecture
2016 NCAS Philip J. Klass Awardd Presentation Dinner
Happy Friday the 13th!
NCAS Board Elections
Drinking Skeptically on hiatus
The Man Who Stalked Einstein:
A Tale of Scientific Differences, Envy, and Ethnic Prejudice
Presented by Bruce J. Hillman, MD
The Man Who Stalked Einstein details the antagonistic relationship between Philipp Lenard – the 1905 Nobel Prize winner for physics – and Time Magazine's 'Man of the 20th Century,' Albert Einstein. The two men were antipodes in nearly every regard. Lenard was an experimentalist, who believed the theoretical physics of Einstein was calculated charlatanry. He was a strident German nationalist, whose personal financial reversals and the death of his son led him to believe the popular Nazi shibboleth that the Jews were at fault for Germany's problems. Lenard personalized Einstein as 'the Jew.' Over time, his writings and speeches attacking Einstein reversed the public's perception of the once popular Einstein and had much to do with Einstein's fleeing Europe in 1933. Following Hitler's consolidation of authority, Lenard and his protégé, Johannes Stark - empowered by newly enacted anti-Semitic laws – led the dismissal of all Jewish scientists from German universities.
Bruce J. Hillman, MD, is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Virginia. He has published more than 300 articles in the medical literature, as well as the 2010 book, The Sorcerer's Apprentice – How Medical Imaging is Changing Health Care, explaining medical imaging for a lay audience. He has edited three medical journals, including his current role as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. The Man Who Stalked Einstein: How Nazi Scientist Phillip Lenard Changed the Course of History is his first work of creative non-fiction.
Twinbrook Library (Note New Location)
202 Meadow Hall Dr, Rockville, MD
A rare NCAS summer lecture is scheduled, featuring Glenn Branch, the Deputy Director of the National Center for Science Education, who will give a talk on doubt and denial as challenges in climate education. Thursday, July 7 at 7:30 PM at Chevy Chase Library, 8005 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD.
2016 NCAS Philip J. Klass Award Presentation Dinner
On May 3, NCAS members and guests gathered at Positano Ristorante Italiano in Bethesda for the first Philip J. Klass Award presentation dinner. NCAS president J. D. Mack presented the 2016 NCAS Philip J. Klass Award for outstanding contributions in promoting critical thinking and scientific understanding to Dr. John Mather, Senior Project Scientist for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The award presentation was followed by Dr. Mather's talk on "The History of the Universe from the Beginning to the End: Where Did We Come From, Where Can We Go?"
Special guests for the evening were John and Jane Mather, and Michael and Deanna Hauser. Drs. Mather and Hauser were members of NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) science team. Launched in 1989, COBE obtained the first precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background glow, with results that confirmed an essential prediction of the Big Bang model of the origin of the universe, and revealed the expected slight background temperature variations indicative of early matter distribution that evolved into immense cosmic voids and galaxy filaments as the universe continued to expand.
For this work, John Mather and George Smoot equally shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics. Hauser, Smoot, and sixteen other members of the COBE science team shared half of the 2006 Gruber Prize in Cosmology, with the other half going to Mather.
Though NCAS also honors Dr. Mather's scientific contributions, primarily the 2016 Philip J. Klass Award was presented to him for his dedication in describing to the public what he and his colleagues discovered, how it was done, and what will be done to continue the pace of discovery.
The presence of Dr. Hauser and his wife at the Klass Award dinner was a surprise to Dr. Mather, who considers Hauser a mentor as well as a friend and colleague, dating back to 1974 when they and other team members began developing the COBE concept.
The award presentation and Dr. Mather's talk are available on the NCAS YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGnIfhtP92k
NCAS created the Philip J. Klass Award in 2006. Previous recipients were Michael Shermer, James Randi, Robert L. Park, Paul Kurtz, Ray Hyman, Joel Achenbach, Penn & Teller, Phil Plait, and Steven Salzberg.
Deanna Hauser, Michael Hauser, Jane Mather, John Mather, and NCAS president J. D. Mack.
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After accepting the Klass Award (right), John Mather describes the James Webb Space Telescope, an ambitious project to observe the first stars and galaxies forming, reveal the birth and development of other solar systems, and examine the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars, starting in 2018.
The 2016 NCAS Philip J. Klass Award
NCAS has no events planned for Friday, May 13, but encourages our members to celebrate the silliness of superstition by flouting unlikely harbingers of doom. (Sensibly of course...wear eye protection if you smash a mirror, be careful when walking under a ladder, etc!) Meanwhile, we're still wondering how one of the better days of the week could get such a bad rap. Shouldn't Monday be the prime suspect for bad luck?
John Podesta Discusses UFOs/UAPs with CNN's Jake Tapper
There were a few developments shortly after the April Shadow of a Doubt news item ("Hillary Clinton Discusses UFOs/UAPs and Plans Government Disclosure"). CNN's Jake Tapper asked John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, what his candidate will do regarding "government disclosure" of UFOs (which Podesta calls UAPs, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) if she becomes President.
After telling Tapper that Hillary Clinton plans to declassify as many government records pertaining to UAPs as possible, Podesta noted that "...President [Bill] Clinton asked for some information about some of these things, and in particular some information about what was going on at Area 51, but I think the U.S. government could do a much better job in answering the quite legitimate questions that people have about what's going on with unidentified aerial phenomena."
Unfortunately Tapper did not follow up to discover why Podesta believes the U.S. government could "do a much better job" than it did in answering a President's request for information. Tapper also did not ask Podesta what was (presumably) inadequate about the many Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for such information, submitted by and fulfilled for various UFO investigative groups and individuals over a period of decades. If Podesta believes that the most important records are still classified and thus protected against public release through the FOIA, why would even President Bill Clinton have been unable to learn about them?
Podesta probably will never be able to prove to himself that the government records he seeks don't actually exist. That mindset may lead not only to eternal futility for him, but also to a susceptibility to the works of document forgers.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/07/politics/john-podesta-hillary-clinton-ufo/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/08/the-long-strange-history-of-john-podestas-space-alien-obsession/
The 2016 NCAS election is underway. In mid-April, your e-mail inbox should've received a single-cast secret ballot from "elections@ncas.org via surveymonkey.com <member@surveymonkey.com>". (NCAS will receive information indicating who voted, but nothing to indicate who cast each ballot.) Please vote by May 15, 2016.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/policy/anti-spam-policy/
AmazonSmile's disbursements to NCAS in the second half of 2015 came to $15.70, meaning that over $3000 of purchases were designated in support of NCAS. (As an example of how NCAS can put that money to good use, it's almost enough to cover one hour of a Montgomery County library lecture room rental: $20).


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Thaddeus George "Thad" McCotter (born August 22, 1965)  is an American politician, radio host, and a member of the Republican Party who was the U.S. representative from  from 2003 to 2012.  The district at the time consisted of portions of Detroit's northwestern suburbs, such as Livonia, Westland and Novi.

From July 2 to September 21, 2011, he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in the 2012 election.  After ending his presidential campaign, McCotter decided to run again for his seat in Congress, but he failed to qualify for the 2012 Republican primary in his congressional district after most of his petition signatures were rejected as invalid. The fallout from the ensuing scandal resulted in McCotter's resignation from Congress in July 2012.

Early life, education, and career
McCotter was born in Detroit, Michigan, and is a 1983 graduate of Detroit Catholic Central High School in Redford. His mother, Georgia Joan McCotter, was the city clerk of Livonia.
He received a B.A. from the University of Detroit in 1987 and a J.D. from the same school in 1990.

McCotter had a private law practice and was a Schoolcraft College trustee before being elected to the Wayne County Commission in 1992. While on the commission, he worked to  change the county charter to require that new taxes require the approval of two-thirds of the Commission and 60% of voters.

McCotter was elected to the Michigan State Senate in 1998. As a state senator, he helped apportion the U.S. Congressional district from which he was subsequently elected in 2002.

U.S. House of Representatives

Committee assignments
 Committee on Financial Services
 Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government-Sponsored Enterprises
 Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit
 Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade

Party leadership and caucus memberships
 Congressional COPD Caucus
 House Sovereignty Caucus (Co-Founder)
 International Conservation Caucus
 Sportsmen's Caucus

Shortly before the midterm elections in November 2006, McCotter made a $250,000 contribution to the National Republican Congressional Committee. After the elections, when the Republicans  became the minority party in the House of Representatives, McCotter was elected chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, the fifth-ranking post among House Republicans. The other Republican seeking the post was Congressman Darrell Issa of southern California.

Political positions
McCotter was a member of both the moderate Republican Main Street Partnership and the conservative Republican Study Committee.

In May 2007, McCotter, along with 55 other Republicans, voted for a bill written by House Democrats aimed at stopping energy price gouging, against the wishes of House Minority Leader John Boehner, who labeled the bill  "as pointless political pandering".

McCotter was a supporter of the United States' involvement in both the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq War. In his 2011 book Seize Freedom!, he wrote that the wars "were never separate wars; they have always been battle theaters in the War for Freedom."

On September 22, 2008, McCotter became the first Republican in the House of Representatives to oppose the $700 billion Paulson bailout plan,  calling it "American socialism." A week later, he and 132 other Republicans voted against the bill.

At the end of July 2009, McCotter introduced a bill to allow pet owners a $3,500 tax deduction for pet care costs.
The bill, called the Humanity and Pets Partnered Through the Years (HAPPY) Act, was criticized by Howard Gleckman of the Tax Policy Center as "the poster puppy for all that is wrong with the tax code."

McCotter supported union-friendly measures including collective bargaining agreements for government jobs and card check, although he later said his vote for the so-called card check method was a mistake.

Political campaigns
McCotter was elected in November 2002, defeating Democratic Candidate Kevin Kelley of Redford, to the 108th Congress. He was reelected in the 2004 Congressional elections. McCotter ran unopposed in the 2006 Republican primary. His opponent in the November 2006 general election was Democrat Tony Trupiano, a progressive radio talk show host from Dearborn Heights. McCotter, Trupiano, Libertarian Party nominee John Tatar, and U.S. Taxpayers Party nominee Charles Tackett met only once for a recorded League of Women Voters public forum in mid-October. In radio and direct-mail advertisements, McCotter criticized Trupiano's position on illegal immigration, and he was reelected with 55 percent of the vote.

In November 2008, McCotter defeated Democrat Joseph Larkin, Green Party candidate Erik Shelley, and Libertarian John Tatar. McCotter won 51 percent of the vote to Larkin's 45 percent. In November 2010, McCotter defeated Democrat Natalie Mosher with 59 percent of the vote to Mosher's 39 percent.

2012 presidential campaign

In May 2011, McCotter confirmed that he was considering a run for the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States in 2012.
By late June, sources indicated that McCotter would enter the race.
On June 23, 2011, a McCotter representative bid $18,000 for a site at the Ames Straw Poll Auction in Iowa.
On July 1, 2011, McCotter announced that he had filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) as a candidate for president.
On July 2, 2011, McCotter announced his candidacy at WAAM Freedom Fest in Whitmore Lake, Michigan, outside of Detroit.

Throughout his campaign, commentators suggested that McCotter's lack of name recognition nationwide would hamper his chances of winning the nomination. In opinion polls that included McCotter, he received less than one percent and he came in last place in the August 2011 Ames Straw Poll. On September 22, 2011, McCotter announced the end of his campaign for the presidential nomination, and said that his exclusion from presidential debates had hindered it. Given the lack of media coverage of his campaign, McCotter called the end of his presidential campaign "death by media." He said he would endorse Mitt Romney and would run again for his 11th congressional district in 2012.

2012 congressional campaign and petition scandal
In April 2011, McCotter was the only member of Michigan's 15-member congressional delegation who did not confirm he was running for reelection. He indicated interest in running against incumbent Democrat Debbie Stabenow for the U.S. Senate seat in Michigan in 2012, but in May 2011 announced that he would not campaign for the position.

After announcing his intention to run for reelection, McCotter was expected to win the Republican nomination easily, but on May 25, 2012, Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson announced that he had failed to submit enough valid petition signatures to qualify for the August 7 primary ballot. Although McCotter had submitted 2,000 signatures, the maximum permitted by Michigan law for congressional primaries, a preliminary review indicated that fewer than the required minimum of 1,000 were valid. According to a spokeswoman for the Secretary of State's office, several of McCotter's petition signatures were duplicates. Michigan election law stipulates that if duplicates are found, both the original and duplicate are ruled invalid. McCotter had the option of running as a write-in candidate in the primary election or as an independent in the general election if he failed to qualify for a primary ballot spot.

At the time the apparent fraud was uncovered, McCotter was on a congressional trip to Taiwan. On May 26, a source within McCotter's campaign told the Detroit Free Press that McCotter conceded that the signatures would be ruled invalid, and that he was considering a write-in effort. McCotter confirmed this to Nolan Finley of The Detroit News, adding that he did not understand what happened with the signatures on the petitions.

Later that day, state officials announced in two separate reviews that more than 85 percent of McCotter's petition signatures were invalid.  The Secretary of State's office said its review revealed only 244 of 2,000 signatures were valid. Numerous petition sheets appeared to have been copied—in some cases, as many as three times—and in some cases a different canvasser's name was attached to one of the copies.  Michigan elections director Chris Thomas conducted his own review, and said there was evidence signatures from 2010 petitions had been cut-and-pasted onto the 2012 sheets. Thomas also said that McCotter had only turned in 1,830 signatures, and all but 244 were invalid.  His office's review revealed that dozens of petition sheets appeared to have been copied in what he described as an "unprecedented level" of fraud.

Late on May 27, the Secretary of State's office announced that it found the potential fraud egregious enough to ask state attorney general Bill Schuette to look into the matter. In an op-ed that ran in the May 29, 2012, Detroit News, McCotter announced he would mount a write-in campaign in the Republican primary for his seat. He also acknowledged that the signatures in question were indeed invalid, based on his own legal team's review. Likening himself to George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life, McCotter said that he was running a write-in campaign to "clean up my own mess."

On June 2, McCotter announced that he was ending his bid for reelection and would leave the House at the end of his term. In his statement, he said that he felt obligated to fulfill his duties in Congress and assist Schuette and Johnson in getting to the bottom of the petition fraud. These obligations, he said, made mounting a write-in bid for Congress impossible. "One can't clean up a mess multitasking," he said. McCotter was the first sitting congressman since the late 1940s not to qualify for his party's primary.

A month later, on July 5, The Detroit News reported that McCotter had spent much of the time since his presidential campaign failed writing a television pilot script for a comedy/variety show starring himself, to be called Bumper Sticker: Made on MoTown. It featured characters with the same nicknames he used for members of his staff and a guest appearance by conservative commentator S. E. Cupp. "They take pot shots about McCotter's ill-fated bid for the White House while spewing banter about drinking, sex, race, flatulence, puking and women's anatomy," the newspaper wrote.

Resignation and aftermath
On July 6, 2012, McCotter resigned from the House. He said:

He also wrote:

While McCotter was not suspected of any wrongdoing, several of his staff members were charged with crimes. District Director Paul Seewald pleaded guilty to falsely signing a petition and was given two years of probation. Deputy District Director Don Yowchuang pleaded no contest to ten counts of felony forgery and was given three years of probation. Scheduler Lorraine O'Brady pleaded no contest to five counts of falsely signing a nominating petition and was sentenced to 20 days in jail. District Representative Mary M. Turnbull pleaded no contest to the felony of committing an illegal act and was sentenced to two years of probation and one day in jail.

McCotter's resignation left the 11th district unrepresented until the November elections, when Democrat David Curson was elected in a special election to finish McCotter's term. Republican Kerry Bentivolio succeeded Curson in January 2013 as the representative of the redrawn 11th district.

Post-congressional career
In January 2014, McCotter launched "Thaddeus McCotter's Freedom Asylum", a radio program on FM 92.7 & AM 1400, The Patriot in Detroit. It was canceled by June 2014.

In June 2017, McCotter served as an election observer in the Puerto Rico political-status referendum. McCotter regularly appears on the John Batchelor Show radio program, on Cumulus Media, across the United States.

Bibliography
 Seize Freedom!: American Truths and Renewal in a Chaotic Age, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2011
 Bumper Sticker: Made on Motown (unfinished television pilot)

Personal life
McCotter is a practicing Catholic.

In December 2005, McCotter joined with several other Congressmen to form the "Second Amendments," a bipartisan rock and country band set to play for United States troops stationed overseas over the holiday season. He played lead guitar. In June 2006, the band played at President George W. Bush's picnic on the White House lawn, where Bush was quoted calling McCotter "that rock-and-roll dude." McCotter was once in a band called the New Flying Squirrels.

See also

 List of federal political scandals in the United States

References

External links

 Congressman Thaddeus McCotter official U.S. House website

 Campaign finance reports and data at the Federal Election Commission (presidential)
 Financial information at OpenSecrets (presidential)

1965 births
Living people
Republican Party Michigan state senators
People from Livonia, Michigan
Candidates in the 2012 United States presidential election
21st-century American politicians
University of Detroit Mercy alumni
Writers from Michigan
21st-century American writers
American talk radio hosts
Radio personalities from Detroit
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan
Catholics from Michigan
Detroit Catholic Central High School alumni

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