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Two shepherds were struck by lightning in Romania’s Calimani Mountains, in the Frumuşica area, at an altitude of over 1,500 meters, local Mediafax reported. One of the shepherds died.
The incident occurred on Thursday evening, August 1, and both mountain rescue and medical teams were sent to the scene.
“We’re going there with two teams from the Vatra Dornei Mountain Rescue Department, and those from the County Ambulance Service are also with us. One person is dead and the second one suffered burns,” Petru Ariciuc, chief of Vatra Dornei Mountain Rescue Department, said on Thursday evening.
The shepherd who died was transported to the base of the mountain and then to the Department of Forensic Medicine.
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The Cyrus Cylinder
Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, Cyrus the Great, in my belief proved to be an upstanding soldier and tolerant ruler. It has been said that Cyrus supported basic human rights in which those he conquered would be treated with dignity and humanity. Therefore of his many accomplishments, I feel the defeat of Nabonidus proved most significant to which he conquered Babylon. This event encouraged Cyrus to assemble the cuneiform clay cylinder today known as The Cyrus Cylinder. As this document allowed freedom of religion to his people I also feel as though it set forth a ruling structure for the emperors that would follow him.
Cyrus appeared to be a faithful man to his beliefs and obedient to his lord, Marduk. This, in turn, allowed him to enter Babylon without conflict as not to cause damage or distress. It appears through his conquering, Cyrus believed in bringing peace and relief to the people he would then rule. One can only imagine the difficulties that arose in ruling a small kingdom. It seems as though Cyrus conquered an immense area including many territories of diverse cultures, languages, and religions. As a result of Cyrus’ beliefs, he felt that people of diverse ethnicity and religion could live together as well as have stability. Although he believed in one god, he also respected the religious beliefs of others, which I feel allowed him to embrace that diversity. In giving the people of Babylon back their freedom, religious rights, as well as rebuilding their temples, he was able to set a precedent for a commendable relationship between a ruler and his people.
It’s understandable that in those days a leader had to obtain a strong military backing as well as be a ruler of fear in order to maintain control of an empire. From what I have learned in my studies, one of the most profound difficulties an emperor would face could be rebellion of its people. It is my belief in order to ensure the people did not rebel there had to...

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The CAMPEP-accredited Physics Residency Program in Radiation Oncology at Cleveland Clinic is a two-year training program. It was established in July 2009 under the direction of Ping Xia, PhD, Head of Medical Physics in the Department of Radiation Oncology.
- The two years are dedicated to hands-on clinical physics training for physicists having a graduate degree. Didactic lectures and seminars are part of the program in order to provide additional teaching of clinical radiation oncology.
The comprehensive program is equipped with the latest radiotherapy and radiosurgery technology related to: intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), Gamma Knife Radiosurgery, stereotactic body radiotherapy (lung, spine), permanent prostate seed brachytherapy, total body irradiation, high dose rate brachytherapy for gynecologic malignancies, radioimmunotherapy, and intraoperative radiation.
Residents, under the supervision of medical physicists and other healthcare professionals, will participate in the routine clinical duties of a radiation oncology physicist. At the conclusion of the program, residents will be able to demonstrate competency in all areas of radiation oncology physics and will be considered prepared/eligible to take the certification examination of the American Board of Radiology in Therapeutic Radiology Physics.
Cleveland Clinic's Department of Radiation Oncology is an established program within a NCI-designated Cancer Center. The Department currently has seven service sites: at main campus and at eight of the regional hospitals. Clinical training is currently provided at the main campus and at one regional hospital (Hillcrest).
All physics residents will report to the Physics Residency Program Director and to the Head of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology. The Physics Education Committee oversees the operation and the evaluation of the program. The physics residents are appointed by Cleveland Clinic Graduate Medical Education and receive an equivalent benefits package as the medical residents in clinical radiation oncology. In addition to regular teaching conferences, seminars, journal clubs and chart rounds, physics residents will have the opportunity to attend all of the courses offered by the department, including a year-round radiation physics course offered to medical residents. The physics residents can also take graduate courses offered by the Physics Department at Cleveland State University, where Cleveland Clinic is partnered for a Masters Degree program in Medical Physics.
Program Completion Requirements
Cleveland Clinic residency training program follows the “Essentials and Guidelines for Hospital Based Medical Physics Residency Training Programs” as outlined in AAPM Report #90. Upon completion of the program, the residents are expected to demonstrate competency in practicing fundamental clinical radiation oncology physics procedures and to have a comprehensive understanding of all clinical topics in radiation oncology physics. The residents are expected to be prepared to pass the American Board of Radiology exams. For this, 24 months of clinical training and education is provided.
The residents work closely with faculty physicists and clinical staff in the Radiation Oncology Department. Each resident participates in clinical procedures and QA measurements. The resident will follow a clinical rotation schedule, and each rotation consists of several clinical modules with defined goals and evaluation methods. Competency in every clinical module must be demonstrated, and each resident's performance will be evaluated by the teaching faculty at the completion of each year. Written reports, written exams, and oral exams are included in the evaluation.
|Module Name / Code||Code||Description||Mentor / Duration|
|Orientation & Introduction to Department Systems||INT||Observation at treatment machines and simulators
IMPAC and systems training
Professionalism and Ethics
|Imaging||IMG||IGRT, CBCT, CT Simulation, Image Fusion, Data Transfer, DICOM||Yu
Concurrent with TPE/TPI and TBD
|Linac Beam Calibration||LBC||TG-51 calibration.||Kolar
TBD Year 2
|TLD and In Vivo Dosimetry||IVD||Calibration and use of TLD's and MOSFETs.||Magnelli
Concurrent with TPE/TPI
|Basic Dose Calculations||BDC||Manual (hand) calculations of various simple beam arrangements||Wilkinson
Concurrent with TPE/TPI
|Dose Modeling for TPS||DMO||Beam modeling in Pinnacle||Xia
TBD Year 2
|Treatment Planning, external beam 3D||TPE||Use of Pinnacle TPS||Kolar
|Treatment Planning IMRT||TPI||Use of Pinnacle TPS||Kolar
|Electron Beam Planning||EBP||Use of Pinnacle TPS along with measured output factors||Qi
Concurrent with TPE/TPI
|Radiation Protection and Shielding||RPS||Shielding calculations for radiation therapy vault.||Stongosky
|Applied Health Physics||APH||Radiation safety tasks including dose rate surveys and receipt of radioactive materials||Miller
|Linac Annual QA||LAQ||Annual linac QA for Elektra, Siemens, and Varian systems||Guo
|Linac Monthly QA||LMQ||Monthly linac QA for Elektra, Siemens, and Varian systems||Guo
|Patient Chart Checks||PCC||Standard plans; patient specific MU and plan checks||Xia
|Quality and Process Improvement||QPI||Workflow enhancement
Root cause or incident analysis
|Stereotactic Radiosurgery||SRS||Radiosurgery using 60Co Gamma Knife||Neyman
|Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy||SBRT||Simulation, treatment planning and delivery of SBRT||Magnelli
|IMRT Patient QA||IPQ||Patient specific IMRT dose verification||Qi
|Measurement Instrument QA||MIQ||Intercomparison of dosimetry systems||Kolar
|Total Body Irradiation and Total Skin Electron Therapy||TBS||Techniques for total body irradiation (photons) and total skin electron therapy||Qi
|Intra-operative Radiation Therapy||IORT||QA, pre-treatment planning and delivery using Intrabeam device||Kolar/Magnelli
|Regional Physics Practice||RPP||Experience in working in a smaller, community setting||Strongosky
|1||1-1||INT, TPE, RPS, LMQ, IPQ|
|1||1-2||BDD, BDC, IVD, LMQ, IPQ|
|1||1-3||TPI, MIQ, IMG, LMQ, IPQ|
|2||2-1||DMO, BRT, LBC, LMQ, IPQ|
|2||2-2||PCC, SRS, RPS, LMQ, IPQ|
|2||2-4||EBP, TBS, SBT, LMQ, IPQ|
Besides formal coursework, all residents will be encouraged to attend departmental and regional AAPM conferences. This is designed to help the residents to develop knowledge of routine clinical operations in radiation oncology physics. These conferences include weekly chart rounds, cancer center grand rounds, visiting professors lectures, radiation safety in-services, bi-weekly radiation oncology physics research meeting and journal club. At the discretion of the Physics Education Committee, residents will have the opportunity to attend refresher courses offered at the AAPM annual meetings, AAPM summer school, and ASTRO annual meetings, etc.
Any resident accepted into the program must satisfactorily have completed, or will complete, the appropriate courses required by the American Board of Radiology. If courses are required, the program duration increases correspondingly.
Upon completion of the program, a certificate will be awarded subject to the following requirements:
- Satisfactory completion of clinical rotations as documented in the rotation evaluation form, with all checklists signed by the supervising physicist and Physics Residency Program Director.
- Satisfactory completion of Cleveland Clinic’s mandated on-line medical education courses (COMET).
- Preparation and presentation of at least two talks each year on clinical medical physics procedures.
- Satisfactory attendance in all required clinical and medical physics courses, seminars and conferences including medical physics seminars, radiation safety in-services, chart rounds, and clinical morning conferences.
- Successfully passing end-of-year examinations as outlined by the Physics Education Committee.
|Grad Level||New Annual Rate|
- Vacation: 15 days (3 weeks) per year plus a variable number of meeting days and institutional holidays.
- Office space: Each resident has a personal desk space with a laptop and dual monitor computer which has access to patient information and the Internet.
- Pagers: Cleveland Clinic has a text paging system.
- Cleveland Clinic iPhone: Each resident receives a Cleveland Clinic issued iPhone from the start to end of your residency.
- Benefits: All benefits offered to residents and fellows are developed and implemented by Cleveland Clinic’s Graduate Medical Education Council (GMEC). Learn more.
We are seeking candidates with a PhD/MS in Medical Physics, Physics, or related fields for two medical physics resident positions. The physics residents will work with a team of physicists and dosimetrists to be trained in all aspects of clinical radiation therapy physics. This position is designed to include two years of clinical training with optional 1-year research.
Candidates must have a PhD/MS degree from CAMPEP accredited graduate programs in medical physics, or have a PhD degree in physics, biophysics, radiological sciences, engineering, or a related field and have completed a CAMPEP-accredited certificate diploma. Candidate applications will be reviewed by the Physics Education Committee. The selected applicants will be interviewed via telephone by the program director and/or designated committee members and then invited for an on-site interview. The physics faculty will rank the candidates interviewed who will be notified about the admission decision in a timely fashion.
It is the continuing policy of Cleveland Clinic that all terms and conditions of employment, including but not necessarily limited to, recruitment, appointment, promotion, compensation, benefits, transfers, training, education, and social and recreational programs will be administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin or ancestry, disability, or status as a disabled or Vietnam-era veteran.
Current Physics Residents
- Chieh-Wen Liu, PhD – July 2021 – July 2024 (1 Year of Research – 2 Years Clinical Training)
- Ananta Raj Chalise, PhD – July 2022 – June 2024 (2 Years Clinical Training)
- Zhexuan Zhang, PhD – July 2022 – June 2024 (2 Years Clinical Training)
- Christopher Busch, MS – July 2023 – June 2025 (2 Years Clinical Training)
Medical Physics Resident Program Statistics
Previous Physics Residents
|Year||Resident's Name||Current Work Address|
|2010||Yuenan Wang, PhD||Cancer Institute Hospital, CAMS|
|2012||Peng Qi, PhD||Cleveland Clinic Main Campus|
|2013||Long (Max) Huang, PhD||Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital|
|2014||Ahmad Amoush, PhD||Mount Sinai Beth Israel|
|2014||Han Liu, PhD||Cone Health Cancer Center, Greensboro, NC|
|2014||Wen Li, PhD||Consultant – China and U.S.|
|2015||Salim Balik, PhD||University of Southern CA|
|2015||Qingyang (Grace) Shang, PhD||Cone Health Cancer Center, Greensboro, NC|
|2016||Zhilei Liu (Julie) Shen, PhD||University of Southern CA|
|2017||Monica Andrews, PhD||The C.R.O.P.S., Inc. (Clinical Radiation Oncology Physics Services, Inc.|
|2018||Taoran Cui, PhD||Rutgers University at New Jersey|
|2018||Susan Kost, PhD||Cleveland Clinic Mansfield|
|2018||Michelle Sands, PhD||Advocate Health in Chicago. Will primarily cover Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove|
|2018||Kyle Verdecchia, PhD||Henry Ford Hospital|
|2019||Lei "Richard" Qiu, PhD||Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University|
|2020||Gleb Kuzmin, PhD||Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center|
|2020||Tianjun Ma, PhD||Virginia Commonwealth University|
|2020||Zi Ouyang, PhD||UH Seidman Cancer Center|
|2021||Alexander Antolak, MS||Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital|
|2022||Saeed Ahmed, PhD||University of Kansas Medical Center|
|2022||Jorge Zavala, PhD||University of New Mexico|
|2023||Tara Gray, PhD||Cleveland Clinic|
|2023||Mojtaba Moazzezi, PhD||Christiana Hospital|
You may obtain additional information about the Radiation Physics Residency Program by contacting:
Radiation Oncology (CA-50)
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44195

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A man from Karnataka’s Udupi district was killed in Munich, Germany, on Friday after a Guinean man stabbed him and his wife. While 49-year-old Prashant Basarur succumbed to his multiple injuries, his wife, Smita, (43) is stable.
"Indian couple Prashant and Smita Basarur were stabbed by an immigrant near Munich. Unfortunately, Prashant has expired. Smita is stable. We are facilitating the travel of Prashant's brother to Germany. My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family," Sushma Swaraj wrote on Twitter.
Preliminary investigation has ruled out the possibility of a hate crime. The attacker, believed to be a 33-year-old immigrant from New Guinea, was arrested and a kitchen knife used to stab the couple was secured, reports said. His motive for targeting the couple remained unclear. Authorities said that an investigation was underway.
Sushma Swaraj appreciated the work done by the Consulate General of India in Munich and asked them to take care of the couple's children.
According to The Times of India, the attacker lived in the same apartment complex and was involved in a dispute with the couple. The couple was knifed after the altercation spiralled out of control, the report said.
Prashant received lethal blows to his head and body.
The couple, both of whom are techies, had moved to Germany 15 years ago and had obtained German citizenship only last year.
According to the Hindustan Times, the accused did not resist after police alerted by the neighbours arrested him. He was produced in an Augsburg court and was tried for attempt to murder. The report said now with the demise of Prashant, the charges will be changed to murder according to German legal proceedings.
Meanwhile, the children of the couple are being taken care of by the German government authorities.
Smita’s brother Sujay is set to fly to Germany and is seeking a visa.


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In Mexico, many traditions guide dating relationships. While the younger people in large cities may be influenced by the United States, people in more rural areas may hold on to traditions, especially those governed by Catholic values and customs of the traditional Mexican families. A woman traditionally waits for the man to pursue her, whether for a dance at a party or club or to go on a date. While young people in larger cities may adopt more modern habits, people in more rural and conservative provinces adhere to this practice. Chivalry is still customary in Mexico. Men customarily are polite, opening door for women and pulling out chairs. Men are expected to be romantic and well-mannered.
Mexican Weddings: Customs and Rituals
By: Briseida Valencia Soto. Related Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue. Related Latin America and Caribbean. Related North America. Love, or more specifically, relationships are embedded within Mexican culture.
Subscriber Account active since. Fed up with your local dating scene? If so, you’re almost certainly not alone. Dating-related fatigue and frustration are common among single-but-trying-to-mingle people. And with certain aggravating dating trends becoming increasingly common — like ” benching ” and ” stashing ” — it’s not hard to imagine why. If that’s the case for you, you may want to take some dating tips from other countries.
Maybe, you’ll find that the laid-back dating style of people in Sweden or the structured dating rules of Japan jive more with your expectations. Obviously, there is no way to accurately describe the experiences of every single person who has ever been on a date in any country, so these are all generalizations.
All the same, they can help paint a picture of the overall idea of what you might expect should you go on a date during your next global adventure. People in America tend to meet potential romantic partners by one of three ways — at a bar, through friends, or from an app, according to a Reddit thread on the subject. First dates are often casual meeting at a bar or coffee shop are some of the most popular options and get more formal, adding dinner and events into the mix, as time goes on.
Dating is also often low-commitment in the states — it’s more common, especially in one’s early 20s, to be dating just for fun than it is to be dating with the intention to get married ASAP. China has a hefty gender imbalance — in , there were
Culture of Mexico
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Displays of affection may be the norm even if it’s just the first date. However, the more conservative and traditional chicas are not receptive to this. There may be.
When traveling and living abroad, it is important to be aware of each country’s traditions and customs. Rules governing personal relationships are no less important when attempting to understand a society. In Mexico, the culture of dating is a fascinating blend of traditional norms and outside influence. Mexican dating rules differ depending on location. American influence has relaxed dating life in many of the larger cities, and younger people are acquiring a more liberal attitude toward relationships between men and women.
Nevertheless, people in rural areas tend to be more conservative and often keep to traditional dating customs. Traditional gender roles still prevail in varying degrees. Mexican men may hold on to the concept of male machismo, or being “macho,” while women are often taught to play up their femininity in the hope of attracting a potential mate.
Many men and women still believe the man should be the dominant partner in a relationship.
Mexico – Language, Culture, Customs and Etiquette
The topic of Hispanic dating has grown in importance as Hispanic individuals and their culture intermingles around the globe. In the United States, there are around 60 million individuals who identify as Hispanic. Whether you are interested in pursing a relationship with an individual of Hispanic decent or are curious about the Hispanic culture , taking the time to understand this group of individuals can put you better in touch with a large portion of the American population.
Hispanic culture tends to be largely tied to collectivism. This means that relationships, especially those with their family members, tend to be held to the highest degree of importance.
The culture of Mexico varies widely throughout the country, but traditions are “Family units are usually large, with traditional gender roles and.
For long, Mexico has been a favorite destination for romance and romance-related trips. Mexicans are very passionate people. As such, they celebrate with honor when two people commit to love. Celebrations such as weddings may vary as compared with marriages in other cultures. When it comes to Mexican traditional weddings, there are several interesting to-dos associated with the wedding party. These weddings usually involve many close family members and friends, some kind of traditional food, music and religious rituals in a chain of celebrations of significant symbolism.
A typical wedding consists of a combination of rituals from the Aztec, Spanish, Anglo-American, and Native American cultures. Mexicans love to hold parties and being one of the most important celebrations, weddings offer the ideal occasion to host a great event. In customary Mexican families, the father is regarded as the head of the household.
Mexican Dating Rules
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A man risks a woman ending a relationship if he pressures her to have sex, relationships in rural provinces and among the young and inexperienced. Beth Cone is a Los Angeles-based writer and was the style and men, culture, and fitness columnist mexican “On The Boulevard Magazine” in the San Fernando Valley-based magazine from through. She is a publicist and artists dating relationships clients in Northern and Southern California. A graduate from Vanderbilt University, Cone has a degree in Spanish and fine arts.
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Balej nets first NHL goal
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last night he shot a rocket that went under luongo and off the post.. tonight scores by splitting the d, came in close and deked to his right waited for brodeur to stretch to his left and shot it under him and in for his first
He did not split the defense. Hlavac slipped the puck ahead to him. He did get in position to make the play though, faked a shot, then slammed the brakes and went wide.
His shot was not a good one because he was being hooked, but it found a little hole between Brodeur's stick (paddle down) and the goalpost and snuck in.
Very creative goal and the ESPN guys were very excited. But you could see he still needs to put on some pounds. He is very quick and dangerous around the net tho...
They had a couple shots of him yakking Messier's head off on the bench and Messier looked like he wanted no part of it... lol. Mess can't be too happy with the way he's going out (if there's a strike).
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Long before humans adopted social media and a 24-hour news cycle, some creatures were already tuning in to tweets.
A new study in the journal Plos One, by researchers from Oberlin University in Ohio, tested the hypothesis that birds act as community informants, essentially publicizing news from moment to moment. They found that gray squirrels adjust their vigilance levels in relation to the sounds around them, including the chatter of birds.
In other words, when birds call, squirrels listen, and when the avians simply chitchat, the rodents know that they are safe.
To reach this conclusion, a behavioral ecology student, Marie Lilly, created various recordings and took to the streets with buckets full of equipment to collect data about the effects of these tweets on foraging gray squirrels. Lilly hid behind trees as she played five sets of sounds for the squirrels. To indicate danger, she played the call of a red-tail hawk and to indicate safety, she played either ambient sound or one of three different recordings of chattering birds. Then, using a specially created app, she noted the squirrels’ behaviors, logging how much time a squirrel spent freezing, foraging, fleeing, resting, standing, or looking skyward.
While she was collecting the data, Lilly told NPR, she couldn’t necessarily make sense of the squirrels’ behavior. “In the field, I couldn’t tell if their vigilance level was going down or not because I was just recording their raw behavior,” she explains.
However, when she analyzed the collected data after 67 experiments—30 with tweeting bird sounds and 37 with ambient noise—a pattern emerged. Lilly found that the squirrels became more vigilant after hearing the cry of the red-tail hawk—freezing, fleeing, or looking up. But when she played the sound of birds chitchatting—no matter which of the three recordings—the squirrels quickly resumed regular activities, foraging busily, apparently reassured that danger had passed, based on the exchanging birds. The squirrels responded more rapidly to calm birdsong than they did to ambient noise, indicating that they rely more heavily on the inadvertent informants to assess the dangers they face than they do on the mere absence of threatening sounds.
In the paper published with Oberlin professor Keith Tarvin, Lilly and her fellow researchers argue that the findings indicate animals aren’t just relying on vocal species to convey information about danger but are also listening closely for indications of safety. They note that as noise pollution levels rise—which also poses a threat to human health—creatures like squirrels that rely on news reports from other species will increasingly be threatened because they’ll miss these important tweets.

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Fraudsters jailed for £12m 'trick'
Friday 01 June 2012
Three men involved in an elaborate confidence trick in which a Christian philanthropist lost £12 million have been jailed.
The scam convinced businessman Graham Dacre to part with a slice of his fortune, promising huge profits from a high-yield investment fund, Norwich Crown Court heard.
A German church also lost 7 million euro (£5.6 million) in a linked fraud.
None of the money has been recovered.
Sentencing the men, Judge Nicholas Coleman said: "This was essentially a giant confidence trick which netted enormous sums of money. This was a calculated and audacious fraud."
Mr Dacre was persuaded to handover £11.9 million, hoping to use the profits to fund charitable schemes. But once he had transferred the funds to an offshore account, the money disappeared, prosecutor Mark Fenhalls told the trial.
The men constructed an air of "respectability and Christian charity" to win their victims over, he said.
Following a three-month trial and more than the week of jury deliberations, Alan Hunt 65, of The Avenue in Poole, Dorset, was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud Mr Dacre and the New Apostolic Church in Dortmund.
He was cleared of one charge of money laundering.
John Dodd, mitigating on his behalf, said Hunt was the "public face" of the scheme but not a "criminal mastermind".
Arthur Ford-Batey, 62, of Miles McInnes Court, Carlisle, was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud Mr Dacre. He was cleared of defrauding the Dortmund church and laundering money.
His barrister, Adrian Keeling, said he was only aware of the fraud at a late stage and played no part in "constructing" it.
Ian Yorkshire, 62, of Clarendon Villas, Brighton, was found guilty of conspiracy to launder criminal property relating to the two frauds. He was cleared of one count of fraud.
Harry Bentley, mitigating, said Yorkshire has terminal cancer.
He said: "He, in effect, was simply allowing the money to flow through his account."
The judge ordered that Hunt serve a total of nine years, Ford-Batey must serve six years and Yorkshire 11 years.
David "Fraser" Robert, 62, of Montpelier Road, Brighton, and Kevin Brennan, 55, of Kirkburn, Driffield, were cleared of fraud and money-laundering charges.
Brennan's brother, Martin, 40, of Bracken Road, Stockton-on-Tees, was found not guilty of laundering Mr Dacre's money.
The men told the court they believed they were involved in a legitimate enterprise and were not aware of any wrongdoing by the scheme's financial controller who was not involved in this trial.
Outside court, Mr Dacre said: "My wife and I are relieved this long-running case is now finally over. We are grateful to Norfolk Police, the Crown Prosecution Service and all those who have supported us over many months.
"Of course, I would like to get some of the money back but only time will tell."
Frank Schuldt, from the Dortmund church, said members of the congregation donated money for projects to help elderly people and for foreign aid.
He said: "They have been very upset by this."
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Glassblowing and texture
The use of pattern and color can elevate simple forms to sophisticated and beautiful works of art. Function and aesthetics must be symbiotic. This workshop will serve as a testing ground for creating new and interesting patterning with glass color. Cane and murrine techniques will be used as a means of exploring the potential of color and line. Moving between the cold shop and hot shop will allow us to manipulate the surface of vessels and the actual cane or murrine to create unpredictable and limitless patterning. Garage work and hot attachment of individual parts will also be a focus in this workshop. This intensive is for intermediate to advanced students.
Event Price 1500

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Group Factor Analysis
Presented by: Suleiman Ali Khan, Post-doc, Group Aittokallio, FIMM
A key underlying problem faced by informaticians in general and computational biologists in particular is to identify the dependencies between one or more datasets. Recent advancements in machine learning have led to creation of a series of methods that could identify statistical patterns shared between multiple datasets as well as enumerating those specific to anyone. ‘Group Factor Analysis (GFA)’ is a key tool that has recently come up to address these challenges, and in the first session of TOM I will give an overview GFA and some of its practical use cases in bioinformatics and computational biology.
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Originally published in 2015. Edited and expanded.
As of today, there is NO religious persecution in the United States. Every citizen is free to worship any or no God. All citizens are free to worship when, where, and how they wish. I know of no law that prohibits the free exercise of religion. The United States, when it comes to religion, is the freest nation on the face of the earth. Yet, despite the evidence, many on the religious right think they are being persecuted, and if liberals have their way Sharia law will be instituted and Christianity will be outlawed. If the socialist/communist/liberal/Democrat horde is not repelled by King Trump and his mighty army of Evangelicals, Catholics, and Mormons, Christians will be persecuted, incarcerated, and possibly killed — just as the Jews were in World War II.
Think I am kidding? What follows is an excerpt from an article written by American Family Association (AFA) author and CIO Jim Shempert titled America’s Future: Christian Persecution. (AFA has removed the article from their site.) What graphic did AFA and Jim Shempert choose for the article?
That’s right, Shempert and AFA think that Christians will soon be treated much like the Jews, gypsies, and mentally handicapped were treated by Hitler and the Nazis in World War II.
Here’s what Shempert had to say:
…This blog is intended for the Church. If you are not a Christian, and your only goal is to tear down Christianity, you can stop reading here.
Church, Christianity is under attack all across the globe. The persecutions of the Church are definitely not the same but they all have the same root. Imagine trying to be a Christian in Iraq/Syria/anywhere south of Turkey right now… Standing for your faith will be met with loss of property, threats, beatings, and death. These are common occurrences. If you don’t believe me, I encourage you to go to Google. Type in “Middle East Christian persecution” and hit “search.” In literally half a second, Google will return to you 1.1 million articles/pages on persecution of Christians in the Middle East. To focus on a different area, go back to Google and search for “Christian persecution in Africa.” In .6 seconds, you are greeted with 2.5 million articles/pages that deal with Christian persecution in Africa.
Now, the current resident of the White House believes that the atrocities committed by Muslim terrorist groups are not indicative of all Muslim people. Here’s a potential fire starter: I happen to agree with him there. Personally, I believe the Muslim faith to be incorrect in its focus. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and that no man cometh unto the Father but by Him. As those Muslims must surely think that I am wrong in my focus. However, I do not think that all Muslims are terrorists, or that they are all on jihad. I also don’t believe the line that these extremist groups are not focused around Islam. I know that the resident of the White House likes to continue his crusade against Christianity by reminding us that at one time, horrible atrocities were committed by those who claim the name of Christ. His problem, and all those who claim moral equivalency, is that he is unable to call EVIL what it is: EVIL. He is able to quickly tear apart Christianity, and say that America was never a Christian nation, but he is unable to say that Islamic terrorism is evil.
I’ve had a long conversation with a friend on this, and we came to the conclusion that if any group that claims Christianity starts cutting off people’s heads while singing “Just as I am,” the first people to respond will be Christians. We will police our own. The soldiers sent to stop them will probably be Christians, at least in some part. Rest assured, the current White House, will seek great joy in touting that it is CHRISTIANS doing this. “See…they are doing it too!” A 5 year old child has more intellect and intelligence.
The point is… American is no longer a Christian nation. Those are hard words to hear. They were even harder to type. That’s not to say that it never was. America was built around Christian principles, with Christian men and women leading it. Those who claim otherwise are just repeating a Goebbels lie: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” The nation that I grew up in, is no more. Being viewed as an evangelical Christian now, is to be seen as a leper. “Those close minded, bigoted, judging Christians.” “Why don’t you just love? That’s what Jesus did.” (That one usually comes from someone who hasn’t opened a Bible since grade school) “Judge not, that you be not judged.” That’s Matthew 7:1 for any of you that use it. You might want to continue down chapter 7 to verses 15-20. Might do you some eternal good…
…What’s the next step for those who only want their ears tickled? To silence those who don’t! Anyone who preaches the Light, will be resisted by the darkness. Offensive words will be created to describe them and shouted over and over and over until the masses begin to repeat them. They will be chastised in the media, lose their jobs, their businesses, their property, their ability to live their lives the way they choose. The assertion that they are ignorant will be constantly repeated. Their very freedom will be threatened. Oh wait, that’s already happened…
Martin Niemoller was a pastor in Germany during the Nazi regime and also a concentration camp survivor. He is remembered most for this quote:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Ronald Reagan is by far the greatest president of my lifetime. He said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” Those words could never be truer than they are today. As Christians, we are at a crossroads in America. We can stand up, and let our voices be heard. We can fight at the ballot box for the rights that we were always guaranteed. Or, we can continue to allow our anti-Christian government to destroy the basic tenants of our faith. The choice is ours…
…What happens to those of us that resist? How long before we become “enemies of the State?” How long before we are sent to “camps” for re-education? Sound crazy? The German people in the ‘30’s would have said the same thing. In a few short years, millions would be imprisoned and executed for their faith…
…I live in relationship with Jesus Christ as my Savior. My life is forfeit. If it is His will that I must be sacrificed for my stand for His Name, then so be it. Even Jesus didn’t turn away from death when presented with it. He was obedient to the end.
American Christian, most of the rest of the world knows this already, from experience. But there is coming a day when to identify as a Christian in America will bring consequences…
I love it when groups like AFA use Martin Niemöller’s quote to suggest that what happened in Hitler’s Germany will soon happen here. Here’s the problem: no one has come for the socialist, trade unionist, or Jew. Yes, many on the political and religious right fight against socialism and trade unions, but no one would suggest that the religious right is persecuting socialists or union members. They most certainly are not persecuting the Jews. The religious right loves Israel — well at least until Jesus comes back to earth at the end of the Great Tribulation and slaughters all the unbelieving Jews.
We live in a free country. While I think personal liberties are under attack by corporate, military-industrial complex, and surveillance-industrial complex interests, I have no fear of being persecuted or jailed if I oppose those interests. Much like Evangelical Christians, atheists are free to write about, attack, critique, and make fun of religion. I don’t fear the government breaking my door down and arresting me for something I have written.
Unfortunately, when one lives in a country where freedom of belief and practice are ensconced in its founding documents and law, the slightest denial of freedom or the slightest inconvenience can be viewed as an attack on freedom and personal rights. The religious right thinks legalizing same-sex marriage and justice and equal protection under the law for LGBTQ people is an infringement of their religious rights. However, allowing same-sex couples to marry in no way infringes on a person’s right to believe and worship as they see fit. Legalizing same-sex marriage changed nothing for Christians. Christians are still free to pray, read the Bible, evangelize, attend a house of worship, and — get this — forbid LGBTQ people from being members in their church. Nothing in federal or state law required churches and or clerics to accept LGBTQ members or perform their wedding ceremonies.
No clergyperson will ever be required to marry a same-sex couple. Since marriage is a secular function of law, a pastor is free to choose whom he will or won’t marry. It is the marriage license, not the ceremony, that gives a marriage legal force. This is why public officials must issue marriage licenses to heterosexual and same-sex couples alike. They are acting on behalf of the state, a secular institution. If they cannot, according to their conscience, fulfill their legal obligation to issue a marriage license to all who request one, then they should resign. Their resignation is not persecution. All of us have beliefs and moral and ethical values that might, in some circumstances, preclude us from holding certain jobs. Not being able to hold those jobs is NOT persecution.
We are less than a year away from the 2020 presidential election. The United States faces many pressing and trying issues: war, poverty, crumbling infrastructure, government debt, rampant opioid addiction, runaway medical insurance costs, etc. Instead of whining and screaming about “fake” persecution, I wish the religious right and their representatives in Congress would reach across the aisle and meaningfully try to find a solution to the pressing issues of the day.
The American Family Association, and other right-wing religious groups like them, know that their followers must constantly be poked lest they become apathetic and stop sending donations. What better way to wake people up than to scream PERSECUTION! Until Christians realize groups like the AFA are manipulating them for political and financial gain, they will continue to be outraged every time they are told they need to be outraged. (The outrage machine One Million Moms is an arm of the AFA. Please see the 2015 report I wrote titled, Follow the Money: The American Family Association and their Support of the Gay Agenda) Until they are willing to actually think for themselves and thoroughly investigate the issues without checking in with Fox News first, there’s little hope of meaningful dialog.
“But Bruce, same-sex marriage and homosexuality is wrong!” Why? Without referencing the Bible, please defend your anti-LGBTQ position. I have yet to have someone successfully defend the prohibition of same-sex marriage and homosexuality without appealing to their religious beliefs and a sacred text such as the Christian Bible. Once religion is removed from the equation, there is no reasonable argument to be made for prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying or for permitting people to legally and freely engage in same-sex relationships.
That said, I still believe in the American political process. Christians are free to work towards a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. They have the same rights and privileges as I do. Let’s duke it out in the public square. Of course, the religious right doesn’t want to do this, knowing that they would likely never get enough states to approve a constitutional amendment. So, instead, they whine and complain about PERSECUTION!
The real issue here is that Christianity is losing its preferential place at the cultural table. For most of our country’s existence, the Christian religion has been seated at the head of the table. This is natural, of course, since most Americans self-identify as Christian. However, more and more Christians are moving to the left politically and religiously, especially young adults. More and more Americans no longer have any religion. Atheism, agnosticism, humanism, secularism, religious indifference, and “none of the above” continue to increase. Like it or not, right-wing Christians must recognize that they no longer have the political and social power and clout they once had. If they don’t like this, I suggest they get busy attracting new people to their cause. Good luck with that.
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Well, according to their interpretation of the Bible, Christians must be persecuted before the end comes. So I guess they see signs that Christians don’t get to control everything as persecution. Never mind that they can successfully ignore gay people in every arena, except for the work arena. (And if their work is for their church, then they can ignore LBGT people there too!)
The thing that really gets to me is, what happened to Christians who would make attempts to be nice to other people? Now, they are angry and defensive and in-your-face about losing “their” country. I do a lot of asking why they don’t believe in “love your neighbor as yourself” and I don’t get ANY. ANSWER.
Becky, I think that as Christianity is designed to harm, then the phrase, ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’, is actually being carried out! When one is willing to agree to the assertion that they are born in sin and their personal iniquity is overwhelming without our Lord and Savior, then it logically follows that this will be applied across the board. You see, you may not know you are a bag of shit but you are indeed and some years ago, Mr. Gerencser was calling this out from the street-corners of the town! I was laboring myself in a less public way to help spread the word of Truth. When one has filled their gut and gotten high on Kool-aid, harming others is doing those others a favor and serving the one true God. The deliberate reversal of meanings is very important in evangelical Christianity. When you have to beat your wife and/or children it hurts you more than it hurts them. Isn’t it wonderful that God handed over his Son? Isn’t it terrible the way Americans treat God’s chosen leader, dragging his God-given office through the muck of liberal, Satanic forces! Liberals mean well but the devil has them in his corner. They might not even realize it but dear, sweet Jesus opened my eyes to the Truth. Oh, I don’t condemn them to an eternity of hell, no…. that is for God to decide and so forth.
Well, you know, they can’t be bothered with the things of this world unless it’s the gays or abortion….or any other pet project…
It’s the Religious Right stating that their “religious liberty” is under attack if they cannot discriminate against gays and are “forced” to pay for birth control. It’s amazing that liberty is now being defined by them as the ability to discriminate, intimidate and control others that their beliefs deserve more protection. This makes “1984’s newspeak” look wimpy. They seem to forget that there is NOT a right: to be first to force your views on people, not have people criticize you for your beliefs and ideas, and that your disgust with gays is scared.
Old white Christian males are getting more and more terrified of losing their long held power. There are younger men who fighting hard to help them as they are seeing that their easy way to power is being taken away. It’s not an easy thing for some people to face.
There is also the “sincerely held beliefs” phrase that is just nuts. I’ve “sincerely held beliefs” that humans will not wipe our selves out and will reach the stars. It does not mean that I get to discriminate against people who don’t share that belief. The idea that someone who wants to not provide service to gays because of “sincerely held beliefs” is no different than the people who discriminated against people of different skin color for the same reasons. Calling your prejudice a “sincerely held belief” is hiding behind religion.
It’s the “religious liberty” defined as the freedom to stamp out everybody else’s religious (and other) liberty.
I love that he is so offended by Obama being in office that he refers to him as, “the resident of the White House.”
Also, he needs to open a dictionary and learn that TENETS of faith are not the same thing as “TENANTS” of faith. And this: “Offensive words will be created to describe them and shouted over and over and over until the masses begin to repeat them.” Oh, you mean kind of like Fox “News” and the GOP??? Get real, who is really lying to the masses these days?
Ah yes, the persecution thing. The beadswingers have this in a bad way. Recently Australia’s most senior catholic prelate Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson was charged with concealing that another priest had been fiddling with kids.
The response from catholics online? It’s all a liberal media beat-up to smear the holy mother church.
Ahhh yea, they’re persecuted. That’s why we have a church on every corner. Just as bad as CVS pharmacies. What a waste of prime real estate space.
One of the best arguments I’ve heard from Fundies is when they criticize the President and I remind them that their bible says that ALL authority is ordained by god, therefore god put Obama in place. Man oh man does this get them going!! I’ve actually had one tell me that god was not respond for that, that the people were. Its yet again another exercise in double think.
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“Type in “Middle East Christian persecution” and hit “search.” In literally half a second, Google will return to you 1.1 million articles/pages on persecution of Christians in the Middle East. ”
I also typed in “unicorns are real” and got about 10.5 million hits on that. While there is persecution in these countries, someone needs to let them know there is no threshold for Google hits to equal truth. Then again “same sex marriage is good” gets 80.6 million while “Same sex marriage is bad” gets only 37 million. Maybe by their logic same-sex marriage is twice as real?
Sorry, its just way too hard for me to take these people at the AFA serious in any way. For a really good laugh look up their “bigotry map”. I was near one of their map points so I went for a look… it was a concrete island (I did feel particularly ungodly when I stood on it though). That small fact summed them up perfectly for me. A group claiming to know the right direction, but really wrong about both the direction and destination.
Even using the Bible there’s no legitimate justification for opposing gay marriage. You can think its wrong, that doesn’t give you the right to legislate against it. The Bible condemns divorce, yet every state allows it, because it is not for the state to enforce religious rules. People are free to think that divorcees are going to hell or whatever, but as a society. We are grown up enough to realize that your marriage is none of my business.
I just observed a Religious Right conference (U-Turn) where this kind of persecution complex was in full swing. Fundamentalist Christians fail to grasp that being forced to play by the same rules as everyone else is NOT persecution.
“When you’ve been on top so long, equality feels like opression”
The projection lights are blinding me! So if these clowns get any power at all they persecute others immediately! Witness the occasional fracases in the military when some Fundy officer gets the bit between his teeth and decides the whole unit has to be his flavor of fundy. I remember, for no particular reason the case where an outfit was given a choice between attending a christian rock concert and scrubbing the locker room with a toothbrush! (or similar) In spite of my flip language I do worry about this stuff in the back of my mind.
Sigh. American Christians remember “being persecuted for my sake” from the Bible, where it made sense in the 1st Century Roman Empire, whose people worshiped different gods. It was promised as a good thing. But, since there’s no actual persecution of Christians in the 21st Century United States, they have to make it up. So they do, enthusiastically.
Cultists are pretty much the same.
“It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual’s incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his attitude was toward the phenomenon of the Church in the year, say, 1500. … it does not appear to have occurred to the Church-citizen of that day, any more than it occurs to the State-citizen of the present, to ask what sort of institution it was that claimed his allegiance.” ~ Albert Jay Nock
“The cult of the omnipotent state has millions of followers in the united States. Americans of today view their government in the same way as Christians view their God; they worship and adore the state and they render their lives and fortunes to it. Statists believe that their lives — their very being — are a privilege that the state has given to them. They believe that everything they do is — and should be — dependent on the consent of the government.” ~ Jacob Hornberger
Re: Israel. There is also this conflation. The current administration is filled with Neo-Nazi anti-semitism and yet the definition of anti-semitism has changed from persecuting Jews qua Jews to criticizing Netenyahu or the genocide of the Palestinians. Trump signed an order making that transition a couple weeks back. Because Genesis12:3.
Some evangelicals are more interested in their culture wars and forcing their beliefs on others than they are on treating people with respect.
Garden variety American Christian’s don’t know what real persecution is,or the dread that comes with living under a dictatorship. They seem to want to bad enough though. By so many acting like a-holes all over the place,and crackpots visiting at the White House constantly, they could get their wish. Just crashing the economy and destroying the dollar,or starting WW3, purportedly for Jeezus would kickstart that persecution nicely. They’d have the whole country after them then. Many times these fanatics say America must be ruined so Jeezus can come back. Don’t believe it ? Look it up for yourself. Even Jonathan Kahn,who was on AM Coast to Coast last week was saying this-so that the Third Temple can be built,bringing back the Second Coming. New book he’s touting.


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Telefire's 7000 series includes addressable analog control units for fire detection and
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The systems are designed and manufactured strictly according to US and European standard; they control and offer solutions for the most recent requirements in modern building, including built-in smoke management, automatic extinguishing, addressable PA, firemen's telephone, management control and integration with other system.
The 7000 series control units manage addressable input devices such as: smoke detectors, heat
detectors, combined detectors, alarm buttons, etc.
The control units are based on advanced unique technology and quality components, which provide a maximal reliable solutions for various needs and requirements of fire detection and extinguishing.
The 7000 series systems are designed as a modular environment, open systems with flexible interface allowing quick and easy integration ot external devices, in instalation, maintenance, control and reporting subsystem.
|1 to 128 loops, each with 127 address
|From 127 to 16,256 addresses
|Small Basic Unit
|Configurable 1 to 4 loops
|Linking as many as 32 control panel
|Optional module adds monitoring and notification capabilities :
|Advanced Activation Matrix
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|Alarm Response Time
|Less than 1 second
|Device programming, system control, map display and maintenance based on Telefire's proprietary TCS-3040 software, via a standard RS-232 interface
|All parameters entered from front panel (does not require a PC)
|Software update and control (optional)
|Password-protected authorized access
|Embedded signal processing in the detector and control panel
|Operations and Maintenance
|Large LCD Display
|Alphanumeric 4x40 characters illuminated display indicating major events , alarm, fault, etc
|Keeps sensivity setting stable during environmental changes and detector compensation
|Day and Night Sensivity Setting
|Flexible adoption to the protected site's working hours
|A recommendation to clean detector
|Accumulate history of alarm and fault events
|Class "A" or "B" Operational Modes
|Programmable as required
|High noise immunity and automatic recovery
|Automatic Device Programming
|Auto recognition of devise address and type
|Industral CE Approved
An addressable analog smart control unit that can control up to 60 devices.
The GUARD-7 is designed for relatively small sites, with the advanced features and capabilities of large site.
An analog smart control unit that can control a single loop of 127 addresses, and can be expanded by an additional loop to allow the ability of controlling up to 254 addresses.
The SAVER-7000 is designed for small to medium sites that require the functions of fire detection, automatic extinguishing, management and control such as smoke management, addressable public address and firemen's telephone.
An analog smart control unit developed using new and advanced technology.
The ADR-7000 is suitable for installation in large and complex projects in which an advanced system is required with capabilities for complex control, management and programming.
It is a modular system that can be expanded to up to 8 loops and up to a total of 1016 smart devices in a single control unit.
The control unit can be connected by peer-to-peer wiring in a control unit network.


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Our planet is in danger. Agriculture and diets are depleting on soils, changing our climate and driving biodiversity loss to such an extent that our life-supporting ecosystems are now under threat.
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Free Vaccines for Life Program
Keeping up with pet vaccinations is important to protect them from contagious and potentially lethal diseases. Through our Free Vaccines for Life program in Cedar Lake, your pet can enjoy a lifetime of excellent protection.
Following a one-time enrollment fee, your pet will receive their core vaccines free of charge thereafter with every paid exam. Exams are not covered in this program.
The vaccines included in the Free Vaccines for Life program are:
- Rhinotracheitis-calicivirus-panleukopenia combination vaccine (FVRCP)
- Feline leukemia
- Distemper-hepatitis-parvovirus-parainfluenza combination vaccine (DHPP)
- Bordetella (kennel cough)
Why Your Pet Needs Routine Vaccinations
Like children, our pets need vaccinations to keep them immune to various diseases. At Hanover Veterinary Hospital, we offer all of the most important vaccines for cats and dogs to help them stay healthy. Pet vaccinations are an essential part of wellness care and should be given on a yearly basis to provide maximum protection. In addition to protecting your pet, vaccinations can also reduce or prevent the spread of disease.
Our veterinary team in Cedar Lake will work closely with you to choose the appropriate vaccines for your pet. Furthermore, we can offer recommendations based on potential lifestyle changes, and explain the benefits your pet can expect. Vaccinations are a preventive measure that enable pets to fight off diseases without having to experience their effects. Each pet is an individual and requires vaccines that suit their individual needs. To establish an appropriate vaccination schedule for your pet, please call us at (219) 374-9443.
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The Department of Justice’s inspector general released a long-awaited report on the Operation Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal this week. It marked the culmination of a 19-month investigation into the operation, which allowed as many as 2,000 firearms to “walk” into Mexico, where they were handed off to drug cartels.
The operation, overseen by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, rocketed into the public eye when some of those guns were found near the body of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, killed in the line of duty near the Mexican border in Arizona.
Both congressional Republicans, who have doggedly pursued allegations of wrongdoing at the top echelons of the Justice Department, and administration officials have claimed it vindicates their varying accounts of the scandal.
While Attorney General Eric Holder is mostly exonerated of responsibility for the scandal — the report backs up his claim that he did not know about the operation until after it ceased — his apparent lack of knowledge is troubling in itself, as Heritage’s John Malcolm, a former official in DOJ’s criminal division, notes in a new report:
It is shocking to conceive that the Attorney General of the United States was not made aware of the tactics used in an operation that lasted for months and resulted in the deaths of a federal agent and … approximately 300 Mexicans. At the very least, assuming this is true, the Attorney General was ill-served by some of his most trusted advisers, as well as by some career prosecutors in Phoenix. The report … urges Holder to “determine whether discipline or other administrative action … is appropriate.” Some of these individuals should now be disciplined, if not fired.
The inspector general’s report is nearly 500 pages long, so we’ve pulled out the top five revelations that you need to know:
1. The report singles out top Department of Justice officials for wrongdoing.
“We concluded that the Attorney General’s Deputy Chief of Staff, the Acting Deputy Attorney General, and the leadership of the Criminal Division failed to alert the Attorney General to significant information about or flaws in those investigations,” the report states.
The report faults 14 officials with various offenses, most for failing to adequately investigate the possibility that inappropriate tactics were being used. Since the report’s release, acting ATF director Kenneth Melson and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein have resigned.
2. The report appears to contradict sworn testimony by Attorney General Eric Holder.
“I’ve looked at these affidavits,” Holder told Rep. Ben Quayle (R-AZ) in June, referring to documents detailing ATF wiretap applications. “There’s nothing in those affidavits as I’ve reviewed them that indicates gunwalking was allowed.”
Citing the inspector general’s report, Quayle claims Holder “lied … to my face” with that statement. The report claims those affidavits “described specific incidents that would suggest to a prosecutor who was focused on the question of investigative tactics that ATF was employing a strategy of not interdicting weapons or arresting known straw purchasers.”
While the report does not claim that Holder misled Congress, it does say that those affidavits suggested gunwalking took place. Holder says he read those affidavits, and that they suggested no such thing. If the inspector general is correct, both claims cannot be true — either Holder did not review the affidavits, or he was not truthful about their contents.
3. The report faults top Justice Department leadership with failing to adequately respond to the murder of an American border patrol agent.
On December 14, 2010, U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was killed in a firefight with cartel operatives near the Mexican border in Arizona. Fast and Furious firearms were found at the scene.
Top Justice Department officials, including Holder’s chief of staff, Gary Grindler, failed to take proper action upon realizing the connection between the incident and ATF’s gunwalking operation, the inspector general states.
Neither the [Office of the Attorney General] or [Office of the Deputy Attorney General] took appropriate action after learning that firearms found at the scene [of the Terry murder] were connected to the Operation. We believe that an aggressive response to the information was required, including prompt notification of the Attorney General and appropriate inquiry of ATF and the US Attorney’s Office. However, we found that senior officials who were aware of this information, including Grindler, took no action whatsoever.
4. The White House refused to disclose any internal communications to the inspector general.
“The White House did not produce to us any internal White House communications,” the report states, “noting that ‘the White House is beyond the purview of the Inspector General’s Office, which has jurisdiction over Department of Justice programs and personnel.'”
Inspector General Michael Horowitz was not able to investigative White House communications with ATF regarding Fast and Furious. He told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that his office “did not get internal communications from the White House, and [then-White House National Security official Kevin] O’Reilly’s unwillingness to speak to us made it impossible for us to pursue that angle of the case and the question that had been raised.”
5. The report fails to consider evidence that a top DOJ official knew the department misled Congress.
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), who has led the Senate side of the Fast and Furious investigation, claims that the inspector general made a “factual error” in concluding that Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, who heads the department’s criminal division, was for the most part uninvolved in the crafting of a February 4, 2011, letter to Congress denying any knowledge of gunwalking tactics. DOJ later withdrew that letter when internal documents showed that officials had misled Congress about their knowledge of those tactics.
“We found that Breuer had no direct involvement in drafting, editing, or approving the Department’s inaccurate February 4 letter to Sen. Grassley,” the inspector general found. But internal DOJ emails reveal that Breuer did see the February letter before it was sent to Congress, and in fact personally signed off on a draft. “Great work, as usual,” he wrote to one of the letter’s authors.
Why this matters
Operation Fast and Furious is by far the most serious scandal to rock the Justice Department. But there are other troubling developments that have happened on Holder’s watch. They include the misguided lawsuits against Texas and South Carolina over voter ID laws, an ongoing investigation of Pennsylvania’s statute, and legal campaigns mounted against states attempting to secure their borders from illegal immigration.
Heritage’s Hans von Spakovsky, who worked at the Justice Department as counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights, last year documented in an 11-part series the politicized hiring at the Department of Justice — a liberal litmus test for all new career attorneys. It exposed the crass political agenda of Holder and his deputies. Now, the Fast and Furious report raises even more concerns about Holder’s leadership and judgment.
“For veterans of the department, it is another illustration of how low the professionalism and competence of a once-great law-enforcement agency has fallen,” von Spakovsky writes for National Review Online. “And it shows just how dangerous DOJ can be when its power is misused and abused.
>> Today at noon ET, Heritage’s Hans von Spakovsky and author John Fund will speak about their new book, “Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk.” It debunks the liberal myths about voter fraud. Watch it live on Heritage.org.
- Is someone spying on you? In recent months, domestic drones have caused quite a bit of controversy. However, there is a lot of confusion as well. Join us at noon ET today for an online chat about these unmanned aerial vehicles.
- During an appearance on the Spanish-language network Univision, President Obama acknowledged that “the most important lesson I’ve learned is that you can’t change Washington from the inside.”
- The wind-energy industry has lost estimated 10,000 jobs in the past few years and it’s bracing for even more with the expiration of an annual $1 billion federal tax credit.
- G. Gordon Liddy, a Watergate burglar turned talk-radio host, celebrated his retirement from Radio America after more than 20 years of broadcasting.
- The U.S. House will hold a hearing today about Medicare Advantage health plans. Heritage’s Alyene Senger says Obamacare severely damages the program, which faces cuts of $156 billion between 2013 and 2022.


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Okay, it is a month away, but I am already thinking about Thanksgiving. When you design cards for classes, you tend to think about holidays before anyone else. Don't worry though, I haven't started my Easter cards yet!
Today's card is a rather easy card to make. I used images from Impression Obsession and stamped them onto 90lb watercolor paper using VersaFine Vintage Sepia ink. After the ink dried, I colored in the leaves using Twinkling H2O's and a waterbrush. The border at the bottom was created by stamping the leaf image onto a scrap of watercolor paper, coloring it with the Twinkling H2O's and trimming it down to a narrow strip. I then attached the narrow leaf strip to the card. Very simple, but I liked how it turned out.
On another note, I have a 10 in 10 Christmas class this Saturday. Yes, I am already thinking about Christmas too. I am so excited because my mom will be taking the class! Yes, she is driving 4 hours to take one of my classes. I guess it had better be good!
If anyone is interested in the class, we will be making 10 quick Christmas cards using images from Impression Obsession, My Favorite Things, Hero Arts, Stampington, Memory Box, and more. The only stipulations are that you bring double sided adhesive and you are nice to my mom!

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Your goods are being tracked either online or offline 24/7 from our traffic control centres in Rawang, Klang, Kuantan & Johor Bahru:
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- For real-time tracking, we can command all vehicles of interest to report their current positions and sensors status back to the Traffic Control
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Our Traffic Control Centre closely monitors the fleet around the clock to improve productivity, efficiency, safety and security through monitoring parameters such as:
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The HD or D Regulator with the “T” Temperature Pilot is used for controlling temperature in various processes and systems, such as Oil Heaters, Ovens, Process Heaters, Vats, Dryers, and Jacketed Kettles. The purpose of the temperature pilot is to control the operation of the temperature regulating valve. A sensing bulb filled with liquid is used as a thermostat to monitor the temperature of whatever is being heated. The sensing bulb is connected to the temperature pilot by a length of capillary tubing. When the sensing bulb is heated the liquid inside expands and in turn expands a bellows inside the temperature pilot. The expansion and contraction of this bellows is what controls the operation of the temperature regulating valve.


Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, will participate in a high-level debate at the UN Security Council on Wednesday, on the theme of “Maintenance of International Peace and Security: New Orientation for Reformed Multilateralism”.
The Foreign Minister is already in New York on week-long official visit to the United States.
The Foreign Minister will also host and chair the two-day special Ministerial meeting of G-77 and China, beginning at the UN Headquarters in New York on Thursday.
The agenda of the conference includes a discussion on multiple challenges facing the developing countries in attaining sustainable development goals in the face of Covid-19 pandemic, climate-induced disasters and geopolitical developments.
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The now-defunct crypto exchange FTX signed many massive sponsorship deals in its heyday, including promising League of Legends developer Riot Games nearly $100 million as a part of its agreement to sponsor Riot’s League Championship Series (LCS) esports competition, documents in the Sam Bankman-Fried legal trial have revealed. The sum of FTX’s Riot deal was published as part of the criminal trial proceedings unfolding in New York this month, as disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried faces seven charges of crimes including alleged wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering. The value of the deal was never previously disclosed.
FTX agreed to sponsor Riot’s League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) in 2021 as part of a seven-year deal that would automatically renew in 2028 unless either party disputed it, according to a spreadsheet shared Monday that details FTX’s myriad sponsorships. The exhibit shows that Riot’s LCS was to be paid $4 million of the total in 2021, $12.5 million of the total in 2022, and another roughly $12.8 million this year, with annual recurring payments until the close of the deal.
It’s unclear how much of these totals were paid out to Riot and TSM before FTX’s collapse, however, which occurred in November 2022. Riot Games and TSM have not yet responded to Decrypt’s requests for comment to confirm the amount of funds promised—and how much was ultimately paid before the exchange folded late last year.
This news reveals the massive amounts of money FTX was spending on sponsorships, particularly in the esports world, prior to its collapse. It is unclear how much of the money was actually paid out, but the potential of $100 million to Riot Games and $210 million to TSM is a testament to how much the crypto industry was investing in esports. Unfortunately, the ongoing crypto bear market has led to a cooling of momentum around crypto/esports tie-ups.
You can read more about this topic here: Decrypt: FTX Promised $100M to Maker of SBF’s Favorite Game ‘League of Legends’

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