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Many companies and innovators have tried to create the perfect solution for keeping a gun safe from kids or other unauthorized users while simultaneously allowing the firearm to be ready at a moment's notice for the gun owner. Most solutions can be divided into three primary categories: traditional safes, cable or trigger locks, and biometric options. Each of these, however, while offering a way to secure firearms, suffer from either reliability or accessibility issues.
Mike Detty, a one-time POLICE contributor, talks about "Guns Across the Border," a first-hand account of his involvement in an ATF "gun walking" operation that preceded Fast & Furious. As a firearms dealer, Detty sold guns to Mexican cartel operatives at the direction of ATF special agents in Arizona. Detty says he was motivated by patriotic duty, and betrayed by the agency he worked for.
Show the Guns Across the Border Podcast Transcription:
Paul: Hello, this is Paul Clinton with POLICE Magazine. This is themonthly author's podcast with books by and for cops. We have a veryinteresting book this month to discuss. It's called "Guns Across theBorder: How and Why the U.S. Government Smuggled Guns into Mexico: TheInside Story". It was written by Mike Detty. In the book, Mike chronicleshis experience as a federally licensed firearms dealer in the Tucson areaand his role in these gun-walking sting operations and the flooding of gunsto Mexico.
Mike has been a contributor to POLICE Magazine. He's written some great firearm reviews over the years. His business is essentially selling rifles and other guns at gun shows in Arizona. Mike, we're really pleased to have you on, and thanks for joining us to talk about the book.
Mike: Thanks, Paul. It's a pleasure to join you, and thank you for having me on.
Paul: Talk about this book and how it came about. You found yourself in the cross-hairs, so to speak, of a very ill-fated, eventually, federal gun operation. Talk a little bit about how you got involved in this from the beginning and how this got started.
Mike: Sure. Historically, it is significant in that Operation Wide Receiver, which was the case that I brought ATF into in 2006, eventually morphed into Operation Fast and Furious, about two and a half years later. The way it started was, as you mentioned, I did gun shows for a living. I am an FFL holder, a Federal Firearms Licensee. I sell AR-15s at Arizona gun shows.
I was approached by an individual who wanted to buy six AR-15 Lowers from me. The next day, he came back and he asked if I would have more sometime later in the month. I told him I had another 20 on order that I expected the next week. His answer to me was, "I'll take them all."
The sheer number that he wanted, and the fact that he was paying cash, and the fact that he was a young Hispanic kid, made me suspicious right off the bat. That happened on a Sunday. Monday morning, I contacted my local ATF contact. He had me fax in the paperwork, and the he called me back later in the day and asked me if I could come down the following day and spend some time talking with him.
That was really how Operation Wide Receiver began. There was a group of young men in the Phoenix area that was buying AR-15 Lowers. They were sending them to somebody in San Diego who was purchasing the top ends of the rifles, 10 inch, which of course, anything under 16 inch barrel length is illegal, but it didn't matter to them, because they were pretty mixed up in doing illegal stuff anyway.
Anyhow, they would complete these firearms by pinning on a short top end, and then taking them across the border into Tijuana for the Felix Arellano Cartel. That was how Operation Wide Receiver started. It kind of went through some twists and turns, but by the time were finished a year and a half had gone by. I think we'd sold weapons to five different cartels.
Paul: Before we get into the details of this, talk a little bit about where federal law enforcement was coming from and their goals in your mind, or what they said to you about these operations. They've been termed "gun-walking operations" and I guess these operations would fall under this Project Gunrunner. What was the original goal of this operation, as far as you understood?
Mike: Project Gunrunner was a project to stem the flow of illegal guns into Mexico. It involved saturating the border states with more ATF agents and more funding to prevent that from happening. Operation Wide Receiver, when I first got involved and they first started looking at these characters I was selling to, and by the way, after that initial purchase, I didn't sell anything to these people without prior knowledge of ATF and without them specifically asking them to do this at their behest, to further the investigation. I just want to make that clear. It wasn't as if I did something, and then, "Oh, I'd better let them know," just so I don't get in trouble.
Paul: I guess the idea is that, this has always been the case, that the drugs come from Mexico and the guns and the ammunition go to Mexico. So the ATF and the federal government was becoming more and more concerned about guns that cartel operators were purchasing here in the border states and taking to Mexico to use in this violent cartel drug war, right?
Mike: That's correct. That was correct. The first meeting that I had with these ATF people here in Tucson, I was told that I would have a chance to help them take out a powerful drug cartel. I'm smart enough to know the implications of that.
Paul: Yeah. That sounds good, actually. It sounds like a noble goal.
Mike: Being a patriot, I was eager to help them. It just didn't turn out the way it was outlined to me. What happened to be the goal, we never came close to achieving that goal. If you read the book, I think there was something far more insidious going on than trying to take out a drug cartel.
Paul: Part of, I think, at least what we've heard said publicly from the ATF, and obviously this was a huge scandal that resulted in congressional hearings, and of course the deaths of two federal agents, speaking of course of border patrol agent Brian Terry, and also ICE special agent Jamie Zapata. Guns that apparently were sold through these sting operations were found at both of those crime scenes.
Mike: Correct.
Paul: Right.
Mike: All three of those guns were from Fast and Furious, although there is nothing that would prove any of the guns from Wide Receiver showing up at future crime scenes. We know that they've shown up at crime scenes in Mexico. Fortunately, nothing has been found here in the United States.
Paul: The critique of the ATF through all this has been, why didn't you track the guns? Was there some goal early on to either attach some type a micro-tracker or microchip to the gun? Was there any effort early on by them to track these guns?
Mike: No. I do mention in the book, it's been reported in mainstream press that under President Bush things were done more responsibly. They tracked the guns they were working with Mexican officials. That's hogwash. None of that's true. There was one attempt to put a tracking device in a rifle during operation receiver, and it failed miserably. It was never fielded, it was never talked about again.
The other thing, what I was told from the start, was that there was ongoing cooperation with the Mexican authorities and that if they didn't interdict the guns that at some point in time, they knew where the guns were at, they were going to round them all up, or most of them. I mean, nothing is 100%.
It was conveyed to me that the operation I was working was multinational, meaning that the Mexican authorities were on board with it, and that this was how they were going to take out this cartel. That just proved to never be true.
The Inspector General's report that was issued last fall, it cites I think three different phone conversations during the three years I was involved with Operation Wide Receiver where they had contacted Mexican authorities, but there was never any ongoing coordination. There was no commitment by Mexican authorities to follow these guns anywhere into Mexico. In fact, none of them were ever tracked.
Paul: Wow. You mentioned that there were a couple of very interesting anecdotes in the book of failed attempts by these agents to follow and/or arrest these straw purchases and the buyers who came to you to purchase these guns.
Mike: Sure. In fact, there was one event, I believe it was 50 .38 Super Pistols that one of these guys bought one night. It was ATF's intention to have an air surveillance to follow these guns to the load house, sit on the load house until they were loaded up in the load truck, and then follow them to Mexico so that from the time those guns left my house, it really never left their visual surveillance until they crossed the border. That was very important to help them prove their case.
In the book, I relay how this turned into a three-day surveillance. They sat outside a house for quite a while and were concerned that they actually might have missed somebody going out the back door with the guns, because the original intent was for those guns to go very quickly, and it never happened. They did stay on the house. Once they got into a car, they were able to follow them.
They went down close to the border, and then on the Indian reservation, they drove in circles for three or four hours. When I asked one of the agents why somebody would do that he said, "These are experienced drug smugglers. They know what type of aircraft we use for air surveillances." In their case, they were fortunate. They had a helicopter to back up while the DTS plane went and got refueled and then came back.
They were never able to do much with that information. They know the guns crossed the border, but once they crossed the border, they didn't have any idea what happened to them.
Paul: Wow. Let's talk about your role in this, because it really is fascinating. Your book, I have to give you credit here, I mean, you've really written a detailed book, and you've included a lot of great details about how these went down. Talk a little bit about how some of these transactions would work. You have a business and you are able to sell firearms out of your home. Talk a little bit about how this would work, how the cartel members would purchase the guns. You would kind of set a little showroom in your living room, right?
Mike: Right, yeah. Being a divorced guy, I had a living room that didn't have a stick of furniture in it, so I used that space. I had guns set up. AR-15s and semi-auto AK-47s and 30 types of pistols, and I would set them up. I wanted these guys to perceive that I had plenty of inventory, so I didn't just put one out of each one. I would put stacks and stacks of guns, and then I'd leave one out of the box for them to look at and figure out what they wanted to buy.
They would usually come late at night. When they were going to do a purchase, usually they would have a plastic grocery bag full of cash. A lot of times, they didn't know how much money was in that back, because somebody at the stash house would hand them a bag and say, "Here, go buy as many guns as you can for this money." A large portion of every evening was spent just counting that cash.
In fact, it was after one event where one of these people tried to burn me for $5,000, I actually went out and bought a bank- quality money-counter. The first thing we would do when they got there was, we would count the money, and then they'd know how much money they had.
Paul: I love that detail in the book. A lot of these guys would just give you stacks of 5 and 10 dollar bills, and you would have to spend 45 minutes to an hour counting small bills. Right?
Mike: Yeah. That was typical. There was one group out of Phoenix whose ringleader was dyslexic, I think. He would always hand me his money and have me count it. At first I thought it might be a test to see if I was being honest with him, because once I got to the certain dollar amount, I would hand him back the rest of the money. It did in fact turn out to be, either he couldn't count, or was just so severely dyslexic, he couldn't count the money himself.
Paul: Talk about some of the characters. One of them I think came in wearing pink ostrich boots. Talk a little bit about who these guys were.
Mike: It was kind of a happenstance. In other words, we fell into a hornet's nest while we were just looking for a honeybee. There was one particular gentleman I was doing business with. He had a cousin, a very distant cousin, in town. Her husband was in federal penitentiary for dealing dope. She would host these barbecues that she would invite other people in this trade to these barbecues. It didn't matter what cartel or what familia they were from. They were welcome guests there, but during the course of the barbecue she would tell them, "Hey, if your guys need guns, I've got a hookup for you. Here's the deal. You just pay me a commission on every gun you buy, and that'll keep me happy and I'll keep you hooked up with this guy with the guns."
These people from those barbecues would accompany the original buyer. It just got crazy because there were so many people that wanted to come and buy guns.
Paul: I'm sorry, so this is really your classic straw purchase, right?
Mike: Yep.
Paul: So they would fill out the paperwork for people who would be denied on a background check, right?
Mike: Right. These were all people that legally couldn't buy because they weren't citizens. The one guy that could, he ended up doing a lot of the paperwork himself. He was actually connected with a cartel in Caborca that had been raised here in the United States and was a US citizen. He was doing a lot of the purchasing. Some of the other groups, they would bring people they knew that had clean records that would do the purchasing for them.
That's where all the charges, unfortunately, I mean, it's a relatively minor charge, for Operator Wide Receiver was for straw purchasing. In other words, when they filled out the background check, they checked the box saying, "This firearm is for personal use. I'm buying this gun for myself." That turned out not to be true, and we know that because they took them across the border and sold them down there.
Paul: Yeah. What types of guns did they buy? We've heard that they like these AK-47 or AK variants that had wire stocks. What kind of stuff did they buy?
Mike: Those were probably the bulk of what they really wanted was the cheaper AKs. At the time, I was buying the Romanian imports. WASR was the model name. Some of them had underfolding stocks or side folding stocks or fixed stocks. At the time I want to say, I was selling them retail for under $400. That was the bulk of what they bought.
Then there were some other groups that wanted to have AR-15s and they wanted to have the good quality, the best quality I could find, but that wasn't the bulk. The majority of the stuff was AK-47 rifles and pistols.
Paul: Those were available fairly cheap for them, right? Like you said, you could get one for $400 or so?
Mike: I was retailing them for $400, which meant that I probably made maybe $100 on that transaction.
Paul: Okay. And I guess they liked these Colt .38 Supers as well?
Mike: The Colt .38 Supers weren't gun for fighting. They were guns that somebody would wear to kind of show almost their rank. There was one guy that as buying these for a cartel in I think it was Magdalena. The head guy would hand them out as presentation pieces. In other words, you've done something really valuable for me, or you've taken a great risk for me, and I'm going to rewards you with this status symbol.
Paul: Okay.
Mike: That's how those were used, but like I said, they bought those in quantity with one guy buying 50 when he'd need from me.
Paul: Yeah. You worked, really, as you describe in the book, as an undercover operative with the ATF, kind of almost dictating every step of the way, right?
Mike: Yeah. Like I said before, there was nothing that I did on my own. There were very few, rare instances where somebody called me on the phone and I'd have to make a quick decision. Trying to think of what ATF would want me to do. Usually I would beg off and say, "Listen, I can't do this afternoon because I have a doctor's appointment," or something else. Everything that I did was under their direction.
Paul: You tell kind of a good little anecdote here. They had you wearing a transmitter, and it sounded like the ATF Tucson office only had one transmitter, and it was kind of cutting out at times?
Mike: Yeah. Its age was uncertain, its quality was not good, and it appeared to be the only one they had, because in three years of working with them, it was the same transmitter that I used night after night.
Paul: Yeah.
Mike: There were instances, and some of your veteran cops and shooters that are listening to this will understand. I'm in my early 50s, right, and after a lifetime of shooting, I don't hear so good. I'm one of those people that has the volume all the way up on my cellphone so that I can hear conversations clearly. Well, imagine yourself being in a room of cartel associates and having an agent call and say, "Hey, Mike, your wire's down. Turn it off and then back on again real quick." Then you look around the room to see if any of these other people in the room have heard what you just heard through your phone.
I was very fortunate in that regard. Stupid things like that, looking back, were just crazy. The risk that I took and some of the risks that I was exposed to through no fault of my own.
Paul: And I guess eventually they placed some cameras in your house, and they put one in a clock radio, and I guess one in a Kleenex box, right?
Mike: Yeah. The clock radio is kind of a neat thing, because it would not only record, but it would transpond, I don't know if that's the right term. There was somebody sitting in a truck outside that could see it real time, but that was just one instance, and I guess that equipment was too expensive for each office to have, especially the smaller Tucson office.
In other instances, they had what was called a "Hawk," which was a video and audio recorder that they could hide in a box of Kleenex. Usually, that would sit on my wet bar, where it could watch the entire living room that I was using as showroom.
In addition to that, I would have a digital recorder in one of my pockets. The reason they had me do that was because the quality was so much better than what they could record with the transmitter. It was just dual redundancy, so they'd have backup to backup.
Paul: Yeah. And I guess, as you mentioned, you were involved in this for three years. It sounded like when it first started it was initially only supposed to be a very short operation that you were going to be involved with. Talk a little bit about the length of time, I mean, did you become frustrated at times with this?
Mike: Not really. I mean, while it was going on, it seemed to keep me really interested, and I seemed motivated my knowing that I may be part of something historical. As it turns out, it ended up I was part of something infamous rather than historical.
Paul: Good word for it, yeah.
Mike: I didn't have a crystal ball at that time, but I really did. I was motivated by a patriotic sense of duty, and I really had this feeling of fate and that God put me in this place in this position right now to help. I wouldn't have felt right just telling these guys I couldn't help them. Of course, from years I've written for POLICE Magazine, I'm a pro-law enforcement guy, and I never would suspect that these guys all seem like great guys, and I didn't see ever having a problem for being on the wrong end of their hire, which I eventually did end up.
Mike: It was an interesting three years, and like I said, I didn't mind doing the work for them, and I didn't mind at the time taking risk, because I thought that whatever was going to be gained from this would be so valuable to the United States and to the detriment of the various cartels that were pursuing.
Paul: We'll get into the end result of this in a minute, but one thing I found very interesting was that you were very meticulous through this investigation about the notes that you took and the records, and you kept pretty good records about conversations and things you were doing and saying.
Mike: Right. I kept my notes daily. I always tried to make time to write down the events of the evening along with conversation as quickly as possible after they happened, so that it would be fresh in my mind. Originally, I started doing this for two reasons. One, I always thought I might write a book, because it was kind of an extraordinary circumstance that just an ordinary guy like me got involved in.
The other reason was, we were doing so many of these buys that I was afraid if I ever had to testify, I have to be certain if this event happened on this night during this buy, and so forth, so I could keep one buy separate from all the others that happened. That was my intent originally.
Because I had gone and I bought my own digital recorder, every time a burned a CD of an evening's buy with the bad guys, or several phone conversations I had with the bad guys, to burn that to a CD, I had to download it to the hard-drive on my computer. When things started not looking right to me, I started recording conversations with the special agents and phone calls with the special agents. That was all on the hard-drive of my computer, along with my notes.
Mike: At one point in time, when they brought in a special prosecutor from Washington D.C. to prosecute Wide Receiver, she asked me if I'd kept any notes or a journal or anything. I said, "Yeah, I have a journal. I don't want to give it you, because there's a lot personal information in there." It was an actual journal, it wasn't just transcribes of bad guy buys.
She demanded it. It was the old thing, "You know, look, we can do it the hard way or we can do it the easy way. I'll make life miserable if I don't get it," so I did give it to her. She never expected to see what was in there. It was either her or one of the special agents in Tucson sent that up to Special Agent in Charge, which was Bill Newell, in the Phoenix office. He or she ordered immediately to ATF Office in Tucson, "Don't take anymore cases from this guy. Don't talk to him, don't acknowledge him in any way."
Basically, I was shut out. He knew long before me that my notes contained information that eventually was going to be very embarrassing to him. At one point in time, my computer was hacked. All the audio files that there were nights and nights and nights of purchases at my house, phone calls, and so forth, those were all corrupted. I kept them all in one folder. Every one of those files was bad.
Before I got too paranoid, I went and checked some of the shorter phone conversations that I had with these bad guys. To the special agent in charge of this case, I would attach it to his Yahoo! account, because DOJ and ATF email accounts have filters on them that limit the file size, so I would have to use his personal Yahoo! account. I went back and said, maybe I can get back some of these conversations by checking those emails. Surprisingly enough, every email I had ever sent him, or every email he'd ever sent me, had been wiped clean from my computer.
Paul: Wow.
Mike: Now I'm in a position. I'd contacted somebody that's a very good friend who's one of our most elite military intelligence assets and told him what was going on and gave him information about my computer and my wireless system and so forth. He called me back a couple hours later and he said, "Look, Mike, you're welcome to fly out here. My guys think if they look at your box, they can figure out who got into it. But here's the rub. Let's say we find out exactly who did this to you, who do we take that to? Because I think you're going to take it to the same people who did it to you."
Paul: Oh boy.
Mike: "What good's it going to do to you." The fortunate thing about this, and the reason that I haven't been put in a very difficult spot was because I have an external hard-drive as a professional writer. Every few days I back up my computer. I was able to restore all those files, but whoever got into my computer and corrupted those files, they knew that this could put them in very bad light.
Paul: Yeah. And during the story, you talk about, you would have conversations with these cartel operators and you'd burn a CD and just take it over and drop that over to the ATF office in Tucson, right?
Mike: Right.
Paul: So you were sharing some of this material with them during the course of this investigation as well, right?
Mike: That was the sole purpose of recording this stuff.
Mike: By happenstance, I mean, it just happened to all be on the hard- drive on my computer.
Mike: I think that certainly kept me out of a very sticky spot with our federal government.
Paul: Yeah. It's a very enlightening book. Talk a little bit about, I guess you were audited at one point by the ATF, right?
Mike: Yeah. Surprisingly, not too long after the last case I brought them had come to an end, I had two ATF investigators. They're not actual agents, but they're more on the regulatory side of the things. They showed up at my door one day and they said, "We're here to conduct an audit." I knew what they were going to find. In my books, for instance, if there's 75 AK-47s that are logged out to one particular person, they're going to have some questions, so I asked them, I said, "First of all, do you know who I am and do you know what I've done for your office?" Meaning the Tucson ATF office. The young lady replied, "Yes, we do, and I want you to know that Bill Newell is the one that ordered this audit."
Bill Newell was the special agent in charge of the Phoenix office.
Paul: Mm-hmm.
Mike: So I didn't think too much about it.
Paul: Yeah. It came from the top.
Mike: It came from the top, and this was after they had already gotten my notes, and apparently knew that every conversation I had was on the hard-drive of my computer. Over the course of a couple weeks, they came to me and they said, "You know, we have 80 serial numbers here we can't find." The guy said to me, "You're not going to be able to keep your license. Most likely, you're going to be criminally prosecuted. You can't lose 80 serial numbers, not these type of guns, Mr. Detty, and keep your license and not get prosecuted." Oh my God!
Mike: I can't believe this.
Mike: What am I going to do? I'm just getting ready to go to the hospital to have an ankle replaced, and I thought, well, I'd better do whatever I can. So I did my own audit, and I actually did a physical inventory of every gun that I had. The lower receiver of an AR-15, because it has a serial number on it, they call it a complete gun. I had boxes and boxes of just stripped low receivers. In other words, they didn't have any triggers or hammers or magazine releases installed, and just the bare basic component, because some people like to buy them that way and then build a gun from parts.
I had over 400 of these in boxes out in the garage. There were 24 to a box. It was I think in July when these people conducted the audit, so I went and sit in my living room in the air- conditioning while I put these boxes on hand trucks and brought them out of the garage and through the front door and put them in front of them. Each box contained 24 each. All they had to do was pull the receiver out of the box, count the serial number.
Somehow, during the course of three days of doing this, they lost 80 serial numbers. Every one of those missing serial numbers was receivers that were in those boxes. My question is, how can somebody who's been hired by the federal government get a box of 24 receivers placed in front of them, open the box, count 3, close the box, open the next box, count 8 out of 24, close the box. Every one of those 80 serial numbers were in those cases of stripped lower receivers.
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Paul: Just go ahead and pick up where you left off.
Mike: I'm not sure where we cut off, but getting back to these boxes of stripped lower receivers, I had 24 in each box, and these agents, or investigators, as they call them, I think, they were counting them. There were some of the boxes of 24 each, they opened and counted 3. There was another box of 24 they opened and counted 8 of those. There's another box they opened and counted 12 of the 24. At the same time, you're telling me that there's a possibility that I'm going to lose my license and maybe be charged criminally for losing these serial numbers.
Looking back, is it just that these people were so inept, that these federal employees couldn't count? Are they that badly screwed up? Or is it a case that somebody came out here and gave them orders and specifically told them to lose some serial numbers so that I could be discredited? So if something happened further down the road, they'd say, "Look, this guy's records were so screwed up, we had to take his license from him."
Paul: A reasonable person might come to that very same conclusion.
Mike: Yeah. If you read my book, and I'm sure you did, I tried to lay it all out there, let the reader decide for himself. Is it biased? Of course it's biased, because I wrote it. If one of these ATF agents here in Tucson had written a book, it'd look very different. But there's nothing in that book that's not the truth. There's nothing in that book that I haven't already documented. There's nothing in that book that's not a recording of some type that I can't prove.
Mike: That's why ATF's been so quiet about this. What can they say? They have no comeback. Even the Inspector General report that came out last fall, there were periods of time directors for ATF didn't cover. In the Inspector General's report it says, during these missing periods, we've used a confidential informant's personal journal to fill in those spots.
You have to look at it two different ways. Are these people so inept that they weren't keeping their own sets of records, or is there something more insidious going on, that they actually went back and destroyed records? Either way, it doesn't look good for them, but hey, here's my journal. Show me what you've got. They're not willing to do that, because it's not going to come out well for them.
Paul: Certainly, that was reflected in the response from Eric Holder and others to these Congressional inquiries and to Rep Darrell Issa and his continual requests for information. President Obama invoked the Executive Privilege on this not to talk.
Mike: Exactly.
Paul: That speaks for itself, I think.
Mike: Just to be clear, these two different operations, Operation Wide Receiver did occur under President Bush, and Fast and Furious, of course, was under the Obama Administration.
Mike: However, and I point this out in my book, both those operations shared the same Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix office, and people often ask me this, "Who do you think that approved this gun-walking operation?" I tell them. I said, "Look. This was initiated at the field level. Special Agent in Charge Bill Newell, he didn't look up any further in his chain of command to ask for approval. He wasn't going to supervisors saying, "Hey, this is what I want to do. Can I do it?" No, he's saying, "This is what I'm doing."
Even though there are e-mails back and forth between people in the Department of Justice that are just aghast at the number of guns that are crossing the border, now I'm speaking about Operation Wide Receiver, nobody took the next step and admonished Bill Newell. Nobody took the next step and said, "Are you an idiot? You can't do this. Stop doing this." No, they, would sit and wring their hands between themselves, but they didn't do a thing about it.
Paul: Yeah. Ultimately, it cost the ATF. The head of the agency resigned over this pretty much. Anyway, interestingly enough, you have two folks listed on the back jacket of the book. One, Sharyl Attkisson, who's a Washington D.C. investigative reporter who was one of the people who broke this story, actually, and you have David Codrea who's a gun writer and a speaker and a pretty intelligent guy. Did you work with those folks with the book? It seemed like you had some pretty good resources there, at least, to tap into.
Mike: Two different things. David Codrea writes for Examiner.com, which is people who are concerned about our right and seeing our rights being diminished, and is very vocal about it. Sharyl Attkisson with CBS News. Our introduction was via e-mail. She had kind of been surfing CleanUpATF.org. Before we went on air, we spoke briefly about Jay Dobyns and his book "No Angel." He was an undercover ATF Tucson agent who was actually the first federal agent to get patched in as a member of the Hell's Angels biker group.
Mike: Can you hold on? I'm sorry, Paul. Just one second.
Paul: Yeah, no problem.
Mike: Jay and some other agents, who had felt like they had not been dealt fairly with by ATF and were sick of the management and mismanagement at all levels of administration with ATF, have a website called CleanUpATF.org. Sharyl had posted something on one of their forums about, "Hey, if you know anything about Fast and Furious, I'd appreciate your information." Actually had her personal e-mail address. I sent her an e-mail. I said, "I don't know anything about that specific case, but I'd be happy to talk to you about Wide Receiver." This all happened probably February, following the shooting of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
Paul: That's when this story really, really heated up.
Mike: Yeah. There wasn't a story until that happened. Nobody knew about this.
Mike: I was still kind of sitting around, waiting to see if they were ever going to do anything with Wide Receiver, because at that point, that hadn't been prosecuted yet. When the highest officials at DOJ and ATF came out and said, "Listen, we never allowed guns to cross the border for part of any investigation. Never happened, didn't happen, it's not going to happen. Forget about it." I knew already there was a cover-up in progress, because I'd been part of one that was allowing that to happen.
Mike: I wasn't sure who to go to. I wasn't sure who to talk to, because my big fear was that somebody would come down on me for obstructing justice or something. I was just really afraid to talk. In the months to follow, I had sent Sharyl bits and pieces of information, and finally, I think it was the following September, I actually did an on-air interview with her. A very skilled lady, very competent. Her integrity is without any flexibility. I can't say enough nice things about her. She is what all journalists should be.
She spent a great deal of time vetting me out and looking at the information that I had before we even talked about doing an interview, because the last thing she wanted to do was put somebody on camera that's going to make her look bad somewhere down the road.
Mike: David Codrea, very much the same thing. I started feeding him bits of information. He did his own job of vetting me too, and for quite a while named me as an unnamed source in his articles. After he discovered, yeah, what this guy is saying is true, it checks out with other people I know that have worked out of that office, and so forth. Both of these people have known me for a couple of years know. They've known me to be a person that's told the truth from the very beginning to the very end. Unfortunately, that hasn't been true for ATF and DOJ.
Paul: Let's get into that briefly. First of all, why do you think they weren't able to really pursue more serious charges against these purchasers considering all the detailed evidence that you provided them?
Mike: The first Assistant U.S. Attorney on my case, I met him actually a couple of years after Operation Wide Receiver concluded. Actually, him and his son bought a gun from me at a gun show, and he was looking at my business card and he's like, "Gosh, your name sounds familiar. Why do I know that name?" Of course, I knew his name right away, because I'd seen it on reports and so forth. I said, "You might know that from Operation Wide Receiver." He's like, "Oh, geez, yeah! Yeah. All the reports that I read, finally to meet you here in person and put a face with that name."
We chatted for quite a while. I asked him, "Tell me why you never prosecuted Wide Receiver? Because the ATF agents had told me that he was in the process of promoting himself for U.S. Magistrate, and that was the reason he'd never actually taken this case to court." He said, "Well, it's nothing like that. I'm not going to take a case to court where I have to lie. I'm not going to have my professional credibility and integrity questioned because the ATF screwed up so badly."
He went on to tell me, "When I got involved with this case, I was lead to believe that there was ongoing cooperation with the Mexican authorities. That's the only reason that I signed off to allow these guns to continue to go across the border. Once I found out that wasn't the case, I wasn't going to devote another heartbeat to developing this case to take it to trial." He declined prosecution on this case, even though he was involved from the outset.
Paul: It was just going to fall apart on him.
Mike: Right. He eventually did get his U.S. Magistrate appointment. The next young lady, Assistant U.S. Attorney, to look at the case, she declined for the same reason. She's like, "Do you realize what a black eye this is going to give us if we take this to court and acknowledge how many guns we let go across the border without there being Mexican involvement? Not to mention the lying on the part of ATF." So she declined it.
Mike: A year and a half later, they send out a prosecutor named [Lauren Wind] and she was with the Gang Task Force Unit in Washington, D.C., specialized in doing MS13 cases. She decided to take on this case. If you read the Inspector General's report about Fast and Furious, probably the first 70 or so pages is about Wide Receiver to kind of set up a history of what's going on here and why that was important to subsequent Fast and Furious.
There's quite a bit of e-mail back and forth with her and people in Washington about, there were significant numbers of guns let go, there was no Mexican authority involvement. What are we going to do? This was happening about that time everything with Brian Terry's death was coming out in news, around March and April, subsequent to his passing. They wanted to keep that whole topic of gun-walking out of court. They didn't want to have another black eye.
The other thing was, they didn't want any of these cases to go to trial. They said, "Look here's what we're going to do. We're going to narrow the scope, and we're going to charge you with lying on your background check, three years maximum." Nine out of the ten players involved in Wide Receiver took that deal. The one guy that pushed for his own trial had all charges dismissed, I think at 10 a.m. when the trial was supposed to start at 11 a.m.
Paul: We ran out of time with Mike, but we just want to thank him for joining us, and we want to encourage our listeners to check out his book, "Guns Across the Border." Thanks again for listening to another episode of the POLICE Magazine author's podcast featuring books by and for cops. We encourage you, again to e- mail us with your feedback at [email protected]. Otherwise, we'll see you next month for another edition of the POLICE author's podcast.


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Tried to do my pvp pet weekly on Sunday, but it wouldn't let me queue. Clicking the "Find battle" button did nothing, then about 10 seconds later I'd get a "Cannot join pet battle queue" message.
Tried again Monday night, still the same. Tried again tonight, and still the same. Looks like I won't be getting my 10 wins this week after all.
Anyone know what is going on? Haven't seen anything official from Blizz, but they usually notify when they have a problem that goes on for this long.

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Roadburn 2013
I've decided I really want to go to Roadburn next year, but as wlays it's long sold out-is it easy to get hold of spares, and if so how rigid are e festival themselves in terms of ID checks etc?
(Woops)... Closer to the time, the usually put up a thread...
For folk who cant attend and want to sell their tickets.
Be warned, its not cheap in the slightest, especially if you dont want to camp (hotels put up there prices over that weekend)so much so that its been my undoing for the few years I have tried to go. The 2011 line up was absolutely insane.
I'm thinking of going to Incubate this year, which is held in the same venue as Roadburn.
Yeah, the price does put me off despite the amazing lineup, I'll lookat Incubate as well.


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By Ben Hayward | Spanish Football Writer
Sometimes there can be too much of a good thing. "With so many Clasico clashes," Iker Casillas claimed last year. "Sometimes they become decaffeinated." Diluted, dissolved, dumbed down, diminished - the world's finest fixture is losing its sparkle.
It is not just Casillas. Towards the end of his reign at Camp Nou, Pep Guardiola claimed he no longer looked forward to facing Barca's eternal enemies, while even fans and commentators have grown somewhat apathetic towards the great game in Spain as the meetings increase year after year. "If you are bored and fed up of watching a billion Clasicos every season, retweet this message," wrote Goal.com's Deputy Editor Carlo Garganese on Twitter earlier this week. Over 140 people did and many more agreed.
And it is hardly surprising. In 2010-11, Barca met Madrid on five occasions in La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the Champions League, including four fixtures in the space of 17 days in April and May. Last season, the two teams did battle six times - twice in the Primera Division, twice in the Copa and twice in the Spanish Supercopa. This term, Catalans and Castilians will lock horns in a minimum of six matches, but could end up playing each other in eight encounters before the season is up.
The Spanish Supercopa series early in the season was followed by a first league meeting in October. And on Wednesday, Jose Mourinho's men face Tito Vilanova's team for the fourth time this term, in a Copa del Rey semi-final first leg at the Santiago Bernabeu, to be followed by a return at Camp Nou in late February, a second Liga clash in Madrid days later, plus a possible double date in the latter stages of the Champions League after that. Enough, surely, to affect even the most ardent admirers of this fixture.
Luckily, however, two men make it all worthwhile. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo continue their personal duel and approach Wednesday's Copa clash in their finest form following scintillating showings on Sunday. Thanks to the Argentine and the Portuguese, the sides' next meeting will be anything but boring.
Messi managed one more versus Osasuna as he surpassed 200 league goals with Barcelona and became the first player to net in 11 consecutive Liga matches as Barca beat the northerners 5-1 later on Sunday, albeit after a controversial call by the referee had left the visitors with 10 men on just 26 minutes as Alejandro Arribas was shown a second yellow card for a handball in the area which looked anything but deliberate.
Messi duly dispatched the penalty and added two more after that to take his tally to the season to an incredible 44 goals in just 32 games.
In his 32 games for Madrid, meanwhile, Ronaldo has 33 but is one ahead of his counterpart for 2013, and both players approach Wednesday's Clasico at the pinnacle of their fabulous form.
The two rivals dominated the last meeting between Barca and Madrid with two goals apiece in an entertaining 2-2 draw at Camp Nou back in October, which left pundits purring over the prodigious pair.
Now they meet again and more than Barcelona against Madrid, many will be looking ahead to Ronaldo versus Messi. Can Cristiano score for a seventh successive time in the fixture? Will Leo break Alfredo Di Stefano's all-time record for goals in the magnificent match-up?
On this form, anything is possible and while the Clasico has indeed become "decaffeinated" in recent times due to the sheer overload of games between the two fierce foes, Messi and Ronaldo look set to serve up another tasty brew on Wednesday.


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The first was Richard, born Dec. 17, 1822, died Oct. 4, 1907 in Wayne Co. Richard married Permelia Ann Loveall on Nov. 4, 1842. Permelia was born May 7, 1826 in Wayne Co., and died there on Mar. 17, 1889. Their daughter, Sarah Margaret Barrier was born Jan. 14, 1844 and died in Oil Valley, Wayne Co. on Dec. 2, 1932.
Sarah married James Nelson Coffey, a son of Nelson N. and Keziah "Kizzie" Watters Coffey. James was born Mar. 23, 1835, perhaps in Eadsville, Wayne Co. He died Feb. 20, 1915 in Oil Valley. He and Sarah were married on May 9, 1861. Both are buried at the Ingram Cemetery in Monticello, Wayne Co.
Sarah gave birth to at least 12 children:
Jane, born 1862, died 1927 in Wayne Co., Married Emerson Lafayette Foster on Jan. 15, 1885. He was born May 11, 1863, died Apr. 21, 1937. They too are buried at Ingram Cemetery.Another of Aaron and Susan's children was Rachael, born c1824. She married John Coffey, a son of James and Sarah Emerline Sumpter Coffey on Jan. 28, 1848 in Wayne Co. Their children were Sarah Jane, Elizabeth, Shelby "Shelly," James A., Joseph and Francis M.
Nelson C., born 1864, died 1934. He married Sarah Emerine Worley, daughter of Willis and Rachel Jones Worley. She was born Jan. 4, 1867 and died Oct. 10, 1957. Both are buried at Ingram. Children were: Rachel, Emmerine, James Nelson, Albert, Wilbern, Alice, Sarah Margaret and Kizzie Elizabeth.
Richard, born Apr., 1865, died Mar. 12, 1958. He married Roseanna Foster c1889 in KY. She was born in Aug., 1866 and died May 27, 1958 in Wayne Co. Their children were Thomas, Martha L., Bertie, and Oliver.
Next in 1866 was Keziah. No further information.
Amelia, born Mar. 15, 1868, died Jan. 24, 1943. She apparently died unmarried and is buried at Ingram.
Henderson, born Oct., 1870, died Jan. 31, 1960. He married Margaret Coffey, a daughter of Richard Henderson and Catherine C. Jones Coffey on Feb. 27, 1902. Margaret was born Nov. 6, 1870 and died on Nov. 9, 1946. They are also buried at Ingram. Their children were Ida, Garnett, Walter, Lexie and Everett.
Pruda, born Mar. 15, 1873, died Jan. 14, 1965 in Monticello. She married Calvin Koger, son of John and Elizabeth Gregory Koger on Apr. 7, 1898. Both are buried at Ingram. Children were Elbert G., Indie, Mack (?), Edgar and Fronia.
Adinna, born Jan. 24, 1876, married Cooper Burnett on Dec. 30, 1903. No further information.
Mary Melvina, born Jun. 22, 1878, died Nov. 18, 1947, married John D. Cooper on Jan. 11, 1900 in Wayne Co. John is buried at Ingram. Best info I have on Mary is that she was buried at Oil Valley. Children were Stella P. and Wilfred F.
Nancy, born Mar., 4 1881. No further information.
Burl, born Jan. 14, 1884, died May 15, 1971. He married Camely Steele on Mar. 7, 1903. She was the daughter of John M. and Eliza Steele and was born Dec., 1884. Both are buried at Elk Spring Cemetery in Monticello. Children were Mabel, Earnie, Oscar, Mayme, Mary Jane, Leslie, Frederic, Woodroe, Dortha, and Shoff G.
The last child was Susanna who married John Messer. No further information.
The third of Aaron and Susan's children to figure into the Coffey families of Wayne Co. was Elizabeth, born c1830. She married Josiah Dodson c1850 in Wayne Co. Their daughter Susan Ann, born Apr., 1855, married Leander T. Denney c1880. Leander was born to Cyrus and Betsey Littrell Denney on Jan. 2, 1857 in Wayne Co. He and Susan had several children including Lottie Susan Denney who married Albert Coffey.
Albert was another son of Nelson and Sarah Emerine Worley Coffey. He was born Apr. 7, 1891 in Wayne Co. and died on Nov. 13, 1966 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH. Lottie was born Nov. 11, 1893 and died in Cincinnati on May 7, 1969. Their children were Earl Edison, Roy Lee, Clarence Nelson, James C., Ruby, James O'Dell, Wendell Albert, Susie O., Milus (?) E., Sarah Doris, Wallace Ernest and Ann M.
I have some descendants of most of their children and, of course, their ancestors. Drop me a note to add to or correct any of this information.
Note: I have seen references to Ingram Cemetery as Ingram-Coffey and Ingram-Vickery-Goddard Cemetery. It is located about 5 miles SE of Monticello on the Ingram Coffey Cemetery Road. A map link is included below.


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Every form of entertainment has some products that fall into the "guilty pleasure" category, and gaming's no exception. Whether they're so-bad-they're-good, or games with some sort of hilarious flaw, or cheesy cult classics, or just the sort of thing you wouldn't want anyone to catch you playing, what follows is a list of ten games that you should definitely play – just maybe not for the reasons the developers hoped.
Clicked on it for the bewbs, but it was a really good read actually.
Now that Hayashi has taken over expect DOAX3 to feature only the guys and all of the mini-games will be removed. Also, DLC volleyball colors.
Onechanabara: Bikini Samurai Squad. I'll admit I bought it just because of the opening cut-scene with Aya putting on her panties.


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Breakthrough Basketball Elite Guard Camp in Des Moines, Iowa!
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This is a 3-day basketball camp in Des Moines, Iowa that will teach you the essential skills, techniques, habits, IQ and drills to become an elite player (to develop an elite mindset, which is what truly separates players.).
You will learn what it takes to play at the elite level. Becoming an individual that can help your team succeed and understands the importance of the little things.
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Our Breakthrough Staff has trained some of the best players in the world that have gone on to become Olympic Gold Medalists, NBA All-Stars, WNBA All-Stars, Elite College Players (Michigan State, Duke, Kentucky � to name a few), and Numerous Player of the Year Awards at the high school level.
And you will learn the subtle and sometimes unnoticeable things that are taught to and used by the world�s best players; players like Steph Curry, Maya Moore, Russell Westbrook, Diana Taurasi, Damian Lillard, Chris Paul, Kyrie Irving, and others.
Who is this for? Is this good for players who are NOT guards?
This is NOT for beginners. This is for intermediate to advanced players looking to be placed in a high-intensity environment with competitive drills. The camp is for players who already possess some good dribble moves and are looking to take their game to the next level.
This is certainly not limited to guards. Every coach would love to have 5 players on the floor with the skills, decision-making, and leadership of elite guards.
So if you are a wing player or a post player who is serious about elevating your game to the next level, this camp would be great for you as well.
Here are a few things that you will learn at the camp:
Develop an explosive first step.
This is probably one of the most important aspects of being an elite guard, but it is rarely broken down and taught properly. Learn about the proper shin angle, head position, shoulder position, and hip position.
Develop superior hand-eye coordination and feel for the ball.
In this camp, you will be challenged with advanced hand-eye coordination and dribbling drills that will challenge you and accelerate your feel for the basketball. These drills will make dribbling during game situations feel easy.
How to handle game situations like Chris Paul & Steph Curry
Chris Paul and Steph Curry are two of the smartest players currently in the NBA. We have studied the games of these guards and will show tactics and little tricks that these elite guards use during games.
For example, whenever Chris Paul and Steph Curry face a switch on a ball screen and they get a bigger slower defender on them, they almost always take two big dribbles backwards to create space and give them room to get forward momentum to attack the bigger, slower defender. Little tips like these will take you from being a good guard to an elite guard.
You will learn how they handle ball screens, fast break situations, double teams, and aggressive pressure.
Get to the next level by improving the lost art of passing.
Not only will you learn advanced dribbling drills that will be extremely challenging, we will also introduce passing drills that will make you a much better passer in game-like situations. We will teach how to pass against pressure, how to read the defense and find the open guy, how to pass in transition, how to pass against double teams, and how to pass into the post.
If you can handle the ball and make great passes, every coach will find a place for you on their team.
How to play great defense and lock down your opponent like Kawhi Leonard by learning the strategies he uses
You will learn how to properly move on the floor so you can make things much more difficult for your opponents. If you can focus on defense, stop your opponent from scoring, you will get playing time because your coach can�t afford to keep you off the floor. You will learn proper body position when guarding the ball, how to dictate what the offense does, and how to force them into low percentage scoring situation. We will teach you how to adapt to all of the different kinds of scoring guards to put the advantage back in your hands.
Video Breakdown Analysis of Elite Players
You will get to see video breakdown analysis of some of the best basketball players in the world. You will see how they execute certain skills and make decisions on the basketball floor, so you apply it to your practice sessions to elevate to an even higher level of play.
Shooting, scoring, and advanced dribble moves.
In addition, we will practice game-like shooting drills, scoring from the guard position, and advanced dribble moves that all great guards possess.
Leadership and Life Skills that LeBron James uses to help his teammates develop a championship mindset
In addition to teaching you the necessary physical and mental skills to be a great guard, we will teach you leadership and life skills that will make you a successful human being. We will teach you traits that some of the best players have, why that makes them successful, and how these same traits will help you be successful in life.
We will also teach you traits from some of the most successful people outside of the basketball world that will make you successful in the real world in any career path you may choose.
No matter how far you make in the athletic world, there is always life after basketball.
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Who can attend?
The camp is for male and female players from 7th to 12th grade.
This is not limited to guards. If you're a wing player or a post player who is serious about elevating your game to the next level, this camp would be great for you as well.
This camp is NOT for beginners. This is for intermediate to advanced players looking to be placed in a high-intensity environment with competitive drills. This is for players who already possess some good dribble moves and are looking to take their game to the next level.
Coaches that want to learn and pick up new drills can also observe for a fee (coaches can find more info below).
Lead Instructor - Jim Huber
Jim Huber has developed and coached some of the best players in the world including current NBA players and elite players that attended some of the best college programs in the nation such as Duke and Kentucky.
Some of Coach Jim Huber's coaching credentials include:
- Over 20 years of basketball coaching experience at the youth, high school, and college levels.
- Coached a team to a 1st place finish at the 2013 Nike Global Challenge.
- Coached at the Nike Elite 100 Camp which selects the top 100 high school players.
- #1 Team Defense at 2013 Nike EYBL which has the top 40 Nike High School teams from North America and consists of 18 regular season games. Qualified for 2013 Nike Peach Jam.
- A head coach for Mokan Basketball. Mokan is a direct Nike sponsor program. In 2012 when Coach Huber was Director of Basketball Operations, Mokan reached the Final Four at the Peach Jam, which only selects the top 24 teams from the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League (EYBL).
- 45 Championships, 13 Runner-up Finishes, and 26 Final Four Finishes at regional and national tournaments since 2004.
- 42 Collegiate players and 22 at Division 1 level.
Lead Instructor - Ryan Thomas
After a strong high school basketball career, Ryan earned a scholarship to play college basketball at Concordia University where he played for 2 years before transferring to finish his college basketball career at Central Michigan University.
Coach Thomas has over 12 years of experience coaching at multiple levels (youth, AAU, YBOA, and High School). Through his dedication, leadership, innovation and tireless work ethic Thomas has become a sought after skills trainer. As a skills trainer he has helped mold thousands of young people around the country developing their game.
Here is a brief overview of Coach Thomas' coaching credentials:
Owner of HoopGrind Basketball - Basketball Development Program
o Trained and developed many college and professional players
o Currently trains players from youth to professional level
- 2016-Present Associate Head Coach / Athletic Director Impact Christian Academy
- 2011-2015 Assistant coach at Edward H. White High School - Jacksonville Florida (6A)
- Multiple top 5 FHSAA state rankings
- Multiple District Championships
- 1 FHSAA Final Four appearance
- Coach Thomas began working for Breakthrough Basketball as a lead assistant in 2015
Camp Details
Friday March 23, 2018 -- 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Saturday March 24, 2018 -- 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Sunday March 25, 2018 -- 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Limited Availability
Each session is limited to 54 players to ensure a high number of repetitions and improvement
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6095 NE Industry Dr.
Des Moines, IA 50313
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Camp attendees can get a 10-15% discount by using this link and booking any hotel owned by the Wyndham Hotel Group (Days Inn, Ramada, Baymont, Microtel, Super 8, Howard Johnson, Travelodge, Knights Inn and Wingate). Find a nearby Wyndham hotel and get the Breakthrough Basketball discount.


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- Made in USA with imported materials
- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S
Ribbed Bodycon Mini Skirt is rated out of 5 by 9.
Rated 2 out of 5 by MT17 from Sizing is off The only size chart that described the fit of P/S and M/L is the dress size chart, so I figured the waist and hip measurements from the dress chart should work for this skirt. Wrong. I have a 25 in waist and 37 in hips. I don't think I could walk in this skirt it's so tight in the butt/legs. The style of it was fine, but I'm not in love. Returning.
Date published: 2013-10-06
Rated 5 out of 5 by Vikule4ka from Hot skirt I love this skirt. I wear size 4, and I got m/l. It is very tight and not to big that I was worried about. I did the right choice.
Date published: 2013-10-06
Rated 5 out of 5 by Negrita from I love the skirt.t. The skirt's length is just right even if I am short. It hugs my body well. I like the material used. The price is right. The skirt is just perfect for me. I get complements when I wear the skirt.
Date published: 2013-07-07
Rated 5 out of 5 by Sylapooh from Very cute skirt! This skirt is really cute and the material is nice and thick. It hugs your curves and keeps everything in place. I liked it so much I ordered the blue, white and black. Pair it with one of the many bebe shirts and sexy pumps or cute flats. This is a most have for all bebe fans.
Date published: 2013-07-06
Rated 5 out of 5 by bboo from This skirt has great features :) love the way it curve on my body well fitted and very sexy .wear with any tops this item is a must collections :) xo
Date published: 2013-07-02
Rated 1 out of 5 by Vicky7 from This skirt looks nothing like the example shown on the model. Don't waste your money. This skirt is cheap and doesn't look anything like the advertised skirt. If I had the chance to see the skirt in store, I wouldn't spend more than twenty for it.
Date published: 2013-06-29
Rated 5 out of 5 by Anayansi21 from awesome deal I love this skirt. The color is vibrant. You can dress it down or dress it up. It has a weird smell at first, but it goes away.
Date published: 2013-05-23
Rated 5 out of 5 by Bebegirl83 from love this skirt this skirt is super cute. i purchased it with the white stretch tank and i paired it with a wide stretch belt that i wore up above my waist. Wear gold jewlery and cute flat sandles
Date published: 2013-05-06


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Subject: Lending Limits
Date: August 15, 2013
To: Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks and Federal Savings Associations, Department and Division Heads, All Examining Personnel, and Other Interested Parties
Description: Final Rule
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has issued a final rule that amends the OCC's rule governing lending limits.1 On June 21, 2012, the OCC published an interim final rule amending 12 CFR part 32 to implement section 610 of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the act) and to consolidate the lending limits rules applicable to national banks and federal and state savings associations (collectively, banks). (See OCC Bulletin 2012-19.) The act revises the lending limits statute applicable to banks to include credit exposures arising from derivative transactions and repurchase agreements, reverse repurchase agreements, securities lending transactions, and securities borrowing transactions (collectively, securities financing transactions).
Effective Date
The interim final rule contained a temporary exception period through July 1, 2013, for the application of the rule's requirements as to derivative transactions and securities financing transactions. The final rule extends this temporary exception period through October 1, 2013, to allow additional time for banks to comply with the final rule. All other amendments made by this final rule are effective on October 1, 2013.
Information for Community Banks
The final rule minimizes the compliance burden on small and midsize banks of measuring the credit exposure of derivative transactions and securities financing transactions by providing different options for measuring the exposures for each transaction type. The options permit banks to adopt compliance alternatives that fit their size and risk management requirements, consistent with safety and soundness and the goals of the statute. Community banks should note that derivative transactions include interest rate swaps; however, community banks may use the Conversion Factor Matrix Method, which is an easy-to-use lookup table that locks in the attributable exposure at the execution of the transaction. The final rule specifically exempts securities financing transactions relating to Type I securities from lending limits calculations. For other securities financing transactions, the Basic Method, which locks in the attributable exposure based on the type of transaction, is the simplest method.
The final rule outlines the methods that banks can choose from to measure credit exposures of derivative transactions and securities financing transactions. In most cases, a bank may choose which method it will use; the OCC, however, may specify that a bank use a particular method for safety and soundness reasons. Banks may request OCC approval to use a different method to calculate credit exposure for certain transactions. If the Internal Model Method is used, the OCC must approve the use of the model and any subsequent changes to an approved model. The final rule continues to provide that loans and extensions of credit, including those that arise from derivative transactions and securities financing transactions, must be consistent with safe and sound banking practices. The following summarizes the methods available:
Derivative Transactions
Banks can generally choose to measure the credit exposure of derivative transactions through
For credit derivatives (transactions in which banks buy or sell credit protection against loss on a third-party reference entity), the final rule provides a special rule for calculating credit exposure based on exposure to the counterparty and reference entity.
Securities Financing Transactions
As with the interim final rule, the final rule specifically exempts securities financing transactions relating to Type I securities (U.S. or state government obligations, etc.) from the lending limits calculations. For other securities financing transactions, banks can choose to measure credit exposure by the following methods:
For further information, contact any of the following OCC officials: Jonathan Fink, Assistant Director, Bank Activities and Structure Division, (202) 649-5500; Kurt Wilhelm, Director for Financial Markets, (202) 649-6437; or Heidi M. Thomas, Special Counsel, Legislative and Regulatory Activities Division, (202) 649-5490 or (202) 649-6360
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A $4 million investment transformed this iconic property, with a significant emphasis on design at the root of the renovation. New public spaces were created in the lobby, pool deck and lounge, meeting space and fitness center, and guest rooms were updated while significant landscape alterations contribute to the contemporary vibe.
Owned by Westport Capital Partners and Cove Equity Group, LLC and designed by prominent designer Gulla Jonsdottir (Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Red O restaurant) and La Jolla's Claude-Anthony Marengo, the new Hotel La Jolla offers 110 guestrooms, each with a patio or balcony.
The new lobby was inspired by La Jolla's natural landscape surroundings, while a new venue, the ground-floor Hiatus, provides more than 2,000 square feet of open-air relaxation, complete with fire pits, chaise lounges and an outdoor bar.
Also newly reinvented is the 11th-floor restaurant, Cusp Dining & Drinks, led by executive chef Donald Lockhart, as well as a fully equipped, 11th-floor event space measuring more than 950 square feet adjacent to the new restaurant.
"We are thrilled that the time is finally here for us to share this magnificent new hotel and all of its exceptional amenities with our guests and the local community," said Caroline Dyal, the hotel's general manager. "Our goal is to make our guests' experience special and I know we have just the place and the team to make that happen."
The hotel also added a brand-new fitness center complete with workout equipment, hula-hoops and yoga mats, and a fully supported business center.
To help guests live 'Like a Local' and to support the local community, Hotel La Jolla is partnering up with several La Jolla-based organizations including Birch Aquarium, La Jolla Playhouse and OEX Dive & Kayak to offer guests packages and create awareness around the organizations' initiatives. Complimentary beach cruisers and running maps are on hand to encourage outdoor adventures.
To celebrate the grand opening, Hotel La Jolla is offering its "Hang Ten" opening package, which offers deluxe accommodations at $10 off best available rate, $10 off parking, $10 credit to Cusp Dining & Drinks, $10 credit to Hiatus Lounge and 10 percent off any service at OEX Dive & Kayak.
For more information, call (858) 459-0261 or visit www.hotellajolla.com.
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Over the years, the one-click patent from Amazon has more or less become the epitome of everything that's wrong with the United States patent system (and I'm sure other parts of the world, too). It's a ridiculously broad and obvious patent - and a software one, at that. And let's face it - I have yet to find someone who does not believe software patents are idiotic. It's like patenting the multiplication table of 7.
The patent, number 5,960,411, was filed in 1997, and lists, among others, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos as its "inventor". Titled "Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network", it describes the process with which consumers can directly order things online after having previously filled in their contact and billing information. The patent was also filed in Europe, but the European Patent Office revoked it in 2007.
To further add to the massive levels of idiocy, Amazon has actually been able to successfully sue Barnes & Noble, with the judge ordering Barnes & Noble to stop offering a one-click system - they then circumvented the patent by... Forcing customers to click twice.
I really wish I was making this stuff up.
In 2006, Peter Calveley requested that the USPTO re-examine the patent, which they did, leading to many aspects of the patent being rejected. Amazon then moved to amend the patent, and these amendments are satisfactory according to the USPTO. The biggest change is that the shopping cart model has been specified in the patent.
"The approved-of amendment adds the seeming trivial limitation that the one-click system operates as part of a 'shopping cart model'," writes Dennis Crouch, editor of the patent law blog Patently-O, "Thus, to infringe the new version of the patent, an eCommerce retailer must use a shopping cart model (presumably non-1-click) alongside of the 1-click version. Because most retail eCommerce sites still use the shopping cart model, the added limitation appears to have no practical impact on the patent scope."
What is there to say that hasn't been said already? Is this the kind of stuff that will foster innovation and competition? Is this truly an "invention"? All this does is confirm the total and utter incompetence of the USPTO, and it's high time the US government reorganises that sorry excuse for an institution.


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UPDATE: IrishCentral has identified the man in question as Gary Halpin (33), a native of Cobh, County Cork, who worked as a graphic designer.
An Irish immigrant was viciously attacked and left for dead in the quiet neighborhood of Adams Village, in Boston, in the early hours of Sunday morning (August 18).
He is currently listed as in serious condition at Boston Medical Center after sustaining life threatening injuries.
According to police spokeswoman Katherine Shea, the Irishman, in his 30s, was discovered unconscious near the corner of Gallivan Blvd and Adams St, in the Dorchester section of Boston, by police, who received a phone call around 4.14am, on Sunday morning.
Boston police are withholding the identity of the victim, who was savagely beaten just a few blocks from his home.
Conflicting reports exist about the events that led up to the alleged incident at Adam's Corner. Although the police were tight-lipped on the circumstances of the attack, they are asking anyone who may have been in the area or who many have any information to come forward.
IrishCentral's sister publication in Boston, The Irish Emigrant, received an appeal from a friend of the victim, asking anyone with any information to contact the authorities. She described the man as from Cobh, County Cork and living in Boston, with his wife and three-year-old daughter.
Residents and businesses alike in the predominantly Irish neighborhood were still reeling on Monday, that an assault with such brutality had taken place on their doorstep. Adams Village is considered to be one the safest parts of Dorchester with a very close-knit community and this attack which has left a man fighting for his life only served to remind the locals of the tragic case of Ciaran O Conghaile , an Irish man who was murdered as he walked home in the same area in October, 2011.
Boston police investigating the events of this assault are appealing to anyone with information to please come forward so they can build an accurate timeline leading up to the discovery of this man's unconscious body. The authorities can be contacted at 1-800-494-TIPS or by texting 27463; individuals contacting the police also have an option of remaining anonymous.
Anyone hesitant to contact police directly, because of their immigration status, can contact the Irish Pastoral Centre at 617 265-5300 or the Irish International Immigrant Centre at 617-542-7654. Any information you have may be critical in solving this crime.


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A fire was reported at 6:27 p.m. Thursday at the anchor plant location of Lewis Bolt & Nut. A total of four fire apparatus, two ambulances and a command vehicle, with 17 personnel fought the fire.
La Junta Fire Chief Aaron Eveatt gave the Tribune-Democrat a verbal account of the fire last night at the anchor plant location of Lewis Bolt & Nut. The fire was reported at 6:27 p.m. Thursday and the first truck arrived on the scene at 6:33 p.m. A total of four fire apparatus, two ambulances and a command vehicle, with 17 personnel fought the fire. Two employees were treated on the scene by the ambulance crew for dehydration, a little smoke inhalation and minor injuries, said Eveatt. The employees were treated and released, as was one firefighter subsequently. (All firefighters exposed to flames must go through rehab, said Eveatt.)
Eight to 10 employees were on duty at the time of the fire, but all escaped injury except the two. When the firefighters arrived, the building was fully engulfed in flames. The immediate cause of the fire was the 3,200 gallon tank of flammable liquid which caught fire. The tank had its own fire suppression device, but it was not sufficient to stop the fire, said Eveatt. In a chemical fire, water cannot be used because it only spreads the fire. A couple of water lines had been compromised and were spreading the fire. In addition to this problem, a natural gas line had caught fire.
Foam concentration lines were deployed. The foam creates a blanket which extinguishes the flames and smothers the fire. The fire was under control 30 minutes after the La Junta Fire Department arrived. Eveatt will supply a written account when all the emergency work has been completed. It was midnight before all equipment was back at the fire station.


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Items where Research Group is "Centre for Mathematical Biology" and Year is 2005
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Alarcon, T. and Byrne, H. M. and Maini, P. K. (2005) A design principle for vascular beds: the effects of complex blood rheology. Microvascular Research, 69 (3). pp. 156-172.
Alarcon, T. and Byrne, H. M. and Maini, P. K. (2005) A multiple scale model for tumor growth. Multiscale Model Simulation, 3 (2). pp. 440-475.
Baker, Ruth E. (2005) Periodic pattern formation in developmental biology: a study of the mechanisms underlying somitogenesis. PhD thesis, University of Oxford.
Bampfylde, C. J. and Brown, N. D. and Gavaghan, D. J. and Maini, P. K. (2005) Modelling rain forest diversity: the role of competition. Ecological Modelling, 188 (2-3). pp. 253-278.
Bellomo, N. and Maini, P. K. (2005) Preface. Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 15 (11). iii-viii.
Byrne, H. M. and Alarcon, T. and Maini, P. K. (2005) Cancer modelling: Getting to the heart of the problem. Journal of Physiology, 561P, . 4P.
Clavez, V. and Korobeinikov, A. and Maini, P. K. (2005) Cluster formation for multi-strain infections with cross-immunity. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 233 (1). pp. 75-83.
Cook, P. R. and Hieda, M. and Winstanley, H. and Maini, P. K. and Iborra, F. J. (2005) Different populations of RNA polymerase II in living mammalian cells. Chromosome Research, 13 (2). pp. 135-144.
Hajek, D. and Kolar, P. and Maini, P. K. and Starha, P. (2005) Extracellular volume regulation and growth. Medical Hypotheses, 64 (2). pp. 303-306.
Iber, D. and Gruhn, T. and Maini, P. K. and Lipowsky, R. (2005) B cell activation and affinity discrimination by receptor segregation? Immunobiology, 210 (6-8). p. 539.
Korobeinikov, A. and Maini, P. K. (2005) Nonlinear incidence and stability of infectious disease models. Mathematical Medicine and Biology, 22 (2). pp. 113-128.
Li, C. and Maini, P. K. (2005) Complex networks generated by the Penna bit-string model: emergence of small-world and assortative mixing. Physical Review E, 72 (4). 045102-1.
Li, C. and Maini, P. K. (2005) An evolving network model with community structure. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 38 (45). pp. 9741-9749.
Madzvamuse, A. and Maini, P. K. and Wathen, A. J. (2005) A moving grid finite element method for the simulation of pattern generation by Turing models on growing domains. Journal of Scientific Computing, 24 (2). pp. 247-262.
Maini, P. K. (2005) Foreword, Cellular Automaton Modeling of Biological Pattern Formation. In: Cellular Automaton Modeling of Biological Pattern Formation. Birkhauser, Boston, vii-viii. ISBN 987654321
Maini, P. K. (2005) Morphogenesis, Biological, Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science. Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science, n/a (n/a). pp. 587-588.
Maini, P. K. and Dallon, J. C. and Sherratt, J. A. (2005) A multiscale model for collagen alignment in wound healing. Journal of Physiology, 561P, . 5P.
Meyer-Hermann, M. E. and Maini, P. K. (2005) Cutting edge: back to "one-way" germinal centers. The Journal of Immunology, 174 (5). pp. 2489-2493.
Meyer-Hermann, M. E. and Maini, P. K. (2005) Interpreting two-photon imaging data of lymphocyte motility. Physical Review E, 71 (6). 061912-1.
Meyer-Hermann, M. E. and Maini, P. K. and Iber, D. (2005) Analysis of B cell selection mechanisms in the adaptive immune response. Immunobiology, 210 (6-8). p. 372. ISSN n/a
Page, K. M. and Maini, P. K. and Monk, N. A. M. (2005) Complex pattern formation in reaction diffusion systems with spatially-varying parameters. Physica D, 202 (1-2). pp. 95-115.
Ribba, B. and Marron, K. and Agur, Z. and Alarcon, T. and Maini, P. K. (2005) A mathematical model of Doxorubicin treatment efficacy on non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: Investigation of current protocol through theoretical modelling results. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 67 (1). pp. 79-99.
Roose, T. and Chapman, S. J. and Maini, P. K. (2005) Mathematical models of avascular cancer. SIAM Review . (In Press)
Schnepf, Andrea (2005) Phosphorus nutrition of mycorrhizal plants. A mathematical model. Masters thesis, University of Oxford.
Smallbone, K. and Gavaghan, D. J. and Gatenby, R. A. and Maini, P. K. (2005) The role of acidity in solid tumour growth and invasion. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 235 (4). pp. 476-484.