View Visitation & Service details > passed away at Willow Valley Retirement Community in Willow Street She was born in May 1926 to Ann Marie (Knorr) Gregory and John Robert Gregory in Jermyn nieces and nephews Susan (Marcaly) Sheetz [husband Vince Sheetz] and several great and great-great nieces and nephews Jean graduated early from Waymart High School in 1943 and moved far from home to work at E.I She worked as a microanalyst for Kalman Marcali and they had such good chemistry she married him in 1956 Jean centered her career around chemistry and the organization of technical reports and databases in chemical research and development Jean advanced to become Supervisor of Central Administrative Services for Central Research for all of Dupont She was active in the American Chemical Society working to improve the organization of chemical research information She had a passion for traveling and enjoyed every opportunity that came her way where the flowers and shrubbery were just so and a member of The Order of the Eastern Star and Ascension Lutheran Church in Willow Street A viewing and service will be held at Ascension Lutheran Church Interment will be at Lower Brandywine Cemetery Events at either location are open to anyone who would like to attend The family suggests donations to the Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute in Lancaster Condolence Message: Be sure to include your name Please note that your condolence will not appear on this page until it is reviewed Condolences usually appear within 24 hours of being submitted Our seven funeral homes in Lancaster and Lebanon Counties makes it easy and convenient to make arrangements and host services close to home This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page became the head of the department in charge of major procurements at the National Tax and Customs Authority (NAV) while his other acquaintance has won high-value public tenders from the same authority The three men know each other through wrestling the black-haired man was a member of the wrestling team of Marcali and after earning his law degree he worked as an employee at the local municipality he was hired by a public health agency in the capital Budapest but then a few years ago he got a senior position at one of the country’s most important government agencies He became the head of the department in charge of major procurements at the National Tax and Customs Authority (NAV) What makes Balogh remarkable, however, is not only his spectacular rise but also his network of personal relationships. He has ties to the same circle of former wrestlers whose political connections and state-linked business activities Direkt36 had exposed in a previous investigation. is directly linked to both Szentgyörgyi and Orbán’s brother Balogh and Szentgyörgyi went to the same school in Marcali around the same time and wrestled in the same local sports club also their families have been in contact with each other in recent years Balogh and Orbán Győző also know each other They are friends on Facebook and appear in photos together Győző Orbán also seems to have a close relationship with Balogh’s father who is also a fellow wrestler and sports manager Szentgyörgyi’s companies – IMG Solution and other firms – have received multiple contracts from agencies where Balogh has worked over the years a consortium of companies that included IMG Solution won a major public tender of NAV despite submitting the most expensive bid Sources close to the procedure told us at the time that the tender was designed in a way so that only IMG’s consortium was able to meet the conditions The protagonists of the article have not responded to our e-mails sent on Monday in which we asked them whether Tamás Balogh had played any role in awarding the NAV contracts to IMG After graduating from a Marcali high school in 1997 he worked at various municipal and state agencies Although Balogh did not respond to our questions about his positions his career path could be reconstructed with the help of public records and through interviews with people who know him Balogh’s name first appeared on the documents of the municipality of Marcali as an administrator and as a public procurement officer in 2011 The last time his name appeared in the municipality’s publicly available records was in 2015 he appeared to have got a job at a national health care agency Between the summer of 2014 and December 2015 Balogh was mentioned as a public procurement expert and contact person on the procurement documents of the Institute for Pharmaceutical and Health Quality and Organization Development (GYEMSZI) which was later renamed to National Healthcare Services Center Balogh is currently the head of the Department of High-Priority Procurements at the tax authority NAV The department was set up in October 2016 to conduct bigger public procurement procedures The first time Balogh was named as a contact person on a procurement document was in June 2017 the companies of Balogh’s hometown acquaintance had already been successful in several major public procurements and received contracts from both GYEMSZI and NAV which still does not have a functioning website has produced spectacular growth in just a few years its revenues were only 46 million forints (150 thousand euros) it made 4.7 billion forints (15.2 million euros) the latest year from which companies’ financial statements are available IMG had 5.9 billion forints (18.7 million euros) in revenues and nearly 1 billion in profits (3.1 million euros) IMG received two major IT orders from the health care institute where Balogh worked as a public procurement expert IMG has received high-value orders from Balogh’s current workplace several times under so-called framework agreements it is decided in several rounds which companies can provide IT and office technology products to government agencies and other state institutions the Procurement and Supply Directorate selects companies The directorate signs a framework contract with the selected companies Then the individual state agencies can order products if the National Tax Authority wants to buy new computers it has to solicit offers from the companies in the framework contract and will choose one of them IMG Solution got its first framework contract in September 2013 It was a 44-billion-forint (142.8 million euros) framework contract for providing “computer systems and related services.” The company has become a participant of 8 similar framework contracts since then including an 80-billion-forint (260 million euros) contract for providing IT devices In May 2017 – not long before Balogh’s name first appeared on the documents of NAV – the tax authority bought 3000 computers and 600 laptops from a consortium led by IMG for 1.27 billion forints (4 million euros) and only the eventual winner had the contractual background to offer these models it is not clear whether the contract was concluded with the consortium of IMG IMG also received smaller contracts from NAV outside the frameworks the tax authority bought 65 printers for 5 million forints (15.8 thousand euros) from Szentgyörgyi’s company and also ordered other printing materials for 22.2 million forints (70.2 thousand euros) An e-mail detailing the latter order was not only sent to employees of IMG also won contracts from several state institutions including the National Healthcare Services Center at the beginning of 2016 the tax authority concluded 5 contracts with the company worth a total of 384 million forints (1.2 million euros) Balogh and Szentgyörgyi have known each other for a long time Szentgyörgyi is three years younger than Balogh they studied in the same high school in Marcali in the local wrestling community everybody knew each other so it is “one hundred percent” that Balogh and Szentgyörgyi had already got to know each other then Balogh even received an award called “Good student good sportsman” that rewarded his academic and sports performance the local newspaper Somogy Megyei Hírlap also reported on the wrestling achievements of Balogh and Szentgyörgyi Their wives’ earlier comments on social media also suggest that the two families know each other Although the Facebook friend lists of Balogh and Szentgyörgyi are not public they surely have at least one common friend on the social network: Győző Orbán Jr who had also been a wrestler in his teenage years and returned to the sport in his 30s What clearly connects the three men is the NIKÉ Sports Association is the honorary president of the organization which was founded in 2009 in Marcali and also has a wrestling section Gábor Szentgyörgyi has been a member of NIKÉ and participated in several of its assemblies The association is closely linked to the Balogh family as well The records of the association show that it was founded in June 2009 at the address of the Balogh family in Marcali Vilmos Balogh were present at the foundation of the association the representatives of NIKÉ visited Kárpátalja a part of Ukraine with a large number of ethnic Hungarians The delegation included Gábor Szentgyörgyi the association received TAO-support – deriving from a special corporate income tax relief system designed to help sports associations – from companies linked to the family of PM Viktor Orbán (such as Elios a company previously co-owned by Orbán’s son-in-law from the mining company of Orbán’s father and also from Szentgyörgyi’s IMG) NIKÉ merged into a Budapest-based sports association called Budapesti Honvéd SE continue to have leading roles in the association’s wrestling section attending various events and competitions together for the Senior World Championship of free-style wrestling Although Tamás Balogh does not feature in Honvéd’s public documents as a member or leader of the association last December he was also invited to a dinner of Honvéd’s wrestlers in Budapest Photos uploaded to Facebook by the association show that Győző Orbán Jr was sitting at the head of the table and he also gave a speech during the evening For the Hungarian company data we used the services of Opten. 1 Analysis of formation dynamics of blood droplets in T-junction generators Several models have been developed to predict final droplet volume and formation dynamics of Newtonian fluids such as water and glycerol [1],[2] little attention is given to the non-Newtonian fluids the formation of blood droplets in the T-junction generator was analyzed as shown in Figure 1 since many application of droplet-based microfluidic system requires biological and chemical fluids which are mostly non-Newtonian it is great importance to analyze the formation dynamics of these fluids Blood droplet formation and stages of the formation cycle 2 Quantification of Influenza Virus-Like-Particles via hemagglutination assay in microdroplets VLPs are genetically engineered non-infectious particles which have proteins to mimic the original virus but lack of genetic material to infect host organisms VLPs are good candidates for vaccine production [3] To determine the final dosage of VLPs in the vaccine diluted particles mixed with the target (RBCs) and the aggregation takes 4 hours to finalize[4] Although this method is a standard procedure and human errors are the major drawbacks of this system it was shown that the reaction time dropped to 4-10 seconds due to small diffusion length in droplets cross-contamination is prevented due to the compartmentalization nature of droplets and aggregation is detected by the image analysis to eliminate human error (Figure 2) with this system binding affinity of the virus to the cells were analyzed by applying shear to the trapped droplets Figure 2 Schematic of microfluidic channel and hemagglutination reaction (Top right) formation of blood & virus droplet and hemagglutination reaction in microdroplets 3 Analysis of Infection kinetics of influenza Virus-Like Particles in microdroplets This study represents the ability of droplet-based microfluidic systems to investigate the infection kinetics influenza virus-like particles (VLP) VLPs are protein complexes that are composed of viral structural proteins These particles mimic the organization of the original virus but they do not contain any genetic material This property of the particles is utilized in vaccine production to replace low yield standard methods the baculovirus-insect cell expression system has been developed [5] insect cells are infected with a gene-edited baculovirus Edited gene is able to express proteins that the influenza virus has such as HA cells start to express influenza virus proteins that are tagged with fluorescent proteins and the infection cycle becomes observable This cycle has been investigated using a population of cells in culture for various viruses the behavior of a single cell against the virus infection is masked by the population [6][7] have shown that virus release was two times faster than the standard infection in culture for a single BHK cell infection They accomplished the single-cell analysis by applying serial dilution to the cell population in 96-well plates a droplet-based microfluidic system was used Insect cells and viruses were encapsulated in droplets using flow focusing design droplets flew through the serpentine channel to enhance mixing They were stored at the chamber for incubation and cells start to emit fluorescence after 24hrs of infection in the culture by utilizing the shorter diffusion length in droplets emission time was reduced to 14-18hrs after infection which reduces the total infection time Figure 3 .e-f (Bottom section) Fluorescence imaging of the Infection cycle in microdroplets “Droplet formation in microfluidic T-junction generators operating in the transitional regime “Experimental observations of the squeezing-to-dripping transition in T-shaped microfluidic junctions,” Phys “Virus-like particles as immunogens.,” Trends Microbiol. “The quantitative determination of influenza virus and antibodies by means of red cell agglutination,” J “Influenza virus-like particles comprised of the HA and M1 proteins of H9N2 influenza virus induce protective immune responses in BALB/c mice,” Vaccine “Single-cell analysis and stochastic modelling unveil large cell-to-cell variability in influenza A virus infection,” Nat Faculty of EngineeringUniversity of Waterloo200 University Avenue WestWaterloo Strategic Plan 2020-2025 Weve recently revamped our website, and will be continuing to make changes. Let us know how we can improve your experience The aim of the touring exhibition is to present the outstanding members of the Hungarian Gypsies community who through their professional and public activities contributed to building a self-conscious and proud Hungarian Gypsy community to the cultural development of Hungary and to making Hungary a more colourful country some may have even sacrificed their lives for the freedom of their country More than thirty years after the regime change this touring exhibition pays tribute to the heroes of the Hungarian Gypsy community The travelling exhibition was first presented in Pécs on 4th February 2022 and has since been displayed in 27 venues across the country (Pécs Tihany) and has been seen by tens of thousands of visitors free of charge The House of Terror Museum and the Foundation for Research on Central and Eastern European History and Society are committed to commemorating Roma heroes and raising public awareness of their efforts and to show that Hungarian Gypsies have served both their communities and Hungary through their activities and by embracing Gypsy causes and supporting their communities the Foundation has made it a priority to trace Roma heroes to document their stories and to honour their historical achievements through exhibitions commemorative stamps and various publications Legal Disclaimer Privacy Policy Press Contact Copyright © Foundation for Research on Central and Eastern European History and Society – All rights reserved The community of Warrenville in central Trinidad has partnered with a pharmacy and a non-governmental organisation to carry out a food drive for people most in need located on the corner of Old Southern Main Road and Munroe Road has volunteered a space in his business to run the food drive The programme was introduced by NGO For the Love Reading TT and according to Ali the members of the community were the main drivers behind the project “The donation of non-perishable food items was provided by the community and those who know about the food drive anonymously Those who need it can also access it anonymously “This initiative is really not spearheaded by the pharmacy or the NGO but rather the people who are generous to help others in need especially at a time when many people are faced with challenges during the pandemic.” Ali said that it in order to maintain control people have been restricted to three to five items to ensure that other people can benefit from the initiative and even people who benefit from the food drive also donate items when they can “We also offered cash donations but that became a problem because businesses and finances were tight for many and those who received money would use it for other things like the purchase of alcohol and not use it for its intended purpose “What is also amazing is that people from lower income households who would use the food shelf would also donate items when they can for others.” has also opened his business and the NGO to establish a bookshelf which also operates in the same manner Customer Shushmita Sagar obsrves Natalia Amogan as she tries out her piano skills during a visit at MTA Pharmacy Books can be taken free of charge and the bookshelf is replenished by donations There are also musical instruments such as a piano and guitar set up for people who wished to engage their musical talents Ali said the programmes has been running for two years and was happy that he could offer a place to help his community “We hope to foster literacy and music literacy Sometimes people would just come in and use the piano and guitar They actually beg their parent to come to the pharmacy for this purpose “Many people have musical inclined children but access to instruments would be an issue for them to explore their potential fixed it and made it available for the public to use.” Ali said the initiative was in keeping with the pharmacy’s tagline “books for the mind medicine for the body and music for the soul.” “It is also reflective of the Islamic quote “he who sleeps on a full stomach whilst his neighbour goes hungry is not one of us” and in keeping with the virtues of Ramadan in a highly populated Islamic community we are seeing the generosity overflow “This is not to say that other denominations are not donating Folks in this community strongly believe and adhere to this regardless of their faith which is why I think the food bank is still alive to this day.” We previously began to round up the spas around Lake Balaton we decided to check on a further three spots to learn more about their prices and the great qualities of their thermal water.   The mineral-rich spring that supplies the spa was discovered on the outskirts of Csisztapuszta more than 50 years ago The erupting 42°C water is scary only at first glance as it actually cools down to 35-40 degrees in the pools The vapor provides a peculiar atmosphere in the inner space: it looks like we are bathing in steam the spa's pools aren’t large enough for swimming but in return the romance-meter will be in the skies if we manage to catch the sunset from here They use the water here to cure various diseases and to ease rheumatic symptoms and skin problems This healing power is caused by the calcium magnesium and the other nine minerals that can be found in the slight alkaline which also has a large amount of carbonic acid in it The price of the entry ticket also includes the usage of the sauna Hévíz is probably the most popular of Hungarian spas and it’s a favored destination of many people from around the world There’s nothing better than being there right before closing or early in the morning and you can be almost alone with the steaming water is replaced entirely every three days due to the 410 liters per second water flow and its cold and hot water springs feed the lake; the nearest similar lake is in New Zealand – however and has all the good qualities of thermal waters that contain sulfur plus it has a pretty white hat of steam in the winter which keeps the water from cooling below 23-25°C Bathing in the lake literally gives a tingly feeling as the bidirectional flow (the hot water goes upward This tingly feeling might increase if we realize that the dark water beneath us is at least 2 meters deep but at certain spots the depth of the lake can be almost 40 meters so it’s good to be equipped with a swim ring Marcali is 12 kilometers away from the south shore of Lake Balaton Its thermal water has a significant level of minerals or crescent-shaped pool; this is definitely the more relaxed area of the spa you can swim here at a 25 meters long pool It’s an absolutely fair and square swimming pool perfect for those who want to swim and then relax in the thermal water – even in winter.Translated by Emma Póli The slang term Kolega problem is also present in Hungary where a drunk driver completely rearranged a motorway service area with his lorry According to police.hu a driver was driving on the M7 motorway towards Budapest when he knocked down three traffic signs and crashed into a candelabra as he drove into the Szegerdő rest area The highway patrol officers took the visibly intoxicated man to the police station for sampling and his driving licence was immediately revoked The Marcali Police Department initiated proceedings against the 52-year-old Croatian citizen on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol In trucking slang, kolega problem is a derogatory term for when Eastern European truckers who don’t speak foreign languages well get into a difficult situation or ask each other for help. This is sometimes necessary when they cause trouble like the one above. A Facebook group called Kolega problem As we wrote earlier, a car hit a mother and her two children on a pedestrian crossing at Lake Balaton – Disturbing VIDEO and website in this browser for the next time I comment Y"},"category":false,"taxonomy":{"active":false,"name":"category"}},"markup":{"custom_html":true,"wpp-start":"","wpp-end":"<\/ul>","title-start":"","title-end":"<\/h2>","post-html":"{thumb} {title} {stats}<\/span>{excerpt}<\/p><\/li>"},"theme":{"name":""}} You have successfully joined our subscriber list SupportUs Newsletter © 2025 DailyNewsHungary | All rights reserved Email: Email Us Here Website: Visit Our Website People tend to be less cautious when on holiday; we go away to relax and disconnect from the stress of everyday life is something that criminals readily exploit statistics show that Hungary’s Lake Balaton is generally a safe vacation destination it’s worth being aware of the areas where thefts at Lake Balaton are more common and what you can do to avoid any unfortunate mishaps Based on the Hungarian police database, Pénzcentrum has compiled a list of the regions around Lake Balaton where most crimes are committed and where security is best the summer crowds can unfortunately attract thieves so it is useful to know what to look out for on holiday to ensure your trip does not end badly the highest number of thefts at Lake Balaton was reported to the police in the Siófok district situated in the south-eastern region of the lake There were 379 thefts at Lake Balaton per 100,000 people Pénzcentrum also looked at data from Budapest where 391 thefts per 100,000 people were reported in the same period This district includes popular holiday destinations such as Zamárdi Slightly fewer thefts at Lake Balaton—214 per 100,000 inhabitants—were committed in the neighbouring Fonyód district Police data show that the northern coast had much better statistics in terms of thefts at Lake Balaton the number of thefts per 100,000 inhabitants was under 80 while the region near Balatonalmádi had the lowest number of thefts Looking at the so-called crime heat map of the police which provides visuals of the last sixty days of data regarding thefts at Lake Balaton it is clear that cases are concentrated around Siófok When it comes to robberies (theft accompanied by coercion or assault) Tapolca and its surroundings in the north-western part of Lake Balaton fared worst it is important to clarify what “worst” means in this context: there were only 34 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in one year No robberies were reported to the police in the Keszthely and Balatonalmádi areas statistics show that car safety is also worse on the southern shore the number of car break-ins was negligible: in the worst-performing region there were 14 car break-ins per 100,000 inhabitants while in the districts of Fonyód and Marcali there were 9 such cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the past year there were no such incidents in the districts of Keszthely Although holidays are a time for relaxation it is important to keep a few tips in mind to avoid becoming a victim of muggers The Hungarian police offer the following advice: it is important to know that travel insurance can also help avoid any costly problems supplementary sports insurance and car assistance are available options to ensure your holiday does not turn sour MÁV’s new policy and dog-friendly beaches make holidays with four-legged friends easier this summer Programme guide: Best summer festivals around Lake Balaton in 2024