4 doctors booked under IPC 337 and 338: Missing a diagnosis is not grievous hurt

Dr KK Aggarwal, Recipient of Padma Shri

In Pune a baby was born with deformity, missed on ultrasound. Prenatal check-ups were done at Ashwamegh Nursing Home. None of the doctors notified that the baby had a deformity. They instead said that the baby was fine and their reports, too, claimed that our child was fit. When the baby was born on November 4, 2016, the baby was born with deformities in his right leg, left hand and had no passage for urine. The father went to the then commissioner of police Rashmi Shukla. This led to four doctors being booked under IPC 337 and 338.

Section 337 in The Indian Penal Code: Causing hurt by actendangering life or personal safety of others.-Whoever causes hurt to any person by doing any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life, or the personal safety of others, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.

Section 338 in The Indian Penal Code: Causing grievous hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others.-Whoever causes grievous hurt to any person by doing any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life, or the personal safety of others, shall be punished with impris¬onment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine which may extend to


from Reading, she has studied Multimedia Journalism at Bournemouth University and has a passion for writing and reporting.

She enjoys travelling and likes to spend her free time socialising with friends and attending music events.

They also said that undertaking online research about scams to educate yourself and sharing knowledge through social media can also help people learn more about scams and how to identify them.

Speaking about the study, Telenor Group said: “The multi-market survey assessed the impact of scams on 400 internet users aged 18 — 65 in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and India and was conducted to provide a better understanding of the common online scam methods.

Letters are exchanged between the scammer and victim until the scammer feels they have groomed the victim enough to ask for money.

This mightIn the railway system, a system has been established wherein an interlocking device is conventionally used as a core of the signaling system so that it links and connects to a track circuit for detecting the presence of a train on the track, a point for switching railway tracks, and a signal device for transmitting permission for a train to proceed or not proceed along a track and does not allow a train to enter a track if there is danger of a collision or derailment.
Recently, as disclosed in Japanese Patent publication No. 7-41840, a method has been developed wherein a central apparatus wirelessly detects a train's location from an on-board device, and based on that train's location, the central apparatus links and controls a point and an


a seat area and is embodied as a wire, an electronic assembly connected to the wire, which assembly has a function generator for generating an electrical signal and an evaluation unit, wherein the electrical signal generated by the function generator can be changed by occupancy of the seat area.
The basic concept of the invention is to effectively detect seat occupancy by a person, by using the capacitive properties of a person occupying the seat area and the parasitic capacitance of the wire. The occupancy of the seat area by a person corresponds to the connection of a capacitor to the electrical circuit, as a result of which the electrical signal generated by the function generator correspondingly changes. The person occupying the seat area is thus the mating electrodecircuit.
The electronic assembly preferably has a constant resistor, in particular a thin-film resistor. This resistor offers the advantage that the electrical signal which is generated by the function generator is damped such that the change in the electrical signal owing to the occupancy of the seat area and the connection of the capacitor has a relatively large effect.
In a particularly preferred embodiment, at least two wires, two electronic assemblies and two seat areas are provided, wherein in each case one wire and one electronic assembly are assigned to one seat area. This offers the advantage that two seat areas can be monitored in terms of their occupancy independently of one another, for example, in the case of a motorcycle, the driver's seat area and the pillion seat area.
Furthermore,


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A video of a model's fake breast being bitten by a snake has gone viral!

A video of a model's fake breast being bitten by a snake has gone viral. Yet in a strange twist of fate, it was the snake who died!

The trending video begins with the snake being draped over the model. She begins to pose suggestively (and quite comically) with the animal - letting the body rest on her bulging breasts and letting it crawl over her neck.

Afterwards, she begins to imitate the reptile by flicking her tongue out. The moment she looks away from the snake, it darts forward and bites the woman's left breast. The snake handlers struggled to get the animal off of the lady. A few moments later andtournament, the players will go their separate ways before heading to the training camps of their respective teams later this summer.

If the national team coaches liked what they saw, the players will be invited back to another camp in December, where the final selections will be made for the team that will compete at the world championship in Ottawa starting on Boxing Day.

HOLIDAYS FINALLY HERE

But after spending a few weeks at the rookie camps of their NHL team, and then the national team tryouts, school's finally out, and their summer holidays start now.

"I'm leaving here to go to New York to see the Yankees play, but after that I'm looking forward to getting back home in the mountains this weekend," said Brandon Sutter of Red Deer, Alta.

Many of


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September 18, 2019

The Chicago tradition of cruising the city’s streets for Mexican Independence Day dates back to the 1980s, but the celebration took a turn when police closed off major streets in historically Latino neighborhoods.

The roadblocks ultimately detoured motorists downtown by Trump Tower, where hundreds lined up to honk and wave Mexican flags “as a display of defiance and cultural pride,” Chicago Now reports.

According to the site:

In recent years, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) has also blocked major east-west thoroughfares for Latino residents during their cultural observations. These past two weekends, 10th district police blocked 26th St. in the Mexican neighborhood of Little Village, parked their squad cards in key intersections and prohibiting motorists from driving on their main road for more than one mile. …

Little Villagebuildings, numerous motorcyclists pulling wheelies, and plenty of folks dancing and waving flags in the middle of the street.

Several of the partiers also dangled the decapitated head of Donald Trump from their vehicles as they hooped and hollered into the night.

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Four children were dramatically rescued by firefighters, when flames erupted in a one story South Los Angeles home late Monday night.

The Los Angeles Fire Department was summoned at 10:51 PM on January 16, 2017 to 861 West Manchester Avenue in the Vermont Knolls neighborhood, where firefighters arrived swiftly to find heavy fire showing from the front portion of a 432 square-foot one story residential bungalow.

As first-arriving LAFD crews sprinted toward the home with hoselines and ladders, bystanders shouted that several people remained trapped inside the freely burning residence, which was almost entirely secured with window security bars and steel screen doors. Circling quickly to the rear side of the heat and smoke charged building, one Los Angeles Firefighter found and forced open an un-barred window, and without hesitation,climbed into the maelstrom to rescue four young children from untenably hot and smokey conditions.

Handing the badly injured and nearly lifeless siblings from zero visibility conditions within to waiting colleagues outside, the firefighter was himself able to escape unharmed before the room spiraled to a temperature that would have assuredly taken the children's lives.

As the children's mother looked on, teams of LAFD Paramedics provided simultaneous care for her severely burned two, three and five year-old sons, and her seven year-old daughter, before transporting them in critical condition to an area hospital.

The ninety assigned firefighters under the command of Battalion Chief Eric Talamantes confined the fire to the structure, extinguishing the flames in just 16 minutes, before commencing an hours-long overhaul of the burned building and salvage of posessions.

No


other injuries were reported.

Though the 93 year-old home was equipped with at least one smoke alarm, its functional status at the time of the fire could not be immediately determined. The building was not equipped with optional residential fire sprinklers.

Volunteers from the Mayor's Crisis Response Team and American Red Cross provided support at the scene, and later met the uninjured mother and a grandmother at the hospital to help with their recovery and resilience.

Monetary loss from the greater alarm fire is still being tabulated. Pursuant to protocol, the cause of the blaze remains under active investigation by the Los Angeles Fire Department's Arson/Counter-Terrorism Section.

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Organized by the Faculty of Graduate Studies in collaboration with the Staff Development Centre, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka held on August 31, 2016 at the Council Chamber.

Resource Person: Emeritus Professor Dr. Malcolm Cooper PhD LLM

Emeritus Professor Dr. Malcolm Cooper teaches tourism management and environmental law at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan, and is Visiting Professor at Sabaragamuwa University, Sri Lanka. Formerly Vice President for International Relations and Research at APU, he is a specialist in tourism resource management, water resource management, and environmental law, and has published widely in these fields. He has taught at Universities in Australia, UK, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, and Japan. His parallel career has been in the city planning and tourism policy areas for Federal, State and Local Governments


in Australia and New Zealand. At other times he has been a private planning consultant and a tourism education consultant to the Governments of Dubai, Sri Lanka, China and Vietnam. He is a recipient of the Australian Centennial Medal and has published over 100 books and papers.Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, spent years playing footsie with anti-Semites and white nationalists. Despite hailing from a Union state, King once kept a Confederate flag on his office desk, insinuated support for the white genocide conspiracy theory, and endorsed a neo-Nazi in the Toronto mayoral election. The typical Republican response involved a bit of hand-wringing, a few terse words, and then a change of subject. But King finally went beyond the pale of plausible deniability in the past few months, referring to Mexicans as "dirt" while campaigning for re-election and then infamously asking why "white supremac[y]" was "offensive."

It may have been too late, but it certainly wasn't too little, as the GOP finally put its foot down and held King's to the fire. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy,


Bears climb high above timberline in Yellowstone National Park to feed on moths that come from farmland many miles away.

Grizzly bear eating in Yellowstone Dollar Photo

The most common moth in the West is called the miller, and it is the adult of the army cutworm. Researchers are just now starting to understand the intricate relationship between this supposed pest and bears, but their relationship is very important.

Each summer, moths of the army cutworm fly into tall mountain rocky slides, where they burrow away from the intense mountain sunlight into dark crevices. Hundreds of thousands of them. These moths come from farmland many miles away to these high, remote mountain slopes in Yellowstone.

Moth Deposit Photos

At these places of slide rock and sunshine, both grizzly and black bears gather eachyear, climbing high above timberline to feed on the moths. The bears will dig through the slide rock and eat the moths that they uncover. It is estimated that some 40,000 moths per day can end up in the stomach of a hungry bear.

While fat in the diet is not the best thing for humans, it is important to bears. A single moth has a high enough fat content that it accounts for as much as a half a calorie. That means that 20,000 calories of just moths per day can be consumed by a rock-turning grizzly bear.

Researcher Hillary Robison has spent several summers in the high mountains around Yellowstone National Park, observing bears digging for moths.

"It's kind of like a salmon stream," says Robison. "We've seen bears


feeding within several hundred yards of each other and they seem to tolerate each other."

Usually, it's grizzly bears that use the high mountain slopes for moths, but once in a while, an occasional black bear will make its way up into the high country above the protection of the forest below.

Robison remembers one of them.

"He was digging up moths and they were flying up and landing on his forearms and he was licking them off his forearms," says Robison. "And then he wandered on and kind of took a nap for most of the day."

Robison is doing research on the moths in Yellowstone to see how far they come from farmlands to the high mountains. This could provide important information for bear managers, emphasizing the interconnectedness of alltheir application to biological systems."

Michael Moloney, CEO of the American Institute of Physics, praised all the laureates and said "It is also a personal delight to see Dr. Strickland break the 55-year hiatus since a woman has been awarded a Nobel Prize in physics, making this year’s award all the more historic.”

He credited the work of all three honorees with “expanding what is possible at the extremes of time, space and forms of matter.”

'Revolutionary' research

Strickland and Mourou worked together at the University of Rochester in the 1980s.

Mourou was a physics professor who headed a group researching ultra-fast lasers at UR's Laboratory for Laser Energetics. Strickland studied under him and was the primary author of a scientific paper that first described chirped pulse amplification in 1985.

In announcing the award,


the academy described that article as "revolutionary." It was Strickland's first scientific publication.

Mourou and Strickland demonstrated what has been described as a stunning advance in laser power, with a table-top terawatt laser. At the time, the peak power of laser pulses was limited because of the serious damage the pulses caused to the material used to amplify them.

The technique that Strickland and Mourou developed takes a short laser pulse, stretches it, amplifies it and squeezes it together again.

The breakthrough made it possible to create very precise laser systems. The applications for the technology include Lasik eye surgery, semi-conductor manufacturing, and solid state hard drives.

Strickland received her undergraduate degree in physics from McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario and a Ph.D. in optics from UR in 1989. She currently servesas associate professor and associate chair of the physics department at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

Mourou, a native of France, came to the University of Rochester after earning his PhD in 1973. He later worked at the University of Michigan, where he was founding director of the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science in 1991. In 2004, Mourou returned to France to become director of the Laboratoire d’ Optique Appliquée at ENSTA-Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.

UR's Laser Lab

Strickland was an undergraduate student and Mourou was her faculty adviser when the pair worked at UR’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics during the 1980s.

For nearly five decades, the lab has been at the cutting edge of laser research. Last month, Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, helped restore funding for the


long characterized the University’s contributions to optics and laser science."

Other UR Nobel laureates

Nine others with ties to the University of Rochester have won a Nobel Prize, including six graduates and three faculty members.

More:Seven UR alums, 4 faculty members have won Nobel Prize

They include:

Richard Thaler - 2017 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

Masatoshi Koshiba - 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Steven Chu - 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Robert Fogel - 1993 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek - 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Arthur Kornberg - 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Vincent du Vigneaud - 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Henrik Dam - 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

George Whipple - 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

SLAHMAN@Gannett.comVincent Hogan: Corbett in no mood to rest on his laurels

The humanitarian in Lar Corbett found expression only when the bodies were bagged, tagged and ready for burial. He threw an arm around old Tony Browne, murmuring something gentle. Browne's reward for 38 years of ascetic living had been to be the last in a long queue of Waterford men despatched to try and rein in the arcing rainbow of Corbett's talents. Senior citizenship shouldn't bring a man to that kind of place.

Lar then swung away to commiserate with Clinton Hennessy, whose backache had to be chronic. Then on to the umpires, arms all but loosened from their sockets through over-use.

Corbett's Championship goal tally soared to quarter of a century with yesterday's four in Cork, putting him three


clear of Tipperary's next-in-line, Eoin Kelly. Between them, they thieved a half dozen here, reducing Waterford's full-back line to an ugly callus.

Tipp in this mood move so loosely, so regally, the suspicion is that trying to contain them becomes the equivalent of trying to keep water in a bag. They use every last inch of the available acreage, pouring into space with the ease of men forever running downhill.

Diagonal balls out of defence seem radar-guided to drop onto Lar's boot laces. The rest is a matter of escape and fantasy.

Waterford put four different markers on Corbett yesterday, each one essentially condemned to chase the wind.

Jerome Maher was just 12 minutes into his Championship debut when Davy Fitzgerald called him towards the covered stand and advised him to switchwith Darragh Fives. Lar, by then, was already on 1-1. Maher mightn't have appreciated it, but Davy was removing him from harm.

Fives would be taken for 2-2 before the half-time break and, if substitute David O'Sullivan had all the right voices in his head going out for the second period, Lar lofted a gorgeous score within two minutes of the resumption. Short of regrouping with a rope and a cage, Waterford's task was futile.

They had, contrary to expectation, lined out in an orthodox shape and Tipp just seemed to locate structural faults in every single line. By the time (66th minute) Lar bagged his fourth goal, it was debatable who (if anybody) was marking him. For how do you mark someone who seems to levitate above the ground?

Corbett's


happening again.

"Listen, that's only Brendan Cummins' fourth Munster medal and he's given 15 or 16 years. It's only Tipp's ninth title in 40 years. This cup is important to us."

Declan Ryan supported the view of Corbett as "an incredible player" but with the significant proviso of "when he gets the right type of ball".

"It was just one of those days," said the Tipp manager. "But we've a bit of work to do now to keep the feet on the ground. To score that many goals, there's bound to be a certain amount of talk."

The bulk of it will centre on Corbett and the business of containment. Since his September goal spree, he has become involved in a Thurles pub and there are plenty who see opportunity in havingthe conscious being of the book.
The house was quiet and the world was calm
The words were spoken as if there was no book,
Except that the reader leaned above the page,
Wanted to lean, wanted much most to be
The scholar to whom his book is true, to whom
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The house was quiet because it had to be.
The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind:
The access of perfection to the page.
And the world was calm. The truth in a calm world,
In which there is no other meaning, itself
Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself
Is the reader leaning late and reading there
Oh! it's every bit as good as I remember
and just what I needed today.
Hank, I will see you on Friday.


The following essay is a work in progress, produced for an anthology of essays on animation and its relations to live action comedy. I see it as a chance to explore cartoons, long a passion of mine, but so far, not a topic I've written about. It also gave me a chance to return to the field of comedy studies, where I began my career. For more of my work on this topic, see What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Asesthetic, Classical Hollywood Comedy, and the essay on Lupe Velez in The Wow Climax. It also extends the exploration of the relations between high and popular art which runs as a theme through the essays in The Wow Climax, but especially those dealing withwe still have a long way to go before we resolve the vague discomfort which comes from applying formalist criticism to what we call popular culture more often than we speak of popular art.

Modernism?

Hoberman's concept of 'vulgar modernism' exists primarily as a frame for his close readings of particular texts and artists, so the passage quoted above is as close as he comes to an wholistic explanation of the concept. Modernism operates in his argument as a very broad and loose signifier of 20th century high art (and has become even more elastic as developed by subsequent generations of critics informed by his interpretations.) What links these popular artists to "modernism" for Hoberman is their interest in foregrounding the materiality of their medium and the conditions of its


production and reception, their embrace of reflexivity and intertextuality. See, for example, his description of what Will Elder brought to early Mad Magazine: "His best pieces are collagelike arrangements of advertising trademarks, media icons, banal slogans, visual puns, and assorted non-sequiters....As Mad's leading formalist, Elder allows internal objects to tamper with the boundaries of a panel, breaks continuous vistas into consecutive frames, offers visually identical panels with wildly fluctuating details, and otherwise emphasizes the essential serial nature of his medium."[p.37] In short, Hoberman is interested in these popular artist's refusal to produce a coherent, consistent, or classically constructed world, openly displaying their own interventions as authors into the represented events. Hoberman, in that sense, was inspired by Screen's attempt to generate a Brechtian mode of film theory inthe 1970s and by the French rediscovery of Frank Tashlin and Jerry Lewis, both of which rested on arguments that self-reflexivity and intertextuality shattered the codes and conventions of classical cinema.

Hoberman's project has been most vigorously taken up by cartoonist and cultural impresario Art Spiegelman, who has used these artists as a missing link between the gutter art of the Tijuana Bibles of the 1930s and the underground comics of the 1960s and art comics of subsequent decades. Spiegelman has, in the process, broadened the cannon of the vulgar modernists by, for example, reprinting works by Basil Wolverton in his influential Raw anthologies, writing a book focused on the modernist sensibilities of comic book artist Jack Cole (Plastic Man) or for that matter, designing an album cover for


how many of these artists received formal training (and thus were exposed to 20th century art movements), experimented on the side with producing works which more fully met high art criteria, and often directly and explicitly parodied various modern artists and movements throughout their work (witness the recurring theme of "smashing the classics"). Art Spigelman has drawn a compelling representation of Jack Cole's Plastic Man in a modern art museum, looking at the paintings with a mixture of revulsion, confusion, and recognition. These guys studied side by side in art school with people who would go onto careers within the art world; they had the technical skills to do work which would have met the art world's criteria of evaluation, but they opted to pursue their careers inDefense attorney Brian Neary said during his closing argument Thursday that prosecutors did not prove that Gutierrez made any plans to kill Betancourt, which they need to do to prove murder. He said there was no evidence of a sexual assault, no evidence of forced entry into the apartment and no evidence that he was the one who brought the knife.

Grootenboer, meanwhile, mocked Gutierrez's story as fictitious, and asked jurors to disregard Gutierrez's portrayal of Betancourt as “a naked, knife-wielding ninja from a Quentin Tarantino movie.” She also told jurors that even by Gutierrez's account, the stabbing cannot amount to self defense since Gutierrez is claiming that he disarmed Betancourt during the fight. New Jersey law, which defines self-defense very narrowly, does not permit the use of deadly


force against an unarmed person.

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A New Milford man raped and murdered his wife when she was about to leave him and then tried to flee overseas, Bergen County prosecutors said Thursday, while a defense attorney told jurors that the man stabbed his wife either in self defense or in the heat of passion during a violent altercation.
Pedro Gutierrez was jealous and full of rage when he learned that Shaday Betancourt, 23, was planning to return to her native Colombia to start a new life without him, said Wayne Mello, a Bergen County assistant prosecutor, as he made his closing remarks in Gutierrez's trial in Superior Court in Hackensack.
Gutierrez, 27, had seen photos of his wife with other men on Facebook, and had told one acquaintancethat if he ever caught her with another man, he would kill her, Mello said.
Armed with a knife and zip ties, Gutierrez went to a Teaneck apartment where Betancourt was staying on Oct. 4, 2011, said Danielle Grootenboer, another Bergen County assistant prosecutor who also made closing remarks on Thursday. Gutierrez sexually assaulted Betancourt, tied her hands and stabbed her six times, she said.
Betancourt's brother later found her bloodied and unconscious, and with help from a neighbor, rushed the woman to Englewood Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, prosecutors said at the time.
Witnesses testified during the trial that Gutierrez left the apartment, bought a one-way ticket to Colombia and boarded a plane at John F. Kennedy Airport, but was arrested in Orlando, Fla., during a stopover.
When questioned by


police, Gutierrez said he went to Betancourt's apartment that day, and that the two had voluntary, bondage sex. Gutierrez told investigators that Betancourt then attacked him with a knife before he eventually got hold of the weapon and stabbed her.
Defense attorney Brian Neary said during his closing argument Thursday that prosecutors did not prove that Gutierrez made any plans to kill Betancourt, which they need to do to prove murder. He said there was no evidence of a sexual assault, no evidence of forced entry into the apartment and no evidence that he was the one who brought the knife.
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studied influence of circulation around a symmetric airfoil with a rounded trailing edge. Flow control is achieved by the use of dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators placed at the trailing edge of the airfoil. Time-resolved particle image velocimetry is used to elucidate the topology and dynamical response of the wake flow under the influence of actuation. Flow field measurements indicate the successful manipulation of the Kutta condition enabled by the plasma actuator. The actuator enhanced the mixing of the wake near the trailing edge while reducing the dominant shedding frequency.

Shannon and Morris ([@CR20]) studied the velocity field in the near wake region of an asymmetric beveled trailing edge to determine the flow mechanisms responsible for the generation of trailing edge noise. Two component velocity measurements were acquired usingof the chord), there are two minimum points in the diagram. These points appear due to the formation of two vortices within the separation region. These vortices are the same as those formed during the vortex shedding (in the previous section) which occurred near the upper and lower shear layers. As we move further from the trailing edge, the effects of these two vortices diminish and the two minimum points are consequently merged. As the distance of the section from the end point is further increased, this recirculation region gradually vanishes. The close region between the black line (1 m/s) and the lower part of the velocity curves shows the recirculation or wake region.Fig. 8Velocity distribution at various sections of the original airfoil at a 5° angle of attack and


Update

Clashes have broken out between members of purportedly "anti-fascist" leftist groups and conservatives gathering to protest genital mutilation, honor killings and other practices associated with Sharia law, as part of the a nationwide “March Against Sharia.”

Seattle police were forced to use pepper spray on leftists gathering to protest the march after a group of protesters confronted the marchers. The intermittent scuffles eventually forced officers to use bikes to push people back in an effort to keep the two groups separated, the Seattle Times reported.

SPD bike cops created a barricade on north side of protest, separating "march Against Sharia" group from rest of crowd after confrontation pic.twitter.com/QHO7ZaQyBn — Katherine Long (@katherinelong) June 10, 2017

In North Carolina, police could be seen pushing a mob of leftists back as they movedcloser to the marchers, the American Mirror reported.

Large law enforcement at the NC Capitol. An anti-Islamophobia crowd is confronting a group holding a March Against Sharia. @WNCN at 6 & 11. pic.twitter.com/pRyCv5DNwR — Robert Richardson (@RobertReport) June 10, 2017

Tensions escalated in New York City when the anti-MAS crowd crossed Foley Square to throw jugs of rotten milk at the marchers, according to the Daily News. Later, the two sides clashed violently in City Hall Park.

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Police departments across America are bracing for another wave of leftist-inspired violence as protesters gather in 28 cities in 19 states on Saturday for the national "March Against Sharia," the Associated Press reported.

Counter-protesters in virtually every city where marches are taking place have promised to disrupt them, catching the attention of local police who


protesters say the marchers underscore a larger trend of intolerance that is increasingly evident across a politically divided country.”

In New York City, the rally kicked off downtown nearly an hour late with a crowd of around three dozen people, some of them in camouflage and waving American flags. A few wore shirts identifying themselves as members of far-right groups Oathkeepers and the III Percenters, according to WaPo. Fox News published some footage of the march, which can be seen below.

Across the street, separated by police barricades and a few dozen police, a few hundred mostly young people, including labor activists and Jewish and Muslim activists, and anarchists, blasted airhorns and whistles and held banners that read “Fascists out of NYC.”

Fox News reported that there have been "some clashes"Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969

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ColinCaptain Sonador to stand at Raheen Stud

Leading Queensland thoroughbred nursery Raheen Stud has won the race to secure Shamardal’s Group 1 winning sprinter-miler Captain Sonador for stud duties.

His career highlight to date has been victory in the G1 AJC Epsom Handicap at Randwick during the spring and will continue to campaign prior to the 2011 breeding season.

His main aim will be to complete the famous Randwick mile double when he contests the Doncaster Mile in April during the Sydney autumn carnival.

A winner at two, three and four from 1110m – 1600m, Captain Sonador has tremendous appeal being a son of champion racehorse and leading young sire Shamardal, whose stakes winners to runners strike-rate is around the rare 10% mark. Captain Sonador is Shamardal’s best performed son in Australia.

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incident that began as early as 1986. At that time, he saw patient KL and, without obtaining her earlier medical records, prescribed her a potentially lethal dose of imipramine. He continued to increase her dosage over the next two and a half years until she died from complications of an overdose. During that period, he only saw her three times. The medical board deemed his conduct gross negligence and/or incompetence.

Earlier, in 1970 while he served as chief of psychiatry at John Gaston Hospital in Memphis, Farmer and Dr. Allen Battle formed the Richard G. Farmer & Allen O. Battle Crisis Center soon after a patient of Farmer’s committed suicide.

Training and Education

Farmer did his undergraduate work and obtained his medical degree in Tennessee:

B.S. at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

M.D. atUniversity of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, TN

He did an internship at the National Naval Medical Center (now known as the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center) in Bethesda, Maryland.

His website lists residencies at:

National Naval Medical Center, Psychiatry

Naval Hospital Oakland (aka Oak Knoll Naval Hospital), Psychiatry

University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Psychiatry

Instructer [sic] of Psychiatry, Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center, San Francisco, CA

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN

Promoted to full Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Interim Chairman, Department of Psychiatry from July 2001 to July 2005

Certified as Diplomat, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Farmer claims membership in the following organizations:

The American Medical Association

The American Psychiatric Association

The American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry

The American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Inc.

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Call Of Duty Ghosts is a quieter, more flexible beast than its predecessor, which takes more risks with the franchise's world-conquering template

By now, Call Of Duty isn't just a gaming franchise, it's an event. Every successive entry in this series lands with the impact of a blockbuster film or a shiny new device from Apple. Fans line up around blocks, millions of units are shifted and loads of people call in sick to work the day after the latest Call Of Duty comes out.

Call Of Duty: Ghosts is the sixth game released since Call Of Duty 4 Modern Warfare transformed COD into a record-breaking and world-shaking gaming franchise. Infinity Ward has to be feeling the pressure.

Call Of Duty Ghosts: Plot

It's to the developer's credit then, that it takessome necessary risks with Activision's flagship shooter IP. Apparently the plot for Call of Duty Ghosts began as Modern Warfare 4, but flowered into what exists now.

The modern weapons, equipment and military tech are still present and correct, but the world of Ghosts is one where the status of United States as a superpower has been obliterated by an attack from a unified South American Federation. The US, far from being a military hegemony, is now on the back foot with invaders pouring through its southern and coastal borders.

The player takes on the role of a soldier named Logan who patrols what's left of the California border after San Diego was reduced to a mass of craters. After he and his brother Hesh pick their way through the


rubble of south California for a bit, they stumble across an elite cadre of soldiers known as the Ghosts and it's not long before both Hesh and Logan join their ranks.

Call Of Duty Ghosts: Characters

The fact that the player (Logan) is accompanied on a multitude of mission by his brother Hesh – as well as the pair's dog, Riley – is presumably meant to make them connect to the character on familial level.

One of the themes of Ghosts, we've been told, is the importance of family, but frankly, this is territory COD should never be aiming for. This is a series that banked its reputation on the twin punch of a deep multiplayer and a campaign where shock and awe is the order of the day.

While emotional connectionhas its place it's hard here as the characters are slightly unbelievable – being as they are presented as unique, elite soldiers, capable of blowing massive holes in the enemies resources and supply lines while numbering just a handful.

The dialogue that spills from their mouths is also so clangingly bad at times, that one surmises the work of Stephen Gaghan – nominated for an Oscar for the screenplay for the film Traffic and credited as writer here – probably contributed, at most, a plot outline.

Call Of Duty Ghosts: Campaign

That having been said, Call Of Duty Ghosts presents a compelling vision of a future in which the USA has been taken down a peg, and while some missions are as one-note as those in previous COD games, there's more


variation here overall.

Given the fact that the Ghosts are a stealthy infiltration unit, there's more opportunity for Infinity Ward to hit myriad beats in the same mission. A level where the Ghosts break into a skyscraper in South America stands out, as the way the action escalates from a stealthy hacking mission into a full blown dash through the building as it snaps in half is particularly sublime.

The best level is arguably the mission involving the Ghosts impersonating enemy soldiers as they infiltrate a weapons factory deep in enemy territory. Here, the action moves between knife-edge tension and visceral gun battles and then back again with frightening ease.

The developers even find time to toss in a tower-defence section and chase on rails, with the player covering the Ghosts'who has ever player COD: Black Ops 2's zombie mode; four players are dumped into a map filled with hostile creatures, given a task to accomplish and are awarded cash for each kill, with which they can then buy weapons and equipment. This time, however, they're fighting an invasion of feral alien quadrupeds, rather than a zombie horde.

Even without the undead, there's fun to be had. In Extinction, the idea is to use a drill to dig through the roots of alien plants while alien pooches attack from all sides.

Players can deploy ammo, guard turrets, explosives and there are even a couple of items in their environments – such as a firetrap – that they can unlock, provided they have the cash. It recreates the frenetic shooter action


operations, as well as medical asset coordination and mission planning activities.  The ship carried three SH-60 Seahawk helicopters of HSC-21 and four MV-22 Ospreys of VMX-22, which flew into countries and transported distinguished visitors to the ship. It is planned to embark the F-35B JSF for Americas first operational deployment.

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"Under Putin there has been a wish and an attempt to go beyond the Soviet inheritance," in developing high-tech military capabilities, says Ivan Saffranchuk, Moscow director of the independent World Security Institute. "Now there's cash, and a good political situation, to intensify that effort."

Missiles for Iran

• Last week Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov unveiled a $189 billion rearmament program that will replace about half of Russia's current military equipment by 2015. Among the armed forces' acquisitions will be a completely revamped early-warning radar network, new intercontinental missiles, a fleet of supersonic Tu-160 strategic bombers, and 31 new warships, including aircraft carriers.

• Last month Mr. Putin offered


Heritage Foundation in Washington.

• According to Russian media reports, last year Israel complained to Moscow over Hizbullah's use of Russian-made antitank missiles, which inflicted serious casualties and inhibited Israel's armored mobility, during last summer's war in Lebanon. The Israeli media pointed to the Kornet-E, a new laser-guided rocket that can punch through meter-thick armor at a range of five kilometers, which Russia has officially provided to Syria. Russia denied that the weapons might have been diverted to Hizbullah, however.

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The former USSR maintained a sprawling military-industrial complex that absorbed as much as a third of the country's GDP. With the demise of the Soviet Union, defense budgets imploded, the Russian armed forces virtually halted procurement of new weapons, thousands of factories went bankrupt, and skilledAnn Coulter speech," Coulter added in her email.

Steve Bannon, the former chief strategist for President Donald Trump, was on Yiannopoulos' lineup of speakers, but has not said publicly if he plans to attend. It was reported Friday that Bannon would not travel to Berkeley and was focusing his energies on campaigning for Roy Moore in next week's Republican runoff for the Senate in Alabama.

A number of other listed speakers have posted comments on social media saying they don't plan to show up, either. Among them is James Damore, a former Google employee who was fired for writing a memo viewed as sexist. He tweeted that he never knew he was on the list.

Yiannopoulos' attempt to speak at Berkeley in February was shut down by masked anarchists who rioted


to get specifics about what was happening. One dispatcher relayed information from a mother who was on the phone with her daughter inside the school.

"Ok, where is her daughter hiding at? Like what room is she in?" a first responder asked.

"Twelve-hundred building," the dispatcher responded.

"I understand she's in the 1200 building. Does she know what room she's in?" the woman asked. "Where she's hiding at?"

"Does she have a class -- " the dispatcher asked. "She doesn't want to talk. The girl is silent. She's too afraid."

According to a new timeline of events released late Thursday from the Broward County Sheriff's Office, the first call came in less than a minute after the first shots were fired. Eighty-one calls were made in 73 minutes. Ten of those calls weremobile technologies need to progress.

Even the countries with the most sophisticated LTE networks had to settle for a Very Good (65-75) rating in our video measurements, and many countries renowned for their 4G services didn't even make that list. The Czech Republic topped our chart with an overall video experience score of 68.5, and only 10 other countries joined it among the video experience elite with a score of Very Good. Most of them were in central and northern Europe, while the United Arab Emirates and Singapore represented the Middle East and Asia. Few users in these countries would find fault with the video quality they received as a Very Good score generally means fast loading times and only occasional stalling. What primarily distinguishes a Very Good score


countries in our Very Good ratings. Rather it landed in the Good tier, right alongside several countries with nowhere near the sheer mobile broadband might of the East Asian 4G powerhouse. Kuwait's average download speed was a mere 14.7 Mbps, but it was nearly level with South Korea in video experience. Clearly a good video experience is dependent on more than a lightning-fast mobile connection.

Where we see the biggest correlation between speed and video quality is among the countries with slower mobile connections. Nearly all of the countries that had Fair video ratings fell within a tight cluster below the 14 Mbps overall speed mark, and in this group a small increase in overall speed often coincided with a sharp climb up the video experience scale. At theMan Triathlon
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Monday, May 19, 2008

We Need Your Nominations for Netroots Awards

We are now accepting nominations for the 2008 Netroots Awards, sponsored by the Florida Democratic Party Netroots Coalition. The purpose of our second annual awards is to recognize the best and brightest of the progressive/liberal/Democratic Netroots and blogs. Between now and Sunday, May 25, please nominate your favorites in the categories below. You can nominate one person in one category or multiple people in every category, that's up to you. In the end, we will narrow the lists down to the top people in each category and offer a final voting period to determine the winners. The final winners will be announced at the Netroots Conference at the Florida Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson Weekend in Hollywood on June 14 (andthe best job of treating Netroots activists as valid constituents and not just another group of people to exploit.

13. Netroots Activist of the Year (Last year: Susan Smith): The individual who has done the most to advance the goals and activities of the progressive Netroots in the state of Florida.

14. Netroots Organization of the Year (Last year: Florida Progressive Coalition): The organization that has done the most to advance the goals and activities of the progressive Netroots in the state of Florida.

15. Best New Blogger (Last year: New category): This one should go to the best blogger who has been blogging about Florida politics for no more than a year and a half.

16. Best Online Campaign (Last year: New category): This is an award for the best use


of the web and related technologies to achieve some kind of goal, such as fundraising, fighting legislation or other activism.

17. Best Post (Last year: New Category): The best-written post since last year's awards.

18. Best Ongoing Series (Last year: New Category): The best regular feature that incorporates at least five posts since last year's awards.

19. Best Grassroots Website (Last year: New Category): The best website devoted to supporting a candidate, organization or issue that is created by amateur supporters for little to no money and without official connection to a party, candidate or interest group (at least initially).

20. Florida Progressive Coalition Progressive Hall of Fame (Last year: New Category): FPC is sponsoring a virtual "Progressive Hall of Fame" that should be awarded as sort of a lifetime achievement awardPresident George W. Bush said today that he understands and respects the views of those who are calling for him to cut short his summer vacation, but warned that an immediate withdrawal from Crawford, Texas would "send a terrible signal to the enemy."

"The enemy would like nothing better than to see me cut short my vacation and get back to the White House," Mr. Bush told reporters. "They hate my freedom."

While the president said that he would withdraw from Crawford "soon," he refused to set a timetable for his departure from the ranch, saying that much work there still needs to be done.

Mr. Bush, who has been spending much of his vacation clearing brush, said that he is making great progress in training ranch hands to take over


that job for him, but cautioned that they are not yet prepared to do the job themselves.

"Once the ranch hands have shown that they are able to clear the brush on their own, I will withdraw from Crawford, but that day has not yet come," the president said.

Mr. Bush was dismissive of polls showing that the public thinks his current vacation is becoming a quagmire, much like his August 2001 vacation.

At the White House, spokesman Tony Snow defended the president's decision to remain in Crawford indefinitely: "President Bush deserves August off, especially when you consider how many summers he had to go to school."

Elsewhere, Senator John Warner (R-VA) explained his decision to retire from the Senate in 2008, telling reporters, "That place is just getting too gay."

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Even In A Virtual World, The Harsh Reality Of Sexual Harassment Persists

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In an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all practical perception escapes, and in its place arises a fantastical world that teasingly mirrors the reality we call our own.

It's called virtual reality, or VR, and it's this technology that game developer Jonathan Schenker has a passion for. Schenker and his colleague Aaron Stanton created the VR game QuiVr — and, as he tells NPR's Rachel Martin, he was alarmed to discover a female user had been harassed while playing it.

Writer Jordan Belamire describes how she was "groped" and "chased," while playing the medieval archery game, by a user called BigBro442. Belamire's story was originally posted on Medium before itwas republished with permission on Mic.

QuiVr features a multiplayer mode, a setting where real-time players from all walks of life are able to interact virtually with one another, allowing complete strangers like BigBro442 to interact with users like Belamire.

"I was upset that the experience was ruined for her," developer Jonathan Schenker says. "The experience of virtual reality is really transportive — it puts you in that world and it's supposed to be an absolutely incredible experience and for a player to lose that experience, at the hand of another, really isn't appropriate, in my opinion. So I tried to fix it with the limited resources that I have."

Prior to reading Belamire's story, Schenker and his fellow developers did initially have a "personal bubble," setting, a feature that aims


to reduce minor annoyances from other players.

So for more egregious instances like Belamire's experience, that personal bubble has now intensified, Schenker says.

"Now ... if you have the setting on, someone who, kind of, walks into your personal space, simply fades out of existence," Schenker says.

Jesse Fox, an assistant professor at Ohio State University, says experiences like the one Belamire describes is a result of unfortunate commonplace.

"I find it unsurprising that sexual harassment has taken place in an immersive environment given what has happened in video games for several years," says Fox, who studies facets of communication like video games and social media.

"It's a different manifestation of the same behavior. So whether it's being overly flirtatious in the workplace or putting your hand on someone's leg when they didn'twant it — it's all unwanted sexual behavior driven by sexist tendencies."

At the heart of the issue is a historical trend of exclusivity in a male-dominated space, Fox says.

#GamerGate And The Treatment Of Women In The Industry

In late 2014, a debate manifested throughout the underbelly of the gaming community. It concerned two elements: video game journalism ethics and the role that women play within the genre.

From Reddit posts to endless Twitter feeds, various gamers took aim at several women within the industry, including developers Zoë Tiberius Quinn and Brianna Wu. Under the hashtag #Gamergate, harassment campaigns were imposed against Quinn for her independently developed game called Depression Quest, along with negative speculations regarding her relationship with a past programmer.

And a few years prior, feminist vlogger and gamer enthusiast


Anita Sarkeesian was aggressively criticized after launching a campaign to fund her video series Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, a production that examined gender roles within the genre.

It's a different manifestation of the same behavior. So whether it's being overly flirtatious in the workplace or putting your hand on someone's leg when they didn't want it — it's all unwanted sexual behavior driven by sexist tendencies.

All three women, in varying degrees, reportedly received intense backlash, from abusive memes to unflinchingly cruel comments in social feeds.

Overall, the Harvard Business School reports about 56 percent of women who start in the technology field leave mid-career, double the rate of men, in some cases based on instances of sexism in the workplace.

To help combat the Internet trolls, as Jesse FoxThe church chairs with kneeler are a perfect combination for the church to have. The units stack in the chair is easy for the storage, and the kneeler makes the prayer much more comfortable. There are many types of chairs available in the market for church chairs like the Optima, the meridian, the apex, the essential, etc. in the new churches there are more comfortable furniture installed rather than the church benches which becomes uncomfortable for a long sitting in the choirs or at the time of prayers. There is also an availability of both chairs and kneelers separately but having them both merged makes the experience much more relaxed and comfortable.

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Richard Louv. 2011. The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder.
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Michael Pollan has written a wonderful article about the intriguing world of microbes and their importance to humans for the New York Times. Read it by clicking here.

To learn more about increasing your exposure to friendly bacteria (other than gardening), please listen to this radio interview about the many health benefits of fermented food by Sandor Katz.


The race for Alaska governor looks to be a three-man contest, though some are still seeking to pressure the Democratic challenger to bow out.

That Democrat, Mark Begich, said he's not going anywhere: "I'm in the race," he said.

During Tuesday’s primary, Republican former state Sen. Mike Dunleavy advanced to the general election, where he is expected to face Begich, who was unopposed in the Democratic race, and Gov. Bill Walker, an independent who skipped a head-to-head primary fight with Begich and instead gathered signatures to appear on the November ballot. Walker’s move was intended to ensure that he could run as a team with his Democratic lieutenant governor, Byron Mallott.

Walker in 2014 changed his party affiliation from Republican to undeclared in forming a so-called unity ticket with Mallott thathis chances against Walker and Begich.

"I feel we're on the right side of the issues," Dunleavy said Tuesday night. "I feel that Alaskans want to send somebody down to Juneau that they feel is going to fight for them." Juneau is the state capital.

Begich said he plans to outwork his opponents and continue to travel the state to share his message with Alaskans. He said a majority of Alaskans are looking for a change.

"The majority is not with the current governor. The majority of Alaskans are looking for something different," Begich said.

In the Democratic U.S. House primary, independent Alyse Galvin advanced to challenge GOP incumbent Rep. Don Young, 85. Young is the longest-serving member of the U.S. House and easily won his primary.

The Alaska Democratic party changed its


determine who runs as a ticket in November. Candidates who bypass the primaries and instead gather signatures to appear on the general election ballot — as Walker opted to do — have a say in their running mates.

The next governor will face big issues, including crime and the economy, and decisions on the annual check that Alaskans receive from the state's oil-wealth fund, the Alaska Permanent Fund.

Dunleavy and Treadwell had positioned themselves as conservatives critical of a 2016 criminal justice overhaul and the state's approach to budgeting. Both supported the formula in state law for calculating the oil-wealth check, which has been ignored, first by the governor and then by legislators, for the past three years amid a budget deficit.

Mary Bolin, an Anchorage Republican, voted for Dunleavy. Shethis time."

Cody's wife, Holly Cody, also is an undeclared voter, but she voted on the Democratic ballot. In the U.S. House race, she supported Democrat Dimitri Shein. She said she met Shein and he left a good impression.

"He's a family man," she said. But she's not holding out hope that anyone will defeat Young. "Don Young's been around forever. I think he's got a lot of support in Alaska."

The primaries also include a contested GOP race for lieutenant governor and state legislative races.

Of the candidates in the Democratic U.S. House race, Galvin and Shein, a Russian immigrant who became involved in politics after President Donald Trump's election, most actively campaigned.


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Within a short while after that chaotic journey, I made my appearance, becoming the fourth child born to my parents.

I was only one of many in a chain of strong personalities in our bin Laden family. My father, although quiet-natured in many ways, has always been a man that no other man can control. My paternal grandfather, Mohammed Awad bin Laden, was also quite famous for his strength of character. After the premature death of his father, who left behind a grieving widow and four young children, Grandfather bin Laden sought his fortune without a clue as to where he would end up. He was the eldest at 11 years.

Since Yemen offered few possibilities in those days, my


grandfather bravely turned his back on the only land and the only people he had ever known, taking his younger brother, Abdullah, with him to join one of the many camel caravans trekking through the area.

After traveling through the dusty villages and towns of Yemen, they arrived at the port of Aden. From there they sailed a short distance across the Gulf of Aden to Somalia. In Somalia, the two bin Laden boys were employed by a cruel taskmaster, known for his furious outbursts. One day he became so annoyed at my grandfather that he hit him on the head with a heavy stick.

The injury resulted in the loss of sight in one eye. My grandfather and uncle were forced to return to their village until his recovery.The following year they set out once again, this time traveling in the opposite direction, north to Saudi Arabia. I’m sure they were eager to stop at many outposts, but nothing seemed to have the magic they were seeking. The two boys, young and unlettered, lingered only long enough to earn sufficient money to stave off hunger and to continue what must have seemed an endless journey. Something about Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, appealed to my grandfather, because that walled city on the Red Sea marked the end of their arduous voyage.

Grandfather bin Laden was poor yet he was full of energy and determination. He felt no shame in tackling any honest labor. Jeddah was the ideal place for such a character, for the city and the country were


at an economic turning point. In the early 1930s, my grandfather’s vigor, strength of mind, and attention to detail caught the attention of an assistant to King Abdul Aziz, the first king of Saudi Arabia, who had recently won many tribal wars and formed a new country.

No one knew it at the time, but Saudi Arabia was set to become one of the richest and most influential countries in the world. After the formation of the kingdom, in 1932, and the discovery of oil, in 1938, the kingdom entered a building boom never before witnessed. When the King wanted a new building or new roadway constructed, he turned to my grandfather. My grandfather’s diligence and honesty so pleased the King that he was put in charge of themost coveted job for a believer, the expansion of the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

Everyone in our family knows that our Grandfather bin Laden had two main passions: work and women. He was extremely successful in both arenas. His ethic for hard work and total sincerity won him the complete trust of the King. With hard work came financial rewards, which enabled my grandfather to satisfy his second passion: women.

Osama bin Laden at age 16 in 1973, one year before he married his cousin Najwa. Courtesy of Omar bin Laden Family Photo Collection.

In my culture, it is not uncommon for men, particularly the very wealthy and the very poor, to have four wives simultaneously. My grandfather was soon so rich that he not only married four women but continually


emptied several of the four marriage positions so that he could fill the vacated slots with new wives.

With so many wives and ex-wives, my grandfather had so many children that it was difficult for him to maintain a relationship with each child. As was the custom, he did give extra attention to the eldest sons, but most of his children were seen only on important occasions. This did not mean he did not follow the progress of his children; he would take time out of his busy schedule to make cursory checks to ensure that his sons were advancing in school or that his daughters married well.

Since my father was not one of the eldest sons, he was not in a position to see his father regularly. Inthe ones in their life, my father was not. In fact, he was known to avert his eyes whenever a woman not of his family came into his view. To keep away from sexual temptation, he believed in early marriages. That’s the reason he made the decision to marry when he was only 17 years old.

I’m pleased that my mother, Najwa Ghanem, who was my father’s first cousin, was his first wife. The position of the first wife is prestigious in my culture, and that prestige is tripled when the first wife is a first cousin and mother of a first son. Rarely does a Muslim man divorce a wife who is a cousin and the mother of the firstborn son. My parents were bound by blood, marriage,


that he had mastered the feat when he was only 10 years old, during a time of great mental turmoil after his own father had been killed in an airplane accident. Whatever the explanation for his rare gift, his champion performances made for many extraordinary moments.

I have bad memories, along with the good. Most inexcusable in my mind is that we were kept as virtual prisoners in our home in Jeddah.

There were many dangers lurking for the ones who had become involved in that increasingly complex quagmire that had begun with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan two years before I was born. My father had become such an important figure in the struggle that he had been told that political opponents might kidnap one of his children orsoccer, as Americas call it. When he brought a ball home, I remember the shock of seeing him smile sweetly when he saw how excited his sons became at the sight of it. He confessed that he had a fondness for playing soccer and would participate in the sport when he had time.

Osama bin Laden in 1984, at the height of the Soviet-Afghan war. Courtesy of Omar bin Laden Family Photo Collection.

You might have guessed by now that my father was not an affectionate man. He never cuddled with me or my brothers. I tried to force him to show affection, and was told that I made a pest of myself. When he was home, I remained near, pulling attention-gaining pranks as frequently as I dared. Nothing sparked


his fatherly warmth. In fact, my annoying behavior encouraged him to start carrying his signature cane. As time passed, he began caning me and my brothers for the slightest infraction.

Thankfully, my father had a different attitude when it came to the females in our family. I never heard him shout at his mother, his sisters, my mother, or my sisters. I never saw him strike a woman. He reserved all the harsh treatment for his sons.

I remember one particular time, during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan, when he had been away for longer than usual. I was desperate for his attention. He was sitting on the floor quietly studying intricate military maps. I watched him as he carefully laid his map flat on the floor, his earnest facegathered up each of my brothers, speaking rapidly in an excited voice: “Come! Father wants to see us all! Come!”

My father ordered us to stand in a straight line. He stood calmly, watching as we obediently gathered, one hand clutching his wooden cane. I was grinning happily, certain that something very special was about to happen. I stood in restless anticipation, wondering what sort of new game he was about to teach us. Perhaps it was something he played with his soldiers, some of whom I had heard were very young men.

Shame, anguish, and terror surged throughout my body as he raised his cane and began to walk the human line, beating each of his sons in turn. A small lump ballooned in my throat.

My father never raised


stupid shit strapped to their backs is because their hands must remain free at all times to hold food." "And to get that food up to the mouth where it gets shoveled in with all the rest of the disgusting shit they ate that day." "And..." "Another reason for the backpacks is these people are going to buy even more stupid shit." "They ain't got enough stupid shit at home." "They just had a stupid shit sale, they're gonna buy more." "They're going to go out in the parking lot and stuff this stuff into the big, fat, ugly, oversized SUV that's got plenty of room in it." "Plenty of room in it for stupid shit and lots of room left over for these big, fat, ugly motherfuckersthe president's televised response to former FBI Director James Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee last month.

Kasowitz may not be in the president's good graces anymore, according to a report Tuesday night in The New York Times. As Donald Trump Jr. faces scrutiny over a meeting he had with a Russian lawyer, the president has reportedly expressed his frustration to his team of personal lawyers, which is headed by Kasowitz, which could lay the groundwork for Kasowitz's exit, that report said.


angrily in a maelstrom at the bottom.

Pinball mystery

(How the moving waterfall effect was made is one of the great mysteries of the pinball world. Apparently some chap walked in off the street into Williams’ offices and said he had the technology to produce the illusion of motion on a foil sticker with nothing more than lights flashing in a chase pattern to make it work.

Twenty years later and no-one can remember who he was or what company he worked for. Somehow this individual (or his company) managed to create the necessary patterns in the foil to make the water come to life, yet today no-one has successfully reproduced the patterns by copying an existing topper let alone create the patterns from scratch.)

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This is a summary of the proceedings of sessions on Volcanic Hazards at the First International Symposium on Public Health in Asia and the Pacific Basin, held 3-11th March 1983, in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Symposium was sponsored by the Association of Schools of Public Health, the U.S. Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), the South Pacific Commission, and the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii. The full proceedings are being prepared for publication. The Symposium was supported in part by: The Pan American Health Organization and The Amoco Foundation.


grip or maybe their attitude. Maybe they just need someone to believe in them. If Petit can tune out the doubters, then surely plenty of others can, too.

On Friday night, they stood and cheered for Petit at AT&T Park after he came within one out of throwing the 24th perfect game in history. He surely got close enough to touch it and taste it and feel it.

He retired 26 D-backs in a row by pitching aggressively. That is, he wasn't afraid. He threw a first-pitch strike to 21 of 28 D-backs and worked the outside corners brilliantly.

His fastball was located smartly, his breaking pitch wicked. Never mind what went before. Never mind those 11 seasons in the Minor Leagues, those 189 Minor League games. Never mind all thetimes he was traded (twice), waived (once) and released (twice), or that he spent the 2011 season in the Mexican League.

He started 28 Triple-A games for the Giants last season and got one big league start after the club had clinched the National League West and was resting its regular starters.

The Giants designated him for assignment five weeks ago after one relief appearance, then sent him back to the Minor Leagues when no team claimed him. This was his third start since being recalled for the second time. He has won all three, and even before Friday, had pitched well enough to open some eyes.

"Experience," he said recently when asked about his improvement. "I wasn't consistent with what I was doing. I'm totally different compared with what I


was doing before. I'm more consistent with the breaking balls."

Against the D-backs, he threw fastballs, changeups and curveballs, threw 'em all, controlled 'em all. He was brilliant at changing speeds and keeping hitters off balance.

For instance, he opened the eighth inning with a wicked combination to Martin Prado: cut fastball for strike one and curveball for strike two.

Then he missed with a high fastball, an 87-mph heater, which is nothing special by Major League standards.

But he set Prado up with that high fastball and came right back with a curveball in the dirt. Prado chased it, and Petit had his 22nd out.

He changed his pattern on the next hitter, Aaron Hill, throwing a couple of breaking pitches low and away before coming back with a high fastball thatHill popped to second baseman Marco Scutaro.

He finished the eighth by winning an eight-pitch at-bat against Miguel Montero, who was the first Arizona hitter to get a three-ball count. Petit got out of the eighth inning with a full-count fastball that Montero grounded to first baseman Brandon Belt for the 24th out.

Petit opened the ninth inning by striking out Micah Owings on three curveballs. He threw just two pitches to Gerardo Parra, getting him to ground out to second.

And then it was Chavez, the respected old pro, called on to pinch-hit. With the count 2-2, Petit threw Chavez a slider that just missed low.

Had plate umpire Phil Cuzzi given Petit the call, no one would have said a word.

But with another full count, Petit threw Chavez an 89-mph


and our community, and I appreciate so many people for thinking of us in that way, and listening and supporting the show.

When we started FSBreak back in January of 2009 it was really unfortunate timing, as the very first episode of FSBreak was covering the ACES studio closure and what came to be the cancellation of "FS11". At that time, I honestly gave the show 5 episodes until we'd stop doing it, and the only reason I continued on was because I had already purchased the equipment needed, and the domain names, built up the website, logos, etc. :-)

...But, something clicked as the co-hosts and I continued to do the show. Even though the show was really rough, we got thousands of downloads, hundreds of positive comments, andVince DeRosa Signature Cup

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conservatorship since 2008, after she was hospitalized for psychiatric evaluation in the wake of a highly publicized breakdown and divorce from Kevin Federline, with whom she shares sons Preston, 12, and Jayden, 11. The arrangement states that due to an undisclosed mental illness and past substance abuse, Britney cannot make personal or financial decisions without the approval of her father and lawyer Andrew Wallet.

“If anyone knew the real Britney, they would know that she would rather be remembered for being the great mother she is rather than the artist she is,” her ex-boyfriend David Lucado told The New York Times in May 2016. “And if anyone could see her interactions with her kids, they would know that there is no need for a conservatorship over Britney’s personal life.”

InIn the wake of Nate Parker's 1999 rape case resurfacing ahead of the theatrical release of his film, The Birth of a Nation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Cheryl Boone Isaacs has weighed in on the controversy, imploring people to watch the film despite Parker's "personal issue."

Speaking with TMZ on Thursday, Boone Isaacs said that "people need to see this movie," in response to the American Film Institute's Tuesday decision to cancel its screening of the film on Friday. While Boone Isaacs said she hasn't seen the film herself, she cites "the conversation that has gone on since Sundance [Film Festival]" — where Fox Searchlight acquired the film for a record-breaking $17.5 million — as evidence for its importance.

"I know just by the conversation


that has gone on since Sundance that it's clearly a movie that filmgoers should go and see," she said.

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But some feel Parker's "personal issue" merits hesitancy. The filmmaker was accused of rape along with Birth of a Nation co-writer Jean McGianni Celestin while both were students at Penn State University. Their accuser died by suicide in 2012. The grim details of the case have made it difficult for other Academy members to separate the film from its creator.

"Personally, I find it really hard to separate the man from the film when he wrote, directed and starred in it," Academy member Marcia Nasatir told the Hollywood Reporter. "Do I want to see a movie from someone who has committed an assault against a woman andVideo (01:09) : Several media outlets reported that a suspect had been identified from surveillance video taken at a Lord & Taylor store between the sites of the two bomb blasts, which killed three people and wounded more than 170.

BOSTON - The painstaking work to identify a bombing suspect from reams of Boston Marathon footage yielded a possible breakthrough as investigators focused on a man seen dropping off a bag, and then walking away from the site of the second of two deadly explosions.

The discovery of the image — found on surveillance footage from a department store near the finish line — emerged two days after the attack that left three people dead, wounded more than 170, and cast a dark shadow over one of this city's most


picking up pieces of evidence and following those trails, and that's going to take some time."

Video (01:59): Boston bomb victims face difficult recovery Video (01:59): Boston bomb victims face difficult recovery

The bombs were crudely fashioned from ordinary kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and ball bearings, investigators and others close to the case said. Investigators suspect the devices were then hidden in black duffel bags and left on the ground.

As a result, they were looking for images of someone lugging a dark, heavy bag. Investigators had appealed to the public to provide videos and photographs from the race finish line.

City Council President Stephen Murphy, who said he was briefed by Boston police, said investigators saw the image of the man dropping off a bag and matched thefindings with witness descriptions of someone leaving the scene.

One department store video "has confirmed that a suspect is seen dropping a bag near the point of the second explosion and heading off," Murphy said.

Separately, a law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the case publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity confirmed only that investigators had an image of a potential suspect whose name was not known to them and who had not been questioned. The official said investigators did not know the man's name.

Several media outlets reported that a suspect had been identified from surveillance video taken at a Lord & Taylor department store between the sites of the bomb blasts.

At least 14 bombing victims, including three children, remained in


critical condition. Dozens of victims have been released from hospitals, and officials at three hospitals that treated some of the most seriously injured said they expected all their remaining patients to survive. A 2-year-old boy with a head injury was improving and might go home Thursday, Boston Children's Hospital said.

On Wednesday, investigators in white jumpsuits fanned out across the streets, rooftops and awnings around the blast site in search of clues. They picked through trash cans, plastic cup sleeves and discarded sports drink dispensers.

Marian Wilson said she tried not to notice the men slowly pacing and looking for evidence on the street behind her as she ate a tuna sandwich at Stephanie's on Newbury, a restaurant a block from the site of the bombings.

"I just go in andwill not bring us down."

Obama and his challenger in the last election, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, planned to visit Boston on Thursday to attend the vigil.

Video (00:44): Pressure cooker bombs suspected in Boston blast Video (00:44): Pressure cooker bombs suspected in Boston blast

The blasts killed 8-year-old Martin Richard, of Boston, 29-year-old Krystle Campbell, of Medford, and Lu Lingzi, a Boston University graduate student from China.

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Associated Press writers Jay Lindsay, Pat Eaton-Robb, Steve LeBlanc, Bridget Murphy and Meghan Barr in Boston; Eileen Sullivan, Julie Pace and Lara Jakes in Washington; and Marilynn Marchione in Milwaukee contributed to this report.


Navy believed that the British had a strong force in the North Sea, off Norway and another at Hoofden and off the south-east coast of England. The Germans intended to sneak out between the two forces to bombard the English coast and then attack whichever British force showed first. With luck, the German battlecruisers could engage the south-east force and after defeating it would run back to the north-west, meeting the northern group in the area around Terschelling Bank. Here the battlecruisers would attack the second British group from the south and the main body of the High Seas Fleet would attack from the north. If successful, the High Seas Fleet would be able to destroy significant elements of the British fleet before the main body of theNaval Staff, that a large British fleet was operating off the Belgian coast and that another large force had been sighted off Norway on 23 April. This suggested that the British Fleet was still divided, giving rise to optimism that the operation would go off as planned, despite the mining of Seydlitz. At 21:30, another message indicated that British patrol boats off the Belgian coast were heading back to harbour, which was interpreted as confirmation that British submarines had reported the German movements. By 24 April the northern British ships had returned to harbour for coaling and were unaware of the moves. The ships off the Flanders coast included 12 additional destroyers from the Harwich Force, which had been sent to assist with a barrage of the coast.

The German


Tuesday, 12 August 2008

Open Evangelicalism, NEAC 2008 and the future of the Church of England

The Church of England Evangelical Council website is now advertising 'NEAC 2008' - a consultation in continuity with the previous 'National Evangelical Anglican Consultations'. Meanwhile, on the Fulcrum website, there are rumblings about whether this is going to be truly 'representative' of the current state of Anglican Evangelicalism in England.

Personally, I can't help wondering about 'karma' at this point - or at least, a possible episode of My Name is Earl!

Fulcrum was founded in reaction to the direction being taken during the organizing of the last residential NEAC, at Blackpool in 2003. An article on the Fulcrum website speaks of "the restrictive nature of the planning ... and the sharp reaction of some conservativeevangelicals to the appointment of Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury".

Early in September 2003, the founders of Fulcrum met in St Mary's vicarage, Islington, and decided to launch at NEAC itself. Francis Bridger, the former Principal of Trinity Theological College, Bristol, was appointed as the chair and Elaine Storkey and Tim Dakin (of CMS) as vice chairs. Graham Kings, the Rector of St Mary's was appointed Theological Secretary, Rod Green, a member of St Mary's as Administrator and John Martin (formerly editor of the Church of England Newspaper) as Press Officer. Others involved in the planning included Christina Rees (of WATCH) and Andrew Goddard (of Wycliffe Hall Theological College).

Just three days before the start of NEAC 4, Graham Kings e-mailed the CEEC about the formation of the new


organization and used the fact that he had booked the bar at the Conference venue for Fulcrum's informal launch. In addition to Kings himself, speakers over the subsequent evenings included Bishop Tom Wright, Christina Baxter (Principal of St John's Theological College, Nottingham) and Bishop Graham Cray.

Since then, Fulcrum has claimed the 'Evangelical Centre' and, simultaneously, has steadfastly opposed more Conservative groupings such as Reform, and initiatives such as GAFCON. In effect, therefore, it has formalized the divisions in Evangelicalism between its Conservative and Open strands.

Thus Evangelical unity in the Church of England is probably at an all-time low since the end of the Second World War. The old pattern of Evangelical clergy and laity gathering in Diocesan Fellowships - which provide one of the electoral bases for representationevangelicals and seeking to purify and refine what we understand evangelicalism to be. I left the meeting at Harold Wood with a mixture of great sorrow, frustration and anger.

I also sat alongside you on the CDEA committee for a while a few years ago and eventually resigned because I was fed up attending committee meetings where most of the time was spent criticising and complaining about others. The final straw for me was the sending of a letter calling for the resignation of one of the area bishops which I refused to sign. At that point I gave up because of the constant negativity.

I attended a meeting of evangelical clergy organised by an area bishop after which I was sent an email from a member of Reform telling


evangelical group (with great reluctance given past encounters with some of the committee members). I certainly was critical in the meetings I attended because I just couldn't agree with the approach being adopted which was one of oppostionalism and constant criticism of the bishops, diocesan structures and other colleagues. I remember one meeting that went on for nearly three hours and which was just one moan after another about the diocese, bishops and others. So yes I was critical because I was astonished at the negativity, at times pettiness (e.g. over what bit of cloth we wore round our necks at ordination) and what I felt was a continual pursuit of confrontation. Is it a surprise that I wasn't that enthusiastic about attending the meetings and in thevital question of talking together about the future direction of anglican evangelicalism; it is not a constructive way "to gather the constituency", to use your phrase.

On the 'stitch up' front, I wonder how many different speakers there would have had to be to avoid the accusation. Wallace Benn and Pete Broadbent are, I would presume, unexceptionable simply by virtue of their CEEC roles, and represent different ends of the 'spectrum'. Christina Baxter is surely 'Open'. Paul Perkin is Conservative Evangelical but also 'New Wine'. Mike Ovey 'balances off' Christina Baxter as a College principal. That leaves Chris Sugden - 'controversial', but who better to talk about GAFCON? And then there's Michael Nazir Ali. Episcopally, he is the most obvious candidate to drop - but that would be a


study, 34 fetal specimens ranging from 4 to 10 months of age at death were dissected for anatomical and histological examinations. The area of the parotid duct penetrating the buccinator muscle was fully formed in 5-month-old fetuses. This study found buccinator muscle fibers invading the parotid duct wall near its opening in 6-month-old fetuses and older. Our results support the claim that the buccinator muscle may act as a sphincter, playing a role in regulating and possibly preventing the reflux of salivary secretions into the parotid duct.Jerusalem (AFP) - Umm Hassan, 60, goes most days to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound to protect it against "sacrilege" by Jewish visitors but soon she and other protesters will themselves be barred.

The black-robed woman in a headscarf is one of the Murabitat, or sentinels, who say they come on their own initiative to the Islamic holy place in Jerusalem's walled Old City.

The Murabitat and a men's group called Murabitun closely monitor Jews who are allowed, under police guard, to visit on five days of the week and shower them with loud abuse and religious oaths.

For Israel the two groups are among the main causes of tension at the flashpoint site, sacred to Islam and Judaism.

Many of their members have already been individually barred as alleged troublemakers but Israeli


for the sanctity of the place, walk around the Al-Aqsa mosque and Dome of the Rock shrine on a route which rabbis have determined will not lead them to step onto ground where they believe once stood the "Holy of Holies", the inner sanctum of the biblical Jewish temples.

In accordance with Jewish religious law, men cover their heads and married women their hair.

Story continues

- 'Defend Al-Aqsa' -

Muslims accuse Israel of seeking to change the facts on the ground at the holy site.

But right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly said he has no intention of disturbing the status quo, in which Jews are allowed to visit but not pray at the mosque compound.

"We must defend Al-Aqsa against the settlers; Al-Aqsa belongs only to the Muslims," says Umm Hassan.

Forthe Murabitat it is the Jews who are the troublemakers and banning the group from the compound "is to bar everyone from entering because every Muslim who enters or prays is a sentinel," says Khadijeh Kweiss, who is herself under a court order preventing her from entering for two months.

To Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri, the sentinels are tools of the hardline northern branch of Israel's Islamic Movement, whose firebrand leader Sheikh Raed Salah has had many brushes with the law.

Salah's movement, she told AFP, "finances them in order to achieve their political objectives under the cover of religion".

It is an allegation that both the Islamic Movement and the sentinels deny.

"The Israeli government considers Sheikh Salah... a major menace due to his leadership of the 'Al-Aqsa is in


Danger' campaign, which it sees as an incitement," said a recent report by the International Crisis Group (ICG) think-tank.

Sheikh Ekerna Sabri, who regularly delivers the Friday sermon at Al-Aqsa, accused Israel's defence minister of trying to "empty" the mosque complex of Muslims.

"His decision is invalid," Sabri told participants of a rally in the northern Israeli city Umm el-Fahm. "We will not fold."

The ICG said many of the Murabitat were middle-aged Arab citizens of Israel.

"Their citizenship gives them more protection than Palestinians from the occupied territories and their gender and age give them practical advantages, as the Israeli police tend to treat them less roughly than young men."

The ban on the sentinels comes just ahead of religious holidays when many Jews are likely to visit the Temple Mount, onpropose that a combination of three factors, negative human--honeybee interactions, geographic isolation, and low levels of predation on honeybee colonies, may have driven selection against honeybee aggression in Puerto Rico, which is presently the only place in the New World where gentle Africanized honeybees have evolved. First, the human population density in Puerto Rico is the highest within the range of any AHB population in the New World^[@CR34]^. Destruction of highly aggressive colonies in the expanding AHB population by humans early in the invasion period was likely more frequent than in other New World ecosystems, acting as one key selective force. Second, geographical isolation of Puerto Rico would have increased the selective potency of these negative human--honeybee interactions. The island is remote enough to present serious barriers to


which are known to be part of the breeding population^[@CR40]^. In total 30 EHB samples were collected from research apiaries maintained by the University of Illinois Bee Research Facility in Champaign County, Illinois. The remaining 30 AHB samples were collected from the research apiaries maintained by the Centro Nacional de Investigación Disciplinaria en Fisiología y Mejoramiento Animal, a member research division of the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP) in Querétaro, Mexico. Individuals no younger than the white-eyed stage of pupal development were selected to assure unequivocal identification as a drone. Later in the season (October--November) when drone production slowed, we specifically targeted drones that had recently eclosed. All bee specimens were preserved in 95% ethanol upon collection and transported to research facilities at the.203 - it was a perfect fit. I leaned the rifle over in the corner and thought that might make a good way to muffle the noise if I had to go up on the roof and snipe from the positions I had picked out the previous evening.

The news was best summarized as saying the gates of hell had opened in Los Angeles. The Koreans were engaged in firefights with looters from the roofs of their stores, in lieu of a police response. The National Guard was on the way, or so the reporters told us. Darryl Gates was getting asked complicated questions like why the police had been holed up inside the station for three days during the worst riots in United States history. He just gave'em


dumb looks and shrugged. The looters were getting more sophisticated and organized, confident in the realization they could operate in an unhindered environment by any law and order. The coming day had a quality about it of climax - everybody had a buzz this was the threshold we were going to step over and see what was on the other side of the world we had known previously.

The fires had gone from local regions to widespread, now bursting into flame nearly everywhere and with no warning. The arsonists were using powerful accelerants and were effectively turning entire buildings into ashes in less than a half an hour in some cases. The live feeds were just and endless series of buildings one after another, starting to be addresses recognizable"It is with great pride that I stand here today at the Prudential Center … and share with you the sense of excitement we have as the new owners of the New Jersey Devils," Harris said. "… I can assure everyone here that David [Blitzer, co-owner] and I take the responsibility for being stewards of this great franchise seriously and we look forward to building excitement on and off the ice."

From The Record's Tom Gulitti:

O'Neil will run business side of Devils. Lou Lamoriello will continue to head hockey operations.

Vanderbeek, a Wall Street magnate who acquired his wealth over 20 years at Lehman Brothers, purchased the Devils outright in 2004. He had previously been a minority shareholder.

Harris has been the principal owner of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers since 2011.