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Fiji: ICJ & ASF Statement on permanent stay of all charges against HRD, Imrana Jalal
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) welcome the ruling on Friday, 30 July 2010 by Justice Priyantha Fernando in the High Court of Fiji to permanently stay the remaining charge under local business licensing regulations against prominent human rights lawyer and advocate, Ms. Imrana Jalal. The high profile manner in which Ms. Jalal was criminally prosecuted for what are normally minor civil charges raised concerns internationally that she was being unfairly targeted by the interim government for her outspoken criticisms of its legitimacy and human rights record.
Justice Fernando adhered to professional standards and ensured procedural fairness in hearing the arguments by both Ms. Jalal's legal representatives and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, and also acted properly in applying the law to dismiss all charges against Ms. Jalal. Given strong indications that this prosecution was politically motivated, the ICJ and ASF call on the Director of Public Prosecutions to accept Justice Fernando's decision and refrain from launching an appeal.
Ms. Jalal is currently serving her first term as a Commissioner of the ICJ, following her election in 2006 to the 60-member body of eminent jurists from around the world. She is well known internationally for her work and advocacy in support of the rule of law and human rights in Fiji and throughout the Pacific region. Ms. Jalal was also a Commissioner of the Fiji Human Rights Commission until she resigned following the coup d'état in May 2000. She has publicly criticised the military administration in Fiji and the erosion of the rule of law in the country, despite the personal risks in doing so.
Justice Fernando's rulings in this case serve as a positive sign that judges continue to act with impartiality and integrity in Fiji. However, the ICJ and ASF are concerned that the overall environment for the rule of law and independence of the judiciary remains dismal, having deteriorated following the December 2006 coup and the decision by the current interim government to rule by executive decree after the unlawful decision on 10 April 2009 to abrogate the Constitution and dismiss the judiciary.
Procedural History
In January 2010, the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC) charged Ms. Jalal with seven counts of breaching local business licensing regulations and disobeying lawful orders to cease illegal operations of a restaurant, based on conduct allegedly occurring between June 2008 and June 2009. In December 2009, the FICAC had lodged similar charges against Ms. Jalal's husband, Mr. Sakiusa Tuisolia. Ms. Jalal and Mr. Tuisolia were the directors of the company that owned the Suva-based restaurant, though Ms. Jalal was not actively involved in the day-to-day operations of the restaurant. Unusually, the corporate owner of the restaurant was not given the opportunity to resolve the matter through the payment of a fine to the municipal council.
The charges against Ms. Jalal were originally brought before the Magistrates' Court. However, in February 2010, the FICAC successfully applied to the Magistrates' Court to have the matter transferred to the High Court of Fiji, and for the prosecution to be transferred to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The FICAC charges essentially transformed minor civil misdemeanours into serious criminal offences carrying penalties of imprisonment. The cases against Ms. Jalal and Mr. Tuisolia were consolidated into one matter.
In June 2010, Ms. Jalal's legal representatives made an application to the High Court of Fiji to permanently stay all of the charges against Ms. Jalal and her husband on the grounds that they were bad in law because they were doomed to fail. Therefore, the judge held that it would be an abuse of the Court's process to allow a prosecution to continue on such charges. On 19 July 2010, Justice Fernando made his initial ruling that six of these charges would be permanently stayed as they were subject to certain time limitations and thus statute-barred, and a prosecution should have first been brought against the company which owned the restaurant. Ms. Jalal had never been served with a notice to cease operations of the restaurant and could not have disobeyed a lawful order of which she was unaware. Following this ruling, the one remaining charge against Ms. Jalal was for operating a business without a licence. This is a regulatory offence that carries a maximum penalty of twenty Fijian Dollars, plus four Fijian Dollars per day in the case of a continuous offence. Against Ms. Jalal's husband, this charge and one count of giving false information to a public officer remained.
On 22 July 2010, the Director of Public Prosecutions applied to amend the remaining charge against Ms. Jalal and her husband to include an additional seven-month period in which the defendants were alleged to have operated the restaurant without a licence. In response, Ms. Jalal's legal representatives argued that such an amendment was improper because it sought to include a period of time that had previously been stayed by Justice Fernando in his initial ruling, and was subject to a limitation period. In a second ruling on 30 July 2010, Justice Fernando upheld both of these submissions and stayed this charge against Ms. Jalal and Mr. Tuisolia.
All charges against Ms. Jalal have now been dismissed. Mr. Tuisolia still faces a separate charge of giving false information to a public officer in a case that is scheduled to proceed to trial in September 2010.
Malicious Prosecution
The ICJ and ASF consider that there is sufficient evidence to conclude that the prosecution of this matter was politically motivated and that, in other common law systems, it would be considered a malicious prosecution. The permanent stay granted by Justice Fernando of seven charges indicates that the prosecution against Ms. Jalal was an abuse of process because the charges were bad in law. Given that the charge against Ms. Tuisolia stems from the same underlying facts as the charges that have already been stayed, the ICJ and ASF are concerned about the motivation behind the continued prosecution of this charge, as well as its evidentiary foundation.
The FICAC is mandated under s.2A of the FICAC Promulgation No. 11 of 2007 to investigate and prosecute offences relating to corruption. The offences prosecuted in this case were regulatory offences, not in any way related to corruption. Yet they were prosecuted as serious crimes, carrying a potential prison sentence. When the charges against Mr. Tuisolia were first brought before the Magistrates' Court in December 2009, Magistrate Mary Muir queried the basis on which FICAC was prosecuting minor local authority misdemeanours. She suggested that it was outside FICAC's jurisdiction and a matter for the Suva City Council. Two days later, Magistrate Muir's contract was terminated.
Businesses in Suva are typically allowed to operate pending the granting of a business licence by local council authorities. On the few occasions when such matters are prosecuted, they are handled by the local council and resolved by the payment of a small fine, usually paid by the corporate owner where one exists. For example, on the same day Ms. Jalal first appeared before the Magistrates' Court, a similar regulatory infraction was resolved in the Magistrates' Court with a fine. We were unable to find any other similar regulatory case which was prosecuted by either FICAC or the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions before the High Court of Fiji.
The prosecution of this matter has imposed significant legal expense and exacted an emotional toll upon Ms. Jalal and her husband. Ms. Jalal is required to travel extensively outside Fiji for her human rights work, but was placed under strict bail conditions throughout the prosecution of this matter which required her to deliver her passport to the High Court registry and to file a formal motion and affidavit notifying the Court each time she travelled abroad. We understand that such strict conditions are highly unusual in a case that is essentially a regulatory matter.
Also unusual was the high level of Government attention and resources devoted to prosecuting this case. For example, during oral arguments on the stay application on 2 July 2010, the Acting Director of Public Prosecutions himself was present to assist the prosecutor, despite the fact that far more serious criminal cases were being heard in other courts that same day. We note that the UN Guidelines on the Role of Prosecutors require prosecutors to "perform their duties fairly, consistently and expeditiously, and respect and protect human dignity and uphold human rights, thus contributing to ensuring due process and the smooth functioning of the criminal justice system". Those guidelines also state that prosecutors "shall not initiate or continue prosecution, or shall make every effort to stay proceedings, when an impartial investigation shows the charge to be unfounded".
We urge the Director of Public Prosecutions to take the measures necessary to uphold these principles. In this particular case, he should refrain from appealing the rulings of Justice Fernando as this would unnecessarily prolong these abusive charges.
We consider that Ms. Jalal was singled out for prosecution on serious charges that were legally unsound in order to punish her for her criticism of Fiji's military regime. The ICJ and ASF are concerned by the interim regime's strategy of prosecuting Ms. Jalal on charges related to the licensing of a restaurant, giving it the appearance of normality and lawfulness. This strategy tends to obscure the true dimension of the prosecution, serves to discredit Ms. Jalal and reduces international attention to the prosecution.
Rule of Law in Fiji
The trial of Ms. Jalal must be understood in the broader context of ongoing attacks against critics of the interim regime since the December 2006 coup, and the overall deterioration of the rule of law in Fiji. On 10 April 2009, President Ratu Josefa Iloilo dismissed the entire judiciary and abrogated the 1997 Constitution after the Court of Appeal held that the December 2006 coup was unconstitutional. Since April 2009, the interim regime has ruled by executive decree.
The ICJ and ASF recognize the fact that some of the decrees issued by the interim regime have brought Fijian law into line with international standards, over the past year, including, for example, new criminal provisions to bring Fijian law into line with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. However, the overall trend during this period has been a significant erosion of the rule of law and weakening of the institutional independence of the Fijian judiciary. Public Emergency Regulations have been in force continually since April 2009, severely restricting the exercise of human rights including freedom of expression and association, in contravention of international standards. For example, the Regulations have been used to require that government censors approve all print media stories before publication, and to require that groups wishing to organise a meeting of three or more people first obtain a permit to do so. The Regulations also permit the discretionary use of force by security officials, while providing for civil and criminal immunity even where the use of such force causes harm or death, in violation of the right to life and the right to an effective remedy. A series of decrees have been issued preventing any legal challenges to any decrees made by the President since April 2009 or to executive decisions. As a result, judicial review of official action has been replaced by personal appeals to powerful individuals for relief. In some cases, where money judgments had already been issued against the State, certificates have been issued by the Chief Registrar halting recovery of monetary relief.
A new Media Industry Development Decree has recently come into force which requires all organisations that disseminate information to the public, including NGOs, to adhere to strict content guidelines and, if required by the Executive, to gain government approval prior to publication. Publication of information not in the public or national interest or which creates "communal discord" is prohibited and information may be censored prior to publication on the basis it may give rise to "disorder", promote "disaffection or public alarm" or "undermine the Government and the State". Organisations subject to the Decree may also be required to disclose the identity of their sources, which may affect the willingness of victims of human rights violations to approach such organisations. Human rights defenders and others are also concerned that statements they make criticising the legitimacy of the regime or its actions may be deemed by the Government to fall within a broadly worded category of seditious offences under the new Crimes Decree, which are punishable by up to seven years' imprisonment.
In this context of widespread media censorship, restrictions on civil society activity, the prohibition of judicial review of executive discretion, human rights defenders and lawyers who have publicly criticised the legitimacy of the regime have been subjected to unlawful violence, arbitrary arrest and detention, harassment and intimidation. Professional disciplinary proceedings also appear to have been brought in order to harass and punish critical lawyers. Government bodies and public enterprises may no longer engage two prominent law firms that have criticised the lawfulness of the Government's actions and members of the private Bar fear State retaliation should they exercise their right to peaceful, public dissent. The restrictions on freedom of expression create a pervasive feeling of vulnerability because individuals believe that no one will find out if they are treated unlawfully by the State. At the same time, the abrogation of the 1997 Constitution and the effective elimination of remedies against the State through a series of executive decrees, including the elimination of judicial review, prohibitions on court actions against State bodies or officials, and the removal of the power of the Human Rights Commission to consider the legality of Presidential decrees or receive complaints against such decrees, leaves individuals largely without domestic legal recourse.
Women human rights defenders and lawyers such as Ms. Jalal have attracted particular attention for their outspoken criticism of the Fijian interim regime, placing them at greater risk of reprisal or attack. International experience demonstrates that women human rights defenders often provoke a particularly hostile response because their activities often run counter to social norms and the beliefs of individuals in positions of power and authority as to women's status and role in society. In addition to the criminal charges against her, Ms. Jalal has previously been subjected to gender-specific harassment when, after expressing opposition to the military coup, she was told to "shut up" and threatened graphically with rape in December 2006.
The ICJ and ASF are concerned at the lack of independence in the legal system since April 2009 that may enable inappropriate prosecutions such as that against Imrana Jalal. Following the dismissal of judges in April 2009, the procedures for appointment, tenure, and dismissal raise serious concerns for the independence of the judiciary. The exclusion of judicial review impedes the function of the judiciary in administering justice and protecting of individual rights. The role and competencies of the Law Society, too, have been eroded The ICJ and ASF consider that there is an obvious lack of confidence in the legal system and a wide perception that it is subject to undue executive influence, including by the military. We consider that urgent steps are thus needed to restore the independence and credibility of the legal system.
The case against Ms. Jalal appears to be an attempt to intimidate others from exercising their human rights. The ICJ and ASF, therefore, remain concerned about the situation of human rights defenders, particularly women human rights defenders, lawyers, members of the media and others who criticise the legitimacy of the interim regime or its actions.
We encourage the interim government to give full effect to the commitments that it made as part of the Universal Periodic Review process. In particular, we underscore the importance of issuing an invitation in response to the request to visit Fiji made by the Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers in May 2009. We will also continue to follow up with other UN Special Procedures, including the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, to ensure that ongoing scrutiny of the human rights situation in Fiji is a priority in international fora.
Ultimately, the ICJ and ASF consider that an unequivocal recommitment to the judiciary, with full institutional guarantees of its independence and the restoration of judicial remedies, as well as the maintenance of an independent Bar and Human Rights Commission are required. Restoration of the rule of law and renewal of confidence in the legal system in Fiji are necessary if Fiji is to emerge from the present crisis.
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4. Semper sic vivamus ut naturam optimam ducem sequi videamur.
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Proof of accommodation such as hotel bookings We would not suggest you to make your hotel reservations before your visa is approved. We have seen many customers who make all the bookings thinking they can cancel them once they get their visa only for the visa process to be delayed resulting in huge cancellation fees.
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Proof of sustenance (either as bank statements travel cards, credit cards) to show that you can sustain yourself financially when you are in Europe.
If your parents are sponsoring your trip, then you will need to show their bank statements along with a letter stating that they are sponsoring your entire trip and sign on all then bank statements.
If you are employed:
- Employment contract or your latest 4 months salary slips.
- Current bank statement of the latest 6 months
- No objection/Leave permission letter from employer (download template from ebook).
- Income Tax Return (ITR) form or Certificate of Income Tax deducted at the source of salary
If you are self-employed/running a business:
- A copy of your business license
- Company bank statement of the latest 6 months
- Income Tax Return (ITR)
If a you are a student:
- Proof of enrollment
- No-objection certificate from school or university (also from parents)
If retired:
- Pension statement of the latest 6 months
If applicable:
- Regular income generated by property proof of the latest 6 months
Other then the above general documents, depending on your purpose of visit a few additional documents should be obtained


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#HIMSS14 Speakers, Healthcare in 2013, and More — #HITsm Chat Highlights
Katie Clark is originally from Colorado and currently lives in Utah with her husband and son. She writes primarily for Smart Phone Health Care, but contributes to several Health Care Scene blogs, including EMR Thoughts, EMR and EHR, and EMR and HIPAA. She enjoys learning about Health IT and mHealth, and finding ways to improve her own health along the way.
This weeks topics were suggested by Dan Munro, a contributor at Forbes.
Topic One: Head of ONC Farzad Mostashari calls and asks you what his top 2 priorities should be. What do you say? @Farzad_ONC
A1: Figure out how to turn physician naysayers into evangelists – of course, this would mean better HIT, training, incentives, etc. #HITsm
— Jennifer Dennard (@SmyrnaGirl) February 22, 2013
T1. Not all disimilair than what the are already. a. shifting data from institution to consumer-controlled. b. shifting arch same #hitsm
— Leonard Kish (@leonardkish) February 22, 2013
T1: We would encourage @farzad_onc to promote the importance of #mhealth & #patientengagement!#hitsm
— Vocera, Inc. (@VoceraCom) February 22, 2013
T1: Would also love @farzad_onc to focus on redefining "outcomes" to align to #patient #health improvement, not well-timed services. #HITsm
— Mandi Bishop (@MandiBPro) February 22, 2013
Topic Two: Biz Stone was HIMSS12 Keynote and Clinton will Keynote #HIMSS13. Who should Keynote HIMSS14?
A2: I nominate @epatientdave & @reginaholliday to co-keynote #HIMSS14 ;-) #hitsm
— Dan Munro (@danmunro) February 22, 2013
T2: I would like to see Obama as a HIMSS14 keynote! but I'm biased! :) #HITsm
— Sarah Aldamigh (@Sarah_MModal) February 22, 2013
@mkmackey Right now, almost none of the #quantifiedself data is in an EHR.#HITsm
— EMR, EHR and HIT(@ehrandhit) February 22, 2013
T2: Thinking that Margaret Chan would be a good candidate to keynote 2014 HIMSS discussing global need for health it collaboration #HITsm
— RightPatient (@RightPatient) February 22, 2013
Topic Three: Fill in the blank> Healthcare's End-of-Year Headline for 2013 will be _______.
I'm afraid it's going to be "Despite Best Efforts, Government, Healthcare Industry Fail to Prepare Properly for 2014 Changes" #HITsm
— Jennifer Dennard (@SmyrnaGirl) February 22, 2013
T3: Big data has opened the door to the healthcare revolution. #HITsm
— M*Modal(@MModal) February 22, 2013
I'm afraid it's going to be, "Healthcare, Still Too Expensive and No Real Changes in Sight" #HITsm
— EMR, EHR and HIT(@ehrandhit) February 22, 2013
T3: Our headline would be: Constant change to healthcare is the only thing constant! #HITsm
— RightPatient (@RightPatient) February 22, 2013
Topic Four: Among early stage healthcare startups – who's your favorite? #mHealth
T4: @eligibleapi = one of my fave #healthIT start-ups, focused on #interoperability @2healthguru @healthstandards #HITsm
— Mandi Bishop (@MandiBPro) February 22, 2013
T4. Mine has to be @alivecor. Simple. Powerful. Inexpensive mobile monitoring that takes expensive procedure and makes it easy. #hitsm
— Leonard Kish (@leonardkish) February 22, 2013
T4: I like how simple @docbeatapp has made secure text messaging.#HITsm
— Hospital EMR and EHR (@HospitalEHR) February 22, 2013
T4: @airwatch has to be considered as key #healthcare startup. #HITsm
— RightPatient (@RightPatient) February 22, 2013
Topic Five: Should we skip over #ICD10? #healthIT
Q5: The real need is for a coding system designed for an easier transition to the next classification. #HITsm (Scheduled Tweet)
— Steve Sisko (@ShimCode) February 22, 2013
T5: I swear I saw something about ICD-10 mismapping to behavioral diseases and cotnributing to #Dxerror. Does that sound right? #HITsm
— Lorri Zipperer (@lzipperer) February 22, 2013
T5: Every dollar spent on ICD-10 is one less dollar for vaccinations and other basic needs. #HITsm #HITsm
— M*Modal(@MModal) February 22, 2013


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Metallica Adds Eric Church, Jim Breuer and Punk and Thrash Stage to 2012 Orion Music + More Festival
This summer's Orion Music + More festival in Atlantic City, N.J. has just got bigger. Metallica, in conjunction with C3 Presents, announced the addition of a country rocker, a comedian's heavy metal band and an entire stage devoted to punk and thrash music.
Suicidal Tendencies and Sepultura will headline the Damage Inc. Stage at the June 23 and 24 festival, with at least six other acts playing before them. They join already announced performers like Avenged Sevenfold, Modest Mouse and Metallica, who will play their 'Black Album' and 'Ride the Lightning' albums in their entirety during their two performances (one album each night).
Country rocker Eric Church, Soul Rebels, Wooden Shjips and the Jim Breuer Heavy Metal Comedy Tour were announced as performers in a press release sent out this morning. The complete lineup is available at the festival's new website. Two day passes for the show start at $150, and are on sale now.


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Release Date: April 25, 2012
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo School of Social Work will hold a seminar from 9 a.m. to noon on Thursday, April 26, at the Weinberg Campus, 461 John James Audubon Pkwy., Amherst, to look at the development of a "one-stop shop" to care for the sick and elderly.
The seminar will explore the concept of a Town Square for Aging, where professionals would work together in a center made up of 24 health and human service organizations, as well as four colleges and schools at UB, to provide a broad array of services to frail seniors and their families.
Students in a course led by Diane Bessel, an instructor in the UB School of Social Work, have organized the conference, where they will present their research and facilitate a brainstorming session. Nancy J. Smyth, PhD, professor and dean of the UB School of Social Work, will present as well.
"Under Dr. Bessel's leadership, a group of outstanding students has been exploring the research on how to facilitate a vibrant, interprofessional community of caring in this innovative new model for aging," Smyth said. "At this seminar they will share what they've learned with key members of Erie County's non-profit community. Together, all participants will explore how to apply these concepts in the Town Square for Aging."
A Town Square for Aging would present an alternative health care center for seniors, lowering costly dependence on hospitals, nursing homes and specialized long-term care facilities by offering services such as a pharmacy, medical and dental services, and physical therapy in one location.
Such a center also would address transportation issues by reducing the need for seniors to travel from place to place to secure the care they need, Smyth said. Because many doctors and facilities are dispersed throughout a region, seniors and their families often lack affordable and accessible ways to get care because transit systems are not designed for suburban areas, and older men and women outlive the decision to stop driving by six to 10 years.
The Town Square for Aging is expected to be located in Amherst, the Erie County suburb with the highest percentage of seniors.


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The Old School New Body, is a program that aims to help all men and women who want to reverse and slow down the adverse effects that aging has casted upon their body and health. It is a very comprehensive guide for all those who want to improve their health, encompassing several ways to lose extra weight, shape up the body and build muscle.
Los Angeles, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/22/2014 -- The Old School New Body (OSNB), is a step-by-step guide that enlightens its users to ways that can be used to not only slow down the aging effect but are also capable of putting it in a reverse gear. It is the perfect protocol for all those who want to feel and look fresh, young and beautiful regardless of what their age really is. Within a short span of time the users will experience a dramatic reversal of the unkindness that time has bestowed upon them. They would be able to shed all the excess weight, their bodies would be all shaped and toned up, and their health would improve in almost no time.This program is the commendable work of Steve Holman and his wife Becky.
Why would anyone need OSNB?
Latest research has now proven that after the age of 40 the human body starts to age at almost double the normal rate. This implies that once a person reaches this age, he ages an extra 6 months after the passage of each year. This happens due to the lack of intake of a proper nutritious diet and a proper and regular exercise schedule that deprives the body of its vitality and youth.Moreover, most people who cross the age of 35; start to lose muscle which is responsible for burning off an extra 4 pounds of fat.
What is OSNB and how does it work?
OSNB is the ultimate solution for all those who have lost all hope of overcoming the adverse effects of time. As editor-in-chief of a very famous fitness magazine, Steve had unlimited access to the tips and tricks followed by several world renowned fitness trainers, athletes and experts for many years. It is from these years of experience that Steve has derived the OSNB. With his OSNB, Steve Holman has shown to the world that old age can be combatted against with the help of some very basic steps. Not only can OSNB help put a stop to the aging process but it can also help reduce its pace to a minimal rate. These basic steps that can help revitalize the youth hormones of the body are as follows:
1)Avoid diets that are low on fat
2)Avoid spending long and strenuous hours at the gym
3)Adopt a positive attitude towards a challenging life
4)Rapidly increase the intake of water
5)Adopt a resistance training style for workout
What actually makes OSNB work is a particular combination of specific exercises called the Focus4 Exercise Protocol (FX4). These exercises do not require long, strenuous hours to be spent at the gym or any hard-core cardio exercises. Rather the plan is only spread over 90 minutes per week. However, such a life-changing transformation does demand a fair amount of hard work and determination, which is only reasonable.
About http://www.OldSchoolNewBody.com
Old School New Body is an effective anti aging and weight loss program consisting of five simple steps including the revolutionary F4X Training program. Right now the program is available for only $15 with a 60-days money back guarantee. Furthermore, the plan comes with several free bonuses including the OSNB Quick Start Plan, special reports called Ultimate Fat-Burning Secrets, Ultimate Muscle-Building Secrets, Ultimate Sex and Anti-Aging Secrets and Ultimate Health and Happiness Secrets, and several motivational audio interviews from John Rowley.


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John Dennis is a former sportcaster for WHDH channel 7, and the current co-host of The Dennis and Callahan Show, mornings on WEEI 6:00 to 10:00 am – and simulcast on NESN from 6:00 – 9:00 am.
A Pittsburgh native, Dennis graduated from Kent State in 1974, and spent three years at WDAF in Kansas City (Where he was the youngest sports director in the history of NBC affiliates) before moving to Boston in 1977. He remained at WNAC/WNEV/WHDH until 1997, having held many different roles – weekend sports anchor, feature reporter and sports director.
In 1997, he left WHDH to host The Dennis and Callahan Show alongside Gerry Callahan. The show launched on October 6th, 1997, originally airing from 10:00 – noon. In September of 1999, the show moved to its current time slot, where it has enjoyed tremendous ratings success.
One sports media observer told me that Dennis is the best in the business at the "tease" leading into commercial breaks, thus keeping the listener waiting for the next segment. His acerbic and biting style are a turnoff to some, but the consistent ratings of the program indicate there is a large audience that enjoys their style of radio.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Academy Award-winning actor and director Ben Affleck is among six artists, writers, scientists and educators selected to receive honorary degrees from Brown University during graduation ceremonies next month.
The Ivy League school says Affleck will receive a doctor of fine arts during commencement exercises on May 26. The Massachusetts native directed, produced and starred in "Argo," which won this year's Oscar for Best Picture.
Others getting honorary doctorates are author and MIT Professor Junot Diaz; retired Stanford University bacteriologist Stanley Falkow; Tougaloo College President Beverly Wade Hogan; physician and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation President Risa Lavizzo-Mourey; and Miami Dade College President Eduardo Padron.
By custom, the undergraduate commencement will feature speakers who are members of the graduating class.


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We are in the process of a profound change in our model of medicine. The change is, or seems to be, taking place so fast that it may be useful now to take a step back to look at some of the reasons why medicine resists change and some of the forces that may now be compelling it.
Medicine is based on science -- on the biology, chemistry, and physics that every pre-medical student has to pass -- and is embedded in its world view, constricted by its conventions, reinforced by the kinds of social structures and economic interests which sustain and shape science. But it is also quite different and special. The successes, limitations, and failures of medicine have a felt immediacy that is simply missing from geology, astronomy, or physics. Doctor's decisions, procedures, and medications are, literally, a matter of life and death -- for all of us. And so too, by extension, are the theories they are based on.
We have a passionate attachment to the achievements of our medicine and a desperate fear of its failures. On the one hand, we are terribly eager to believe in the science that promises to save our lives or relieve our misery, and in the health care professionals who bring us its benefits. On the other hand, when that science and those who serve it fail us, we have the most powerful incentive to look for help from alternatives which may call every aspect of that "conventional medicine" into question. As more and more of us gain more and more access to information about the latest developments in medicine both the possibilities for reinforcing the power of the existing system and the potential for challenging it increase.
During the last century the extraordinary benefits of biomedicine gave us both concrete help and an almost indomitable hope. Can't vaccines and antibiotics prevent and conquer once deadly infections -- smallpox and polio, meningitis, and rheumatic fever? Didn't our medical scientists isolate and synthesize the insulin that enables diabetics, once among the early dead, to live long and productive lives? Surgery and chemotherapy shrink and obliterate some tumors. Premature infants who would never have survived live. And now we wonder if inherited diseases that were thought years, or even months, ago to be beyond our therapeutic reach, might be cured by microsurgical genetic splices. At moments I suspect that even the most skeptical of us secretly hopes and feels that all illness may eventually yield to our relentless research effort.
For all their promise, however, our successes have had a conservative character. As a society we want innovation and progress, but for years the only change that most of us conceived of was that which took place within the bounds of the present scientific model: a new drug or procedure. We worried that if we changed our ways of research, or decreased its budget, or refused to go the extra investigational or therapeutic mile, something terrible might happen. Chemotherapy is not nearly so successful in treating cancer as we once hoped and anti-inflammatory drugs address symptoms, not causes, yet we have continued to invest billions in them and have kept on hoping. The terrible fear was that if we did not, we might omit that drug or fail to make that advance which could save our life or the life of someone we love.


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Did you watch last night's episode of Arrow? Are you wondering what connections the episode has with the comics? Do you like Easter eggs (and not just the brightly colored kind?) Arrow Annotations is here to help, providing some additional notes and background info from last night's episode. Arrow spoilers follow!
Red Arrow - Roy's got himself a Red Arrow, which later becomes one of his codenames (along with Speedy and Arsenal).
China White - China White makes her first appearance this season. We previously covered China here. It's interesting to note that China White has now appeared more times on Arrow than she has in the comic books.
Sebastian Blood - Teen Titans fans might recognize Sebastian Blood as Brother Blood, a longtime foe of the teen heroes. In the comics, Blood leads the demonic Church of Blood cult, who worships the demon Trigon (the father of Teen Titan Raven). There have been nine generations of Brother Bloods dating back 800 hundred years, with each new Brother Blood killing their father to take the title
While early appearances of Brother Blood focused on eighth Brother Blood, his son took over the role during Geoff Johns' run on Teen Titans. That Brother Blood resurrected Raven (who had died after her soul had been corrupted by Trigon) and attacked the Titans several times, before being banished to Hell by Kid Eternity.
In the New 52, Brother Blood first appeared as a foe of the Ravagers (a short-lived group of teen heroes). While Blood is still a worshipper of Trigon, he also has a connection to the Red, a morphogenetic field that connects all animal life on the planet. It was recently revealed that Brother Blood was originally chosen as the Avatar of the Red, a title now held by Animal Man's daughter, Maxine. He is now trying to reclaim the title for himself by killing Maxine in the pages of Jeff Lemire's Animal Man.
Brother Blood was the main antagonist in season three of the cartoon series Teen Titans, where he was voiced by John DiMaggio (the voice of Futurama's Bender and Adventure Time's Jake the Dog). Kevin Alejandro, who plays Blood in Arrow, previously played a male witch on True Blood.
Channel 52 - Channel 52 makes another appearance on the show. Channel 52 is a two page comic appearing in the back of all of DC's comics that keeps readers informed about ongoing developments in various DC comics. Channel 52's cast includes Bethany Snow (who, as we mentioned last week, is a worshipper of Blood's cult), Calender Man, and Ambush Bug.
Emerald Archer - China White calls Ollie the Emerald Archer, one of Green Arrow's many nicknames. I believe this is the first time someone's referred to him by that name.
Bronze Tiger - The Bronze Tiger, China's new partner wielding the Wolverine claws, is a longtime hero/antihero in the DC Universe. Benjamin Turner is a longtime member of the Suicide Squad, and has fought both alongside and against DC's superheroes. Originally a peer of martial arts expert Richard Dragon, Turner is part of a US government task force to take down the League of Assassins. The League captures and brainwashes Turner, and give him a new identity as the Bronze Tiger. Eventually, Turner is rescued by the US government and becomes the second of command of the Suicide Squad.
In the New 52, Bronze Tiger is again a member of the League of Assassins, and helped train both Cheshire and Jason Todd. With Cheshire (who is a recurring romantic partner of Roy Harper), he attacks Todd, Harper and Starfire in Red Hood and the Outlaws.
Originally, the Bronze Tiger had no superpowers and relied totally on his martial art skills in battle. In the New 52, he has the appearance of an anthropomorphic tiger and has augmented strength, reflexes and claws to go along with his new tiger body.
Michael Jai White, who plays Bronze Tiger in Arrow, is no stranger to superheroes. He played the title character of the 1997 Spawn movie, the lead in Black Dynamite, and voiced Doomsday in the Justice League cartoon. He also played a mob boss in The Dark Knight, and plays Jax in the Mortal Kombat: Rebirth webseries.
Deadshot - Deadshot also gets a mention this episode. He first appeared in Lone Gunman last year. Deadshot and Bronze Tiger served alongside each other in the Suicide Squad. This will probably be a big deal later this season.
Lemire Avenue - The police respond to a vigilante sighting on Lemire Avenue. Jeff Lemire is the current writer of Green Arrow, and is writing Brother Blood in Animal Man.
Trick Arrows - The taser arrow and handcuff arrows both make appearances this week.
The Hozen - We first saw Thea's hozen way back in Honor Thy Father last year, and now we know where Ollie got it from.
Speculation time: As we mentioned this week, the current arc in the Green Arrow comic centers around an Arrow totem that grants a special sort of enlightenment. Considering that totem's holder (Simon Lacroix) already got a namedrop of sorts last episode and Jeff Lemire (the current writer of Green Arrow) getting a shoutout this episode, could we be seeing the beginning of this arc on Arrow?
And that's all I found this week. Next week, we'll talk a bit about Black Canary!


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MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Bahrain's highest court Monday upheld jail terms for 20 opposition figures — including eight sentenced to life — for alleged plots to "overthrow" the state in a decision likely to touch off more protests in the Gulf nation and bring renewed criticism from its Western allies.
The group includes a rights activist who staged a 110-day hunger strike last year to protest the verdicts, which critics have denounced as part of attempts to crush an Arab Spring-inspired uprising began nearly two years ago in the strategic island kingdom.
Authorities in Bahrain — which is home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet — accuse Iran of encouraging the Shiite-led protests as a way to undermine Bahrain's pro-Western leadership and gain a key foothold on the doorstep of rival Saudi Arabia. Tehran has sharply criticized Bahrain's crackdowns, but denies it has any direct role with the opposition.
Bahrain's majority Shiites, who have led sporadic unrest in past decades, claim they face systematic discrimination at the hands of the Sunni monarchy. Bahrain's rulers have offered some reforms, including giving more powers to the elected parliament, but protest leaders say they fall short of demands for a role in key government affairs.
More than 55 people have died in the unrest since February 2011 and many opposition leaders and activists have been arrested, including the group of 20 charged with "plotting to overthrow" the ruling system by leading the protests.
Defense attorney Jalil al-Aradi said the high court refused to reconsider the sentences or convictions, which were originally handed down in 2011 by a military-led tribunal created under temporary martial law-style rules. The group has claimed they faced abuses while in custody.
Among the eight sentenced to life is rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who staged a more than three-month hunger strike last year in protest. The other 12 have sentences ranging from five to 15 years, with seven convicted in absentia.
The case has brought international pressure on Bahrain, including efforts by Denmark to free al-Khawaja, who also holds Danish citizenship.
Scattered protests broke out in Bahrain shortly after the court decision, which could close all further appeal options.
"The Bahrain regime is pushing its human rights crisis closer to the edge," said Brian Dooley, director of the human rights defenders program at U.S.-based Human Rights First.
Last year, the official Bahrain News Agency said the charges include "plotting to overthrow the regime" and having "foreign intelligence contacts" — a reference to Shiite powerhouse Iran and its proxy, Hezbollah in Lebanon. No clear evidence, however, has been presented to back Bahrain's allegations of direct Iranian aid to the opposition.
A government statement at the time said the court "provided all assurances of a fair trial" and allowed defense attorneys full access to the defendants. It also said they received "full medical care" in prison.
The crisis in Bahrain has pushed Washington into a difficult corner. It seeks to keep it crucial security and political bonds with Bahrain's leaders, but has increasingly condemned the ongoing violence and urged the country's rulers to open wide-ranging talks with the opposition.
The U.S. said it regretted Monday's decision and expressed concern that it would further restrict freedom of expression and compromise the climate for reconciliation.
"We have repeatedly voiced our concern about these cases, both publicly and privately and at the highest levels, and urged the government of Bahrain to abide by its international obligations," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said, adding that U.S. embassy observers were at the trial.
"We call on the government of Bahrain to investigate all reports of torture, including those made by the defendants in this case, as it is pledged to do, and to hold accountable any who are found responsible."
Bahrain also faces other showdowns over jailed activists, including rights campaigner Nabeel Rajab whose prosecution has brought criticism from Washington.
Bahrain's main Shiite political group, Al Wefaq, claimed the courts are used a "tool to punish the opposition" and suggests that authorities are not serious about offers for a political dialogue to ease the tensions.
"It seemed there is no solution for the Bahraini crisis," said a statement by the group, "because there is no serious desire to solve this crisis."
Associated Press Writer Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.


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Gasterosteus aculeatus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Gasterosteus aculeatus Linnaeus, 1758
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
Gasteracanthus cataphractus Pallas, 1814
Gasterosteus pugetti Girard, 1856
Gasterosteus texanus Sauvage, 1874
Gasterosteus aculeatus messinicus Stephanidis, 1971
Gasterosteus algeriensis Sauvage, 1874
Gasterosteus argentatissimus Blanchard, 1866
Gasterosteus argyropomus Cuvier, 1829
Gasterosteus atkinsii Bean, 1879
Gasterosteus bailloni Blanchard, 1866
Gasterosteus biaculeatus Mitchill, 1815
Gasterosteus biarmatus Krynicki, 1840
Gasterosteus bispinosus Walbaum, 1792
Gasterosteus brachycentrus Cuvier, 1829
Gasterosteus cataphractus (Pallas, 1814)
Gasterosteus cuvieri Girard, 1850
Gasterosteus dekayi Ayres, 1855
Gasterosteus dimidiatus Reinhardt, 1837
Gasterosteus elegans Blanchard, 1866
Gasterosteus hologymnus Regan, 1909
Gasterosteus inopinatus Girard, 1854
Gasterosteus insculptus Richardson, 1855
Gasterosteus intermedius Girard, 1856
Gasterosteus leiurus Cuvier, 1829
Gasterosteus loricatus Reinhardt, 1837
Gasterosteus nemausensis Crespon, 1844
Gasterosteus neoboracensis DeKay, 1842
Gasterosteus neustrianus Blanchard, 1866
Gasterosteus niger Cuvier, 1829
Gasterosteus noveboracensis Cuvier, 1829
Gasterosteus obolarius Cuvier, 1829
Gasterosteus plebeius Girard, 1854
Gasterosteus ponticus Nordmann, 1840
Gasterosteus quadrispinosa Crespon, 1844
Gasterosteus santaeannae Regan, 1909
Gasterosteus semiarmatus Cuvier, 1829
Gasterosteus semiloricatus Cuvier, 1829
Gasterosteus serratus Ayres, 1855
Gasterosteus spinulosus Yarrell, 1835
Gasterosteus suppositus Sauvage, 1874
Gasterosteus teraculeatus Lacepède, 1801
Gasterosteus tetracanthus Cuvier, 1829
Gasterosteus trachurus Cuvier, 1829
Gasterosteus williamsoni Girard, 1854
Leiurus aculeatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Mattern, M.Y. 2007. Phylogeny, systematics and taxonomy of sticklebacks. In: S. Ostlund-Nilsson, I. Mayer and F.A. Huntingford (eds), Biology of the Three-spined Stickleback, pp. 1-40. CRC Press, Broca Raton, Florida.
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Populations from the Atlantic and Black Sea basins have not yet been compared in detail. Preliminary observations suggest that they are probably distinct species.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Smith, K. & Darwall, W.R.T.
|Freyhof, J., Kottelat, M. & Lukey, J.R.
|Hammerson, G.A. & Ormes, M.
Gasterosteus aculeatus has been assessed as Least Concern. This species has an extremely broad native distribution, with a large number of subpopulations. This species is not known to be impacted by any major threat processes and is reported to be common to abundant throughout most of its distribution: Consequently the population is considered to be stable.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|The range of Gasterosteus aculeatus encompasses the coastal waters of Eurasia, Iceland, eastern Asia and Northern America. In North America, this fish ranges from Alaska to Baja California on the west coast, from Baffin Island and the west side of Hudson Bay to Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, along east coast, and it occurs also in inland areas (including Lake Ontario) along both coasts. Sometimes this species occurs in the open ocean. This species has been introduced and is established in certain areas of California, Massachusetts, and the Great Lakes (Lakes Huron, Michigan, Erie and Superior) (Fuller et al. 1999; Stephenson and Momot 2000). In Eurasia it is found along North Sea coasts of Scotland and Scandinavia; coasts of Iceland and White Sea; Atlantic coasts from Ireland northward; southeastern shore of Baltic Sea and its basin (Odra and Vistula drainages); shores of Black Sea and its northern basin (from Danube to Kuban drainages). Almost absent inland in Finland, except north of 68°N. There is a hybrid zone with G. gymnurus in the English Channel, southern North Sea, Baltic Sea and their basins. It has been introduced to northern Italy.
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Native:Algeria; Belarus; Belgium; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Canada; China; Croatia; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Greenland; Iceland; Ireland; Japan; Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Korea, Republic of; Latvia; Lithuania; Mexico; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Russian Federation; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; Ukraine; United Kingdom; United States
Introduced:Austria; Czech Republic; Hungary; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Italy; Slovakia
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Anadromous, with numerous resident populations in brackish or pure freshwater, rarely in marine waters. Usually forages at sea until two years old, then moves to lower part of rivers in March-April to reproduce. Freshwater populations usually spawn for the first time at one year. In spawning season, males develop a bright orange to red belly and blue-green flank and eyes. They defend territories, in which in April-June they construct a nest on the bottom, in relatively shallow areas, very rarely attached to plants. They make a depression up to 14 × 10 cm to which they bring plant materials (especially filamentous algae), which are glued together with kidney secretions. Several females are individually led to the nest to spawn, then chased away. Males guard and fan eggs to provide them with oxygenated water. Spawning behaviour is very stereotyped. Eggs hatch in 7-8 days and juveniles are guarded for a few days after which male abandons the nest. Anadromous individuals usually die of exhaustion after spawning cycle while freshwater individuals are able to complete several cycles within one year or sometimes over several years. Juveniles move to sea (anadromous populations) or to deeper, larger water bodies (freshwater populations) in July-August where they form large feeding schools. Feeds on small aquatic invertebrates, especially insects and crustaceans.
|Freshwater; Marine
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|Full Migrant
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|No major widespread threats known. However, the species has been listed as threatened in some of its range states, for example it is listed as Endangered in Croatia.
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Forget "Pearl Harbor"
Student loan reform's lessons for health care reform.
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The conservative meme about final passage of the health care reform bill is that it's Pearl Harbor all over again. Fred Barnes said it; Glenn Beck said it; Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said it. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had gotten House Democrats "all liquored up on sake and you know, they're making a suicide run here," which is just about saying it. The Pearl Harbor comparison breaks down when you consider that the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941, killed more than 2,000 Americans, whereas the health care reform bill that just passed the House, 219-212, will likely save the lives of tens of thousands of Americans annually.
Even if you're willing to look past its tasteless conflation of death with life, the historical comparison breaks down on another level. The Pearl Harbor attack started a war that the aggressor lost. Health care reform, on the other hand, stands virtually no chance of being repealed by free-market fundamentalists. Indeed, it may one day become the stepping stone to the single-payer system that Republicans fear. Most distressing of all to conservatives, that final step, if it comes, may fail to stir much controversy. A precedent lies within the health care reform bill itself.
Tucked inside the House-passed reconciliation bill (which won't become law until the Senate passes it too) is a second reform bill, this one concerning the student loan program. This second bill completes a reform, begun in the first year of the Clinton administration, to eliminate the wasteful subsidizing of private banks in the granting of government loans to college students. If you haven't heard anything about it, that's because its "socialistic" premise that the government can lend its own money more efficiently without a middle man has stirred controversy only among the middle men themselves and their friends in Congress.
For student loan reform, Pearl Harbor occurred on Sept. 2, 1958, when President Dwight Eisenhower signed into law the Sputnik-inspired National Defense Education Act, which sent a torrent of cash to schools across America. Some of that money flowed to colleges and universities through a newly created student loan program, which was called (in the spirit of the larger bill) the National Defense Student Loan Program. Under the program, the government provided funding to colleges and universities, which in turn lent money to students in need. The idea came from a left-wing economist named Milton Friedman.
The program worked so well that within a few years the government wanted to expand it. But this proved difficult to achieve because the loans showed up in annual federal budgets as expenditures rather than investments. The solution was to switch from making direct loans to guaranteeing loans made by private banks and nonprofits. That change was implemented under President Lyndon Johnson in the Higher Education Act of 1965. This legislation's enlargement of the government's stake in helping people attend college was roughly analogous to the health reform bill's enlargement of the government's stake in helping people get health care. So was its principal shortcoming: a reliance on the private sector to perform two tasks (cutting checks and collecting payments) at which the government was already reasonably proficient.
Over time, the federal government made it easier and easier (and therefore more and more profitable) for banks to lend to college students. As Steven Waldman explains in his 1995 book, The Bill, first Congress helped create "guaranty agencies" to collect defaulted loans from the federal government so banks wouldn't have to. Then it created the Student Loan Marketing Association so the banks wouldn't even have to hold on to the loans; instead, they could sell them to Sallie Mae. By 1992, the federal government was spending $6 billion annually to create $15 billion in loans.
In 1993, newly elected President Bill Clinton signed a law gradually replacing private student loan guarantees with direct government lending in order to save money. But not long after, Congress halted the phase-out of private-loan guarantees and let the private lenders compete with the direct-loan program (much as proponents of a public option favor letting private insurers compete with a government health insurer). For the next decade and a half, the private lenders were winning, mainly because Sallie Mae leveraged its profits from guaranteed student loans by romancing members of Congress for more favorable terms—i.e., more costly to the taxpayer—while romancing college financial aid officers for more business. But after the credit markets went haywire in 2008, banks fled the program in droves, and schools started steering students to more cost-efficient direct loans, creating a perfect opportunity for President Barack Obama to propose ditching student loan guarantees altogether.
Republicans are making many of the same arguments against student loan reform that they're making against health care reform: It's a government takeover, a job-killer, etc. But with student loan reform, there are two differences. One is that the Republican caricature of Uncle Sam muscling out private industry is somewhat more accurate (though remember that Uncle Sam has for years pampered and subsidized the private lenders). The other is that, unless you take an especially keen interest in policy questions surrounding the funding of higher education, you probably haven't noticed all this Republican caviling. That's because the typical voter (and therefore the typical news outlet) doesn't much care whether the government muscles in on this racket. Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible. The "socialism" issue was defused in 1993.
There is some danger that health care reform will turn the larger private health insurance companies into the same sort of black-belt lobbying champs that Congress created in Sallie Mae. That would make an already-expensive new program even more so. But if that occurred, the government might eventually tire of being manipulated by the private entities it funds and decide it would be simpler, and cheaper, to do the job itself. By the time that happened, the public would be so familiar with the idea that the federal government pays for much of its health care that cries of "socialism" wouldn't likely attract much notice. It's happened before.
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Someone felt the need to resurrect a year old thread of mine. He got negged for it because he had some inaccurate info in the post(and no..it wasn't by me..even though I need to BALANCE). He claimed that the only way to get rid of bugbear was to fdisk. That statement isn't true. There are some nasty little buggers that only fdisk can get rid of however. There are a few that even fdisk can't deal with. For those slick buggers there is a debug script that will wipe the partion table clean. It invokes the low level bios int 13h and the dos write int 20h. THEN you fdisk. Here it is:
A:\>debug <enter>
-F 200 L1000 0 <enter>
-A CS:100 <enter>
xxxx:0100 MOV AX,301 <enter>
xxxx:0103 MOV BX,200 <enter>
xxxx:0106 MOV CX,1 <enter>
xxxx:0109 MOV DX,80 <enter>
(80 for hd 0 or 81 for hd 1 )
xxxx:010C INT 13 <enter>
xxxx:010E INT 20 <enter>
xxxx:0110 <enter>
-g <enter>
Program terminated normally
THis will even get rid of a virus that writes itself to a harddrives diagnostic cylinder because the retrieve routine will be wiped out..it may still be there but there isn't anyway to invoke it.
and yes..if you know how to invoke the harddrive controller's input/output commands with machine code you CAN write to the diagnostic cylinder.


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Eight displaced in two-alarm blaze in ManchesterBy PAT GROSSMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 25. 2013 7:34AM
MANCHESTER - Eight people, including two children, made it to safety early Thursday morning when a fire broke out in their Second Street apartment building.
District Chief Al Poulin said smoke detectors woke tenants to the danger at 3:17 a.m.
He said Sandra Davis, who lived in a second-floor apartment of the 610 Second St. building, looked out a window to see flames reflected in the window of an apartment building across the yard.
She saw her porch was on fire and then looked up to discover the third-floor porch completely in flames, Poulin said. Davis woke her family and roommates, and alerted tenants on the third floor to the fire, he said.
Paul Raymond, 47, who is Davis' roommate and manages the building for owner Rob Starace, said he ran up to the third floor because someone said the tenant was on the porch. He said he opened a hallway door, but heavy smoke forced him out of the building. As it turned out, the man and everyone else in the building had already made it to safety.
That included Raymond's 3-year-old son, as well as Davis' boyfriend and her 5-year-old daughter.
"The kids got out. That's my major concern," he said hours after the fire, standing outside the three-story building. The third-story porch was completely burned up in the blaze while his porch was heavily damaged.
All of the residents were safely out of the building, which is located across the street from Burger King, when Engine 2 arrived from the Main Street station. Firefighters, Poulin said, immediately ran a hose into the building, launching an interior attack and keeping the blaze from spreading to other sections of the building.
The four-man crew, increased recently from three, made all the difference in the initial attack, Poulin said. They were able to keep flames from extending into the other units, although the entire building was damaged by heavy smoke and water.
Poulin estimated damage at $125,000.
Despite firefighters' efforts, the fire went to two alarms, bringing about 40 of the 46 firefighters on duty to the scene. Crews cut into the roofs to vent the flames.
Poulin said the building had three separate roof lines because of additions over the years, allowing flames to get into the walls. As a result, he said, firefighters had to cut through walls and ceilings to make sure the fire was completely out.
The fire started on the third-story porch, sent flames into the roof and down to the second-story porch once it burned through the floor, he said.
The building has four apartments. The first floor was vacant; the second floor housed Raymond and his son, Davis, her boyfriend and her daughter; and the third floor had two apartments, one with two residents and the other, a single occupant.
Raymond said someone was supposed to move into the vacant apartment on Friday. That's not happening now. Raymond, who said he worked on recent renovations to the building, expects it "will be some time" before it can be occupied again.
Poulin said the cause of the fire remains under investigation, but it is not considered suspicious.
Raymond said investigators believe the fire started in a "butt can" on the third-floor porch.
He lost most everything in the blaze and has no renter's insurance. The owner has another building, however, with an available apartment which Raymond says he will probably move into.
"I will have to get renter's insurance next time," he said.
The Red Cross, Raymond said, is helping the residents and gave them vouchers for a few nights at local hotels as well as pre-paid cards for food and clothing.
Mutual aid was called from Londonderry, Litchfield, Auburn, Concord, Bedford and Goffstown to provide station coverage.


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These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
Trading Privilege for Privation, Family Hits a Nerve in South Africa [1]
The New York Times
"Regina Matshega was gossiping with a neighbor over a fence between their shacks in the Phomolong squatter camp last month when a very unexpected sight suddenly popped into view: two ruddy-cheeked white South Africans, a man and a woman, with two towheaded toddlers running at their heels.
'I couldn't believe my eyes,' Ms. Matshega said. 'What are white people doing here? They live in the rich places. They never come this side.'" READ MORE [1]
What's the point of open data? [2]
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"I've been puzzling for a while how the open data community can help the many great groups that have been fighting for transparency of key money flows for the past decade and more. I think one answer may be that open data helps us go beyond simply making information available. If done well, it can help us make it accessible and relevant to people, which has been the holy grail for transparency advocates for a long time.
The transparency community has focused too much on just getting information out there (making information available). But what's the point of having information available if it's not accessible? What's the use of public reports that are only nominally 'public' because they languish in filing cabinets or 'PDF deserts' hidden within an obscure website?" READ MORE [2]
How Cell Phones Are Transforming Health Care in Africa [3]
MIT Technology Review
"In a little over a decade, Africa has gone from a region with virtually no fixed-line telecoms infrastructure to a continent where one in six of the billion inhabitants now owns a cell phone. But as this mass adoption of technology continues to gather momentum, it is causing a fundamental shift that goes beyond merely connecting people; it is creating one of the largest, low-cost distributed sensor networks we've ever seen, one which has the potential to completely transform global health care.
Since 2000, when the number of cell phone subscriptions in Africa outstripped landlines, the enthusiasm with which people across the continent have embraced this technology has been unparalleled. Nigeria alone has gone from a nation of just 30,000 cell subscriptions in 2000 to more than 140 million today, or roughly 87 percent penetration. Given how vast Africa is and the entrepreneurial nature of its people, perhaps that's not so surprising. But what is unexpected is the life-saving role these handsets are beginning to play in helping to bridge gaps in our knowledge." READ MORE [3]
5 Takeaways From UN's Global Report on Happiness [4]
National Geographic
"Denmark is the happiest country in the world, followed by Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Sweden, according to the 2013 World Happiness Report, released today by Columbia University's Earth Institute.
Sponsored by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the global survey took place between 2010 and 2012 and ranked the happiness levels of people in 156 countries, using such criteria as wealth, health, freedom to make life choices, having someone to count on in times of trouble, freedom from corruption, and the generosity of fellow citizens." READ MORE [4]
Are women less corrupt? New study suggests it depends on cultural expectations [5]
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"Women are more likely than men to disapprove of — and less likely to participate in — political corruption, but only in countries where corruption is stigmatized, according to new political science research from Rice University.
"'Fairer Sex' or Purity Myth? Corruption, Gender and Institutional Context" finds that women are less tolerant of corrupt behavior, but only in democratic governments, where appropriating public policy for private gain is typically punished by voters and courts." READ MORE [5]
Opaque Transparency and Transparent Opacity in African Budget Systems [6]
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"In a post last week I showed how PEFA data can be used to illustrate the implementation gap in public financial management reforms. My goal is to use the data that donor agencies employ and show that reforms are often yielding limited results: They make governments look better but often fail to make the governments function better.
Today I am turning my attention to Open Budget Index data (OBI) with the same intention. While I analyze the data I want to make two things clear: 1. I'm not criticizing the data (in fact I know the people who constructed the dataset really well…as with PEFA…and I applaud the fact that we have data to work with—much better than in the past where we had to assume reforms were working); 2. I'm not assuming the data are perfect (in fact I am well aware of the many limits of the data…generally and in particular cases…with OBI, for instance, there are questions about how the data are collected and what they measure). I am using the data in a specific and focused sense and think that this is totally appropriate—to show patterns in the kind of reform results we are getting across developing countries." READ MORE [6]
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The Cleveland Indians have 22 non-roster invitees headed for spring training. The pitchers include David Aardsma, Scott Atchison, Travis Banwart, Matt Capps, Tyler Cloyd, Shaun Marcum, J.C. Ramirez and Michael Zagurski. The catchers include Luke Carlin, Jake Lowery, Roberto Perez, Matt Treanor and Tony Wolters. The infielders are Elliot Johnson, Jason Giambi, Francisco Lindor, Ryan Rohlinger and Joey Wendle, while the outfielders are comprised of Matt Carson, Jeff Francoeur, Nyjer Morgan and Tyler Naquin.
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Jig Journal: Dovetail Markers
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Marking out dovetails for hand cutting goes much easier with these helpers. Held in place while hooked over the end of a board, these markers allow you, with one placement, to pencil a squared line across the end grain and a tail-slope line down the face grain.
To cover a range of dovetail angles, it is easy to produce several markers, each with a unique slope. This helps reduce errors.
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Nicole Kidman: 'Grace of Monaco' Pulled from Release Calendar
Fans hoping to see Nicole Kidman's work in the film Grace of Monaco are out of luck for now as the movie has been pulled from The Weinstein Company's release schedule, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The film was set to hit theaters on March 14 after being delayed from its original late November 2013 release, but the movie has yet to be delivered to the studio, making it hard to generate marketing materials in time for the release.
"It's right to struggle, but when you confront an American distributor like Weinstein, not to name names, there is not much you can do," director Olivier Dahan told a French newspaper after the film's first delay. "There are two versions of the film for now: mine and his … which I find catastrophic."
WHAT DO YOU THINK of the delays being made to Grace of Monaco?