[An Nahar] An Ohio woman whose medical record was posted to Facebook, revealing her name and a syphilis diagnosis, has sued the hospital where she was treated and the worker who accessed her information.
The 20-year-old Cincinnati woman, who filed the lawsuit this week in Hamilton County court, said that the events of the case were set in motion in September, when she refused to tell her ex-boyfriend why she was being treated at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
Her ex-boyfriend, identified as Raphael Bradley, 28, then contacted another woman he was romantically involved with who worked at the hospital, according to the lawsuit.
That woman, identified as Ryan Rawls, looked up the woman's medical record and gave it to Bradley, according to the lawsuit.
It was then posted to a Facebook page about allegedly promiscuous women, the lawsuit said.
"It couldn't be more egregious in my estimation, and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center owes a duty to their patients to ensure this doesn't happen," said Mike Allen, the Cincinnati attorney who's representing the woman who filed the lawsuit. "They can't hide behind a shield of, 'This employee was acting outside of the scope of their responsibilities.' If that's going to be their defense at trial, I'm looking forward to the trial."
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named is not naming the woman who filed the lawsuit because the case involves her private medical records.
Hospital spokeswoman Diana Lara said Friday that Rawls, who worked in the billing department, was fired within days of the hospital learning of the Facebook post last year and that the case was forwarded to federal authorities because Rawls was found to have violated federal privacy laws regarding medical information. There is no record of any federal or small-time Mister Big charges pending against her.
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Unless the initial judge agrees to seal the initial pleading and sets it be filed as "Under Seal" v. Univ. of Cincinnati Med. Ctr, et al. [it has happened], her name is right there in front of God and everybody on the initial pleading, a public document.
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[An Nahar] A Phoenix woman will have to keep both feet on the ground if she wants to speak at any public meetings.
Sixty-five-year-old Dianne Barker told KSAZ-TV this week (http://bit.ly/Ui1V4J ) that she's been banned from doing cartwheels at meetings held by the Maricopa Association of Governments.
An attorney for the association that oversees regional transportation projects said in a letter to Barker last month that she must "immediately cease performing cartwheels."
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A sixty-five year old cartwheeler. I hope she was wearing trousers. Trailing wife, in this case I would approve of an addition to the wardrobe.
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Doing cartwheels banned in Arizona? I don't believe it. Since when do right-wing American dumbasses from Arizona ban Christian fundamentalist dipshits from expressing their religiousity?? What's next? Ted Cruz actually renouncing his Canuckistan citizenship? Yes, we are STILL waiting for that one...
[An Nahar] Harvard University ...home of the Best and the Brightest, contributed $878,164 to the 2008 Obama campaign. Is there a reason universities are among the top financiers of political campaigns? scientists have confirmed that a 19th century French treatise in its libraries is bound in human skin, Harvard University said this week, after a bevvy of scientific testing.
Arsene Houssaye's "Des destinees de l'ame" (On the destiny of the soul) is part of the antique book collection of the university's Houghton Library, which specializes in rare and antique works.
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Will the flounder's third volume extol
How well he squirmed into his role?
No matter how dishy,
It's sure to smell fishy,
And be bound in the skin of a soul.
[The Peninsula] Flash floods have killed more than 50 people in northern Afghanistan, washing away hundreds of houses and forcing thousands to flee, provincial authorities said yesterday.
"Heavy torrential rains followed by flash floods have killed more than 50 people in Guzargah-e-Nur district of Baghlan province," Mahmood Haqmal, front man for the provincial governor said yesterday.
"We have recovered more than 50 bodies from the rubble, including the bodies of women and kiddies, but many others are still missing," Haqmal said.
It was an initial corpse count, he said, warning it could rise.
Guzargah-e-Nur district governor Noor Mohammad Guzar said the corpse count was 66.
"Yesterday's floods have destroyed four villages, and washed away 2,000 residential houses, agricultural fields and also killed thousands of cattle," Guzar added.
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[Ynet] Egypt and the United Arab Emirates said on Saturday they had contracted a state-run company headed by a retired Egyptian army officer to build wheat silos that are a key part of the UAE's $4.9 billion aid package to Cairo.
The choice of an army-affiliated company comes after Rooters reported in March that the UAE was working directly with the Egyptian army to ensure the project was conducted efficiently.
"Yes, of course funding attaches to sticky fingers and slides into convenient pockets, but at least the projects get done and work well enough to go on with!"
[An Nahar] Armed men burst into a church in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... overnight, killing more than 30 people including women and kiddies, local sources said Saturday.
The sources said the victims were ethnic Bafuliru and were spending the night in the church in the South Kivu province after a meeting.
In all, "eight men, 14 women, 10 children and a soldier" were killed, a local councillor said, adding that 28 people were maimed.
South Kivu's Interior Minister Jean-Julien Miruho told AFP that the attack was likely a Dire Revenge™ killing over cattle raids in the region.
"It is a problem of (stolen) cattle, and one side went to seek Dire Revenge™," he said.
Local sources also confirmed that there had been a problem of stolen cattle in the region.
The identities of the assailants are unclear but the Bafuliru people have been in conflict with the Barundi ethnic group for years over property and custom issues.
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Eduardo Paes, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, is not too concerned about the fact that the city isn't ready for the World Cup starting on Thursday, or the 2016 Olympics for that matter. He says it's par for the course with his culture.
Paes said enough of the 12 stadiums are done that it shouldn't be a huge problem, reports the Globe and Mail. He said, "We're Latins. We're not used to deadlines, to keeping up with things."
He also said, "Up to now, there has been huge damage to our reputation. There is, when you don't have everything done. We made mistakes. We shouldn't have done 12 stadiums, we should have done fewer cities. That's what brought us to this situation. But I think we're going to do great."
While residents have protested against the $11.3 million price tag for the venues, which are not even complete, Paes takes a more optimistic approach. He said, "The problem would be if we could not have protests. I would be ashamed if we did not have protests."
The city is also hosting the 2016 Olympics, which it has done almost nothing to prepare for yet. The International Olympic Committee recently said that their experience trying to get Rio ready has been the "worst ever" and "not a good experience." Brazilians will tell you they have less materialism than the US because starting Thursday evenings they are ready to party and socialize until Sunday night. They take all of August off to go to the beach, too.
[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... Saturday voiced hope that there would be a breakthrough on ending the Ukraine crisis, enabling Washington to avoid imposing new sanctions against Russia.
"I hope that in the next few days we can see some steps taken that will reduce the tensions ...I'm confident there are ways forward, we look for Russia's help and our hope is that we won't have to move to more serious sanctions and other steps," he said.
He spoke of the "possibility of a cease-fire, the possibility of Russia helping to be able to get the separatists to begin to put their guns away, get out of buildings and begin to build Ukraine, where people's needs can be met."
Kerry spoke as Western-backed chocolate tycoon Petro Poroshenko was sworn in as Ukraine's new president.
On Friday Poroshenko held his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... in La Belle France a since a May 25 election victory entrusted him with taming a bloody crisis that has shaken the post-Cold War order and redrawn Europe's map following Russia's annexation of Crimea.
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[The Peninsula] The United States pledged millions of dollars in additional aid to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia yesterday, deepening American support to the Western-leaning countries on Russia's border.
Vice President Joe Biden announced the extra aid, which must be approved by Congress, during a visit to Kiev for the inauguration of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
Washington pledged $48m to Ukraine, $8m to Moldova and $5m to Georgia after Biden met the presidents of the three countries.
Russia's Anschluss annexation of the Crimea region from Ukraine in March, after weeks of protests ousted Poroshenko's pro-Moscow predecessor Victor Yanukovich, has provoked the most serious crisis in relations with the West since the end of the Cold War.
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[Al Ahram] Ukraine's new President Petro Poroshenko vowed at his inauguration ceremony Saturday to maintain the unity of his country, as the east is embroiled in an uprising by pro-Russian rebels.
Speaking in parliament, Poroshenko promised the residents of the Donbass region, which is largely in rebel hands, that he would decentralise power and guarantee the free use of the Russian language.
Poroshenko said that there would be no compromise with Russia on his pro-European stance and the status of the Crimean peninsula.
"The Crimea has been and will remain Ukrainian," he said. "I put that clearly to the Russian leader in Normandy," he added, referring to his meeting with President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... at D-Day commemorations on Friday.
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[DAWN] A man severely tortured his mother and then hacked her to death with a spade at Shah Dehrai area of Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... on Friday.
Police identified the victim as Bakht Saba, and the accused as Gul Faraz who escaped the area after the gruesome murder.
Shah Dehrai police registered case and began investigation.
An official said the slain woman had allegedly killed her husband a year ago and was charged in the murder case.
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My client's been dealt some hard knocks.
Should an orphan be locked in a box?
Indeed, his own children
Will probably kill him
Once they can throw big enough rocks.
[DAWN] An anti-terrorist court (ATC) on Saturday granted 14-day-long judicial remand to the father of Farzana Perveen, who was killed outside the Lahore High Cout (LHC), DawnNews reported.
Mohammad Azeem, father of Parveen, was produced before the court on completion of a seven-day-long physical remand. The victim's father, brother, cousins and her former husband were among accused for her murder.
The ATC also ordered the police to complete and submit the charge sheet against the accused as soon as possible so that justice could be administered swiftly.
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>[DAWN] The Islamabad High Court's recent ruling ordering the registration of an FIR against the CIA's former boss in Islamabad is the latest in a series of embarrassing verdicts that have been handed down due to poor coordination between the federation's counsels and government departments.
IHC Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui on Thursday ordered Secretariat police to register a case against former CIA station chief Jonathan Banks and his legal adviser, John A. Rizzo.
The order came as the judge disposed of a petition filed by anti-drone activist Karim Khan. A resident of North , Khan lost his son Zahinullah and brother Asif Iqbal in a US drone strike on December 31, 2009.
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"But the matter is not likely to proceed much further because there are no eye-witnesses who can testify that the two US officials are directly responsible for launching the drone strikes," he said.
More likely since the Pak military has input into drone zap targets on Pak soil, the target was picked by the Pak military.
Wouldn't that be embarrassing to come out in court?
[Ynet] A protest marking "47 years of occupation" took place in a Tel Aviv park Saturday night. The organizers of the demonstration said hundreds of people had shown up and they are expected to march towards a street near a Defense Ministry building where they will they play a presentation which derides the settlement industry.
A pretty pathetic turnout, which shows how far the Israeli citizenry has moved since the days when the socialists of the Labour Party were running things.
In an invitation to the protest, they wrote "The Netanyahu administration sanctifies the settlements and prefers them over a stable peace agreement with the Paleostinians. The government fattens the settlements with billions of shekels on the back of the education, health, welfare, and culture budgets.
...and how little the lefty remnant has changed during that time,
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The problem is not the settlements. If Netanyahu woke up tomorrow and ordered ALL of the settlers out, the Palestinians would still find something to bitch about.
If Israel pulled back to the (indefensible) '67 borders, the Palestinians would still find something to bitch about.
If the Jews gave back everything they "stole" when the Jews moved to Israel after WWII, the Palestinians would still find something to bitch about.
In other words, the Palestinians won't stop bitching until every Jew is dead.
Never again!
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They wouldn't stop then either, Rambler.
Bitch and moan is the only thing they can do.
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[Al Ahram] Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, one of two leading candidates to succeed Shimon Peres as Israel's next head of state, withdrew from the race on Saturday, a day after police questioned him under caution over a loan he had received.
The move appeared to smooth the path to the presidency of Reuven Rivlin, a former speaker of parliament with whom Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had a rocky relationship.
Ben-Eliezer, a former general and defence minister and a veteran politician, denied any wrongdoing and said he had been "deliberately targeted", but declined to say who might have tried to sabotage his campaign.
"From the moment I announced my candidacy for the post, there has been an incessant, timed campaign of smears and slander whose intention was to prevent me standing for the post of president. With a heavy heart, I have decided to withdraw from the race," Ben-Eliezer said in his statement.
Legislators will elect a new president on June 10, with five candidates in the race. When announcing the date last month, speaker Yuli Edelstein said the campaign had begun with smears against several contenders.
"The post of president of Israel is important, and it is aimed at healing rifts in the nation ... This hasn't been the kind of campaign we wanted to see," Edelstein said.
Netanyahu raised eyebrows last month when he floated the idea of abolishing the presidency, but the suggestion angered politicians across the political spectrum and was flatly rejected by senior ministers.
Israel is a parliamentary democracy, with the prime minister as the head of government. The president's job is entirely ceremonial, an elected king if you will, and in my American opinion, completely unnecessary.
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The military junta that seized power here last month has no plans to restore civilian rule any time soon. But it has launched an official campaign to bring back something else it says this divided nation desperately needs -- happiness.
The project has involved free concerts, free food, alluring female dancers in suggestive camouflage miniskirts, even the chance to pet horses trucked into downtown Bangkok with makeshift stables and bales of hay. The fair-like events are supposed to pave the way for reconciliation after a decade of political upheaval and coups.
But critics point out the feel-good project is being carried out alongside an entirely different junta-led campaign -- an effort to stifle all opposition to the army's May 22 putsch, which deposed a government elected by a majority of Thai voters three years ago.
"The very first question you have to ask is, who's happiness are they talking about?" said Pavin Chachavalpongpun, a Thai professor of Southeast Asian studies at Kyoto University who has refused to respond to a junta summons ordering him to return home and report to the army.
"I'm sure this is not happiness for Thais who want a civilian government, whose rights were taken away by the coup," he said. "It's surreal. And it's ridiculous to believe this will create an environment conducive to reconciliation. That can't happen when the military is harassing, hunting and detaining its enemies."
Last month's coup, the twelfth in Thailand since the end of absolute monarchy in 1932, ousted a civilian government accused of abuse of power and corruption that had increasingly been corned by protesters, the courts, and finally the army.
The junta says it had to restore order after half a year of political turmoil left dozens dead and the government paralyzed. And it insists it will be a neutral arbiter. But since taking power, the army appears to be carrying on the fight of the anti-government protesters by mapping out a similar agenda to redraft the constitution and institute political reforms before elections, and going after politicians from the grassroots Red Shirts movement who had vowed to take action if there was a coup.
Although the junta has censored partisan media on both sides, it has begun prosecuting opponents and summoned hundreds of politicians -- mostly those who supported the former government or were perceived as critical. The moves have forced some of the nation's most prominent activists and scholars to flee or go into hiding.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[An Nahar] An Ohio woman whose medical record was posted to Facebook, revealing her name and a syphilis diagnosis, has sued the hospital where she was treated and the worker who accessed her information.
Eduardo Paes, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, is not too concerned about the fact that the city isn't ready for the World Cup starting on Thursday, or the 2016 Olympics for that matter. He says it's par for the course with his culture.
[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State 
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[The Peninsula] The United States pledged millions of dollars in additional aid to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia yesterday, deepening American support to the Western-leaning countries on Russia's border.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[DAWN] The Islamabad High Court's recent ruling ordering the registration of an FIR against the CIA's former boss in Islamabad is the latest in a series of embarrassing verdicts that have been handed down due to poor coordination between the federation's counsels and government departments.
[Al Ahram] Cheer up, Thailand. That's an order. 
