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Panel on "Pursuing Justice and Preserving Memory"
My topic is Nazi hunting and the prosecution of genocide in Africa. Obviously, this is something about which there is so much to say and I cannot say much in twenty minutes. So you will excuse me if what I say is not coherent or comprehensive. You understand the limitations.
You all know who the Nazis are. I don't need to explain what Nazi hunting is all about. But as for the prosecution of genocide in Africa – to my knowledge, there have been gross violations of human rights in Africa, in many countries, over the last thirty years. But there are only two places to my knowledge where genocide is being prosecuted as a crime – Rwanda and Ethiopia. I've not been able to find much information about the status of affairs in Ethiopia, so I hope our friend [Edward Kissi] will tell us more about it. I would ask him to. I will basically be talking about efforts to look for and to prosecute Nazis, and efforts to prosecute the genocide which took place in Rwanda in 1994.
Obviously, many of you have heard or know a lot about the Holocaust. Not many of you may know a lot about what happened in our country. In 1994 our country had a population of about seven million people. The government of the day just sat down and organized murder of about one-seventh of the population, about one million people. All resources of the country – the military, the financing, everything – for a period of one hundred days was devoted to that one purpose: the extermination of a section of the population, who are called Tutsis. We estimate that about a million people died. Conservative estimates of outsiders have put it at about five hundred thousand after the first hundred days. About two hundred to three hundred thousand of the Tutsis that lived in Rwanda before survived. So this is the context in which I am talking about the prosecution of genocide in Rwanda.
Now, the Holocaust will always, of course, remain a singular act of horrific proportions. But as events in Rwanda have shown, the fact remains that mass murder, based on ethnic, national or religious differences, is by no means a thing of the past. As long as genocide remains, justice still remains important.
People ask, "Why must there be justice? Why must we hunt Nazis? Why must those people who committed genocide or who may commit it in the future be pursued and prosecuted?" As lawyers, we have a very simple answer. We say, "It's the law. You commit a crime, you have to be punished." It's a very simple answer that even a child will understand. But it does not explain everything. There are other answers to the question as to why there must be justice.
Most important is that there must be justice to commemorate those who died. Once people are dead through genocide, there is nothing that you could ever do to undo the harm that has been done. The most we can do for the victims is commemoration. It is the most important reason why people who commit genocide must be pursued and must be made to account. But commemoration looks to the past. It's necessary, it's important, but it's not all that we need.
Fortunately [even] where there has been a genocide there remains a remnant. Those who have survived genocide will always live in fear of the next one. It is a duty that our societies owe to those who have been victims of genocide, or those who are potential victims of it in the future, that we work to eradicate impunity. The need to eradicate impunity for past crimes is very, very important. There must be something done to make sure that people do not think they can take the liberty to kill, to murder, and get away with it. This is the only assurance for a society that has been a victim of genocide. There must be justice to eradicate impunity.
Knowing that peoples other than the Jews have been victims of acts of genocide, societies like Rwanda, coming out of such catastrophic events, has brought more concerted efforts to portray ourselves as viable societies. There can be no better foundation for such societies than to recreate the rule of law. Ultimately, only the respect of that rule of law guarantees our other aspirations. Justice is also a tool for reconciliation.
Unlike the Jewish people, the people of Rwanda, victim and perpetrator, have got to live together and seek to build their lives anew, living side by side. Not everyone has the opportunity that the Jewish people had of establishing a new state – like Israel was established in 1948 – to live alone in one homogeneous society, where you know as a society you are focused on working for your survival without having to think about coping or leaving or coexisting with your former enemies. But in societies like ours, justice is very important because unless there is a reckoning with the past there is no foundation for reconciling people.
So with those introductory words about why there must be justice, I would move to talk about the obstacles to the pursuit of justice for genocide – for the Holocaust first, and then the experience in Rwanda, and the obstacles that were faced as we sought to bring to justice people responsible for the genocide in our country.
As all of you are aware, at the end of the Second World War, the international community was by and large agreed that those who committed the Holocaust would be brought to justice. The first response of the international community was the Nuremberg trials. An international criminal tribunal was set up with the mandate to try crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, including the murder of six million Jews. But only about twenty-two people were indicted and only twenty-one were ever tried. (One was tried in absentia). Now, given the magnitude of the crimes committed against the Jews, one can legitimately ask whether this was an adequate response to the Holocaust. Clearly, the fact that only twenty-two people were tried for the murder of six million people displays a serious lack of commitment on the part of the powers-that-be of the time to bring to justice the perpetrators of the Holocaust.
Now after the Nuremberg trials, the task of bringing other perpetrators of the Holocaust to justice was left to the respective national jurisdictions. In practice, most of those people were never brought to justice. With the exception of Germany and the Soviet Union, hardly any other countries have really made a serious attempt to try any people at all. There are many reasons. First, humanity being what it is, many countries in which these crimes were committed tried to downplay the role played by their nationals in the atrocities. You can talk of the Lithuanians, the Ukrainians, the Polish – all states where the Holocaust was carried out have one way or another tried to downplay the role of their own nationals. In the case of Rwanda, we do have a government that is committed to trying the people who committed the genocide.
[After the war], the Jews were not a political force in the countries where these crimes had been committed. Most of those who survived immigrated either to the West or to Israel. The lack of a presence of Jews with political influence in these places where the crimes were committed played a role in ensuring that these people were never brought to justice. Those who were left behind were keen to defend their kith and kin. Now, when it was set up in 1948, the state of Israel did pass a law that made genocide committed in other countries punishable in Israel. But there was a problem – although there was a law that would enable [Israel] to try these people, these people were outside its jurisdiction. Although a few were transferred or extradited from other countries not many of them could be brought to justice.
Another problem: After the Second World War, for the Western countries – the major powers – the Holocaust ceased to be a priority. The main concern was the Cold War: how to contain the Soviet Union. So much so that if in a country like the United States there were former Nazis – like the scientists who had been in charge of development of weapons in Nazi Germany – their crimes were ignored. In fact they were asked to stay in [the U.S.] so that they should help in the development of arms, [and] also as a precaution that they should not fall into Soviet hands. So a strategic decision was made to grant citizenship to large numbers of genocide suspects.
Now another problem that arose that made it difficult for the prosecution of the people who were responsible for the Holocaust is that there were large movements of so-called refugees at the end of the Second World War. Millions of them moved, many resettled in Western countries. There were not many mechanisms existing to verify that people were either genuine refugees or fugitives fleeing from justice. So you ended up having a lot of people who had committed genocide fleeing to countries like the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England and many other places. Quite often they adopted new identities and as time passed it became difficult to trace, identify, and have them apprehended. But quite apart with the passage of time many countries decided that the prosecution of genocide was not a priority. [The attitude was] for people to "move on." Although different pieces of legislation have been passed in many countries – like the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand – [there has been no] decision to ensure the trial of perpetrators of the Holocaust. Not many of them have been tried, because of lack of political will.
One last problem, of course, with regard to the past and future of perpetrators of the Holocaust is that it has been a long time. Fifty-five years. Perpetrators and victims who survived are dying. As time passes, it becomes ever more unlikely that many of these people will be brought to justice.
Now with regard to Rwanda, we have passed legislation that has enabled us to try the people who participated in genocide. But we have problems. First of all, the problem of a society [where] kith and kin [of perpetrators and survivors live side by side]. We have a problem with the fact that the majority of the people who organized the genocide – especially the leadership – are in exile, and they are in countries where we do not have extradition treaties. Like what happened at the end of the Second World War, many of these people are adopting new identities and it's difficult to trace them. We have problems with countries which are sympathetic to some of the suspects, countries like France that were supportive of their government and still help them. We have problems with countries that do not understand the nature of what happened. They think it's a civil war and so handing over these suspects is taking sides in a domestic dispute. We have problems in that many countries do not have rules that would permit them to try a genocide that was committed in Rwanda, and are not party to some of the [treaties] like the Torture Convention or the conventions that would have allowed them to try these people. And of course we do have problems with lack of material and financial resources necessary to ensure the pursuit of the suspects.
An international court has been set up to try these people. It is based in Arusha. It has not been entirely successful. It has had problems of mismanagement and lack of cooperation with states. Its outcome is not entirely satisfactory. Apart from national trials, and trials by the [international] courts, we do have situations where countries other than Rwanda or the international court are carrying out trials of their own. Their domestic laws do allow them to try the people that committed genocide in our country. So there have been trials in Switzerland, and one trial is now going on in Belgium. W expect that in the coming years there should be trials in France and Canada because there are ongoing investigations by the judicial authorities to try to bring some of these people to justice.
The people of Rwanda can relate to what happened to the victims of the Holocaust. We too have had our experience of a genocide. We understand the disappointment that our people feel when the entire world abandons them to destruction and stands by and does nothing as a genocide is being committed. We share with the victims of the Holocaust the frustration that real justice seems unattainable. We too have come to the realization that a people targeted by genocide owe themselves, and the future generations, a duty to ensure that they do whatever it takes to ensure their survival. Like the victims of Holocaust we believe that there must be accountability for genocide. There must be justice for what happened if we are to ensure our own survival. Justice is very important if we are to ensure that what happened does not happen again.
Edward Kissi: [There is a point of view] that Africans are not as litigious as Western people and therefore, for Africans, if you suffer immense atrocities, what you do is a truth and reconciliation commission. For the Ethiopians to get into a trial is to forget what the South Africans are doing. An appropriate way of seeking moral compensation for those who were wronged is to do it the South African way. It is also taking the heat [away] from the prosecution. And it seems to me that the trial is just simply a tactical move…
The Holocaust presents us with an opportunity to talk about accomplices to genocide. Here I want to ask us, as Africans, to do a housecleaning exercise. What is the special prosecutor doing about Egypt and South Africa that provide instruments of terror – arms – to the perpetrators of genocide in Rwanda?
Chivy Sok: We started a conversation earlier this morning and never had a chance to finish, so I am going to take advantage of this opportunity to ask Mr. Gahima. The Khmer Rouge trial, being discussed at this point, is very complicated. I was asked on a radio interview what I thought was a suitable punishment for the crimes that the Khmer Rouge committed. I got stumped, because when he asked that I just couldn't answer. I thought about all of the different things that you can do and I found myself saying, "I'm not for capital punishment." That was my first answer. You're in the middle of one of the most historic trials and I wonder if you could share your thoughts on what you think is a suitable punishment for the crime of genocide. Can you also relate a little about the development of the international criminal court and how this relates to the Rwanda trial?
Locksley Edmonson: The impressions some people like me had is that for a long time the Tutsis and Hutus were living in peace and relative harmony, [with] intermarriage and that type of thing. I don't know if that is so or not. What were the critical factors which led to this breakdown? I also would like to ask: What is the significance of similarities and differences of neighboring Burundi in this regard, where you also have that political demographic imbalance and potential competition?
Dimitri Anslem: I work with Facing History and Ourselves. What is the likelihood that this discussion of rule of law will have [an effect on] the growth of democratic governments throughout the continent of Africa that are much more responsive to their own citizenry? What is the likelihood for this discussion in Rwanda, for democracy in Rwanda itself, and for democracy throughout the continent?
Professor Patrick Manning: Mr. Gahima, I wanted to thank you for the presentation focussing on bringing perpetrators to justice and underscoring the importance of setting up and carrying out procedures for that purpose. Certainly it's an important step.
In the court procedures themselves, one talks about what happened. So I would like to follow up the previous question and also follow up your comment this morning by asking a particular example of what happened. Would you be willing to venture an interpretation of the place in this of Madame Agathe Uwilingiyimana, the prime minister of Rwanda at the time? Of the airplane being shot down. The two presidents killed and so forth. Would you care to discuss it a little bit more, just the place of this person in the overall story of what was clearly, overwhelmingly [the] elimination of the Tutsi population of the country?
Richard Connolly: Daniel Goldhagen came out with a book a few years ago that was controversial. What happens if you buy his premise? How do you prosecute somebody when all of civic society was involved in this mass murder? You point out that the Nuremberg trials only tried twenty-two people. They would have been quite busy for six years shooting people to get six million people, then eleven million people dead. In the same way, I don't think twenty-two people in Rwanda could have killed a million people by themselves in a hundred days.
Two questions: Who decides who actually gets punished? How far down the chain of command do you work until you decide to stop? I mean, if you take just the people that organized it right at the top, in a board meeting like the Wannsee group, you get those people. But at what point do you not prosecute the guy who drives the train to take people to the camps? And the same thing in Rwanda. I would imagine lots of people have fled, but if you have got seven, six million people – lots of them involved – where do you decide to draw the line?
Gerald Gahima Responds: Edward Kissi talked about the role of South Africa and Egypt which provided arms. There are other countries apart from these two which provided arms, including France, which provided arms even as the genocide was going on. Unfortunately, under international law it does not appear as if there are possibilities of bringing leadership to justice any time soon. It's a long debate and it's something that we've considered. As a public servant, there are things that I cannot say in public, so I'd leave it to you to speculate. Suffice it to say that we do have problems as how to deal with these situations.
Chivy Sok has asked what would be an appropriate punishment for crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge. I'll give you a reply by showing you how we've tried to deal with this issue in Rwanda. In our country, the leadership [was responsible for planning the] killings, but the killings were committed by ordinary people – your neighbors – in large numbers. Every morning all work stands still and every able-bodied person – young, old, male – went to work. And work meant going to kill. In trying to have justice, you do not have justice just for its sake. You have to have justice so that you have accountability, so that you eradicate impunity. But in societies like ours or Cambodia, where people must still live together, you also must have justice to promote reconciliation, to promote stability, to promote peace.
Under the penal code every murderer is subject to capital punishment. But you cannot kill everyone who committed murder. So we've responded by categorizing suspects according to their responsibility. We do still have capital punishment on the statute books, but we reserve it for the top leadership. Even then, we do sentence people to death but in the current international climate it's much more difficult to actually execute them. There are limits to how far you should go, how far the world will allow you to go, in executing people that commit these terrible atrocities.
I used to advocate the abolition of capital punishment in my country after the genocide. But since I was appointed a prosecutor, I've come to the realization that I can no longer, if I'm honest with myself, continue to advocate the abolition of capital punishment. There is no punishment that can ever be satisfactory for these crimes, but my personal belief is that some of the leadership should at least be punished with capital punishment because I think it's the closest. It is a position that I am comfortable with.
As to your question about the development of the ICTR, the international court, and how it relates to our legal system. I told you – it's inefficient, it's ineffective. They have a budget of something like eight million dollars a year but they cannot conclude a trial, even one trial on average a year. It's not a satisfactory solution to the need for justice for the large numbers of fugitives who are at large. But in light of the fact that we do not have the likelihood of getting these people returned to Rwanda, it's the only prospect of these people ever being brought to justice. So we support the tribunal and we work with them in every way we can.
Professor Edmonson [asked about] the critical factors that made people who had lived together peacefully for a long time turn against each other. Genocide does not happen in a vacuum. Genocide takes time. In fact 1994 was really the culmination of a long history of killings. I grew up as a refugee. The killing started in 1959. I left in the 1960′s. My own father was killed in 1961. Hanged on a cross. These are terrible things that have been happening over time. People promote hate, they promote prejudice. They use, they promote hatred in school, in the newspapers, on the radio. And although people intermarry and there is social interaction, there is still a lot of hatred and prejudice that has been built over time. The critical factor that changed things from mere hatred or prejudice to mass murder is the role of the government, there being in place a government that incites people to commit genocide. There cannot be a genocide unless there is someone with political power using it for personal advantage, for his own ends. I think the critical factor is that there was a government that needed a scapegoat. The scapegoat they identified were the Tutsis, and then the genocide happened.
As for similarities with Burundi: It is true that Rwanda and Burundi are very similar. What happened in Burundi in 1992 actually does amount to genocide. There is the possibility that genocide may still happen in Burundi. [Our military] drove the people who committed genocide in our country, Rwanda, out of the country but [did] not totally destroy [them.]. They are still at large in the forest in Congo – armed, still prepared to come and attack Rwanda and continue where they stopped. They have allies with the rebels in Congo. There is the possibility that there could be a genocide in Burundi unless there's a peaceful settlement.
Patrick Manning asked about the role of Madame Agathe Uwilingiyimana. She was the prime minister. Along with Tutsis, Hutus who were opposed to the government of the day were branded accomplices of the Tutsis. Because they were accomplices of the Tutsis – of the "vermin", "snakes" (because that's how the propaganda portrayed Tutsis) – they were also killed. She was killed because she was deemed sympathetic to Tutsis. She was killed by soldiers, who have been apprehended, whose leader has been apprehended. Because she was killed with Belgians who were guarding her, Belgian peacekeepers, the Belgians arranged for the [international] tribunal in Arusha to release the suspects to them. But we intervened and requested extradition from Tanzania. We hope that these criminals will be brought to justice once extradition proceedings in Tanzania are completed.
Lastly, the question of who decides who gets punished, how far down the ladder do you go? These are very difficult decisions. On one hand, we are all agreed that the people ultimately responsible for the killings are the top leadership, the organizers, the people in control of state machinery. At the same time, the survivor knows who killed his relatives. It is the people he knows who he saw coming to kill. That is what is difficult about deciding not to punish some people. But on the other hand, we know that we cannot punish everyone. As I said, in my country we decided to categorize them, but we've realized that we cannot try everyone through the courts. So we've decided to try ordinary people through informal courts, where they receive lenient punishment, and to leave the leadership to be tried in ordinary courts, subject to most rigid penalties.

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22 February 2016
Noumea, New Caledonia – Registrars, statisticians and health information specialists from across the Pacific are gathering in Noumea, New Caledonia, this week (22-25 February) to share experiences and lessons on improving civil registration and vital statistics systems and data.
This is the first regional meeting of its kind to bring all three major sectors together within the region, and is an opportunity to share the lessons and experiences from the first five years of the Pacific Vital Statistics Action Plan.
Civil registration is essential to provide timely data for development, to plan services such as schools and infrastructure, support human and child rights and to promote good governance and accountability.
Vital statistics and cause of death data collected through a routine registration system is also essential to be able to effectively identify and respond to key health issues in the Pacific region, such as non-communicable diseases.
The meeting on "Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in the Pacific Islands – Standards, best practice and lessons learnt" is organised by the Brisbane Accord Group of agencies, in particular the Pacific Community (SPC), the World Health Organisation, UNICEF, and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP); with the United Nations Statistics Division.
Hosted by SPC, the meeting will draw on the expertise of nine technical agencies and regional networks, and will include participation from 22 Pacific Island countries and territories.
Since the beginning of the Pacific Vital Statistics Action Plan in 2011, there has been significant progress, with countries such as Nauru, American Samoa and Cook Islands having recently released detailed analysis reports; new computerised systems being introduced in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands, and a significant increase in birth registration completeness in countries including Kiribati, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands.
This has been complimented by the strong political commitment in the region to improving Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) through both the Ministers of Health meetings, and more recently the adoption of the Asia Pacific Regional Action Framework for Improving CRVS and the Asia-Pacific CRVS Decade (2015-2024).
"Despite the progress to date, more needs to be done to ensure that everyone is included 'in the picture' of our region," Pacific Community's Deputy Director-General, Cameron Diver said.
"This week's meeting provides an opportunity for island states to join together to build on the commitments made to improving CRVS in the region and to share knowledge and experiences on how to do this," Diver said.
For more information on the workshop proceedings or Pacific Vital Statistics Action Plan, please visit: www.pacific-crvs.org; for more information on the UN Decade for CRVS or Asia Pacific Regional Action Framework please visit www.getinthepicture.org.
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Gaelle Le Gall – Communications Specialist, Statistics for Development Division, SPC. Ph: (687) 26.20.00 ext 31225;
Karen Carter – CRVS Specialist, Statistics for Development Division, SPC. Ph: (687) 26.20.00 ext 31217;
Tanja Sejersen- Statistician, Statistics Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Bangkok, Thailand. Ph: 66 (0) 2288 1830
The Brisbane Accord Group was established in 2010 and includes 12 partner agencies and regional networks: the Pacific Community (SPC), WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Pacific Health Information Network, Pacific Civil Registrars Network, Queensland University of Technology, University of Queensland, University of New South Wales, and Fiji National University. SPC acts as coordinator and secretariat for the group, with work coordinated under the Ten Year Pacific Statistics Strategy through the Pacific Vital Statistics Action Plan.


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Belgium quits coal power with Langerlo plant closureIt is the end of an era for a dirty fuel that accounted for 27% of the country's electricity generation in 1994.
"a significant step in the inevitable transition away from fossil fuels"
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CO2 Emissions Flatline in 2014, Even as Global Economy GrowsA key stumbling block in the effort to combat global warming has been the intimate link between greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth. When times are good and industries are thriving, global energy use traditionally increases and energy-related carbon dioxide emissions also go up.
EPA proposes cutting carbon dioxide emissions from coal plants 30% by 2030The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a regulation Monday that would cut carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants by up to to 30 percent by 2030 compared with 2005 levels, taking aim at one of the nation's leading sources of greenhouse gases.
To tackle pollution, China to drop pursuit of growth at all costsChina will steer local governments away from the pursuit of economic growth at all costs and beef up their powers to punish polluters as part of a campaign to reverse the damage done by three decades of unchecked expansion.
City of Vancouver proclaims country's first Meatless MondayVancouver has become the first city in Canada to embrace 'Meatless Monday,' encouraging residents to forego meat for one day a week for the sake of the planet and their health.
China, world's largest emitter of greenhouse gasses, will tax carbonChina's Ministry of Finance has announced that the country will levy a tax on carbon emissions, reports Xinhua.
New wind power cheaper than coal or gas in AustraliaElectricity supplied from a new wind farm is cheaper than that from a new gas or coal-fired power plant in Australia, reports a new analysis published by Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Tokelau islands shift to 100% solar energyTokelau has become the first territory able to meet all its electricity needs with solar power, officials say.
EU on track to exceed Kyoto emissions goalThe European Union is on track to not only meet but exceed greenhouse gas reduction goals set by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, an analysis indicated this week.
Victory for Forests: Disney Stands Up for Endangered Forests and AnimalsToday, Disney adds its significant voice to the growing chorus of companies demonstrating that there's no need to sacrifice endangered forests in Indonesia or elsewhere for the paper we use every day.
Energy from Solar Power now Cheaper than Fossil Fuels in 105 CountriesSolar installations are rocketing worldwide as solar electricity becomes cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels – it's already happened in 105 countries.
Tesla Unveils Solar Powered Charging StationsTesla Motors unveiled the first of its six Supercharger stations in six California locations (Folsom, Gilroy, Coalinga, Lebec, Barstow and Hawthorne).
Europe Now Creates Enough Solar Power to Fuel AustriaEurope now generates 52 gigawatts of solar energy, which is still only 2 percent of the continent's total power output–but enough to fuel all of Austria according to various news sources.
Obama Hikes Fuel Efficiency to 54.5 MPG by 2025The Obama administration on Tuesday introduced new rules to double fuel economy for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025, a move that the White House says will be comparable to cutting a dollar a gallon from the price of gasoline and that auto dealers warned would raise the cost of a new car.
Community-Owned Solar Power on the Rise in the U.S.Conditions are right for growth in community-owned solar photovoltaic (PV) projects.
Environmental news headlines
- Belgium quits coal power with Langerlo plant closure
- CO2 Emissions Flatline in 2014, Even as Global Economy Grows
- EPA proposes cutting carbon dioxide emissions from coal plants 30% by 2030
- U.N. Court Orders Japan to Halt Antarctic Whaling
- To tackle pollution, China to drop pursuit of growth at all costs
- California is first state to ban lead in hunting ammo
- Limits Approved for Genetically Modified Crops in Kauai, Hawaii
- Environmentalists win U.S. court fight to protect whales from Navy sonar
- New York City Air Quality Cleanest in Decades
- Europe's key animals 'making a comeback'
- Nepal sees tiger population go up by 63% since 2009
- Obama to launch major initiative to curb wildlife trafficking
- South Korean airlines ban shark fin as cargo
- City of Vancouver proclaims country's first Meatless Monday
- EU to ban pesticides in bee scare
- New law to protect Puerto Rico leatherback turtles
- China, world's largest emitter of greenhouse gasses, will tax carbon
- New wind power cheaper than coal or gas in Australia
- Gorillas to Be Protected with New Congo National Park
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Shoal Point Energy Ltd.
Shoal Point Energy Ltd. is a petroleum exploration and development company with offices in St. John's NL, Toronto Ont. and Vancouver, BC.
We are dedicated to exploration and development of the oil rich shales of the Humber Arm Allochthon, which we believe contains an undeveloped oil resource as large as any in North America.
Why Shoal Point?
- Morningstar Consultants 51-101 compliant report has a best (middle) case estimate of 6.5 billion barrels of total undiscovered Petroleum Initially in Place (PIIP) under SHP leases.
- Of this total, 428 million barrels, is considered prospective or potentially recoverable.
- Canadian jurisdiction with access to deep sea ports, close proximity to one of the largest oil markets in the world, and access to premium international pricing for the oil.
Review Panel Submission
The link below leads to Shoal Point Energy's cover letter to the Review Panel. At the end of the cover letter are links to other submissions by Shoal Point to the Panel, including letters, articles, and peer-reviewed scientific papers.
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Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, abbreviated as BUET, is one of the most prestigious institutions for higher studies in the country. About 5500 students are pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate studies in this institution.
Posts Name: Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Lecturer, Medical Officer, Physical Instructor, Eye consultant, Clinical Counciler.
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Through the last several weeks I have been doing some soul searching about life and thinking of my own mortality. The passing of Dr. Pert gave me time for some reflection- (albiet abrupt reflection) – however it was also a renewed vigor on what it means to live. The past holds many gifts- some negative, some positive and some in between. While living in the moment is the thing to do, knowing when those singular moments of clarity is upon us is something else. Why settle for silver when you can attain gold?
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Sabaton is a Grammis-nominated power metal band from Falun, Sweden formed in 1999. The band's main lyrical themes are those of historical wars. This is heard in albums Primo Victoria, Attero Dominatus and Coat of Arms where all of the songs, except final tracks, take inspiration from historical battles or war. Lyrical content drawn from World War I, World War II and other conflicts is prevalent and includes songs about battles and leaders on all sides of said conflicts.
On the March 30, 2012 the band announced they would go separate ways, with singer Joakim Brodén and bass player Pär Sundström continuing Sabaton, the two are looking for new members to replace those who left. On April 2, 2012 the new line up was revealed. Joining the band are Chris Rörland (Lead Guitars), Thobbe Englund (Guitars) and Robban Bäck (Drums). A new keyboard player has yet to be found. In November, Sabaton announced that Robban Bäck would take a 6 month break from touring as he has become a father.
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Joakim Brodén — vocals (1999-), keyboards (1999–2005, 2012-)
Pär Sundström — bass (1999-), backing vocals (2012-)
Chris Rörland — guitar, backing vocals (2012-)
Thobbe Englund — guitar, backing vocals (2012-)
Robban Bäck — drums (2012-) (currently inactive)
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Morning fellow NaNo's!
So it's day three of NaNoWriMo, which means we've all had a chance to get started now - even those of us who didn't start until yesterday!
So, how is your novel writing going so far? Are you loving every second? Or are you tearing your hair out in frustration because those pesky words just don't seem to want to be caught and tied to the paper?
Have you had a NaNo disaster? Or is everything going pretty well for you so far? What's your word count? Are you on track to meet the 50,000 word target, are you aiming for more than that, or are you miles away?
I didn't get to start on the first day, which rankled me quite a bit because I was really looking forward to getting stuck in! But the day jobs have to be maintained no matter how much we wanna slip back into our stories. So I didn't get to start until yesterday morning, where I had a two hour window in which to get as much down as possible... I stared at my notes, (my incredibly vague notes), and I stared at the blank screen in front of me, and I wrote the title, and I wrote the name of the first chapter, and I made some coffee, and I wrote some words, and then I deleted them, and then I made some more coffee...
This was already a lot harder than I thought, this didn't usually happen to me, most of the time I just throw words at the paper and it seems to work out. (With a good edit afterwards of course!) I knew what I wanted to say, but couldn't find the right words to say it, how could this happen, I was already behind!? Anyway, to cut a long story short I managed to get just over 1,000 words down before it was time to go to work, and they definitely weren't the best 1,000 words I've ever written. But they were a start! And that was exactly what I needed. I spent all afternoon at my job thinking about my novel, my characters, what I wanted to happen next, who I wanted them to talk to etc, etc, and by late yesterday evening I was sat in front of my computer again, raring to go. But would the words come? Would they fuck! I finished the first half of that first chapter and it took me hours and it was painful, like pulling teeth painful, cringeworthy! That first bit is going to need a heck of a lot of editing before anyone other than me even so much as glances at it!
I was gonna give up then, call it a night, come back to it tomorrow, but my word count was still pretty rubbish and I had some good ideas I wanted to get down. So I started on the second half of the first chapter, which is from a different character's POV... and the words flowed like little rivers all racing downhill towards the ocean below, faster and faster until my fingers could barely keep up with my brain and my character took on a life of his own... he even insisted that I change his name!
For the next hour or so I lost myself in the story and that is the part of writing that I love, when it's coming out of you so fast it feels more like you're reading it than writing it. And when you get to the end and you're full of that beautiful feeling of success, the success of having made something, having created something, having breathed life into those characters and made them dance.
That's what I love most about writing, and that's why I know I'll always be a writer, even if my NaNo novel turns out to be absolute rubbish, even if I never get published and no one but me and you lovely people ever read any of my words. It will all be worth it, ten times over, because I love it.
I love it.
Happy Writing! & Good Luck with your NaNo novels!
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(John 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
"For God": Stop and think about it; God, the creator and supreme ruler of the universe, is concerned about you! Our minds struggle to comprehend so great a thought (Psalm 8:4)
"so loved the world": The greatest show of emotion this world has ever seen was when God demonstrated His great love to us by sending His Son to die for us (Romans 5:8)
"that he gave": God's gift of salvation in His Son Jesus Christ is a free gift. Man's efforts can never buy what God offers freely (Ephesians 2:8-9)
"his only begotten Son": The only way of salvation is found in God's Son, Jesus Christ. It is NOT found in any church, denomination, or religious ceremony, but only in Jesus Christ (John 14:6)
"that whosoever": What a tremendous invitation! God's salvation is offered to all people — no matter what your nationality, race, religious background, or past life, you can have God's salvation (Titus 2:11)
"believeth in him": The key to salvation is committing your life to Jesus Christ by faith. True salvation is found ONLY in trusting your life to Christ (Acts 4:12)
"should not perish": The greatest act of mercy is when God withholds from man his justified punishment. This is accomplished only through salvation in Jesus Christ (John 3:36)
"but have everlasting life": God in his grace gives us that which we do not deserve — everlasting life (1 John 5:11-13). The greatest possession that a person can have is eternal life (Matthew 16:26)
If you have never given your life to Christ, do so right now. Confess and turn from your sin, and then commit your life to Christ by faith as your only hope of salvation. For more information regarding Bible salvation, please contact the Freedom Baptist Church. We will be glad to send you additional literature free of charge.


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The almighty 2000 Mazda RX-7 Type RS is sadly up for sale.
If you're looking for a RX-7 then I'm sure by now you know what the Type-RS is over the standard model, if not here is a quick run down.
17" bigger wheels (standard 16)
Larger 314mm brakes
Shorter diff ratios (4.3)
Better turbos (increased power)
Nardi Steering Wheel
Bilstein suspension (although been replaced with HKS coilovers)
and a number of small other items.
Below you'll find a run down and all the info you'd need to know about this car.
71,500 kms
Rego to April
Complete motor rebuild by VIS Rotary in Narellan with receipts (only done 500kms ago, still being ran in)
HKS Coilovers
HKS-RS Intake
Fujitsubo catback
New tyres on Front (50kms old)
Near new tyres on rear
New genuine antenna
New genuine rear upper control arm bush
New drive belts (x2)
New Century Battery
9h Ceramic coated body ($950)
Interior : All standard, no tears, rips stains or smells. Everything works as it should including aircon, heater, wipers, lights, clusters and gauges, interior lights, window switches everything.
Engine & drivetrain : As per above, complete standard rebuild by VIS rotary, HKS intake and everything else is standard. Drives as it should, gearbox is amazingly tight and feels perfect, no diff whine or gear whines, starts as it should, sounds as it should and goes as it should.
Exterior : A solid 9/10 body, as per images slight scuff on rear bumper. Quoted $200 to repaint just have not had the time but can arrange if need be.
Has been 9H ceramic coated to keep it looking the best it possibly can and have that extra thick layer of protection. Some very MINOR baby scatches to be expected of a car this age but again, is amazingly well kept.
Overall I believe its a great example of a RX-7, 95% stock and that is the way these should be. Everything works as it should and looks as it should.
Have spent endless of $$ on this to keep it maintained, driving well and looking well but its times to let her go.
ABSOLUTELY no time wasters or offers without seeing car.
If you are serious then you'll inspect first.
Price : $34,500 ONO
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Krannert Art Museum
|500 East Peabody Drive
Champaign, Illinois
The Krannert Art Museum is an art museum located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, Illinois, United States. It has 48,000 square feet (4,500 m2) of space devoted to all periods of art, dating from ancient Egypt to contemporary photography. The museum's collection of more than 10,000 objects includes specializations in 20th-century art, Asian art, and pre-Columbian art, particularly works from the Andes. In 2012, the Krannert Art Museum opened a newly redesigned gallery of African art entitled Encounters: The Arts of Africa.[1] In addition to permanent exhibitions, the museum often features 12 to 15 exhibitions each year from traveling national and international museum collections as well as exhibitions of professional artists, faculty and student work.[2]
The museum was designed by architect Ambrose Richardson in a style reminiscent of the late work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. An addition to the museum was completed in 1988. This addition, the Kinkead Pavilion, was the creation of Larry Booth and Associates. The building incorporates contemporary Egyptian art decorative elements in an overall post-modernist design. The museum has over 132,000 visitors annually and supports scholarship through the Fred and Donna Giertz Education Center.[2]
Major collections of the museum include the Trees Collection of European and American Painting, Moore Collection of European and American Decorative Arts, the Olsen Collection of pre-Columbian Art, and examples of 20th-century art.[3]
The museum is a unit within the University of Illinois College of Fine and Applied Arts.
The museum is named for benefactors Herman C. Krannert and his wife Ellnora Krannert in recognition of Ellnora's interest in the arts.
- ^ Delinda Collier, "Exhibition Review: Encounters: The Arts of Africa", African Arts, 2013. vol 46, no 4, Winter.
- ^ a b "Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion: College of Fine and Applied Arts at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign". Retrieved 2007-12-27.
- ^ "Krannert Art Museum: About". ARTINFO. 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-28.
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Choice Crystal Pacifier - FC2200
Planning a baby shower or looking for a special memento to accompany your birth announcements? These precious pacifier shaped favors, from the exclusive Choice Crystal line, are sure to bring a smile. Each is 2.25" x 1.125" and features a shimmering multifaceted crystal pacifier finished with a shiny chrome embossed ring handle. Surrounded by satin inside a Choice Crystal signature silver heart design box (3.25" x 2.25"), tied with a white organza and satin bow with a crystal heart on top and an attached matching heart shaped tag, these favors make for a stunning presentation.
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Rihanna Makes History, Passes Janet Jackson & Stevie Wonder with 11th No. 1 Hit
From Clutch--Rihanna is giving a big middle-finger to all her haters. This week, the Bajan singer scored her 11th number 1 song with her club banger, 'We Found Love. Despite the controversy and people predicting her demise, Rihanna became just the seventh artist in Bilboard's 53-year history to have 11 number one hits on the Hot 100 chart. Rihanna passed Stevie Wonder and Janet Jackson who have each had 10 number one hits, and joins the Beatles (20), Mariah Carey (18), Michael Jackson (13), Madonna (12), the Supremes (12) and Whitney Houston (11).
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As a way to fundraise for this fantastic community conservation project we often have a range of merchandise available. 100% of the profits made from sales go straight back into santuary operations. Online selling is something we are just starting to investigate - therefore this page is under construction. To purchase anything on this page, please make an order via the following options:
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I skipped exercising today so I could have ample time to write, so I could crank out more than a single page before making dinner (which I pathetically have not done since Sunday. Monday we did frozen pizza and last night we got Chinese) and what am I doing? Getting so high that I can't stop thinking about fucked up shit that happened almost a year ago that I'm TOTALLY not over. Also I keep having this idea that I should make a list, one at time, writing out one thing I don't like and then one thing I do like about my husband, until I get to a grand total of twenty. I want to see if I can do it. Because. I mean sometimes. I don't know. The only time I like my husband is if I'm actually with him, do you get me? Like, if I ever think about shit, I just get madder and madder as the day goes on.
And honestly, it's been awhile since I've thought about it at all, really, but today I just couldn't stop thinking about, no matter how low I'd sunk, my husband found a way to be way, way worse than me. I guess what really brought this topic to mind was finding some random, scribbled note of my husband's. He does this. I think because he thinks his thoughts are brilliant. This would not bother me in the slightest, I think it's wise to write down anything one thinks is wise, but for the fact that it's SO chaotic. It's random scribbles on receipts and bits of torn paper and flyers from nightclubs, it's disgusting. His messiness is my biggest fault with him, it literally rivals his raging OCD. And when I saw OCD, I mean legitimate, diagnosed, it SO crazy to see happening in person, OCD. He was on different meds for it, from time to time, but they only seemed to make him worse in other ways. Well, one of his chaotic scribble notes started out with something along the lines of "A year ago I cheated on my wife." And I'm sorry, but, am I to NOT read the rest of that? Especially he's been such an ass about my need for privacy, which oh if this was real life he just would've started to flip out because you CANNOT remind him of past mistakes….to the point where it seems like he just thinks we get to pretend like NOTHING ever happened and everyone is totally okay with everything about each other. He's hiding it behind the mantle of "not living in the past" as he puts it….but he's the same peter pan syndrome motherfucker I met when I was 20, at least in a lot of ways.
And today, as I'm wasting all of my writing time like an idiot, I realize that I'm not over the fact that last June my husband had sex with someone with a personal (sex) ad on fucking craigslist. If only that law about craigslist not being able to have a sex ads section anymore had been passed sooner, huh? SOOOOO much grief it would have saved me. It still grieves me. I think I know why. I don't have ANYONE to talk to about it. My husband always uses the "I don't want to ruin our evening/I'm trying to have a nice morning with you" vein of reasoning for not discussing past, unpleasant topics. So I don't think it'd be a simple task getting him to talk about it, plus that doesn't count as "talking about it." The last two times I've seen my best friend since I found out, I just haven't had it in me. It's just another conversation I can't stand the thought of having, so I don't. But one might imagine I need to. But, sadly, truly, there's just no one in my life I trust like that.
I mean, there's you, Anonablog, but…does it count? How? Maybe like 20% better, but not what it should be.
So, I don't know a whole post to complain about how I'm still really grossed out and depressed and sickened by my husband's super gross rando hook up. I mean, I've evaluated that it's good he didn't fall in love with someone else, in fact the exact opposite…but omg that's so fucking disgusting. Like if he'll do that, what else will he do? I should have known. He went to a whorehouse in DC with two Saudi friends of his, he got a blow job because there was no "wait in the lobby" option. I knew about that like two months into our relationship…so I guess this is probably just my fault anyway. My fault for thinking I could trust anyone. I'll never learn, I know that, but I feel the need to annoyingly point out my errors after they happen. But, the fact remains that even though he went as impersonal as possible…it's still fucking gross. I still fucking think that he's probably gone when I wake up at 3am and he's not in bed. I really, really, really wish I'd woken up the night he was gone. He couldn't give me the exact day but he said it was a weekday in mid-June.
It's just like…if he can talk himself into thinking that I'd be okay with it happening…only up until such a time as he was done fucking a random internet stranger, then he "realized what mistake he made" and knew he had to keep it a secret. He planned on keeping it from me forever, yet also insists that he would have told me the truth if I had somehow known to ask him point blank if he'd had sex I didn't know about.
Do you see what I'm dealing with, with him?
Is it me? Please someone fucking tell me, for real, if this is MY psychological damage, or his. Because…I mean…it COULD be me…I had a fucking messed up childhood. I incurred a lot more than's fair for a young person. I might not be capable of expressing myself healthily, ever. I might actually even be playing my father's role in my own marriage…except I have my mother's work ethic, so I can't TOTALLY encapsulate his narcissism and pathological laziness. Or is this him? He's the one who "feels a masculine need to be BADDER" I'm paraphrasing but that is also written in one of his twelve million trash scribble notes. Do you see how bothered i am by this? Everything he does and touches it chaotic and messy and disorganized. The EXACT things I detest, because I had my own share and then some of chaos, as a child. See, does it make sense yet?
But basically, he's saying that to establish his status as the man in our relationship, he had to do something worse than me. And boy did he find it.
I mean I spent like nine months regularly fucking and staying that night with some douchenozzle I met in grad school who turned out to ONLY be good for sex. He's lucky he has a nice dick, because when I last saw him it was one of his few remaining positive features. He was just another messed up alcoholic loser, because if that isn't my type I don't know what is. At first I was genuinely attracted to him and into banging him, but then it just became weird obligation/routine/distraction from actual problems in life…and it just made the situation with my husband SO much worse. I mean there was awhile there where I was gone three nights a week, every week. I feel bad about that, I really do. But after last July whatever it was, like the 21st I think, I think my guilt was wasted. Because the whole time he was telling me it was okay and secretly freaking out about it internally, that whole time, because it wasn't at all okay but I was making him feel like he had no choice but to say yes, that whole time, he was just planning how to get back at me. He more or less wrote that.
This is what I get for reading something private, i know. But my issue is that it happened, not that he's trying to justify himself to himself. That seems normal, at least for him.
I took 1400 words to tell myself I'm not over this and I wish I had someone to talk to. Thank god I skipped working out to write….*eye roll*


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Rodney Climaco Arcenas, Ph.D., D(ABMM)
Kathleen G. Beavis, M.D.
Janet Robinson
Joan T. Gordon, M.T. (ASCP)
Giovanni Guidotti
Frederick L. Kiechle, M.D., Ph.D.
Charles Kiyaga
Nickolas G. Mitilenes, B.A.
Preeti Pancholi, Ph.D., D(ABMM)
Charles Root, Ph.D.
Gregory Storch, M.D.
Yun F. Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Kejian Zhang M.D., M.B.A
Yanming Zhang, M.D.
Rodney Climaco Arcenas, Ph.D., D(ABMM)
Dr. Arcenas is the lab director at Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Fla., working for Pathology Consultants of South Broward, LLP. He is a clinical scientist in microbiology, immunology, and molecular applications. Arcenas is a member of the American Society for Microbiology, the Infectious Disease Society of America and the Association of Molecular Pathology. Education: B.S. in microbiology, University of Florida; M.S. in medical microbiology and immunology, University of South Florida College of Medicine; M.D. of philosophy in medical microbiology and immunology, University of South Florida Medical College.
Kathleen G. Beavis, M.D., is currently the Chair of the Divisions of Microbiology and Virology at Stroger Hospital of Cook County in Chicago (formerly Cook County Hospital) and a clinical associate professor in the Department of Pathology at the UIC School of Medicine. Dr. Beavis was the chair of the Microbiology Resource Committee for the College of American Pathologists and is a member of the Council of Scientific Affairs and the Technology Assessment Committee for the College. She is a recipient of the 2009 CAP Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Beavis has also served as member, chair and consultant of the Advisory Panel on Microbiology Devices, and she is a member of the Microbiology Test Committee of the American Board of Pathology.
Dr. Beavis' main professional interests have been in the implementation of clinically relevant, cost-effective microbiology. She has used automation to perform testing around the clock as needed and to free up highly skilled technologists for other work.
Dr. Beavis earned an AB in philosophy from Harvard-Radcliffe College, in Cambridge, Mass. She then completed a Rotary International graduate fellowship at Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen, Germany, before attending Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania for a post-baccalaureate, pre-medical program. Dr. Beavis completed her medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia. In addition, she is certified by the American Board of Pathology in Clinical Pathology.
Janet Robinson
Janet Robinson is the Director of Research, Asia Pacific Region, and the Global Director of Laboratory Sciences for FHI 360 based in Durham, N.C. Robinson is a clinical, regulatory, laboratory, and quality specialist with more than 25 years of experience in medical laboratory diagnostics and clinical trials. For the past 10 years she has provided leadership, implementation, technical assistance, capacity building and training to clinical research and program professionals and institutions in developing countries, particularly in west and sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Robinson is a certified clinical pathologist (University of London, England), and is a Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical and Laboratory Sciences (UK). She is an invited member of several international laboratory working groups, including the Clinton Foundation and WHO in Southeast Asia. She is also a member of the U.S. FDA Advisory Committee for Clinical Chemistry, and of the American Society of Microbiology.
Joan Gordon, President of Maine Molecular Quality Controls, Inc. (MMQCI) has more than 25 years of experience in the diagnostic testing field, first working in Clinical Chemistry and then Molecular Pathology at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. For the past 11 years, Gordon has focused solely on the development of nucleic acid controls as co-owner and President of Maine Molecular Quality Controls, Inc. (MMQCI). MMQCI provides the biomedical industry with innovative, high-quality control products for molecular diagnostics. Gordon is an active member in professional organizations, the CDC's program for Genetic Testing Reference Materials, is a contributor to CLSI guidelines for molecular testing, is a member of the Joint Committee for Traceability in Laboratory Medicine (JCTLM) and serves on the board of the Center for Innovation in Biotechnology in Maine.
Giovanni Guidotti
Dr. Giovanni Guidotti is Coordinator and General Secretary of Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition program, or DREAM. In 1990 he began his career in HIV/AIDS research with the Italian National Institute of Health, and earned postdoctoral training and specialization in Internal Medicine at the University of Rome, "La Sapienza." He then worked in the Hospital Santo Spirito in Rome in home health services. In 2001 Dr. Guidotti partnered with the Italian cooperation in Mozambique through the Community of Sant'Egidio, helping launch a pilot DREAM treatment program for HIV/AIDS. He initiated an Italian National Institute of Health research program for HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2003. Dr. Guidotti obtained a PhD in Experimental Molecular Oncology in 2013 from the University of Pisa, Italy. For more than a decade, he has provided strong leadership in establishing treatment centers and molecular biology laboratories in ten African countries, positively impacting the lives of nearly half a million patients.
Frederick L. Kiechle, M.D., Ph.D.
Since July 2006, Dr. Kiechle has served as the Medical Director of Clinical Pathology for the five-hospital (1,792 beds) Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Fla., working for Pathology Consultants of South Broward, LLP. The laboratory system performed 7.9 million tests in 2010. He has published 194 peer-reviewed articles or book chapters and 214 abstracts. He is the author of the best-selling lab management book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Efficiency in the Clinical Laboratory, published by the AACC, and co-editor of Molecular Diagnostics. Techniques and Applications for the Clinical Laboratory, 2010, Academic Press. Dr. Keichle lectures nationally and internationally on basic research topics, point-of-care testing, automation, laboratory design, outreach program and molecular diagnostics. Education: B.A. in Chemistry, Evansville College, Evansville, Ind.; Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.; M.D., Indiana University Medical School, Indianapolis, Ind.; Ph.D. Thesis: The Effect of Beta-aminoketone and Related Compounds on Uninfected and T4-infected Escherichia coli B.
Charles Kiyaga
Charles Kiyaga is a biomedical scientist and the national coordinator for the Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) program within the Central Public Health Laboratories (CPHL), Ministry of Health in Uganda. The EID program has been testing HIV-exposed infants since 2007 and has tested over 250,000 babies to date. Kiyaga was instrumental in the consolidation of eight labs into one centralized lab, and the creation of a sample transport network for the EID program.
Kiyaga has earned two bachelor's degrees: one in Health Systems Approach to HIV Care and Management at the University of Manchester UK; and one in Biomedical Lab Technology at the Makerere University Kampala, Uganda. He earned a master's of science in Biomedical Lab Technology and Management at the Makerere University Kampala, Uganda. He also holds certificates in medical mycology and medical laboratory technology, and a diploma in medical lab technology.
Nickolas G. Mitilenes, B.A.
Nickolas G. Mitilenes, B.A., is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of MedLabs Diagnostics in Cedar Knolls, N.J. His current responsibilities include oversight of all core laboratory operations as well as direct management of Department of Molecular Diagnostics. Mitilenes also serves as a member of the board of directors at MedLabs Diagnostics and is also a founding partner of Horsehill Properties, a healthcare-oriented real estate company. He is a member of numerous associations, including: the American Association of Bioanalysts (AAB), the American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP), the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC), and the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP). Mitilenes earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in molecular biology at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y. He has extensive training in operations, as well as leadership development.
Preeti Pancholi, Ph.D., D(ABMM)
Dr. Preeti Pancholi is the Director of Clinical Microbiology and Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology at The Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Pancholi is responsible for the daily management of clinical microbiology laboratory offering diagnostic testing in bacteriology, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, mycology, mycobacteriology, parasitology, virology and molecular diagnostics. Dr. Pancholi earned her Ph.D. at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Microbiology and Immunology, Chandigarh, India. She completed a post-doctoral training at Rockefeller University in New York, and a clinical microbiology fellowship from Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Prior to moving to Columbus, she was Associate Director, Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Diagnostics at Columbia-Presybyterian Medical Center in New York.
Dr. Pancholi is a member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), and is on the editorial board for the Journal of Clinical Microbiology and the Journal of Clinical Virology. She has contributed as a voting member for drafting guidelines on the CLSI committee for, "Establishing Molecular Testing in Clinical Laboratory Environments Guideline." Dr. Pancholi has served on the nominating committee for the Association of Molecular Pathology (Infectious Disease Division). She is presently the South Central Association Clinical Microbiology Director for the State of Ohio.
Dr. Pancholi's primary research interests are the use of molecular and other rapid technologies to improve clinical infectious disease diagnostics and, further, to evaluate the impact of these technologies on patient care. She is actively involved in several research collaborations including methicillin resistant S. aureus, hepatitis C virus, and has received industry and federal funding support for her research.
Charles Root, Ph.D.
Dr. Charles Root is the Founder and President of CodeMap. He has provided laboratory coding and reimbursement information to healthcare providers and manufacturers for more than 18 years. Dr. Root is a member of the Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA), as well as the American Association of Clinical Chemists (AACC) and has served on their Government Relations Committee. He provides frequent input and comments to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on laboratory issues and provides input to the American Medical Association's Pathology Coding Caucus regarding CPT coding for lab services. Dr. Root received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry and nuclear physics from the Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C., and has taken postgraduate courses in business management and economics from Harvard and Northwestern Universities. Prior to founding CodeMap LLC, Dr. Root worked as a rocket scientist with the U.S. Navy on missile systems and high-energy materials.
Gregory Storch, M.D.
Dr. Storch holds numerous positions in the field of pediatric infectious disease and microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. His many titles include: Ruth L. Siteman Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Molecular Microbiology; and Director, Divisions of Laboratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Storch also serves on the Microbiology - Infectious Diseases Liaison Committee at Washington University School of Medicine, and on the Infection Control Committee at St. Louis Children's Hospital. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University, and his medical degree from New York University Medical School.
Yun F. Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Yun F. Wang is an Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, and Director of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Diagnostics at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Dr. Wang is in charge of the Clinical Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory at Grady Memorial Hospital, the largest public hospital in the Southeast. He is responsible for rapid and cost effective laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases, particularly in HIV, tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted disease. Dr. Wang is a member of a number of professional associations and societies, including the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), and Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA). He is currently the councilor for the Division of Clinical and Molecular Immunology of ASM after serving as division chair last year. He is the current member of Georgia TB Task Force. He has been the member for CDC working groups for guidelines, including the recent guidelines for biosafety laboratory competency organized by the CDC and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL). Dr. Wang earned his medical degree at Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, in Shanghai, China; and his Ph.D. at the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo. He is a journal reviewer for a number of journals and he is an editorial board member for the Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Journal of Clinical Virology.
Kejian Zhang M.D., M.B.A
Kejian Zhang M.D., M.B.A, is the Director of the Molecular Genetics Laboratory and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio. Dr. Zhang is certified in Clinical Molecular Genetics by the American Board of Medical Genetics, and holds a U.S. patent for Diagnostic Assay for Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome and Genetically Associated Disorders in 2009. Her main research focus includes molecular defects and molecular diagnosis of primary immunodeficiency diseases; genetic aspects of predictive personalized medicine (pharmacogenetics). Dr. Zhang is a member of many professional organizations, including the American Society of Human Genetics, the American College of Medical Genetics, the American Society of Molecular Pathology, the Public Population Project in Genomics (P3G), the Chinese Association of Medical Genetics, and the International Histiocyte Society. Dr. Zhang earned her medical degree at Tianjin Medical University in Tianjin, China, and her MBA at the University of Cincinnati, College of Business Administration.
Yanming Zhang, M.D.
Yanming Zhang, M.D., is an Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and is Medical Director of the Cytogenetics Laboratory at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago. He is board certified in clinical cytogenetics by the American Board of Medical Genetics (ABMG), and is a member of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), Association of Molecular Pathology (AMP), and the United States & Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP). Dr. Zhang also serves as a reviewer for Gene, Chromosome & Cancer, Leukemia, Leukemia and Lymphoma, Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics, and Journal of Medical Genetics. He is a certified laboratory inspector for the College of American Pathologists (CAP).
Dr. Zhang earned his bachelor's degree of medicine, and master's degree of science in medicine at Zhejiang University, School of Medicine, Hangzhou, P. R. China, and his doctor of medicine in Human Genetics at the University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany. He did his postdoctoral research training in the Institute of Human Genetics, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, and in the Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology, the University of Chicago; and finished a Clinical Cytogenetics Fellowship training, accredited by ABMG, in the Department of Medicine, University of Chicago. Dr. Zhang's research interests are using genomic microarray techniques to discover and characterize cooperative genomic abnormalities with recurring chromosome translocations in the initiation and transformation to leukemia, and performing molecular genetic studies to clone novel chromosome translocations in cancer. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers, and various reviewing articles of chromosome abnormalities and their mechanisms in leukemia and lymphoma.


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Jubilee: The Criterion Collection
Essay filmmaking at its most rancorous, Derek Jarman's Jubilee was, on its release in 1977, perceived as a traitorous work of art that sold out the then-thriving punk movement as easily corruptible by the reigning government and media apparatus it was so concertedly broad-siding. Though it was clear early on in its filming that Jarman was not preparing a complimentary celebration of the counterculture's rude, spit-in-the-face approach intended collaborators Malcolm McLaren and The Clash, among others, bolted early upon realizing the director's contrary aims many of the movement's mainstays hung around anyway, giving the lie already to the supposed anti-capitalist punk mentality several years before they were (almost) all co-opted by big business in the Reagan and Thatcher era. Jubilee's valuable importance as a cultural artifact is to allow the viewer a window into those heady days before the revolution was sold to the highest bidder, and it's a credit to the prescience of Jarman that he could see the end looming even as he was immersed in the insurgent orgy (some would say that he was the British Warhol of the 1970s). His idea, allowing Queen Elizabeth I (Jenny Runacre) and her loyal intellectual counsel, John Dee (Rocky Horror Picture Show mastermind Richard O'Brien), a glimpse of the bombed-out future of England, via the assistance of the angel Ariel (David Haughton), lays the groundwork for a pretty obvious critique of all-things awful and compromised in the country according to Jarman it's because of this conceptual bluntness that the film is, far too often, such a didactic bore. The present on display for the erstwhile Queen is viewed through the skewed prism of a marauding gang led by Bod (Runacre again). Among her charges are the butch pyromaniac Mad (Toyah Willcox, who sports a flaming orange buzz-cut), the libidinous Crabs (Little Nell), a mute tag-along named Chaos (Hermine Demoriane), and the caustically articulate Amyl Nitrate (Jordan). Mostly a collection of vignettes, there is something of a story involving Crab's discovery of Kid (Adam Ant), who, with his fresh-faced good looks, seems destined for stardom. But this is to be determined by a media mogul known as Borgia (Orlando), who acts as a sort of arbiter of sensation no one pisses in the spotlight without his approval. Meanwhile, Bod and her girls commit a variety of transgressive acts, e.g. trashing a diner, watching Crabs have sex with some random boy brought home from the clubs only to suffocate him post-coitus (they photograph this, as well), and murdering a glam transvestite known as Loung Lizard (played by real-life transsexual Wayne/Jayne County, who provided the inspiration for Hedwig and the Angry Inch). Most interesting about the film, as it builds to its telegraphed conclusion/summation, is how repulsed Jarman seems to be by the scene in which he thrived. The film is truly a design orgy awash in obscene decadence, but the artistry is so stifling, one senses the director distancing himself from the fray, subconsciously commenting on its emptiness and his own shame at having been a part of it. They might've been having fun at the time and some of the more playful bits, like Mad's jacket bearing the final lines of Psycho, the Idi Amin dildo, or Wayne County's invigorating performance of "Paranoia Paradise," are indeed brilliant touches but Jarman is too fixed on the party's depressing end to enjoy it, and his downer attitude kills the audience's enjoyment. The Criterion Collection presents Jubilee in a fine widescreen transfer (1.66:1) with Dolby Digital 1.0 audio. Extras include an interesting new documentary titled "Jubilee: A Time Less Golden" featuring interviews with John Maybury, Lee Drysdale, Tony Rayns, Christopher Hobbs, and two of the film's stars, Runacre and Willcox (37 min.), excerpts from Jarman's personal scrapbook for the film, an essay by Tony Peake, and a trailer. Keep-case.
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